Great as may seem to the sense-conscious person the pleasure and satisfaction of owning some one, or some thing; of possessing and feeling a proprietorship in the one desired; greater by a million-fold is the pleasure of union which is possible only to those who are themselves free, and who in consequence desire freedom for all others. This is a truth which the unwise cannot comprehend or concur in, and which they will not believe or trust.
Emerson says: "Every personal consideration that we allow costs us heavenly state. We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure."
And finally, as regards the sex-function, we would like to impress upon every one, though only those who are fit for the kingdom will understand the truth, namely that the highest manifestation of sex-love is not localized in the organs of procreation. The love that is of the soul fills the breast first of all, and is only felt in the region popularly, but erroneously, supposed to circumscribe the sex-function, as a secondary and by no means compulsory consideration.
When the sex force has become diffusedthroughout the entire being, radiating from the solar man, and permeating the mind and thus entering into the mortal body which is only a covering of the mind physical copulation becomes a well-trained servant of the will, and is found to be a natural, but yet secondary complement. Sex is not confined to the specialized sex-organs. It permeates the entire being. The person who has no conception of his reality other than as a physical entity has not so much as touched the area of spiritual ecstacy which has been alluded to as "the nectar of the gods;" and so infinitely fine and perfect is the plan of Creation that he can not do so until he is fit; and never can he be fit as long as he remains upon the sense-conscious plane and seeks by sexual perversity and debauchery and sexual insanities to touch that exquisite perfection of joy which he intuitively knows evades him.
Thus the sensual man is caught is a beneficent trap; a wise and just and merciful Power has so placed the "Holy of Holies," that it cannot be defiled; it cannot be reached; it cannot be desecrated. It is forever removed from the touch of the unworthy. No man can hope to express the creative power, the sexual realization of a god, through the functions which are not higher in consciousness than those of the animal.
Would you attain to the status of the divine man? If so, do not imagine for a moment that the divine man is less vital than your puny physical powers would suggest. Neither should youimagine that the sex-function, even in its lowest state (lowest because most lacking in love-consciousness), is anything but pure and clean and right and normal in itself; the attitude of the average man and woman invests it with all its uncleanness.
But with all the vile thought which the undeveloped mind has indulged in respecting the sex-relation; with all the man-made laws arrayed against it as though it were criminal, and the teachings of the Church denying its spiritual origin and perpetuation; with women selling it in the public markets for their physical maintenance, nothing less than the fact of the eternality and universality of Sex, as the divine fulcrum of manifestation, can account for the fact that the poor little bi-une Love-god is after all coming to be recognized as the hope and savior of Mankind.
If you would have eternal youth and eternal life and love and wisdom, accept this truth, because nothing else can, or will, save you from the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune."
Another vague query presents itself to the would-be initiate, and we would like to leave this chapter with no misunderstandings; no misconceptions; no misleading statements, because that which we are here stating is not theory. It is the one eternal, undying, simple and unescapable truth which has withstood the onslaughts of time and ignorance.
The query comes and although it has been answered in previous chapters we will again stateit, so that there may be no mistake: If the balance is found in counterpartal sex-union—the one man and the one woman uniting on the solar plane—would not this balance be maintained if only one of the two reached the higher planes of consciousness; in other words, would not the balance be struck by extreme purity on the one hand and extreme impurity on the other?
Again we are reminded that the law of the cosmos is wise; that there are no mistakes nor flaws in the cosmic scheme. The answer is that the union is one of complementaries, and not of antitheses. Each one must be balanced, the nature rounded, the soul awake before union is possible. Thus we are saved from ourselves. We cannot, if we would, really gain at the expense of another, although in temporary things we may appear to do so, because the rich grow richer at the expense of the poor; the tyrant ruler maintains his power at the expense of serfs; but doubt not thateternal equationis perfect.
There is stillanotherquery: If true sex-union is of the soul, what is to prevent soul-mates from finding each other at the moment of death, regardless of their fitness for godhood, and thus circumventing, as it were, the plan of Creation, which would compel each one to earn the prize of eternal life?
The same law governs the interior planes as the exterior. The realization of consciousness is not a capricious matter any more than is the law of physical growth. A man might be in the presence ofuntold wealth, but if he had not the consciousness to know and realize values, he would remain poor, even though by a wave of his hand he might command millions. One might give a blind man a check for a million dollars, and if he had no others means of knowing what it was, he might easily imagine it to be worthless. Death does not bestow wisdom. Wisdom is acquired. Love is a self-generator.
If you would follow the law of transmutation and acquire the throne of angelhood, get busy within the laboratory of your own mind. Take the crucible of Thought and begin to work interiorly upon the common, everyday things that present themselves in your environment. This is the only way of transmutation. Love grows by feeding upon itself, and the sacrifices and the kindnesses that are bestowed in love without thought of personal benefit grow into the flood of golden light and love of the spiritual realms.
The chief virtue in any one's pursuit of philosophy, or ofesotericwisdom, and in methods of attainment, is found in the fact that such effort is proof of earnest desire to attain. Emerson says that the principal benefit of a college education is to teach the student that he does not need a college education. This estimate of the value of years of study seems at first glance a sarcastic one, but it is not. If this wisdom can be acquired in no other way, then even so it were well worth the price. If the student can learn that much love is the price of transmutation only after exhaustingevery other method, what does it matter, so that he finally learns it?
Learn to look into the hearts of men.
At first sight, everything on the busy city street is a part of a moving panorama; but an intimate view, when you get in touch with segregated parts of the panorama, discloses the interior nature; the hopes and the fears; the aspirations and the longings and the heartaches and the joys of the entities composing the whole moving picture.
You notice a little female figure; her cheeks are pinked to a hue rivalling the American beauty rose; her lips are carmined like a clowns and her eyebrows penciled too obviously. Her cheap little dress is amateurishly cut in imitation of "the latest." Your first impulse, perhaps, is to scorn her as a "brazen" creature of the streets; but if you will suspend judgment and look a little closer, you may see that her eyes are, in their depths, those of a child, for all her seeming experience. Her brazenness is perhaps only the armor which she has donned to hide a turbulent heart—the dowry of centuries of grandmothers who longed for one glimpse of freedom; of the right to comb their hair as they liked; to powder their faces if they wanted to; to run and jump and laugh and dance and be innocently free and happy without the fear of shocking that bugbear Respectability, and the tyrant Decorum, which insisted that a woman's legs must be carefully concealed on penalty of being adjudged "immodest."
Those poor reviled, execrated and vigilantly-concealedlegs of our fore-mothers! They are crying aloud for vindication, and they will be heard wherever the line of least resistance affords a channel for their freedom. And so, instead of blaming the poor little painted doll of a woman, look into her heart. You will discover that she is bent on having two things long denied womankind—freedom and happiness. If she is foredoomed to failure on the route she has chosen, that is all the more reason why you should withhold censure and give freely of your help and sympathy.
"Learn to look into the hearts of men."
Learn to see beneath the appearance. The old Italian organ-grinder doing his best to please you with his wheezy hurdy-gurdy is not just an old organ-grinder. He is also a man with emotions and feelings and longings and hopes identical in substance with your own; no matter if the organ is out of tune. Learn to hear thespiritof the aria or the intermezzo.
And behold! There is a bunch of noisy, dirty, slangy and bold street-arabs—at least that is what they look like from the outside. But learn to look within. There you will find the cause of their appearance, and when you have found the cause you will sympathize with them. If you can get back to the underlying cause of the manifestations of life, you will never fail to sympathize with the condition you may find, even though you find the cause rooted in crime.
You do not have to agree with the criminal in order to sympathize with his misery. If you havethe inner vision, which you must have if you would transmute the baser metals into pure gold and find the key to immortal life and love, you will never fail to understand and to sympathize with every point of view. "Whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral."
Don't imagine for one moment that you have to go to the Himalayas to find the inner vision; or that you will obtain the key to the Hidden Mysteries by shutting yourself in a monastery. Wherever you are, you must lose sight of yourself. Not the higher Self of Reality, but the lesser self of the carnal, or sense-conscious plane—the personality that concealsyou. And above all, you are not to regard this personality as an enemy to be scourged and beaten and reviled. It is, or it should be, a willing, and helpful servant of your soul even as we say "the hand is the servant of the brain." If your hand becomes unruly and does not obey your brain, train it to do so, don't cut it off, even though the Bible does appear to tell you to—why should the men who wrote in that far-off time know more of Truth than we of a later century?
You may imagine that you need to belong to some "Brotherhood," in order to learn the secrets of alchemical transmutation. There is nothing of the Great Wisdom which can be taught you, which you cannot learn of yourself if you will look within and unite with the heart of the world.
There is no wisdom higher than love; and there is no power greater than love; and there is noheaven happier than love and there is no God holier than love. If you will take this for your creed you will readily see that it is for you to think love into those things that appear to lack it; think purity into those things that appear impure; think unity into those things that appear separated; and taking the lesson home to your own intimate conduct of life, invest the expression of your sex with the pure and lofty and holy power God gave to it, or refrain from the thought of sex until you can learn to do so.
Says a modern writer: "If you are still so out of tune with the Infinite as to harbor any thought of evil or shame in connection with the specialized organs and functions of sex, let this illumination from on high cast that devil out of your cosmos forever. And if you turn away with soul offended from even 'the slimy gendering of the toad,' you dishonor God who once knew no higher creative formula and still blesses it with His fruitful presence."
And finally do not make the too common mistake of confounding brazenness with freedom from shame and self-condemnation.
Whatever of beauty and purity and joy has come to you in this life has come because of the divinity of Sex. If you have been wise enough to know this, and have reverenced it and purified your mind in respect to that function of your being, you will not cheapen it by parading the subject before those who have no idealism, any more than you would "cast pearls before swine;" youwill not countenance jokes and ribald songs; you will not indulge in promiscuousness; but instead you will fold it within the sacred intimacy of your heart's divine altar, as something too beautiful, too holy for the garish light of the un-tender day.
If you have taken into your consciousness the divinity of Sex, you will desire unityanddisdain possession, knowing that whatever of Heaven is vouchsafed Mankind here is but a shadow of the reality of spiritual realization of the function of Sex. You will respect the physical body as the handiwork of the Creative Principle of the universe, respecting the sacredness of human life and liberty. You will teach the truth that the law of Life is mathematically just; that nothing will unlock the gates of Eternal Life and Love, except inward honesty; fidelity; unselfishness; spiritual desire.
If we possess these qualities, we are fit for the kingdom of Love and we shall surely enter therein.
Verily Love transforms mere men into immortal gods.
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THE SWASTIKA SERIESHAVE YOU READHOW THOUGHT CAN KILLThe Scientific Use of Mental Electricity.ByDr. Alexander J. McIvor-TyndallThe Enlargement of Consciousness.The Doctrine of Free-Will.Thought Is the Building Material.The Creative Power of Conscious Thought.Experiments Proving That Thought Can Kill.Confessions of a Trained Nurse.People Who Think God Hangs Out the Sun.Action Essential to Creative Principle.The "Science of God's Anger."Thought Is of the Universal Supply.Why the Number Thirteen Is Unlucky.How Poison May Be Generated in the System.Thought and the Cell-Structure of the Brain.Why We Fail in Our Efforts.The Spectrums of Love and Hate.The Power of Imagination.Fear Is the King of Thoughts That Kill.Parents Make Cringing Weaklings of Children.How Whole Cities May Be Poisoned by Thought.Case of a Well-Known Man Killed by Thought.There Is Neither Reward nor Punishment.The Survival of That Which Is Creative.Price 25 CentsSend Your Order TodayCHICAGO, U. S. A.STERLING PUBLISHING COMPANY
The Enlargement of Consciousness.
The Doctrine of Free-Will.
Thought Is the Building Material.
The Creative Power of Conscious Thought.
Experiments Proving That Thought Can Kill.
Confessions of a Trained Nurse.
People Who Think God Hangs Out the Sun.
Action Essential to Creative Principle.
The "Science of God's Anger."
Thought Is of the Universal Supply.
Why the Number Thirteen Is Unlucky.
How Poison May Be Generated in the System.
Thought and the Cell-Structure of the Brain.
Why We Fail in Our Efforts.
The Spectrums of Love and Hate.
The Power of Imagination.
Fear Is the King of Thoughts That Kill.
Parents Make Cringing Weaklings of Children.
How Whole Cities May Be Poisoned by Thought.
Case of a Well-Known Man Killed by Thought.
There Is Neither Reward nor Punishment.
The Survival of That Which Is Creative.
THE SWASTIKA SERIESHAVE YOU READPERSONAL MAGNETISMThe Power of PersuasionByDr. Alexander J. McIvor-TyndallCONTENTSThe Philosophy of "The Survival of the Fittest."The Power of Persuasion.Effects of Force Law.Magnetism in Professional Life.Opinion of a Noted Actor.What Is Personal Magnetism?Different Kinds of Magnetism.The Human Body an Electrical Machine.Will Power the Dynamo.Magnetism Not Necessarily Good.The Law Governing Invisible Force.Love the Generator of Soul Magnetism.Necessity for Understanding Use of Powers.The Body the Medium of the Soul's Expression.What Constitutes Success?Rules for Acquiring Personal Magnetism.Spirit Manifests Only Through Matter.Fasting Not Wise.Psychic Science Teaches the Study of ALL THINGS.The Yogi of India.Individuality the One Essential.Character Indestructible.Price 25 CentsSend Your Order TodayCHICAGO, U. S. A.STERLING PUBLISHING COMPANY
CONTENTS
The Philosophy of "The Survival of the Fittest."
The Power of Persuasion.
Effects of Force Law.
Magnetism in Professional Life.
Opinion of a Noted Actor.
What Is Personal Magnetism?
Different Kinds of Magnetism.
The Human Body an Electrical Machine.
Will Power the Dynamo.
Magnetism Not Necessarily Good.
The Law Governing Invisible Force.
Love the Generator of Soul Magnetism.
Necessity for Understanding Use of Powers.
The Body the Medium of the Soul's Expression.
What Constitutes Success?
Rules for Acquiring Personal Magnetism.
Spirit Manifests Only Through Matter.
Fasting Not Wise.
Psychic Science Teaches the Study of ALL THINGS.
The Yogi of India.
Individuality the One Essential.
Character Indestructible.
"THE DEAD SPEAK!"LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE LAND OF THE LIVING DEADByDR. ALEXANDER J. MCIVOR-TYNDALLAuthor of"Sex—The Unknown Quantity," "The Dead Speak!" "The Swastika Series," Etc.We are living in an age of earnest inquiry and enhanced knowledge in respect to ourselves as spiritual beings, and that great and wonderful Universe of Spirit to which we are inseparably allied. The author is devoting his life to establishing better conditions on earth, by bringing the two worlds into closer association. No one can read this book with an unprejudiced mind, without absorbing some of its grand and inspiring truth and be uplifted and made better by it.Chapter 1.The Advent of Psychic Research.Chapter 2.The Dangers in Psychic Research and How to Avoid Them.Chapter 3.Physical Manifestations: Table-Rapping, Levitation, Etc.Chapter 4.Automatism.Chapter 5.Haunted Houses.Chapter 6.Spirit Interlopers.Chapter 7.Vampirism and Astral Hypnosis.Chapter 8.Prevision.Chapter 9.The Mystery of Trance.Chapter 10.The Mystery of Dreams.Chapter 11.Phantasms of the Living.Chapter 12.The Last Enemy—Death Overcome!If you desire to acquire a knowledge of the GREAT SPIRITUAL AWAKENING that has dawned upon mankind with the birth of the twentieth century—with a mind and heart open to those scientific and spiritual truths that are daily being proven by scientists and thinkers of world-repute—we take the liberty of reminding you there is no book more enlightening, no work more appreciated, no effort more powerful, than this book.There is a difference between this book and others upon the subject—it is not an ordinary chronicle of unconnected notations but a romantic story of extraordinary interest and value for the spiritual and scientific truths which set forth the mostadvancedknowledge of the deeper things of the Soul so simply that any reader of ordinary intelligence can grasp, comprehend and apply those laws whose values extend the usefulness of every Truth seeker who is seeking light upon the MYSTERIES OF LIFE, both Here and Here-after.Send Your Order Today12mo., 200 pages, silk cloth-bound, gold stamped, with Frontispiece, $1.50 (net) postpaid.CHICAGO, U. S. A.STERLING PUBLISHING COMPANY
We are living in an age of earnest inquiry and enhanced knowledge in respect to ourselves as spiritual beings, and that great and wonderful Universe of Spirit to which we are inseparably allied. The author is devoting his life to establishing better conditions on earth, by bringing the two worlds into closer association. No one can read this book with an unprejudiced mind, without absorbing some of its grand and inspiring truth and be uplifted and made better by it.
Chapter 1.The Advent of Psychic Research.
Chapter 2.The Dangers in Psychic Research and How to Avoid Them.
Chapter 3.Physical Manifestations: Table-Rapping, Levitation, Etc.
Chapter 4.Automatism.
Chapter 5.Haunted Houses.
Chapter 6.Spirit Interlopers.
Chapter 7.Vampirism and Astral Hypnosis.
Chapter 8.Prevision.
Chapter 9.The Mystery of Trance.
Chapter 10.The Mystery of Dreams.
Chapter 11.Phantasms of the Living.
Chapter 12.The Last Enemy—Death Overcome!
If you desire to acquire a knowledge of the GREAT SPIRITUAL AWAKENING that has dawned upon mankind with the birth of the twentieth century—with a mind and heart open to those scientific and spiritual truths that are daily being proven by scientists and thinkers of world-repute—we take the liberty of reminding you there is no book more enlightening, no work more appreciated, no effort more powerful, than this book.
There is a difference between this book and others upon the subject—it is not an ordinary chronicle of unconnected notations but a romantic story of extraordinary interest and value for the spiritual and scientific truths which set forth the mostadvancedknowledge of the deeper things of the Soul so simply that any reader of ordinary intelligence can grasp, comprehend and apply those laws whose values extend the usefulness of every Truth seeker who is seeking light upon the MYSTERIES OF LIFE, both Here and Here-after.
Just PublishedCOSMIC CONSCIOUSNESSorThe Man-God Whom We Await!ByAli Nomad[Alexander J. McIvor-Tyndall]Author of"Sex—The Unknown Quantity," "The Dead Speak," "The Swastika Series," Etc.READAn Exposition of the Peculiar Phenomenon Which Is Puzzling Science: Its Analogy to the Mystical Phenomena of the Brahm, Zen and Other Oriental Sects; Its Meaning and Its Future.With Simple, Concise and Thoroughly Practical Methods of Inducing the Phenomenon.Presenting a new and startling theory of the meaning and scope of the prophecy current among the ancients and revived at the present time, of the coming of a new Christ; the prophecy elucidated and explained in the light of To-day; what it means and what it will lead to.SECOND EDITION12mo., 371 pages, cloth, gold stamped, $1.12 postpaidSEND YOUR ORDER TODAYCHICAGO, U. S. A.STERLING PUBLISHING COMPANY
An Exposition of the Peculiar Phenomenon Which Is Puzzling Science: Its Analogy to the Mystical Phenomena of the Brahm, Zen and Other Oriental Sects; Its Meaning and Its Future.
With Simple, Concise and Thoroughly Practical Methods of Inducing the Phenomenon.
Presenting a new and startling theory of the meaning and scope of the prophecy current among the ancients and revived at the present time, of the coming of a new Christ; the prophecy elucidated and explained in the light of To-day; what it means and what it will lead to.
THE SWASTIKA SERIESHAVE YOU READPROOFS OF IMMORTALITYThe Scientific Revelation of Natural Laws Prove the Continuity of LifeByDr. Alexander J. McIvor-TyndallCONTENTSPROOFS OF IMMORTALITYIf Man Die Shall He Live Again?The Invisible Something That Survives Death.A Case That Will Bear Quoting.Seeing Through Opaque Substances.Faith Is Not Fact—Evidence Not Proof.Proof Must Rest Upon Individual Experience.The Psychic Body Basis of Organism.All Life Is Manifested in Form.Science Stands for Axioms That May Be Proved.Price 25 CentsSend Your Order TodayCHICAGO, U. S. A.STERLING PUBLISHING COMPANY
CONTENTSPROOFS OF IMMORTALITY
If Man Die Shall He Live Again?
The Invisible Something That Survives Death.
A Case That Will Bear Quoting.
Seeing Through Opaque Substances.
Faith Is Not Fact—Evidence Not Proof.
Proof Must Rest Upon Individual Experience.
The Psychic Body Basis of Organism.
All Life Is Manifested in Form.
Science Stands for Axioms That May Be Proved.
THE SWASTIKA SERIESHAVE YOU READGHOSTSThe Message of the Illuminati.ByDr. Alexander J. McIvor-TyndallFounded Upon Henrik Ibsen's Psychological Masterpiece"THE GHOSTS WE MEET EVERY DAY"The ghosts we meet on the street; in commercial and social life.Ghosts of dead ideas; Ghosts of fear; Ghosts of false standards of morality; false ideals of living.Price 25 CentsSend Your Order TodayCHICAGO, U. S. A.STERLING PUBLISHING COMPANY
Founded Upon Henrik Ibsen's Psychological Masterpiece"THE GHOSTS WE MEET EVERY DAY"
The ghosts we meet on the street; in commercial and social life.
Ghosts of dead ideas; Ghosts of fear; Ghosts of false standards of morality; false ideals of living.