no
material desires or ambitions to gratify. They, therefore, had an
abundance of time for searching for and investigating spiritual truths.
They were fitted by nature and by their environments for that life, and
they were gifted with revelations of the unseen.

"They were called seers or sages, because they could see spiritual
truths which others could not, and it was at this period and through one
of these seers that a voice spoke, 'That which exists is one, men call
it by various names.' That was the conclusion that many other eminent
seers and sages had come to. For they saw that there was one great
Infinite Life Force manifesting itself in all and through all. That
there is a correlation of spiritual forces, and that all the various
phenomena are the one manifestation of this Infinite Life, which is
called by some God, by others Lord, by others Brahma, by others Jehovah,
by others Allah, the meaning of them all being exactly the same as that
expressed in the Bible by the name of God, in whom we live, move, and
breathe and have our being; that we are the manifestation of Him. In
short, our real entity, our real life, our real self (the Atman), our
soul (the Purusa) is Spirit eternal and immortal. Now the life of the
Spirit has no sex in it, but the spirit manifests itself in these
various forms of male and female. The sexual form is only the
instrument, not the Being. For the Being is not sex, and, therefore,
there is nothing connected with sex, that is spiritual and eternal. It
belongs to the external world and the material plane, and is, therefore,
a temporary manifestation suitable to the earth plane. It becomes
necessary, in order to get a true conception of what we really are (that
we are spiritual beings, being neither male nor female) that we get away
from the illusion of sex, and not be in bondage to it. But the man must
look upon the woman as a spiritual being and not think of her only for
what her material form stands for. If he does he is under an illusion,
being in bondage to her body, which becomes a barrier to realizing the
Divine within, and if the woman looks upon the material form of the man
as being the man and that for which he stands, then she is under an
illusion and is in bondage to his material form, looking upon his male
body as the all of man. And such a thought becomes a hindrance to her
realizing her Divine nature.

"Remember, Stella, that sex is only apparent, not real. It belongs to
th