l as well as temperamental affinity, are not
final, or eternal, however beautiful they may be; and there are many
sex-relationships which are pure and sacred even though they do not
fulfil this highest of all relationships, that of spiritual
counterparts.

Let us consider for a moment the universality of Sex as we see it
expressed in all the variety of forms and throughout all the species,
and in so doing we may trace the ever upward trend of the law of
sex-attraction, and discover, if we have the eyes to see, the evident
plan and purpose of the cosmic law as it tends toward completement and
perfection in the type of the man-god whom the world has long looked
for and who we believe is here.

If we look at the expression of Sex from the viewpoint of the physical
only, instead of basing our observations from the interior, the
spiritual, outward to the physical, we might conclude that the
function of sex was designed for no other purpose than that of
procreation, since care of the young increases with the upward trend
of life-manifestation.

Beginning at the lower forms of life, such for example as the fish, we
find as a general thing an indifference to the fate of the eggs
deposited by the female, which is in keeping with the prolific and
almost unconscious generation of these tiny evidences of the law of
Sex. A fish laying more than a million eggs in a season is naturally
rather careless about what becomes of them. Apparently no higher
sentiment actuates this form of life than an unconscious and merely
instinctive urge to perpetuate the species--the lowest expression of
Love--and yet the germ of Love, the Creator and Preserver is there,
and a well-defined law of attraction and repulsion is evident from the
fact that as an almost general thing the male will not fertilize eggs
other than those of his own species. But even in these low forms, we
see the evidence of that higher expression of Love which presages the
god-like quality of self-sacrifice. Some species of fish, notably the
stickle-back and the bass, make nests and mother their young.

In those forms of life which are supposed to be insensate, we find the
universal law of sex-attraction and repulsion. The pollen from an oak
tree, for example, may be blown about by the wind and may light upon a
plant which is far removed in species from its own; but if such be the
case, no fertilization takes place. The fundamental law of Love is to
attract to itself _its own_;