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the common aim of altruistic thoughtfulness for the little lives which
their love has brought forth.

Thus nature serves the cosmic law, which aims to raise the
sex-instinct from the incomplete and unsatisfying plane of physical
contact, to that of spiritual union--a wide gulf seemingly; but who
would not strive to bridge it, did he but realize what spiritual union
with the Beloved One means?

CHAPTER II

SEX WORSHIP AND SEX DEGRADATION

Every form of religious worship, from pre-historic time down to and
inclusive of the present century, and among all races, savage and
civilized, has been founded upon Sex--the inevitable, the inviolable,
the unescapable, and the unfathomable mystery of Creation.

Nor should this fact be distasteful to the most refined. An
intelligent review of the many evidences that prove this truth will
not shock the sensibilities of the most devout worshipper of an
unknown and unseen God. What can be more beautiful and more holy, more
worthy of our highest reverence and adoration, than the mystery of
birth, whether that birth be the growth of a flower from a tiny seed
planted in the womb of Mother Earth, or the birth of a tiny human life
from the seed Love sows in the womb of the human mother? The only
shocking thing about the matter is that there are persons who can be
"shocked" at contemplation of this wonderful and beautiful mystery. It
is shocking and deplorable that so many are still so far away from
spiritual consciousness, that the beauty and the purity of the miracle
of Sex is unrecognized by them.

With all due respect to the highest types of religious creeds which
survive today, we are bound to concede that the very first form of
worship which prevailed upon this earth was the purest as it was the
simplest. Truth is simple. Deception introduces us into a maze of
complexities. Nature worship prevailed we know not how many centuries
previous to the dawn of historic records. All allegorical literature
makes constant allusion to "The Golden Age," evidently referring to a
time before that which has come down to us in sacred literature, as
"The Fall of Man." The first conception of a supreme power, something
higher and more perfect than Man himself, originated in the mystery of
Sex; not only in the sex-function as exercised by Man, but also in the
evidences of sex seen in plants and animals.

It became evident to the earliest ra