IN THIS article we will try to answer the many questions being asked by earnest seekers about the right use of the sex forces.

We have prepared the minds of our readers by explaining in preceding articles just what is sex, its birth, nature, purpose and function as related to the soul and treated from the standpoint of consciousness. We have shown that the male side of consciousness is the outer mind, while the female side is the inner soul, and that both are ever seeking to unite, the inner or true self always striving to draw the outer mind back into oneness with its consciousness.

If the reader will keep this in mind as the true cause of all urges of the sex nature in our consideration of what follows, it will be easy to comprehend this most misunderstood function of the human soul.

Yes, we intend to treat the subject as a soul function, and not to lower it to a bodily function, although we will show that the misuse of it by man has lowered it far below the natural use of it vouchsafed to animals.

For sex in its intrinsic nature is truly of the soul and it affects the body only when the mind misinterprets the soul’s desire and debases it by permitting the animal nature to indulge in its desires.

Almost everyone instinctively realizes this, for the knowledge is inherent in the soul; but few are able to master the animal nature because of not making sufficient effort to control the mind and its wrong thinking, born of wrong teaching and of too much interest in the sensations of the flesh.

This is all a phase of the development of the soul, however, and this development, the result of lessons learned in the past, is usually accompanied by an ever-increasing understanding of truth being built into the consciousness; even as the truths in these articles, when accepted and applied, expand and strengthen the soul and give greater power to utilize correctly the various forces of the lower nature.