“Of course, if you are still quite selfish and headstrong, and refuse to face yourself and see only those qualities in the other which show up your own weaknesses so glaringly, and you rebel against it all and seek to remain apart from the other, it only postpones the happiness your human mind seeks and which your soul longs for and keeps urging you toward.

“On the other hand, where human love is still strong—and selfish, and unwilling to allow the other the freedom of life and thought which you insist upon having for yourself, and you try to force the other to think and see as you love to do,—you will have to learn through much suffering and unhappiness that the strongest demand of the soul is for perfect freedom, and that one who would bind another soul can expect not love, but rebellion, deceit and constant antagonism, if not smothered hatred.

“This, however, hardly applies to one on The Path. Such a one gets inner glimpses of the caged soul of the other, and strives hard to conquer those old claims of the selfish personality and even to help the other to awaken to that which is holding him or her back from what the soul is seeking. To such, human love is gradually lifted into divine love, and while the other, if anything is more greatly loved than ever, despite all weaknesses, yet it is with a love that unites with that of the Higher Self of the other, as it were, in a great yearning to bring the other consciously into a true understanding of the purpose of their coming together, and consequently into the same joy of the Lord that the knowing one feels.”

IN THE above quoted excerpts from the seventh Impersonal Lesson Paper, we have given you a glimpse of what constitutes true love between husband and wife, and applies particularly when confronting the problems of the sex nature. True love considers not self, but only the good of the other. Think on this until you understand its full significance.

It does not mean the desires or the will of the other, but only what is good for him or her.

But has one the right to deny a husband or a wife the right to sex union, if such does not understand and is not interested in these truths, but thinks only of his or her rights? This is a