Just as the senses of taste and smell are intimately related, the sense of touch—feeling—and the sexual sense are similarly related. The stimulation of one sense arouses activity in all, and consequently if the psychic senses in an individual have been awakened, the consciousness is very apt to turn inward to that plane of the one sense, and psychic sight and hearing may then respond to the sense of touch or feeling functioning on the physical plane.

Herein lies the great danger to the spiritually unenlightened man, for unless he is aware of the deceptive sensuousness of the sights and sounds of that interior plane as they are thrown into form and sound by the energy set free by excitation on the physical plane, the beauty and delight of these sights and sounds would deceive him into believing he was contacting still higher planes of being where life is real, and which are only open to man when the senses are all under control and the now atrophied organ through which the one sense may act is again developed; or the horrible, licentious and vicious images and gross sounds he may vision or hear would deceive him into believing he had entered a veritable Hades. For when undirected physical or mental energy is set free by man, it may throw the substance of that first interior plane into either class of images.

The last mentioned phenomenon occurs when the mental balance has been disturbed by disease, or when over indulgence in sense gratification has led to satiety.

The great aim and ambition of enlightened man is Mastery, and the word itself should indicate the process and the result. An enlightened man does not aim at mere mastery over worldly physical conditions. Such mastery is far more easily gained than is the mastery over the finer forces of nature and the absolute control of his lower self. So long as man can be controlled by his senses, it is utterly impossible for him to arouse into new activity that now atrophied center of the brain which is essential to the control of the higher creative forces.

If a unit of the human race is content to take his evolution with the other units of the race, so far as the functions of sex are concerned, he will be subject only to the sex karma of the race. If he perverts those functions in some abnormal manner, he adds immeasurably to his share of that karma.