"SELLING THE THRONES OF ANGELS"
Great as may seem to the sense-conscious person the pleasure and
satisfaction of owning some one, or some thing; of possessing and
feeling a proprietorship in the one desired; greater by a million-fold
is the pleasure of union which is possible only to those who are
themselves free, and who in consequence desire freedom for all others.
This is a truth which the unwise cannot comprehend or concur in, and
which they will not believe or trust.
Emerson says: "Every personal consideration that we allow costs us
heavenly state. We sell the thrones of angels for a short and
turbulent pleasure."
And finally, as regards the sex-function, we would like to impress
upon every one, though only those who are fit for the kingdom will
understand the truth, namely that the highest manifestation of
sex-love is not localized in the organs of procreation. The love that
is of the soul fills the breast first of all, and is only felt in the
region popularly, but erroneously, supposed to circumscribe the
sex-function, as a secondary and by no means compulsory consideration.
When the sex force has become diffused throughout the entire being,
radiating from the solar man, and permeating the mind and thus
entering into the mortal body which is only a covering of the mind
physical copulation becomes a well-trained servant of the will, and is
found to be a natural, but yet secondary complement. Sex is not
confined to the specialized sex-organs. It permeates the entire being.
The person who has no conception of his reality other than as a
physical entity has not so much as touched the area of spiritual
ecstacy which has been alluded to as "the nectar of the gods;" and so
infinitely fine and perfect is the plan of Creation that he can not do
so until he is fit; and never can he be fit as long as he remains upon
the sense-conscious plane and seeks by sexual perversity and
debauchery and sexual insanities to touch that exquisite perfection of
joy which he intuitively knows evades him.
Thus the sensual man is caught is a beneficent trap; a wise and just
and merciful Power has so placed the "Holy of Holies," that it cannot
be defiled; it cannot be reached; it cannot be desecrated. It is
forever removed from the touch of the unworthy. No man can hope to
express the creative power, the sexual realization of a god, through
the functions which are not higher in consciousness than those of the
animal.
Would you attain to the status of the divine man? If so, do not
imagine for a moment that the divine man is less vital than your puny
physical powers would suggest. Neither should you imagine that the
sex-function, even in its lowest state (lowest because most lacking in
love-consciousness), is anything but pure and clean and right and
normal in itself; the attitude of the average man and woman invests it
with all its uncleanness.
But with all the vile thought which the undeveloped mind has indulged
in respecting the sex-relation; with all the man-made laws arrayed
against it as though it were criminal, and the teachings of the Church
denying its spiritual origin and perpetuation; with women selling it
in the public markets for their physical maintenance, nothing less
than the fact of the eternality and universality of Sex, as the divine
fulcrum of manifestation, can account for the fact that the poor
little bi-une Love-god is after all coming to be recognized as the
hope and savior of Mankind.
If you would have eternal youth and eternal life and love and wisdom,
accept this truth, because nothing else can, or will, save you from
the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune."
Another vague query presents itself to the would-be initiate, and we
would like to leave this chapter with no misunderstandings; no
misconceptions; no misleading statements, because that which we are
here stating is not theory. It is the one eternal, undying, simple and
unescapable truth which has withstood the onslaughts of time and
ignorance.
The query comes and although it has been answered in previous chapters
we will again state it, so that there may be no mistake: If the
balance is found in counterpartal sex-union--the one man and the one
woman uniting on the solar plane--would not this balance be maintained
if only one of the two reached the higher planes of consciousness; in
other words, would not the balance be struck by extreme purity on the
one hand and extreme impurity on the other?
Again we are reminded that the law of the cosmos is wise; that there
are no mistakes nor flaws in the cosmic scheme. The answer is that the
union is one of complementaries, and not of antitheses. Each one must
be balanced, the nature rounded, the soul awake before union is
possible. Thus we are saved from ourselves. We cannot, if we would,
really gain at the expense of another, although in temporary things we
may appear to do so, because the rich grow richer at the expense of
the poor; the tyrant ruler maintains his power at the expense of
serfs; but doubt not that _eternal equation_ is perfect.
There is still another query: If true sex-union is of the soul, what
is to prevent soul-mates from finding each other at the moment of
death, regardless of their fitness for godhood, and thus
circumventing, as it were, the plan of Creation, which would compel
each one to earn the prize of eternal life?
The same law governs the interior planes as the exterior. The
realization of consciousness is not a capricious matter any more than
is the law of physical growth. A man might be in the presence of
untold wealth, but if he had not the consciousness to know and realize
values, he would remain poor, even though by a wave of his hand he
might command millions. One might give a blind man a check for a
million dollars, and if he had no others means of knowing what it was,
he might easily imagine it to be worthless. Death does not bestow
wisdom. Wisdom is acquired. Love is a self-generator.
If you would follow the law of transmutation and acquire the throne of
angelhood, get busy within the laboratory of your own mind. Take the
crucible of Thought and begin to work interiorly upon the common,
everyday things that present themselves in your environment. This is
the only way of transmutation. Love grows by feeding upon itself, and
the sacrifices and the kindnesses that are bestowed in love without
thought of personal benefit grow into the flood of golden light and
love of the spiritual realms.
The chief virtue in any one's pursuit of philosophy, or of esoteric
wisdom, and in methods of attainment, is found in the fact that such
effort is proof of earnest desire to attain. Emerson says that the
principal benefit of a college education is to teach the student that
he does not need a college education. This estimate of the value of
years of study seems at first glance a sarcastic one, but it is not.
If this wisdom can be acquired in no other way, then even so it were
well worth the price. If the student can learn that much love is the
price of transmutation only after exhausting every other method, what
does it matter, so that he finally learns it?
_Learn to look into the hearts of men._
At first sight, everything on the busy city street is a part of a
moving panorama; but an intimate view, when you get in touch with
segregated parts of the panorama, discloses the interior nature; the
hopes and the fears; the aspirations and the longings and the
heartaches and the joys of the entities composing the whole moving
picture.
You notice a little female figure; her cheeks are pinked to a hue
rivalling the American beauty rose; her lips are carmined like a
clowns and her eyebrows penciled too obviously. Her cheap little dress
is amateurishly cut in imitation of "the latest." Your first impulse,
perhaps, is to scorn her as a "brazen" creature of the streets; but if
you will suspend judgment and look a little closer, you may see that
her eyes are, in their depths, those of a child, for all her seeming
experience. Her brazenness is perhaps only the armor which she has
donned to hide a turbulent heart--the dowry of centuries of
grandmothers who longed for one glimpse of freedom; of the right to
comb their hair as they liked; to powder their faces if they wanted
to; to run and jump and laugh and dance and be innocently free and
happy without the fear of shocking that bugbear Respectability, and
the tyrant Decorum, which insisted that a woman's legs must be
carefully concealed on penalty of being adjudged "immodest."
Those poor reviled, execrated and vigilantly-concealed legs of our
fore-mothers! They are crying aloud for vindication, and they will be
heard wherever the line of least resistance affords a channel for
their freedom. And so, instead of blaming the poor little painted doll
of a woman, look into her heart. You will discover that she is bent on
having two things long denied womankind--freedom and happiness. If she
is foredoomed to failure on the route she has chosen, that is all the
more reason why you should withhold censure and give freely of your
help and sympathy.
"_Learn to look into the hearts of men._"
Learn to see beneath the appearance. The old Italian organ-grinder
doing his best to please you with his wheezy hurdy-gurdy is not just
an old organ-grinder. He is also a man with emotions and feelings and
longings and hopes identical in substance with your own; no matter if
the organ is out of tune. Learn to hear the _spirit_ of the aria or
the intermezzo.
And behold! There is a bunch of noisy, dirty, slangy and bold
street-arabs--at least that is what they look like from the outside.
But learn to look within. There you will find the cause of their
appearance, and when you have found the cause you will sympathize with
them. If you can get back to the underlying cause of the
manifestations of life, you will never fail to sympathize with the
condition you may find, even though you find the cause rooted in
crime.
You do not have to agree with the criminal in order to sympathize with
his misery. If you have the inner vision, which you must have if you
would transmute the baser metals into pure gold and find the key to
immortal life and love, you will never fail to understand and to
sympathize with every point of view. "Whoever walks a furlong without
sympathy walks to his own funeral."
Don't imagine for one moment that you have to go to the Himalayas to
find the inner vision; or that you will obtain the key to the Hidden
Mysteries by shutting yourself in a monastery. Wherever you are, you
must lose sight of yourself. Not the higher Self of Reality, but the
lesser self of the carnal, or sense-conscious plane--the personality
that conceals _you_. And above all, you are not to regard this
personality as an enemy to be scourged and beaten and reviled. It is,
or it should be, a willing, and helpful servant of your soul even as
we say "the hand is the servant of the brain." If your hand becomes
unruly and does not obey your brain, train it to do so, don't cut it
off, even though the Bible does appear to tell you to--why should the
men who wrote in that far-off time know more of Truth than we of a
later century?
You may imagine that you need to belong to some "Brotherhood," in
order to learn the secrets of alchemical transmutation. There is
nothing of the Great Wisdom which can be taught you, which you cannot
learn of yourself if you will look within and unite with the heart of
the world.
There is no wisdom higher than love; and there is no power greater
than love; and there is no heaven happier than love and there is no
God holier than love. If you will take this for your creed you will
readily see that it is for you to think love into those things that
appear to lack it; think purity into those things that appear impure;
think unity into those things that appear separated; and taking the
lesson home to your own intimate conduct of life, invest the
expression of your sex with the pure and lofty and holy power God gave
to it, or refrain from the thought of sex until you can learn to do
so.
Says a modern writer: "If you are still so out of tune with the
Infinite as to harbor any thought of evil or shame in connection with
the specialized organs and functions of sex, let this illumination
from on high cast that devil out of your cosmos forever. And if you
turn away with soul offended from even 'the slimy gendering of the
toad,' you dishonor God who once knew no higher creative formula and
still blesses it with His fruitful presence."
And finally do not make the too common mistake of confounding
brazenness with freedom from shame and self-condemnation.
Whatever of beauty and purity and joy has come to you in this life has
come because of the divinity of Sex. If you have been wise enough to
know this, and have reverenced it and purified your mind in respect to
that function of your being, you will not cheapen it by parading the
subject before those who have no idealism, any more than you would
"cast pearls before swine;" you will not countenance jokes and ribald
songs; you will not indulge in promiscuousness; but instead you will
fold it within the sacred intimacy of your heart's divine altar, as
something too beautiful, too holy for the garish light of the
un-tender day.
If you have taken into your consciousness the divinity of Sex, you
will desire unity and disdain possession, knowing that whatever of
Heaven is vouchsafed Mankind here is but a shadow of the reality of
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will teach the truth that the law of Life is mathematically just; that
nothing will unlock the gates of Eternal Life and Love, except inward
honesty; fidelity; unselfishness; spiritual desire.
If we possess these qualities, we are fit for the kingdom of Love and
we shall surely enter therein.
Verily Love transforms mere men into immortal gods.
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
1. Passages in italics are indicated by _underscore_.
2. The following misprints have been corrected:
"attaing" corrected to "attaining" (page 12)
"Morever" corrected to "Moreover" (page 67)
"Doubless" corrected to "Doubtless" (page 85)
"esctacies" corrected to "ecstacies" (page 116)
"aproach" corrected to "approach" (page 116)
"mutality" corrected to "mutuality" (page 123)
Incomplete sentence "We have already" removed on page 140.
"iadequate" corrected to "inadequate" (page 179)
"magnectic" corrected to "magnetic" (page 194)
"instintctive" corrected to "instinctive" (page 224)
"phenonenal" corrected to "phenomenal" (page 226)
"anoher" corrected to "another" (page 234)
"estoeric" corrected to "esoteric" (page 235)
"and and" corrected to "and" (page 240)
"advaced" corrected to "advanced" (in ad for the "The Dead Speak!")
3. Other than the corrections listed above, printer's inconsistencies in
spelling, punctuation, hyphenation, and ligature usage have been retained.