From Generation to Regeneration, The Sex Question, & The Occult Forces of Sex E-Book

Lois Waisbrooker

• Herausgeber: Andura Publishing
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

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From Generation to Regeneration, The Sex Question, The Occult Forces of Sex

Lois Waisbrooker

PREFACE.

“Know thyself” is a maxim that grows deep with meaning as we study the human body, not only in its relations to matter but as connected with that myste­rious something called the“ human soul.”

That soul and spirit, or that which constitutes the “J,” the “you” or the “me,” are not one and the same is more than hinted at in the scripture which speaks of “dividing asunder soul and spirit ”—and a recent writer upon this subject declares the soul to be the body of the spirit.

Or, in other words, when the incomprehensible self­hood which allies us to the Infinite is clothed with both soul and body we call it a “human being”—a man, woman or child; but when clothed only with soul we call it a “spirit.”

The Bible tells us that there is a natural body and a spiritual body, and also that Death is to be destroyed.

Death, as we understand it, is the separation of the soul and its occupant from the physical body, the latter going to decay and the former passing beyond the ken of our physical senses.

The Christian world has taught the resurrection of the physical body as the abode of its former occupant, but Science has laughed Theology out of countenance in reference to this belief. And yet is it not possible that there may be something which Science has not caught sight of—a wonderful reality lying enshadowed under this old theological idea?

May not the mistake have been more in the manner of conception as to the how than in the matter of fact as to its ultimate reality?

The writer above referred to claims that the soul is matter so refined as to be beyond all known scientific tests and yet a body held together by its own laws, and, as such is the germ of the to-be-resurrected body, says that if by any means this soul—this body of refined matter—should become disorganized, destroyed as a body, then there can be no resurrection for that spirit.

This idea brings the meaning of the death of the soul within the scope of the human understanding, and, being true, would prove that such a being, whatever might be its fate, could have no part in the future glories of our redeemed world, which the Scriptures plainly indicate shall be the inheritance of redeemed souls, or of those who are clothed not only in souls but in redeemed, resurrected bodies.

A venerable thinker and friend of the writer says that love (sex-love) is the bottom subject of civilization —that there is no subject so important and none so little understood; but never having been studied by law-makers nor institution-makers as one of the mighty forces of civilization what can we expect from society but what we see—that there can be no true progress toward general happiness till the true natural relation between the sexes is settled by a pro-and-con. discus­sion of all its allied topics—that what is wanted is a full discussion and not a skirmish into one department and then into action.

And, referring to what I am now revising for repub­lication, he adds: “When you have mouldered into dust some person will read your pamphlet, and, armed with its truths, will go into the discussion and help to settle it.”

We will hope that in this age of accelerated thought it will not take so long to reach the point as our white-haired friend seems to suppose, and, as he claims that man is not fit to discuss this subject unless he has a profound worship of woman as such, and unless, being beyond the age of passion, he can speak as a philoso­pher—all of which is true—it follows that women must take the lead in this great work.

Now, it is not proposed to attempt even to grapple with the wide range of thought connected with creative love, but only of that which has a bearing upon the development of the soul, or spirit body, together with its renewing, or regenerating, power upon the physical j and however plainly it may be necessary to speak of life’s relations, my gray hairs, my forty years of moth­erhood and the importance of the subject must be my justification.

Jesus is recorded as saying: “Straight is the gate and narrow the way that leadeth to life, and few there be that find it.” It is true; and he or she who seeks sex relations with no higher end in view than pleasure can never enter through the gate to the way of life. Let use be the end and pleasure the incident, and pray that the Divine Master of Life may show you the DIVINEST USES. L. W.

From Generation to Regeneration;

OR, THE

PLAIN GUIDE TO NATURALISM.

“ The last enemy that shall be destroyed is Death.”

1st Corinthians, XV: 26

We have in this quotation from what is called “Sacred Writ” a declaration so bold, so startling, that even those who have the most implicit faith in Bible authority have been utterly unable to accept it in its literal sense. They claim that Jesus brought life and immortality to light, but do not seem to have the faintest idea that he revealed a natural law which will finally be the death of Death itself, leaving the race in the possession of perfected and immortal bodies.

With many the declarations of Scripture are without weight—are considered of no account—but the spiritu­ally minded, though repudiating the theologies of the day and rejecting the Bible as authority, concede that it is one of the many books in which fundamental truths find expression, and a few accept as one of such truths Paul’s declaration that Death is to be destroyed; while others, who love to study Nature’s analogies, are trac­ing her laws to the same grand result.

In elucidating the law leading to regeneration it were well to use both Scripture and analogy, mingling them as they harmonize or as One throws light upon the other. Were we as familiar with the sacred writings of the heathen, so called, as we are with our own, we should doubtless find therein the same truths that we find in the Bible, the difference consisting only in forms and similitudes of speech adapted to people of different customs and habits; while in both they are but the reflex or shadow of truths that exist in Nature’s great volume.

If the reader will study the past history of our planet it will be found that Nature’s efforts are Nature’s prophecies. To illustrate: Men of intuitive souls and practical genius, sensing the uses to which Nature’s forces can be applied, will do their utmost to actualize their ideals. If the right conditions do not exist they strive to change them, working, often for years, with unflagging energy and amid great difficulties, and all for what to the masses is only a dream—a whim of a disordered brain—an impossibility. But he knows better; he has seen and sensed the soul of that which he seeks to embody, to make tangible. He may never be able to reach, the desired end; he may make mis­takes as to the method of reaching it j but he knows that it is possible and that if he fails somebody, some­time, is going to succeed—and so he toils on. But would he do this, could he do it, were it not for the sub­lime evidence of the unseen that is within him? Assur­edly not; and every effort he puts forth is a prophecy of what is yet to be.

If man will make no effort in a direction in which he sees no possibility of success shall we accuse Nature, or God in nature, of the folly of doing so I Shall we dare to say that the potent forces which are the life of

Nature give indications pointing to a certain result, when such a result under any and all conditions is an utter impossibility? Rather let us sit reverently at the feet of our common mother, listen to her prophetic words and strive to discover the conditions under which her prophecies may become certainties, and to obey the law leading to their fulfillment.

Yes, Nature’s efforts are Nature’s prophecies. She is. not so blindly foolish as to try to do that which, condi­tions being right, she cannot accomplish; and, judging from past results, she seems to carry her work to a given point and then to wait for man to interpret her language and co-operate with her in its further devel­opment. She commenced making apples, but had reached only to the wild, sour crab apple, when man took hold with her, gave her improved conditions, and he has been richly rewarded. The same is true of the potato and of other articles of food. Man has thus profited by Nature’s hints—but in how few things com­pared with what he must ere the earth is subdued to his liking, or he himself becomes what he desires to be and is capable of becoming.

Nature does try to renew the cycle of man’s life— tries to reconnect him with the worn and fast-breaking lines which unite him with matter; tries to prevent the crumbling of his physical habitation; tries to make him young again. See, she has succeeded in restoring to that man the clear, active sight of other days; his glasses have been thrown aside and he can read with­out them—can see as well as he could at twenty years of age. Look, there is another whose hair is resuming its natural color, and another whose teeth are being restored. Only now and then one with faculties so renewed, but enough to show that Paul’s declaration will yet be a reality; enough to show (if Nature’s analogies are not false) that the oft-repeated wish, “Oh, could I begin life anew with the experience I have had,” will yet be realized. Yes, this effort to renew life’s cycle is a prophecy—one of Nature’s hints—an index finger pointing to future possibilities.

As another hint—another finger-board pointing the way—we find a universal desire for continued physical life. This desire has existed from generation to gener­ation and from century to century all through the ages. Desire is prayer j continued and intensified it becomes a hunger so accute that it demands a supply and incites to the effort which eventually brings it. To illustrate this point more fully we will go to the realm of flowers and select its queen, the peerless rose. The parent shrub hungers for blossoms and sends out its magnetic prayer to Nature for that which will bring them. Na­ture responds to that need and yields a supply. But that shrub, or the life within, does not send out one prayer, one magnetic line, to gather to itself other than that which is needed to develop what it has within it­self the power of becoming under right conditions. It never asks for the elements that would make an oak, for it has not within itself that which will enable it to become an oak. It has power to ask for that only which will make it a perfect rose—could not feed upon, assim­ilate anything else if it were given.

Is this true of vegetable life, and shall we, the human —we, who are so much further advanced in the scale of existence—continue to desire that which we have no power ultimately to attain! This desire for continued physical life is so characteristic of the race that the lack of it is considered unnatural; and if the almost uni­versal belief in and desire for a continued existence after the dissolution of the body is counted among the strongest analogical evidences that there is such a state of existence, why should not this inextinguishable desire for continued physical life be counted as evidence that such continuation is a possibility—is among the things that “eye hath not seen, that ear hath not heard” but is beginning to enter into the heart of man to conceive of as part of our future inheritance? Some believe that it is, and this belief is on the increase. Where there was one who dared to hope in this direction twenty years ago there are perhaps a thousand now who are preparing to do battle with grim Death with the full expectation that if they fail they are so paving the way that those who take their places will finally conquer, and regeneration become a fixed fact. But the regeneration which will put our last enemy under our feet must be reached through the continued action of the same law—through the mingling of the same creative, life-giving elements from which generation comes; otherwise it would not be regeneration—gen­erating anew.

The growing belief in the possibility of overcoming Death is also an indication that the time for the com­mencement of the consummation is close at hand; in illustration of which assertion let us go again to the vegetable kingdom for corroborative evidence. We find that when a tree commences active life in the germ it goes on for a time developing roots, leaves, branches, till finally, when all is ready, it puts forth its blossoms •as the promise of fruitage. The blossom is its first thought, so to speak, that fruit is a possibility, and im­mediately it goes to work to embody that thought—to perfect itself by bearing fruit.

Are not Nature’s laws uniform in their action, only varying in modes of expression, as manifest through the different orders of life? If so, then the thought of any form of development, when it becomes a fixed and growing belief, must be to the human what the blossom is to the fruit—a pledge of its possibility, yea, of its cer­tainty, when the right conditions exist. The thought of physical immortality is born. True, it has been blighted again, and yet again, but still it reappears as a sure word of prophecy, to which we shall do well to take heed; for the time from blossoming to fruitage is but short compared with that which precedes it in the development of the tree, and the analogy must hold good of the thought blossoms in the human which are to bring this regenerated fruitage.

If the position taken is correct, if that which gives generation will finally bring regeneration, then, as the reader will have perceived, there can be no knowledge of more importance than that which pertains to the law of sex; and those who see and feel this must discuss its relations, even though opposed and denounced by mistaken but honest souls who feel that such discussion tends to increase passional desire. If they will study the laws of mind in its action upon matter those who anticipate such a result will find that their fears are groundless.

In trying to understand the nature and quality of food in its relation to health and disease we feel no more hunger than if we had never talked of these things; and a morbid appetite will find relief by plac­ing the sufferer in the midst of food and teaching self-control, sooner than it otherwise can, for the aura given out in process of cooking can be appropriated directly without taxing the diseased stomach with the labor of preparing it for the system, and this law holds good of sex hunger.

In discussing sex, from the intellectual stand-point, we exchange sex aura through the intellect, and the tendency is the reverse of what has been supposed. Beside, if we would save our children from the impure knowledge that leads to an improper use of sex, thus laying the foundation for disease both of body and mind, we must see to it that they are legitimately in­structed. We can keep them from the evils we fear only by teaching them that these organs of the body should be held sacred from all improper use; and we should bring to our aid all the intelligence that we possibly can—should strive to place motives before them that will make them shrink from such improper use as they would shrink from burning coals or red-hot iron. Armed with such knowledge our children would be safe and the venders of obscene literature would be forced to desist from their traffic for lack of purchasers.

But however much this discussion of sex and its laws may be deprecated there are those who have caught glimpses of a higher use therein than the propagative, and they will not, they cannot, rest till the mystery of this higher use is solved. Going back to the time when organized forms first existed upon this planet we find that the highest in the scale of development were crude compared with the lowest of today; not so much, per­haps, in form as in substance, while the distance be­tween them and the highest now upon the earth is so great that we are astonished and naturally ask for the law through which this advance has been made. And upon investigation we learn that sex lies at the base of it all—that the masculine and feminine forces are the factors and sex union the steps in the spiral stairway which Progress has continued to climb even till the present hour; and it is hardly supposable that the greatest blessing which can come to the race through the joint action of these factors has yet been reached; and the more especially when we remember that in each succeeding age of the past they have given us better and still better results; and the problem now to be solved is, What is this greater blessing—this higher use?

In seeking for this solution we find in common use among religionists the word “regeneration” and, know­ing that something cannot rest on nothing, we infer that it has a meaning rooted in truth; and as genera­tion is a tangible physical fact why should not regen­eration be also? Will Nature never be able to gestate from matter an organized form which she can perpet­uate to the same indwelling life, instead of through a succession of lives bearing a like form? The redemp­tion of our bodies! How? Through what law is the Christian idea of God the Creator dying to rise as God the Redeemer, the Renewer, the Regenerator, a shadow of the how f Is there a point to be reached where God, in the union of sex, will cease to create and begin to re-create or renew? Nature, or God in nature, creates through sex, and is it folly to suppose that He may yet redeem, renew, save from death through a more exalted action of the same power? Man casts the seed of grain into the earth and there comes forth the blade, the stalk, and finally the ear to ripen in the sum­mer sun; he casts the seed of his own body into the receptacle that divine wisdom has prepared and in due time there comes forth another human body, and yet we know not the how of all this. We cannot under­stand why each is produced after its kind; we know not what the life is in the kernel that calls to itself that which will produce the ear upon which come many kernels like unto the original. The wisest minds that ever lived are as much at loss here as are the most ignorant.

But we know that from the joint action of the sex forces there comes a life possessing a given amount of power over matter, and which, in spite of opposing forces, draws to itself a body suited to its use; and we see that this power increases in accelerated ratio as we rise in the scale of being, even till man, as standing at the head, holds a greater control over matter than do all the orders of life beneath him.

We find that in the vegetable kingdom the life with­in controls matter through the law of attraction. It cannot put forth a hand and take that which it needs, but must draw it from earth and atmosphere through the power of what we call “affinity.” During the first part of its existence the central life gathers faster than opposing forces can scatter, and for a time we have

growth j then there comes a balance between the two, succeeded by excess in waste j decay commences, the life within leaves and the structure is taken to pieces.

In the animal kingdom we find forms of life that move from place to place, instead of being rooted to one spot, and that take by a voluntary act that which is needed to sustain them and to supply waste. But their food being once in the stomach, voluntary control Ceases while through the involuntary action of organic laws we have the same process of growth, balance, ex­cess of waste, dissolution. Man follows the same law, but with such added power of external control that, compared with it, that possessed by the orders of life beneath him sinks into insignificance.