Continence and Libertinism, though diametrically opposite in practice, have this one outstanding point in common: they both aim straight at the very foundations of life. Equally baneful in their ultimate effect on the human organism, they are but dual aspects of the "Dance of Death." We are not, at the moment, engaged in a philosophical dissertation on the means of REgeneration, although some reference to the problem seems to be in order at this point.

While all of life begins with generation, it should end with REgeneration or Immortalization, i.e. MORTALITY TAKING ON IMMORTALITY. REgeneration or Immortalization proceed hand in hand with Race Regeneration and, together, constitute the Divine Mystery of Sex. The "seed" known and accepted as the means of generation, is likewise the medium of REgeneration.

The duality of the "seed" was well understood by the ancient Initiate Priests or true Holy men. Moses, one of the most notable of these, taught the Israelites that if they "cast the `seed' to Moloch," by any practice, it would become a "serpent" or destroyer of the Soul itself; bringing disease and death upon whoever would be guilty of the practice, while those who "raised up the serpent" as exemplified by himself, "upon the Cross" would have greater life and be "saved."

Considered in terms of the ultimate, the effect upon man, both as concerns his body and Soul, or what the church generally terms "the spirit," it matters little whether this "seed" is cast upon the ground as a result of the unfinished marital embrace, the practice of various forms of solitary vice - self pollution- or unjustified continence. In either case, the penalty is the same.

It may logically be questioned whether the "seed" is not also lost in the marital rite when pregnancy does not follow. Emphatically not in the normal embrace. Whether pregnancy does or does not result, there is an exchange of the vital forces of life between the twain.

The semen is the agent or carrier of these vital, positive, electric, creative forces to woman; while she, in, and by the lochia, releases to man the vital magnetic forces. The exchange of these vital life forces between man and woman, are essential to health, normalcy of mind and balance.

Countless wives continually discourage husbands from completing the marital rite, due to fear of pregnancy. These women soon become haggard in appearance and old long before their time; nervous wrecks after a few years of married life.

The repeated interruption of the rite and the resulting lack of mutual exchange results first in congestion, then irritation and, finally, in an increased desire for Coitus, a vicious circle of destruction to health and well-being.

The husband suffers similarily; first a congestion, then irritation; finally seeking relief elsewhere than in the home; or shunning that, turns to excessive drinking or other debauchery for relief.

The constant declaration of those who lack knowledge of the subject is that continence is the law of life; that Coitus engaged in for reasons other than generation results in the death of an infinite number of living cells and is a waste. The argument is specious.

Even if pregnancy results through the practice of the marital rite, it does so only about once in a hundred times, and even then BUT ONE spermatozoon impregnates and fecundates the ovum; the rest of the more than a million spermatozoon released offer their lives on the alter of service; giving their lives and collective vitality to the one "seed" fortunate enough to impregnate the ovum.

Many who inculcate the doctrine of continence base their delusive reasoning on Biblical precepts, making them all the more insidious and readily acceptable by those who are seeking a way and means to avoid their full duty. Before us is a printed sheet promoting this class of destructive teaching called "Livable Christianity" and we quote:

"It is indulgence in the sensations of the flesh that disorganizes the finer forces of the consciousness. Fleshly desires, expressed or yearning to be expressed, kill out the connection with the spiritual nature within, and turns the body, which should show forth the loveliness of God-mind, into a carnal house of disease and discord. All attempts to satisfy one's desires, whatever be their nature, through outside alliance gives the lie to the truth that man is complete in himself, satisfied from God, and ultimately leads to dissatisfaction, woe and death."

The theory of continence built on such reasoning, appears to be sound and consistent with God's law, but a little reasoning brings to light the utter falsity of the statements. Nowhere in sacred Scriptures are the sensations of the flash forbidden. Sinning, that is, misuse alone, is forbidden. Moreover, if any human being actually tried to destroy sensation, i.e., feeling, he would be destroying life, because life itself is based on sensation or feeling.

The author evidently never heard the Biblical command: "Render unto Caesar that which belongs to Caesar (to the flesh that which belongs to the flesh) and unto God that which belongs to God (to the spirit that which belongs to the spirit)." This is the absolute law of duality without which nothing could exist. It also explains that everything is made for use - right use - that only misuse or wrong use is forbidden.

Furthermore, man is not complete in himself - "Man does not live by himself alone," - until after "mortality has put on Immortality," hence but few on earth today are complete in themselves and we are not dealing with these few here.

With teachings such as these broadcast to a gullible people seeking a "way out" of responsibility, can we wonder that immorality is increasing beyond all reason? Such teaching as these and "I Amism," are not livable Christianity.

They are the "Dance of death," and are promulgated by those who have been abnormally born; or who have lived in degrading environments; or who perhaps were disappointed in love, and became "soured" on the natural way of living. Also to be considered here are those who, because of past practices, are no longer competent, hence no longer MEN and WOMEN; all seeking an excuse to justify themselves and their past, if not their present, shortcomings.

It is our contention that anyone who attempts to follow instructions such as these will not sip the "drink of life," but drain the dregs of degradation. No vitally living human being without a legitimate reason is able to dam up the fountain of life and keep the waters "fresh." It is physically, mentally and spiritually impossible. We say "legitimate reason," and mean just that. If there is a sound and sane reason for the necessity of so doing, then psychological factors enter into the problem and these than govern, modifying the results.

The teachings of youth may influence all of life for better or worse. We have in mind the experience of a maiden lady into whose mind had been instilled the undesirability of sex expression in woman and the shame of experiencing an orgasm. This lady had lived an absolutely virtuous life, when, at the age of thirty-eight, she fell in love and was married to a man in full possession of his manhood.

Through endearments she was made conscious of the falsity of her earlier instructions and the awakening of a desire to reciprocate affection to the full. What was her horror to find that, try as she would, she could not be brought to the normal climax and the keen relaxation that always follows. Her very Soul seemed to cry out to her: "Thus far and no farther canst thou go." Attempt after attempt was made to unlock the floodgate of love and obtain relief and ease, but without success. Gradually, the nervous system became acutely affected, and the lady, broken in courage, health and spirit, at last sought relief from one who understood.

The errors of the past teachings were pointed out to her and when she fully understood her errors, a deep psychological change took place in her inner self. Freedom took the place of the bondage to erroneous ideas. Gradually, she became normal in thought and feeling and began to regain her health and the enjoyment to which her wedded love entitled her.

We have outlined some of the more extreme results of the continent life as we have found them in our years of service. There are many lesser evils which ought to be of sufficient warning to reasonable, rational, human beings.

The first indication of trouble may be nervousness in any one of its various forms, and without apparent cause. Then follow other disturbing symptoms in rapid succession; possibly an irritability making the person a most undesirable companion; gloomy, "touchy," disposed to look on the dark side of everything. More advanced symptoms include loss of appetite and malnutrition; incapacity to concentrate; lack of decision and stick-to-it-ness; desire for constant change; nervous headaches due to a deranged nervous system; inability to digest even simple food; constipation and toxo-absorption; ending in neurasthenia, just a step removed from mental incapacity.

The debauchee's life precipitates about the same general weaknesses. The wasting of the life forces depletes them faster than man can accumulate them. The mixture of different rates of vibrations; various currents of magnetic forces coming from many women, will destroy the strongest man, demagnetizing him, and shattering his life forces.

Continence is a dragon with a hundred heads; each with a sting of death.

In many instances the devotee, if a male, experiences just the opposite of the torrefaction - drying up - of the vivifying forces. There may be an unnatural accumulation. This, together with a lesion of the generative organism, induces continuous nocturnal emissions; leading to pronounced spermatorrhea and loss of manhood, with consequent depletion of the entire nervous system. No need to write of the wrecks brought about through this process of degeneration, for nearly everyone is personally familiar with such cases and their deplorable effects.

One of the most degrading and hideous habits, especially in the male, following in the wake of continence is masturbation and for two reasons: it has a profound psychological effect on the mind which brings on a sense of degradation; it is self pollution and drains the system of vital fluids, gradually reducing virility. It is the death-dealing sin of "Casting the seed upon the ground."

Moreover, the tendency of the continent man or woman to perversion is much greater than imagined; the temptation to find satisfaction in one manner or another, other than the natural, is so insidious that the victim succumbs to it before he or she is actually aware of it.

We cannot find an argument in favor of the destructive practice of continence. Admittedly, there are periods in the lives of most men when it is both right and expedient to abstain from the sexual embrace; as when the wife is ill, or during the absence of either one or the other from the home; but this is merely abstinence, not continence; and the mind does not dwell on the enforced denial; rather looks cheerfully forward to the resumption of the natural lie tie.

What of the effects of continence on the happiness of the home? Those harmoniously mated best bear the strain and stress of married life who practice the marriage rite naturally and normally. Normally here implies that the couple are agreed, not only in regard to time, but likewise in desire. In some instances this may be but once a week, or once in two weeks; in the majority of cases it has reference to two or three embraces regularly every week during the years of youth, except during the period of the wife's unholiness.

A husband should indicate his desire by additional caresses and affection; and only when he has succeeded in arousing the wife's similar desires may the rite be performed. No man should touch a woman until she has indicated willing compliance. Under these conditions health, peace, and happiness are the natural accompaniments of the embrace. If a man brutally ignores a woman's feelings and forces his attentions upon her, he commits a crime no less than married prostitution, ignoble license.

The confession of every human being, could it be secured, would undoubtedly be this: In every case, without one exception, where man and woman are agreed in time and desire, they have parted more in love and harmony with each other after the performance of the rite, than before.

Countless man and women can tell of the woes and miseries of being mismated. The husband, lacking in manly strength, leaving the wife unsatisfied; or the wife, fearing pregnancy, refusing embrace, or half-heartedly submitting, and so on ad infinitum. In most instances, the ultimate result is unhappiness, illness, mutual distrust, a gradual cooling of the affections; the husband finally seeking a mistress; the wife a lover, or divorce.

Teachers of continence may assert that the diseases and effects here attributed to continence are as easily applied to those indulging in the marriage rite. We have already admitted all this. The penalty for abuse of sex, in or out of wedlock, is equally as severe as for the practice of unnecessary continence.

In other respects the proof may be declared absolute. For example: The long sex life of the man who practices the marriage rite normally; while the continent man cannot claim longevity of sex. Admittedly, if the latter is consistent, he does not seek continued virility. The argument favors the potency of sex; The man being considered as yourhful, or in his prime only so long as he retains his virility.Thereafter, he is an "old man."

One point remains undisputed. Neither man nor woman has any right to practice the marriage rite without love as the impetus. If the act is performed under any other thought, desire, or incentive, it is a violation; and a marriage ceremony, irrespective of who may have performed it, cannot set aside the great fiat flung into space by God.

If there is no real affection between husband and wife, if they do not love each other, and the husband demands conjugal "rights" and she complies, they are both guilty of a form of prostitution. The woman will not, cannot, release the magnetic forces and man is incapable of infusing the vital forces. The climax may occur; there will be a sort of physical satisfaction, but neither receives the psychic, or spiritualized essence which should always be the aim of cohabitation; the vital essential to health, strength, peace and happiness to both.

Writers and instructors have emphasized the act in itself, or the elimination of it altogether, missing the important point just enunciated, which must be the underlying fundamental insisted upon in Race Regeneration. Until this is fully understood and practiced, misery and weakness will continue to be the "benefit" of the marriage rite.

Much comment has been voiced upon the love starvation of the race. Love is, and always has been. It is as natural and as necessary to every human being as food. The advocates of continence would have us believe that we may love without passion. That is utterly impossible. The moment a man dearly and sincerely loves a woman, one of the expressions of that emotion is possession for him; with her it is to be possessed.

God created man in His own image; that is, He conferred upon man wisdom and love, the attributes of Himself. The fact that man manifests in the material while God manifests in the spiritual, is nowise a contradiction. Men are co-workers with Jehovah, the Creator, and the creative, generative organism, together with the inherent desire to function thereby, substantiates this assertion.

Had it been ordained that men and women should live separately as sex weaklings, God never would have implanted in man so generously the incentive to creative expression; nor would He have instilled in man the urge for more or less frequent companionship, ending in embrace with the beloved. Had He intended the indulgence to occur once a year, or once in two years, then only for the purpose of reproduction, He would have changed human emotions and desires to conform with such a law.

Were it true that man is capable of loving without passion, then the opposite would be equally true; men then could and should perform the creative act without the incentive of love. Such a thought is revolting; the consequences even more so; it is beastly, unhuman, degrading.

Love lies at the basis of passion; and in its correct understanding, passion is the basis of love. The potentiality in man to love, or hate, or achieve, is in direct ration to the virility of his creative potency. The weakly sexed, cannot surely love. Therefore:

The man living the continent life is incapable of espressing love in its highest aspect.
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