The Creator, Jehovah, made no mistake in the manner of His creations, nor in the Laws He established for their government. To even think that He instituted a department of life, established Laws for its welfare and continuance, and then annulled them, is to accuse the Maker of both ignorance and indecision, and to impute to Him all of the weaknesses possessed by His creatures.

MAN was created by the wisdom of the Creator; male and female created He them. As in all things in Nature, there is a duality here; a balance or equilibrium. A one-sided condition cannot exist. His plans for the human race permitted of no errors and man cannot improve upon the laws instituted for his guidance and development.

Granting that God created the sexes, the argument is advanced that He intended the exercise of the sex function to be solely for the purpose of procreation. Such an argument is illogical and unworthy of a sane, sensible mind.

Nature is dual, an incontrovertible fact, as all her methods and workings of the laws prove. God's plan regarding sex also is dual both in form and purpose. The pendulum swings with equal precision both ways.

The opposite of the male is the female; of generation REgeneration; of procreation, REcreation of the self - the Biblical "ye must be born again."

In simple terms, through the exercise of the sex function, by generation, is brought about the propagation of the race, or the creating of life in another body; through sex, by regeneration is developed the life "more abundant" in the self-body. Therefore, sex is as indispensable and necessary to the individual as it is to the race.

The welfare, growth and unfoldment of the individual is in exact ratio to the importance of populating the earth. Continence has no status in the Law of Life.

If sex activity is a violation of the Law of God, then all those who disobey that law must suffer the penalty. (We are now dealing with the normal man and woman, not perverts.) It is beyond dispute that men living in harmony with the law reap the benefits of their obedience.

For example: Men working in conjunction with the law governing the physical body posses health; those planning and working in harmony with the law of prosperity have wealth and possession and so on ad infinitum. The greater the harmony between God and His children, the more of good is bestowed upon man.

If non-use is the law of sex, then the comparatively few unmarried men and women of absolute chastity come under the bounty of the law; being "perfect in the law" they should and would be, gods and goddesses in greatness of power, beauty of person, and advanced in development, not to mention the vivacity and sweetness of disposition.

Do facts manifest this? Do any of the adherents of continence possess these desirable qualifications? Do we not more often find the approach to these characteristics in the happily married of much mutual embrace (so admitted by them), than in the unmarried?

Facing fairly without evasion this important question, one must admit that the followers of sex-continence almost universally exemplify unfortunate traits and most undesirable weaknesses.(1)
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(1) We have in mind only the modern self-styled philosophical and religious-spiritual organizations who teach continence to their fellows and either practice the contrary or prove guilty of the worst forms of sex debasement.
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All too many people, otherwise intelligent, sincerely believe and argue that as animals co-habit only for the perpetuation of their species, men, also, should be satisfied by imitating the creatures of woods and fields and depend upon evolutionary activity alone for their development.

We could as sensibly argue that the instincts and propensities of the horse or cow, or even the swine, should serve man as an example to the spiritually awakened, as to compare the demands and requirements of the animal nature or plant life to those of the spiritually awakened and developing human beings.

Nature has perfectly adjusted the requirements of animal and plant kingdoms to the laws of those realms. The line of demarcation between man and beast is distinctly drawn and an equal distinction exists in the laws governing them, Men are supposed to live in harmony with God, which includes all other harmonies. Animals and plants live in conformity with the purpose of nature; whose one and only great incentive is the reproduction of their species; resultantly, the exercise of the creative function takes place only when this is possible. Dominated by the law of her being, the female animal consents, and conception occurs only while she is in season.

When the lunar period is past, she refuses all advances of the male, fighting if need be, to free herself of these attentions. This attitude is in conformity with the laws governing animals and in no way applies to higher beings.

Possessing only the lower nature, the animal has no possibility of re-generation, consequently, there is neither call nor reason for sex activity, except for reproduction.

Human beings are governed by an entirely different law. Woman does not conceive during the lunar season, but just before or shortly after. We do not say that conception would not take place during that period, or that it cannot, but we maintain that it should not.

To conceive during this period is a crime against the Creator of the sexes, against the woman who consents or suffers it to occur, and against the child to be born under such a condition. The result of conception during the lunar season is always undesirable; an instance of this is the Biblical story of Jacob and Esau.

There is as much difference in the law governing the demonstration of sex, between the human and the animal, as there is in the matter of clothing or covering, or in the kind and preparation of food. It is not only irrational, but criminal as well, to exalt the animal kingdom as an example for the human.

There are as many reasons against the practice of continence, as there are tones in the musical scale. We state here the most obvious, physical one. It is immaterial what the man's work may be, whether fatiguing bodily labor or nerve-exhausting study, or how gross or spiritual his employment or vocation, how little he thinks or how philosophically; the body is a laboratory continuously refining the seminal fluid and storing it for use. Sooner or later this fluid, which could more correctly be termed an "elixir," must be used or disposed of.

We employ the words "used" and "disposed" advisedly. They express our exact meaning. Take the highest form of life which man is capable of living; the man of superior wisdom; one with a divine understanding of the laws of God, and who, through this knowledge, knows how to use the seminal fluid for the REgeneration of the self, his body. Even in his case, there will be a surplus, and if this is not absorbed in a natural manner, it must eliminated from the system, by the urine, nocturnal emission, or otherwise.

If allowed to remain in the body unabsorbed, it becomes stagnant and therefore poisonous to the system; what is more and worse, it has a destructive effect on the cellular tissue of the brain, and the powers of Will and discrimination are adversely influenced.

This often results in perversion and ends in self-degradation. Physical and mental health demands that the seminal fluids not used for creative purposes should be turned into other channels - that of REgeneration and in renewing life and strength.

The higher the understanding a man has of the possibilities, potentialities and destinies of the human race, the loftier will be his conception of the powers, forces and possibilities of the individual.

Conclusions are based on a true foundation when man admits that he was created with a powerful sex nature to be used in wise and holy activities. To limit that application or direction by confining its action to the purpose of reproduction alone is unnatural to his dual - human and spiritual - nature, and frequently leads to degeneracy.

The laws of God and nature do not limit man except to confine him within the bounds of natural and spiritual laws. The seminal fluid is created abundantly by the system, and though aman were to live more or less a polygamous life, and in addition, use up all that was necessary in the recreation and renewing of his own body, the secretions would exceed his requirements.

There are many, most of them spiritually debased by their own secret practices, who loudly deplore the "commonness" of the sex impulse and emphasize the sordid physical side; claiming they are repulsed by it and that at best it is to be exercised only for cohabitation.

Thus do they try to besmirch one of God's greatest blessings the means of both generation and Regeneration - and turn it into a curse or a calamity.

These are the same people, usually, who are "too nice" to admit to their children that child-birth is both natural and normal, as well as sacred. They prefer to tell them tales of babies being brought by the stork, by the doctor in his little bag, or by angels from heaven, all of which the children already know are falsehoods, hence the parents are considered as fabricators and not to be trusted when truth is wanted or desired.

Our assertion that continence is not sanctioned by God is based on truth and cannot be successfully contradicted. We must accept the laws of God and Nature. We are no longer living in an age of fools and delusionists. It is beyond the comprehension of the thinking man and woman how any one can argue that anything in the realm of law and order, God's world, requires an apology. There is nothing to be ashamed of, nothing that can possibly be successfully hidden.

All Divine law, and the action thereof, is noble and beautiful. The old conceptions and feelings of shame must be abandoned. All that God has created is noble, good and holy, unless we make it ignoble by abuse.

The fiat of God, the laws governing sex life, creation and recreation, cannot be nullified by man. They may be perverted, degraded, and, in our blindness, we may try to set them aside, but time finally adjusts the equilibrium; right ultijately prevails. The creative laws of God are mightier than the beliefs, established customs or religious teaching of those who never passed the barriers of the carnal life, hence know nothing of the REgenerative life, its laws or blessings.

Institutions, man-made laws and usages, public opinion and Dame Grundy have done their best to dig a pit and bury this important subject of sex. Whether one practiced continence or not was of little moment, so long as the matter was not discussed. Whether right or wrong, let the advocates or continence teach it if they like, so long as it was not taught en masse, or openly contradicted.

Silence and ignorance were considered virtues. The subject will not down. We can no longer keep silent; we who know the truth must proclaim it.

The diseases, mental and physical, arising from an adherence to continence, formerly laid to other doors, must now be recognized as the legitimate outgrowth of a perverted law, and on a par with debased and degenerate acts.

All through the ages this ugly monster, continence, has shown its head. Wherever it has trailed its hideous body, it has left in its wake the most degraded forms of perversion and degradation. All the crimes in the category of evil have followed.

The natural use of a part or function produces natural results. The perverted use of an organism or function produces undesirable conditions and destructive consequences. Health, saneness, mental and physical equilibrium, all these blessings are the natural lot of those living in harmony with sex laws. We can, and do, find the opposites of these blessings among the followers of continence.

Why this senseless discrimination against certain parts of the body? The food eaten by man is digested, assimilated, and the residue naturally eliminated. This is anything but an esthetic process, but nothing is thought of it; it has always been an open subject; consideration of it never thought degrading.

In fact, there is no difference between the laws governing the functions of creation and those of digestion, absorption and elimination. Only because of secrecy is this part of the body considered ignoble and something of which to be ashamed. The comparison of the different functions is not unappropriate; health reduced to its simplest terms depends upon secretions being assimilated and the elimination of all surplus.

Do we stretch a point when we say the physical law acts in exactly the same way whether it is a colon to be evacuated or a gland to be relieved? We think not. In either case, suppression or retention is injurious.

If for any reason the bowels do not perform properly, we do not hesitate to ask a physician's advice for treatment. There are men and women trained to teach and advise in sex matters. Why consult a doctor about one and ignore the other, the more important one?

Is there much, if any, difference in the reason and principle of elimination as manifested by the various organs of the body? Food is received into the stomach and reduced to a form essential for its assimilation and the rebuilding of the bodily structure. It is taken up by the blood, oxidized in the lungs, and rebuilds bone, muscle, nerve and flesh.

Waste passes out of the system through the various organs of elimination, not only through one. The bowels, kidneys, lungs, skin and sex organs all assist nature. Is it sane or reasonable to disqualify any one of these because of an aversion due to ignorance, shame or guilt?

If the bowels refuse to function properly, constipation follows; there is a consequent poisoning of the system, termed "autointoxication,"(2) or self-poisoning. Disease, ultimately producing death, results unless we remove the cause so that the intestines again perform their normal work.
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(2) "Autointoxication" is an abused term. Reabsorption of poisonous material should be known as "Toxo-absorption." See DIET, THE KEY TO HEALTH. Philosophical Publishing Co. Quakertown, PA.
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If a man consciously ignores this physical law and if disease, and finally death, claims him is he not a suicide? God's law is cause and effect, man refuses to assist the bowels to movement; that is cause. Death is the logical effect.

The Creator is not concerned as to how we circumvent His laws, or what methods we employ; the penalty is always the same; unfailingly certain.

When we are not in harmony with law, we reap disaster. A man is guilty of suicide whether he swallows poison, shoots himself, or refuses to aid a diseased bowel. Before the great Lawgiver these various infractions bring about the same results; all are equally effectual in bringing about disaster.

If the kidneys do not perform their functions properly, illness results. Bright's disease or some other malady makes itself manifest; the indication that they are not functioning according to the law governing them. If remedies are not applied, death is certain. If the lungs are not performing their duty, they weaken gradually, tubercular indications appear and death is merely a question of time.

The law governing is identical in every part of the eliminative system. All these organs receive a share of the nutriment from the food ingested. It is apportioned to them according to their requirements for the rebuilding and keeping in repair of their particular organism.

All that is not used in construction and reconstruction is refuse and must be eliminated, otherwise it will deteriorate, induce irritation and finally destroy. This is the law.

The law of elimination applies equally to all the eliminative processes of the body. From the nutriment furnished the body the sex organism selects its own portion. It cannot appropriate every particle of it any more than can the intestines or kidneys. In every department of construction and repair there is waste; this must be discarded one way or another.

If the unwholesome, insanitary, contrary-to-law idea of continence is followed and the waste retained, it is thrown back into the general system as a congestant and positive poison, which ultimately induces a disease and may be the cause of death.

The pathological effect of various infections produce different diseases in the body; that is, the action of poisons secreted by the different organs produce numerous ailments.

The effect of a diseased kidney is not unlike that of a congested liver; though the disease of the kidneys has a direct influence on the sex organism, because the kidneys were anciently believed to be the Biblical "reins," wherein the seminal gluid is produced.

The infection due to stagnant seminal fluid is far reaching and elusive; the poison thus generated not merely affects the bodily tissues, but through the blood and nervous systems attacks the centers of mental activity and the same form of neurosis may result. The reasoning faculties and the moral nature surrender to this insidious taint.

The imbecile and the pervert are extreme examples; but the world is full of other victims inoculated with mental and physical infection. Onanism, Sodomism, so named after the Biblical Sodom Gomorrahism, and the specialized houses in the red-light districts of the larger cities are proof of this, Can any one doubt the necessity of scientific and philosophical instructions on this subject?

The adherents of continence declare that love is the prevention and the cure of disease, whether of the sex nature or of any other part of the body. The divinity of love is a cure, but the man or woman living in disobedience of God and His laws is not in a position to talk of or apply the principles of love in its higher aspects.

We enter a protest against such a man or woman using the word love. They do not possess the slightest concept of its meaning. Love and sex are the dual parts of the emotional nature; there can be no true, lasting love without vigorous sex. The strength of a man's love equals the virility of his sex power.

Is it possible for a man to love a woman, who through bad habits or abuse has deprived himself of "manly strength?" Emphatically no! Love, as experienced by incarnated beings, cannot be divorced from the alchemy of sex. A man may be mentally faithful to the woman, but that is not love.

Go farther. Is it possible for him to love father, mother, brothers and sisters, in the truest sense of the word? Again we repeat no. If he is not an all-around man he is not in possession of the prerogatives of man.

Follow this question to the ultimate. Is it possible for him to truly love God? The answer is the likewise emphatic "NO" To truly love is to love wholly (holy), with all of one's nature as a unit.

The diseased or subnormal man is not whole; half of his emotional nature is weak or neurotic, and half a man cannot give a whole man's love to either woman or God.

All the famous men and women who have become great in the world of action and accomplishment were those possessing fully developed, normal sex natures. Proven celibates and eunuchs are not listed among the Immortals. If there was ever any misuse of the sex function by famous men and women it was on the side of super-activity, never non-use.

It is utterly impossible for a man to be healthy, virile and strong, capable of physical and mental activity along any line of the world's work, who does not attend to the organs of elimination in his own body. Neither is it possible for a man to be healthy in body and mind, full of strength and vivacity, who does not live a natural life. The man who is love-starved, system-congested, mind-poisoned has little chance of success or happiness.

The so-called doctrine of continence may be likened to a pool of water surrounded by a wall of masonry. The fresh water pours into the basin which, when filled, automatically shuts off the inflow. From that time on, only an amount of water equal to the quantity soaking away or evaporating finds its way into the pool. What is the result? A child could guess the answer. Stagnation.

The life and the purity of the water depends upon an outlet, or outflow of the water already in the pool, and an inflow of fresh water - on circulation and aeration. If this is interfered with, the stagnation generates poisons and each particle seeking its affinity, rises to the top of the pool, unites itself with virulent matter already there and forms a poisonous film over the body of water.

As the pool of water requires an inflow of fresh water to keep it pure and wholesome, so does the creative organism of man need a constant inflow of the vital fluids. This presupposes an outlet or outflow. This outlet denied, nature seizes other means of protecting her interest. Continence is a deliberate closing of the outlet, consequently there is room for only an infinitesimal amount of the fresh vital fluids, the organism already being congested.

The result is stagnation of the seminal fluids in the creative organism. Stagnation always is creative or poisons. Poison created or generated in the congested area, finds its way into the circulation, affecting all the tissues of the body.

This is ultimately followed by a disturbed equilibrium affecting the entire system of man; undermining his moral nature, deadening his spiritual conscience; weakening the Will; and, as a result of irritation, giving impetus to increased desire. The natural, normal outlet being closed, creative nature turns upon the one guilty.

Perversions of many kinds and a thousand evils come into existence under self-imposed, reasonless continence. The mentality gradually weakens, the Will loses its power and man becomes a helpless victim of himself - all under the delusion that he is treading the path to spirituality.
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