It is legend that a noted prelate of one of America's most powerful organizations claimed that if his church could control the first nine years of a child's life, it mattered little what its later influences might be; the teachings of the church could never be eradicated from the child's mind or heart.

Generally this is true. The first impressions on the plastic mind of the child are indelible; but why confine the child's true education to the doctrines of any particular church or creed? Is it not more important to teach youths the mysteries of being than to drill into their minds the history of the saints; the necessity of observing special days in the church calendar or the preparation for an existence beyond the grave?(1)
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(1) It is uncontradictable that if man lives RIGHTLY here on earth, then a fitting abode will be assured him after death, since the future is neither more nor less than a continuation of the present.
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Children are consistently taught the basic elements of a faith for the preservation of their Souls after death. The fundamentals of biology and sexology - having as their object the preservation of physical life, which is the basis, not only of health, happiness and evolution, but equally so of the welfare of the Soul itself - are almost entirely ignored and left to chance.

The Immortalization of the Soul is definitely related to the REgeneration of the body. It is just as imperative to know and obey God's laws governing the physical world as it is to follow the laws relating to the spiritual realms. How is it possible to build a resplendent future on a decayed present? Can an unclean mind and diseased body foster a pure and radiant Soul?

When a child is capable of questioning its parents concerning its origin, such inquiries are usually avoided or untruthfully answered. The perturbed, thoughtless, morally-ignorant mother or father attributes birth to "the stork," the doctor, the drug store or to some kind fairy, and hastily changes the subject.

Can a greater injury be inflicted on a confiding Soul than that of decieving a trustful child. Is it not appalling to consider the foundationless falsehoods impressed upon the young child's mind by ignorant parents at the very dawn of its intellectual awakening? When later the child becomes aware that it has been deceived, will it not doubt the truthfulness of the parents in all else.

The degradation of sex has its beginning at this very point. The child WILL soon be old enough to suspect something of the truth and is unlikely to forget the explanation made by its parents. Through companions equally ignorant, it will shortly be informed, in the most degrading manner, of the bald, vulgar aspects of the physical contacts of the sexes and the expectant results, and the heretofore unsullied mind becomes contaminated with filth and suspicion, never again to be restored to its pristine purity of faith in its parents and their veracity.

The child naturally concludes that the parents were ashamed of the creative act which called it into existence. It treasures to itself the great secret. Its imagination pictures the intimacy of human beings. The child, before its reasoning faculties have fully unfolded, is convinced that the method of creation must be an impure, unholy, and an unclean act; something to be ashamed of, veiled in falsehoods.

This condition, deplorable as it undoubtedly is, would not be so utterly hopeless, if it ended here. It does not. The corruption of thought and desire appeals to the lowest in the child nature, nurturing a hothouse growth of passionate inquisitiveness at an age when the urge of sex should be unknown, and the mind be yet thoroughly imbued with stories of fairies and fanes, gods and goddesses of fairy lands.

Secret vice quickly follows the broken faith in loved ones and the information obtained through vulgar companions. Ignorance of a law does not annul its effect. The indifference to duty and ignorance of the far-reaching effect of lies and evasion do not make parents any the less responsible.

Mothers and fathers are betrayers of their trust if they permit their children to be thrown upon the world untaught and therefore unprepared, to rightly use and control the powers of sex. An effect is always the result of a cause. If children grow into licentious men and women, or become debauchees and degenerates, finally ending in human wrecks, it surely indicates that there must be a sufficient cause to have produced such lamentable results.

What food for reflection this offers those who have the improvement of the race at heart and who grasp the significance of the possibilities to the race through the teaching of truth, in chaste language, to the children of men!

The intuition of a child is as active as that of its elders, if not more so. It therefore senses untruths quickly. The awakening of reason in the child induces many questions which are undoubtedly awkward to the youthful parents.(2) Every evasion only hinders the child's search for that knowledge which inherently is its birthright, and which it has a right to demand, and in confidence expect to receive without reservation.
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(2) The parents may be ignorant, probably are, but it is their moral and religious duty - an obligation - to prepare themselves at least as fully as does the men who plans to engage in raising superior stock. With such preparation, they would then be prepared to answer, at least, all ordinary questions. ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Intuitively, the child senses when falsehoods, instead of truths, are given in answer to questions. The child is powerless to prevent its reasoning faculties from recognizing that it has been deliberately fooled; yet it cannot comprehend why a lie or evasion is offered when knowledge is sought. Instinctively the child questions those near its own age for answers to those unanswered questions which remain active in the mind. Who pays for the "Feeding of stones when bread is asked?"

Many parents promise themselves that "when the child is older" they will have a "heart-to-heart" talk with it. Even if that resolution is kept and acted upon, it fails in its intended purpose. Before the child is old enough to talk "reasonably" with its parents, school companions, or older people, will already have commenced the demolition of the temple of purity, and the seeds of evil will be sown in the mind that might have been kept undefiled. It requires but few insinuations or vile suggestions to produce turmoil in the imagination of a sensitive child.

Besides, there are now, as there always have been, men of the lowest type, who seduce and betray young boys and girls for their own sense-gratification. As an illustration, we cite one case which came under our observation. A boy who had been told the usual falsehood and forbidden to ask further questions, and whose seven years of life had failed to divulge the why and wherefore of his creation and existence, was thrown much into the companionship of a male creature past sixty years of age who had been introduced into the family as a permanent guest.

The house being small, the child shared a bed with the old man, who slowly, but surely, taught it all manner of vice whereby his own degenerate desires might be gratified. Ignorant of the right and the wrong. the boy was clay in the hands of a master potter. Warned to keep silent by the fiend, and fearing his parents, the child fell prey to debasing practices with the result that at twelve years of age he was a physical wreck and was brought to us for treatment. He told us the whole foul story. We found him fully developed, sexually, at twelve years. His entire nervous system was shattered; vision defective; a human wreck well on the road to a premature grave, at an age when he should have been reading the stories of cowboys or heroes.

The parents were speechless when confronted with the truth, though loathe to confess that they were the most guilty. "Pitiable!" you exclaim. Admittedly so, but there are thousands upon thusands of just such cases developing continually, because of neglect and egnorance on the part of the parents. Every form of vice "stalks abroad," seeking youthful victims. Parents not only leave every avenue open, but invite the catastrophe.

Referring to the case under discussion, it may be of interest to add that after a long period of readjustment, moral, mental and physical, this boy gradually regained his health and become a respectable member of society, but all faith in his parents was gone. Through a fault not his own, he had lost that feeling of tender and intimate companionship, kindness and love for men. Throughout life the inner self of that man will carry the ugly scars inflicted upon him in his youth as the result of the neglect of his parents.

The so-called innate goodness of a child cannot be depended upon to protect it from the influence of vice. As a race, human beings are impregnated with perversions. From time immemorial the very atmosphere surrounding humanity has been saturated with thought-images of sex evils.

It is an exceptional case when the uninstructed, though innocent, child escapes the general contamination. Children are imaginative and imitative; possessing an inherent desire to expand their lives, gain experience and obtain information.

Witness how the ordinary child in school beams with pleasure over the acquirement of some special knowledge, or the details of some unusual event. It hastens home to pour into the ears of its mother every new discovery.

Especially is this true if that knowledge or event is in any way related to his own particular sensation or enjoyment. If to this supposed knowledge is added the idea of secrecy, the child-mind is enthralled. Is there any wonder, then, that it is enthralled by sex, as a mysterious, secret source of pleasure?

The carnal thoughts and destructive habits of past ages are inbred in the child nature of the present generation. The sex desires are hungers - a biological urge - of the physical being. As the physical nature in man is supreme, it logically follows that these desires, appetites and cravings make themselves felt in the child mind with the first awakening of the sex consciousness.

Instead of the innate goodness in the boy and girl acting as a protective force, this inborn appetite of the creative energy impels it to seek ways and means for self-gratification without a thought of the result to itself or to others.

If the child reasons at all, it is in this manner: "All those I know are practicing thus and so, seemingly enjoying it, and apparently deriving no ill effects; why should I not do likewise?" As a result, the child imitates the rest of its companions and pays the same penalty - a gradual degeneracy of body, mind, and that higher potency in man we term the Soul.

What is the remedy? Seek to learn the truth respecting all that concerns sex, and when your children commence to question you, follow your love instinct and tell them the whole truth, clothing it in words such as only mother-love can command. Let it be similar to the following story-form.

"You can see this great world with its many men, women and children, its green trees, the beautiful flowers, birds and animals. There is another world in the distant beyond which the eyes of the body cannot see. In that great other world there are many Souls. To help you better understand what Souls are, we will call them children who have no father or mother, and who are more like good fairies. In their home they cannot think or do anything wicked, but only those things which little children should do if they love their mothers. In that home, instead of mothers, there are good women or angles who constantly watch over these little Souls. We call these good women their guardian angles. They come to earth with the children that come here.

"These little Souls seem to have everything they desire, but they cannot know either pleasure or pain. They cannot know what it is to love a mother, or to be loved by one, because they possess no body such as we do, with which to feel, laugh or cry. and run to when in trouble.

"They see the children on earth romp and play among themselves or with animal pets, in their garden of flowers, with their little stubbed toes, mothers caressing and kissing their babies, seeing them retire to sleep, mothers listening to their prayers and fondly tucking them in their little beds.

"These little Souls of the other world then become dissatisfied with their heaven. They want to become like other little children, even though they may stub their toes, become sick, have pain and be made to cry; as well as having nice things to play with, and good things to eat, with mother loving and kissing them. This longing in the hearts of these little Souls gradually opens the way for them to come to this earth, so that they may have bodies like you and other children, but before they can come here, a place to receive them must be carefully prepared.

"Within your mother, God, who is the Father of the heaven to which all good fairies and Souls belong, and from which your father and mother came, has prepared a little temple which is to receive such little Souls as wish to come to earth. In this little temple within your mother, your father who loves her, and who desired a little child to love, sowed a tiny seed, which gradually began to grow.

"After a long time this seed within the temple of mother began to take the form of a little child. Then one day it was ready to leave the little temple and come forth, to be as other children.

"While this little body is growing, you, a fairy Soul in that other world, dissatisfied with your home there, were wishing to come to earth. Your guardian angel was always with, or near you, carefully watching so that nothing might happen to you. Then you were prepared for the long trip from fairyland to the earth-home, where father and mother, and the little body in the temple, was being prepared for you.

"Then one day, the glad tidings came that the body, the little house which you were to enter, would soon be ready. Your guardian angel prepared all the things which belonged to you and had you all ready for the trip when the call should come. At last came the day when you were told by the guardian angel to bid good-bye to all your companions and be ready to commence the journey.

"As you traveled from the land of Souls and Fairies, you quickly noted a change. In your former home it was warm and you could feel neither pain nor pleasure. You now approached a place where it was cold and you felt like crying. But you had little time to think, or to change your mind. You saw your mother who seemed to be very much larger than you expected. This almost frightened you, yet you were fascinated by your surroundings and your attention was held by the guardian angel who told you to be ready to meet your mother.

"Very soon the door of the temple was opened. It seemed to you that your mother suffered great pain. Then you saw coming from the temple which God had built in mother, a little body just like many you had so often seen in the arms of other mothers while you were yet in Fairyland.

"Your guardian angel told you to be ready as this was to be your home, and that with the first cry from the body you would `fall asleep,' and that when you awoke you would feel heavy and cold, and would be hungry, and crying for the warm feeling which you had always known. Suddenly you became unconscious, and seemed to sleep for a long time.

"When you awoke everything seemed dark and cold. You heard yourself cry and did not know what to do because you could no longer move from place to place by simply wishing, as formerly. You called upon your guardian angel; but, though you could see her, she seemed to be at a distance and could not help you as she had been able to aid you before.

"Soon they washed and dressed you and you found yourself in mother's arms. Here you felt warm and found yourself gradually sinking into a peaceful sleep. You could still see your guardian angel, but as you came to know more of your mother, you could see less of your guardian angel. Now you no longer see her, though she is still watching over you as she did in that far-off Fairyland, and would feel deeply hurt if she saw you do things which displeased mother.

"This is the way all babies come to earth. Mother has told you this but it is not well for you to speak of it to other children as they might not understand. Let it be a sort of secret between you and your mother, and when other children wish to talk with you about these things, tell them only father and mother can understand them."

This is the truth as sacred philosophy teaches us, in language the child can grasp. To be sure, it may be clothed in other words, but it contains the answer to the oft-propounded question: Mother, where did I come from? If the one questioned has the true mother instinct, the mother love, she need not hesitate to tell the story to her child no matter what its age. If all mothers would answer their children honestly and without reservation, inviting their confidence and further questions, telling them not to listen to the stories voiced by other children, the basic foundation would be laid for a life that would know no shame.

Is this desirable and worth the effort? It is. Then let parents tell their children the truth and nothing but the truth; and one generation hence we will have abolished much of the ignorance and degeneracy so prevalent today.

We refuse to believe that the future will continue to produce the selfish, narrow-minded, ignorant, prudish parents of the present generation. There are men and women, ministers, teachers, writers, physicians, and lawyers, who have dedicated themselves to this movement of sex enlightenment and exaltation of the Creative function. These are thinking men and women who are ready to assume the place and responsibility of parents. They help to save many of the children of the present generation.

Because of the prejudice of the masses, and even many of the classes, the work will of necessity be hindered and many children prevented from receiving much-needed instruction; but the night of ignorance will be illuminated with understanding, thereby helping future generations. If all who but dimly perceive the light will do their best, the great work of race improvement, through the teaching of sex truths, will be spread. The morning of a better day is dawning.
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