In Nature, a rich soil is required if a superior grad of fruit is sought, whether this "fruit" be human or any other sort, In the human sort, she demands the richest of "fertilizer" and its name is affection and love. Given affection and love, plus nature as her helpmate, woman will make your eyes glisten with the beauty and perfection of the work she is capable of doing.

If you deprive woman of these two ingredients of a deeper, higher life, the result will be gnarled "crab apples," and the human crab is the gnarliest and most bitter fruit in all of God's gardens.

In Nature two forces are at work. In the animal kingdom she does her best to produce a superior grade of body only. In the human, Nature works almost wholly to produce a loftier order of beings; beings possessed of intellect, imagination and emotion.

Given the help of an ordinary intelligence, and the assistance of a kind, loving, feeling woman with a vision or an ideal, she will produce a Christos of spirituality or the genius of a Edison, not to mention the names of other great men; names with which all of us are familiar, and who are foolishly believed to have been just "accidents."

Mating of the sexes, and by this we mean marriages, is to be understood as the nuptive union of the sexes; but actually is nuptive only when love is the prompter. If there is no love, it becomes a desecration and is destructive to the participants. Aside from this, the act of mating is productive of a series of effects and results beyond the perpetuatory or propagative one, wherein men and animals are alike - but there the similarity ends. In the animal, sex distinctions are bodily only.

IF THERE IS TO BE RACE PERFECTION, MATING, IN THE HUMAN, SHOULD INVOLVE, AND ULTIMATELY MUST INVOLVE, AND EMBRACE, tne vast domain of mind, body and Soul,ALL INTERWOVEN BY AFFECTION AND LOVE. In the non-human, the sexive office ceases when the reproductive germ has become lodged in the female. With human beings, ITS OFFICES HAVE ONLY BEGUN; FOR THE RESULTS WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT TIME. WHAT THE ULTIMATE RESULTS WILL BE DEPENDS ON THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF THE WOMAN AND THE EFFORTS MADE BY HER, THE PRODUCER. She may, of course, be infinitely helped in her task by a mate who is sufficiently enlightened and possessed of that measure of affection which will induce him to assume his full share of the labor involved.
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Glimpse the two opposite results of the identical act, but in different tempo; look at the Jugurthas, Attilas, Neros, Hitlers and Stalins and that type of liquidators with which the world has been, AND CONTINUES TO BE ACCURSED, by permission, aye, abject submission, of millions who should know better.

These leaders were called into being in an instant of time to lash the earth in agony, the spawn of brute passion, of beastly desire, without even a thought of love or affection.

Then turn the pages and behold a Christos, St. John, Buddha, Confucius and others, nurtured by mothers who had proof of love and affection in the manner in which they were approached and protected, cherished and guided during their period of pregnancy.

In these instances, as nowhere else, is displayed the power of prayer (desire), of affection, of Love and the willingness to bring into the world true "laborers in the Lord's vineyard," on the one hand; and on the other, brute force, ugly passion, lack of affection and aversion to even the thought of the marital embrace.

The creative function, overshadowed by affection and love, is by all odds, the highest force in man. It is the God, the Jehovah of creation. In the creative function, two principles are interwoven, reciprocally acting and reacting upon each other.

This is in evidence everywhere and in all things in the universe of which man is conscious. On the one side it is governed by a brute, beastly passion; on the other and truly human-Divine plane, it is governed by affection and love.

To this creative ability and energy all things are subservient; to it, all things bend the knee in acknowledgment of its supremacy. Without it, the ALL THAT IS would become a blank and starless void; terrible as eternal night; cheerless as the grave of those who died without hope. The deciding factor and the ultimate result produced by this creative energy depends upon whether the nuptial bed is overshadowed by the angle of love and hope, or the mere satisfaction of passion.

God is a dual being; and man, patterned after his Creator, however greatly he may deviate from the pattern, is likewise dual. The Deity is dual in a double sense; being positive male and receptive female. Man is aware, or if not, he should be, that his better side is the "she" or mother side. From this phase of his being spring all the major elements of both his goodness and his greatness, and right here is the reason for the present philosophical dissertation.

If this gentleness, graciousness and loftiness of spirit is not impressed upon him by his mother-to-be while she is encente, he will never have it. All men admire the intellectual man; few love him, but all humans do love, or are drawn to, the man possessed of much affection; because humans instinctively feel that from his love, NOT HIS INTELLECT, arise all the goodness, inspiration, and the generosity of the Soul which characterize him. Of such a nature was Joseph, father of the Nazarene.

We are all proud of a Plato, but we worship at the shrine of the Christ. It is the softer, the affectionate (not the weaker) side of the Soul of man, that generates moral greatness and grandeur of whatever form, and mighty (constructive) deeds become possible to man.

In the love nature, alone, resides the power which has the potency to transmute the savage man into an incarnate demigod; or, as the Bible would have it, "ye have become the sons of God.
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The greatest excellence in man's offspring can never be attained by parents who are merely physically perfect. The woman who may be in every way inferior except in her love, IN LOVING AND BEING LOVED; IN DESIRING AND RECEIVING, is able to give to the world children who are truly great, grandly "good" in the real sense of the word.

The STRONGEST FORCE, GREATEST MENTAL POWER, AND CREATIVE ABILITY IN THE DOMAINS OF ART, SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, STATESMANSHIP AND LEADERSHIP are invariably manifested by those who have been conceived in, nurtured in, and born in the affection of their mother, and in whom the feminine side slightly overbalances the masculine, positive constructive side.

The man everywhere most welcomed, respected and caressed - if that be a proper term to be used in conjunction with true manhood - is the man who is the most magnetic, hence truly affectionate. He is IN NO SENSE EFFEMINATE, let it be understood, but radiates the qualities of true manhood -MANHOOD MODIFIED BY HIS MOTHER'S SPIRITUAL NATURE.

It is a maxim that whenever you find a truly great Soul in a male body, he is more than half his mother. It is the woman side of him that gives him power, mental vigor and enables him to write his name in the annals of time; and by an understanding of the eternal creative Law, all women who truly Will, may mother such sons.
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This treatise deals with facts as positive as does the farmer raising this crops or cattle. He must know his soil, his seed, the time of planting, cultivating and harvesting. He must know his cattle, the proper mating, feeding and raising. But in all this there is one all-important factor the farmer and cattleman does not deal with, and to which he need give no thought - even in raising the finest crops or cattle: LOVE AND AFFECTION, AND THE EMOTIONS, FOR GOOD OR ILL, BORN FROM THEM.

It is in the presence or absence of Love and affection, wherein is found the key to the production of supermen or super-devils - the murderous egomaniacs of the ages. Fortunately for the races of men, if the mother-to-be has the knowledge and the desire, i.e., the willingness, she also has the power to substitute her own ove for that lacking in her mate, and bring forth into the world a saint or master-man.

It is our mission to guide her in this holy work for the benefit not only of her own peace of mind and happiness, but also that of her child, and mankind in general. Regrettably, in all too many instances, the entire responsibility falls upon the mother-to-be; but the ultimate reward is well worth the effort necessary and more than offsets the price she must pay.

Love and affection, terms usually accepted as different names for the same thing, imply much more than mere attraction between the sexes and, unfortunately, one is as little understood as the other.

In the marital act woman faces heaven when she gives herself to love and man, whether this be willingly or unwillingly on her part. Partly this is because of the way nature created her, but, more importantly, it is her celestial mission on earth. She receives both the human and the divine in her transfer of affection; even though it is no more than a duty imposed upon her by man-made law.

Man, on the contrary, looks toward the earth's face, for he is almost entirely of the earth, earthy; whereas woman in love never is. The woman may be indifferent, even horrified at the part she is forced to play, but with it all, she looks into the heaven above, and from that source receives a measure of Divine Love; for, low as she may be, if the right cord within her be touched, she is able to mother heroes and give Marys to a waiting world.

Excessive pre-conceptive marital pleasure may be productive of dyspepsia, not only of the body, but of mind and Soul as well. When, peradventure, offspring follow in the wake of such abuse, they usually lack in all the grand essentials of genuine and complete manhood or womanhood.

In all such instances, more or less prolonged continence is desirable to permit full recuperation in order that full vitality and virility be re-established before pregnancy takes place. This is one of the essentials if a perfect child is to result.
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No sooner is the human spermatozoon, seed or germ, lodged within the sacred and utterly mysterious, transcendently holy and divine because reproductive-creative-Godly established chamber of the womb, and its filamental doors closed, shutting in its treasure - perhaps another savior - from all eyes, than the woman's mystic-spiritual self within her Soul, draws its attention from the womb and begins its all-important work upon the womb's contents.

If she, the woman, be truly a woman who is to become a good mother, then from that instant on, until her tasks be finished, she loves man no less, BUT HER UNBORN CHILD MORE. WHY? Because up until then, her love, her Soul's welfare, depended on man. Now that a new Soul is in the process of making a Soul whose destiny and future welfare rest wholly upon her Love, her desire, her wise and continued efforts she rises to the occasion through an extension and expansion of her emotions nature.
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The mother-to-be must give, unconsciously, but by willing desire, the very best particles of her blood, brain, food, drink, air, light, muscle, bone, lymph, cartilage, carbon, and a million chemicals to build a new body, wherein a Soul is to dwell for a time and until it is cast forth into eternity. The unconscious spiritual self must give forth all of the earth's salt to make the body healthy and strong.

She must build canals, reservoirs, pumps, cylinders, flutes, columns, domes, cellars, crucibles, retorts, ovens, and a multitude of chemical and mechanical laboratories of the most marvelous kinds; build telescopes, a telegraph and telephone system; following which, unconsciously except by means of conscious desire and love, she must go aloft and bring down the fires from heaven, spiritual flames without which the Soul cannot exist; lodge angels all over the little mansion; music here, science there, mathematics and memory; ambition, hope, joy, sorrow, love, affection, graciousness, generosity, and, above all, ambition to become and attain.

Whatever is held in the mind of the mother-to-be; her idealism; her constant wish; her unending prayer.

Her work, still perhaps unconscious, except for her desire and expectation, now takes another, a lower flight; she must call up the tempters from the depths of being to offset and balance the angels. Now come avarice, greed, anger, falsehood, and a fearful host besides; because if the new Soul is to reach heaven, it must make its flight alone; must toil and sweat, and tread upon the red-hot sands of sorrow and suffering; wade through a million hells on its own feet; fight its own way with its own efforts, while God looks on and smiles; well knowing that the goal is sweet, even though the road be rough and rugged, assured that victory is certain, because of the material the MOTHER BUILDS INTO THE NEW BEING.

Why, one may ask, are not the good things alone sufficient? Why add the evil ingredients?

Because God and Nature have decreed man a dual being, and he must win the fight and attain the heights by using the good within himself against the evils, and thus become strong and powerful by the manner in which he wages his fight.

All this being true, should we not readily understand that a true woman, while encente, has little, if any time for frivolities, being engaged in so grand a work.
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Is there any wonder if the pregnant woman's love changes almost completely from her uterus to her bosom; to the breast that must nourish her child?

Nevertheless, the vast millions, because they have given little, if any, thought to the subject, NEVER HAVING BEEN CHALLENGED TO THINK ABOUT IT, cannot understand this change.

They feel and insist that during this period woman should be all that she was before. They are unable to comprehend that a whole universe exists between the two states; that, in fact, a NEW WORLD IS IN THE MAKING. This woman, formerly so sweet and so gentle, now dispossessed of an understanding of herself and her moods, may be queer, short, snappish, soft at one moment - cranky the next. Why?

First of all, because she has never been taught to understand herself or the great change that takes place during pregnancy, and so has no means of control, no way of knowing how to transmute the undesirable into the desirable, as in the of sublimation.

Secondly, human nature within her is in the making; unfinished; hence, unstable. Nature is, as we know all too well, changeable in her moods; sunny, tempestuous, coarse, mean, genial, calm, and then blustery.

Engaged in the formation of a NEW BEING WHICH IS TO BE BOTH GOD AND DEVIL, UNTIL ONE OR THE OTHER FINALLY WINS, she is forced to incarnate all of these moods, passions and emotions into the body, mind and Soul of the new pilgrim about to begin his or her journey through the valleys of the world to the throne of the Ineffable God.

This new creature should be well fortified by the mother's Love, affection and Idealism; but it will be better still, if also clothed with the shield of a father's manhood, strength and honor.
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If the mother-to-be is aided in her mysterious work - it is mysterious, despite all that we think we KNOW of procreation - by a husband and father who is truly a man; one with strength and with foresight; with patience incarnate; with gentleness, not weakness, and who, in loving, kindly forbearance lends his assistance, her work of reproduction will be made that much easier and have far greater assurance of success.
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