Atoms, cells, and plants are unconscious of this force, and animals are conscious of it only in a slight degree. But man is conscious of this energy, and is capable of developing a greater consciousness of it and of its operation and utilisation to a remarkable degree. Like the engineer who masters the engine by his knowledge of its construction and the force that runs it, so can man master this creative energy and direct it where he wills. Creative life can be expressed in other ways beside parenthood. Emerson says, “Work your passion up into poetry.” Passion is the sign of creative power; it is the voice of creative life. If it were understood and its powers realised, it would be elevated and worshipped instead of lowered and debased, as the Comstocks would have us do. As creative energy becomes understood and applied, men and women will grow in strength of character and in strength of love, and will naturally devote these powers to the interests and development of the human race. THE PRACTICE. Each of these theories involves sedular absorption through intercourse without culmination. No discharge is allowed, but by a superior control is retained, thereby making the act an amative (love) act, and uplifting it from an exhaustive, abrupt fertilising function into a quiet magnetic charm, producing health and increased happiness. The act of sexual intercourse has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Its beginning or first stage is simply the presence of the male organ in the female. The middle or second stage is a series of reciprocal motions. The end or third stage is the ejaculatory crisis, or the termination of the act. The advocates of male continence, Zugassent’s discovery, sedular absorption, and magnetation claim that the whole process up to the third stage is entirely voluntary and can be stopped at any point. It is compared to a stream in the three conditions of a fall, a course of rapids above the fall, and still water above the rapids. The boatman may decide if he will remain in still water or venture down the rapids, or run his boat over the fall. They contend that experience will teach him the wisdom of remaining where the rowing is easy, unless the object is worthy of going over the falls. Karezza advises to content oneself with simple presence in the first stage until the magnetic thrill passes off. They are all similar and all aim at the same result. I head them under one method—“magnetation.”