Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Ritu Aggarwal, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. SEX = The Unknown Quantity THE SPIRITUAL FUNCTION OF SEX A New and Startling Interpretation of the Meaning, Scope and Function of Sex as Seen and Interpreted From the Inner or Cosmic Standpoint. A Work That Should Revolutionize the Thought of Today in its Relation to the Vital Mystery of Sex in All its Aspects. It Presents a Practical Solution to the Sex Problems of Everyday Life. _By_ ALI NOMAD [DR. ALEXANDER J. McIVOR-TYNDALL] _Author of_ "COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS, OR THE MAN-GOD WHOM WE AWAIT", "THE DEAD SPEAK" "REVELATIONS OF THE HAND", "GHOSTS", "HOW THOUGHT CAN KILL" "PERSONAL MAGNETISM", "PROOFS OF IMMORTALITY", ETC. CHICAGO, U. S. A. STERLING PUBLISHING COMPANY 1916 Copyright, 1916, by STERLING PUBLISHING COMPANY. Copyrighted and Registered in Stationers' Hall, London, England. (All Rights Reserved) COPYRIGHT IN ALL COUNTRIES SIGNATORIES TO THE BERNE CONVENTION. THE STERLING PRESS. DEDICATED TO THE CHILD OF TOMORROW THE MAN-GOD WHOM WE AWAIT PUBLISHER'S FOREWORD TO OUR READERS: We feel justified in claiming this work marks an epoch in the advanced thought of human evolution. Nothing has ever been written dealing with the problem of Sex which is at once so illuminating, convincing and satisfying. To our knowledge this particular view of the sex-subject has never before been presented, and, perhaps it could not have been, owing to the fact that it is only _now_ in these days of higher thought, that such a view could be understood. The author, Ali Nomad, is already well known to progressive readers as the writer of "Cosmic Consciousness," or, "The Man-God Whom We Await;" a work that has made its author famous by the reprint of its many editions. There are signs of a new order in the relation of the Sexes already indicated upon the horizon of the World's consciousness as the result of the present world-conflict. _Today people are as ignorant of the subject of Sex as they are of God._ Both of these must be understood if the race is to progress beyond its present stage. Otherwise we shall pass into the long sleep of oblivion like all civilizations in the past leaving future generations to grapple with the same world problems. True or _perfect_ marriage is the most important attainment in the life of the individual.