Sex--The Unknown Quantity: The Spiritual Function of SexMcIvor-Tyndall, Alexander J. (Alexander James)
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Sex--The Unknown Quantity: The Spiritual Function of Sex
McIvor-Tyndall, Alexander J. (Alexander James)
Sex
A woman member of a Young People's Civic League of the second largest
city in the United States recently declared in public print, of the
beautiful and chaste painting "September Morn," that it was "lewd,
filthy, and suggestive of unclean things." This type of woman is
intrusted with the task of teaching youthful minds; polluting them
with the blasphemous affirmation that the Creation of the
Father-Mother God of the universe is "lewd and filthy!"
Let us get this truth implanted in our mentality, as it is inrooted in
our souls, namely:
Sex is always the purest, the holiest, and the most sacred thing in
the universe--because God is Him-Her-Self, bi-sexual. The
righteousness of it cannot be determined by so fickle a thing as man's
customs; cannot be dependent upon mortal laws. This statement,
indisputable as it is, will nevertheless start a chain of thought
which may lead to confusion; and it is because of this tendency to
confusion that the real issue is so frequently avoided. But let us see
if we may not dispel the confusion by a system of logical deduction.
One thing is certain. The present condition of the Sex-problem is
sadly chaotic. If we cannot hope to clarify it to the comprehension of
the average, we may at least do so for some.
One of the first objections to the acceptance of the statement that
the sex relation is, per se, always right, will be found in the
conclusion to which the average mind immediately jumps: "Ah, then it
is right for men and women who are depraved and licentious to live as
they do; it is right for husbands and wives to deceive each other, and
while pretending to be faithful to their marriage vows, to secretly
carry on flirtations and intrigues with other men and other women!"
Ask one hundred men or one hundred women this question: "Is the
sex-relation right or wrong?"
The men will declare that it is "right sometimes and wrong sometimes."
The women, almost as a unit, will do the same. Occasionally a woman
will be found sufficiently illumined to give a sane answer.
Following up the thoughtless answer with the request to illustrate,
and the reply will be something like this: "Well, if people are
married it is right, but if they are not married it is wrong;" and
even as this silly answer is given, the person answering knows that it
is puerile; but since the Public Mind prefers hypocrisy to Truth, few
have the temerity, and fewer yet have the capability, to utter Truth.
It would be as sensible to say that it is right for the sun to shine
sometimes and wrong for it to shine some other times. It is right for
the sun to shine. This is all the answer that there is, and all that
is needed.
Whether the sunshine bestows life and health, or decay and death, is
entirely "up to us." The sun does its part. It is fulfilling the
inexorable law of Nature, and is therefore right.
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