Some idea of the theme of these revelations can be gathered if I may
say that one of the communicators, called Sidi Aissa Ben S’dub,
prefaces his words by the cryptic statement: “Know then, O mortals,
that here are neither camels nor horses--nor virtuous women,--for
us virtue, as ye know it, exists not. And, as I have related, there
being neither camels nor horses nor virtuous women, what think ye then
occupies the time of us who were strong men?”
Oriental imagery is rich in terms concerning sex, and the revelation
as taken down in Arabic is a document of some literary value. Its
translation into precise French leaves us under no misapprehension
as to the actual technique of sex gratification on the next plane.
Their methods appear to be our methods, but it is of course impossible
to arrive at any conception of relative degrees of pleasure. It is
also curious to note that in the Arab revelations given there was no
reference at all to any ensuing spirit birth, but one interpretation of
and obscure text might lead one to suppose that the offspring of these
unions were “djinni,” i.e. non-mortal and soulless spirits.
Cases of intercourse between djinns and mortals are the basis of many
Moslem tales and legends in which the sex interest is paramount. But
it must be borne in mind that the Mohammedan idea of the invisible
world is so different from that prescribed either by Eastern or Western
thought that it is almost impossible to co-ordinate it with any of our
accepted theories.
On the other hand, no Spiritualist revelation or theory is of value
unless it fits all lands and all creeds. Thus, when the number of
spirit visitants of African, Red Indian, or other origin, is taken into
account, it is manifest that no _abstract theory of morality which is
not in accordance with the known physical facts concerning the spirit
world, is likely to be practised there_.
As time goes on, it will become increasingly impossible for the
practising Spiritualist to ignore the enormous fact of sex. At present
various beliefs are held. These range from the pure sexlessness theory,
which is manifestly untenable to variations like a “perfectly pure and
spiritual sex relationship in no way physical,” or some such platitude.
This kind of expression is pure mental flatulence, for it is clear that
in the spirit world there is nothing _physical_ as we know it,
and that everything there is _psychical_--again as we know it.
The conception of the spirit world that is most widely held does
away with all idea of penal restrictions. Hell, purgatory, and
the theological varieties of damnation are contrary to the whole
conception. Once again we are dependent on spirit teaching for our
visualization of life in the hereafter, and having established
the existence of sex, which would not exist unless it implied the
permanence of sexual attraction and sex gratification, we not
unreasonably desire to know what, if any, are the sex limits in the
next life.
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