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138 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
less degree, all around us. No nature can be blessed
with any quality so noble and ennobling as a healthy de
velopment of the principle of love. No nature can be
so cursed as by its destruction or deprivation. All that
is great, and noble, and beautiful in human character or
this basis. All that is
capacity, or destiny, rests upon
base, and mean, and miserable, may find its source in
the want, or disease, or perversion of this principle.
And the first effects, as I have said, of this influence
are, as I believe, intended to be shown in the develop
ment of the individual, and not in the continuation of
the species. The nervous power that is generated in
the cerebellum, in man, and which is expended in the
production of zoospermes in the testes, if not exhausted
in their expulsion, and by their loss, seems to be thrown
back into the system, and to strengthen every part. It
is a fountain of life and energy; a vital force, which acts
in every direction ; a motive power, which infuses man
hood into every organ of the brain and every fiber of the
body.
It is like the vital heat that first warms the whole
body, and then warms bodies around us, but which
must not be exhausted.
Nature, under favorable conditions, has provided for
this mode of action. Youth is the season of enterprise
and action. The constitution is developed by hardy ex
ercises, and the mind by studies. There is a restless
and eager desire for knowledge and variety of occupa
tions. And love is more yet romantic than passionate,
more ideal than actual. It dwells in the imagination,
and happily descends not into the senses. So the ner
vous power, generated in the cerebellum; the divine
energy that reigns in the soul, perfects the whole na-