Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

1896.] So:uE PRACTICAL SuGGESTIONs. 133
should comprehend in their covenant with God a covenant with
their own souls, that they will never beml in the slightest degree
to that old sense desit·e, no matter how holy, how pure,
how grand it may appear. \Vornan's nature is confiding love,
that of man is knowletlge, understamliug, and strength, and so
Gotl has made woman to ta·ust anti confide in man ; and, because
of this, he who would be a mal\ in this higher and nobler sense
~;huuld never allow any woman to enter the sacred precincts of
his lo\'e life, hut should be able, no matt~r how much love or
passion she may pour upon him, to so guide and control) her
mind as to prevent all undue love conditions, aud to aid her to
restrain all he•· passion nature; for the mOJ·e truly womanly tlw
wmuan is, the more perfectly will the lcwe carry her passions.
If you reeeive the one, you are fot•t•t•d to acnept the othe1·, until
!!he. like you, has risen above the power of the god of generation
and has entered the Eden of absolute purity.
\Vhen man begins to get control of generation, he hegins to
appear to woman aR he1· ideal man: and he must be manly
enough to meet that powerful current of lwr idPal love, aml the
fon~e of that scortatory, sea·pent-like pa!!sion that will "pie1·ce"
to the depths of the very soul, and quietly and gently to tul'!l
it bat•k al!llnpw:u·tls towa1·ds Got! anti these highe1· attainments,
to tal;;e the fullness of he1· lift>, that she ~~~ eagel'l,v anti willingly
JKIUI'S ·~ut tllw:u·tls hi111, anti 1111'11 it.luwk into her own iutellig'~'IH'e,
1musing he•· to feel that slw is a.pproat•hing an impossi­
IJility, that 1111 sul'h relation is posRihle h!'tweeu him aut! her.
Thus you must het•tHue a proteetoJ' a11I')WIIt passion. Yon must beenme snffici!'ntly
Pstaltlisllt'd in your own. integTit.v of )llll'JlOst•, not only
to hold in lfllit'tude :nul )Wlll'e your own love. desires, and
pa~sions. hut also those of WOIII:lll.
A~ soon as yon begin to livt~ the regenerate lift'. you t:tke
upon yourself I he gravest re!!ponsihility that ever man cara·ied.
-t.h::t of the soul anti ho•ly nf yom· siste1· woman; and. when
~·ou find that woman's love avd p:u;sion are heiug fastenetlupon
yon, do not May of hea· that Mhe is evil. de!ligniug. or vieions,
lmt ratlwa· !lay within yom·splf "Ilea·e is au opportunity for me
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