Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

Sinmv lylrartiral Smggrstinnn
In the Svtuhmt
BY H. E. BUTLER
(Reprinted from "The Esoteric" of September 1896.)
;¢f_}1v}1>vie§gOW to use the powers of sex and not be used
'P *I~ by them, is the most difficult problem that
'P H' the Esoteric student has to meet; and it is
*I* if' the most difficult subject to teach thru the
*'¥"*"*'? columns of a public journal, not alone because
of its delicate nature, in view of the false ideas
of the world, but mainly because of the great diversity
of human nature in the manifestation of sex. To find a
law absolute for all, under all circumstances and conditions,
is an impossibility. Some have so largely exhausted
the powers of recreation thru the sex, that, as soon
means of the will, they lay aside all idea of genera-
by
tion and make
as,
the effort to stop the waste of the life
forces, the sex nature at once becomes dormant and
ceases altogether to act. There are those who, thru past
extravagant abuses, scarcely know what it is to have passion
and yet the waste continues.
Now the phenomena attending these two classes are so
near alike that even the individuals themselves have difiiculty
in knowing to which class they belong. The method
of treatment in one case is exactly the reverse of that
in the other; and it is almost impossible to give directions
to the first without the latter taking it up and actually
destroying themselves.....
In the latter case, where there are frequent losses, the
mind should be turned entirely away from any idea of
activity; and, above all, especially should they impress