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to the parties entering the contract, and is therefore 

 relative. It may serve for their edification in one case, 

 and for their degradation in another. To the semi- 

 animal man it may be a school of education ; but the 

 regenerated man requires no sexual relationship. The 

 procreation of children is an animal function, and he 

 who is unable or unwilling to exercise it has no 

 business to marry. If he, nevertheless, enters the con- 

 nubial bonds, he commits a piece of stupidity, if not 

 a fraud. ^ 



It is also useless for a man to resist the claims of 

 nature in him, if he cannot rise superior to that nature ; 

 and the power for that superiority does not depend on 

 his human will, but comes from his higher and spiritual 

 nature, in which he should seek his refuge. 



" As long as the root is not, with all of its fibres, torn 

 out of the earth (ie., as long as man has not become 

 regenerated, and thereby free from sexual attractions), 

 he will be blind and feeble ; the spirit quick ; the fancy 

 strong; and the temptations so great that he cannot 

 resist, unless he has been chosen for that purpose ; for 

 all things are ordained by God. If He wants you to 

 be married, and to have children from you, then all 

 your pledging yourself to chastity and your virginity 

 will amount to nothing. If, in such a case, you refuse 

 to marry, you will then fall into whoredom, or something 

 still worse. Thus will God punish your disobedience, 



^ " Aa there is a love between animals so that they long to dwell and 

 cohabit together as males and females, so there is such an animal love 

 among men and women, which they have inherited from the animals. 

 It is a deadly lo?e, which cannot be carried higher, and belongs merely 

 to the animal nature of man. It springs from animal reason, and as 

 animals love and hate each other, so does animal man. Dogs envy and 

 bite each other, and in so far as men envy and fight each other they 

 are the descendants of dogs. Thus one man is a fox, another a wolf, 

 another a bear, &c. Each one has certain animal elements in him ; and 

 if he allows them to grow in him, and identifies himself with them, 

 he is then fully that with which he is identified " {J)e Fundamcnto 

 Sapientue). 



