Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-10-25
THE CURE OF sENsuALIsM
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MAN, ana nofhlng great IN Nan out miDo,
said Sir William Hamilton He would
have been wiser II be had said; There is
nothing bat Mind
All things are but thoughts externalized
--mAteriahzed.
In mind there lies the cause Of all things.
In mind lies the cause of vice, In mind
lies also Its cure. Man--Mind-mspifests
himself through the triniiy-Will, Love.
Imagination.
Imagination is the creator of the Ideal.
The Ideal materializes itself into the Real.
RE Ideal is therefore the Real, and is
eternal
Things, then, are only efforts of Mind to
extsrnalizs or realize the Ideal.
Our acts, our vices, our virtues are
things born in Mind.
Out of Imagination all man.made things
come.
Therefore they are Mind made.
The Imagination Is the Creator of Civil.
izatlon and of Character. 1t Is therefore
Truth, that "As Man thinkeih 60 is he"
Nature is everywhere biune, and all
things balance.
There is motion, the effect of external
nature on Man, emotion-out-motion-the
effect Of Man on external nature.
Emotions, then, is the flow of the Soul
Of Man out from himself as q centre, upon
the uniserse in which he dRella.
Emotion is therefore Life, and life is
supplied by involution from the infinite
fount of Force Tor God) and evolution
from man outward must follow as It's bal
anee.
All thought, affection, passion, action,
is the utilizing Of this soulforce as 1t
flows ont through the machine physical
Man.
When it brsaths through his intellect
il is genius; when il breathes through his
will, it is virtue; when it flows through his
affections, it is love" says Emerson 10 his
"0yer-Soul"
Thus Mind determines soulaction. The
only question il, whether the loves which
the Will obeys in controlling this action
are elevated and pure or debased and low.
There has ever been Q contest in Man
between the higher aud lesser loves, result
ing in sensuahty or spirituality, and this
contes. must continue until the higher
loves prevail, and then Man will be at
peace within or be spiriiuslizsd.
These two, Spirituality and Sensuality,
seemingly so opposite, are therefore one
in origin. The difference being in the de-
Fiction Of the soulforcs in It's evolution
By the Will, and the action Of the will ia
determined BY the higher or the lower
loves, and sll these loves are born in the
Imagination.
If these are not self-evident truths to
the reader, then / talk in vain to him or
her. | cannot demonstrate them, for they
to me seem 70 belong to the realm of Ak
iomatic Truth, and on these as sxioms, the
Religion, Art, Government and entire civil
ization of the future must rest.
The cure then Of ell vice lies in tie IN
Outstanding of Higher Ideal.
The world will be redeemed through the
Evolution of Love.
The Imagination being the origin OF all
action, il will be seen at once that what a
man is in action he was in thought first
and that the thought was born in the loves
that controlled him and fred his imagina'
ton.
Many opposing writer's will be in unity
when once il is seen that Mind is all
Man, bred upon sensual thoughts must
necessarially give expression to those
thoughts upon the sexual plane, Just as the
thoughts Of the poet must find expression
in poem, the musician 10 music, the in
ventor in his machine. His Ideal has been: /.
Woman for Man! His dream Of pleasure
was to find its climax in sexual grauGca.
ton. From the cradle up his SIGNATURE
has been cultivated. The boy has been !
constantly reminded that he was boy, |
and the young mau never allowed to forget
that he was q male, until sex became para |
mount, and sex.love became his nature. /
Society has constantly, by its restrictions
taught the young, by the most potent of all
meIhods-exsmple-thst sexual pleasure
was the highest, because the most jeslously !
guarded. From childhood, Curiosity-the
chief of all artists Of the Imagination
has been stimulated 10 regard to sex, and
has painted the Heal purely upon the sex
basis Love has ever been mentally asso- |
eiated with sexual pleasures, and thus has
the channel for the outmotion of the soul
been prepared for its passionsl expression
alone. And as legitimstely as the noun.
tain sp'iog flows into the channel prepared |
tor il, does the emotional nature Of the
average man and woman express itself
sexuslly.
The teachers Of young men, reverends,
doctors and their own fathers have told
them that sexual qualification was phys |
ical necessity, and that it was impossible |
through the reason TO control sexual pas !
sicns, and this thought has made the act
necessary.
This must be outeroRn. There is no
prison 80 strong as the acceptance OF a
past ideal, There is no grave SO deep as
a fixed opinion. And Msn-"Male aud
female is to-day dead through sensual
tY, because the ideals and opinions Of our
fathers have become our iailors and our
graves.
The cure comes through new and higher
ideal!
New thoughts will bring new manhood.
What man has been" What man now
isl are two dragons in the path Of pro-
gress. The Ideal must slay them with the /
prophecy of Better, and point Man in
Mind, to what he can and must be and re-
ally is.
The cause being thus in the Imagination |
the cure of sexual vices lies in the teaching
of Higher Ideal of Sexual Purity, aud
here alone! Commence except for procre- |
alton, is the redsemsr of the race. It's |
Ideal is the highest and the purest, pos.
siDIe. Through Mind it would control
soulforee to development Of the highest in
man.
Children are taught that they can, instead
OF cannot, control themselves. Self Mas
terry is the WatchWord.
The sexual ideal exalted out Of the SCI
fish and passionAl to the plane Of the fra /
ternal and afectional.
For as thoroughly as hand or tongue is
under control of Mind should thought aud
sexual desire be. And they will be when we
think they are.
To hint by word or look that this is rot
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