I
I A O the supreme
One of the Gnostics, the true God, is the Lord of this work. Let us therefore
invoke Him by that name which the Companions of the Royal Arch blaspheme to
aid us in the essay to declare the means which He has bestowed upon us!
II
The divine
consciousness which is reflected and refracted in the works of Genius feeds
upon a certain secretion, as I believe. This secretion is analogous to semen,
but not identical with it. There are but few men and fewer women, those women
being inevitably androgyne, who possess it at any time in any quantity.
So closely is this
secretion connected with the sexual economy that it appears to me at times as
if it might be a by-product of that process which generates semen. That some
form of this doctrine has been generally accepted is shown in the prohibitions
of all religions. Sanctity has been assumed to depend on chastity, and chastity
has nearly always been interpreted as abstinence. But I doubt whether the
relation is so simple as this would imply; for example, I find in myself that
manifestations of mental creative force always concur with some abnormal
condition of the physical powers of generation. But it is not the case that
long periods of chastity, on the one hand, or excess of orgies, on the other,
are favourable to its manifestation, or even to its formation.
A.'. A.'.
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