say, the vain hope that through sex others will recognise them, admire
them, indulge them. They incline excessively towards sexual pleasures
as a form of satisfying themselves, and they rarely think about the
needs of others. They frequently use sex to absorb other beings, to
submit them to their will, or to make themselves important. When they
have saturated their senses and are fed up they look for new
incentives as a way of mentally overexciting their sexual desire, such as
regularly changing partners, some of them ending up resorting to
degenerate forms of sexuality, such as sadism, masochism or
implicating other beings in their orgies against their will.
In the case of proud spirits, the addiction to sex derives from an
emotional need or emptiness, from not having found their loved one
and not admitting it, or from repressing or not wanting to recognise the
feelings of love towards a certain person. In other words, what the
proud spirit really needs is to be loved and to love, but the non-
recognition or repression of this need of affection makes him take
refuge in sex as an escape valve. In other words, he replaces the lack
of love with sex. For this reason an excessive and unsatisfied sexual
appetite exists which is not fulfilled in the sexual relationship, since the
emptiness that the proud feel is not sexual but emotional. Hence they
seek more and more sex, becoming as degenerate as those previously
described, in order to try to fill that emptiness, but without achieving it.
How is lust overcome?
With respect to lust, the only way to conquer it is to admit that this inner
emptiness that people try to fill with sex comes from a lack of feeling,
and that only feeling is able to fill it.
How is lewdness overcome?
By being conscious that this is a question of a manifestation of vanity,
and that following this path, one will never be able to be happy.
Unfortunately, in the majority of cases, lewdness usually only yields
when the loss of youth, physical beauty and the sexual drive eventually
occurs. Then, vain people lose their sexual allure, or their bodies stop
responding to the sexual desires of the mind. As a result of all of this,
the entourage of admirers disappears and also the main incentive in
their lives up until that moment. They are then faced with the crude
reality, that they have lived a superfluous life, cultivating empty
relationships of convenience. They have been surrounded by people
who were with them for their attractive physique and that, once this is
lost, they all disappear as if by magic. Perhaps there were some
people who really loved them, in spite of their egoism, but to whom