sufficient for transmutation, may gradually acquire this ability. Though this requires
will-power, the reward for the practice is more than worth the effort.
The entire subject of sex is one with which the majority of people appear to
be unpardonably ignorant. The urge of sex has been grossly misunderstood,
slandered, and burlesqued by the ignorant and the evil minded, for so long that the
very word sex is seldom used in polite society. Men and women who are known to be
blessed—yes, BLESSED—with highly sexed natures, are usually looked upon as being
people who will bear watching. Instead of being called blessed, they are usually called
cursed.
Millions of people, even in this age of enlightenment, have inferiority
complexes which they developed because of this false belief that a highly sexed nature
is a curse. These statements, of the virtue of sex energy, should not be construed as
justification for the libertine. The emotion of sex is a virtue ONLY when used
intelligently, and with discrimination. It may be misused, and often is, to such an
extent that it debases, instead of enriches, both body and mind. The better use of
this power is the burden of this chapter.
It seemed quite significant to the author, when he made the discovery that
practically every great leader, whom he had the privilege of analyzing, was a man
whose achievements were largely inspired by a woman. In many instances, the
"woman in the case" was a modest, self-denying wife, of whom the public had heard