Sex and Religion | Page 5

use of 'duity> which is an ancient word but little known, for the human duality God in His unity, mankind in our duity is the contrast contained in the word, and I use it because I think here too is the suggestion of a fresh atmosphere for man and woman dwelling in complete harmony with the interplay of all their own individual qualities, creating the perfect human duity. All the cruelties, abominations, contaminations, terrors and indecencies which have resulted from the misuse of the purely physical aspects of sex will be ultimately swept away by the higher form of -dual life. For not only in our material bodies but in an overwhelming degree throughout our social life and all our institutions does the. richness and the vitality of life depend on the bifurcation of the human species and its mutual elevation and evolution. There is no escaping the reality of the erogamic life unless one envelops one's intellect in a cloudy fog of mental confusion. Those who live in such confusion may maintain that this duity is non-essential. But why should those who see the light follow those who have merely dulled the intelligence? Given a realization of all the beauty and the potential power that the dual harmony in the erogamic life can contain, none would desire to escape into mono-sexual asceticism, but with a bold and joyous front would face the facts, recognising the marvellous richness that the play and interplay of man and woman has made with all their ultimate ramifications of beauty and art, social conventions and decoration. Those who claim that the higher intellectual and spiritual achievements of the erogamic life can be surpassed in any other way are merely deluding themselves.
The new and still nascent higher sex morality which I am trying to crystallise (as in Married Love, the New Gospel, and parts of my other books) encourages complete health and happiness in individuals welded into life-long devotion on the part of the married pair and presents the idea of the erogamic life of the human duity as the highest mundane expression of life. The new code imposes the duty that this human duity shall reproduce its kind consciously and deliberately in the interests of the Race and as the flower of the noblest erogamic life of the adults. This new morality restores Christ's gospel of Love and shields it with knowledge, exalts motherhood above virginity but only when it is responsible motherhood, and eliminating the evils of polygamy and prostitution yet restores due respect to the vitalising gift of sex experience.
I desire to close with the main thought contained in it, that our sex life is our most direct link with the Divine life, and therefore a reverent enquiry into and a deep knowledge of all the relevant facts about sex are not only legitimate but essential to one who desires to help youth to lead a noble life.

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