The Inner Fire of Life
November 22, 2014
The inner fire of
life as it relates to
the physical body is stored up in the sacral plexus, at the base of the spine.
The sacral plexus might be called the storage battery of the body. This inner
fire lies dormant in most people, but when it is aroused and controlled, so
that it is directed into constructive channels of expression, the individual
has the power to attain any goal which he may set for himself. All great men
and women who have accomplished seemingly impossible things have used,
consciously or unconsciously, this inner fire, to a certain degree at least.
The greater the degree to which the inner fire was used the greater was the
degree of accomplishment. The actual use of this inner fire will be explained
in the next two lessons, but it is necessary to mention it here in order to
bring out its relationship to the physical body. Within the sacral plexus of
every individual this great power is hidden, and it remains dormant until the
individual begins to practice self-control according to the laws of life.
The energy released from the body through
uncontrolled sex expression is wasted insofar as the individual is concerned.
Through the practice of self-control, it is possible to conserve this energy,
and herein is the great secret. For all the sex
energy that is conserved and directed upward in the body
through the practice of self-control, a like amount of the inner fire is released from the sacral plexus. The individual has power to achieve the so-called impossible to the degree that the inner fire is released, for with the release of the inner fire
the individual is filled with a fire and zeal, and a boundless energy, that can
surmount every obstacle and achieve every goal.
The conservation of the sex energy comes through
controlled expression, and not through repression.
Control of the sex energies comes through a true expression of love. In the next lessons we will give the secrets
which relate to the mental and spiritual expression of love, and show how the
sex union can be culminated in love from the standpoint of those two planes of
being. Here we will confine ourselves as much as possible to the physical
plane.
When the sex union is activated only by a love
of the physical body, or a love of the organs involved, or by a love of the
sensation by which the physical passion is satisfied, the union is always
followed by a repulsion, so that both parties to the union are irritable and
harsh toward each other and there is a desire to be separate one from the
other. This desire to be separate may be counteracted by a feeling of jealousy,
so that neither wants the other to be with anyone else, yet the after effects
are anything but pleasing. Such people do not have any particular attraction
one for the other until the sex organs have again been filled with energy, when
the one thought that is uppermost is a desire for sex union. The motive which
activates such a sex union is always selfish, with the individuals giving first
thought to the amount of physical pleasure each one can receive for himself.
Such unions as these are always adultery, whether the individuals are married
or not.
It is also adultery in cases where one is so
activated while the other expresses in true love. The union is not adultery
insofar as he himself is concerned, but he would not seek such a union because
he would know that it would be adultery to the one who was activated only by
physical passion. In the case of a man and his wife, the one who truly loved
would not refuse the other, because of love, in the hope that the one loved
would respond to love and be uplifted. Thereby the one who truly loved could
tend to draw the other into love at those times when the other desired union,
but the one who loved would never seek such a union and would enter into it
only under the marriage law. Outside of marriage the one who loved would never
think of entering into union with one who was activated only by passion.
Also, in the case of man and wife where both are
activated by true love, and one has reached a point of spiritual development
where the physical union is no longer required in order to enter into the
spiritual union, while the other has not so attained but requires the physical
union in order to experience the spiritual union, it is well that the one who
is more advanced be willing to enter the physical union for the sake of his
mate.
After the spiritual fruition of the true union
in the physical there is nothing but tender love in the attitude of each mate
toward the other, and the lingering caresses are symbols of the continuance of
the spiritual union after the physical union has ceased. When one begins to
feel a sense of unrest and resentment toward the natural caresses that follow
the physical union, let that one beware, for such a feeling shows that the
union was not culminated in the spiritual. Here is the point where so many
married people, and especially newly married people, miss the mark of
perfection which brings lasting happiness. Continued entrance into the physical
union when there is no culmination in the spiritual union will gradually but
surely drive the mates apart, no matter how much they may have loved to begin
with. It is only through stopping the physical unions, in such cases, until the
spiritual attraction has again become uppermost that it is possible to keep the
marriage from disaster.
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