Sex #1 — Basic Principles Of Being

Sex  #1

Basic Principles Of Being

Uranda  April 27, 1954 p.m.

We have been considering various aspects of the matter of design in relationship to these basic principles of being, and this morning I would like, with your cooperation, to consider some of the basic aspects of this problem, or question, subject—it is all three as far as we are concerned. But if we are going to take up this aspect of the problem this morning it means that there must be a purity of heart that permits us to examine factors which from the world standpoint either cannot be touched or can be touched only lightly or extremely carefully. It should be carefully, in any case. But this particular phase of the question relates to what is commonly called sex. It is a subject that I always approach with a great deal of caution and care, because it is one about which there is so much misunderstanding, and with respect to which heart and mind tend to be veiled in so many people. If we are going to comprehend the factors for ourselves, and in a manner which will permit us to serve others in the days to come, we need to consider this phase of the subject.

When we approach a consideration of what may, in a certain sense at least, be called sex, we need to remember that we are touching into the field of that which is most holy, most sacred, and if it is holy and sacred it means that it is closely centered in God. Now when I use the word “sex” I mean more than the physical characteristics which distinguish male and female. We recognize that sex must include sex function, but if I use that term, “sex function,” there tends to be a limitation in consciousness which causes the hearer to think of simply the physical relationship in the intimate sense between the male and the female. My concern is first to show you that the subject is not to be so contained; that it reaches into all fields of life expression.

Conceivably we might undertake to develop some other term, to use some other word; but if that idea presents itself, I ask the question, "Why?" Why can't we take the word which is so much misunderstood and misused and abused in idea and function in the world and see it in its true sense, its holy, sacred meaning, its broad expanse, see it in its relationship to God? We have spoken of God Principle, or the principle which expresses the nature or the being of God. Now if we have God Principle, what one word would tend to best suggest—not to define and confine, but to best suggest—the nature of this God Principle? Suppose we put there the word "creative." The God Principle is creative. This God Principle, with its creative nature extended into the physical realm of human beings, manifests in relationship to sex—it centers there, in actual fact. We see it, this creative function, in relationship to the process by which human beings are born: conception, gestation and birth. We see it in relationship to those factors which establish the pattern of relationship between male and female.

Now we know that in certain cases, where unwise function persists in the world pattern, human beings are sometimes, in their male and female aspects, drawn together on what is commonly called a physical basis; that is to say, the attraction that is felt is not so much an attraction of the mind or the heart, it is not so much a matter of love; it is a matter of physical attraction, which is sometimes classified as a chemical affinity. Now such function at that level, where there is not coordination mentally, emotionally, spiritually, soon burns itself out, soon ceases to have meaning, and that which at the first attracted begins, on one side or the other, or on both sides, to repel. The physical is a vitally important aspect of being, and without the physical, being at this level, in this range of creation, has no meaning at all. So we cannot object to the physical. That which is of God is supposed to manifest in the level of the physical according to the pattern of the divine design. But if we consider principle in the creative sense, first we need to see the truth, the truth that makes human beings free.

The very manner in which I approach this subject suggests that it is in a range in which human beings are not free. It is a subject which to a high degree in the world sense is utterly taboo. Many people like to try to act and speak as if the subject did not exist; it just isn't. And yet we all know it is. It is no use hiding our heads in the sand, the sands of time. And we can immediately see, whether we understand how it is or not, what the processes of relationship are, or understand the basic factors as they find expression in our lives in a thousand different ways. We can readily understand, in the overall sense, that God Principle in creative expression must be present in order for the reality of conception and birth to be possible, and that manifestation of principle in the physical sense is the means by which we all arrive in this sphere of things, whether we are willing to consider the subject or not; for every person on the face of the earth was born after conception and gestation had worked out.

So this creative expression of basic principle manifests in the physical level. The fact that human beings generally don't have an understanding of this manifestation of God Principle in themselves accounts for a very high degree of the number of disorders which beset human beings, physically, mentally and emotionally. There are many who are ill, sick, physically, mentally and emotionally—any one of the three dominant—where the basic difficulty arises as a result of maladjustment in relationship to the creative principle of God Being as it is manifest through the physical level of being.

Since I have approached the subject, if the members of this Class here don't develop any false concepts or ideas with respect to what I am presenting, if no one here distorts it or spoils it or jumps to any false conclusions, it will be the first time in my experience that such a thing has ever been. It will be the first time in my experience. And yet if I am to fulfil my responsibility to you as a teacher I can't avoid the subject. Sooner or later I must touch upon it. So I do my best to help you attain a state of consciousness which will permit you to see it correctly, in its true light, in its spiritual beauty, with its wonders and its glories, so that as nearly as possible we can segregate your pattern of consciousness in regard to this subject from that which is ugly, sordid, unreal or in any way should not be.

In our recent services you here, sharing with our Unit as a whole, have allowed the development of a higher degree of the level of unification of consciousness. Have you not felt it in connection with our services?—something that was at peace, something that was real, in the spiritual pattern of being? Now that atmosphere is absolutely essential to any true understanding of this subject. But in service, after using reasonable precaution, being wise, we still have to take a chance, so to speak, we still have to dare to do, we still have to move forward. We can't say, "Well here is an opportunity but there is a chance I will be misunderstood if I do that. I had better just not say it." First thing you know, you will not be doing anything except going down. We must be wise and have understanding, be careful to establish a pattern of consciousness which permits the development of understanding, and then proceed in the current of the spirit.=

So that is my attitude toward you, and I feel that in our togetherness thus far we have reached a point where we can begin, at least, to touch upon this subject. It is not one which we can explore in fulness in a class period or two. There is so much involved which as yet you cannot possibly see, that we will probably be touching this subject from time to time in various ways in the remaining portion of our Class term. And the more you understand about it the more you will realize there is to understand about it. I hope no one here imagines that he or she understands all that is necessary. That is one of the most, what shall we say, devastating of human attitudes, and it is one you will run into in the days to come, because people, particularly the male aspect of the human expression—some women are like that too—but the men are more greatly at fault than the women, because somehow or other the male egotism with respect to his own concept of his own manhood tends to make the male feel that he knows just about all that he needs to know on the subject and he tends to close the door to the development of any real consciousness in this sphere. And that is one of the particularized problems that you will run into in the days to come. So let us not have any closed door.

Now we recognize that if we are going to consider sex in the physical sense we must also consider sex in every sense, because if sex permits the manifestation of the creative principle in the physical level, isn't it rather inane, to say the least, to imagine that the manifestation of creative principle at some other level is unrelated to sex? If sex permits the manifestation of creative principle in the physical level, sex permits the manifestation of creative principle in any level—in God Himself. We need to see that absolutely everything, at every level, has a relationship to sex. Just as it is utterly impossible for you to have been born on earth without sex, just so is it utterly impossible for anything to manifest anywhere, in any level in heaven above or earth beneath, without sex. There is no place in all the cosmos, in God or any of His creation, with respect to anything that has been brought forth or will be, but what it relates to that which is signified when we use the word "sex"—every level of being, everything.

Man has somehow established ideas with respect to sex in the physical sense, built a barrier around it, and tried to imagine that everything else is somehow not sex, and that if one is of a pure mind or a pure heart one wouldn't ever see any sex or think of sex at any other level. And many people have so deluded themselves—and there are plenty of people in the world to help them in developing the delusion—that they imagine that somehow this sex thing, as they think of it in its confined area in the physical realm, is sinful. God did command man to multiply and replenish the earth. But this idea that sex is somehow sinful originates from what? There has been a tendency on the part of human beings to have a little vision with respect to the truths of being, and there was a recognition that this that we call sex, if it be misused, if it be abused, will produce wrong things; and human beings have been carried to the lowest depths of degradation by wrong function in relationship to sex.

On the other hand, if we stop to consider the principle, if there is that which in wrong use will carry to the lowest depths of which man is aware, is it difficult to comprehend the idea that this same thing, if it be used correctly, will carry man to the highest heights of which he is aware? It is because it is something sacred, holy, that the devastating results of wrong function in relationship to it show up so quickly and are so severe.

We need to realize that the activity, the function, of the God principle in heaven is on the basis of sex. There are those who imagine, in the world, that once you get away from earth and go to heaven there will not be any more sex, and that idea has to a large degree derived from the misunderstanding of what the Master said when He quoted the statement, "For in heaven there is neither marrying nor giving in marriage." Man, not understanding heaven, not understanding the God Principle, not understanding correct function in the creative sense, has imagined something then with respect to heaven in relationship to that statement, because he didn't know what the truth of the matter was. What is the truth of the matter? In heaven there is no marrying or giving in marriage, no. Why? Because the beings there are eternal. Isn't that simple? The beings there are eternal—not the limited sphere or expanse of life on earth as man has known it.

The Lord said, "In heaven there is neither marrying nor giving in marriage." And yet they say, "This marriage must have been made in heaven, it has lasted so long." Isn't that logic! That marriage was made on earth. It may have revealed some of the heavenly aspects of being, but the pattern of relationship of God Beings was established a long time ago. That is something like, shall we say, millions of years—would that make it any easier?—or hundreds of thousands of years, or something. And we think that a little pattern of twenty-five or thirty or fifty years is going to upset all of that and change it around. Oh no, it won't, not at all. No, there isn't any marrying or giving in marriage in heaven, because there is no need of it. But that is not to say there isn't any sex function in heaven; because there is no level of being where there is no sex function in relationship to the form of that level, in relationship to the mental and emotional aspects of that level of being.

There is no level, anywhere there is being, where there is no sex function. So this that we call sex, particularly and generally in reference to the physical factors, in actual proof extends into every level of being. And remember that just as man cannot produce a baby without cooperating with the physical factors of sex, just so, God cannot produce anything in creation without the factors of sex. Every creative act of God—bringing forth the earth, the solar system, or anything upon the earth, or the creation of man himself—anything that was created at any time, in any place, in any level of being, was brought forth on the basis of sex, the Creative God Principle in action. And that Creative God Principle had to have a means of manifestation on the level where the creation was to take place. Now remember that. That is a key point which most people tend to overlook.

This Creative God Principle must have a means of manifestation on the level on which the creation is to take place. If we are going to have the creation of a baby, the bringing forth of a child, then there must be the physical means at this level by reason of which that Creative God Principle may come into action. Just so, there must be the means by which that principle may come into action on the mental level, the emotional level, and upon every level of being in heaven above and in the earth beneath. Why is it, then, that sex is such a holy, sacred thing? Because it is the central pattern of human relationship to God Himself. There is nothing in which any human being could have any experience which allows a closer realization of actual sharing with God than this.

Let us find out what it means and not jump to some foolish conclusion. Sex is the means by which the creative God principle acts in any level of being, for all purposes, in the fulfilment of God's will. And here we have that by means of which we can become aware of the actual reality of a close relationship with God, because if that principle is inherent in our own beings and that principle is inherent in God Beings, we can perceive the relationship. And it is something with respect to which there is feeling. Mind. Yes, God has mind. God has a heart, feeling—God's heart of Love. But love, in order to have meaning and in order to be felt, must move, it must act. It cannot be held static. Something must move, and the means by which God Principle can act for you is, if you understand the meaning correctly as I am using it, sex. Here we have something which in its very nature is so holy, is so sacred and divine, that if we study it and examine it with a pure heart we begin to see something of the true nature of God, the being of God, the action of God—not just the fact of God, but the fact of God in action. And it is God in action that is going to have meaning, not just the fact of His Presence. And just the fact of being, all by itself, is not going to have meaning in relationship to ourselves. It is our being in action, in function, accomplishing something, doing something, that really gives us a sense of personal meaningfulness.

Let us remember that sex function is not in any sense limited to the physical aspect of being. These principles are at work here in relationship to my appearing before you, for my presence here would be of no value to you, and your presence here would be of no value to me, we would be accomplishing nothing, if there was not an interchange in the vibratory pattern of being, the creative expression of the God Principle. If in any moment any of you close off your heart of response, stop yielding, set up a pattern of resistance, you do not receive what I have to offer. Sex again, on that level. And in that interchange, if it is completely mutual, we have a deep inner satisfaction, a deep sense of accomplishing something, of movement, of the fact that in our relationship there is creative meaning. And so it is in this that we can begin to have an awareness of how to truly participate with God in creative action on earth, and it is here that such function is so greatly needed.

There is a diagram here, of a small circle within a larger circle. Pointing to the inner circle are the words, Core of Being. On the circumference of the larger: Periphery of Life Action, and an outgoing arrow representing Birth. Male and female are also indicated on the spaces within the two circles.

Now I would like to draw your attention very briefly to something. We have talked about the core of being, and we have illustrated that core with a little circle with a larger circle drawn around it, and we have indicated this centering as the core of being and the outer circle round about it as the periphery of life action. There we have a simple diagram illustrating the basic factors in relationship to practically every phase of life, all of the things that manifest out here in the periphery, and there we have a picture of the relationship of God in the human being, the core of being, Deity. We have a portrayal on the basis of the male and female principle—the male principle and the female principle. And the action of the male principle in relationship to the female principle causes something to be born at the periphery of life, the birth of a child, the coming forth of all those things that make life meaningful.

You cannot consider God at any level of being which we can comprehend, you cannot consider the creative principle, without considering the male and the female principle. And they work at all levels, at all times, on the basis of conception, gestation and birth. If you ignore that principle in relationship to anything that is coming forth at any level, something is going to go wrong with it; it will not manifest the way it is supposed to. There must be always, for the manifestation of anything anywhere, good, bad or indifferent, the interplay of the male and the female principle, and always, whatever manifests manifests after conception, gestation and birth. Now it may be stillbirth, it may be an abortion, it may be something wrong, or it may be a live birth of a perfectly beautiful, healthy child. Whatever it is, it is appearing at the periphery of being. And everything that so manifests on earth and in heaven above manifests through the female principle, without any exception anywhere, at any time—in God, in any heaven that there is, and here on earth. Everything that manifests in form—according to the level of form, whatever it may be—manifests through the female principle. Perhaps that would be a good point to start with tomorrow.

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