Why must it be this way? Because understanding must always be inspired. generated, and demonstrated from the greater to the lesser. One with a lesser understanding of mathematics. for example, cannot lead one with a greater understanding of mathematics into a better position. It is the responsibility of the greater to take the lead if any progress is to be made. A demand made by one of greater understanding upon one of lesser understanding is as futile as a bird stamping its foot in the air.

Are some of you quivering with either delight or indignation at this point thinking that I have said homosexuals are greater than heterosexuals? Stay calm. then, and get it straight. My statement is precisely this: that one who recognizes himself to be both male and female is at a more advanced stage of unfoldment of understanding, as regards sexuality, than one who considers himself or herself to be a separate and limited sex. This includes no suggestion that anyone's sex habits, which may be entirely calculated to satisfy the opinions of others (and therefore dishonest), are a yardstick for measuring his individual understanding of life itself. Please examine exactly what I said, and that only, lest you jump to many ridiculous conclusions.

Perhaps you already know why I evaluate this realm of understanding as higher. If you do not. you have only to look at the world about you and behold the nature of those whose greater understanding enables them to perform creative and artistic deeds demanding a deeper insight both as a man and as a woman. Such individuals provide the greatest quantities and qualities of the world's music, literature, poetry, art, entertainment, and all of those works so above mankind's average accomplishments that we call them Inspiring. Researchers find a greater homosexual percentage at this creative level than at lower levels, and a little investigation into the thinking of the rest of the creative ones will reveal that even though their homosexual experiences are infrequent enough that they are not classed as homosexuals, they certainly do not lack understanding of the ideas involved, nor are they inclined to fear or oppose those ideas.

Much more could be presented to illustrate the higher relative level of the understanding of male-and-female individuals regarding sexuality. The simple fact that they can deal more intimately with both sexes and have the courage to do so is a significant evidence. But this is the moment to present a method, not an argument. You may reason the matter out for yourself and draw a conclusion consistent with either your own fancy or the complete actuality. I'll not attempt to do your work of mental argument for you. lest some careless thinkers assume that my purpose is to encourage an increase of homosexual practices. I've had more stupid responses to much less important statements.

To get back to the method. remember I promised to state it (to end hostility toward homosexuals first end hostility toward heterosexuals), to show why it is the method (because understanding must be established from the more comprehensive viewpoint toward the lesser), and to explain how it can be an easy task for those who believe it would be difficult. Before explaining how it can be easy. I'd like to insert a few words for the benefit of those who might be shocked at the suggestion that they. their own pure selves. have ever been so naughty as to entertain even a whisper of a hostile thought toward heterosexuals.

How often have you, in a society of our beloved avant garde artistes. heard the heterosexual referred to as "square" ... "backwards" ... or as a "peasant"? How often have you shared or repeated such sentiments? Are you sure that this is the sense you really wish to direct toward your heterosexual brother? Do you. with all your sensitivity, not realize that he, too, is sensitive to such taunts; that

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