or immoral. However, I should point out that throughout the valid religions of the world runs an emphasis on celibacy. Jesus says nothing about celibacy as such, but when he spoke of eunuchs he seems to mean that one should abandon sex-not love, but sex-if he is to learn how to develop certain esoteric powers and hasten his evolution sufficiently to merit the Kingdom of Heaven.

The subject is too vast to explain in one letter. Those who would like an explanation of the above may read books such as those of Paramhansa Yogananda, Autobiography of A Yoga, or, Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East, by Baird T. Spalding, or my own book.

In spiritual evolution there are many different levels, and each one of us can either go up or down, or stagnate at one level. The homosexual or the heterosexual can progress from the lower levels of sensuality and lust to the higher levels of pure love, eventually achieving a natural celibacy as an outcome of his spiritual evolution and union with God, which brings a happiness that outshines and outlasts any happiness based upon the

senses.

However, this teaching is not for everyone, as Jesus so wisely pointed out. So, when St. Paul uttered the words quoted by Kenneth McIntosh, they were. addressed to the few, not only those who were righteous to start with, but also to those who, although immoral, were ready to rise one step higher, as was Mary Magdalen when she met Jesus and was transformed from a prostitute into a saint. We find many cases of promiscuous people turning overnight into miracle-working saints, after realizing that the ephemeral pleasures they had been frenetically pursuing were but husks.

I have found that many homosexuals cling tenaciously to their belief that their homosexual activity is right and acceptable, just as all too many heterosexuals in our day frantically defend the rightness and acceptability of promiscuity, adultery and the like, and practice birth control rather than contain their sexual drives.

Sexual continence is not the impossible, unnatural feat that it seems to be to most people in our age, whether homosexual or heterosexual. Those who have reached the stage where they realize that the pleasures of life based on the senses are but husks which bring only a transitory happiness, are usually also ready to realize the power of the mind in controlling all the processes of the body, and can learn to convert their bodies into tools at their command. Then they can learn to channel their sexual drive into useful channels, and how to awaken the sleeping powers within themselves, and to become capable of seemingly impossible feats. The creative force has many outlets, of which sexual activity is but one. When disippation of this energy through sexual activity is reduced, the force of its outpouring through other channels is increased.

When Freud coined the word "sublimation," it was in recognition, perhaps unconscious, of this fact, This process is not only for homosexuals, it is also for heterosexuals, who have the same problems in their efforts to find true, lasting happiness.

Love, in any form, is sacred, so sacred that Jesus gave us a new commandment, to love one another as he loved us. The point I want to emphasize is that a distinction must be drawn between love, which is always acceptable in any form, public opinion notwithstanding, and lust (deliberate sexual activity), which is exactly what St. Paul was trying to warn us against, if I rightly understand the teachings of the great Masters.

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