seduction, the same reasoning used by homosexuals to justify their own conduct, because I want to make homosexuals see themselves objectively as others see them, as a prerequisite to dealing with their own problems in a more realistic manner.

Part V. The Little-Known Purpose of the Cerebrum

(or: "What is the kingdom of heaven?")

We have already seen that animals copulate as soon as they reach puberty, with no regard for the age or relationship of the mate and in blind obedience to the command of Nature to procreate. However, we cannot use bioloyg as our only guide, because, although still animals, human beings possess a "new brain," known to scientists as the cerebrum, which other animals do not have. This scientific finding confirms the ageless teaching that runs through all legitimate religions to the effect that after a long process of evolution, when a certain species of animals, presumably the ape according to Darwin's Theory of Evolution, reached a point in his development at which the Creative Mind, or the Oversoul discovered by Dr. Carl Jung, or God as most people call this Mind, judged it ready for a higher life, it was given, or developed, a new brain, which contains the mechanisms for discrimination, abstract thinking, control over natural processess, and other attributes not apparently possessed by non-human animals.

Along with this new brain, the human being was given the ability to work with the Cosmic Scheme in hastening his own evolution to a higher state of consciousness, known as Cosmic Consciousness or the "kingdom of heaven." Very few have attained this higher consciousness so far, but those who have done so and remained in it as a permanent state, outgrow and abandon material pleasures for a much greater joy.

In this state of Cosmic Consciousness man truly becomes one with God, to the degree that he knows God as Absolute Reality, as the Mind of the Universe, and no longer needs to rely on blind faith or outright denial of the existence of God. This achievement of a higher consciousness is the next step upwards in man's evolution, just as self-awareness and consciousness of one's identity marked a step upwards for the caveman from the animal level of unthinking survival and unquestioning obedience of instinct. If one who has reached Cosmic Consciousness remains in this state and learns to harness its higher laws, he acquires dominion over all becomes a ruler of the "kingdom of heaven" so often mentioned by Jesus, and which is not the life after death, but attainment of this higher consciousness. The new dominion that this brings can be compared to the mastery over natural laws that man achieved as soon as he rose above the animal level and acquired a new brain or cerebrum, a mastery not possessed by any other animal to the extent that it is by homo sapiens.

It is universally taught in all legitimate religions of Orient and Occident, of the past and the present, that this condition of Cosmic Consciousness is brought about through a reversal of the sexual energy. That is to say, the impetus of unreleased sexual energy, when correctly reversed, bursts through the higher layers of the psyche, to bear one upwards. . . towards a higher consciousness. This is a sublime and glorious experience even when only momemntarily glimpsed, is never forgotten, and makes all material pleasure fade into insignificance.

The cerebrum that distinguishes the human being from the animal, has produced modern civilization, with all its advantages and disadvantages. And this new tool, which human beings are still learning to use in a clumsy man-

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