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... | When man relinquishes the irrational mode of life, and abstains from alcohol and flesh meat, the low sensual animal life no more exists for him. Woman, then, also resumes her purity, and is no more regarded as a mere toy. There is a divine principle in the thought of man, and also in the love of woman, but it only gains its full expression in a pure, natural life. | ||
{{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|11-132}} | Woman’s weakness is her belief in man as he is. In looking up to man as a being superior to herself, the Divine Being within her is disregarded. Woman, when undeluded by false ideas engrafted by custom, has intuitions which are unerring. God lives even more in the unclouded involuntary unconscious feelings of woman than in man’s clouded reason. Man may reason, but woman feels. Woman would consciously live in the divine manifestation if man were but exalted enough to guide her. There may be, even in this degraded sensual age, many women who are unconsciously immaculate, and who would arrive at the Perfect State if the way were but pointed out to them, and they were not deluded and degraded by the errors and impurities of depraved custom. Both man and woman could be perfect if they did not repress their nobler, loftier divine nature, to live only an irrational, sensual, animal life. The last sophistry of sensuality is:—“We must live according to the laws of our nature,” meaning thereby the artificial demands of depraved customs. Not only have men degraded their divine nature, but they {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|11-132}} | ||
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