SEX RELATIONSHIP

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11739, 29 January 1924, Page 5

SEX RELATIONSHIP

A THEOSOPHICAL VIEW MISTAKEN MARRIAGES. Sex relationship in the light of theosophy was the subject of an interesting lecture delivered to a crowded audience at the Theoeophical Hall. Auckland, by Miss Clara Oodd. The lecturer based her arguments upon the doctrine of reincarnation, pointing out that people were apt to consider they were their bodies, instead of their bodies being merely the physical vehicle in which they manifested. Each ego generally lived about seven successive times in a male body, and then changed to a female body, this process being repeated in succeeding incarnations. , The sexes were complimentary to one another, the male being positive and the female - negative. In the purely physical sphere the male was positive, but the woman was the positive of the emotional plane. There was an occult truth in Bernard Shaw’s argument that nnoe a woman had “marked” her man he could never escape, for she was the stronger in emotion. When it came to the mental plane man was once more positive, and for that, reason woman could never hope to reach the mental achievements of the male. On the still higher plane, the spiritual woman again was positive, so that the male and female were complimentary to one another in every sphere. MISUSE OF SEX. 9 The lecturer deplored the fact that the whole human race was suffering from the misuse of sex. The sex function was to create. Of all functions it had the greatest effect upon the body. This was not surprising seeing that its results were the greatest. The employment of the funotion for any other purpose than to create was a sin which could only be gradually eliminated. She urged the instruction of young people m regard to the matter, pointing out that creative power could be used in many useful directions. If children were taught to love and respect-, that would go a long way towards remedying the present evil. NOT TRUE LOVE. On the subject of marriage, the lecturer declared that many couples were unhappy bocauße they had mistaken lust for love. A happy marriage required the parties to be attracted on more than the purely physical plane. Where a mistake was made in the choice of a life partner -both parties had to make the best of it, and try to understand each other’s outlook. To avoid one’s responsibilities in this matter simply meant Karmic retribution later on. If, after a mistaken marriage, one met one’s affinity there must be no shrinking from duty. In such a case these lines might well he kept in mind: “I could r.ot love thee dear, so well, loved I not honour more.” Man in the early days of creation was believed to have been two-sexed, and the lecturer declared that in the far distant Future male and female would again disappear from the earth, when man would again be two-sexed. Creation then would be on the mental plane.