Spiritual Wisdom:

"In the conscious new age marriage, sex will never be casual or haphazard; you will consider it a holy ritual." (PL #251)

"Nothing is as dangerous as using a powerful spiritual energy in a destructive, inverted way whether that using is in actual fact or in mind and attitude only. When killing and hating is imbedded in sexuality, sexuality becomes vicious and antagonistic to spirituality. This is why people acted out for millennia the most bestial drives in sexuality, and thus sexuality was in itself believed to be bestial. Only now is it possible for man to take every conceivable evil, face it, and not act upon it. Today there is a conscience in man that makes him quite aware of the fact when he is vicious. This awareness is not always on the surface, for man usually tries to avoid what he knows. But it nevertheless exists within the psyche. Therefore there is a reluctance to give in to the sexual drive for it brings out the denied negativities, the evil, the destructiveness." (PL #207)

"For most human beings it is still inconceivable to combine sexuality with spirituality. This concept is bound to change soon. Spiritual influxes of today have already wrought a beginning of the new era. In former times sexuality and spirituality were considered antithetical. It was ignored that true spiritual union is a consummate result of union on all levels of being, thus also on the physical/sexual one. It was ignored that total integration and oneness must bring sexuality into alignment with spirituality. The realization of the spiritual life in you is possible only as a result of total unification and certainly never as a result of splitting off any one part from the other. The real meaning of spirituality is oneness and wholeness, and that means it must include all there is." (PL #207)

"If the negativities of the psychic system are denied consciousness, the sexual experience must be blocked, flat, unsatisfactory, mechanical, and, in the more severe instances, even totally paralyzed." (PL #207)

"When two human beings are attracted to each other, we might say, translating this manifestation into concise language, that the parties involved yearn for knowing each other, revealing themselves to each other, finding the other, letting themselves be known and found, finding the true being of the other person. By the revelation of itself to another being, this true being can enter the realm and circumference of the self that is thus seeking -- and vice versa. This desire, that is energized by an involuntary force, creates the electrifying blissful feeling and longing.

Needless to say, if this attraction exists merely on the physical level, without the other levels entering into the expression as well (at least to some degree), the ensuing experience must be disappointing. It must leave a lot to be desired. It can never be more than the most infinitesimal and superficial representation or foretaste of what the soul really longs for but is too blind to understand and to pursue. The pursuing requires, of course, a purification and unification process such as your path." (PL #207)

"In that blissful experience, the fulfillment transcends personal satisfaction and enrichment. This means that by and through this fulfillment the individuals are fulfilling a task in the universe. This may seem strange, for the human brain is used to associate the fulfillment of tasks with something arduous and more or less difficult or even unpleasant. In reality, the more total are joy, pleasure, bliss, ecstasy, the more is added in creative power into the universal reservoir. Each such experience is like a new star lighting somewhere in creation and becoming yet another torch in the darkness of the void that is finally to be filled." (PL #207)

"The union, the fusion, the blissful experience, and the sense of timelessness in the sexual union, all depend on the unification of the individuals in question and therefore their attitudes on all levels. If the sexual experience is an expression of all the levels of the parties involved -- the physical, the emotional, the mental and the spiritual; if these levels are at one with each other and in no way conflicting; if the people, on all these levels, express their being in concord with spiritual law which is love, truth, and positive expression toward life, then the sexual experience is as complete, as fulfilling, as rich, as joyous, as nourishing, as sustaining, as furthering, and as reminiscent of spiritual reality as any human experience can be." (PL #207)

"In the human realm, the power of sexuality can in its most ideal form be the greatest "representative" of spiritual existence. There is no other human experience that conveys so fully what spiritual bliss, oneness, and timelessness are -- the timeless now beyond the confines of time. In the total sexual experience man breaks through the confines of time and separateness to which his limited mind has bound him. Through such an experience man is reminded of his true existence in the eternal." (PL #207)

"The sexual force is an expression of consciousness reaching for fusion. You all know that fusion is the purpose of creation. You can call it integration, unification, oneness. But whatever the term may be, the final aim of all split-off beings is the reunification of the individualized, separated aspects of the greater consciousness with the whole of consciousness." (PL #207)

"These three forces of this great universal, creative force -- the erotic, the sexual, and the love force as manifest in the human experience -- are, of course, not really separate forces but subdivisions of the same force. They manifest differently only within the narrow realm of the ego confinement where they can be split. Now I will use the term "sexuality" as a whole and will discuss primarily its manifestation in the human realm: its purpose, its spiritual meaning." (PL #207)