GERTRUDE CAYCE:
You will have before you the enquiring mind of [826],
present in this room, and his desire to comply with the advice given him
through these sources; that is, to "cleanse the minds of the moral and
social relationships in sex."
Will you explain in detail the sex practices and sex
thoughts of the people which are destructive, pointing out those which should
be abolished, and others which should be substituted therefor.
Explain particularly with relation to adults over 20
years old, because by education and example they teach the young.
Point out those harmful factors about the moral and
social relationships in sex and the remedies for them which should be dealt
with in the book "A Timely Warning" which is present in this room.
You will answer the questions he will submit, as I ask
them:
EDGAR CAYCE:
Yes, we have the enquiring mind of [826], also those
desires of presenting the conditions as timely warnings for the young in this
age and this experience.
As we find, in presenting what may be helpful in the
educational way and manner, as we have indicated, the condition that exists in
the present as related to the relationships in sex - or the greater cause for
the lack of judgement, the lack of proper consideration, the lack of those
things necessary to prevent the laxness and the practice of those conditions
and experiences as related to same - is from the lack of education in the young
before their teenage years!
For few there be who have the proper understanding, as we
have indicated, of what the biological urge produces in the body!
Now whether such an education is to be undertaken in the
home or in the school is the greater problem.
To be sure, there are conditions existent in relationship
to many of the denominational activities religiously that prohibit, bar or
prevent sufficient consideration of these problems in the public schools or
even in the private schools.
And little has there been of the proper education of the
mother, the father of those who need such instruction.
But these are the places to begin.
And the warnings as would be presented are not as to the
practices of this or the manner of that, or the association of this or that in
the adult life.
But there should be those precautions, understandings,
relationships as to how and in what manner there becomes the biological urge;
which through the proper training may become a pathological condition in the
body of the individual.
For it is as from the beginning of puberty the essence of
the Creative Forces or Energies within the body of the individual.
And if such forces are turned to those channels for the
aggrandizement of selfish motives, or for the satisfying of that within the
urge for the gratification of emotions, they become destructive; not only in
the manner of the offspring [but] also in the very physical body of the
offspring, as well as in the energies of the bodies so producing same.
These are the approaches that should be given as timely
warnings to the mother, the father.
And as for the young these should be rather as the
suggestions for the instructors the warnings to the parents as to the
conversation of the nurse, the maid, or as to the exercisings of the children
in their formative years - in whatever relationships there may be.
And then, as these grow and become a portion of the
politic body for public education, there should be the greater stress laid upon
the educations in these directions.
And not wait until they have reached or arrived at that
position where they begin to study physiology, anatomy or hygiene.
But even in the formative years there should be the
training in these directions, as a portion of the material things.
Even as the child studies its letters, let a portion of
the instructions be in the care of the body, and more and more the stress upon
the care in relation to the sex of the body and in the preservation of that as
to its relationships to its Creator.
For it is through such factors, through such bodies of
activity, that there may become a manifestation of the spiritual forces such as
to bring into being those of one's own flesh and blood.
These are the approaches.
These are the conditions.
Do not begin halfway.
Do not begin after there has been already begun the
practice of the conditions that make for destructive forces, or for the issue
of the body to become as a burning within the very elements of the body itself
- and to find expression in the gratifying of the emotions of the body!
For, to be sure, relationships in the sex are the
exercising of the highest emotions in which a physical body may indulge.
And only in man is there found that such are used as that
of destruction to the body-offspring!
This, then, is the approach; this is the manner.
Ready for questions.
(Q) Is monogamy the best form of home
relationship?
(A) Let the teachings be rather toward the spiritual
intent.
Whether it's monogamy, polygamy, or what not, let it be
the answering of the spiritual within the individual!
But monogamy is the best, of course, as indicated from
the Scripture itself - One - One!
For the union of one should ever be One.
(Q) Is marriage as we have it necessary and
advisable?
(A) It is!
(Q) Should divorces be encouraged by making
them easier to obtain?
(A) This depends upon first the education of the body.
Once united, once understood that the relationships are
to be as one, less and less is there the necessity of such conditions.
Man may learn a great deal from a study of the goose in
this direction.
Once it has mated, never is there a mating with any other
- either the male or female, no matter how soon the destruction of the mate may
occur - unless forced by man's intervention.
This does not indicate that this is the end, and should
only remain as such.
For, as we have indicated, this is indicated by the name
and the meaning of the name itself.
For this is the extreme.
Just as indicated in all of the animals - the fowl or
those that have become the closer related to man, and man's intervention in
their surroundings and their activities and their adaptabilities; in their
natural state these are in the forms as their names indicate.
And from these man may learn many lessons; which was
attempted in the beginning.
And yet, as we have indicated, in same he lost self in
that he found that he could satisfy those emotions or gratify what might be
builded as emotions from experience to experience.
Thus there were gradually brought on the various
polygamous relationships that have existed throughout the ages in many periods.
And, as indicated in the lives of groups and nations,
these become the stumblingblocks that are ever kept within the background - but
that have made for the destructive influence that arose within the activities
of such groups and nations, in such relationships.
Hence to begin, begin with the mind.
For, as we have said, to build the perfect relationship
in any direction that there may be brought a union is to begin before the
parents of such are born! in their own minds!
Hence to begin with the teenage, or at twenty, or at
fifty, or with an older individual, is only to have the tail end of something!
And does not tend to be constructive at all!
Only does it become a form.
But begin with those when they are choosing their mate,
see?
(Q) Should nudism be encouraged?
(A) That should be a matter of principle within the
individuals as there is the training as to what is the purpose of those parts
covered.
Nudism or clothing or what not, as we have oft indicated,
should be rather the matter of the environ - and not a matter of moral
principle in any sense!
(Q) Is the broadcasting of birth control
information advantageous in improving the race?
(A) It is like shooting feathers at an eagle!
It's a move in the right direction, but that's about as
much as might be said.
This should be rather the training of those that are in
the positions of being the mothers and fathers of the nation, of the peoples!
What are the factors in the lives of those that broadcast
such?
Look into those and ye may easily find the answer to your
question.
Not all, but most are prompted by something that is
lacking in their own make-up.
Who giveth the increase?
Man may plant, man may sow.
Man understanding, then, the varied activities of a given
condition - through the education in the character of the soil, in the elements
going to make up the body of that sought to be produced - prepares for same.
But who giveth the increase?
Who maketh for that which bringeth the returns?
Man in his preparation, or the source from which it
arises?
So with the education, so with that which does the
prompting, let it be from not that which is lacking in an urge, but rather from
what is to be done by the individual with the urge!
See?
And leave the results with the Giver of Life!
For Life is of, and is, the Creative Force; it is that ye
worship as God.
Those then that besmirch same by overindulgence besmirch
that which is best within themselves.
And that should be the key to birth control or sex
relations, or every phase of the relationships between the sons and the
daughters of men - that would become the sons and daughters of God...
(Q) Is continence in marriage advisable
except when mating to produce offspring?
(A) This should be, and is, as we have indicated in the
matter of education, the outcome of the universal sources of supply of the
individuals.
For some, yes; in other cases it would be very bad on the
part of each, while in others it would be bad on one or the other, see?
There should be, then, rather the educating as to the
purposes, and How - How that the force, the vitality, that goes for the
gratifying of emotions may be centralized in creating - in the lives of others
about the body in all its various phases - spiritual blessings.
(Q) Should men or women who do not have the
opportunity to marry have sex relationships outside of marriage?
(A) This again is a matter of principle within the
individual.
The sex organs, the sex demands of every individual, must
be gratified in some manner as a portion of the biological urge within the
individual.
These begin in the present with curiosity.
For it is as natural for there to be sexual relations
between man and woman, when drawn together in their regular relations or
activities, as it is for the flowers to bloom in the spring, or for the snows
to come in the winter, when the atmospheric conditions are conducive or
inducive to such conditions.
When a man or woman has chosen (for it must be choice,
and is only by choice that one remains out of relationships with the opposite
sex in marriage) - if it has chosen to not be in such relationships, then be
true to the choice; or else it is to self a sin!
For that which one would pretend to be and isn't is
indeed sin!
(Q) Should they raise children outside of
marriage?
(A) It answers itself.
(Q) Would it be better for a woman, who
desires to marry, to be one of two or more wives to a man in a home rather than
to remain unmarried?
(A) This is again a matter of principle; or the urge
within such conditions must be conformative to that set as the ideal.
In the education of individuals as regarding sex
relationships, as in every other educational activity, there must be a standard
or a rule to go by or an ideal state that has its inception not in the emotions
of a physical body but from the spiritual ideal which has been set, which was
set and given to man in his relation to the Creative Forces.
Then to ask or to seek or to advise or to give
suggestions even, that it may be done outside of that, isn't being true to that
as is presented.
We are through for the present.
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