This compilation was first published in 1980 by the Lucis Trust, but it consists entirely of excerpts from earlier works by Alice A. Bailey (who died in 1949). All of the excerpts relate to sex “and the importance of a re-arrangement of [humanity’s] ideas on this vital matter.”
Bailey wrote books on theosophical subjects. She taught a form of universal spirituality that transcended denominational identification, believing that, “Every class of human beings is a group of brothers. Catholics, Jews, Gentiles, occidentals and orientals are all the sons of God.” However, she also taught that so-called Old-Testament thinking was impeding mankind’s progress, which caused some to brand her as anti-Semitic. And she was an anti-Zionist because she considered it a separatist movement.
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…In no department of life will these coming great changes show more potently than in the attitude of man towards sex, and in the readjustment of the marriage relationship. This new attitude will gradually come about as the slowly developing science of psychology comes into its own. As man comes to understand his own threefold nature, and as the nature of consciousness and the depth of his own subconscious life are more truly grasped, there will take place, gradually and automatically, a change in the attitude of men towards women and of women towards their destiny. This needed change … will come slowly, as the result of the intelligent interest of the next three generations. The young people now coming into incarnation, and those who will come during the next century, will prove themselves well equipped to handle this problem of sex, because they can see more clearly than the older generation, and will think in wider and larger terms than is common today. They will be more group conscious and less individualistic and selfish; they will be more interested in new ideas than in the ancient theologies, and will be freer from prejudice and less intolerant than are the bulk of the well-meaning people of today….
As the creative urge is turned upwards from the sacral centre to the throat, man will live less potently in his physical sexual urges, and more consistently in his creative expression. His physical plane life will proceed along normal lines, but it is necessary for men to realise that the manner in which man today satisfies his sexual nature is abnormal and unregulated, and that we are on our way to a wise normality. The craving for selfish pleasure and for the satisfaction of an animal urge, which is instinctually right when regulated and debasingly wrong when prostituted purely to enjoyment, will give place to a mutual decision by both of the parties concerned. The decision will meet a natural need in a right and suitable and regulated manner. Today one party or other is usually sacrificed, either to an undue abstinence or to an unseemly profligacy. (1936)
Transmutation and Transference of the Sex Energy
…In that transmutative process men have greatly erred and have approached the subject from two angles:
1. They have sought to stamp out natural desire and have endeavoured to emphasise an enforced celibacy; they have thus frequently warped the nature and subjected the “natural man” to rules and regulations which were not of divine intent.
2. They have tried–at the other extreme–to exhaust normal sexual desire by promiscuity, license and perversion, damaging themselves and laying up the basis for trouble for many incarnations ahead….
During the process of evolution….Sex becomes a dominating thought in the consciousness, and many people today are passing through this stage and everybody at some time or in some life passes through it. This is followed by a period of transference wherein the physical pull of sex and the urge to physical creation is not so dominant and the forces begin to be gathered up into the solar plexus…..and gradually are carried up to the throat centre, but always via the heart center.
A Compilation on Sex Paperback by Alice A. Bailey June 1, 1990.