Is there a more crucial message for our times?

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Is there a more crucial message for our times? Anonymous Sat Feb 20 21:36:16 2021 No.17603917 [Reply] [Original]

>https://archive.org/details/TheCoiledSerpent

>"There appears to be a need of some bold man who will say outright what is best opposing the mightiest lusts and following reasons only."
—Plato, Laws,VIII, 835.

> a permanently effective solution of the almost inextricably entangled problem of sex can be found only in the limitation of the sex life to reproductive activity.

>a lack of chastity in act and thought constitutes the under lying cause of nearly all misery, of discontent with life, of marital disharmony, of congenital low vitality, of sluggish intellects, of many avoidable ailments, of human wrecks in body and in mind, and of countless untimely deaths. In final synthesis the general misusage of the generative force revealed itself as the basic cause not only of humanity's woes, but also of its failure to advance in evolution.

>If the ideas formulated in this book represented merely the writer's opinion, they could carry but little persuasive power. But it is a verifiable fact that through the centuries the sages have almost unanimously proclaimed the signal value of sexual restraint as an includable requirement for the attainment of real human progres. They who possessed superior wisdom apparently always knew that higher evolution is impossible without conservation of the sex force. And researches of modern scientists, as well as equitable observations by outstanding writers, lend support to the pronouncements of the wise.

>Caught in the mighty coils of the giant-serpent Sex, humanity is on the point of being crushed and strangled. That serpent, which in the beginning was intended to serve human evolution, was foolishly adopted as a pet and unduly coaxed and fondled. Being overfed and pampered and having its slightest whims complied with, the pet has grown into a monster that has overpowered its master, and now threatens to destroy him.

>"Evolution is the triumph of human qualities over animal qualities." — Kropotkin, Ethics, X, 254.

>Pre-human progress was involuntary. But "human progress can be willed" (Radhakrishnan)— nay, it must be willed. So far growth had been regular and automatic, unopposed. It might have continued thus if man (that is: the human species) had not used self-consciousness to foster self-indulgence and sensuality. He thereby set up an impediment which he himself must again undo by self-chosen, willing effort. Instead of continuing mechanically from without, growth has become an accomplishment that must be aided from within.

Also see "Conquest of the Serpent"

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