[Redbook6:181-185][19890802:1734]{Love
and Sex (4)}[2nd August 1989]
.1734
*I
suppose that my interest in the relationship of sexuality and the
Spirit arises because I am a person both strongly sexual and strongly
spiritual; and I know that unless I can integrate these impulses, I
shall not be able to integrate myself. The conflict arises because I
recognise both the base and the sacred in sexuality and sexual
intercourse [(]– as, indeed, there are evil spirits as well as the
Holy Spirit of God, the former being Man’s distortions of the
latter[)]. I recognise also that even as a neutral force, sexuality
can lead to the same sort of material and worldly complications as
can (for example) money.
I
believe I can distinguish between these sexual impulses which are
initiated and reveal themselves predominantly within the Individual,
and those that are initiated and act predominantly without, ie
externally: the former being natural and intuitive, the latter
involving an attempt to impose the will upon another or others –
the will to sex. As in all these matters, there are few or no clear
divisions: but one should know where one is. There is a difference,
for example, between sexual attraction for a loved one, and the same
for a striptease artiste; just as there is a difference between
sexual attraction arising in the course of a loving relationship
between two adults well known to each other, and sexual attraction
for another provoked by her (or his) seductive manner of dress and
movement.
*[[Redbook6:177-178][19890801:1226]{Love
and Sex (3)}[1st August 1989],]
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