Theos-Talk Archives (August 1998 Message tt00091)

Responding to Kym:

Celibacy is an absolute RULE as regards *practical* Occultism.

See, for example, "The Secret Doctrine", Vol II, 295/296.  Extract:

"The question is often asked, "Why should celibacy and chastity be a *sine
qua non* rule and condition of regular *chelaship*, or the development of
psychic and occult powers?  The answer is contained in the Commentary.  When
we learn that the "third eye" was once a physiological organ, and later on,
owing to the gradual disappearance of spirituality and increase of
materiality (Spiritual nature being extinguished by the physical), it became
an atrophied organ, as little understood now by physiologists as the
spleen - when we learn this, the connection will become clear.  During human
life the greatest impediment in the way of spiritual development, and
especially to the acquirement of *Yoga* powers, is the activity of our
physiological senses.  Sexual action being closely connected, by
interaction, with the spinal cord and the grey matter of the brain, it is
useless to give any longer explanation".

See also "Occultism vs the Occult Arts".

>The advocation of celibacy is also very detrimental for women - first, it
>strips them of the closeness they want from the men in their lives,

Sentimental twaddle.  Women should endeavour to free themselves from their
dependencies as much as men.

> and
>secondly, one way men deal with pledges of celibacy is to eliminate women
>from everything altogether.

One might equally surmise that one way woman might deal with her own
dependency on sexual contact/attention is to deride celibacy.

Best wishes,
Paul (Bazzer)