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Rh never in order save when she determines they shall, aught to, or may be. 2d. That if offered and accepted at any oilier time, a direct injury results to the mother and her unborn child. 3d. Wherefore Infrequency is the true policy to be pursued, if you hope for good results. 4th. Remember that consummation is threefold:—of body, spirit,. That then the greatest streams of magnetism flow from husband to wife, and wife to husband. That said Magnetism is a vehicle conveying the states of the soul, body and spirit; and through it, then both the mother and the child may be blessed or cursed; poisoned or purified; filled with divine life, or charged with the quintessence of horror and hell!

Well, do you see the point? do you understand your duty? and do you perceive that, if by restraint you add vigor to your entire being; and when she invites you to share it with her, you do so, wishing, willing, praying that untold good, unnumbered blessings may follow, and result therefrom,—that they will come, just as sure as God reigns? If you do not so perceive it, it is high time you did. Were you an initiate of Eulis, you would find out more on this wonderful point; but as it is, take what I herein give you, and God grant you may profit by it.

CXV. Love, and love only, can secure the devotion and heart-fidelity of a woman, and any other sort is not worth having. When a woman loves, even if unreturned, she is a heroine: but if returned, she is happy, which is a great deal better than heroism!

CXVI. Married people ruin their homes, even though loving ones, by unwise and untimely association. It should never be a matter of course, but ever and always a dual inspiration; otherwise it is detective.

CXVII. Woman and man are not equals. They are diverse compatibles; each contrasts and opposites the other,—offsetting in all ways. The two, together, constitute the being called man. Either alone is but an incompleteness,—a halfness. Neither owns the other, but are joint interestants in the social compact. The idea of ownership is what has made marriage as it is to-day,—a jangle, wrangle, tangle,—anything, everything, but what it should be. It were well if we would each of us constantly bear in mind that we