One Flesh

Chapter Ten

Prenatal Culture-Philosophy

In the next several chapters, we will devote our attention to the important details of the three God-given and God-sanctioned uses of the Sexual Creative Center. The vital, but little imagined, ramifications of the first of these, Reproduction, was addressed nearly a century and a half ago by Dr. Paschal Beverly Randolph in his various writings and was later given definitive treatment by Dr. R. Swinburne Clymer in his classic text, How to Create the Perfect Baby.* Much of that which follows is derived from the works of these two great innovators and benefactors of mankind.

*Clymer, R. Swinburne. Prenatal Culture: How to Create the Perfect Baby. Philosophical Publishing Company, P. O. Box 220, Quakertown, PA 18951. 1949. This work is still available in its original form.

These two physicians, as well as others trained in the same school of thought, held that the mother-to-be has the ability, by the processes they taught, to bring into the world superior children, children who would not only be a credit to their parents but a blessing to all humanity as well. The process to accomplish this much desired end was, according to Dr. Clymer, simple but not easy. It is of interest to note that, while both of these men's ideas on this subject were scoffed and laughed at during their lifetimes, many of these concepts are now being applauded as "new revolutionary breakthroughs."

Most of the writings of these two benefactors were not done in an attempt to convince the scientific community of their validity but, rather, to encourage mothers-to-be to use this information to bring into the world fit bodies and minds for the advanced souls so essential for the needed regeneration of our civilization. To this end most of their "evidence" was anecdotal. There was no attempt to encourage double blind studies. They had no doubt of the validity of the process they advocated. They were interested only in the creation of the perfect children, not the Nobel Prize. It is difficult to argue with their position as one looks around our own nation and views the ever increasing number of children who are not as God or their parents would have them be. As quoted before, "The curse causeless shall not come." For all these problems in our children there are causes. Is it not expedient for us to examine the work of any reputable investigator who puts forward a possible "cure" for such an egregious situation?

 

To Women-The Mothers of Future Generations

(This, and much of what follows, is taken directly or indirectly from How to Create the Perfect Baby.)

"An old maxim has it that: 'The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.'

"This is all too true, as we well know, but how has the world been ruled? How is it being ruled today? What is the outlook of future generations?

"Are mothers themselves proud of their sovereignty? Are they satisfied with the results of their achievements?

"Women rule through the men they have brought into the world, not by being career women; not by winning honors in social, political or national affairs.*

*Obviously, Dr. Clymer's views are not "Politically Correct" for our day. Only time will tell if he is an anachronism or a prophet.

"That the world has been, is being, badly ruled, no one will deny. In fairness to women, we must admit that this is not wholly woman's fault. Too long she has been kept in ignorance of the strongest force of Heaven and Earth-a force that, once in her possession, will enable her to rule, proudly gloriously, magnificently. This force is correct knowledge.

"Once women awaken to the realization that by carefully planning and rightful choosing, plus continued application of desire and effort, they are able to bring mental and spiritual giants into the world, evil will dissolve itself and silently slink into the night.

"This shall be woman's greatest heritage: to give birth to noble manhood-man fashioned in the image and likeness of God; fulfilling all his sublime possibilities."

Drs. Randolph and Clymer had a vision for mankind that transcended anything else in the minds of men in their day. Even today (maybe especially today) we find few individuals who are willing, or able, to speak so plainly about the real needs of our world. The need for the good, pure, honest and honorable in our civilization is little appreciated today, perhaps because there are so few who have these virtues to provide examples for our youth to follow.

"Time was when the world was in need of men-any kind of men. Time is now when the world is in need of real men; choice men; strong men; honorable men; men with vision; men who see the need of action; right action that will benefit, not the few, but all who deserve it, and who are willing to do all in their power to make this great, beautiful world a really fitting place to live in.

"This idea of the need of real men is not something new, something which we have only now begun to realize. It is an age-old idea; the Biblical writers were conscious of it and many of the world's great women-great, not because of birth or intellect, but because they had a glimpse of this vision-dreamed of becoming the mothers of such men.

"Men, thinkers, have burned the midnight oil in their studies, seeking ways and means to help women do what they themselves were unable to do: to find a way that women with ideals might follow and bring into the world a generation of giants; giants not in mere physical strength (though that is not to be decried), but of honor and with the will to achieve; unselfish men, strong men, men also with vision, the vision of a regenerate humanity.

"In this little text we do not propose to deal with personalities; nevertheless we must give a thought to those who, mostly unnamed, sought, suffered and experimented to find the via dolorosa whereby women, in an ever increasing number, might realize their dream of bringing perfect men into the world by means of what science knows as stirpiculture-that is, by preconception,* prenatal culture.

*On this subject, the book by Dr. Harold Buttram entitled For Tomorrow's Children may be obtained from the Philosophical Publishing Company, P.O. Box 220, Quakertown, PA, 18951. This work, published by the nonprofit organization, Pre-Conception Care, Inc., gives detailed instructions to help both husband and wife prepare for the conception of their perfect child.

"Towering among these men who labored, wrote text after text and led many women to achieve their desire, was P. B. Randolph, M.D., and to him, in whose footsteps we also have followed, we give all credit.**

**As we in turn give full credit to both Dr. R. S. Clymer and Dr. P. B. Randolph.

"Almost all of that contained herein was written by him, perhaps in different words and terms, or by others who had followed him during his lifetime and afterward. No originality whatever is claimed or pretended. Our one thought is to present to the millions of women, who seek to become mothers of superior children, a simple, workable means of accomplishing this goal.

"To other uncounted thousands who are not readily able to conceive, we offer an equally simple means whereby they may realize their fondest dream of giving birth to the perfect child; perfect physically, mentally and spiritually; this last equally important, if not more so, than the perfect physique.

"This can be accomplished by following a truly natural and normal life, and, in addition, by the active employment by the mother-to-be of her God-given creative or impressive ability, that is, impressing inner desires upon the child-to-be. This actually amounts to heartfelt prayers to God, prayers so powerful, so continuous, as to resemble a printing press, which stamps an impression-an impression which had its origin in the thoughts and desires of man-upon a blank sheet of prepared paper and it becomes a bank note, good as gold and silver in exchange.

"The body of the child in formation is this blank sheet of paper; the life led by the pregnant woman is the preparation of that paper, and, lastly, and greatest of all, her thoughts and desires, held in heart and Soul, stamp that prepared body with what she wishes it to become.

"In these few words are contained the secret of stirpiculture* or prenatal culture. It is simplicity itself, though not so easily observed, because it is something that must be lived, not merely thought of. But, if a woman really desires a perfect child, she will be willing to 'follow through,' and she will find herself repaid a thousandfold, and the blessings upon her and her offspring will be untold.

*Stirpiculture is the art or science of improving an animal stock, or a race of men and women, by observing strict laws of mating, breeding, feeding; and, in the case of mankind, the governing and directing of thoughts, feelings, desires and emotions.

"The cold scientist and the materialist may laugh in scorn at the ideas advanced here; nevertheless, every stock breeder is fully aware that there are means and methods which, if followed, perfect the breed. He is also fully aware that proper feed is of primary importance to the well-being of his livestock and that careless feeding will quickly bring undesirable results. He knows full-well that proper housing, that is, environment, is of vital importance and, finally, that proper mating combined with favorable impressions can produce miraculous results.

"These facts have been proven time and again in animal husbandry. It is also recognized by cold, scientific psychologists, that though much is known of the dynamic power of the human mind and Will, we have not even begun to sound the depth of its full force. Why then deny the assertion of those who have given the subject lifelong study and who are convinced that the thought, Will and desire of the mother has the power to impress her forming child with the power of good or ill?

"We have in our favor, or in favor of the instructions herein advanced, two powerful factors. These are, first of all, a practical science proven by the long experience of those engaged in this great work of borning a greater and more perfect humanity. These men-and the women who actually do most of the work-base their conclusions on scientific records covering a continuous period of more than an hundred years. We submit that there is no truer science than experience; it transcends theory as tasting a fine vintage transcends reading about it. The proof of such experiences are all embodied in the carefully kept records of these workers in 'the Lord's vineyard of a better humanity.'

"The second factor is of a material­spiritual concept. It is the story in Genesis relative to Jacob and his sheep:

" 'And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

" 'And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.

" 'And the flocks conceived before the rods, and BROUGHT FORTH CATTLE RING-STREAKED, SPECKLED AND SPOTTED.'-Genesis 30:37-39.

"Yes, we are fully aware that materialism is on the rampage throughout the world, but pitted against this same materialism is the indestructible inner spiritual feeling resident within the hearts of women. Cold science cannot destroy this, especially not in the hearts of those multitudes of women still sufficiently womanly that they can dream and vision themselves becoming the mothers of a perfect child. It is for these we speak; for these we prepared the instructions contained in this volume."

These words, written nearly fifty years ago, are as vital today as the day they were set to paper. We can but wonder what comment the good doctor would have for today's world if he thought the world fifty years ago was "materialistic"? These words give you an idea of the thrust of this new look at the first One Flesh use of the Sexual Creative Center, Reproduction. As we see, even this apparently well-accepted use of the Sexual Creative Center has many hidden possibilities and potentials. These are further explored as we look deeper into Dr. Clymer's text, How to Create the Perfect Baby.

 

The Science Governing the
Birth of Perfect Children

"An unknown author has well written: 'God gave woman the ability and privilege to bear children so that she might become a co-creator with Him and share the glory of motherhood with Him.'*

*This is well and beautifully told in the many stories woven around Mary, the mother of the Nazarene. In all history, where will you find any man, however great he may have been, or how widely honored, who is so deeply venerated as this mother of the man who manifested Godhood? (this footnote from the original.)

"Another author, also anonymous, has just as truthfully said: 'A mother's hands may be too tired to hold a torch on high to glorify herself, but never too tired to light the candle in the nursery.'

"Prenatal culture-stirpiculture-preparation for a child before conception and during all of gestation-is almost as little understood as are the laws governing creation itself.

"Very few understand, or have given thought to the fact that in a little germ or sperm-the spermatozoon-so small that thousands are contained in a drop of liquid and to be seen only by the aid of a powerful microscope-is contained the ego, the entire picture or plan of the future man. Few mothers, or those who expect to become mothers, fully realize that a child's education and training must begin before birth, if it is to attain to its highest degree of mental, physical and spiritual development.

"Despite the universal lack of knowledge on this all-important subject, the child's education, whether for good or ill, began generations ago-began with the ego's beginning, and is merely Recommended in the life of those who are to become its present parents.

"A child is far more than something that merely grows. Few recognize this truth and because they do not, suffering comes to the child, and, through the child, to the parents and the State. Children are usually conceived with little or no thought. If conception receives consideration at all, it is usually with the thought of aversion, and this is the source of all the evils of the world.

"If conceived despite all precautions, or, to be fair, even with some desire, little or no thought is given to the new creature prior to birth. It just grows, and may the Lord help it in the manner of its growth.

"The devout mother-to-be has her trust in God, but unfortunately, this trust in God without preparation on her part is much like the Biblically-frowned-upon, 'faith without works,' which, as the Biblical narrative has it, 'is dead.'*

* In all fairness to womankind generally, the blame does not rest with them, but is due to the general ignorance on the subject and the lack of literature dealing with this most important phase of life.

A canvass of various libraries in one of our largest cities failed to locate a single text dealing with the problem. (Footnote from the original.) [The situation today is not much better than when this was first written.-GEP]

Who Is Responsible for Equipping
an Unborn Child with a Talented
Brain and a Perfect Body?

"Humanity as a whole, fathers, mothers and legislatures, needs to be brought to a higher degree of consciousness that a child is more than something that just 'grows,' 'becomes,' or 'is.' One child may be born with the power to either destroy or regenerate a nation, if not a world.*

*Today much effort is being made to correct these children after they are born. Most of this money is wasted. If only a fraction of this money were expended "up front," the need for these corrective measures could be greatly reduced and our nation have the leaders necessary to truly make America a Heaven on Earth.-GEP

"Today, as through countless ages, the seeds which produce these children are just thrown broadcast, without preparation of the 'ground' in which they are sown; without a thought of what they will become or what they might be; though in some instances there is a more or less sincere trust in God. Mankind, especially educators, priests, ministers, and those who have the welfare of man in mind, should be willing to give just a little serious thought to this most important of all subjects. Anyone having a knowledge of the Creator's Divine Law should quickly recognize that God, having given man free Will, will not and cannot interfere with the working out of His own Laws for the perpetuation of the race.

"Parents to be are responsible for: (a) properly preparing themselves for parenthood; (b) arranging proper conditions and environments for their family; (c) living properly as regards rest, food, exercise and especially mental attitudes and emotional stresses and (d) recognizing the fact that impressions during pregnancy shape the destiny of offspring for the good or ill of themselves and the nation as a whole.

"It is seldom that a mother-to-be actually realizes her awful responsibility in this regard. If she has even a little knowledge of the subject, this little knowledge may enable her to bring a highly talented Soul into the world, instead of a failure or ne'er-do-well. Due to lack of understanding and training, prospective mothers, by and large, give far more thought and time to the selection of the wardrobe for the prospective child than to the preparation of its physical, mental and moral equipment and character. By her LOVE, EXPECTATION AND PLANNING for the child's expectant sixty to ninety years of life, she can perform miracles in the upliftment of mankind.

"A modern child has the right to infinitely more than shelter, food and clothing-often selected not actually for the child's comfort but as a showpiece to display before friends and neighbors-from its parents; it has a right to a healthy body, an astute mind and an unshakable moral and spiritual nature. If there is ever to be a real reformation-the re-form-a-tion-of the world; if ever the millennium of purity, chastity, righteousness (right-ness) and supreme peace are to be achieved on this earth, it will result from the efforts of wise and knowledgeable parents to people this world with superior children.

"Napoleon must have had this in mind when he was given credit for having said: 'If you would reform the world of its vices and errors, begin by enlisting the aid of the mothers.' "

Having known Dr. Clymer for the last twenty years of his life, I know that no kinder or more dedicated man ever lived. If he, at times in his narrative, seems judgmental it is only because he is trying to awaken the mothers and fathers of our nation (in fact, all nations) to the vital importance of Prenatal Culture. All the politicians in the world cannot bring about the changes that could be wrought by one dedicated mother bringing superior souls into our world. As Dr. Clymer reminded us, Mary of old did this and the world was changed forever.

 

A Wisely Conceived Child
Cannot Be Led Astray

"The destiny of the individual, hence of the nation, of the race itself, depends upon the mother and the prenatal conditions arranged for her child. In the propagation of the species, if undertaken knowingly and understandingly, the father and mother, working harmoniously in conjunction one with the other, can do more toward fostering the reforms so urgently and sorely needed than can all the temperance, vice and reform societies, religious denominations and corrective (after birth) institutions in the world.

"A child desirably conceived, wisely nurtured in the bosom of the mother-to-be and guarded by the love between father and mother will never go wrong and cannot be led astray. If there is a God there must be a Law; if there is a Law, then it certainly follows that 'everything is after its kind; the fruits of a good tree, well-husbanded, cannot be of a bitter nature.' If this were not true, there would be no 'God of Love,' and the Laws governing the Earth and mankind would be an illusion and a mockery.

"Woman, if true to her feminine nature (PSI and FCD), is an advance over man; not because of her beauty, her accomplishments or the nature of her love when correctly awakened, BUT BECAUSE SHE POSSESSES THE WOMB, the laboratory wherein are fashioned the millions of individuals to inhabit the world; where she cooperates with or is an assistant to God in the formation and final completion of a human creature.

"She must become an artist, a willing assistant if, from an uncertain beginning, she is to mold that new human form and bring into being a perfect specimen of the human race. Nevertheless, she can do it, if she possesses the Will and the patience to perfect the work under her care. The preconception preparation and the prenatal culture are far more important than any possible after-education. The manner in which children are conceived and brought to birth predetermines to a vast degree their moral and immoral inclinations, talents, mental capacities, possibilities, abilities, state of health and even longevity.

"A fundamental error is found in the idea that all children are born much alike; that the only agency in bringing about the difference between boy and boy, girl and girl, are the result of application and moral effort and the direction of outside influences. There is nothing in Sacred writings, or in philosophy, sacred or profane, or in the teachings of basic science, that would indicate that God, or if you prefer, the Divine Law, holds all men responsible in like degree.

"There is no such actuality as natural equality for the very good reason that men are not equally born-with like mental and physical equipment-nor with like loves, hatreds, the Will to do, or the deadly inertia not to do. Of a truth, men are differently conceived; differently nurtured, differently born; and, to an equal degree, differently educated and guided.*

*Dr. Clymer was one of the few men to be willing to attack the misconception that all men are "born" equal. Our Declaration of Independence is often quoted as the evidence for this misconception. It does not state that all men are "born" equal but that all men are "created" equal. There is a difference. In the beginning we were, indeed, all created equal, but as soon as we began to live in this world, that equality changed as each man or woman went his or her own way creating good or evil. As the centuries passed, and each of us went through earthly reincarnation after reincarnation, we became more and more unequal with the rest of our contemporaries.

When a child is born today, he is the compilation of all that his ego (eternal self) has experienced and created previously (be that good or evil.) A mother (with the father's assistance) has the ability to draw to her the personality of an eternal self that can become a powerful beneficent force in the world. This, in a nutshell, is the power of Prenatal Culture.

"All experiences of men, from the nurseries to the universities-whether universities of formal education or practical, hard knocks-refute such a concept. It is necessary to willingly, aye, gladly, acknowledge the mighty power of education and social influence in the development of the human mind, just as it is admitted that exercise in any direction or of any part of the body or faculty brings about development, but, and this is uncontradictable, THERE MUST BE SOMETHING TO BE DEVELOPED. There must be a moral fiber on which to build the moral life. An astute and brilliant mind to allow a genius to manifest and flourish.

"The child born of vicious stock, irrespective of how hard he tries, will have a most difficult task developing into a spiritual leader governed by spiritual instincts. Under certain circumstances, the environment of a child may bring about a mental revulsion or reaction and cause such a person to become active in a manner totally contrary to the manner of his birth and the initial environment. This we willingly acknowledge; but this is the exception, not the rule. However, such experiences do offer hope and encouragement to those born under the most deplorable conditions. The odds are that the child born into a careless, shiftless family will find it far more difficult to become an Edison or a Steinmetz than one who sees the light of day in a well-regulated and loving environment."

One cannot help but wonder if the ability of those poorly bred and carelessly raised to revolt from this is not a "fall back" position of God. If there is such a dearth of parents who truly desire to follow the Laws of the One Flesh union and Prenatal Culture, some way must be found to preserve the integrity of the human race. This rebellion, in favor of the good, may be God's way of meeting this rather unfortunate circumstance.

 

The Law of Heredity

"Heredity is the force or power which stamps upon the child a certain picture of being, and apparently foreordains that the child-in-the-making shall be in the likeness, and of the nature, of one or the other or both the parents (or maybe other ancestors). The force of heredity and prenatalism fixes the natural bent of the inner inclinations; education and environment develop these inclinations; the two together determine the capabilities and possibilities of the person, UNLESS modified or accentuated by the conscious and determined effort of the mother, with or without, the cooperation of the father.

"Heredity is paramount in the animal world where there is no modifying influence; no law applicable to retard or advance the traits, shapes or tempers. Heredity and prenatalism fix the natural bent or tendency in man-to-be; education and direction, plus environments, develop these traits or leanings; the two determining the possibilities of man. The Will, feeling, desire and active effort on the part of the pregnant woman may completely reverse heredity and natural tendencies, not to mention future possibilities.

"Heredity, in so far as man is concerned, and we have only man in mind, has at times been made synonymous with fatalism, feeblemindedness, insanity and viciousness. Admittedly, in the unregenerated man, if an adverse heredity is permitted full sway, it could so result, but the mind of man, aided and abetted by true desire-that of heart and Soul-is capable of redirecting all the Laws of heredity and environment. This we know as Prenatal Culture. If this were not true, man would indeed be the plaything of a vicious, inhuman and unfeeling Nature and not in any way responsible to the Divine Law or God for what he is or does.

"Foolishly and illogically, the evils of man are often accepted as the result of heredity, while the possession of virtue, morality, honorableness, graciousness, and even genius,are attributed to other generally unknown influences. What utter nonsense and senselessness! The pendulum swings both ways; the Divine Law is impartial: 'As ye sow, so shall ye surely reap.'

"The potential influences of heredity may begin even before the union of the two cells, the spermatozoon of the male and the ovum of the female. The beginning of a new creation may be either animal or spiritual, or a balance of both. In the spermatozoon is the picture, the architectural drawing of the new being, be it a future Nazarene or a Hitler. In these cells is also embedded the latency of tuberculosis, insanity, deformity; the genius or the Christos.

"However, the spirit of this Christos may be turned into that of a Satan or a modern Stalin or, on the other hand, that of a potential inhuman beast may be turned into a Saint, by the inner love and desire of the woman that will mold the body and build virtue or vice into the mind. She also has it within her power to neutralize the 'virus' of disease into the virility of powerful manhood or womanhood.

"The minute speck we know as a spermatozoon is, in embryo, an individual who will, in time and space, become either a success or a failure; temperate or a sodden drunkard; chaste and honorable or one given to licentiousness; depending almost altogether on the influences and the efforts brought to bear upon it by various means, both mental and physical, by the 'molder of the clay,' the mother-to-be.

"The unappreciated fact, aye, wonder, to be considered is that two almost imperceivable cells can contain within their infinitesimal selves and convey from parents to child not alone the racial peculiarities, but also the individual traits, weaknesses and strength of one or both parents, as well as trace characteristics of generations before them.

'Breed Is Stronger Than Pasture'

"The author George Eliot made the thought-provoking remark that 'Breed is stronger than pasture.' Heredity is admittedly a powerful influence in the life of man, but, well understood and correctly directed, prenatalism is all-potent to neutralize or offset such influences other than racial characteristics. Even these may be greatly modified if the desire is sufficiently strong.

"In the animal kingdom, heredity all but completely governs and, in general, that is, in all but the exception, like produces like. But-is this true in the human family? If it is, how can you explain the differences so very marked within the same family? Do we not frequently find one child of sunny disposition and altogether lovable; while an other is morose and even cruel, perhaps, at heart, a criminal? Did not both come from the same two parents?

"Environment is unable to offer an explanation here, since the environment of both is identical; both of the same parents, born in the same house, under identical conditions, without great exception, the mood, the inclination, the feeling and the desire of the mother during gestation being the governing factor.

 

Why Is There So Much Evil in the World?

"Why is there so much of the commonplace in the world? So much of the base and cruel? So much of the vicious and dishonorable? In reverse, why is there so little of the beautiful and spiritual; of inner spiritual humility and native graciousness; so little of loving kindliness and true fineness of human nature?

"These questions can be reversed and continued: Why are there so few really wanted children born into the world? Children, during gestation, should have all of the human warmth and the heart's love poured constantly over the developing embryo, like, if you will permit the homely comparison, the REALLY GOOD COOK BASTES THE ROASTS IN HER OVEN AND PROVES BY THE RESULTS ACHIEVED, THAT SHE IS A GOOD COOK.

"It is not stretching the truth to say that hardly one out of every ten thousand children is conceived with 'plan and desire aforethought.' The others, that vast army of the unwanted are an 'accident,' each the result of a moment of seeking satisfaction of physical passion, often induced by an inflamed or irritated state of the Sexual Creative Center. An ugly statement, but a truth with which all physicians are familiar. How can such a conception result in physical, mental and moral soundness and spiritual greatness?

"Unfortunately, for humanity as a whole-and this deeply concerns each and every one almost as much as though it were in our own household because we with our taxes pay for the results-the remaining nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety and nine are accursed with the gross accumulations of the sins, weaknesses and vices of the parents, who, themselves, because of IGNORANCE OF THE RIGHT WAY OUT, are weighed down by the ways of the earth and who recoil with a sense of dissatisfaction, if not with downright antipathy, at the very thought of being plagued with an unwanted child. Thus, the coming of one of God's little ones to all too many households is looked forward to with dread and doleful apprehension instead of what might be: THE ANTICIPATION OF A TRULY BLESSED EVENT; THE OPPORTUNITY OF GIVING TO MANKIND AND THE WORLD A TALENTED SOUL TO HELP AND GUIDE HUMANITY TO A GREATER DESTINY.

"With this certainty of actualities in mind, is it any wonder that we find so much weakness, sickness, suffering, viciousness, drunkenness, licentiousness, murder and rape among all classes of our society? Is it to be wondered at that we find so little actual purity, chastity, manhood and womanhood, honor, constructive generosity and graciousness of heart and Soul?"

Dr. Clymer realized that most parents want the best for their children but without the proper training in the true nature of the Sexual Creative Center or the One Flesh union they did not have the knowledge necessary to carry out their desires. Nor could they look to the scientific or political world for help, since those in control of these fields were as ignorant or even more ignorant than they were themselves. He, and we, are attempting only to motivate would-be parents to bethink themselves and just give a try to Prenatal Culture and the entire One Flesh concept to discover for themselves a whole new vital way of life.

This treatise is prepared for those mothers (and fathers) who have, up to now, not been exposed to the possibility of prenatal preparation and its influence on their future child. We realize that, due to their own conceptive and heretical influences, they may have little faith in God or His governing Law. However, they do have a reasoning mind and a searching soul (if they did not they would not be reading this book) and with these they have the ability to change their concepts and put an end to the vicious circle of ignorance that has held mankind in its grasp for thousands of years.

We trust that these parents, and parents-to-be, will take a good look at our nation at this time and see just what has been, and is, happening to our young people. There are ever increasing efforts by all forms of destructive forces and groups of individuals to lead our youth astray for their own perceived profit. Hell undoubtedly has a special place for all those who would so destroy the fiber of our youth, but until they meet this well deserved "reward" we must do all in our power to create children who are wise enough and strong enough to resist the efforts of these fiends. If we do not, the future of our nation and, with it, the future of the world, is in serious jeopardy. There is one sure way to do this and this is through all parents' efforts with preconception and Prenatal Culture.

 

No Such a Thing as Chance

"One of the first steps to wisdom in this or any other endeavor is to accept and realize that there is no such thing as chance in the life of men and women from the cradle to the grave. GOD'S LAW is. IT IS EVER PRESENT AND CONTINUALLY OPERATING. IT IS AS CHANGELESS AS IS THE COURSE OF THE SUN. Were this not true, then there would be neither God nor Law.

"One of the most important parts of this Law was, and is, active in the birth of the lowest to the highest form of life. This is simply stated in Genesis when it implies the creation of EVERYTHING IS AFTER ITS KIND. Another way of saying this is to positively assert: 'Everything according to its nature.' The fig tree does not produce acorns; nor the apple tree, plums. Everywhere there is this Law; but man in his blindness either does not recognize its operation, or fools himself by believing that the Law can be circumvented or set aside for his personal 'convenience.'

"The failure to harmonize with this Law, whether as the result of ignorance or defiance, enforces upon its violators the penalty of weakness and sickness and, in the field of reproduction, usually mediocre or even criminal offspring. On the other hand, harmonizing with this Law in parenting, not merely in the letter of the Law BUT IN THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW and with LOVING OBEDIENCE FOUNDED ON THE HEART'S

DESIRE, clothes the newborn with the cloak of near perfection of form, feature, mentality and the possibility of achievement beyond anything the parents might imagine."

The Law of "each after its own kind" has many ramifications not usually considered. It refers not only to the effects of heredity as discussed previously, but also to the "in kind" thoughts and desires of the parents held during the conception and gestation of the child. Love fosters love, anger fosters further anger and resentment in the mother or father fosters the same emotion in the child. Like produces like. This is the Law. Neither you nor I can set this aside, but on the positive side remember this Law cuts both ways. It is neither good nor bad. It simply is. You have just as much power to create a potential god as you do a human demon-a Lincoln or a Hitler-the choice is up to you.

"Without the understanding of Prenatal Culture, the birth of a truly 'love-child' is rare, indeed. More often than not in our present society, this term is applied, often in derision, to the child born out of wedlock-the so-called illegitimate child (there are in truth only illegitimate parents); but deny it as men will, these children are often superior children both in mind and body than some of the fathers' or mothers' more 'legitimate' offspring. History has shown us this fact time and time again. Why is this so? Because, in such affairs, there is almost always love and passion at the time of conception (at least on the part of the mother). Such love will call down from Heaven a soul with such love in its being-Like creates like. After all, what real women would become a part of such extramarital activities if they were not based on love and passion? The hatred, anger and indifference she can get at home!

"This is not a plea for the birth of illegitimate children, but IS, or should be, a wake up call for millions of legally wedded fathers and mothers whose progeny are not all they would have them be. We may well ask mothers, the world over, this question: 'How many of your children were conceived in affection and brought forth into the world with joy and rejoicing?'

"We need not wait for the answer to this question. The answer is all too plainly manifested in the ever increasing number of the lame, the halt, the blind, the dumb, the idiotic, the drunken, the degenerate and the vicious; all of them suffering because, in most instances, their parents made them what they are through disregard or ignorance of the Creative Law."

At first reading we had decided to rewrite the above quote from Prenatal Culture to soften Dr. Clymer's rather harsh condemnation of our society and parents in particular. On second thought, however, we realized that he was talking of the world of nearly fifty years ago. Has it improved in the last fifty years? You decide. As we view the modern world objectively, we shamefully have to admit that this situation has not only not improved since Dr. Clymer's day, but has worsened continually. His condemnation is not only still valid, but is probably an understatement.

 

What Manner of Child Is Desired?

"It is well to ask prospective mothers in all sincerity and objectivity: WHAT MANNER OF CHILD WOULD YOU LIKE TO GIVE BIRTH TO? You have the power to make your child-to-be what you have it be. Wishing will not bring this about; it takes hard work and a constant willingness to follow the laws laid down in this book. However, if you are willing to do your part, accept as an uncontradictable, irrefutable fact, that all the missionaries in the world, all the reform societies and all the human aid societies (or governments) cannot do as much during your lifetime to bring a savior into the world to help humanity, as can one mother during her nine months of prenatal effort, when she works in harmony with the Law, in wise desire and loving effort.

"A mother, during the silence of the night of nine months, builds within her womb the 'house not made with hands,' that a Soul is to inhabit. She should understand that, unless modified by her own desires and efforts, this body will take on the hereditary factors of either of the parents or, more likely, an intermixture of both.

"This last fact is demonstrated by Mendel's Law. If science admits this, and it does, and hence if physical heredity is beyond dispute, why should there be any room for doubt that there is also a Law governing mental and moral heredity? The mother can, if she will, control the building of the brain cells as surely as she can the body cells. The brain structure determines the child's future abilities, or the lack of abilities.

"Under the laws of Prenatal Culture, the child born to ordinary parents may, by force of the Will power of the mother, based on desire and affection, be converted into a great and lofty Soul or beneficent genius. There is no such thing as chance or fate under the Law. 'As ye sow, so shall ye surely reap.' How sorrowful, then, for women endowed with intellect and culture and the power of choice to bring into the world a mentally small, physically puny, miserable, unfit, feeble child. Even if this was true in the past, it does not have to be the pattern for the future. Mothers, and those who desire to be mothers, you can start today fashioning in your imagination the perfect child of love and wisdom that all real mothers envision.

"Dr. Randolph was correct when he so positively stated that: 'Every breath should be a protest against the horrible injustice of casting a human being into the world with barely enough of the fires of life to keep it from going out, because most human reproduction is the result of pure, unadulterated selfishness or downright base passion. The human race, up to the present, almost as a whole, springs from the indulgence of individual pleasure WITHOUT THE SHADOW OF A THOUGHT OF THE RESULTS OF SUCH PLEASURE.' This was written nearly a century and a half ago. Do you honestly believe that the situation has improved since then?"

Most humans, unfortunately for themselves and the world as a whole, are the "accidents of lust" or, worse yet, of marital "duty" and indifference. Such offspring pay the penalty; but worst of all, these children, all too often, continue to blindly follow in the footsteps of their progenitors, giving as little thought to the Laws underlying proper procreative methods as did those who built their bodies and minds.

We apologize for this long dissertation on the negative side of this subject, but this matter is so vital to the well-being of your family, and every other family in the entire world, that we wanted to err on the side of completeness rather than on the side of succinctness. That which follows will be of a more positive nature in that it will give both mothers and fathers step by step guidance in "Creating the Perfect Baby."

 

Three Important Periods

"For the guidance of those sincerely interested, the period during which the mother-to-be may transmit influences to her offspring has been divided into three divisions:

1. Preparatory Period.

2. Gestation Period.

3. The Nursing Period.

"In a brief treatise of this nature, it is impossible to give even a full condensed consideration to states and conditions of periods before marriage that may influence the future children of the couple.* Among these states and afflictions are the hereditary taints of cancer, consumption, syphilis, insanity, mental states which develop into imbecility, the epileptic, the would-be suicide, the pathological drunkard and the degenerate. The young woman who has the interest of mankind and her future family at heart would do well to look into both the personal and family history of any man she may consider marrying. Unfortunately this is seldom done usually for one or both of two common reasons. The first is love-love they feel will conquer all-and the second is the rarely substantiated belief that they can change this demon they married into an angel. These young women are usually in for a sad awakening after the marriage and it is all humanity that suffers for their impetuousness, not they alone, for we must bear the ill effects of their unregenerate progeny.

*Here again the book, For Tomorrow's Children, can be of great help to parents who truly desire to bring superior children into the world. It is available from the Philosophical Publishing Company, P.O. Box 220, Quakertown, PA 18951.

"We humans learn our lessons slowly and painfully, and frequently only as the result of loss or suffering, or by being brought face-to-face with unpleasant facts such as will shock us into a realization of our mental blindness. Improvement of the human race is one of the most important subjects that can engage our consideration. But what have we done to accomplish this? Have we not given to it the least thought of all subjects clamoring for his attention? Instead of becoming co-creators with God and helping to create man in 'His (God's) own image,' we have ignored human creation entirely, while giving great attention to animal husbandry, taking real pride in winning prizes for a new or better animal stock.

"What breeder of stock would be so utterly foolish as to select animals weak and diseased, and with numerous faults, to parent either new stock, or stock with which to 'lord it over other breeders' through the winning of prizes? Is it not a foregone conclusion, by anyone who has given the matter the slightest consideration, that he will select his choicest horses or cattle in his attempt to outclass the other breeders? Is he not likely to exercise the most meticulous care in feeding and rearing these prize animals? MOST CERTAINLY! But, strangely enough, where his own human offspring are concerned, is there a care, a thought, or even any indication of a desire that they be so superior? The ancient Egyptians had a Law that went, 'In the outer so in the inner, in the greater so in the lesser and as above so below.' The Laws of the Universe, on any specific matter, are all the same whether on the animal plane or the human plane. To bear superior children you first need superior 'stock' and then you do all you can to further improve the characteristics of this 'stock' by the preconception and prenatal methods advised in this work."

Preparatory Period

"If at all possible, the preparatory period (that period preparing for the conception) should extend over several months, or even a year. This period, of careful thought and planning, should be governed by a keen desire for what is desired. Every thought, desire and act should be as carefully scrutinized as when one is selecting material for the building of a beautiful home, only more carefully.

"Everything that is undesirable, everything that will not contribute to the welfare or benefit of the mother-to-be and her maternal progeny should be eliminated. This includes alcoholic drinks, tobacco, foods and liquids not conducive to her health and well-being; unsavory stories or conversation; profanity; in short, everything that is detrimental to the body or degrading to the mind and her finer feelings. These should be sacrificed, without exception, because all of them will have a profound influence upon the ego in the ovum which is to give life to the seed."*

Note that the child-to-be is a combination of the "ego" of the ovum and a sperm. While the sperm are generated daily, the ovum is produced before the birth of the girl child. However, the ovum matures approximately one a month. During this maturation period, the thoughts and desires of the mother-to-be are best able to influence this female zygote.

 

The Secret of Creating Superior Children

"Careful thought and mature discussions should be adopted by the prospective parents as a means of determining the qualities, characteristics and habits they wish to transmit to their offspring. If such qualities are not a natural part of themselves, they must be built into the ego by desire and Will and in that manner made as much a part of it as though they belonged to the parents. THIS IS THE VITAL SECRET FOR THE CREATION OF SUPERIOR CHILDREN. It is the vibrations sent out by both parents at this time that affect the egos of both the spermatozoon and the ovum. If, as an instance, as so often is the case, one is given to untruths-not vicious, but, nevertheless, inclined to stray from the facts-this tendency must be brought within reason or it will be impressed on the cells that will create the coming child. There is nothing magical in this process. It is a simple extension of the law of physics known as sympathetic vibration.

"All too many parents debase the unborn child's nature by falsehoods continually voiced with the solemnness of truth. Later, these same parents bewail untruthfulness in the child, wondering by what means, or in what manner, the child could have developed into such a profound prevaricator.

"This weakness of untruthfulness in the parents is a trait that may readily be transmitted to the child in embryo. When one or the other of the parents is given to fibbing, every statement should be carefully considered before it is given voice until the weakness is overcome. This way of overcoming undesirable traits must be followed in every respect, whether these take the form of nursing feelings of hatred, malice, resentment, selfishness or any other ignoble quality. Every trait, whether noble or ignoble, is transmittable to the unborn child by the law of sympathetic vibrations mentioned above. REMEMBER: The fruit of the tree is always after the nature of the tree."

 

Carelessness-Lack of Order

"While most of us will agree by now that it is not good to nurse serious adverse feelings during the preparatory period, there are other traits so common that we can easily forget to give them consideration. If one or both of the parents in preparing for a child lack order or system, corresponding penalties will be imposed by Law and Nature on the child. It is therefore of the utmost importance that during this period of preparation every effort be made to cultivate neatness, system and orderliness. This effort should be continued throughout the entire period of gestation until it becomes a fixed habit. Order-and let us not for a moment forget this-is THE FIRST LAW OF NATURE. ORDER IS HEAVEN'S FIRST LAW. It is the bridge leading into Heaven, into the haven of peace and self-satisfaction. Order of thought and action, orderliness in appearance of person and surroundings constitute the first step toward success in any endeavor whether this be the creation and bringing into being of a child, or of a new Universe."

 

Commercial Traits

"Along with order, a sane and sensible commercial trait should be cultivated. Money should be recognized as something to exchange. There should be saving where practical, but never hoarding. All plans should be made with the thought of saving money intelligently but never at the expense of quality. Whatever money must be spent should be spent cheerfully and with full satisfaction, NEVER with a thought of regret.

"Nothing must be done in a miserly spirit or with a feeling of resentment that others possess more abundantly than we. Neither should one harbor a desire to possess the things belonging to others. Rather, we should cultivate the feeling that it would be well to possess things of a like nature with perfect readiness and willingness to make an effort to earn them. Such a feeling is both legitimate and desirable and builds into the brain cells and possessive nature the desire to labor and achieve, a sense becoming rarer with each new generation. While at first thought the qualities of order and fiscal responsibility may not seem that vital to impart to the newborn, but a longer view will show that it is the lack of these traits that causes many otherwise intelligent men and women to fail in life."

 

What Trade or Profession for the Unborn Child

"Undoubtedly, a vital question in the minds of most married couples during the preparatory period is: 'What trade or profession shall we select for the child? Shall it be that of a merchant, diplomat, author, musician, chemist, architect, minister or priest, physician or lawyer, or shall it be the mother of a new world savior?'

"Admittedly, this is a most difficult and perplexing problem; especially so because there can be no certainty whether the child will be male or female. This uncertainty being a fact, THE PARENTS TO BE SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO SELECT A

FUTURE PROFESSION OR PLAN FOR THE CHILD'S LIFE. Rather than this, the fundamental desire of both parents should be for true greatness in the child, irrespective of its sex. It should be allowed the free will to plan its future for itself. If the parents ask only for a new soul dedicated to accomplishing great things, they do not limit the nature of the new soul that they will draw to themselves.

"This 'greatness' includes all the noble and desirable qualities men and women should, and can, possess. ONE THING IS A CERTAINTY, THE MOTHER-TO-BE MUST FEEL WITHIN HERSELF ALL OF THE NOBLE EMOTIONS AND THE POSITIVE QUALITIES SHE DESIRES HER OFFSPRING TO POSSESS. This is the key to greatness in her children.

"The ordinary woman cannot produce the extraordinary in her children by heredity alone. However, she can do so by the proper use of Prenatal Culture as taught her here. Another fact, equally true, is this: The mother-to-be need not actually possess any of the knowledge she would wish to convey to her offspring; nor is it necessary that she be in actual possession of any of the great, noble virtues she envisions for her unborn child. She is able to transmit and convey these attributes and talents to the child if she will but learn to feel and to desire these things to be part of the birthright of the child-to-be. This again is under the law of sympathetic vibration. One does not have to be a great musician to pluck a string on a violin and have the same note on a near by piano resonate. One only has to be willing to pluck the string. So it is with the mother-to-be.

 

Imagination Is Far Greater Than Possession

"Without the imagination awakened in man's mind, men, and women, too, would still be living in caves and caverns. A powerful imagination, because it is based on love, the strongest of all emotions, can influence the unborn child being nurtured within the woman's womb in an unbelievable fashion. LET US NOT FOR A MOMENT FORGET THIS.

"As an example of the imagination in practice, let us suppose that the parents-to-be desire their child to be an inventor (not a wise decision as discussed above but useful for instruction), although they themselves know nothing whatever about inventions. They may, by study, thought and desire, cultivate the requirements of an inventive genius. They can, and should, affirm, believing, that the child is developing a brain capable of inventing wonderful and useful things for the future. They should go further than this, and make a realistic study of treatises on inventions and allied subjects, read the biographies of inventors, and if possible, attend lectures on the subject of inventions.

"An Edison was not a mere incident; many more Edisons are yet to be born. Moreover, the term 'inventor or inventing' is a generic one. Everything new, in whatever avenue of the activities of life, is actually an 'invention.' One cannot go wrong in working along the lines suggested-and the possibilities are unlimited." (Again the caveat above regarding a choice of profession should be considered.)

 

A Preconception Precaution

"Excessive preconceptive marital activity may be productive of dyspepsia, not only of the body, but of mind and Soul as well. When, per adventure, offspring follow in the wake of such overuse, they may be deficient in all the grand essentials of genuine and complete manhood or womanhood.

"In order to prevent such a situation, the couple should be certain that they have permitted full recuperation of the sperm and sexual organs before they attempt conception in order that full vitality and virility be reestablished before pregnancy takes place. This time of quiescence will vary dependent upon the age of both parties. If in doubt it is wise to contact a knowledgeable physician on this matter. This is one of the physical essentials if a perfect child is to result."

 

Nature Cannot Impart a New Talent After Birth

"If at all possible, parents should work in harmony with each other during the period of gestation. They should agree on one certain idea or desire, and having proceeded thus far, plan carefully the sort of child they desire to bring into the world fully comprehending this one great Law: NATURE CAN NEVER INSERT, SUPPLEMENT OR ADD TO A QUALITY OR A

TALENT AFTER BIRTH.

"The major part of the process of bringing into the world children of a desired type, whatever the classification may be, is DEPENDENT UPON TRYING, WITH THE WHOLE MIND (DESIRE) AND SOUL (FEELING) during the months of gestation. All the previous preparation described here has led up to this time.

"First, the imagination must be brought into activity in forming the ideal of the child-to-be. Imagination in turn gives way to desire and desire is followed by effort; EFFORT BRINGS INTO FRUITION AND MANIFESTATION THE RESULT FIRST IMAGINED AND THEN DESIRED.

"The mother of a would-be Mozart or other genius is required to possess two distinctive qualities: (a) a true, deep, sincere love for some human talent. In the case of Mozart this would be music at its best; music that is not altogether of this world, but 'of the spheres'; (b) a religious nature; not merely subscribing to a formal belief in God, but inspired by a feeling that is deeper than belief or faith; something that is of the soul. Why? Because of this all-important fact: although Mozart (similar to the nature of every other true genius in their own field) 'wrote' music, or composed music, he did far more than this; he would sit silently and listen; and, as he listened with a keen sense of devotional peace that drowned out all exterior sounds, he would 'hear' the music from the spheres; and, hearing, would write down the notes as he heard them.

"To transmit these superior qualities or talents it was necessary for the mother to envision them, and personify them, in her daily life. These qualities, being active within her, developed the brain of the growing child within her womb so that he would be born with these faculties. LOVE, WHICH IS DESIRE IN ITS HIGHEST FORM, is truthfully said to be able to OVERCOME ALL THINGS.

"IF LOVE IS GOD, OR GOD IS LOVE, then we will readily be able to understand that there is no limit to what can be accomplished if undertaken in love; and what greater love can there be than that of a mother for her child, born or unborn.

"It is historically true that the majority of the parents of the greatest men and women the world has ever known were not themselves renowned for the qualities their children displayed. They simply, as the result of the operation of the absolute law, consciously or (more likely) unconsciously, projected these qualities into their offspring during the gestation period. It is certain, however, that men of genius are almost invariably born of parents who possessed markedly strong characters along some one direction, or who, as a result of deprivations or suffering, developed some special desire so strong as to almost completely dominate their thoughts or inclinations along this one direction.

"True, genius has often been considered as abnormal because many of the men whom the world considered as geniuses were actually more or less unbalanced; subject to hallucinations, epilepsy, some slight form of insanity or chronic morbidity; hence genius has been considered somewhat undesirable despite the Edisons and Steinmetzes. We cannot help but wonder on this matter if the judgment of these geniuses is not made by those who are not able to understand their true genius and who may well be envious of their talents.

"In these same instances where morbidities were present in the genius, who is competent to prove that genius developed because of either physical or mental illness? On the contrary, it is entirely probable that they inherited both the genius and the ailment, whether mental or physical. Were we to limit genius to those suffering from some form of mental or physical abnormality, we would thereby limit God and we know that even puny man is limited only to the degree that he limits HIMSELF."

 

The Randolphian Concept

(The following paragraphs are found in How to Create the Perfect Baby at this point in the text. While the material seems somewhat out of place and only marginally related to the gestation period, we thought we would include it here since it will give the reader some idea of the original matter from which the One Flesh concept was conceived.)

"The sexual principle and instinct in the human creature is in practically every respect diametrically opposite from that in the nonhuman kingdom. To obtain the proper concept of sex and its relation to other than the creative instinct, one must recognize that it has, in all but the lowest of the human species, a base in both the love and the affectional nature (female PSI and male SSI), and, in addition, the devotional (sometimes termed the 'religious' ) nature (the use of the Sexual Creative Center for Spiritualization).

"Once this is understood, it is easy to conceive the power which desire, a mental faculty, combined with love, a heart emotion, has over the unborn. These forces, wisely directed, control the destiny of the child before it is born and almost forever thereafter.

"In the animal kingdom, outside of the human, and even in the unregenerated human, the sexual or creative instinct is blindly obeyed (male PSI). Self-seeking there, as in all else, and not propagation, is the all powerful motive, if there actually is motive, other than pure sexual urge.

"All living creatures, aside from man, whether bears or horses, cats or dogs, fishes or flies, or any other living thing possessed of gender, are not generally concerned with self-reproduction, or propagation of the species, until such sexual acts are necessary for the continuation of the species. At this time Nature brings new instincts and passions into play in the female of the species to accomplish her needs. As soon as these are satisfied, she returns the animal to its nonsexual status once again. This being true, the paralleling of man to animal, as is so frequently done by the materially minded, is neither correct nor just.

"In animals, sexual and parental instincts are distinctly separate. In man-at least in the morally developed man-they coexist. In animals the offspring and parents separate at maturity. In the human, an affectional relationship is maintained not only throughout life, but even into the beyond of life in many instances.

"Frequently, we are told that animals obey the impulse once a year, or in season, and that man should do likewise. These materialists forget, if they ever knew, that in the deeper sense, sexual expression is also of the highest affectional or love expression. In the ultimate of human love passional release is secondary to the love and affectional nature of both. Man expresses his love for woman by the true marital embrace as he does his love and devotion to God by prayer. (This is possible only by his development of his SSI.)

"The lower type of man (one who has not yet developed his SSI) is governed more by the instinct or biological urge (PSI). Some men, at least up to a given point, risk all for the satisfaction of this urge. They display little or no affection, and care not in the least for the consequences, leaving that to Nature and the abused woman.

"Woman and Nature, then, do the best they can with the material at their command. The average man-and this explains why humanity almost as a whole is what it is; as well as 'man's inhumanity to man,'-has an insatiable 'urge' to satisfy himself or, more correctly speaking, to satisfy the 'irritation,' for such it is, and this is all he cares for at the time. While these unregenerate men think little of the consequences of their acts, there is some degree of conscience in most of them since even unregenerate men marry and mate, while beasts only mate. (Of course, today as more and more men merely 'live with someone,' even this degree of human conscience is less and less in evidence.)

"The unfortunate part of this situation, for the welfare of mankind as a whole, is in the fact that rarely do the participants of the marital rite, even those who believe themselves truly in love, consciously and willingly plan to create a new superior being. This does not have to be so in the future. The Laws of Prenatal Culture are simple and exact. They are painless and inexpensive. They only take a little bit of effort for a lifetime of happiness. Of what else can this be said?"

 

An Example from Mother Nature
for the Gestation Period

"In Nature, a rich soil is required if a superior grade of fruit is sought, whether this 'fruit' be human or any other sort. In the human sort, she demands the richest of 'fertilizer' and its name is affection and love. Given affection and love, plus Nature as her helpmate, woman will make your eyes glisten with the beauty and perfection of the work she is capable of doing.

"If you deprive woman of these two ingredients of a deeper, higher life, the result will be gnarled 'crab apples,' and the human crab apple is the gnarliest and most bitter fruit in all of God's gardens.

"In Nature two forces are at work. In the animal kingdom she does her best to produce a superior grade of body only. In the human, Nature works almost wholly to produce a loftier order of beings; beings possessed of intellect, imagination and elevated emotions.

"Given the help of an ordinary intelligence, and the assistance of a kind, loving, feeling woman with a vision or an ideal, Nature will produce a Christos of spirituality or the genius of an Edison, not to mention the names of other great men; names with which all of us are familiar, and who are foolishly believed to have been just 'accidents.'

"Mating of the sexes, and by this we mean marriages, is to be understood as the nuptive union of the sexes (the One Flesh union), but actually is nuptive only when love is the prompter. If there is no love, it becomes a desecration and is destructive to the participants. Aside from this, the act of mating is productive of a series of effects and results beyond the perpetuatory or propagative one, wherein men and animals are alike, but there the similarity ends. In the animal, sex distinctions are bodily only.

"IF THERE IS TO BE RACE PERFECTION, MATING, IN THE HUMAN, SHOULD INVOLVE, AND ULTIMATELY MUST INVOLVE AND EMBRACE the vast domain of mind, body and Soul, ALL INTERWOVEN BY AFFECTION AND LOVE. In the nonhuman, the sexual office ceases when the reproductive germ has become lodged in the female. With human beings, ITS OFFICES HAVE ONLY BEGUN; FOR THE RESULTS WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT TIME. WHAT THE ULTIMATE RESULTS WILL BE DEPENDS ON THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF THE WOMAN AND THE EFFORTS MADE BY HER, THE PRODUCER DURING THE GESTATION PERIOD.

"The creative function, shielded and augmented by affection and love, is, by all odds, the highest force in man. It is the God, the Jehovah of Creation.

"In the creative function, two principles are interwoven, reciprocally acting and reacting upon each other. This is in evidence everywhere and in all things in the universe of which man is conscious. On the one side it is governed by a brute, beastly passion; on the other and truly human­Divine plane, it is governed by affection and love.

"To this creative ability and energy all things are subservient; to it, all things bend the knee in acknowledgment of its supremacy. Without it, the ALL THAT IS would become a blank and starless void; terrible as eternal night; cheerless as the grave of those who died without hope. The deciding factor and the ultimate result produced by this creative energy depends upon whether the nuptial bed is shielded by the angel of love and hope, or the mere satisfaction of passion.

"God is a dual being; and man, patterned after his Creator, however greatly he may deviate from the pattern, is likewise dual. The Deity is dual in a double sense; being positive male and receptive female. Man is aware, or if not, should be, that his better side is his 'she' or mother side (male SSI). From this phase of his being spring all the major elements of both his goodness and his greatness, and right here is the reason for the present philosophical dissertation.

"If this gentleness, graciousness and loftiness of spirit is not impressed upon him by his mother-to-be while she is enceinte, he will never have it.* All men admire the intellectual man; few love him, but all humans love and are drawn to the man possessed of a developed love and affectional nature. Even the most undeveloped instinctively feel that from his love nature, NOT HIS INTELLECT, arise all the goodness, inspiration, and the generosity of the Soul which characterize this individual.

*This statement would seem to fly in the face of the concept of male SSI. This is not true since we have seen that the degree of SSI a man may develop depends on the nature placed in him by his mother. On the other hand, the love and affectional nature of a good loving wife can help to nurture the seed planted by his mother.

"We respect a Plato, but we worship at the shrine of the Christ. It is the softer, the affectionate (not the weaker) side of the Soul of man, that generates moral greatness and grandeur of whatever form, and mighty (constructive) deeds become possible to man.

"In this love nature, alone, resides the power which has the potency to transmute the savage man into an incarnate demigod; or, as the Bible would have it, 'ye have become the sons of God.'

"The greatest excellence in man's offspring can never be attained by parents who are merely physically perfect. The woman, who may be in every way inferior except in her love, IN LOVING AND BEING LOVED, IN DESIRING AND RECEIVING, is able to give to the world children who are truly great, grandly 'good' in the real sense of the word.

"The STRONGEST FORCE, GREATEST MENTAL POWER and CREATIVE ABILITY IN THE DOMAINS OF ART, SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, STATESMANSHIP AND LEADERSHIP are invariably manifested by those who have been conceived in, nurtured in and born in the affection of their mother, and in whom the feminine side slightly overbalances the masculine, positive constructive side (that is, only enough for the love nature to control but never to inhibit the more positive qualities of a man).

"The man everywhere most welcomed, respected and caressed-if that be a proper term to be used in conjunction with true manhood-is the man who is the most magnetic, hence truly affectionate. He is IN NO SENSE EFFEMINATE, let this be understood, but radiates the qualities of true manhood-MANHOOD MODIFIED BY HIS MOTHER'S LOVE AND SPIRITUAL NATURE.

"It is a maxim that whenever you find a truly great Soul in a male body, he is more than half his mother. It is the woman side of him that gives him power, mental vigor and enables him to write his name in the annals of time; and by an understanding of the eternal creative Law, all women who truly Will, may mother such sons."

 

Love and the Creation of the Superman

"This treatise deals with facts as positive as does the farmer in raising his crops or cattle. He must know his soil, his seed, the time of planting, cultivating and harvesting. He must know his cattle, the proper mating, feeding and raising. But in all this there is one all-important factor the farmer and cattleman does not need to deal with, and to which he need give no thought-even in raising the finest crops or cattle: LOVE AND AFFECTION, AND THE EMOTIONS, FOR GOOD OR ILL, BORN FROM THEIR MANIFESTATION.

"It is in the presence or absence of love and affection, wherein is found the key to the production of supermen or superdevils-the murderous egomaniacs of the ages. Fortunately for the races of men, if the mother-to-be has the knowledge and the desire, i.e., the willingness, she also has the power to substitute her own love for that lacking in her mate, and bring forth into the world a saint or master-man, irrespective of his assistance, although her work with his assistance is much easier.

"It is our mission to help guide her in this holy work for the benefit not only of her own peace of mind and happiness, but also that of her child, and mankind in general. Regrettably, in all too many instances, the entire responsibility falls upon the mother-to-be; but the ultimate reward is well worth the effort necessary and more than offsets the price she must pay.

"Love and affection, terms usually accepted as different names for the same thing, imply much more than mere attraction between the sexes and, unfortunately, one is as little understood as the other.

"In the marital act woman faces Heaven when she gives herself to love and man, whether this be willingly or unwillingly on her part. Partly this is because of the way Nature created her, but, more importantly, it is her celestial mission on Earth. She receives both the human and the Divine in her transfer of affection; even though it is no more than a duty imposed upon her by man-made law.

"Man, on the contrary, looks toward the Earth's face,* for he is almost entirely of the Earth, whereas a woman in love never is. The woman may be indifferent, even horrified at the part she is forced to play, but with it all, she looks into the Heaven above,* and from that source receives a measure of Divine Love; for, low as she may be, if the right chord within her be touched, she is able to mother heroes and give Marys to a waiting world."

*As is frequently the case, there is a double meaning to these statements. In the common (missionary) position for sexual intercourse this is literally true, the man facing the Earth and the woman Heavenward.

Before we leave the Gestation Period we want to quote Dr. Clymer again. This time on the changes that take place in the mother-to-be during the Gestation Period.

 

The Mystery of Human Reproduction

"No sooner is the human spermatozoon, seed or germ, lodged within the sacred and utterly mysterious, transcendently holy and divine because reproductive-creative-Godly established chamber of the womb, and its filamental doors closed, shutting in its treasure-perhaps another savior-from all eyes, than the woman's mystic­spiritual self within her Soul, draws its attention from the womb and begins its all- important work upon the womb's contents.

"If she, the woman, be truly a woman who is to become a good mother, then from that instant on, until her task be finished, she loves her man no less, BUT HER UNBORN CHILD MORE. Why? Because up until then, her love, her Soul's welfare, depended on a man. Now that a new Soul is in the process of making-a Soul whose destiny and future welfare rests wholly upon her LOVE, her desire, her wise and continued efforts-she rises to the occasion through an extension and expansion of her emotional nature (FCD)."

 

Finishing the Gestation Period

"The mother-to-be must give, unconsciously, but by willing desire, the very best particles of her blood, brain, food, drink, air, light, muscle, bone, lymph, cartilage, carbon and a million chemicals to build a new body, wherein a Soul is to dwell for a time and until it is cast forth into eternity. The unconscious spiritual self must give forth all of the Earth's salt to make the body healthy and strong.

"She must build canals, reservoirs, pumps, cylinders, flutes, columns, domes, cellars, crucibles, retorts, ovens and a multitude of chemical and mechanical laboratories of the most marvelous kinds; build telescopes, a telegraph and telephone system; following which, unconsciously except by means of conscious desire and love, she must go aloft and bring down the fires from Heaven, spiritual flames without which the Soul cannot exist; lodge angels all over the little mansion; music here, science there, mathematics and memory; ambition, hope, joy, sorrow, love, affection, graciousness, generosity, and, above all, ambition to become and attain something beneficial to mankind.

"Whatever is held in the mind of the mother-to-be, her idealism, her work, still perhaps unconscious, except for desire and expectation, now takes another, a lower flight. She must call up the tempters from the depths of being to offset and balance the angels. Now come avarice, greed, anger, falsehood and a fearful host besides, because if the new Soul is to reach Heaven, it must make its flight alone; must toil and sweat, and tread upon the red-hot sands of sorrow and suffering; wade through a million hells on its own feet; fight its own way with its own efforts, while God looks on and smiles, well knowing that the goal is sweet, even though the road be rough and rugged, assured that victory is certain, because of the material the MOTHER BUILDS INTO THE NEW BEING.

"Why, one may ask, are not the good things alone sufficient? Why add the evil ingredients? Because God and Nature have decreed man a dual being, and he must win the fight and attain the heights by using the good within himself against the evils, and thus become strong and powerful by the manner in which he wages his fight.

"All this being true, should we not readily understand that a true woman, while enceinte, has little, if any, time for frivolities, being engaged in so grand a work?"

 

Possible Mood Changes During Gestation

Mood changes in the mother-to-be often take place during gestation. In my own experience these can vary from "Never felt better in my life" to "It was the worst time of my life." With modern nutritional help to balance the hormones and natural healing methods to help the neurologic difficulties the majority of mothers-to-be today should fall into the first category.

In Creating the Perfect Baby, Dr. Clymer had some interesting views on this subject which we present here.

"Nevertheless, the vast millions, because they have given little, if any, thought to the subject of changes in moods, NEVER HAVING BEEN CHALLENGED TO THINK ABOUT IT, cannot understand this change. They feel that during this period, as with all others, the woman should be all that she was before. They are unable to comprehend that a whole universe exists between the two states; that, in fact, a NEW WORLD IS IN THE MAKING. This woman, formerly so sweet and so gentle, now dispossessed of an understanding of herself and her moods, may be strange, short, snappish, soft at one moment-cranky the next. Why?

"First of all, because she has never been taught to understand herself or the great change that takes place during pregnancy, she has no means of control, no way of knowing how to transmute the undesirable into the desirable, as in the process of sublimation.

"Secondly, human nature within her is in the making; unfinished; hence, unstable. Nature is, as we know all too well, changeable in her moods; sunny, tempestuous, coarse, mean, genial, calm, and then blustery.

"Engaged in the formation of a NEW BEING WHICH IS TO BE BOTH GOD AND DEVIL, UNTIL ONE OR THE OTHER FINALLY WINS, she is forced to incarnate all of these moods, passions and emotions into the body, mind and Soul of the new pilgrim about to begin his or her journey through the valleys of the world to the throne of the Ineffable God.

"This new creature should be well fortified by the mother's Love, affection and idealism; but it will be better still, if also clothed with the shield of a father's manhood, strength and honor. If the mother-to-be is aided in her mysterious work-it is mysterious, despite all that we think we know of procreation-by a husband and father who is truly a man; one with strength and with foresight; with patience incarnate; with gentleness, not weakness, and who, in loving, kindly forbearance lends his assistance, her work of reproduction will be made that much easier and have far greater assurance of success."

The Nursing Period

"The nursing period, that follows the birth of the child, is but a continuation of the same self-sacrifice that is the badge of all true mothers. As the gestation period advances frequently her love center changes almost completely from her uterus to her bosom; to the breasts that must nourish her child. Even in women who have normally small breasts, at this time Nature enlarges them and fills them with life-giving sustenance for the child.

"As a woman begins to nurse, real changes in her nature may also occur. Some women feel very little motherliness until the child is placed on the breast and the milk begins to flow. As in all such things, there is a great deal of variability."

Today, unlike in Dr. Clymer's day, most rational doctors recommend breast-feeding for a wide variety of reasons, for the health of both the mother and the child. It is important, as we will see in Chapter Eleven, that the mother give special attention to her own nutrition during the nursing period so that her health and the health of her child do not suffer.

One last comment before we leave this subject. While many doctors in the past suggested that women did not desire to engage in the One Flesh union during the gestation period, we find that this is not true for most. While certain obvious precautions need to be taken as the mother-to-be nears term, many of them find they are more desirous of the One Flesh union at this time than before, since now the concern over pregnancy is no longer a consideration and greater spontaneity is possible.

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