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Since the first origin of the sexual instinct is ultimately traceable to the cosmic energy and since mystical joy immediately derives from contact with this energy, the conservation of one by the man who transmutes his passion, and the uprisal of the other, when he sends his forces in this direction, not only cancels all sense of loss but substitutes the divine for the animal. Both directions lead to ecstasy yet how rare and ethereal the one, how common and gross the other!

-- Notebooks Category 5: The Body > Chapter 7 : Sex > # 110