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The adolescent or the adult in whom this passion rises and seeks expression, will unavoidably be subject to mental conflict. It will not be ended without a struggle, often a protracted struggle which ceases only with the natural ebbing of energies that comes to the elderly or the sick. More rarely, it ceases when the man takes to the Quest and attains a far enough advancement on it. Some who pass through life without experiencing the struggle have either achieved the victory in earlier lives or have special physical causes to account for it. But where the struggle exists, one end result is to lead either to the enfeeblement or to growth of will.

-- Notebooks Category 5: The Body > Chapter 7 : Sex > # 159