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women of great achievement, it indicated most convincingly that they possessed
highly developed sex natures.

The emotion of sex is an "irresistible force," against which there can be no such
opposition as an "immovable body." When driven by this emotion, men become
gifted with a super power for action. Understand this truth, and you will catch the
significance of the statement that sex transmutation will lift one to the status of
a genius.

The emotion of sex contains the secret of creative ability. Destroy the sex glands,
whether in man or beast, and you have removed the major source of action. For
proof of this, observe what happens to any animal after it has been castrated. A
bull becomes as docile as a cow after it has been altered sexually. Sex alteration
takes out of the male, whether man or beast, all the FIGHT that was in him. Sex
alteration of the female has the same effect.

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THE TEN MIND STIMULI

The human mind responds to stimuli, through which it maybe "keyed up" to high
rates of vibration, known as enthusiasm, creative imagination, intense desire, etc.
The stimuli to which the mind responds most freely are:-

1. The desire for sex expression

2. Love

3. A burning desire for fame, power, or financial gain, MONEY

4. Music

5. Friendship between either those of the same sex, or those of the opposite sex.

6. A Master Mind alliance based upon the harmony of two or more people who
ally themselves for spiritual or temporal advancement.

7. Mutual suffering, such as that experienced by people who are persecuted.

8. Auto-suggestion

9. Fear

10. Narcotics and alcohol.

The desire for sex expression comes at the head of the list of stimuli, which most