"Right action is the way the Self proceeds in relation to conscience."
- Robert Burton, Via Del Sol January 16, 1973 Volume 2 Number 13
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Robert Earl Burton at Mount Carmel (aka The Farm) - 1974
Photo: Drew Kampion |
[ed. - Robert Burton's preoccupation with sex has been described in many testimonies to be on a most carnal level. The following quotations from 1972 show Robert ("R.") has been incapable of "being the words" he has preached from the very beginning.]
"Via Del Sol" wrote on the Fellowship of Friends Discussion blog, August 7, 2007:
Early in its history, the Fellowship of Friends produced a
printed publication (published approximately once a week), called “Via
Del Sol”. This issue (Volume 2 Number 9, December 19th 1972) featured a
collection of Robert Burton’s intellectual gems and purest distillation
of his high understanding on the subject of sex. Italics are in the
original.
Physical sex, in its deepest meaning, is designed to perpetuate the
species, and insure nature of a vehicle for transmitting planetary and
celestial influences to the earth. Man’s physical pleasures are
secondary to this aim, and, in general, a by–product of nature’s hidden
aim.
R.
The sex center is not an intelligent brain. It has a dull, plant–like
intelligence. At times, it is quite a vulgar brain, and may be easily
aroused by uncivilized levels of intelligence.
R.
If a person has a full relationship with another, then sex may be a
part of the whole. Without this factor, then one is in tramp and their
sex life does not relate well with the mass or whole of their being.
R.
Humans have been tricked by having their sex organs covered or hidden
since birth, making them appear mysterious. This is why some people
move from person to person having sex. They try to discover (or steal)
what is hidden about the other person, and having found the secret move
onto another person seeking the same hollow goal.
R.
To have sexual relations with a partner who is at a lower level of
being is to be in tramp. Flirtations are a form of tramp in sex and are
sex energy leaks.
R.
Martians, as a [body] type, have the least need or desire to abstain from sex. Mercuries follow them in this area.
R.
The machine creates enormous quantities of sex energy; nevertheless, whan we lose sex energy, it can be a weary day.
R.
Most men deviate in the quest for their Self by being engulfed in a
woman’s problems, which she often offers a man as a means to gain his
attention. Women put themselves to sleep by being conditioned to
accept a subservient role to men. This refers to machines in both cases
and not thyself. One of the ways schools in the past avoided this
mechanical manifestation was through monasteries. The higher we can
raise our level, it will be seen we are a vacuum moving amongst life,
each a monastery amongst humanity.
R.
It is not generally harmful for students to be at a level in their
life where they are confused about sex aims. They may fluctuate between a
desire to engage in sex and a desire to abstain. Remember the Self is
born as a result of friction; and sex is most often an area of friction.
R.
The sex center is a machine designed to seek out its magnetic
opposite in physical union. It does not care for abstinence or
transcending itself.
R.