The relation of love to life is so intimately associated that these instructions would be incomplete if I neglected to call your attention to this important subject. The romantic side of existence plays an important part and cannot be separated entirely from the practical, for it has a very practical value. At first this statement may not seem logical to you, but you will understand when I analyze and explain it more fully.

In the previous lessons I have devoted my attention to the benefits to be derived from individual efforts. In this lesson I shall try to portray, for your assistance, the benefits to be gained from the combined efforts of husband and wife.

All who have studied the power of thought understand the value of determination and agreement. For instance, when one person determines that he will attain a certain result, he at once produces force and power. Should two people harmoniously agree to work together for the purpose of this accomplishment, there is at once created a vast increase in force and power for success. Hence two persons can accomplish more than one.

While one person may accomplish wonderful progress along individual lines, yet the benefits can be more than doubled if husband and wife lovingly; and enthusiastically co-operate in their efforts to attain a more perfect renewal of life. "In union there is strength" is a truthful quotation, but never more so than when applied to a harmonious marital union. There we find strength which can never be obtained by any two people acting along individual lines. I do not intend to reflect on the value of individual effort, for it is necessary in its place. What I wish to do is to show you how much more is to be gained through the harmonious combination of the forces of a husband and wife. The power to be gained as a result of agreement is made still stronger when both parties understand the law and principles as laid down in these lessons, and have a deep love for each other. Thought always represents a degree of power, but loving thought adds to it greater intensity.

The ideal plan for securing the greatest benefits from these lessons is for husband and wife to study them together and practice the instructions in harmony and unison. In this way both will advance side by side to the same degree of perfection, be in sympathy and fully understand each other. When two loving minds are united in a single purpose there is a mighty mental force generated which will unfailingly accomplish the purpose. The possession of true, pure and mental love is a most important factor in the preservation of health and beauty. Love is a life is manifested.

True love always transforms the individual by renewing the life force in proportion to its intensity. Where pure mental love and a knowledge of the laws of life are united, youth and beauty will endure. The individual powers of man and woman should be blended together, for each has a power the other can not possess, except through such a union. Unity and completeness are the foundation stones of power. No man can be considered to be a complete life, nor does any woman constitute a normal life. It is a fact that every person has a "better half" present or absent who is necessary to the completion of his or her life. Those who desire to prolong life should never cease to be lovers. The honeymoon should last as long as life itself. Every man or woman should study to express love in its highest and purest form. Life is made up of vibrations and love is of all the most powerful and harmonious, and its effects upon health and happiness the greatest.

In a normal married life there is a constant exchange of magnetic force which adds to the vitality of each and gives more perfect life renewal. When there is a definite agreement between a man and a woman to blend their united forces toward the attainment of a long period of youth and vigor, their magnetic radiations are intensified and the success of their desire is assured. Many people are entirely ignorant of this higher use of the sex relation and association. They regard its power as something limited to its local expression. The influence that one sex has over the other should convince anyone of its unlimited action. Every atom of the body of a man or a woman expresses the characteristics and power of the sex to which it belongs. These characteristics influence the opposite sex as nothing else could.

Those who have not cultivated the finer forces of Nature as expressed by men and women may fail to grasp the full import of the above statement. Just in proportion as they are able to recognize this radiant force will the benefits be derived from married life. This exchange of force, one with the other, is the result of mental attraction and is not limited to physical contact or physical presence. Even when two harmonious beings are many miles apart this exchange goes on without cessation. As you learn to realize more of these higher forces, you will discover that every thought of love you send out to another, and every vibration of love you attract, is a source of power and happiness to both the sender and the receiver.

Don't overlook that all-important fact that thought is an actual force and can produce definite physical changes without the words being spoken. Just as the emotion of love stirred to special activity for the moment will illuminate a face with beauty and power, so the entire life can be beautified and strengthened by the continuous expression of true love. We are what we give expression to. Then we should give expression to the highest form we can conceive - that of true love.

The expression of sex force from the physical standpoint has been discussed in all ages and by all classes of people. Some believing that the highest power in life can only be attained when the physical expression is repressed and a continent life adhered to. This is not in accord with nature, for all life consists of action and not repression. To attempt to repress natural forces is bound to result in the repression of life itself, causing weakness and death. The instructions in these lessons have been to produce an abundant expression of life, to create force, vim and vigor for both men and women. To repress and destroy the instinct upon which the world depends for its future generations would be race suicide and in contradiction to all laws of progression.