The Law is for All

Introduction 19 the Church is inimical to Life.” The great majority of men and women do not now believe in “Christian morality”; do not believe in the flagrant absurdity that the impulse by which alone life is continued on our planet is sinful, and that its sinfulness can be expunged only if it is directed by a husband towards his wife and by a wife towards her husband. The creation of this artificial “sin of sex,” the attachment of a sense of guilt to a basic natural function, has brought about a disastrous perversion of sane moral feeling. It has destroyed or numbed our awareness of what is the only real sin, of what alone should cause a sense of guilt in us; that is, obstruction or denial of our true will, or of the true will of another. The acceptance of, or the deference to these malignant sex-tabus, has done incalculable harm and is still doing it. A sane, a natural and creative view of sex is of the first importance; for a destructive and distorted view, a Christian view, generates an evil pus which overflows upon the whole field of human thought and human activity, infecting with one malady after another. Sex­ repression, sex-frustration, as Freud has truly told us, breed war­ makers and war. They and their cousins german, malevolent inter­ ference with individual freedom of thought and man’s natural right to all the pleasures of life, breed also social discontents and social ills. In the strictest sense, such persecuting manias are anti­ social. The true will of humanity is against them and against their offspring. That will is not for wars, it is not for the “moral” filth of sexual frustration or for the frustration of anything that is needed for the creative fulfilment of individual life. Until the old twilight tabus have been killed, there is no certain hope for the future. The Book of the Law deals them and their issue a mortal blow. It sets in their place a gospel which, it is true, makes high demands, but which is valid for the achievement of the heart’s desire; for the satisfaction of our dolorous and aching needs; for the building of a true and enduring City of God. Louis Umfraville Wilkinson London, 1946 E.v.