The True Man
How happy’s he who hath due place assigned
To his beasts and disafforested his mind!
Can use this horse, goat, wolf, and ev’ry beast,
And is not ass himself to all the rest!
Else man not only is the herd of swine,
But he’s those devils too which did incline
Them to a headlong rage, and made them worse.
Reverend John Donne
That in which men differ from brute beasts is a thing very inconsiderable; the common herd lose it very soon; superior men preserve it carefully. Mencius
The basis of sexual transmutation is the retention and transformation of the sexual energy, not just the physical matter. Therefore, this applies to woman equally as men.
In his Symposium, Plato terms the theory of the beautiful the “mysteries of Eros”. He defines love as the divine yearning immanent in all humanity, for a great, all-embracing force which can inspire and fill the heart with enthusiasm. This force is beauty revealing itself in the body “as the glowing trace of heaven”. It is the only force capable of giving the soul that mysterious clarity of vision which can lead to true beatitude. And the flame of love in its primal fire is at its highest when the most intimate bodily and spiritual union with the beloved is achieved. It must be understood that Plato stresses the importance of spiritual union – in which he sees the sacred duty of Eros to humanity. If, today, many men consider women solely as a means of enjoyment, they have a completely false conception of the true happiness Eros can provide.