Masturbation - Genetic and spiritual viewpoints

ENDOCRINOLOGY, NEUROLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY The instinct of this irrational command from nature regarding the procreation of the children has its blessing and dangers. When man is deceiving himself and he is stepping out of his role by flesh, he will not get away unpunished, he will be severely punished. To understand this automatic punishment of the vices where the men instinct is tending, pushing the people to a life against the flesh, some knowledge of endocrinology and neurology wont hurt. We have separated throughout our body about 7-8 glands with internal secretion. The study of these glands is called endocrinology and their secretions, hormones. Hormones are chemical substances, kind of salts having the role to enlighten the intellect, to make our lives pleasant and with interest for it in one word the hormones are the agents of stimulation of life. In blood are also the vitamins, a cellular secretion of each tissue, toxins, germs and everything else. All together are creating our internal environment, our endocrine environment or our humoral environment. For the good function of the body, this environment must have a normal determined composition; and if it doesnt have, it will show up organic and functional disturbances, a full chain of disabilities. Among these glands are the ones who bear the man seed; these glands unlike the other glands have a double function: an internal function for secreting hormones and an external function for producing, germinating the cells. We are interested in effects, defects and conflicts.

The glands where the hormones are coming from and which are located in the lowest sector of the body have besides the other tasks the role of giving a very energized and smooth specific configuration to the entire body, as a man or a woman. Then they have the role of stimulating the function of the other glands, whose hormones have still the mission of rousing and activating other functions in the other sectors of the body. All together have a role and influence especially on the nervous system and brain, its capital. Heres how is starting a conflict relation or a good understanding situation between reason and instinct. The next scheme makes us understand the step that needs to be followed:

From this technical drawing we can understand the following: the instinct, even though it is without mind, it still cannot proceed in action without the minds will and without approval of the other censorships. (Good! and bad, when minds leadership is corrupted and censorship bought!) Then the hormones, the bullets of instinct being everywhere in the blood structure, are taking the brain as a target, the capital of the nervous system. The hormones act at the first motivation signaled by the eye running straight to the mind announcing the opportunity and the command of the instinct. Besides, the eyes, ears, nostrils and mouth are erogenous zones; there are many doors where the outward environment is knocking the inward environment, igniting with the spark of lust the flame of deeds. The drawing is also letting us think on one aspect. The genetic functions are waking up ever since the time of childhood when the mind doesnt know how to stop them. Why is this order turned upside down? If we consider the duty of our parents to supervise and prevent their children at the right time about this delicate aspect, of course the responsibility of the fall is not only in childrens care or in the care of God, but the parents will be held responsible. The children are counting on the mind of their parents. In the neurological and endocrine frame, meaning by flesh, this is how its supposed to be: this forbidden energy has to emerge since childhood so that under its action to develop and refresh the entire body and especially the nervous system. The hormones are generated for a certain reason, but their action must be accompanied by abstinence, otherwise the healthy growth of the body and the nervous system would be altered organically and functionally in depth, meaning either the hormones will be missing from the body or the abstinence. It seems that in many respects and areas, the values are emerging from warmed up contradiction, like most of the fire sparks. INVITATIONS TO THE RIGHT JUDGEMENT Understanding abstinence as a condition of health of the nervous system and fornication as a road to imbalance, its good to emphasize the biological and psychological limits of these commands. There are people who would like to run their life according to their right judgment, but nobody dares telling them upfront. Even the authors of the books referring to this commandment, are giving worse advice than they would give to the cattle. They dont consider the man both in his moral and spiritual being. If they would lead them like

cowboys are leading the cattle, they would be a lot wiser. The doctor who believes that for teaching people there is no need of soul and God the creator and the master of life is up to a point, a good veterinary. But on the same line are the people who dont even want to hear about any judgment, any moral brake or any automatic punishment, with no mercy for their libertinism that will reach them from behind. Im using my orientation to psychology and spirit of the modern medicine, giving its best to be more a preventive medicine. I will not pushing anyone to the gates of Heaven, Im helping only the free decision of anyone to see the right path. I am emphasizing the communication between the endocrine environment and the moral environment as well as their reflection in the conscience. Theres a correspondence between the body and soul, between the quality of the body and the character of the soul; a modulatory interpenetration. Imagine a night with moon and a silent lake, where someone throws two stones in different points; you can see the water waves interfering in circles and the spots of moon sliding on them. Something like this would be the touch of the soul by the body waves, though the soul has a nature different from the body, as reflections of moon differ from water waves. And still they reflect in each other. The hormones influence the spirit through the body, the mans spirit being influenced in different way from the spirit of woman. The man receives the feeling of his virility beside his anatomic strength configuration. The intellect wins against sensitivity; the powers of the mind prove to be creative. The man becomes active with others; inclined more to tyranny then to obedience; sooner to brutality, then to kindness. The stronger are the differential notes the more we deal with an aggressive character. It seems that here we have to search for the roots of pride. Maybe from here starts the fact that especially the men dont want to submit even to God, and when they get nervous, they dont find any more expressive word than a curse on God or on whatever saint. The aggressive character of male is remarked as a common note in animals too. Man is thinking by all his organs.

The follicle, the female hormone, has a complete different action. Beside the anatomic configuration specific to the destiny of the mother, the follicle is still preserving the childhood traits: thin voice, baby look, childrens friend; more sensitive than intellectual, more receptive than creative. She is foreseeing through her instinct and not by thinking. The womans heart is the mind. Shes much happier inclined to sufferance and obedience than oppression and domination and after the Scripture, always attracted (desired) by the man1. If we consider only the physiological aspect of the man-woman difference, we find a big discrepancy. All the physiological role of man as is the entire animal reign is nothing but adventure, the first who comes. Man is polygamous by his nature as once were the Hebrews and Turks in the past. Solomon the wise had a thousand women, but the women paid him well they turned away his heart after another idol2. The role and configuration of the woman is maternity. Even her salvation is conditioned by giving birth to sons if she perseveres with full wisdom in faith, love and holiness 3. Between the instinct of polygamy and the maternal instinct there is a real biological conflict and a cause for tragedies. What one wishes, doesnt correspond to what the other one wants. Thats why it was given to people heavenly norms and mind, to live normally by nature in moral and spiritual order and not to live chaotic, living against the nature, against morality, against the spirit, entirely anarchical, for what usually people or their descendants will pay with their head. I didnt finish the correspondence endocrinology-neurology and psychology yet, we need in addition the genetics because an endless line of poor fellows is forcing me to write down their pain. We remind the natures system, the whole body and especially the nervous system are developing well thanks to the genetic hormones but only under a censorship of restrain. Therefore, until they reach the legal marriage, all the young

people should be clean, with their virginity intact. The wonder is possible and necessary. More and more doctors are validating it in ascending number. Even if no one would admit, the man is far more complex in reality than the sector studied by the doctor. We will that see the situation of things in reality is imposing categorical the seventh brake of God to bring to normality in the natural, moral and spiritual hierarchy the hot tempers of this anarchic instinct, blessed and cursed in the same time. BABIES BORN IN CHAINS Lets assume a child at the first signs of instincts is falling into the vice of masturbation. Parents dont know he is making it, hes more and more self-locked, quiet, more tired, he doesnt learn at school; his memory the brain cortex is affected; the mind is not smartened anymore by hormones emerging from the respective sector clenched by the vice. In other words, the mind gets stupid and this is happening fast. The slow growth of the body, dark rings around his eyes betrays him for whoever knows how to see. His imagination is no longer fast, he doesnt like to play anymore, he looks aged, serious and the hands which did the wrong thing are shaking. This is the proof his nerves are in danger. If hes not lucky to receive an advice or find a book, growing in age, the results of the vice will develop as follows.

I was mentioning the genetic glands have a double function: an endocrine function which is pouring the hormones in the blood, and an outward function which is forming the genetic cells. Right after the vice or fornication is grasping the man no matter the age, the male or female gland tissues are solicited excessively and forced to deliver external material. Therefore, they cannot produce the needed hormones for the blood and an imbalance is taking place at the level of the endocrine environment. This imbalance is reflecting in the nervous system in a way that the nervous cells, not having

the right stimulating agents, will degenerate functional and the man begins to feel squeezed; and if the fornication goes on, the nervous cells die. Fornication kills millions of nervous cells. Also it must be known that all tissues are recovering, but not the nervous cell. Once killed, is never regenerating again. Assume the aged young man wants to be in line with the world, he wants to marry. He doesnt succeed. He doesnt feel any attraction to the woman and in the same time, the women dont feel attracted to him. Whats the problem? The instincts vices faded his mood, deleted his charm, flatted him completely, he doesnt spread love but mercy. You cannot build a house out of pity as well as out of disgust.

Doctors advise: women or marriage. Of course, a vice wont pass out substituted by another vice the issue always remains in a vicious circle. But marriage, even if its performed, carries the prints of the past and the warnings of the future. Its happening to the man, from vices of all kinds and from the total or local functional imbalance of his nervous system, he loses the nervous brake of his functional rhythm and maybe he will never fit with the rhythm of his woman without fatigue in this kind of vices. Her fatigue and disgust begins only now, because she will always remain discontented, which will cause her neurosis, local pains and thoughts of looking in other places. Its not her fault that she would leave him, but the mans past is avenging. The man, as vices degraded him, doesnt correspond to the instinct of his woman maternity and thats how he has to pay: remains without descendants and even without wife. Lets assume that he will still have children. They will carry the following parental burdens: feeble health, aged faces various inabilities with no cure and if they succeed to get away they will be feeble at mind and tormented by fate. How and why? Heres how and why: we know from the things above that all the mans deeds are written in two places: somewhere in an unseen account and second, somehow more visible, in the small grains of chromatin, in the chromosomes genesis, namely in the biological factor of heredity. Did the parent destroy with his vices the millions of nervous cells? As the dead cells are never regenerating, the sum of destroyed cells and the health the man had at that

moment is written in the stock of chromosomes, bearing the number of recessive genesis at the time when he was calling a descendant to come into this world .This wouldnt have happened if he had a better behavior. Do you want the proof within anyones reach? Here it is: I dont want to offend anyone, by the contrary I feel solidarity with anyones pain. Lets say a pair of people didnt have any trouble with the vices of youth, so they dont have the nervous system weakened from such a fault. Still, the lifes needs are exhausting anyone nerves. This fatigue of life is actually a fatigue of energy, ingenuity, of a resistant activity of the nervous system and all the other tissues and body fluids. All these events are printed immediately in the genetic patrimony of heredity in time as they add. The biological factor of heredity resumes the state of each moment and also the biophysical situation of the parents, either in particular or engaged in the process of creation. The demonstration is given by the children coming at a wider interval of time. The children from the youth are crisper, brisker, healthier, smarter, while the children coming at an older age of parents are more invertebrate, more clogged, looking older. They have no fault for it and there is no cure. They are built genetically irreversible, in visible harmony created with a material at an old age. We understand now the mechanism when in the chain of chromosomes appears the cluster of chaff beans, the recessive genesis and the havocs they can provoke if they are not eliminated from work by the healthier pair of genesis from the other parent. There are the consequences of fornication starting from youth also. Maybe it was understood from the above that the entire body is shrinking, the glands are remaining atrophied in full, taken out of work facing the consequences of humoral imbalance. We reach in time at the atrophy of various organs from the general iconomy of the body and this way it appears the sterility, neurosis and a general state of illness or a predisposition to all kind of diseases. We have to mention also the spiritual moods: fear, feeble mind, obsessions, fixed ideas, misinterpretation of meanings and a continuous struggle of the conscience. Its the reaction of the soul to the miserable condition of his house invaded by passions.
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