juices. Men sense the danger, but they are drawn to fulfill
the mysterious and original promise of a life of glory implicit
in a woman’s love. To get a man, every woman knows she
must put him up on a pedestal. She rationalizes that self-
ish compulsion as her loving duty. It is not.
       Man is also insecure. He inherits the guilt of a wounded
pride, which is forever trying to recover by employing the
original spirit of its fall—the woman—obligating her spirit
to give what she really cannot deliver. It is as though his need
were trying to draw up through her a spirit to make good
its ancient promise. Instead of improving his lot with her af-
fections, he is made progressively worse. As long as she
continues to lie, offering herself like a Las Vegas dealer, he
goes on hoping upon hope on the next turn of the dice. But
he goes on losing, reinforcing the spirit of the house with his
vital substance.
       The very qualities that can produce real love, security,
and happiness (such as good character and other noble
moral traits) are the qualities which oppose lust. The
lovesick female spirit can flourish only on excitement
emanating from the worshipful clinging of a failing, ego-
tistical man. It is threatened by real strength and virtue.While
she needs this virtue in a man, her sick, egotistical spirit is
afraid of being dominated by it.
       A man of good character is not drawn to female guile,
having little use for the appeal it has for other men. A
guileful female has little use for this kind of man, because
she knows she cannot have her way with him. If she wants
to control a man, a woman must be of easy virtue, quick to
recognize a man’s ego worth.The favor of her body completes

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