Excerpt from Love and Its Affinities Even they who worship other gods worship me, although they know it not. - Krishna. Taking a wide view of the matter under considera tion, the mind reverts at once to that pristine epoch in the life of man, when phallicism held universal sway. We are to deal with mortal passion, in its lowest and highest forms, as conditioned by sexual impulse, and, if possible, determine the occult yet vital relation subsisting between the loftiest abstract conception of unsullied love and the purely physical, yet overmastering, desire whose carnal gratification allies us to the brute creation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.