The three basic functions of sexual energy are:
1. Procreation
2. Pleasure
3. Psychogenesis

The first two functions of sexual energy are obvious. It is what everyone knows: procreation and pleasure. We do not need to give a lecture on how to procreate, and we do not need to give a lecture about how to derive pleasure from sex because that is obvious.

In terms of procreation: we would say it is a very inferior type of procreation that everybody is engaging in today. We are engaging in something that is against the doctrine of sexual transmutation. We will return to this topic later.

The third, however, is something we need to discuss: Psychogenesis.

This word we can break up in to two parts, psycho and genesis. Genesis means creation. Psycho points towards the psyche, to soul . Therefore, psychogenesis means the development or creation of our soul. Another word we could put here instead of psychogenesis would be spiritual development, spiritual realisation. You cannot build the soul without spiritual development.

The fact is that we, in our current state, are not a completed being. We have a physical body, we have mind and emotion, but we have not completed our development. In order to complete our development we have to take conscious direction, conscious control over our sexual energy. Sexual energy from a mechanical aspect can only develop up to a certain level, the level of an animal. To develop beyond that, to awaken in the internal worlds and to achieve everything that we are meant to achieve, requires something more.

We must become conscious, and work with our sexual energy. Within sexual energy, as we said, has the “image” of our Being, it has all the instructions and all the potential to develop our soul completely. We are just a small fraction of what we could be, and it is only by using sexual energy in the right way, through transmutation, that we can develop internally.

This is not some type of moral code where we are saying “If you believe in sexual transmutation then it is good.” No, this is not what we are saying at all, what we are saying is that there is literally the material ‘in the energy’ that we need, to develop our soul . It descends all the way from the Absolute down into us. We are a vessel, and it is our job and our duty, our decision, to work with that energy to make something spiritual in us. We have the free will to do it. God does not make us do it. God is not a tyrant. We have to choose whether we want to do it or not.

Psychogenesis is possible because there are other ways for the sexual energy to flow within us other than the “normal” way. Better said, the common way. The common way of course is through orgasm and ejaculation. This removes the energy from the body. This is done in hopes for (1) procreation and (2) pleasure.

There is another way, and this is precisely the topic of our teaching here. The reason why there is another way is because we have been made with another way. There is the existence of subtle energy channels in our body. There are ways in which subtle energy can flow within us that is different than if you were to orgasm. When you orgasm or ejaculate, one or the other it does not matter, the energy is obviously going out of the body, it is being removed.