/lit/ - Literature

Chastity is the most misunderstood of all the virtues. Men and women alike are unable to conceive of themselves beyond their own sexuality. Their whole identity revolves around their relation to the opposite sex. A man's sexuality is the female principle within him—when he transcends it, he is no longer drawn to the feminine, either in his own lust or in the image of the female human being, and is then free to explore a purely intellectual world, via a consciousness uninhibited by lust. He is free, in other words, to overcome his contingent nature and soar into a mystical union with God.