827. It may perhaps surprise the reader to see the living beings' proclamations of themselves, all their manifestations or expressions, as identical to sexual pleasure. Ordinary terrestrial human beings are still so little acquainted with the mystery of sexuality, or the great ocean of the "highest fire", that they are able to see day-consciously only one single nuance of this as "sexuality", namely the intimate sexual connection between male and female beings, through which the procreation of the physical organisms takes place. They make a clear distinction between the thoughts and functions that express this sexual connection and their other thoughts and functions, and consider the two groups of thought as extremely different, in fact as totally unrelated to one another.