How to Live For Health and Strength.
Modern Magazine of Health.
1925--1937? Monthly
Sebring, FL.
Editor: Dr. G.R. (George Robert) Clements.
Publisher: Dr. J.A. Felton, publisher.
Succeeds: Regeneration (fulfills remaining subscriptions of Walter Siegmeister's magazine, November 1937)
1925-1937 (?) 1/1, 1925.
28 pp., $1.00 a year.

This almost completely unknown journal opens a crack into the underground world of food quackery, sexual regeneration and immortality, the primordial bisexual monad and the restoration of man to his state before the Fall, the Hollow Earth, UFOs, Walter Siegmeister ("Raymond Bernard"), Harry Gaze, and the even more mysterious "Hilton Hotema" – the most famous pseudonym of Clements himself. George Roger Clements (1878-1970) was born in Indian Territory and was a peripatetic soldier in the Spanish-American War, chiropractor in Oklahoma, ordained minister of the Spiritual Psychic Science Church in Los Angeles, a land promoter in Florida in the late 1930s, and voluminous author of articles and books on health food, the evils and dangers of the modern ways of doing things, vegetarianism, fruitarianism, fasting, opposition to tobacco, breathatarianism, cell regeneration, and all the topics of the modern occult New Thought effort to supply man's inherent lacks: the Mysterious Sphinx, the Ancient Secret of Personal Power, Man's Miraculous Unused Powers, tarot, and many other topics -- all centered on retention of the semen and sex force (Regeneration) and its consequence, longevity (Empyreal Sea -- Live 1400 years, 1964). His works were usually published through the now defunct Health Research of Mokelumne Hill, California, under the pseudonym Hilton Hotema, about whom little was revealed. Hotema vaguely mentions his celibate years in an unspecified monastery and intimated his connection with equally unspecified masters. Health Research added to the title page of one of his books: "Professor Hilton Hotema, A Disciple of the Ancient Masters of Astrology, Anthropology, Biology, Psychology and Cosmogony," but gives no details. Clements wrote for Benedict Lust's Nature's Path and perhaps gained his "N.D." degree from the same source, and for Health Culture, the Aberree and Occult Gazette. In his later years he ran a "health-restoring sanctuary" in Florida ("add life to your years and years to your life") and died there in 1970. His tombstone reads George Nutting Clements and the plot lists his wife's name as Jerusha Amanda (Felton) Clements – the J.A. Felton that is listed as publisher of this journal.

Underlying Clements' theories was the practically universal theme of the Primordial Androgyne: the idea of man's primordial state pre-Fall and the (sexual) means of regeneration -- the restoration of man to that state by preserving the vital force. As Clements explains in the journal: 'In the beginning, man was not placed by the Creative Power on a lower plane than that of the Amoeba. He was made to live forever. He did live for thousands of years, as the ancient records show. He continued to live until he killed himself by transgression of the law (Gen. 2:17). The Edenic parable explains that Man fell from the Spiritual Plane of Unity to the Material Plane of Sexuality (Gen. 3:16). He then became subject to the Law of Death (Gen. 2:17), which grows out of the Law of Sexuality . . . . 'Generation Shortens Life.'" The journal advertised Clements' pamphlet "Human Perfections" in support of these ideas ("Bisexualism is perfection; Unisexualism is imperfection. The Edenic Fall in Genesis is the fall from Bisexualism to Unisexualism. The first time this secret was ever put in print"), and also to Harry Gaze and Walter Siegmeister ("Raymond W. Bernard," 1901-1965) who wrote for the journal in 1935 praising Clements/Hotema: "If modern society was not controlled by Money Kings whose henchmen govern our educational institutions, the press, the church, etc., Professor Hilton Hotema would be considered as one of the greatest scientists of our day." Siegmeister was the founder of various regeneration/health colonies in South America and Florida and a noted proponent of UFOs and the Hollow Earth, and was almost unique in that he actually had a Ph.D. (in education from NYU) to back up his claimed "Dr." Clements agreed to fulfill the unexpired subscriptions to Siegmeister's Regeneration when that magazine failed in November 1937. In a very prescient note, the journal advertises Clements' "Strange Sex Facts" ("Men who can nurse babies; men who are pregnant; men who menstruate; both man and woman in one body; hermaphrodites; other sex secrets explained. 35 -page booklet, 10c."

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