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From: Cleocatras
On 2001/06/28 04:02, Cleocatras posted thus to the K-list:
Dear List,
Would anyone like to comment on this writing?
Cat
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 20:04:47 -0000
From: vestibule301ATnospamyahoo.co.uk
Subject: Re: He/She or Yin/Yang
--- In SpiritualAlchemy
Hello everyone,
I am a new member of this list. Thank you for allowing me to partake.
I am presently reading some past posts and I noticed that in Lou's
post he had interpreted yin/yang in the opposite way.
Below is an article written by an enigmatic group which throws light
on this important subject of the divine feminine and divine masculine.
Perhaps this group would accept it as my first contribution.
Sincerely,
CB
THE DIVINE ROMANCE BETWEEN YIN AND YANG
Divine Love may be radiated and therefore transmitted to others
through the open heart of a living Soul. Both men and women may do
this. The male, however, is able to transmit a higher spiritual
frequency of Truth and Purpose. This does not make man superior to
woman, it is just a universal pattern. To further illustrate this
point let us first recall the ancient hermetic axiom: "As above, so
below". We may observe the same divine blueprint that underlies the
All also expressing itself in the sexual act between human beings.
The man provides the life-seed to the woman who, after receiving it,
brings forth the child. Similarly, we may regard the Sun, the Father
(male), radiating forth life-energies which are received by Mother
Earth (female) who then enables all the diverse life-forms to spring
forth from her womb, her matrix of creation.
This same universal pattern is applicable between man and woman with
regard to the Path of Return. Historically, we may recognise that the
Avatar, the Messiah or Christ, has always been male. He comes to
establish the Truth, to transmit the Purpose, to open up the Way, and
the female, by devoting herself to the spiritual male and his
mission, also attains liberation. This relationship between male and
female, yin and yang, is the immutable archetypal pattern of the
Universe. A delightful symbolical example of such a divine romance
between man and woman is given in Luke 7:38, where Mary Magdalene
anoints the feet of Jesus with precious unguents.
Divine Will, or spiritual Potency, may fertilise or catalyse divine
Wisdom and Love in woman. By way of their true union, Spirit (male)
brings forth potential divine blessings, and Matter (female)
dispenses them unto all. This is how male and female unite for the
common good; He giving the divine Seed and She, the Fruits thereof.
The spiritual male is the provider of divine Purpose and carries the
Spirit-Spark to ignite its manifestation in matter. The spiritual
female receives the seed into her womb and is able to nurture the
Christ-Child (Love) in matter. Together, their union fertilises the
prepared and so fertile womb-consciousness or creatrix of the divine
Mother who brings forth the offspring: a new creation, born of Love.
Male and Female, therefore, combine vision with manifestation, pure
divine Intent with the creative Means to manifest the Divine Plan in
matter. Thus, in order to re-enter the Kingdom of God man must
remember his divine Essence and give that in love to the female, and
she, in turn, must open herself to receive the Spirit-Seed and thus
provide the creatrix for birthing the Christ-Child.
Today, chiefly owing to ignorance of right relationship between the
sexes and therefore due to the distortion, misuse and perversion of
the divine Romance, there is much disease in the world,
psychologically, emotionally and physically. All disease may be
healed instantly by divine Love, which may be experienced as Ecstasy
in right relationship between yin and yang. Ecstasy may be fully
realised and brought down to the physical plane only by way of divine
union between male and female. Such is Universal Law: the divine
pattern underlying all creation, which is demonstrated by all natural
life, from the atom and its electrons to the sun and its orbiting
planets, and beyond.
The fallen male heals himself by transmitting the Spirit-Seed, the
fallen female by receiving it and subsequently giving birth to a new
creation. In this way male and female need one another. Under the Law
of Polarity, male and female must integrate themselves all the way
down to and including the physical plane, and this may be done only
by looking up and out together, as one, in the same direction.
When a fallen female identifies with the 'I' and thus remains in
servitude to self, there will always be competition, self-grasping,
fear and selfish desire, plus and a tendency to seek escape routes
for self, which will include a sick orientation toward the 'winning
over' of men for her personal gratification and 'security'.
When a man proceeds to live for self, he will seek to 'use and abuse'
women, endeavouring to satisfy his innate spiritual longing by way of
sexual lust and domination.
This, then, is the essential cause of the 'battle of the sexes':
ignorance of right relationship and right sexual Purpose.
The fundamental sickness of all men, then, is the same, just as is
the fundamental sickness of women. Just as the male sickness may be
healed by one essential divine Solution: divine transmission or
giving Love, so also will the female sickness be healed by receiving
that divine transmission, by receiving Love from the male.
The open, trusting, devotional and receptive Love of the divine
female dissolves the fear of the male, a fear that has over the ages
turned into violence towards women due to man's terror of the woman
being unable to receive him and so help him to realise his divine
Purpose. Therefore, once females awaken to their true divine Nature
and Purpose, then the patriarchal dominance on Earth in all its
manifestations will be ended, and Christ may, at last, lift
humanity's burdens into the Light of Redemption - both for women and
men.
In order to completely understand the nature of the great
complications and problems created throughout history by the battle
of the sexes, we will need to further explore the essential make-up
of the Universe, or God.
YHVH (Yahweh)
The most ancient name for the Universal Spirit - or God - is Yod He
Vau He, often written as YHVH. But this ancient name is far more than
just what another religion calls their version of the concept of God,
or even a name. In fact, it was not meant to really be just a ATnospamname'
at all. It is from before our time of human manifestation on Earth.
It is the physical-word equivalent of an esoteric, vibrational
Reality. It is an actual representation of the Universal Law that
governs the primary pattern of all Creation.
The name itself is the key to Creation and the representation of the
Universal Law of polarities and the replication/reproduction of all
vibration. And remember, everything is vibration. Contained in this
name for the One Life, then, is the actual formula for Creation, and
the manifestation of all life within the One. Therefore this name of
God is probably the single most significant metaphysical concept
there is. It is the simplest thing in the Universe, but perhaps the
most difficult to really understand by the uninitiated and
unenlightened.
The name is represented by four letters of what is now called the
Hebrew alphabet, which have numerical as well as symbolical meanings.
However, the name is actually far more ancient than the Hebrew
alphabet. Yod-He-Vau-He (YHVH) is allegedly pronounced 'Yohd-Hay-Vah-
Hay'. This simple name was changed through time, translation, and
misinterpretation, to many variations of the original, including
within several religions. Consider the similarities Yahweh, Ya-Ho-Wah-
Ho (YHWH), Ya-He-Wa, and Je-Ho-Vah, to name but a few. Jehovah and
Yahweh stuck pretty well. YHVH is also sometimes referred to as the
Tetragrammaton in magical and metaphysical circles.
The first part of the name, which was the positive polarity or Father
aspect of the name of God, was Yod. See the similarity here even:
Yod, God, Yod, God; not too hard to change through time and even
pronunciation. It was thus that the Father principle, Yod, was
distorted from Yod into God, which is also most often given a father-
principle connotation: "My Father God and I are one." - Jesus.
The ancient teachings aver: "He who can pronounce this name properly
opens the gates of heaven". This saying is vastly misunderstood. But
even now, in some major religions it is forbidden to even attempt to
pronounce YHVH. This is because in the early days of
organized ATnospamreligion', certain ATnospampriests' in positions of power, and
who desired even more power, did not want the common people to know
this great key. They wanted people to look in deference to the
priests and so turn to their religion for their understanding of God
and spiritual matters. This gave them great power and control, so
they hid the name, changed the name, or made it forbidden to be used
by anyone other than the ATnospamhigh holy people'. However, chanting the
name in meditation properly can create major changes in consciousness.
The symbolism and structure of Yod-He-Vau-He is simple, yet deeply
profound. And when its few simple elements combine, they give birth
to the entire complexity of life. In part, YHVH represents a
perfectly simple pattern which is holographically present in all
life, from the atom to the deity which is a solar system, and beyond.
It also speaks of human procreation, and stellar/planetary
procreation.
The first part: Yod, represents the positive (+), Sun, Light, the
Father or Spiritual Seed principles. The first He represents the
negative (-), not in the sense of ATnospambad' or ATnospamevil', but in the sense
of negative polarity, pure darkness, like that of the void of space,
the womb, the receptive, feminine, Mother principles. Vau is the
creative result of the meeting of both Yod and He in the place of
interplay, intercourse. The union of the first two principles begets
the Love-Child, Christ, a new creation, which is Vau.
Vau is its own principle, the principle of Love, which is
androgynous. It therefore has within itself the same attributes as
its Father and Mother, so it is actually both a Yod and He in its own
microcosmic realm. In terms of cosmic frequency, Vau is on a
vibrational plane an octave down from its parent-creators. It is also
the place of conception of, and the birth of, the second He and Yod
(the second He is placed before the second Yod because the polarities
of creation are reversed in every new Birth; see diagram below).
So Vau begins the cycle (Yod-He-Vau-He) again, but in microcosmic
form. The second He and Yod, then, are the offspring of Vau, the
result of the interaction of the new microcosmic Yod and He of Vau.
The Circle of Life
INFINITY
|
YOD - HE
\ /
VAU
/ \
HE - YOD
\ /
VAU
/ \
YOD - HE
\ /
VAU
|
INFINITY
This, then, is the play of divine Creation, and it is not difficult
to understand how so much karma has been created, and so much
suffering and error known in the fallen universe through the breaking
of its laws due to ignorance and selfishness.
Adam and Eve
If we examine the structure of the cosmos, perhaps starting at an
atomic level, we will see that the negatively-charged electrons ('-'
or feminine) orbit the positively-charged nucleus ('+' or masculine).
The planets that orbit the central sun of a solar system are also
feminine (-) while the sun itself is positive (+).
Here again in the physical cosmos, then, we observe the Father and
Mother principles in operation: Father-Sun radiates light and life
and the Mother-Planets receive these vital life-forces for their
creative manifestation.
Therefore, it may be recognised that the feminine polarity of God (-)
exists on the outside of the Body of Father-Spirit (+). This is in
insuperable pattern for all life in the Universe.
This simple example is, in itself, sufficient to understand the Old
Testament allegory of the Adam and Eve story. But let us consider
this vitally important subject further.
The story of Genesis in the Old Testament tells us that Eve was
tempted first by the serpent in the Garden of Eden, and that Adam
followed Eve in her fall. Bearing in mind what we have observed
regarding the arrangement of the feminine and masculine polarities
within cosmic creation, it is clear that the feminine (-) or outer
part of creation was the first principle to Fall from Grace, or to
move out from the centre, being farthest away from the Spiritual
Heart (+) of God, as it were. This, then, was the Fall of Eve. Adam
(+) then followed in order to try to redeem Eve (-), for in
separation from his divine consort Adam became only half a unity,
half a being. In order to rescue Eve, Adam was required to also Fall
from Grace and enter the undivine universe of illusion. Hence both
Adam and Eve's banishment from Paradise.
In order to reverse the Fall from Grace for both women and men, Eve
must open her spiritual womb again to Adam and Adam must love Eve and
so transmit the Purpose from the purest place in his heart. This,
then, is the immediate and only true Goal of all fallen life in the
undivine universe.
The Fall from Paradise as demonstrated by women and men on Earth is
also replicated throughout the undivine universe by the physical
planets and suns (and, indeed, of all lives, including the atomic).
For example, planet Earth, Gaia, having become a fallen world long
ago has repeatedly reacted in fear to malefic seedings, that is to
say, cosmic evil manipulations rendered through the selfish
distortion of the true spiritual Purpose of the male. And it is
hardly surprising that the female consciousness has not been
receptive to being seeded (raped!) by a consciousness that has
repeatedly approached her with force and manipulation! This has, of
course, only perpetuated and exacerbated the battle of the sexes on
Earth over the ages, until today when we may observe a repulsion of
men by many women and an equal and opposite animosity of women by
many men almost everywhere in the world. Such aversion is recorded in
the spiritual subconscious of all human beings on Earth today.
Women innately sense within themselves the excessive injustice
perpetrated by men upon women historically and, indeed, this has been
the case. Witch-hunts and burnings are but one extreme example of the
general domination and suppression of women by men over the
millennia. However, woman has entirely forgotten that it was she who
fell from Grace first and that in his growing frustration over vast
stretches of time, man has also distorted his original pure
intentions to give his Love to Eve and so redeem her. She has
entirely forgotten the essential requirement of opening her womb to
the spiritual male, thus reversing her 'original sin' and allowing
both yin and yang to unite once again.
As has been mentioned, the aforesaid distortions have occurred
repeatedly for aeons throughout Earth's history, and the karmic
ramifications of this are legion. So again, let us explore the true
Solution to this terrible dilemma from which the human race has
suffered for so long.
In order to reverse her fallen condition (and so also her
corresponding sickness of heart), Eve must remember who she is as
well as her true function and purpose in matter. Indeed, such
remembrance is precisely what the spiritual Adam has been attempting
to catalyse within her for ages and ages, in order that they may
unite as one and so respond positively to their perennial Call to re-
enter the divine Stream of Evolution. Having remembered this, Eve may
proceed in faith and intelligent surrender to the Divine Plan, and
again re-dedicate herself to manifesting her true, divine role in
fallen matter. It is thus that she will restore Adam's honour by
receiving his Spirit-Seed.
It is thus, through her divinely-aligned focus, that Eve may remember
her spiritual love and vital interrelationship with Adam and, of
course, his eternal love for her, and so heal. Eve must 'fall in
love' with Adam again, thereby 'opening her womb' to him for the
creative Purpose. On Earth her love allows the spiritual Adam to
truly incarnate in matter through the male incarnation. But
first 'the Prince must kiss Sleeping Beauty' and cease in chasing her
for himself!
After the kiss, the male divine Spirit is invoked by Eve through the
long-awaited Adam in order to fulfil their joint purpose in matter
together: Redemption, through the rebirth of the Christ-Child, Christ-
Consciousness, or divine Love, by way of their true Union. Eve, then,
cannot fulfil her purpose without Adam, and vice versa, but first
Adam must evoke Eve's feminine, receptive love. She cannot break the
spell of fallen matter without Adam's divine Spark; the Mother's womb
cannot give new birth without the male Spirit-Seed.
The goal is that they re-unite: her open, receptive Love invoking his
Spirit down to Earth via his personality in order that he may plant
the Spirit-Seed in her womb. Note how, in response to Eve's Love,
Adam realises the Living Spirit, even in his physical body, in order
to give it to her. Matter, therefore, unites with Spirit all the way
down to the physical plane. This is the Alchemical Marriage, which
transfigures matter, returning the reunited couple to the original
divine State. Their divine union brings forth or births the Christ-
Consciousness, and YHVH - the Law of Creation - is fulfilled on
Earth. It is thus that Adam and Eve's rightful place in Paradise is
reinstated, as Heaven and Earth unite for the blessing of the whole
world.
Yin and Yang
The dual polarities of yin and yang, female and male, are
complementary aspects of one Whole. Only in the fallen universe does
this Whole express itself in the form of two separate
polar 'opposites': man and woman, the split of the sexes being
necessitated in the distant past due to the misuse of the creative
Power for selfish purposes.
Yin and yang may be compared to transistors for the alternating
current on a circuit-board. Negative and positive polarities do not
create conflict when the circuit is closed and co-operating. It is
only when the circuit is broken and therefore '+' and '-' are no
longer working together that a short-circuit is created, and then man
and woman become mere polarity potentials (and even enemies!). This
is the painful situation on Earth today between men and women.
However, when functioning in their rightful and united way, i.e., as
selfless agents for divine Purpose, male and female do not have a
consciousness of separation from one another.
Every individual personality-microcosm, whether a male or a female
incarnation, has both polarities within them. When united, the
yin/yang principles become one functioning 'electrical' (or
spiritual) transformer, allowing the Creative Spirit to be active and
usable all the way down to the most material plane.
The Archetypal Roles of Male and Female
The archetypal roles of yin and yang have been played out repeatedly
throughout history. For example, the Hindu Avatar, Krsna, had his
favourite consort, Radha, and there is Shiva (divine Will) and his
consort, Shakti (feminine creative Intelligence or Power); the
Egyptian Osiris had his Isis, and Lancelot found true love with queen
Gwenivere in the Arthurian legend. The Buddha's wife remained devoted
to him even after he left her and their child to seek Liberation. As
an example of her pure devotion to the Buddha's Cause, she ate only
one meal a day from a single wooden begging bowl for six years during
his solitary meditations.
Wherever there is a divine male expression, there is a female (or
females) behind him. Note the old saying: "Wherever there is a good
man, there is always a good woman behind him".
Seemingly separate, yet united in purpose and therefore function,
these divine yin/yang archetypes always work together for the same
Cause in perfect harmony and united collaboration. The Father's role
is to plant the seed and then to direct, guide and energise the Child
(as does the Sun), while the Mother's role is to birth and then
nurture the Child in matter (as does Mother Earth). Although the two
polarities have unique and separate functions, they work not in one
another's shadow and they must ultimately meet and unite in divine
Union. Only in the Mystical Marriage may both become Free.
The Birth of a New World on Earth
In alignment with ancient prophecy, Father Spirit today approaches
Mother Gaia in order to seed Her anew and to thus birth the New World
Consciousness (Christ-Consciousness) on Earth. The Father ever
approaches the Mother of the Universe who dwells in Her Cosmic
Physical-Plane body, in order to unite and so give birth to the next
development of their Eternal Romance. Their divine Child may be a
human personality (as in the case of baby Jesus, for example), a race
of beings, a planet, a solar system, a galaxy or a whole field of
manifestation, a whole octave or universe of expression; the divine
formula is always the same, and both yin and yang are required to
play their part.
Mother Gaia (together with her female children) is today expressing
Her lament of eons:
"My Beloved is about to answer my Call for reunification, all the way
down to the physical plane. Yet, today He is not yet quite welcomed
here on my Body - planet Earth - nor His Kingship recognised. For, my
feminine expressions (women) constitute His doorway into physicality
and they are not yet Calling from the heart in true understanding,
trust and surrender. Yet the Sword of Righteousness is being
unsheathed again in these "end times" and my great ailing body will
be healed at the close of this cycle, just as prophesied, as my long-
standing illness will be transmuted into the light of a New Day".
The Call for Adam, to be sounded by females, is an accolade or
recognition of the spiritual Kingship of Father Spirit, and is an
intrinsic part of the divine mythic pattern exemplified and expressed
throughout human history by all Yin archetypal human figures.
In ancient times, when the Earth was naturally more aligned with
Divinity, worship of God as female was common and widespread. In
these epochs, lineage and therefore rulership was held by and
therefore awarded to others and handed-down through females, not
males. Females, through marriage to suitable male lineage (i.e.,
those who carried suitable bloodlines of past royalty) disposed the
title of "king" to the one they married. Many different civilisations
created positive alliances in this way. As is obvious, this pattern
has been all but forgotten and horribly distorted as the feminine
was ATnospamdisrobed' (de-throned) and enslaved upon Earth, her unique
powers forgotten and abused by Lucifer (male distortion). This is
why, during the advent of the Aquarian era, there is an historic
awakening and revival of the Feminine archetype on Earth. Without
Her, our planet cannot heal, awaken and re-align with Divinity. On a
female planet, the female should guide and so ATnospamrule' on Earth, whilst
the male serves her, bestowing the vision and pure Spiritual-Seed to
catalyse her divine power of manifestation. Such a harmonious pattern
will be reinstated on Earth in the coming cycle.
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