Poles (not so far) Apart
Throughout the western world’s religious understanding of “spiritual principles” there is customarily an awkward insistence that godly reward is to be achieved from eliminating one half of Creation’s balancing system.
For example, the common religious assertion in western religions is that light can be achieved only by eliminating darkness. In this type of religious “guidance” everything is then placed in an atmosphere of constant confrontation, stress and battle. In western faith systems the stance is taken that choice must be taken: it is either God or Satan, good or evil, faithful or infidel, saved or lost, chosen or rejected, angelic or demonic, life or non-life, etc. The only form of opposites that western religions grudgingly accept is the male/female dilemma–with woman accepted only by default!
The result of Judaic, Christian and Isamic faith systems’ insistence of trying to separate two ends of one Cause is that all seekers often find themselves struggling with gnawing feelings of resentment that arise from not understanding how anyone can possibly achieve such “purity.” The holy fact is that nothing is definable without contrast, and the elimination of opposite (or polar) interactions that is championed by these self-serving militant faith systems would result in the annihilation of everything–including them. Let us not continue to be mesmerized by such irrationality. We would do well to heed words of wisdom from a Zen teacher, Lao-Tzu, who noted something to the effect that inferior virtue cannot let go of the pretense of virtue.
All life forms, as points of self-aware consciousness, are not active in this plane of energy/matter to do battle against the principles of polarity that sustains every definable thing in Creation. If there can be said to be any purpose in the experience of self-awareness in this dimension of energy-density, it is that advancement (evolution) is attained only by transcending the seeming battle of opposites.1 That type of pretense lurks in any religious teaching that encourages belief that individualization takes place and performs with no relationship to the whole.
In a round-about way this brings us back to the male/female dilemma–and those annoying little factors of chromosomes. As disturbing as it may be to common religious instruction, every life form carries within itself the hibernating factor of the opposite sex. No man is ever one hundred percent male, and no woman is ever one hundred percent female: and the amount of dominance of one over the other is never an inviolable law. Each living thing, each human being is a temporary energy manifestation assumed by a self-aware unit of consciousness. How each manifestation expresses itself is unique unto itself, and that is how Creation observes itself.
1) Polar establishment of defineable energy-substances is explained in depth in The Celestial Scriptures: Keys to the Suppressed Wisdom of the Ancients.
April 2, 2009 at 10:22 am
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