Spirit is interwoven with earthbody, but spirit demands sacrifice. These spiritual steps are in fact arrayed In a great chain of being. The great chain unfolds in evolutionary time. Nothing is pregiven; the world is not just a perception but also an interpretation (co-creativity)
The Ascenders, feverishly disregarding natural manifestation as illusory from the Buddhist to the devout Christian and everything in between, primarily independent masculine energy, from the many to the One, detached. A movement where we see that behind the fleeting and shadowy forms of manifestation there is a single source, a groundless ground, the absolute, and we rise to an understanding of this absolute good. Are at odds with the descenders, a movement whereby the One empties itself into all creation, gives itself to all forms, so that all creation is a perfect manifestation of spirit. From the one to the many. The entire manifest world was seen as a manifestation or embodiment of the good, of the absolute, and was to be celebrated as such. The greater the diversity in the world, the greater the spiritual glory and goodness. A dominantly feminine energy, grounded.
Seperated, God, and Goddess, Wisdom and compassion, ascent and descent, are desperately trying to cling on to their fragmented truths. The masculine face of spirit, or God, is pre-eminently Eros, the ascending and transcendental current of the kosmos, ever striving to find greater wholeness and wider unions, to break for the limits and reach for the sky, to ruse to unending revelations of a greater good and glory, always rejecting the shallower in search of the deeper, rejecting the lower in search of the higher. The feminine face of spirit, the goddess, is pre-eminently agape, or compassion, the descending, immanent and manifesting current of the kosmos, the principle of embodiment, and bodily incarnation, and relationship, and relational and manifest embrace, touching every being with perfect and equal grace, rejecting nothing, embracing all. Where eros strives for the good of the one in transcendental wisdom, agape embraces the many with goodness immanent care.
These two fundamental paradigms have been warring since the dawn of time, each still claiming to be whole, each still accusing the other of evils , each still perpetrating the same fractured insanity it despises in the other. The point is to bring these to currents into some sort of union or harmony, so that God and Goddess can hold hands and both find a spirit that transcends and includes this world, a spirit eternally prior to this world and yet embracing this world and all of its beings with infinite love and compassion, and care and concern, and the tenderness of mercies and glory in the glance.
Tantra in the general sense presents the ultimate non dual reality as the sexual embrace of God and Goddess, Shiva and Shakti, emptiness and form. Neither ascent or descent is finale, ultimate or privileged, but rather like the primordial ying and yang, they generate eachother, depend on each other, cannot exist without the other, and find their own true being by dying into the other. only to awaken together, joined in bliss, as the entire kosmos, finding that eternity is wildly in love with the productions of time, the non dual head radiating throughout all creation, and blessing all creation, and singing this embrace for all eternity, an embrace that we are all asked to repeat in our own awareness, moment to moment, endlessly, miraculously, as the immediate presence of one taste. This is the non dual vision, the union of reflux and efflux, God and Goddess, emptiness and form, wisdom and compassion, Eros and agape, ascent and descent.
If we are to survive this turmoil we must think integrally. To awaken your true identity, to awaken the spirit who is the actual author of this integral display. And there hidden in the secret cave of the heart, where God and Goddess finally unite, where emptiness embraces all forms as the lost and found beloved, where Eternity rejoices the praises of noble time, where Shiva swoons uncontrollably for a luminescent Shakti, where ascending and descending erotically embrace in the sound of one hand clapping, there forever in the universe of one taste, the Kosmos realizes its own true nature, self seen in a tacit recognition that leaves not even a single soul to tell the amazing tale. And remember? There in the heart, where the couple finally unite, the entire game is undone, this nightmare of evolution, and you were exactly where you were before the whole show. With a sudden shock of the utterly obvious, you recognize your own original face, the face you had prior to the big bang, the face of utter emptiness that smiles as all creation sings as the entire kosmos – and it is all undone in that primal glance, and all that is left is the smile, and the reflection of the moon on a quiet pond, late on a crystal clear night.
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