Theos-Talk Archives (February 2004 Message tt00229)

They say that awakening the higher polarity, the spiritual 
consciousness, also activates the lower polarity, sexual awareness. 
They also say that this is the rock upon which is wrecked many a fine 
movement. What can we do to safely navigate this danger?

Adelasie
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"It is, not surprisingly, extremely difficult for contemporary human 
beings to understand the sanctity of the human form or to recognize the body as a 
divine temple. They are too engrossed in sense-perceptions and too engaged in 
the desacralization of the human body, which starts with the abuse of sex even 
before puberty. Yet the body is in truth the most divine phenomenon in the 
universe. If humanity knew this during the golden age of the Third Root Race, it 
certainly lost sight of it a long time ago.

Paradoxically, awareness of and participation in Jiva, or life in this 
highest sense, can only be increased by non-manifestation. That is why people 
cannot understand it. On the one hand, without sleep the human body would die. 
It is only in sleep and the quietude of the sensory apparatus, especially the 
lower physical senses, that the spiritual senses have any chance at all in the 
ordinary human being. It is only through sleep that there is a real osmosis, a 
connection, with the higher vestures. Without sleep there would be death. The 
physical form is the product of inward vitality or Jiva, and not the reverse. 
Therefore,

The animal tissues,...from the moment of the birth of the Entity, are 
regulated, strengthened, and fed by it. It descends in a larger supply to vegetation 
in the Sushumna sun-ray which lights and feeds the moon, and it is through her 
beams that it pours its light upon, and penetrates man and animal, more 
during their sleep and rest, than when they are in full activity."

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