Gospel of Philip

Analogue 41: The Mystery of Iconic Balance There are both male and female spirits, which at heart are unclean or impure. Males spirits seek to mate with souls that inhabit a female form, and female spirits seek an unequal relationship with a male form. So no one, then, is able to escape being seized by their compulsions if they have not received both the power of the male and the female in equal balance. It is in the iconic Bridal Chamber, where the bride is united with the bridegroom that this balance is attained. Outside that union, unwisely, females see a lone male and begin to flirt with him until they are engaged in sexual relations. Likewise, males who see a beautiful female by themselves will, out of lust, try to seduce and then sexually coerce her. Yet when the male and female sit side-by-side together in mutuality, neither will coerce the other nor be coerced. This only occurs when the image and the Archetype are united in mutuality. And so in this world, even where the forces...

 

  Analogue 40: Spiritual Marriage & Sexual Union This is the way one lives into the mysteries. There is magnificence to the mystery of marital union, for the world is a complex system based upon humankind, and human society itself is grounded in marriage. So contemplate, then, instead the union of pure spiritual embrace, for it has great power. Its image, however, is found in physical sexual union. SYNOPSIS With this analog we enter the fractal center of this Gospel.  Here Yeshua describes living into (or the praxis of) the temple mysteries.  At the center of this text is the mystery of marital union,  hieros gamos,  Sacred Marriage.  Human society is based on the marital union: everything is built around or emerges from it.  The horizontal axis of space-time and the vertical axis of the Divine come together at the center of both. One form of their union is physical and the other is “pure spiritual embrace.” The image of spiritual embrace is mirr...