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She explains that women must control their sexual energies these teachings. Most great spiritual teachers reserved just like men need to control their ejaculation if they would advanced teachings for those who could understand them. cultivate spiritual enlightenment: "If there is leakage of So we read in the Gospel of Thomas (22): "When you make bodhichitta [sexual energy], the Buddha Unchanging Light is the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer slain... and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and Therefore, with the power of retraction, drawing up ‘love' when you make male and female into a single one, so that the with the base energy of life-force, I held it in the pot of my male will not be male nor the female be female ... then you will belly, and maintaining the recollection of pleasure enter [the kingdom]." This basically says that we must become uncontaminated by lust, divesting myself of mind-created androgynic to enter the kingdom of heaven. There is no chance samadhi, yet not slipping into an instant of torpor, I experienced that the general public would have understood this. the ascent of Awareness."® Also consider the following (114): "Simon Peter said to him, This passage explains in beautiful simplicity the process of "Let Mary leave us, for women are not worthy of [eternal] life.' Taoist internal alchemy: produce a feeling of sexual pleasure, Jesus said, 'I myself shall lead her in order to make her male, so draw this feeling from the sexual organs into the abdomen, that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. continue to increase it with mindfulness, and at the same time For every woman who will make herself male will enter the lead the feeling of meditative bliss from the head into the kingdom of heaven.'" This, too, refers to androgyny. The abdomen. Energy flow then follows the feelings. In the means to achieve this is the Sacrament of the Bridal Chamber. abdomen, the heavenly or male energy from the head centres It is alluded to in various Gnostic Gospels. Jesus taught several interacts or copulates with the female earth energy of the sexual sacraments, and the Gospel of Philip states that these were the and base centres. holy baptism, the holier atonement and the "holy of the holies", The ultimate goal of Taoist energy cultivation is the the sacrament of the bridal chamber, in which participants "put formation of an immortal body. on the Light" or "Chrism" and return This is not a physical body but a to Oneness. Androgyny is also a higher energy body, a light-body. In central part of other religions, the same way as in esoteric Buddhist where deities in Taoist, Hindu and practice, this is achieved by Buddhist art are often shown as part combining male and female sexual It is clear that descriptions male and part female. energies so that the practitioner There are no direct descriptions becomes androgynic. of secret teachings such as of the sacrament of the bridal This takes place initially in the the above are disguised so that chamber, but it is clothed in sexual area behind the navel where the symbology and seems to have been converted sex energy has been only the initiated understand practised as a sacred male-female accumulated by practising the the true meaning. union without orgasm, also microcosmic orbit or an equivalent described as pure embrace or method. undefiled intercourse. Possibly both methods were used as in Tao at the top and the bottom of the and tantra kundalini practices. Dual spine. This is like an energy axis cultivation appears to be by far between two spinning vortices with a secondary male-female easier for equalising male and female energies. However, there split between the right and left side of our body. The internal is also the following description of it which may indicate single Our major male-female poles are alchemy or inner copulation of these poles then creates the cultivation: "divine child" or immortal light-body. To be successful, we Epiphanius mentions a Gnostic writing called "The Great need not only a strong sexual pole but also a strong crown or Questions of Mary", where Jesus gave Mary Magdalene a heavenly pole formed by regular meditation and a spiritual revelation on a mountain. According to this, Jesus produced attitude. forth a woman from his side, akin to the generation of Eve in Lao Tzu explained the immortal light-body thus: "It is self- the Garden of Eden in Genesis. Jesus had sex with her, and aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a biological body then consumed his own semen (see _ http://www. yet not attached to it, and guided by wisdom rather than novusordoseclorum-oai.org/documents/magdalene.htm). This emotion. Whole and virtuous, it can never die."" description is interesting as not only the mythical Eve was However, Edgar Cayce warned that if you raise the kundalini created in this way from the androgenous Adam and together before you can control your sexual energy, it simply inflames they populated the world, but also in Hindu mythology Shiva your sexual desire and causes problems on your spiritual path. produced his consort in the same way and they then copulated As general advice, this means practise Karezza or the to produce the world. All of these describe a male-female split microcosmic orbit until you can use your sexual energy without of the divine androgyne, and the sexual union of both parts then being confronted by uncontrollable desires. produced an immortal light-body, the human race or the world. It is clear that descriptions of secret teachings such as the The Sacrament of the Bridal Chamber above are disguised so that only the initiated understand the true A similar picture emerges from the Gnostic Gospels. meaning. From what we know now, we may assume that Jesus Apparently these Gospels, ascribed to the disciples of Jesus, demonstrated to Mary how to focus sexual energy into a male have been rejected by the official Christian Churches because and female energy pole, and then unite these polarised energies had secret teachings for his disciples. to create a higher energy body. sad any of secret teachings such as the above are disguised so that only the initiated understand the true meaning. The Sacrament of the Bridal Chamber A similar picture emerges from the Gnostic Gospels. Apparently these Gospels, ascribed to the disciples of Jesus, have been rejected by the official Christian Churches because they imply that Jesus had secret teachings for his disciples. Western Christianity is based on the doctrines of Paul who did not know Jesus personally and therefore did not receive JUNE — JULY 2007 NEXUS = 39 It is clear that descriptions Continued on page 79 www.nexusmagazine.com