Erynn said:
I suppose I should have expected such a reply to my post.
"Polarities" are not just internal. Polarity isn't about a person's dangly bits or lack thereof. It's about what's within. Some systems don't work on polarity at all, but rather on a base of triplicity. Male/female heterosexual balance is not the only kind of balance in the universe.
Everything that exists has its opposite. Every pair of conflicts (opposites) has its synthesis. That is the only balance, everything will eventually boil down to that, and everything in the world is that. The atom is sexual, it has these forces. And what of the atom that is unbalanced? It is these atoms that form our atomic bombs. They are unstable and inharmonic and cause danger to the outside world.
You can call it "black" or perverted or evil or misguided, or whatever you like, but I have known these folks for years, and don't see that they are creating chaos, depleting themselves, or in any way damaging others. As in so many other places in our lives and the universe, our personal beliefs effect us -- for someone who sincerely believes that everything sexual taking place outside of heterosexual monogamous marraige is wrong and evil, then if they practice something outside those bounds, bad things are likely to happen to them. If this is not a part of their belief system, bad things are much less likely to occur. One has to buy into the basic premise for the argument that this is chaotic and evil to have it impact one's reality in that way, not unlike having to buy into heaven or hell and Christ or Satan to be a part of some forms of Christianity. As a Pagan, I don't buy the Christ/Satan-heaven/hell dichotomy. It doesn't have anything to do with my spiritual path, and therefore is irrelevant.
Sexuality is anterior to the body. Sexuality is these three forces we have been speaking of. They are the same thing as the Tetrmurti, the Trinity. Sex is anterior to the flesh, the sound, and the seizures we identify it as, and are identified with.
Ethics, in a transcendental sense, is in reality a search for the Absolute. Relative ethical theory makes no sense if one is searching for the Absolute Truth. Certainly, our beliefs affect our view on life. And one can believe that what they don't believe is irrelevant.
But none of this type of thinking has any bearing on the Harsh Reality, the unbending Truth.
Life is rarely divided into purely black/white terms. There is a rainbow of other colors on the scales between and surrounding that scale.
At least we cannot see it in black and white terms, that is for sure. That is why we make mistakes. That is why we are mistaken.
If someone places a point inside a sphere, there is only one direction that leads to the center of that sphere. Every other direction is useless in terms of returning to the Radical Zero Point.
To those reading this topic, I ask only that you keep an open mind. Human beings aren't magnets, nor are they purely mechanistic forces. We each contain within us aspects of masculine and feminine, the androgynous and the hermaphroditic, the polysexual and the homosexual, the ascetic celibate and the joyful hedonist. None of these are wrong or evil, nor do they, of their simple existence or when brought together in love, produce chaos and evil. They simply are.
We are all a mass of contradictory "I" centers. One center says, "I am a good person, I will do this.." and another says, "I am a devious person, so I will do that...", and "I am open minded because of this..." and "I am a spiritual person because I have this theory.."
But having an "I," an Identification, for everything in the Universe is not the same thing as becoming The Thing Itself. Identifying with the All, with all aspects, the Multiple Contradiction (I am Thesis and I am Antithesis), is not the same thing as the un-identification of everything: the Nothingness. They are opposites.
The beautify theory of the Nothingness, of the Nonvalue and the Nonjudgement, in short, the entire basis of the Oriental Philosophy, is generally misunderstood.
Something can only BE if it simply IS. If that something IS producing action (karma), then it no longer simply IS. To BE is to be the Being, the One who simply IS. To exist is to no longer BE, because then it exists as "that" and as "this." To Be is to the Be the Being, and the Ultimate Reality is in fact a complete non-sense because the Ultimate Truth is that the Being is the Non-Being. That is why To Be is better than To Exist.
What I wish to say with all of this jargon is that anything in the world that produces an action will produce a reaction. This movement of space and time is what we call existance. Anything that exists and produces "good" things, is not simply Being. Anything that exists and produces "bad" things is not simply Being. Anything that exists and produces anything is not simply Being, because it is doing more than simply Being, it is producing action! Finally, nothing can exist without producing itself. Everything that exists produces action.
So, to say that something simply IS, or they simply ARE, a theory I used to love with all of my heart and soul and all my arrogant-mystic-enlightened "I", doesn't make sense in a radical point of view.
Look into your hearts. Intent is the true key. Act with care and caution and love. Communicate honestly. Focus your energies in a good way and ground out or store anything excess. In this way, people of all orientations and preferences can practice safe forms of sexual magic.
Forget about intentions. Certainly, we always need good intentions. That is a given, a prerequisite. But, intentions mean nothing. Good intentions mean nothing when the outcome, the reality is horrible. Good intentions, by themselves, will never produce anything.
Lets take a look at Hippie Revolution. The same people talking about peace and love are now businessmen and polticians. What happened? They had such beautiful intentions.
Erynn, everything you told me, I believed with all of my heart and soul, not but a few years ago. But all of it is false.
The best cases against Degenerative Sexual Magic are those who have made it so popular, such as Aleister Crowley and Rasputin.