And what is a wizard?
The Betrayal of the Masculine
Genuine masculine identity is one of the least understood realities in the history of civilization. Our history is the betrayal of the Masculine as much as the betrayal of the Feminine. And men may be more afraid of the real Masculine than women are.
The true Masculine does not seek dominance and power, it seeks space in which to create. It all comes back again to the fear consciousness has of itself. The seeking of dominance and power by the false masculine arises out of the immature fear of the material, and creates disaster in the world. But the material is the true space of creation. The psychic lightning of the masculine creates and dies in the ecstatic embrace of the material Feminine. The Masculine must penetrate, create in, and ecstatically die in the Feminine. Just as the Feminine must open to, absorb, give ground to, and ecstatically die with the pierce of the Masculine. The child of this union is consciousness which is neither masculine nor feminine, but both, and more than both. Consciousness is the destiny and fulfillment of the ecstatic fusion of the Feminine and Masculine. Salvation in consciousness is not the dominance of the psychic non-material over the material, it is the ecstatic death in the unbreakable embrace of the non-material and the material.
The primary reason for misunderstanding of the masculine is the distortion of psychic reality through fear into something that it is not. When the psychic is seen as superior to and even antecedent to the material then the masculine becomes tyrannical and loses its true creative capacity. The wizard is the masculine identity that can create paths for the most fruitful and meaningful movement of the material toward its fulfillment, not its stagnation and imprisonment. For the masculine to be able to do this it must be free to experience and explore its own psychic mortality and need for material feminine space and working ground. A sign of how stunted masculine reality is in ordinary human consciousness is the fact that this consciousness has almost no capacity to see the reality of psychic mortality. I mean it has almost no perception of the fact that psychic reality is as subject to change and death as material reality is. Immature consciousness wants to identify with this apparent immortality and distorts the masculine psychic reality and in the process fails to assume responsibility for its own calling. Without conscious experience of the changing and dying within psychic reality the masculine identity can never develop its real creative capacity and instead tries to rule by force to keep feminine mortality at bay. This mistake is at the heart of all monotheistic religions and transcendental spiritual philosophies. The true wizard, the true Masculine identity, flashes its creative lightning in the abyss of the material Feminine reality and dies in ecstatic union with the Feminine to create consciousness. Without this there is no expansion and growth of consciousness. There is just tyranny and suppression and norms. Obviously this happened enough for there to be consciousness in the first place, but this consciousness is afraid to let it develop beyond this initial point of infancy and childhood.
The Complexity of the Geminate Human Body
A human being does not have a body and a mind. That is a dead-end simplification that has been around much too long and has become toxic. A human being has two bodies, or rather a body that is geminate, that is, double. This word means double or twin as in Gemini, the zodiacal sign. This geminate body has a somatic aspect and a psychic aspect. The human being has a material body and a psychic body which are the two aspects of the oppositive human evolutionary form. And there is a consciousness that is neither of these bodies. And within this total configuration is an abyss of oppositive complexity. The thing I want to emphasize most here is that the human being has failed to yet become sufficiently aware that the psychic body, or dream body, or astral body does not exist separately from the somatic body and is subject to change and decomposition just as the somatic body is. It is not superior or antecedent to the somatic body. Its reality is relative to that of the somatic body. They are opposites that give each other reality. And neither of these bodies, or neither of these aspects of the geminate human body, is consciousness itself. They are part of the non-conscious root-system of consciousness. When the somatic body, or when the somatic aspect of the geminate human body, decomposes, then the psychic body will also begin to lose or change its form. This does not separate consciousness from its somatic and psychic roots. These material and non-material realities cannot become separated from consciousness. And they cannot terminate except as fusion transformations into expanded consciousness. Until this transformation happens, consciousness is connected with and remains responsible for these material and non-material non-conscious realities. Every individual consciousness has a portion of the material and non-material non-conscious realties that are its individual roots and its individual responsibility in the teleological evolution of the universe. When the individual consciousness begins to perceive its individual roots of material and non-material non-conscious reality then it sees the immeasurable potential of its own being. Before this can happen, one must see through the fallacy of non-material superiority and begin the work of true consciousness expansion.
Immature consciousness must begin the serious exploration of the psychic aspect of the geminate human body and experience its true relationship with and dependence on the somatic aspect of the geminate human body. The history of mysticism and praxis in the traditions of spiritual philosophy shows the failure to properly address this challenge. This failure arises from the assumption of the superiority of the non-material.
And at this point it is crucial that we also look at another inadequately addressed reality concerning the human body. All bodies, in both their somatic and psychic aspects, have both masculine and feminine features. There is no such thing as a purely masculine or purely feminine body. This means that when I speak of witches and wizards it does not mean that a woman who gives actuality to the witch is purely feminine or that a man who gives actuality to the wizard is purely masculine. The feminine and the masculine aspects are mixed in both in accordance with the profound complexity of the generation of opposites. Both witches and wizards have obligations to defend the dignity of and need for the Feminine and Masculine realities, but these obligations lead them into the obligations to the realization of consciousness which is neither masculine nor feminine.
The Coming Apocalypse of Merging Opposites
It seems to me very likely that a world war will erupt out of the current intensifying struggles between the old cultures with their conflicting adamantine norms. This conflict will be intensified greatly by the deeper merging of archetypal opposites in our time. We are approaching a mergence point that because of consciousness resistance will be similar to the global civilization disrupting catastrophes that are known to have occurred in the past in ancient times. I feel for personal reasons, which there is not space here to go into, that this could include a severe tilting of the earth's axis as an expression of reality rectifying certain imbalances. But in any case, new realities will emerge in our world while the world war between the old views is being waged. Psychic realities will appear visible in the material world and seemingly impossible things will happen as opposites merge more deeply. And something that is going to press intensely upon us is the fact that all human bodies, both somatic and psychic, are, as I said, both male and female in composition.
We must be ready to deal with this in a responsible way. A somatic human body can have masculine primary sexual characteristics and still have a high level of female secondary sexual characteristics. There is a wide range of variation possibilities here. And there is no such thing as a correct or normal mixture of elements. Whatever nature produces in terms of bodies is a genuine expression of reality. If a man, that is, a human body that has male primary sexual characteristics, has a high level of secondary female characteristics that is not a mistake by nature and in a sane and healthy society such a man should be seen as his own justification. Such a man should not be so pressured by 'normal' people that he feels a need to try to reduce or eliminate his male characteristics and become a woman. This person is not a mistake in need of correction or Improvement. If you take away the pressure coming from "normal' people that is forced on people who have primary characteristics accompanied by high levels of opposite secondary characteristics then I think you will take away the emotional need in these persecuted people to become something other than what they originally are. Every human being born is its own justification. No one needs to change or fix what they are. They just need to be allowed to be what they are. If there is no pressure then it is much less likely that anyone would feel a need to change themselves with chemicals or surgery.
Let's go to the bottom of this issue: Nature does not make mistakes. Nature reveals and expresses realities. Whatever Nature creates is a true expression of reality and needs to be seen as such. And if honest consciousness feels that Nature has produced something that needs to be altered, not because it is not 'normal', but because it is not desirable in the larger reality evolution-context, then consciousness must assume responsibility for the original condition and for the sought change because everything that Nature produces in human bodies is a reflection of where consciousness evolution is in relation to Nature at that time. This concerns all deformities and diseases. In all so-called diseases and deformities Nature is showing us where we are in terms of evolutionary movement. The primary actor in addressing deformity or disease must always be consciousness itself and not the fear-based desire to simply make something 'normal.' Let me give you a very potent example.
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