SpiritAndFlesh.net
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Spirit and Flesh: world religion and spirituality, online library and cosmic art gallery
Description
"...when we see things as being separate and discrete (like the human body), this is an illusion (naive real). In Reality matter (and thus humans) are structures of the universe, thus we are all subtly interconnected not only to the world around us, but to all other matter in the universe."
"The union of spirit and flesh is the 'one thing' spoken of by Hermes Trismegistus in his Emerald Tablet; it is the aqua vitae and quintessence of Alchemy; it is the Tao of Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu; in Hinduism it is represented by Ardhanarisvara, who is the union of Shiva and Shakti; it is the Zen stillness, and the enlightened body of Buddha; it is the Tree of Life, linking Heaven and Earth; it is the Eucharist of the Catholic Mass, the transfiguration of the canononical Gospels, the 'rapture' of Revelation, and that which is "of movement, and of rest", as declared by Christ in the Gospel of Thomas; it is the ascension to unity spoken of in the New Age movement, and it is the eternal OM of the Goddess Lakshmi; it is the foundation of the Kabbalah; it is the unified wave structure of matter, of the new physics; it is the body electric of Walt Whitman, and the body divine. In short, the union of spirit and flesh is the essential component of all progressive cosmologies, for it is the true enlightenment. Historically this 'oneness' has be called advaita (non-dual). However, the non-dualists of history seem to have overlooked the flesh as being part of that oneness, and continually declared that the body, and all matter, were merely illusion. Fortunately humanity is at a point in its evolution where flesh can be known to be divine, and a new advaita can come into being. One of the key players in this re-union is the Green Man. It is through this new, and absolute, unity and oneness that the true ascension of Sophia, our cosmic being, occurs. Which is to say, flesh is now holy ground!
This website is intended to expedite our personal and cosmic growth towards wholeness. Wholeness comes about through the union of seemingly separated halves, such as male and female, good and evil, Heaven and Earth, and spirit and flesh. It is up to each of us as individuals to grow towards a greater wholeness by dissolving our limited ideas about who and what we are, thereby expanding beyond our current identities and incorporating aspects of the whole which we do not currently perceive as 'ourselves'. By marrying the opposites mentioned above within ourselves, we actually unite the entire cosmos together, since everything is connected, and therefore by finding individual wholeness, and fully embodying both spirit and flesh, we are creating cosmic harmony. That is, we are uniting Heaven and Earth.
Contact
- Iconoclast Press
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- Vancouver BC
- CA V5Z 4R3
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- +1.6047304078
