Sex is the basis of the universe. It is the foundation to everything as the One becomes two in order to manifest and know itself more fully. Call this spirit and matter, God and Creation, subject and object, it amounts to the same thing. The two are always trying to return to oneness and it is this that provides the creative tension necessary for anything first to be and then to develop and evolve.
Sex means metaphysical sex of which the physical is a lower order reflection in matter. Sex is the most powerful thing in the world but it points to something much greater than itself which is why it can lead to the greatest elevation and, when despoiled or corrupted, the greatest degradation. But even then it is never evil, just the perversion of a supreme good.
In the human sphere sex appears as man and woman which is the expression in creatures, created beings, of spirit and matter. Each have both within them but there is a polarity to each which is different. This points to an important truth, one rejected in our time but understood though often misused in the past. These two are complementary but they are not equal and opposite. In any complementary pair one is ontologically prior, the other appearing as its reflection in duality. In this case, it is spirit which precedes matter and, by extension, the male precedes and therefore should lead the female. If that is not the case as now when feminism has denatured humanity then societal breakdown will ensue and end in chaos which is the degeneration of form to raw material. Male and female represent the vertical and horizontal axes of life, one pointing to transcendence and higher reality and the other to this world and material being, nature, earth, the body. Both are part of the whole but the masculine principle must dominate or spirit will be pulled down into matter where it will be lost in a psychic miasma (see much contemporary spirituality which is all to do with feelings and healing rather than proper self-transcendence).
Only the hero can become divine. That is to say only the fully developed self can transcend self. Popular (feminised?) Christianity ignores this truth thinking that because anyone who believes can be saved then all are equal in Christ. All may be one in Christ but that does not mean that all are equal. There is hierarchy in heaven, and salvation is not theosis. The idea that everyone is saved and when saved equal comes from prioritising the immanent at the expense of the transcendent. It collapses the vertical to the horizontal. The vertical needs the horizontal to express itself and to know itself as subject needs object, but it must always be the dominant principle.
When the feminine asserts itself over the masculine which it will often seek to do in a fallen world of competing egos, then what is pleasing to emotions overrides what accords with truth. Nurturing virtues, essential in themselves and in their proper place, become over-emphasised and expressed where they don't belong and where they do active harm such as, for example, by undermining justice and responsibility. So-called compassion (which is not love) is weaponised to pull down higher truths, by definition beyond the mundane, to the point where they can be understood by all. But they are destroyed in the process. The tyranny of the masses becomes the arbiter of truth. This is the law of the horizontal applied to the vertical.
The moon transforms the light of the sun and makes of it something very different, mysterious and beautiful, but without that light it has nothing to transform. The Creator has given us signs in the heavens through which we can understand how the dynamics of human interaction should work. If we ignore them we are straying from the path of truth and that means we fall into darkness and illusion. This is our state today.
To say that the increasing domination of the feminine over the masculine leads to loss of connection to transcendent truth is not to condemn the feminine itself but the ego-driven feminine. Obviously, there is an ego-driven masculine too which seeks power for its own ends rather than power in the service of truth. However, there is a difference between corrupted truth and an outright lie. The masculine should rule but for the sake of the masculine and the feminine not for its own sake, and that way lies proper harmony. If the basis of the universe is sex then the expression of that is love. In a fallen world the two sexes become rivals, each drawn to the other but also seeking to dominate the other. It is not right to say the sexes should cooperate as that is far too feeble a word to express the creative harmony that should exist between them, but they should certainly not compete. Each sex must be true to its essential metaphysical Form in which the male represents the reality of being and truth, and the female that of change and becoming. Then they will find true creative fulfilment.
In the end master metaphysician James Brown summed it up thus.
This is a man's worldBut it wouldn't be nothingNothing without a woman or a girl.
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