From the perspective of traditional metaphysics, and one might add just simple truth, the modern flattening of the sexes is a disruption of the primal duality necessary for manifestation because it attempts to resolve an inequality of value by enforcing an artificial identity of function. Thus, modern feminism does not elevate the feminine archetype which is the maternal power of incubation and giving form to spirit. Instead, it adopts a masculine standard of success by encouraging the feminine principle to abandon its true role in order to mimic the role of the masculine thereby attacking the architecture that holds the universe together.
When the contracting force tries to become the primary initiator or when the expanding force fails to uphold the law and relapses into passivity which is often the case today, the outer world becomes over-assertive, chaotic, and loud, while the inner, subjective worlds are neglected. Duality is the law of the manifested world but the two pillars must remain distinct, honouring their separate roles, if harmony and divine order are to prevail.
The One projects itself into creation in terms of a positive and negative pole. In human language, the word "negative" has a pejorative taint, but here the so-called negativity has its own proper qualities. On the one hand, it may represent privation, density and resistance, but it is also the power of receptivity and attraction, and it provides the form that allows for the revelation of beauty. Beauty needs the limitation of boundaries and contrasts. There is no beauty without form.
The Source or God in himself cannot be seen or experienced because there is nothing to oppose him. Pure unmanifest being is everything and everywhere but in order to know itself and experience its own potential it must bring a universe into manifestation and to do this it must start by creating a boundary which it does by projecting a field of limitation that also acts like a mirror. This is Primal Subject becoming subject and object or God making matter so that the original light of spirit has something to illuminate. This matter is the primordial waters, an infinite sea of potential like the Nun of ancient Egypt or the Greek Chaos. Some systems regard that as the absolute root of being itself, seeing it as Space, Darkness or the Void from which all things come, but they miss that this state can never become anything without the divine spark from outside to awaken it into life. Non-existence can never give rise to existence, and the cosmic womb without the light of God entering it from outside would remain barren. That is why we must see root reality not as darkness but unmanifest light. Darkness does not exist until light is there to reveal it.
All is one and matter is simply spirit at its lowest, most crystallised vibrational frequency, just as spirit is matter at its highest, most refined frequency. I AM or God projects Spirit and Matter from himself, the Positive and Negative Poles, but Spirit is him in himself while Matter is his projected reflection. This gives spirit an ontological priority and means that in the course of manifestation the lower vessel must be emptied of its own personal distortions, i.e. those that derive from seeing it as real in itself, and become a pure reflection of the source of the unmanifested light that projected it. The vessel must allow the light to shine without impediment and that is what ultimately lies behind the teaching which says that spiritually the female must submit to the higher without while the male must conquer the lower within. Of course, in human terms things are not quite so clear cut as everyone has the Sun and the Moon in their horoscope, but still the woman must express this in terms of her femininity while the man must express it in terms of his masculinity.
We can sum this up in a metaphysical law which states that expansion (the positive) creates the space, but it must project contraction (the negative) to define the boundaries of that space. These are not two separate gods fighting for dominance but the right and left hands of a single Divine Will. Spirit does not fight Matter. Spirit becomes Matter to experience the joy of consciously returning home to itself.
When duality is understood as a projection of the One Life, the primary expanding impulse must assume leadership because it represents the active, outward-moving will of the unmanifested Source. If, as is the case, matter is the shadow and stepping-down of spirit, that means spirit holds the original blueprint and primary purpose. This implies a natural hierarchy in which the masculine pole of Spirit should remain pre-eminent because it, through the Logos, calls the universe into being. Matter (the feminine pole) exists to receive that command and anchor it into form. If the reflected material tries to claim pre-eminence over its source the result is a closed loop of dense materialism cut off from its divine origin. Isn't this what we have today?
At the level of the Source or God himself spirit and matter, the mirror and the light, retract back into unity. However, the hierarchical division between the two poles must exist in manifestation if God's will and purpose are to be served and the units of consciousness he sends into the world to evolve and grow are to achieve their goal of returning to the source as unique self-aware individualisations of the divine.
Now, a certain logic looking at all this in terms of abstract geometry would insist that the two polarities of manifestation must be equal because they balance each other, but if we think of them in terms of solar and lunar principles we see that the solar is the primary force while the lunar takes its light from that though it doesn't just reflect that light, it gives the reflected light its own unique quality to fit the nighttime when it reigns. The Sun represents the manifestation of Divine Will and active spirit while the Moon as the Mother of Form takes the powerful intense burning light of the Sun, which no one can look at directly, and softens it, giving it a quality unique to itself which illuminates the darkness of night. It is not just a passive mirror but an active translator.
This analogy, which is actually a reflection in the physical world of a metaphysical reality, shows that there is both an equality of masculine and feminine, the Sun rules the day and the Moon rules the night, but also a spiritual asymmetry because the source of the light of the Moon is originally from the Sun.
Putting this relationship in human terms, we can say that the lower personality must become a perfectly quiet mirror (the receptive feminine) so that the primary purpose of the masculine force of spirit can be revealed and expressed in the outer world. In this way the personality ceases to be a distorted shadow but becomes a pure vessel that allows the divine light to reveal itself unimpeded in the world of matter.
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