#sacred masculine

[shisasan]

January 21, 1927 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

[themotherofrevelation]

Obsession is baseless emotion; mad devotion is sacred structure. Endurance is the mark of Maa’s red disciple.

[zerounwantedvibrations]

WHEN SPIRITUALITY UNMANS A MAN

There is a season for surrender. A time for a man to set his sword aside, to bow his head before the Great Mystery, and dissolve his ego into the ocean of Source. But this was never meant to be his permanent home. A warrior cannot stay forever in the temple for the world outside still needs his shield.

Masculinity is the mountain others lean on. It is the pillar that holds the roof when storms come. It is the fire that warms, the hand that protects, the vision that leads through shadow and chaos. If you float endlessly in the river, trusting the current to carry you, you will never learn to steer the boat.

Meditation opens the scrolls of Heaven, but revelation means nothing if you never bring it down into earth and stone.

Peace is sacred, but peace without strength is an invitation to wolves. You will not earn jewels in the next world by letting yourself be trampled in this one.

The Most High gave you a man’s frame for a reason.

A woman will not trust a man softer than her own shadow. For she knows: if the world turns hostile, he cannot guard her while he’s folding himself into a lotus and chanting om to the thief at the door.

The Divine Masculine is the lion in the garden. He knows when to bare his teeth, and when to sheathe his claws. He can let his ego dissolve in prayer, touch the face of God, and return with orders written in fire.Then he moves decisively, unshaken.

Spirituality is not his escape, it is his forge. He does not kill the ego; he tempers it in the waters of the Divine until it becomes a blade of pure light.

Those who chase ego-death endlessly risk severing the very root that allows them to stand as men.

Many “spiritual” men hide in incense smoke broke, aimless, silenced by the fear of being called toxic by a dying society. But the true Divine Masculine is the great disruptor of false orders. He walks unafraid through the ruins, restoring balance where the scales have been broken.

The lion fears no Hunter

[magdalene-spirit]

The dance of devotion - The masculine principle of consciousness & right relation between the polarities within the one consciousness/reality-

This force (the masculine force of consciousnes) -is sharp as a blade, on point as an arrow & can cut a path straight through to its aim-

He is the masculine breath of spirit that pervades all substance

While not for one moment does he waiver in his intent & aim, as the one-directional arrow of seeing that penetrates every square inch of substance with his essence

He is not the chooser- for example, Rama was chosen by Sita through a ritual ceremony

There is the story in the Shiva Puranas of the plundering Shiva phallus on fire with desire, that could only find rest & equilibrium in the warmth & embrace of the Parvati yoni (blade in cup or scabbard)

When phallus & yoni are not in right relation to one another,

the phallus-blade-arrow

becomes a missile of over-destruction turning the Earth into a barren wasteland without fertility & prosperity.

When the phallus is stabilised in the yoni-cup-scabbard, welfare & prosperity results throughout the land

The universal pulse of the One him & her on the inside (within Consciousness) forever making love- in terms of creation's energy dynamics, can be felt in every interaction between humans.

But of course, in our intimate encounters, we create intentional space to experience this truth with connection & presence-

This is the heart of devotion.

Essay at link ⬇️

Love & the phallic/masculine impulse of Consciousness

—as personified in the God Shiva-Pan

[headlesssamurai]

“Men cannot be men—much less good or heroic men—unless their actions have meaningful consequences to people they truly care about. Strength requires an opposing force, courage requires risk, mastery requires hard work, honor requires accountability to other men. Without these things, we are little more than boys playing at being men, and there is no weekend retreat or mantra or half-assed rite of passage that can change that. A rite of passage must reflect a real change in status and responsibility for it to be anything more than theater. No reimagined manhood of convenience can hold its head high so long as the earth remains the tomb of our ancestors.”

Jack Donovan

[shisasan]

March 11, 1925 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

[themotherofrevelation]

Loveless sex is for the sociopath. Sex is attachment; biology is divine order. Sex is the covenant of flesh and spirit; red yoni is the Ark of the Covenant.

[thekingprincess]

IN THE CENTER OF CONCENTRIC SPHERES, an emanation of Vajrayogini called Sukhasiddhi, the "attainment of bliss," balances on a flaming lotus. Initiatress into the unfolding mysteries of birth and death, into all that remains unknown, Sukhasiddhi expresses the Tantric spirit of the Divine Feminine, which guides spiritual aspirants to realms of selfless freedom. Tantric Buddhism, the "Diamond Vehicle" (Vajrayana), does not suppress the powerful forces of human existence, but celebrates them in ecstatic imagery that cuts to the core of experience. Brandishing a flaying knife and garlanded in skulls-taking as ornaments what is normally rejected-Sukhasiddhi cuts through hope and fear, attachment and aversion, to unite with all existence. Her chopper (kartrika) severs the roots of illusion, while her upraised skull cup is an offering of the nectar of emptiness, the interdependent miragelike nature of all life. As the Second Dalai Lama wrote in The Transmission of the Wisdom Dakini, "Above your head visualize a white or red Vajrayogini... Summon and absorb the Wisdom Beings, invoking and receiving their empowerments... Recite the secret mantra. ... One's mind in the form of a white syllable AH - shoots up the central channel [paralleling the spine]. It enters Vajrayogini through the passage of her sexual organ... and dissolves into her heart. Meditate that the mind becomes one with the Wisdom of Bliss and Emptiness [embodied by] Vajrayogini.* Female archetypes of enlightened awareness are central to the Tantric form of Buddhism, which envisions the boundless, unconditioned wisdom mind as “feminine" and the compassionate activation of this underlying reality as "male." The insoluble union of these complementary energies is illustrated at the top of this painting in the form of Buddha Samantabhadra, the "all-beneficent." This joyful Buddha symbolizes the eros of enlightened mind— the total integration of the poles of feeling and thought, spirit and matter, form and emptiness, bliss and all-penetrating awareness. Framing this icon of ecstatic union are wrathful dakinis, *sky dancers," who manifest enlightened activity free from conventional perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs. Drinking from skull cups the nectar of pure perception, they imagine without boundaries, emanating from the primordial darkness of infinite possibility in aureoles of flames. The mandala itself is the primal matrix— the womb door from which all life and experience come forth. According to the Guhyagarbha Tantra, "To understand what is born you must first penetrate what is beyond both birth and death." Before entering into the light, you must encompass the darkness. The womb door is the gate of all mysteries, a portal between embryo and emanation, and an invitation Into the mind of infinite freedom. — "Dakini Mandala: Gateway to Celestial Bliss" by Romio Shrestha, with text by lan A. Baker