It seems as though our modern mystification leading to confusion about the opposite sex has been mirrored throughout the ages. Plato tried to polish the meaning of Eros in his work ‘Symposium.’ Plato said that ‘Eros seeks wisdom and leads the soul to happiness.’
Sigmund Freud related the word to libido, sexual energy. He said that “love is the life instinct innate to all humans. It is the desire to create life.”
In Margaret Starbird’s book, “The Woman with the Alabaster Jar,” she associates the word Eros as the balanced counterpart to Logos. “The Eros is symbolic of the feminine, love, free-thinking, creativeness, relatedness,” not to mention nurturing, passionate and sensual. “The Logos is symbolic of masculine, reason, law, order, discipline and self-restraint,” not to mention knowledge, divine and the word.
When we use common sense and look at our world around us, we see balance in every aspect of creation. The Creator did not randomly shape the universe on a whim. I believe that creation was formed out of the chaos of the void/darkness. In so doing, law organized the order of manifestion - sacred geometry was the building blocks of dividing the darkness into light. The Logos or law was invented.
Furthermore, logos or law without taking into consideration the balanced concept of eros, communal happiness is too rigid to last. Just as order (masculine logos) is important, without the balanced aspect of relatedness (feminine aspect), it becomes authoritative, not balanced.
The Judeo-Christian Bible, specifically in the Christian New Testament, the writers refers to Jesus as the bridegroom countless times. Is any reasonable (mascuine), free-thinking (feminine) person really supposed to buy into the doctrine of a church, a building being the bride of Jesus? Please pause and think!
Christianity, for whatever reason, omitted the bride (equal and balanced partner of Jesus) from its teachings. This omission, coupled with translation of the Bible only being allowed by the church in medieval times and forward, has led to the distorted and damaged view of the feminine, prevalent in almost every culture today.
The only way to heal the damage done is to balance it. One basic premise that I hold in psychological circles is that ‘anything innate in the human psyche that is denied, becomes unhealthy.’ The restoration of the feminine as an equal, to the masculine is the Light of the coming Age.
So, on that note, the quote of the day is:
“Embrace the bridegroom and the bride as the original, balanced love created by the Divine.” tc
Just a note to add to your enlightenment here. In the Christian faith, "church" refers to the people, community, not the building. It is referred to in other terms in other religions. I do not believe we can live our lives on our wants. Discipline is required in our lives. We do not live for self wants but to serve God's needs for His people. We must die to self and live for God. Remember, God says no at times in our lives. We later come to realize He wants only what is best for us and our "wants" are not always in our best interest. We all must consider each other as we live our lives. We have to compromise in any male/female structure as we were not made to think the same. That inequality is frustrating to both sexes as the self-help books point out. It should not end in a sort of "hate" mind set. We need to communicate our feelings and then apply those consideration to meet the circumstances at hand.
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