Logos and Eros

Do you remember when the book, “Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus” by John Gray was released? People flocked to the bookstores to ravish the pages in an attempt to bridge some semblance of understanding about the opposite sex.

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

Peaceful Retreat

Did you take time out this week to rest? I am talking about the kind of relaxation where you are not interrupted by phones, kids, tv, neighbors and family. If not, why not?

The way many of us run around trying to live our lives, we are in desperate need for rest. Many of the underlying factors to stress, indigestion, heart problems and even emotional dis-ease is rooted in the fact that we are not sleeping at night or stopping during the day to rest. Studies have shown that people who take an afternoon nap……live longer and healthier lives!

So, on that note, the quote of the day is:

“Like the autumn leaves being cradled along their decent to the earthen floor, curl up in a comfy spot and slowly allow your worries to drift away.” tc