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The Sacrament of the Bridal Chamber: What Was It?

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« on: June 03, 2007, 02:33:36 pm »


There are two trees in paradise. The one produces beasts; the other produces man. Adam ate from the tree which produced beasts, and becoming a beast he begat beasts.7
All those who practice the sacred embrace will kindle the light; they will not beget as people do in ordinary marriages, which take place in darkness.8
The Gospel of Thomas makes clear that better procreation was not Jesus’ objective:
 A woman in the crowd said to him [Jesus], "Lucky are the womb that bore you and the breasts that fed you."
He said to [her], "Lucky are those who have heard the word of the Father and have truly kept it. For there will be days when you will say, 'Lucky are the womb that has not conceived and the breasts that have not given milk.'" 9
The Gnostic goal appears to be an immaculate conception, resulting from a "pure embrace," the "holy of holies," i.e., careful intercourse that reunites male and female. This conception leads to the coveted second birth, that of the Christ within, and represents the return to humankind's non-dual wholeness...the awakened state in which God created us.
[We] are reborn by the Christ two by two. In his Breath, we experience a new embrace; we are no longer in duality, but in unity. 10
All will be clothed in light when they enter into the mystery of the sacred embrace.11

What is the bridal chamber, if not the place of trust and consciousness in the embrace? It is an icon of Union, beyond all forms of possession; here is where the veil is torn from top to bottom; here is where some arise and awaken.12
This sacred embrace offers return to the Edenic state in which Adam and Eve had not yet been driven apart by the effects of physical procreation (emotional alienation, which when projected outward produces dualistic perception, and the birth/death cycle). As the Gospel of Philip explains,
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