Chapter 6: The Secret Identity of the Holy Spirit of
God The Enlightenment of Man and Women
Is in His Bodily Commitment to Life Man* is mortal, and also immortal. The
individual apparently lives and dies, but his existence is
not threatened. His psycho-physical form passes through
cycles of birth, and change, and death, but each cycle is
followed by another, so that all the evolutionary lessons
may be learned. This is the understanding that enlightens
our perception of Man. But unenlightened men and women do not perceive or
understand the paradox of Man and the immortality of the
cycles of mortality. Therefore, the usual individual is full
of self and fear, and he constantly seeks to protect himself
against ultimate and apparently absolute threats to his
survival. And, because of his self-possessed search for
immunity from frustration, pain, and death, the human
individual fails to surrender to the full cycle of his own
existence. Therefore, unenlightened Man lives recoiled from his own
bodily destiny. Indeed, he lives recoiled from the Principle
in which the body is arising. That Principle is the
All-Pervading Radiant Life and Transcendental Consciousness
that is the very Condition and Self of all beings. Unenlightened Man is recoiled from surrender as the body
and into the Life-Principle. He is self-possessed, recoiled
from Life and even all relationships. He is, unwittingly and
even unconsciously, the enemy of the body, and all
relationships, and Life itself. He is Narcissus, the
separated one, the mind-bearer. Thus, the human world remains tormented and chaotic,
unable to make peace or love. And there is a deep
disposition of fear in us that resists the bodily confession
of Life. Therefore, human beauty and vitality are always
tending to be destroyed, by the fear of bodily death and the
inability to surrender bodily to Life. The civilizations of mankind have to date embraced
cultural principles that reflect the universal fear of death
and all the self-possessed, self-protective, and separative
strategies of conventional consciousness. In the East, the
revolt against the body has produced the more or less
ascetic ideals of mystical otherworldliness. In the West,
that same revolt has produced the ideals of victorious
manipulation of the natural realm. In both cases, the revolt
and struggle against material and bodily existence is the
root of all cultural adaptation. Man revolts against
mortality by negatively manipulating his own body and the
natural or material realm. Thus, he either separates himself
from the body and the world by resorting to the illusory
independence of the inner self or mind, or else he dominates
the body and the world with an unillumined will to power
through knowledge and conventional self-fulfillment. Even the traditional culture of the West, with its
seemingly indomitable will to embrace the worldly play of
Nature, has associated itself historically with the
ultimately otherworldly cult of Christianity. And no matter
how hard Western man tries to “humanize” the religion and
person of Jesus, the more or less ascetic, otherworldly,
mystical, self-effacing, and body-denying core of that
religion remains to complicate the typically self-protecting
and world-exploiting tendency of Western-born
individuals. Thus, the West has historically demonstrated an
inherently self-divided, self-destructive, and Life-denying
disposition by embracing a religious ideal that is, at the
root, oriental, or Eastern and ultimately world-renouncing
in its character. And conventional religion, in both the
East and the West, has thus provided the historical basis or
justification for negative cultural programs that recoil
from the bodily Life-Principle. Even so, the Life-Principle is enshrined in the
idealism’s of Christianity, and Judaism, and Islam, and even
certain dimensions of Hinduism, Buddhism, and other oriental
religious cultures. It is simply that the implications of
the truly human relationship to the Life-Principle have not
been consciously acknowledged or implemented in the broad
cultural programs of the traditional East or the traditional
West. Thus, conventional religious culture or idealism tends
to be associated with certain positive moral values (such as
truthfulness, honesty, non-stealing, non-killing, and so
forth), but traditional religious culture is also always
associated with an ultimately negative evaluation of bodily
existence and the existence of Man within the realm of
Nature. As a result, religious acculturation, East and West,
always carries with it taboos against bodily pleasure,
sexual intensity, and even the will to live a long and
healthful life. The time has come to transcend our ancient acculturation
to the bodily negative recoil from Life. We must transcend
the ancient religions and the ancient cultural taboos. We
must be enlightened in our understanding of the paradox of
human mortality and immortality. Therefore, we must embrace
Life bodily and surrender into bodily Communion with the
Living Reality. We must throw away all of our bodily
negative, anti-sexual, anti-Life adaptations. We must
realize a truly regenerative bodily love of Life. It is not
that we are to become libertines, but neither are we to
become ascetics. We must surrender bodily to Life, via all
our actions. We must transcend mortal fear and all of its
false religious and social dogmas. We must allow Life to
regenerate us in every part, and we must yield to the
evolutionary plan and pattern that is hidden in the body and
in the play of Nature, and which is not at all contained in
the mind (since the mind is only a reflection of previous
experience and previous or chronic limitations of knowledge,
perception, and presumption). We must transcend ourselves
through ecstatic, mind-transcending, bodily love of Life, or
direct and whole bodily Communion with the Living God. Only
by doing all of this can Man move beyond the present impasse
of worldwide conflict and subhuman idealism. We are at the dead end of the ancient ways, and we are
suffering from the inability to move fully into our right,
human, and immortal destiny. Only an enlightened and
liberated understanding of our old cultural and subhuman
presumptions will permit us to yield to Life bodily, in
love, and so move on in the Way of God. I attest to this with every cell of my body. I affirm it
with all my heart. I plead with you to consider it fully and
resort to a new Way of Life. *The term man (from Proto-Germanic
*mannaz or *manwaz “man, person”) and words derived from it
is used to designate all of the human race regardless of
their sex or age. Scientific
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