{"id":13865,"date":"2021-02-16T23:47:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T04:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=13865"},"modified":"2021-02-17T09:10:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T14:10:22","slug":"diotima-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=13865","title":{"rendered":"Diotima Unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I have been seeking inspiration for a personal project this week, my muse suggested this addendum to the discussion of Diotima. She can not only see past, present, and future, but she can lift souls out of the depths of ignorance and darkness.<\/p>\n

\n\"Hecate\"<\/a>
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The idea of Absolute Beauty is timeless. Hence, one does not ascend the ladder in successive, well demarcated steps. Each step can be associated with a state of being and Guenon explains its meaning.<\/p>\n

\nall states of the being, considered under their primary aspect, abide in perfect simultaneousness in the eternal now.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hence, one abides on all the steps of the ladder simultaneously. The step you are \u201con\u201d is just the one to which you direct conscious attention. The most common state is to be in a dream-like state of semi wakefulness, and will therefore, unconsciously, be drawn to the most material step of the ladder, which is physical love.<\/p>\n

Sweet Love<\/h2>\n

Unlike blasphemy, murder, theft, perjury and so on, which are intrinsically evil, physical love is in itself not evil in itself. However, it may be situationally evil, or perhaps better said, it may be expressed in appropriate or inappropriate ways. That is why such lovers are in the first, or the least painful, level of hell.<\/p>\n

Such love is quite delightful which is why it also serves as a trap. Even when it grows sour, as it often does, the being tries to \u201cfix\u201d it or else find it again with someone else. A being on this step is reluctant to move on to higher stages.<\/p>\n

Soul Love<\/h2>\n

The first stage is restricted to the two lower sheaths of the subtle body: desire and emotional connections. The creative power of sexual energy is restricted to procreation. Obviously, children are necessary for the nation and the family to perpetuate and thrive. There is human love for nation, family, and children, although even animals care for their offspring. To do less, is to live even below the animals. For the ancient Romans, the proletariat<\/em> were those who had nothing to offer society other than their children. So, it is not yet the fulfilment of all human possibilities.<\/p>\n

This requires the training of the emotions to feel a wider range of emotions and to experience them more deeply. And what is distinctly human is intellectual development: the ability to distinguish right from wrong, the real from the unreal. It is the seat of creativity, innovation, and so on.<\/p>\n

The more one actualizes his intellectual soul, the more he will be able to recognize those qualities in another. His intellectual life becomes so fascinating and pleasurable, the memories of sweet love begin to fade. Instead, he longs for a higher connection. His desire is to share ideas on music, literature, poetry, history, metaphysics, and the like. Procreation reappears as intellectual creation at this stage.<\/p>\n

Sweet love follows a pattern of exhaustion and replenishment; energy is dissipated in its act. Soul love is not like that. It is energizing, energy doubles, so nothing is lost.<\/p>\n

When the opportunity is presented, it is taken.<\/p>\n

Possession<\/h2>\n

It must again be emphasized that this has nothing to do with evolution, or psychological growth. All the stages exist simultaneously; the limitations of human language make it sound like some sort of progress.<\/p>\n

A fortiori, soul love is not a substitute for failures at a lower level. If there is no desire at the physical level, there can be no desire, not in its full expression, at the intellectual level. And many men today lack such desire.<\/p>\n

Since the present age is a deviation from previous eras, what follows my not follow current trends exactly.<\/p>\n

In the past, love and marriage was an option reserved for the lower classes. High status people often had to marry for other reasons, particularly to strengthen political or commercial alliances. For them, the purpose of sex was to create children.<\/p>\n

Man tends to want to enjoy before possessing while woman needs to possess before enjoying. This was necessary when women needed a stable relationship in which to raise children and to be protected from strangers intent on enjoying. So the high status woman was secure in her possession but love had to be found elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Hence, the notion of courtly love arose. The wandering knight became suitable for that purpose. He is able to enjoy, but he is not in a position to possess because of his wanderings. The early knights were purely physical brutes tied to a particular area, but the solo knight errant developed a code of chivalry and high culture. Thus, the knight could fulfil the soul needs of the high status woman without thereby threatening her marriage or children.<\/p>\n

The Veil<\/h2>\n

There is a misconception about the veil, as though its sole purpose is to control woman; this is used by Westerners to belittle cultures that still practice it. In more ancient times, pagan and even Christian cultures used the veil. However, it was restricted to high status women. It is a sign that she is more than just a beauty that can be put on display willy nilly for just anyone to see.<\/p>\n

The custom persisted until a few generations ago. On more formal occasions, my mother wore a light veil that covered her entire face. Even today a bride wears such a veil at her wedding.<\/p>\n

In our time, we can use imaginary veils. Keep that thought as a reminder to try to pierce the veil to see the soul life of the other. If you need some other motivation, that is a necessary Hermetic exercise.<\/p>\n

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The lack of desire:<\/p>\n

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His intellectual life becomes so fascinating and pleasurable, the memories of sweet love begin to fade. Instead, he longs for a higher connection. His desire is to share ideas on music, literature, poetry, history, metaphysics, and the like. Procreation reappears as intellectual creation at this stage. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97,374],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sexuality","category-spirituality-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13865"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13876,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13865\/revisions\/13876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}