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Introduction to Gnosis

Matrimony, Divorce, and Tantra

The decadence of good customs in countries that boast of being civilized is lamentable. The civil or religious formula of matrimony has been converted into a legal permit in order to fornicate for a few days, after which the couple gets a divorce. So, they marry today and divorce tomorrow. That is all.

In this day and age, instead of saying, “Let’s go and sleep together,” the perverse say, “Let us get married.” Thus, this is how, by legalizing lewdness, perverts dissimulate or hide their shame a little.

Practically speaking, modern laws have converted matrimony into a new type of prostitution. We know the case of women who have been married ten or fifteen times; many of these ladies are great movie celebrities, or ladies of high society, yet nobody says anything against their ten or fifteen husbands, because when this type of prostitution has been legalized, everyone in the whole world keeps their mouth shut.

Indeed, people mistake lust for love. Lust is a poison that cheats the mind and the heart. The impassioned man firmly believes that he is in love. The impassioned woman could even swear that she is in love.

The impassioned ones dream of love, they sing to love, however they have never awakened to the world of love. They do not know what love is; they only dream of it and believe they are in love; that is their mistake. Thus, when their lust has been completely satisfied, only the cruel reality remains; then they end in divorce.

It may seem to be an exaggeration, but the fact is that out of a million couples who believe that they are in love, only one couple is really in love. There are millions of impassioned couples, yet couples in love are very difficult to find.

It is urgent to dissolve the “I” in order to build the soul. Only the soul knows how to truly love. The soul is strengthened and fortified with the fire of the Holy Spirit. It is good to know that the fire of the Holy Spirit is love. It is also good to know that the fire of the Holy Spirit is the Kundalini of which the Hindustanis speak. Only this flaming sexual fire can open the seven churches of the soul. Only this electronic fire can fill the soul with igneous powers. Whosoever does not understand this can lose the soul; the soul who renounces sex and love inevitably dies.

A man shows his virility by performing deeds of love, not by talking about a love that he is incapable of accomplishing.

The kiss of the Mother Kundalini is for the virile man and for the woman who is truly in love with her husband. The kiss of the Mother Kundalini is death. The kiss of the Mother Kundalini is life. Those who are impassioned know nothing about these things. They only think of how to satisfy their desires and then they get divorced, without another thought, this is the only thing they know to do; wretched people! They are worthy of pity!

Bake and re-bake and re-bake your clay and your water again, so that when your clay returns to the clay and your water evaporates only your amphora of salvation remains; in other words, only your resplendent and sparkling soul remains in the hands of your Inner God.

The one who sees a sin within love, the one who hates sex, is a degenerated infrasexual⁠1 who wants to castrate the Sun,⁠2 yet to their disgrace, they will be castrated. Whoever hates love and sex will not consume the food of the Sun and their sexual organs will dry up and die⁠3 before death.

Those who believe they are in love must make a dissection of their “I.” They must self-explore themselves with the goal of discovering if what they have within their heart is lust or love. Thus, lovers need to know themselves in order to not become emasculated, and to make their creation with virility. If your love is one, and if all loves are included within your love, then your sexual organs will consume the food of the Sun. Whosoever wants to enter into the kingdom of esotericism must garb themselves with the garment of regeneration; this is the Wedding Garment.⁠4

At the table of the guests, where the angels sit, one cannot enter without a Wedding Garment. This garment cannot be attained by those who spill the sacred wine. The few who are really in love know that the wine must not be spilled. Unfortunately, true lovers are very rare. They hardly exist.

Judas⁠5 is never missing within matrimonies. The fatal triangle, adultery,⁠6 is the cause of thousands of divorces. It seems incredible, but in fact, even the Great Arcanum⁠7 is now utilized by the tenebrous ones in order to commit adultery and to satisfy their passions. Even that which is most sacred is profaned by the adulterers and fornicators. Perverts do not respect anything.

Happiness in matrimony is only possible with the death of Judas. This Judas is the “I,” the “myself,” the reincarnating ego.

We have to unite Peter and John. First, we have to tread the path of Peter⁠8 and to work with the Philosophical Stone (sex). Thereafter, we have to arrive at the path of John⁠9 (the Word). These two paths are separated by a frightful abyss where only weeping and gnashing of teeth are heard. We need to extend a bridge in order to unite the two paths, if indeed we want to go from Peter to John. The name of that bridge is death. Here is where Judas, the “I,” the “myself,” the ego, must die.

Remember that the kiss of the Mother Kundalini is death and resurrection. One day you will awaken, and then you will have the joy of dying within yourself. Judas must die on the bridge, if you want to arrive at the path of John (the Word). It is necessary for you to be dead so that you can become free. Thus, convert your clay into an amphora of salvation (soul) within which the great, hidden Lord can pour that food, that drink, which is the one solar food and the one solar drink. This is how anyone who victoriously achieves the escape from the horrendous valley of death can satiate his hunger and thirst for justice.

Peter, who is by interpretation Cephas, a stone, represents the entire work with sex. John signifies the Word, the incarnation of the Word through successive degrees and successive cosmic initiations.

As Christ, Peter is also crucified, yet with his head aiming downwards, towards the stone; this indicates to us the work with the Philosophical Stone (sex). John (the Word) rests his head on the heart of the Christ Jesus as if saying, “Provide me a refuge of love within thine home, and I shall return to you this love made eternal within my sacred heart.”

However, everyone must build the bridge by themselves. Then, by means of the death of Judas, the path of Peter is united to the path of John. Only by arriving to John can the Word become flesh, become Self-realized within us, and we Christify ourselves. Yet, not all comprehend the path of Peter, thus they do not walk on it, because they still do not know that stones have heart. Thus, they do not comprehend the path of John either. No one can arrive at the path of John without having walked the path of Peter (sex). John (the Word) is waiting for us.

Let us remember the scene on the sea of Tiberias after they had dined on fish; Peter, seeing John, said to Master Jesus, “Lord, and what shall this man do?” and Jesus answered him, “If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? Follow thou me” [John 21:21-22].

Indeed, the Word is waiting in the bottom of our Ark for the moment of its realization. The perfect matrimony is the path of Peter, yet we need to extend the bridge of death in order to arrive at the path of John. Judas, the “I,” is the one who damages the happiness of matrimonies. Judas fornicates and gets married because of animal passion, yet he believes he is in love. So, we need to hang Judas on the bridge of death. Only thus can we arrive to John. Regeneration is impossible without the death of Judas (the “I”).

Sex is not only mind; even the stones have a heart, and if we want to make sex only mental, we violate the law and commit adultery; the outcome will be a total failure, the abyss, and the Second Death.⁠10

Judas betrays us from moment to moment. Judas has to be hung otherwise we will never arrive at the path of John. When people resolve to die from moment to moment, then happiness will reign in all homes and fornication⁠11 and adultery will end.

Divorced people are the outcome of lust. Thus, when passion is dead, mistaken matrimonies and divorce cannot exist.

There are also those who get married purely because of economical interests or common conveniences; this is how Judas sells the Christ for thirty silver coins. The outcome is divorce.

In this day and age, money marries money, and imbecilic people state, “The more you have, the more you are worth; money talks.” This is how the insulters, the blasphemers against the Holy Spirit, talk; they believe they are practical people, thus they constantly get married and divorced (if they are lucky enough not to be killed by the resentful ex-spouse). Indeed, these people totally ignore that which is called love. Nonetheless, they talk of love and even swear eternal love.

Magazines and other modern love advertisements, [ie. match-making websites] etc., are now in fashion. Absurd advertisements of this kind are abundant. i. e., “White woman, such height, such capital, eyes of this or that color, with this weight and this religion, etc., wishes to marry a gentleman with this or that age, with this quantity of money, this race, this height, etc.”

“A gentleman, of such height, such capital, eyes of this or that color, with this weight and this religion, etc., wishes to marry a woman with this or that age, with this quantity of money, this race, this height, etc.” all of this is indeed very absurd and horrible. All of this is nothing but prostitution authorized by the authorities and society. The outcome of this is suffering, absurd matrimonies, prostitution, and divorce.

Good customs are lost, and unity within homes has hit rock bottom. In this day and age, married people go around alone within nightclubs, taverns, cinemas, etc. Saturdays are very special days for these married people; on weekends, married people bountifully squander their money within taverns and miserably adulterate, without caring at all for the fate of their children.

Men and women have delivered themselves to the debauchery of good customs, thus the outcome cannot be anything but the failure of their matrimonies. What is built upon a false basis becomes false. To be married based upon lust, to be married based upon economical interests, based upon social conveniences, etc., leads to an inevitable failure.

In order for there to be love, the complete, mystical communion of man and woman is necessary in all the levels of their minds. If in the seven levels⁠12 of the Being there is not a complete communion, then the outcome is divorce.

Love is like a solitary tree that is illuminated by the Sun. Love is like a newborn child. Love is like an ineffable rose bathed by the light of a full moon. Love and lust are incompatible. Love and passion are two substances that cannot be combined. Love is absolutely innocent. Where there is love, there cannot be jealousy, anger, and resentment, because love is incompatible with all of those lower passions.

Love begins with a flash of delectable affinity. It is substantiated with the force of tenderness, and it is synthesized in adoration. A perfect matrimony is the union of two beings: one who loves more, and the other who loves better.

Before getting married, it is necessary to self-explore our “I” very sincerely and profoundly, in order to totally discover ourselves. We must use the scalpel of self-criticism to extract the passion we have within, and place it on the carpet of crude reality.

At times it is better to know how to renounce, instead of failing lamentably. It is urgent to discover if indeed the plenitude of love exists within us.

Only on the basis of love can we have a good matrimony. In order for there to be love, there must be affinity in thought, affinity in sentiments, affinity in emotions, affinity in action, affinity in religion, and affinity in ideas, etc. Where this mystical communion is missing, love is impossible.

Regarding this subject-matter of matrimony, legislators can establish all the laws they wish, nevertheless, indeed, they will achieve nothing, because happiness within matrimony is only possible when we hang Judas (the “I”). Thus, whosoever wants to be happy in their marriage must be sincere with themselves and not marry because of passion, because of money, or because of social status.

Modern matrimonies corrupt the sexual act. Modern matrimonies have failed because of sexual abuse. Modern matrimonies do not want to comprehend the divine majesty of sex. It is necessary to know that sex is very sacred. In the sacred India of the Vedas, sex is utilized in order to achieve more elevated states of Samadhi (ecstasy).

Amongst the Hindustani yogis, sex is utilized in order to attain the union (yug) with the Spirit-essence and thus the entrance into Nirvana.⁠13 Not a single sage of the East would ever conceive of the idea of utilizing sex purely for carnal passion. The White Tantric yogis perform sex with their spouse in order to attain Inner Self-realization.

The best of Hinduism and Buddhism is White Tantra. The best of yoga is sex yoga.

Tantra

We can assert that Tantra⁠14 is the essence of Yoga. There are three types of Tantra: white, black, and grey.⁠15 Indeed, White Tantra is unique and worthwhile, because in it are neither the orgasm nor the ejaculation of semen.⁠16

White Tantra awakens the Kundalini, in other words, the fire of the Holy Spirit. That fire fortifies the soul; it strengthens it and fills it with terribly divine igneous powers.

Sex yoga states, “Poison must be transformed into medicine.” They understand by poison the lure of women and of spirituous beverages. In alchemical terms, we would say that it is necessary to transform lead into gold.

Indeed, Yoga is worthless without Tantra. Yoga is worthless without its sexual essence.

Brahmins consider the sexual union as equivalent to a divine sacrifice, and the feminine organs as the fire where the sacrifice is offered. The Brahmin woman says the following in one of sacred texts: “If your objective is to utilize me for sacrifice, let it be granted unto thee any blessing that through my mediation thou summon.”

Buddhist Tantrikas attain Nirvana by means of the woman and sex. Yogis and yoginis reach Samadhi (ecstasy) through the sexual act without spilling the semen. This is the coitus reservatus, in other words, the sexual act without reaching the orgasm, without ejaculating the semen.

The Tantric yogis and yoginis pass through a long and difficult preparation before entering in to the field of sex yoga. This entire preparation requires concentration, meditation, bandhas, mudras, pratyahara, pranayamas, etc. One text indicates that the yogi has to sleep for three months with the yogini to his right and another three months to his left, without having sexual intercourse with her. The sexual intercourse without ejaculation is performed only after the two periods of three months. This act is named or called Maithuna. Nirvana is achieved with Maithuna. Samadhi (ecstasy) is attained with Maithuna. The Kundalini awakens and develops totally with Maithuna. Yogi and yogini begin the dance of Shiva and Shakti (the eternal feminine and her spouse), thus they happily dance before the Tantric sexual act.

Thus, after the sacred dance the yogi and yogini couple sit to meditate as the Mayan initiates do, back against back, the two dorsal spines making contact in order to achieve perfect mental and emotional breathing dominion.

They sit in the Asian style on the ground, with their legs crossed, as the Buddha is represented. The practice of Maithuna is performed only after this. Amongst the yogis, all of this is performed under the guidance of a guru. The guru performs great, powerful magnetic passes on the coccygeal magnetic center of both yogi and yogini in order to help them to awaken their Kundalini.

A text of yoga advises the yogis to hold their respiration if they are in the danger of falling into orgasm. The text states, “If the disciple holds the respiration, his semen will not be spilled, even when he is embraced by the most tender and attractive of women.”

There are many magical positions in the east for the performance of the sexual act called Maithuna.

Female yoginis must marvelously contract their vaginal muscles; this is how they avoid the orgasm and the ejaculation of their feminine sexual liquor. This is how their Kundalini awakens.

Tantric texts state that even if the semen is at the breaking point of being ejaculated, the yogi must retain it at any cost, in other words, the semen must not be spilled.

The yogi enters into ecstasy during the sexual act. Nirvana is attained with this type of sexual ecstasy. This is “to ride the tiger;” this is how the yogis consider this sexual act named Maithuna.

The sexual positions of Maithuna are numerous and they choose the one they wish. All of these sexual positions are found illustrated in the Kama Kalpa, a book of sex yoga. In one of them, the yogi performs the Maithuna seated on the ground with his legs crossed in the Asian style; the yogini sits on his legs and absorbs the phallus, thereafter she crosses her legs behind the yogi’s lower back in such a way that the yogi is embraced by her legs.

Sometimes the inverted embrace is utilized, within which, for very sacred and symbolic reasons, the yogini executes the active part. The yogi represents the apparently motionless spirit while she, the yogini, represents nature in motion. Thus, in the supreme moment of the sexual act when the orgasm is approaching, the yogini performs the more terrible and violent sexual contractions in order to avoid the spasm and the orgasmic ejaculation. The yogis take advantage of this moment for the most frightful concentration and the most remarkable meditation. This is how they attain illumination, ecstasy, Samadhi.

Nevertheless, in the Western World, any matrimony can practice Maithuna without using these difficult positions from the East of the world. It is enough to pray to the Holy Spirit before the practice, asking for his assistance, and thereafter to perform the sexual act in the western style; the couple must withdraw before the orgasm. The semen must never be ejaculated in one’s life.

The foolish scientists of black magic believe that this practice is dangerous and that can bring congestion to the prostate, urethra, and seminal vesicles. This concept of the foolish scientists is a solemn falsity. We, the Gnostics, practice this sexual act throughout our entire lives, and we have never suffered from problems with the prostate or the urethra or the seminal vesicles.

There is no doubt that matrimonies can reach supreme happiness with Maithuna.

This is how the joy of the honeymoon is perpetuated throughout the entire life. With this sexual act, there is true happiness; each time, the couple feels more the need for caresses and for performing the sexual act, without getting weary or tired of it. With this type of sexual act, divorces will end in the world. With this type of sexual act we enter into Nirvana.

Couples can pray and meditate back against back in the Asian style if they wish, thus begging, beseeching the Holy Spirit to grant them the joy of receiving the fire.

It is false to assert that Maithuna damages the prostate and produces prostatitis. All of us who practice Maithuna enjoy splendid health.

In the beginning, the Maithuna is sacrifice, yet after some time Maithuna is complete sexual satisfaction and supreme joy.

All of those theories that the foolish scientists render in order to combat Maithuna are absolutely false, and those who allow themselves to be cheated by the “reason without reason” of these tenebrous ones will inevitably be transformed into inhabitants of the abyss.

We are initiating the new Aquarian era, and humanity will be divided in two bands: those who accept White Tantra, and those who will define themselves for the Black; in other words, those who will accept the ejaculation of their semen and those who will not accept it; those who will continue with the ejaculation of their semen, and those who will not continue with the ejaculation of it; White Tantric people and Black Tantric ones, that is all. Speaking in an esoteric manner we would say: white magicians and black magicians. These are the two bands of the new Aquarian era.

Frederick Nietzsche stated the following in his book Thus Spoke Zarathustra:

“Voluptuousness: to all hair-shirted despisers of the body, a sting and stake; and, cursed as “the world,” by all the afterworldly: for it mocks and befools all erring, misinferring teachers.

“Voluptuousness: to the rabble, the slow fire at which it is burnt; to all wormy wood, to all stinking rags, the prepared heat and stew furnace.

“Voluptuousness: to free hearts, a thing innocent and free, the garden-happiness of the Earth, all the future’s thanks overflow to the present.

“Voluptuousness: only to the withered a sweet poison; to the lion-willed, however, the great cordial, and the reverently saved wine of wines.

“Voluptuousness: the great symbolic happiness of a higher happiness and highest hope. For to many is marriage promised, and more than marriage,

“To many that are more unknown to each other than man and woman: and who has fully understood how unknown to each other are man and woman!”

Indeed, love is a terribly divine, cosmic phenomenon. When the man officiates at the altar of supreme sexual sacrifice, he can, in that moment, direct his entire voluptuousness towards all of his magnetic centers and make them vibrate, sparkle, and shine. We are like remarkably divine gods in those moments of supreme sexual voluptuousness.

The sacred scriptures state, “Ask and it shall be given onto you; knock and it shall be open onto you.” Indeed, within the supreme moment of the sexual act is the precise moment in which we can ask the Third Logos (the Holy Spirit) for all of those longed-for powers. The tremendous power of the forces of Shiva, the Third Logos, transforms us into gods.

Much is being said about meditation and ecstasy (Samadhi). Indeed, the best hour for meditation and ecstasy is the hour of sexual voluptuousness. The sexual forces produce ecstasy. Through meditation, we must transform the voluptuousness into ecstasy.

During the sexual act and after the sexual act, when the voluptuousness is still vibrating, we pass through the sacrificius intelectus. Indeed only the creative emotion can take us to ecstasy.

Only the one who is capable of crying when praying to the Third Logos before the sexual act and after the sexual act can enter into Nirvana; only the one who is capable of becoming inebriated with the voluptuousness without spilling the semen can be transformed into a remarkable, divine god.

Those who learn how to wisely enjoy voluptuousness without spilling the semen are transformed into absolutely happy beings.

The perfect matrimony is the basis of the path for the social Christ. Unfortunately, in modern life, matrimony has transformed into a frivolity that is distant from wisdom. This is why marriages collapse; this is the cause of many divorces.

It is necessary to study Gnosis. It is urgent to go back into the mystical celebrations of the mysteries of love. It is urgent to learn how to enjoy the delights of love. It is urgent to comprehend that with voluptuousness the angel is born within ourselves. Only the angels can enter into the kingdom.

White Tantra has the science in order to end divorce and to preserve the honeymoon throughout one’s entire life. The home is the foundation of a Christian society. White Tantra with its famous Maithuna is the clue of divine sexual happiness.⁠17

1A person of inferior sexuality, corresponding to the inferior regions of nature.

2The Sun is the cosmic Christ, the source of life, and all life is created through sex.

3Impotence.

4See Matthew 22 in the Bible.

5The disciple who betrayed Jesus.

6Sexual infidelity: to lust after someone other than one’s partner, or to have sex with multiple partners.

7The mysteries of scientific chastity.

8“Petrous means stone, Peter, one of the twelve apostles of Christ... The doctrine of Peter is the doctrine of sex, the science of Maithuna (Sexual Magic). The living stone is sex, the boulder, the rock upon which we must build the inner temple for the Inner Christ, our Lord.” —Samael Aun Weor, Light from Darkness

9The higher levels of the work, which are entered after the sexual works are completed.

10A mechanical process in nature experienced by those souls who within the allotted time fail to reach union with their inner divinity (i.e. known as self-realization, liberation, religare, yoga, moksha, etc). The Second Death is the complete dissolution of the ego (karma, defects, sins) in the infernal regions of nature, which after unimaginable quantities of suffering, proportional to the density of the psyche, in the end purifies the Essence (consciousness) so that it may try again to perfect itself and reach the union with the Being.

11To spill the sexual energy through the orgasm.

12“When the two beings vibrate in affinity in their thoughts, feelings, and volition, then the Perfect Matrimony is consummated in the seven planes of cosmic consciousness. There are people who are married in the physical and ethereal planes, but not in the astral plane. Others are married in the physical, ethereal and astral planes, but not in the mental plane. Each one thinks in his or her own way; the woman has her religion and the man another; they do not agree in their thoughts, etc. There are marriages with affinity in the worlds of thought and feeling, but that are absolutely opposed in the world of will. These marriages crash constantly; they are not happy.” —Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

13 See glossary: Nirvana

14(1) the continuum of vital energy that sustains all existence, and (2) the class of knowledge and practices that harnesses that vital energy.

15The colors represent their degree of purity, cleanliness (ie. presence or absence of ego).

16 See glossary: Semen

17To learn more, read The Perfect Matrimony and The Mystery of the Golden Blossom by Samael Aun Weor.