27/10/2024
When I speak of the Feminine, the feminine instinct of Intuition, the left-hand path of the heart, I don’t mean women only.
But in fact, that mystical part that is our human inner life of Soul, and which Water of Life inspires our dreams, visions, creative revelations and synchronicity, is found equally in men.
And, although it is more natural to women as women are closer to their body, Nature’s spontaneity, tend to live more from their heart, and by experiencing directly the working of nature on their bodies as that mystery of the menstrual cycle linked to the cycle of the moon, and through the miracle of giving birth, and as mentioned, direct heart spiritual experiences; the rapture of song and dance that opens access to, not merely reading about, but intimately knowing one’s inward Divine part, the Beloved, as in the pagan past in mystery cults such as Dionysian or Orphic mysteries, or the ancient Indian mystic tradition of Gopis and their beloved Krishna, this Intuitive power to directly experience the Mystery of Nature, within and without, is equally found in the male.
But, because men do not experience that direct working of Nature on their body as women do, and have been educated out of experiencing the irrational, this Mystery of the Window of the Soul that Sees both the seen and the unseen is easier covered by the masculine mind, the male intellect, the head takes over the territory of the heart that much easier, and hence only found in some men, perhaps the best of men; the talented shamans, prophets, saints, and the artist, some soul-scholars, and the mystic poets, and even some talented physicists, as in the words of Einstein, ‘The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.’
‘For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity,
Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue. And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man;
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things.’
William Wordsworth
image; Window to the Soul BY gestandene
