Society for Sacred Sexuality

Gary Joseph · Posted: June 29, 2004

One day, God decided to play the Supreme Joke.

He created man, whom He called Adam, and his helpmate, Eve. For awhile, He let them live in bliss in the Garden of Eden. When it was time for the joke to begin, God sent a snake with an apple, who whispered to Eve to tell Adam that if he ate the apple, he would become like God. She did, and Adam ate, and so was cast out of the Garden with Eve, who had eaten before him. God told Adam that he was cast out for eating the apple Eve gave him, and from that day on, Adam scorned women and their seductive power, rooted in sexuality & desire.

Generation after generation of man was born, each passing down Adam's scorn to the next, preaching it as the path back to Paradise -- the Garden of Eden. Women were persecuted, denied rights & respect, despised for their seductive temptations, and generally viewed as the bane of human existence.

After many thousands of years of problems, hardship, conflict, and warring, one man finally conquered all others and ruled the world. He pronounced himself 'King Adam', in honor of the primordial man. To redeem humanity, his first act on being coronated was to chain every woman to her room and cover her so she could never again tempt man with her sinful fruits. Her only role was procreation, and of course, cooking her husband's meals and cleaning his house. In this way, Adam sought to tame the source of man's evil desire.

When every woman on earth was thus subdued, King Adam, puffed up with pride, declared mankind redeemed, and fit for return to Paradise. Men everywhere hailed him as a hero, truly made in the image of God. They bade him go to God in heaven to call for re-entry into the Garden of Eden on behalf of all mankind.

Gladly, he accepted their charge.

And so King Adam mounted his golden chariot, drawn by winged steeds, and ascended to the Kingdom of Heaven for his date with destiny. As he neared the Pearly Gates, he quickly reviewed in his mind the situation on earth, for he knew that if even a single woman remained unfettered, mankind would be unworthy of Paradise, and he would be cast down. Satisfied that all were indeed suppressed, he approached the Gates. Sure enough, they swung open by Divine Providence, a clear sign to Adam that mankind was ready to receive its due.

As he entered the Great Hall of God, Adam saw two rooms with open doors, each emanating blinding Light. The room to his left was identified by a sign that said 'Operating Room'. He heard bustling activity inside, no doubt God's endless ruling energy. The Light was so blinding that Adam could not see in. He marveled at what must be in the chamber from which God runs the entire universe - effortlessly without a hitch - and was humbled by the awesome Power of that Supreme Being.

The room to his right was marked 'Viewing Room'. From here, Adam concluded, God must watch out over all His creatures, judging who's been naughty and who's been nice. Adam felt relieved that he had served his Lord well, and was now ripe to receive his just reward. His conviction was answered by a commanding voice from the Viewing Room: "Come in Adam, My son, in whom I am well pleased. I've been expecting you."

Adam's heart skipped a beat upon hearing of God's pleasure in him. As he approached the Viewing Room, he marveled even more that God could run creation flawlessly, even from outside the Operating Room. "Everything is automatic," he surmised in awe as he entered the Viewing Room door and stood in God's Light.

God dimmed the Light enough for Adam to see. "Adam," said God, "as you know I have given all my children Free Will to do as they please. Many are the things men choose to do with that freedom. You have chosen to fetter the desires of man and protect them from the temptations of woman, and I am well pleased."

Adam of course, was ecstatic to hear that all his long years of hard work were at last to be supremely honored.

God asked, "What do you request in reward for your subjugation of female seductions?"

Adam replied, "My Lord, on behalf of my kingdom, which spans the entire globe, I ask that all mankind be restored to the Garden of Eden."

"Very well," God replied, pointing to the Operating Room.

"Go ask your Holy Mother, My Beloved Nature - the 'Goddess' - to fill your request. She is Mother Nature, Granter of all Desire. She runs the show."

Hardy-har

Now for the real punch line: this is no joke.

The above tale is closer to the truth than you may think. No, God doesn't play 'jokes' on man, but mankind has made a joke of God's creation by calling half of it - the female half, with all its seduction and desire - evil, and pitting the other half against it in an interminable war.

And yes, God IS well pleased with man, even in his ignorance, because God does not judge us as we think He does. He simply gives us the freedom to make a mess or a paradise out of our lives, and thereby suffer or rejoice in the condition we create for ourselves.

And most important, yes, there is a God AND Goddess (if you choose to use that terminology) at the source of creation. But they are not as distinct as you might think, which brings us to the epilogue of our Supreme Joke:

Adam staggers into the Operating Room, stunned at God's words. Standing before the Goddess - who is seductively wrapped by a snake - all he can muster is, "But He said He was well pleased!"

"Him?!" chimed the Goddess, "He's well pleased with everything. Ever since the 7th Day of Creation, He's been sitting in that Viewing Room looking out, saying, 'It's all Good, it's all Good'."

Still not satisfied, and clinging to the hope that male reasoning would somehow bail him out, Adam dragged himself back to the Viewing Room and blurted, "But how could You trust Creation to a woman?!"

"Why should I do all the dirty work?", God replied, "I just like to watch." And with that, God turned away from Adam to look out on creation as the Silent Witness of All. As God turned, He revealed to Adam the Hidden Back-Side of God.

To Adam's great amazement, he saw God has no back. Rather, there was another radiant face -- the Face of the Goddess, whom he had just seen.

Then God, facing away from Adam, finished His Divine Ruse. "Besides, I'm All-Seeing; it's not like She does anything behind my back."

Red

The irony of the joke is that we openly accept the Goddess in principle, while vehemently denying Her in name. This is true whether we are scientific, religious, or simply common people.

For the common man and the scientist, the Goddess is nothing other than nature. We even acknowledge her femininity -- we call her 'Mother Nature'. And few question her awesome beauty and power, whether in the form of a supernova or a delicate rose, or the life-giving energy of the sun or the destructive power of earthquakes and hurricanes.

Scientists have an even clearer picture of Her. They recognize the order with which She governs the universe -- through the multitude of natural laws. They see the magnitude of Her Power at subtler and subtler levels of creation -- atomic, sub-atomic, etc. They understand how energy becomes matter through quantum mechanics, and even have a formula ( E=mc2 ) to show that nothing is lost in the exchange.

This is exactly as sacred sex science portrays Her. In sacred sex, the Goddess is both the energy and power of creation, and also its material form.

Scientists are even beginning to fathom how creation is born out of nothingness, a universal field of pure potentiality beyond all space and time. This Unified Field, as science calls it, simply IS. As the source of creation, it is referred to by the religious-minded as 'God'. From this field of pure potential, nature brings forth creation. It is a birth only a Goddess could pull off.

The only difference here between science and religion is that religion personifies the source of creation and its nature. Beyond this distinction of name - Unified Field & Nature vs. God & Goddess - they are the same. Both God and the Unified Field are the infinite eternal reality from which creation springs. Both nature and the Goddess are the energy and matter of creation, and the driving force behind its constant evolution.

If the Goddess is real, then why don't we see Her in Western religion? The answer is that the Goddess is in our religion, but through our patriarchal vision we fail to see Her. In fact, She is right in front of our eyes. But like the scientists, we give Her a different name.

Here though is where science and religion differ. Whereas science uses gender-free terminology, the patriarchal religionists offend every woman's honor. They take all traits of the Goddess and attribute them to their male Deity.

Yes, the Goddess is on every page of the Bible itself. What the Good Book calls God's Will is nothing other than His Own Nature -- that nature is what we call Goddess. The entire Bible centers on God's Will, yet nowhere is She acknowledged. And to the extent that Western religion accepts creation as the 'Body' of God, the Goddess is ignored for this trait too.

This point goes beyond mere semantics. It is not just attaching a feminine label to something that is really masculine. It's an expression of how we define life.

For those who haven't noticed, humanity is of two genders -- male & female. The male gender is known for its strength, stability, and support. He is 'there', like a rock. We define these as 'male' qualities. The female is known for her nurturing, beauty, change, and flow. She is a charming and seductive mystery, an enigma. We take these as 'feminine' qualities.

Nature, in its fullest sense, exhibits both male and female traits. That which science calls the Unified Field is the stable, unchanging support of creation. It simply IS, like a rock. This is a male quality, and religionists who personify this unmanifest nature rightly call it 'God'.

Manifest nature is the opposite -- it is decidedly female. It nurtures us with life and promotes our growth. It is beautiful, charming, complex, mysterious, and seductive. It absorbs our mind and senses in its ever-changing ways. This is the side of nature we commonly call Mother Nature for its female qualities.

Yet rather than personifying this as 'Goddess', patriarchal religionists stubbornly call it the Body of God. And they name the natural laws that nurture life as God's Law, or Will.

Perhaps the reason for the refusal is our distaste for dualism in our Deity. We like our monotheistic idea of One God. But this does not present a problem if we fully understand the relation between God & Goddess. They are not two separate deities; they are two aspects one reality. Our understanding of nature proves it to be so. Though the 'male' Unified Field is distinct in quality from 'female' manifest nature, it is absurd to say they are two separate natures. There is one nature, and it is both male and female together.

An example closer to home may clarify the connection. The link between God & Goddess exists at every level of creation. Even in our everyday world there is a part of things that is stable and non-changing (male) and a part that changes and evolves (female). One part of everything IS, while the other part DOES. You are still you, even while you do different things, change and grow old. You exist, you ARE -- that is God in you. Everything you do is the Goddess in you. You even call it your nature. Whether you're artistic, scientific, athletic, entrepreneurial, or whatever, that's your nature.

This even extends to inanimate objects. A ball is a ball, whether it's rolling, bouncing, or flying through the air. Its existence as a ball is God in it. Its various changing states are Goddess.

From these examples, you can see unbreakable connection between God & Goddess. She is as inseparable from Him as burning power is from fire and wetting power is from water. They are as bound together as a lion and its roar and striking power. They are like clay and forms made of clay -- you can't separate the clay from the form. They are two sides of the same coin.

In the same way that you can't divorce yourself from your own nature, God and Goddess are one. She is as inseparable from Him as, well...His Own Nature.

Indeed, the eternal union of God & Goddess is the entire foundation of sacred sex. It describes life as it is, and as we are.

So we might say it's not that the Goddess doesn't exist in Western religion, it's that She's in drag -- She is disguised as part of the male Deity. Or rather, the patriarchs have dressed Her in their image. Instead of God & Goddess, they present God & God's Will. In place of God and the manifest Goddess, they give us God and the Body of God.

In the first Genesis account of man's creation (there are two, Gen. 1.26-27 and Gen. 2.7-23), the one made 'in his image', the picture of God is very different than the male-only portrayal taught by contemporary religion. The main verse is typically translated as:

russ · Posted: March 28, 2005

The Goddess is both our body and the earth. Goddess worship always venerates both the earth and women in specific. As spiritual beings living in an earthly { all of the elements of life on earth are replicated in our physical bodies} we are both male and female individually. Male or female physically, female or male interiorly -anima or animus. One of the benefits of conscious sacred sexuality practice is a facilitating of male/ female balance in each lover.
This state of balance is the prerequisite for the transformation of our bodies, minds and emotional natures into ONENESS AND UNITY with the Solar power "The Tantric Marriage of Shiva and Shakti". Heaven and Earth fully integrated in the Body .

Gary Joseph · Posted: March 30, 2005

russ · Posted: October 25, 2008

It has been posited that Original Man was Bi Sexual , both male and female . Man's body had two sides : one masculine , the other feminine , just as Gary has described God in "the joke " above .
The biblical statement that :"God saw that it was not good for man to be alone" actually means :"God saw that it was not good for man to be All One " Thus the male and female aspects were seperated leaving a "remnant" of the other in each . Thus the origin of the idea that each of us has a " Soul Mate "who we are seeking in our lives .

Gary Joseph · Posted: November 3, 2008

I think the lore of humanity being both male & female in the beginning is mainly a reference to God & Goddess within each of us. Thus we are created 'in the image of' the Divine, which is also that way. Of course, it is true that even in our modern form, we each have male and female body parts (or remnants), including sexual & reproductive organs -- see Male/Female Androgyny.

All this means we have to be very careful what language we use, so as not to cause confusion or put one gender above the other. For example: