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Word Gems
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Soulmate, Myself:
Omega Point
Preface
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In “The Wedding Song,” authentic eternal romance took to itself human garb and spoke to us as Love Personified.
As “The Wedding Song” frequently references the Bible, we might ask, could this personification find basis in scripture? The closest we come to such literary device is found in the book of Proverbs wherein wisdom, at times, speaks to us as Lady Wisdom.
She compares the pursuit of sagacity to a wife building her home: just as the educated and spiritual mind is to be outfitted with knowledge, understanding, and wisdom, she prepares her family's dwelling with all necessaries to serve husband and children. It’s a beautiful metaphor. Further, in Proverbs Lady Wisdom is contrasted with the Harlot. This latter cares nothing for the welfare of others, is far from service-minded, but is concerned only with egocentric gratification.
Despite these parallels, my own sense leads me to suggest that Love Personified is not an alter-ego of Lady Wisdom. While the former certainly includes the prudence of the latter, “The Wedding Song” focuses less on the mundane-practical, and much more on an exuberance or ecstasy, what I have termed “the joy” of life and love.
As such, a better foil for Love Personified, against which we might more readily appreciate “something never seen before,” is the mythical Greek goddess Aphrodite. Dr. Elizabeth Vandiver, a classical mythologist, explains that though, today, Aphrodite bears an epithet of “goddess of love,” strictly speaking, this is not correct. The ancient Greeks would have worshiped her as “goddess of sexual passion.” Selecting a mate on the basis of something-approximating true love is a fairly recent addition to the meaning of marriage and pretty much unknown in earlier times. It’s not recognized in any systematized way until after the time of the historical Troubadours; circa. 1100-1200 AD.
The ancient Greeks, Vandiver asserts, would have considered sexual passion as a form of insanity, a temporary imbalance of mind, which bio-attraction might flee from one as quickly as it came. To build a life, a settled married life, of children, wealth accumulation, and family legacy on the broken reed of bio-sexual passion, was, to the Greeks, the height of folly. They weren't all wrong.
Further, says Professor Vandiver, Aphrodite was considered to be the Personification of Sexual Passion. This means, if you were to ask an ancient Greek, “do you believe in Aphrodite,” the response would be, “of course I believe in Aphrodite” – but the sense of the response would signify, “of course I believe in the madness of sexual passion, because we see it everywhere, and everyone has experienced being bitten.”
Yes, everyone has experienced the temporary madness. There’s not an iota of novelty in it, not a particle of “something never seen before.” But consider the stark contrast with Love Personified. She insists that what she offers is a perception of romance that is not fleeting but enduring, in fact, eternal in nature. And, far from inducing a state of madness, true love takes its adherents to a higher state of consciousness and maturity. This elevated level of mind, heart, and soul very much allows one to build a lasting and substantial married life.
But now we go further. Love Personified leads us to a forward evolution of the human spirit's capacities; even more, as a sacred couple “travels on” in this enhancement, a grand unfolding of human potential, they rebuild and refashion the very nature of society and civilization; indeed, altering the very definition of what it means to be human.
Love Personified beckons. We are being called to “Omega Point.”
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