Daily Meditation: Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Word - child of the two principles, masculine and feminine

02/17/2010

The spoken word gives human beings such power! They need only speak to obtain results comparable to those obtained by any other material means: they can build or destroy, they can bring together or divide, they can restore peace or start a war, they can heal or bring about death. The power of the spoken word comes from the fact that it is produced by the mouth, where both principles - the masculine (the tongue) and the feminine (the two lips) - work together to create a child (the spoken word). According to tradition, when the primitive androgyne was split in two, in symbolic terms it could be said that the woman kept the lips, the feminine principle, and the man the tongue, the masculine principle. This is why, in order to find their original power, they now endlessly seek each other so that they can be united. Yes, this is the distant origin of the impulse that causes men and women to seek each other out. In spite of the fact that this search often takes the form of pleasure and distraction, its deeper meaning is to return to the oneness of the Word, the oneness of the creative principle, which is male and female.