Approach  to  Archangelic  Sexuality

Alan Hammond

In our life experience we all know what it’s like to be faced with an endless series of challenges. In the fallen state in which we find ourselves these challenges are not always pleasant. The list of themes is endless and can involve such things as relationships, finances, health, career. Often when we are experiencing such challenges we may wonder, “Is there something wrong with me?” Of course maybe there is, and we should certainly examine the quality of our function in that field. But if it’s any consolation, we realize that no one has ever escaped facing unpleasant challenges. If we examine literature about the so-called holy ones of the past, all certainly faced uncomfortable situations. In our Western culture we only have to think of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, for example. Perhaps sometimes we think, “Nobody knows the troubles I’ve seen.” Of course our personal troubles are, in one sense, unique. But we certainly know that everybody has had variations of them, and will continue to have them.

Sometimes people think, “This particular situation with which I am struggling is preventing my light from shining forth.” There are various forms of challenges. Sometimes we have critics—people who appear to be the banes in our lives—but critics are potentially our greatest allies. Such irritants often point to our weaknesses or to distortions in our expression (which, of course, we are very keen to become aware of and to do something about, so that our expression may be as clear as possible!). Sometimes tragedies appear in people’s lives. We often hear accounts of them through the media. Recently in this area there were two teenagers who, in a road accident, lost both their legs. Six months later they have been fitted with artificial limbs and are now speaking in public, raising funds and inspiring many who are afflicted in similar ways. Such people turn tragedy into triumph because of the spirit they express in the midst of their situation. Very often these tragedies, when met in a creative spirit, can actually give a wonderful focus of meaning to a person’s life and a luster that wouldn’t be there if this so-called tragedy had not occurred.

Bringing this to our personal lives now, I’d like you to think about one of the most distressing challenges you are facing today. I would suggest that this could be a doorway into an experience of your greater Self, and eventually a greater experience of life. There is an interesting principle that involves thrust—the principle of the jet. As we know, the firing of jets utilizes pressure to push in one direction, which moves the object in the opposite direction. Tragedy coming from the earth, the environment, can thrust us into the experience of triumph—heavenward. So when we begin to feel a challenge from the earth, our circumstances, let us immediately thrust into a consciousness of Identity, and know for certain that new vistas lie ahead—if we handle the situation in true Identity. It is always, without exception, Life’s intention to be creative in Its movement. It is always our mistranslation of situations that causes our misery and, often, wrong function. Life, Spirit, is always urging our outer consciousness to move in the creative direction. There is only one power moving everything in Being, and it is seeking to move everything in the right direction. All things are always working together to perfection for those who love and serve the Whole. As we blend with this awareness, we know we can never be defeated. In fact the word defeat is only a concept in human consciousness. No such experience exists in the Truth of Being.

When dealing with challenges, it is best not to give all our attention to the problem itself, but to proceed to Identity with right Spirit; and, in the expression of that, next steps emerge in the current. In navigating challenges, we can feel free to utilize anything available in the Archangelic Body. Some people say, “I would never use drugs; I never drink this or that; I would never go there,” and similar fixed views. Well, don’t handcuff yourself. Be open to the Spirit that will utilize anything and everything in the fulfillment of Its purposes.

It is crucial to keep the true Tone in every moment. This generates fine substance. By expressing the Tone moment by moment, we are dealing with our own subconscious patterns and those within the Archangelic Body, so achievement is being accomplished even though our minds may be unaware of what is being accomplished.

One area in human experience that gives rise to much lamentation is the area of sexuality. There is a great deal of unhappiness related to this field, often very intense unhappiness. This is partly because sexuality is the most intense focus of a human being’s creative ability. Again, if it is any consolation, no one exists who does not experience severe challenges in this field. The experience is messed up for everyone. I say this very confidently, because even the best experiences of human sexuality are poor from the divine perspective. Human standards are so miserably low! In any case, the body of mankind is one, and while any are bound, none are free to experience the Truth in this, or in any other aspect of living.

Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis in the Western world, suggested that many difficulties in life arise from distorted sexual function. As we shall see, Freud’s view is very limited, as is most human awareness of the subject. Freud said that sexual urges that were expressed in many socially acceptable forms were, in his terms, sublimation. However, in fact all creative activity is sexual in the true sense. All creative activity is differentiated sexuality. True enough, in human experience sexual function does come to focus in what you might call genital sex—in procreation, for example. But sex is much more than genital sex. It can take the form of thought, conversation, collaboration, in myriad forms with anyone, or indeed with anything. Everything that is created is created utilizing the sex principle. Things are created by reason of the relationships of many, many forms in the current of Life. In the human world it is this sexual process that has created all inventions, created all art—indeed the production of anything involves relationship, and the sexual principle.

If you look up the word commerce in the dictionary, you will see that one of the definitions relates to sexual activity. Most people in business might be surprised at that. Just taking the example of commerce, we see that in its conduct there is communion, interchange, service. These elements of relationship are also involved in politics, healing, art, sport, and even farming. You might say, “Well, I don’t know how farming fits!” But all these fields need collaboration and interchange, with respect and love, to produce the most beautiful and effective results. Respect and love are the basis for all relationship in Being. If this Spirit is present in interchanges, then beautiful forms are born.

Of course the spirit currently moving through man is largely distorted. Man should be engaged in and focus a tremendous range of multidimensional sexual activity. However, in his current experience of a false identity and false expression, his range of conscious experience of sexuality is virtually nothing. So he is relatively barren, and what he does give birth to is invariably distorted. His habits of wrong identity, mistranslation of currents and therefore wrong function, has given birth to forms of hell on Earth. Because of the isolated human identity and consciousness held, his consciousness of sexuality is myopic and basically reduced to genital, physical sex.

We have begun to consider blending with the Archangelic Identity and experience. The Archangelic experience of sexuality involves all the relationships transpiring on Earth. Consider the range of relationship—the qualities, the textures, the forms of relationship present on Earth, which is therefore part of the Archangelic sexual experience. Archangelic sexuality has more to do with radiation than with physical contact. Remember, radiation is not intangible. It is a vibratory level of substance. Perhaps the easiest example of this for us to consider is the radiation from the Sun. The energetic interaction between the Sun and the Earth—the Archangelic Body, gives birth to myriad forms on Earth. As a planet, and as a creative, sexual partner of the Sun, the Earth plays the feminine role and produces the forms resulting from their intercourse—all the forms on the surface of the planet. The human experience in this process is part of the Archangelic experience, or should be—whereby in the human consciousness and experience there is translation of the currents from the undimensional levels of Being. These relate to the Archangelic Identity, and there are also the currents from the Sun. This blended intercourse should give rise to forms in our momentary living and acting. Remember, radiation is not intangible. Radiation is a denser substance than mental and physical substance and molds them, creates in them.

In exchanges between all physical forms, the primary, most powerful element of the interchange is in the radiation—you might say in the spirit—rather than the physical contact. Energy is the primary mover. This is true between animals. It is true in the growth of plants. And even between human beings, the primary, most potent level of interchange is spirit or energy, not physical substance—although physical substance in all these forms eventually has some part to play. But it isn’t the primary, it isn’t the most intense, level of intercourse.

We might say that each morning we are aroused by the Sun. It is part of the planetary sexual encounter. All this is designed for the creation and the experience of heaven on Earth, and for the creation of forms to clothe that experience. Every situation in which we find ourselves is part of the communion, intercourse, and interchange with the Cosmic Beloved. What a vast, yet minute range of textures and qualities of forms of experience can emerge out of the Truth of Love! And all this is available to us as we return to our true Identity as an aspect of the Beloved.

I’d like to highlight something someone said about being an older woman. In the world as it now is, most women feel particularly vulnerable about their sexuality as they get older. But we can see that in fact, as all of us get older, as we embody the true Spirit, the true current of respect and love, our multidimensional sexuality is not diminished at all. No doubt the focus of our expression is, in later years, in the denser, more potent substance of radiation—it is intensified. This potency is ours to contribute into the Archangelic Body, moment by moment. If we can begin to let our outer consciousness accommodate the true nature of sexuality (that is, expressing the creative Spirit in all we do), we will find our lives rich in every moment, occupied with the processes of intercourse in Being, with the currents moving therein. And we may fulfill in our lives a very significant and important contribution to the restoration of awareness and experience of true sexuality here on Earth.

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