Thanat-eros.

[sophiaserpentia]

The act of sex is equivalent to spitting the eye of fate.

It is life, defying its death sentence. It is celebration in the face of eventual loss and sorrow. It is closeness and intimacy in spite of the fear and aloofness bred into us by callousness.

This is why sex is sacred, and why it is such an important battlefield with the archons. The archons must control sex to retain their control; this is how they play ape politics with us. Archontic control of sex is the equivalent of "collaring" the entire society.

Comments

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

By "the archons" I assume you mean St. Paul's "spiritual forces of wickedness".

More or less. But keep in mind I am not referring to anything necessarily "numinous" or "superficial," though it may be possible to interpret my statements with those kinds of overtones. I have in mind primarily a grand pattern of human self-restriction and self-oppression rooted in the evolution of the human brain and the development of the collective unconscious.


If so, would you say that it is the archons who motivate political institutions such as church and government to institute tight controls on sexual expression?

As I have interpreted it, yes. The moment the church plays at being an institution "of the world," it risks becoming the sort of oppressive authority from which I believe Jesus and Paul tried to liberate us.

[ex-mommybir.livejournal.com]

I hope this doesn't come across badly, but that icon of you looks frighteningly like Kirstie Alley. I like *you*, but I find Alley terribly annoying. *g*

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

::laughs:: No one's ever compared me to Kirstie Alley before.

[twistedcat.livejournal.com]

can you give more information on the archons as a human pattern? what specific qualities do you ascribe to that archetype?

i know you talked about this somewhat the other day, but this is more specific than i got out of your previous writings and i am curious.

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

This points back to the entry I made a couple of weeks ago about a "memetic parasite" which I believe is posing as religion, and to the posts I made earlier this week about defying fate. While religion provides clear benefits and survival value (and that of course is beyond or in addition to the possibility that religious doctrine is correct) the "parasite" by definition does not.

This is an idea I'm just starting to flesh out and my discussion of it so far is meant to be taken on more of an intuitive level; I am not trying to spell out theories as much as record thoughts and impressions about this.

[theodora.livejournal.com]

Second twistedcat's request for further explication of term "archon."

A bunch of liberating threads about sex on this Rialto today, it's kind of great.