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Love — The Two Halves

LOVE

The two halves, separated from the dawn of life, made one

Passages from The Perfect Matrimony · Samael Aun Weor · 1961

How this booklet treats his words

Every passage below is the Master's own, checked word by word against the 1961 edition. Seventy-five of the seventy-six paragraphs match the source exactly.

Where the 1961 scan is damaged — a broken word, a dropped letter, a stray full stop — the reading is printed plainly here. Every such repair is recorded in the project notes, with chapter and verse, so anyone can check what was done.

Love

Chapter One

God as Father is Wisdom. God as Mother is Love.

God as Father resides in the Eye of Wisdom. The Eye of Wisdom is situated between the eyebrows. God as Love is found in the Heart-Temple. Wisdom and Love are the two Toral Columns of the Great White Lodge.

To love, what a beautiful thing it is to love. Only the great Souls can, and know how to love. Love is infinite tenderness… Love is the life that palpitates in every atom, as in every Sun. Love cannot be defined because it is the Divine Mother of the World; it is what occurs to us when we are really in love.

Love is felt in the depths of the heart. It is a delicious personal experience, it is a fire that consumes, it is divine wine, a delight to those who drink it. A simple perfumed handkerchief, a letter, a flower, causes tremendous intimate inquietudes in the depths of the Soul, exotic ecstasy, ineffable voluptuousness.

No one has ever been able to define Love. One must experience it and feel it. Only the great lovers really know that which is called Love. The Perfect Matrimony is the union of two beings who really know how to love.

To have true Love it is necessary for the man and woman
to adore each other on all the seven great cosmic planes.

For there to be Love there should be a true communion of Souls in the three spheres of Thought, Feeling and Will. When two beings vibrate in affinity in their thought, feeling and volition, then the Perfect Matrimony is fulfilled in the seven planes of cosmic consciousness.

There are people married on the physical and etheric planes, but not on the astral plane. Others are married on the physical, etheric and astral planes, but, not on the mental plane. Each thinks in his own way, the woman has one religion and the man another, they do not agree in their thoughts etc.

There are marriages that are kindred in the worlds of thought and feeling, but absolutely opposite in the world of the will; these couples clash constantly; they are not happy.

The Perfect Matrimony must take place on the seven planes of cosmic consciousness. There are marriages that do not even reach the astral plane. Then there is not even sexual attraction; these are true failures. This type of couple bases itself exclusively in the matrimonial form.

Some people live married life on the physical plane with a certain partner, and on the mental plane they live married life with a different partner. Rarely in life do we find a Perfect Matrimony. For there to be Love, it is necessary for there to be affinity of thought, affinity of feeling and will.

Where there is arithmetic reckoning, there is not Love. Unfortunately Love in modern life has the smell of the bank account, commodities and celluloid. In those homes where there are only additions and subtractions, Love does not exist. When Love leaves the heart, it is difficult for it to return. Love is a very elusive child.

The marriage made without Love, based only on economical or social interests is really a sin against the Holy Spirit. This type of marriage will inevitably fail. Lovers frequently confuse desire with Love and the worst of the matter is that they marry believing that they are in love. Having consummated the sexual act, the carnal passion satisfied, then comes disenchantment. What remains is the terrible reality.

Lovers should analyze themselves before marrying to know whether they are really in love. Passion is easily confused with Love. Love and desire are absolute opposites.

He who is really in love is capable of giving even the last drop of blood for his beloved. Examine yourself before marrying. Do you feel capable of giving even the last drop of blood for the one you adore? Would you be capable of giving your life so that your beloved could live? Reflect and meditate.

Is there true affinity of thought, feeling and will with the one you adore? Remember that if a complete affinity does not exist then your marriage, instead of being a heaven will be a true inferno. Do not allow yourself to be led by desire. Kill not only desire, but the very shadow of that tempting tree of desire.

Love begins with a flash of delicious sympathy,
is substantiated with infinite tenderness,
and is embodied in supreme adoration.

A Perfect Matrimony is the union of two beings who adore each other absolutely. In Love there are no estimates or bank accounts. If you are making estimates and calculations, it is because you are not in love. Reflect before taking the great step. Are you really in love? Be careful of the illusion of desire. Remember the flame of desire consumes life, and then all that remains is the tremendous reality of death.

Contemplate the eyes of the one you adore, lose yourself within the delight of his eyes. But, if you want to be happy, do not allow yourself to be carried off by desire.

Man in love; do not confuse Love with passion. Analyze yourself deeply. It is urgent to know if she belongs to you in Spirit. It is necessary to know if you are in complete affinity with her in the three worlds: thought, feeling and will.

Adultery is the cruel result of lack of Love. A woman truly in love would prefer death before adultery. The man who commits adultery is not in love.

Love is terribly divine. The Blessed God-Mother of the World is that which is called Love. With the terrible Fire of Love we can transform ourselves into Gods to enter majestically into the amphitheatre of Cosmic Science.

The Son of Man

Chapter Two

“God is love, and his love creates and creates anew.”

The delicious words of love lead to the ardent kiss of adoration. The sexual act is the real consubstantiation of love, in the tremendous psycho-physiological realism of our nature.

Something is created when a man and woman unite sexually. In those instances of supreme adoration he and she are truly one androgynous being with powers to create as the Gods. The Elohim are male and female. The man and woman, sexually united during the supreme ecstasy of love, are really a terribly divine Elohim.

In those moments of sexual union we are really in the Laboratorium-Oratorium of the Holy Alchemy.

In those moments the Great Clairvoyants are able to see the sexually united couple enveloped in terribly divine splendors. We have penetrated, then, the Sanctum Regnum of High Magic. With these frightfully divine forces we can disintegrate the Devil that we carry within, and transform ourselves into Great Hierophants.

As the sexual act is prolonged, as the delightful caresses of the adorable ecstasy are increased, one feels an enchanting spiritual voluptuousness. Then we are charging ourselves with universal electricity and magnetism; terrible cosmic forces are accumulated in the depths of the Soul. The chakras of the astral body sparkle, the mysterious forces of the Great Cosmic Mother circulate through all the channels of our organism.

The ardent kisses, the intimate caresses, are transformed into miraculous notes, which resound excitedly within the aura of the universe. We have no way to explain those moments of supreme enjoyment. The Serpent of Fire is agitated, the Fires of the heart are enlivened and the terrifying rays of the Father shine full of majesty upon the foreheads of the sexually united beings.

The Kabbalists speak to us about the Ninth Sphere. The Ninth Sphere of the Kabbalah is sex.

The descent to the Ninth Sphere, was, in the Ancient Mysteries the ultimate test of supreme dignity of the Hierophant. Jesus, Hermes, Buddha, Dante, Zoroaster etc., had to descend to the Ninth Sphere to work with the Fire and the Water, origin of worlds, beasts, men and Gods. All authentic and legitimate White Initiation begins there. The Son of Man is born in the Ninth Sphere. The Son of Man is born of Water and Fire.

The betrothal of the Soul and the Lamb is the greatest feast of the Soul. That Great Lord of Light enters her. He becomes human, while she becomes divine. From this mixture of divine and human develops that, which the Adorable so aptly calls: “The Son of Man.”

The greatest triumph of supreme adoration is the birth of the Son of Man in the Manger of the World.

Man and woman loving each other are truly two harps
of miraculous harmony; an ecstasy of glory that which
cannot be defined because if it is defined it is disfigured.
That is love.

The kiss is the profound mystic consecration of two Souls who adore each other, and the sexual act is the key with which we become Gods. Gods, there is God. All of you, who truly love, know that God is Love. To love, how beautiful it is to love. Love is nourished with love; only with love are the alchemical weddings possible.

The Alchemists say that we must transform the Moon into the Sun. The Moon is the Soul. The Sun is the Christ. The transformation of the Moon into the Sun is only possible with the Fire, and this can only be lit in the amorous connubium of the Perfect Matrimony.

A Perfect Matrimony is the union of two beings;
one who loves more and the other who loves better.

The Son of Man is born of Water and Fire. Water is the Semen. Fire is the Spirit. God shines upon the Perfect Couple.

The Two Halves

Chapters Five, Eight & Nineteen

Sex is the creative function by means of which the human being is a true God. Normal sexuality results from complete harmony and concordance of all the other functions.

When man and woman unite sexually in the Perfect
Matrimony they are in those moments of delight,
true ineffable Gods.

Man and woman sexually united, form a perfect divine androgyne, a male-female Elohim, a terribly divine Divinity — the two halves, separated from the dawn of life, unite for an instant to create. That is ineffable… sublime… this is a thing of paradise…

The sexual energy is dangerously volatile and potentially explosive. During the secret act, during sexual ecstasy, the couple is surrounded by this tremendous and terribly divine energy. In these moments of supreme joy and of ardent kisses, that fire the depths of the Soul, we can retain that marvelous light to completely purify and transform ourselves.

Man is one half; woman, the other half. During the sexual act one experiences the happiness of being complete.

When the couples are sexually united, clairvoyants usually see a very brilliant light which envelopes the pair. In this instant precisely, the creative forces of nature come to serve as a means for the creation of a new being.

During the act of Sexual Magic, couples are charged with magnetism; they magnetize each other.

It is impossible to achieve cosmic consciousness without Sanctity. It is impossible to obtain Sanctity without Love. Love is the path of Sanctity. The most grandiose manifestation of Love, is found during Sexual Magic. In these moments the man and woman are a single, terribly divine hermaphroditic being.

The Divine Hermaphrodite

Chapters Nineteen & Twenty-Nine

In the Genesis of Moses, Adam sleeps and God takes Eve from one of his ribs. Before this moment Eve was within Adam, and was Adam himself. He-She was an Hermaphrodite.

From the feet of this giant Hermaphrodite (the polar race), the six-headed monster was born, the star of Solomon, the Sexual Alchemy of the human being, which through many centuries ends in the separation or division of the giants, transforming them into human beings of separate sexes. The division into opposite sexes is the beginning of the great tragedy.

The human being will again be a divine Hermaphrodite.
Man will return to Eden accompanied by his divine Eve.

When man and woman are sexually united, in those moments they are a single hermaphroditic being. In fact, in those moments of supreme sexual voluptuousness we are Gods. This is the supreme moment, which the Initiate knows how to use for his magical phenomena.

The Soul and the Spirit come before the Great White Lodge without the Bodies of Sin and in complete absence of the “I”. They look at each other, they love and fuse as two flames which unite to form a single flame. Thus the Divine Hermaphrodite is born, and receives a throne from which to rule and a temple in which to officiate.

Love is the basis and foundation of initiation.
It is necessary to know how to love.

Man and Woman

Chapter Nineteen — Initiation

The way to cosmic realization is the Path of the Perfect Matrimony. Victor Hugo, the great Initiate humanist said textually the following:

Man is the most elevated of creatures,
Woman the most sublime of ideals.
God made for man a throne; for woman an altar.
The throne exalts, the altar sanctifies

Man is the brain,
Woman, the heart.
The brain creates light, the heart, love.
Light engenders, love resurrects.

Because of reason Man is strong.
Because of tears Woman is invincible.
Reason is convincing, tears, moving.

Man is capable of all heroism,
Woman of all martyrdom.
Heroism ennobles, martyrdom sublimates.

Man has supremacy,
Woman, preference.
Supremacy is strength, preference is the right.

Man is a genius,
Woman, an angel.
Genius is immeasurable, the angel indefinable.

The aspiration of man is supreme glory,
The aspiration of woman is extreme virtue.
Glory creates all that is great; virtue, all that is divine.

Man is a code,
Woman a gospel.
A code corrects; the gospel perfects.

Man thinks, Woman dreams.
To think is to have a worm in the brain,
to dream is to have a halo on the brow.

Man is an ocean, Woman a lake.
The ocean has the adorning pearl, the lake, dazzling poetry.

Man is the flying eagle, Woman, the singing nightingale.
To fly is to conquer space. To sing is to conquer the soul.

Man is a temple, Woman a shrine.
Before the temple we discover ourselves,
before the shrine we kneel.

In short, man is found where earth finishes,
woman where heaven begins.

These sublime phrases of the great Initiate humanist Victor Hugo, invite us to live the Path of the Perfect Matrimony.

Blessed be Love.
Blessed the beings who adore each other.

To Love One Must Be

Chapter Eight — Happiness, Music, Dancing and the Kiss

Only love and wisdom should reign in the homes of the Gnostic brothers and sisters.

Really, humanity confuses Love with desire, and desire with Love. Only great Souls know how, and are able to love. In Eden men of perfection love ineffable women. To Love one must Be. Those who incarnate their Soul know how to truly love.

The “I” does not know how to love. The demon “I” which today swears love, is replaced by another demon “I” that does not want to love. We already know that the “I” is plural. The pluralized “I” is really a Legion. That whole succession of the “I” lives in conflict. It is said that we have one mind. We, the Gnostics affirm that we have many minds. Each phantom of the pluralized “I” has its mind. The “I” which kisses and adores the beloved woman is displaced by another “I” who hates her.

To Love one must Be. Man still is not. Whoever has not incarnated the Soul is not. Man still does not have real existence. From the mouth of man speaks a Legion of demons; demons who swear love, demons who abandon the beloved, demons who hate, demons of jealousy, of anger, of malice etc., etc.

Nonetheless, the intellectual animal mistakenly called man in spite of all this, has incarnated the Essence, a fraction of his Human Soul, the Buddha. The Buddha knows how to love. The “I” does not know how to love.

We should forgive the defects of the beloved,
because these are the defects of the “I”.
Love is not to blame for the quarrels.
The guilty one is the “I”.

In the home of the Gnostic Initiate there should be a source of happiness, music and ineffable kisses. Dance, love and the joy of loving, strengthen the Embryo of the Soul that children have within. In this way Gnostic homes are a real paradise of love and wisdom.

Love is Like an Innocent Child

Chapter Twenty-Two — Sexual Yoga

The human being does not yet know that which is called Love. Actually only the Soul knows, and is able to Love. Man has still not incarnated his Soul. Man still does not know what it is to Love.

Love can only exist from heart to heart, from Soul to Soul, Whoever has not incarnated his Soul, does not know how to Love. Satan cannot Love and this is what the human being has incarnated.

The Perfect Matrimony is the union of two beings, one who loves more, and the other who loves better. Love is the best religion that the human being can profess.

Desire is a substance that separates into many substances. These substances of desire manage to deceive the mind and the heart. He who despairs because his wife has left him for another man, was not actually in Love.

True Love demands nothing, asks nothing, desires nothing,
thinks nothing, only wants one thing;
the happiness of the beloved. That is all.

The man who loses the one he loves only says, “I am happy that you have found your happiness. If it is with another man that you have found it, I feel happy that you have found it.”

Desire is another thing. The passionate person who has lost the woman he loved because she left with another, may even go so far as to kill, and also kill himself. He falls into the most horrible desperation. He has lost the instrument of his pleasure. That is all.

Actually true Love is only known by those who have already incarnated their Soul. Humanity still does not know that which is called Love. Really, Love is like an innocent child; it is like the white plumed swan. Love is like the first games of childhood. Love does not know anything because it is innocent.

When we dissolve that horrible ghost that continues after death (the “I”), then that which is called Love is born within us. When we reach that state, we recover our lost innocence.

The human being of today has only incarnated an embryo of the Soul. At times this emits some sparks of Love. The mother who adores her child is a very good example of that which is called Love.

The embryo of the Soul can be strengthened with the blessed flame of Love.

Sometimes man and woman feel the radiations of Love which flow from the embryo of the Soul, but they are immediately suffocated by the violent and terrible passions which Satan gives to man and also to woman.

If we cultivate those divine vibrations of Love, we can then fortify and strengthen the embryo of the Soul, so that later we may live intensely that which we call Love. Love strengthens the embryo of the Soul. When the embryo grows stronger, then we achieve the incarnation of the Soul.

Rare are those human beings who come to feel the divine loving vibrations that radiate from the embryo of the Soul. What humanity normally feels are the forces of desire. Desire also sings, becomes romantic and infinitely tender. Desire is the most deceptive venom that exists in the entire cosmos. Anyone who is a victim of the great deceiver could swear he is in Love.

Men and women, I invite you to Love.
Follow the footprints of those few in the world
who have known how to Love.

Gods and Goddesses; make Love in the nuptial enchantment of Paradise. Blessed the beings who truly Love. Only Love can make us Gods.

The Son of Man