A Gnostic Perspective on Tantric Sex and the End Times

A Gnostic Perspective on Tantric Sex and the End Times

By Richard C. Cook

Planet Earth and the humanity that inhabits it are in the midst of a terrible crisis arching above us like a tsunami. We know something is drastically wrong but cannot for the life of us see what is really going on or discern a way out.

The environmental aspect of the crisis has been loosely attributed to “global warming,” though the notion that this is the result of man-made greenhouse gases is unproven and dubious. The pressure of the population explosion on limited natural resources is certainly reflective of the crisis. The destruction of non-human species and the continued proliferation of polluting chemicals are also deeply alarming.

But what may be most disturbing is the near-total failure of governments to be doing anything effective to respond. What we see instead is the takeover of governments, especially among the U.S. and its allies, by corporate and financial interests whose overriding desires are profits for themselves and control of the world population, which they see merely as the drones who work for them or the consumers who purchase their shoddy production.

Anyone who is a non-drone or a non-consumer, including whole nations or ethnic groups seen as unnecessary, are subjects for elimination through war, oppression, or genocide. Science and technology, which could be harnessed to provide everyone with at least a subsistence level of livelihood, is perverted by industry to create genetically-modified crops, assembly-line slaughter of food animals, dangerous pharmaceuticals, increasingly refined electronic surveillance devices to monitor the population, and ever-more sophisticated and ubiquitous weapons of war.

There is no one in the world with the power to stop any of this. The press, entertainment media, education, and every branch of industry are under corporate/banking control, with governments on-call to enforce the corporate will through its military/police powers. It doesn’t help matters that these governments are increasingly divided between the U.S., Israel, and Europe as one bloc and Russia, China, and India as the other, with less developed nations in-between trampled into oblivion. It’s a prescription for a third world war.

So is that how it will end? A violently destructive scenario seems likely if we don’t take into account the view of the spiritualists that Earth and humanity are only a small part of a much larger Universe where consciousness, divine grace, and destiny must enter in.

Humanity today, particularly the egomaniacs that rule every branch of government, finance, business, education, journalism, etc., is likely in its final phase before the cosmic powers that really and truly preside over our fate decide to wipe the slate clean. Prophecies of a rapidly-approaching destruction of the current phase of human civilization abound and can readily be found, including those from indigenous peoples around the world.

Millions are preparing in a fashion by stocking up on food, water, weapons, and other provisions. Governments themselves are preparing to hunker down in underground complexes where the top brass can hide out while the conflagrations rage on the surface.  If you don’t believe this or haven’t noticed you are indeed deaf, dumb, and blind.

But is this any way to prepare for what really may happen? Perhaps it appears to be a meaningful response for those who are spiritually asleep and just want to save their own skins. But how about for those who believe they have or even wish to have an immortal soul, for whom death is a portal that must be entered sooner or later regardless of external circumstances?

Every person alive will eventually face the Grim Reaper.

And what difference does it make if a person lives or dies if life is nothing more than being a cog in the wheel of samsara who inevitably will grow old, fall into ill health, decline to a shadow of one’s former self, then die like a worm?

Doesn’t the world crisis make you wonder about these things?

So please think about the following, which is that the only people who have any answers to these questions may be the ones who have inherited the wisdom of the ages conveyed by initiatic science. And do you think these initiates will tell you that the way to respond to current events is to find yourself a cave to hide in, grow a big garden, or stock up on guns and ammo?

Allow me to answer that question for you. The answer is “No.”

The answer, rather, is to begin to know yourself. And that means asking the question of just what is a human being, anyway.

A human being is a creation—of something. A human being derives from a source. Like anything created, a human being has something of the nature of what brought it into existence. That something is a power, an essence. Let’s call it God, which every civilized culture in the history of the world has spoken of.

I am not even going to address the patent idiocy that soulless people display by claiming with no real knowledge that human beings “evolved’ mechanically from apes or whatever. If they do believe this, let them try to save themselves by re-growing their hairy skins, moving back into the trees, and eating whatever nuts and berries they can find amidst the rubble.

No, a human being is brought into existence through a process of incarnation—the seed of a soul implanted in a planetary body. During his or her life on Earth, which may very well be one of a succession of many lives, the person has the ability, either helped or hindered by parents and society, to grow into something higher and better than what he or she brought with them into the world in the first place.

The person has the potential to develop—physically, psychologically, and spiritually. The person may or may not choose to aspire to such achievement and may simply wallow in pleasure, try to accumulate worthless possessions, cheat his fellow man out of all he can, and die like the worm mentioned above.

But if he or she does choose to develop, the question arises of how it is to be done. The short answer is through religion, though the religions of the world have largely become bogged down in corruption, bigotry, and self-love to the extent that their potency in assuring transcendence among their followers is close to nil.

But within each religion is a deeper, hidden knowledge of the psychology of transmutation. The methods for doing so fall into four categories, which have been called the “way of the fakir,” the “way of the monk,” the “way of the yogi,” or the “fourth way,” the way of balanced development in life, combining the methods of the first three ways.

The four ways have one thing in common—the idea that man is not born with an immortal soul but rather must develop one through specific efforts accomplished in cooperation with higher forces coming down from above that can raise human beings to a higher level.

In ancient times, societies were organized for this type of transformation to take place, though the actual procedures were secret. Today, official science, government, finance, business, etc., not only knows little about spirituality but actually opposes any real sign of it.

This is because today’s officialdom operates under the influence of forces that fear spiritual development as a threat to its power. These forces may collectively be called “satan,” and are represented in the psychology of every individual by the ego, which is simply that in a person which always uses the word “I.”

In fact no such “I” exists. Rather each human being is a multiplicity of thoughts, emotions, desires, opinions, prejudices, etc., each of which says “I” depending on circumstances, conditioning, and preferences.

“I” is the biggest lie we tell, and we tell it thousands of times a day. A person who is beginning to know himself or herself can no longer say “I” without embarrassment.

With the proliferation of self-help gurus today, many people are somewhat acquainted with the foregoing. So without wasting any more time, let’s get to the heart of the matter.

In developing oneself spiritually, a person must work with the raw material provided at birth—his or her own human machine, which, according to the spiritual teaching known as the Kabbalah, consists of seven interpenetrating bodies.

There are four lower bodies, known collectively as the “body of sin,” because this is where the illusions and error under which mankind lives are housed. These are the physical, vital, emotional, and mental bodies. Because of the noise and discord generated by these lower bodies, the human being is incapable of hearing and listening to the voices of the higher bodies that are continually calling out for recognition.

These higher bodies are the soul body, the body of consciousness, and the atmic body, also known as the Innermost. These bodies open to and connect with the Triune God—i.e., the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Son is the Christ Consciousness embodied most recently on Earth by Jeshua, a.k.a., Jesus Christ, but recognized as well by the inner traditions of all religions.

The Kabbalah is the centerpiece of the teachings of the Gnostics. Gnosticism has also been called the  “Perennial Philosophy.” It lies at the heart of such systems as Yoga, Sufism, Taoism, Shamanism, etc., and also existed in the teachings of Ancient Egypt as expressed in the Tarot, and in the ideas of the Maya and Aztecs in Mesoamerica and the Inca in South America.

The task of the human being aspiring to attain spiritual consciousness, and so having a chance of continuing to exist in awareness after physical death, is to create a link between the four “bodies of sin” and the three higher bodies. This link begins to be forged only when the person has studied about it in “truth teachings,” then learns to practice deep meditation.

Otherwise, what do you think you can accomplish? Meditation has to be studied and learned, and it can only be learned from someone who knows how to do it and can teach the same to you. Of course there are many “styles” of meditation available, some more valuable and authentic than others.

Meditation transmutes energy, the energy that has already been formed in the four lower bodies. The highest form of this mechanically-produced energy is the energy of sex. This is a very fine energy that fuels all the higher functions of the human being. A certain amount of this energy present and available within the organism is required for meditation even to be possible.

Moreover, the sex energy is also needed to raise the Kundalini, located at the base of the spine, from which it can ascend and activate the chakras, which are the organs of higher consciousness.

Some systems say there are seven chakras; some say nine. The human soul, it is said, is located in the fourth, the heart chakra.

But the key to the process is that the only way this spiritualization can take place is through the ascension and elaboration of the sex energy the body naturally produces. It cannot be done if the sex energy has been wasted and depleted.

Depletion takes place, most obviously, through sexual excess, particularly when sex is practiced outside a loving relationship between spouses, through fornication, adultery, viewing pornography, masturbation, etc. The so-called “sexual revolution,” where anything goes between the sexes or within a single sex, has destroyed for much of mankind their ability to develop spiritually. Fortunate indeed is the person who figures this out in time to make a difference in his or her life, because it is possible to reform and change one’s pattern of behavior.

But there are many other ways that sexual energy is wasted, including all kinds of vehement emotion and behavior, as at sporting events, rock-and-roll concerts, movie theaters, along with outbursts of anger, constant arguing, etc. Needless to say, wars are a gigantic cauldron of enflamed and perverted sex energy. So is politics.

We could even say that the entire purpose of modern life and its “culture” is to extract from people every ounce of sex energy they have available. Where does it go? It goes to feed low-level demonic entities, including those which inhabit the Moon. Hence today’s humanity consists almost entirely of “lunatics.”

So does the foregoing constitute an argument for sexual abstinence? The answer is “No,” because abstinence leads to the bottling up of sex energy and an eventual explosion. The perversions among so many Catholic priests and Protestant ministers are good examples of this.

The answer, rather, is Tantric sex, which consists of age-old practices known in Yoga and some other traditional teachings, whereby a married couple enjoys the highest delights of physical love by practicing sex as a spiritual sacrament, doing so without male ejaculation.

Such practices can be carried out by people of any age who have the necessary preparation. In a sane society, sex education along these lines would begin at puberty.

Tantric sex is the real answer, and for many the only answer, to the dilemmas facing people today who have some degree of spiritual aspiration and who wish to develop themselves in the face of the onrushing world catastrophe. It is through the practice of Tantric sex, combined with meditation, that people can engender the feelings of inner strength, purity, calmness, endurance, etc., needed to face difficult situations in difficult times.

And what about those who aspire but cannot practice Tantric sex due to circumstances such as the absence of a willing spouse? The answer is that in the meantime such people should engage in the deepening of their meditation practice.

Groups and teachers exist who impart the foregoing. All it takes to find them is a little diligence and the surrender of ego.

I cannot emphasize enough how important it is for people to take seriously the recommendations made herein. The world crisis cannot be met on its own level, whether by individual preparation for disasters, practice of the “law of attraction,” or any program of social, political, or economic reform or revolution. The situation can be resolved, as stated above, only at the level of the individual and only through the practice of deep meditation and the transmutation of sex energy.

References: The Perfect Matrimony by Samael Aun Weor, In Search of the Miraculous by P.D. Ouspensky, Lite in the Heart by Omna Last, etc.

© 2012 by Richard C. Cook