IS LUST A DEMON?
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What a great question! This one has many answers from different
directions. Metaphorically, you could say that there are demonic aspects
to lust. But, first we must acknowledge that most living creatures
possess some aspect of intense sexual desire based on deep longing and
craving for sexual experience. Lust is a basic instinctive drive and is
deeply rooted in the genital energy centers of the body as well as having
correlates in the reptilian and old mammalian brain systems. The
neurochemicals of lust may consist of oxytocin for females and
vasopressin for males. Dopamine pleasure centers may also play a part in
the brain chemistry of lust.
The regulation of these chemical centers may depend on the chemistry of
the neocortex control and channeling centers. Now, what does that mean?
We humans have a very complex cerebral symbolic, metaphorical
emotional/cognitive system that helps us to survive and exist in complex
societies. Spiritually, we live within a context of civilization and
tribal socialization. Survival and thriving depend on building and
creating higher value systems based on honoring and loving one another.
These latter energy systems are much more recent in our evolutionary
history and have been very responsible for our success as a species.
Boiling it down to basics, lust is good when it is channeled and directed
towards socially accepted and approved objects and people. When I use the
term "good," in terms of judgments based on good and bad, evil and
righteous, I am applying universal principles and archetypes based in
second and third chakra judgments.
Question: But, that doesn't answer the question about a demon of lust.
Answer: Forgive me! I tend not to give simple answers to complex
phenomena. But, metaphorically and archetypally speaking, deviation from
consensus rules and norms takes us into the realm of the spiritual. And
that includes the demonic. I'll give you an example. You need lust and
genital energy to seek out communion and connection to possible mates.
This is usually a first step to securing a sexual love match. On the
lower second chakra genital energy system, you are driven by sexual
desire. Eventually, your fourth chakra heart energy system kicks in and
you feel love towards a particular person. None of this could happen
unless you were energized by the attraction/repulsion energy processes of
the second chakra/yesod/communion system. The dichotomy of the yesod
sefirot consists of spiritual divisions of good and evil. When you direct
your communion sexual energies through the right channels, you are
favoring the godly course. When you direct your lustful power outside of
the realm of your conscience, you have entered the demonic or evil
inclination.
It is at that point, that you would be engaging the metaphors,
archetypes, symbols, images and beliefs of what we call the spiritual or
super natural realm of consciousness. Your tribal system (first chakra)
will determine the content and structure of your demonic/dark side and
your transcendent eternal light side. If your tribal system explains the
misdirection of your lust in demonic terms, you'll categorize sexual
straying as belonging to the demon realm. When such a conflict arises,
you are faced with a crisis of conscience. Here you are, driven by sexual
lust to a forbidden or taboo activity, situation, object or person and
the pangs of conscience literally torment you with guilt and depression
mixed with powerful sexual tensions and drives. The end result could be a
mental breakdown, a personality regressive disorder or, at least, an
imbalancing of your critical energy centers. The antidote is to engage
yourself in a moral and cosmic correction process that would bring you
back to your center. This can be explained in religious terms as
returning to the paths of righteousness.
This internal war is fought on many levels of internal consciousness. The
choices that you make, will determine your ultimate fate and
consequences. Seduction is a universal, collective phenomenon and is used
in all aspects of human interaction. How you use your second chakra
seductive inclinations will determine your psychological, emotional and
spiritual destiny and fate. A case in point would be the biblical story
of the mutual seduction of King David and Bathsheba. In my opinion, they
were both driven to sexually lust after one another based on second
chakra instinctual, unconscious mental maps driven by mystical
archetypes. Hebrew civilization condemned their actions and demanded
reparations for their so-called sins. After a period of redemption,
salvation and forgiveness, a price and a sacrifice had been offered to
the God of Israel for payment due on the unbalanced second
chakra/yesod/communion energy centers. What followed would be considered
a classic love match based on redemption, reconnection and soul mating.
The prize for redemption, of course, is reward through the birth of
Solomon.
Question: Are you saying that there was a possible demon of lust involved
in the mutually seductive actions of David and Bathsheba?
Answer: It certainly looks that way. But, there is a higher power
involved in what is called a cosmic (tikune) correction process. For
David and Bathsheba, the door to soulmate transcendence proceeded through
the sin of lust. In that context, a demon Spirit may have been
instrumental in the inevitable struggle for these two individuals to
reunite their souls in soulmate destiny. Pain and backsliding may be
important elements in helping anyone learn what is necessary in order to
elevate to higher levels of spiritual consciousness. The ultimate truth
depends upon what choice you make when you are faced with the activation
of your second chakra lustful sexual inclinations. Your instincts require
a spiritual and chemical governor in order to help you direct or redirect
your genital energies in the right direction. That action seems to
require some sort of emotional and spiritual intercourse and interaction
with the higher spiritual power, which we call God.
When powerful sexual inclinations reach sinful levels, I believe that
suppression of the urges is not helpful. I suggest that when the demon of
lust begins to lead you in a very dangerous direction, that you sink into
the experience and work through it spiritually. Examples of individuals
who consciously struggled through their sinful leanings would include St.
Augustine, Martin Luther and more recently, Jimmy Swaggert. These people
openly confessed their transgressions and supposedly elevated themselves
to higher moral planes. The sacrament of confession seems particularly
helpful in this area.
Question: But, what do you do when a woman or man displays himself in a
sexually seductive and available manner?
Answer: Yesod, communion and the second chakra all contain the energies
of sexual display and seduction. Consider the fascination that males have
towards female buttocks and breasts. And that's not just any buttocks and
breasts. Your second chakra mental sexual mapping may contain very
specific types of facial structures and expressions that have very
powerful attraction elements. The same mapping process also contains
repulsion factors. Remember, yesod and the second chakra deals with
attraction and repulsion. I must also warn you, that the magnetic aspects
of the sexual energies can change and be modified by many different
mental circumstances. In other words, what may appear to you to be very
sexy and beautiful at one point could turn completely in the opposite
direction at another point. That is to say, sexual object attraction,
given the right painful circumstances, could turn to obnoxious repulsion.
But, if you are in a situation where you feel your sexual energies are
being pulled away from your principal love partner towards someone else:
this could be quite dissonant for you. You still have a choice to
redirect your sexual and heart chakra love energies back to your original
partner. If that is what you desire. It all depends on your choice of
what you wish to gain or lose. The ultimate choice is where and upon whom
you wish to bestow your desire. As I have mentioned, you have the choice
to direct your libidinal, erotic sexual energies on whomever you wish.
Sometimes, your choices will be destructive and sometimes they will lead
to greater joy, pleasure and happiness - which are also important aspects
of second chakra energies.
Lead us not into temptation and deliver us from evil, for thine name's
sake!
Question: What is Yesod?
Answer: Yesod is the kaballah equivalent to the second chakra/phallic,
genital subtle energy systems. It is also related to the Christian
concept of communion, which promotes the code of Honor One Another. It
deals with our relationships to one another. It eventually leads to the
fourth chakra principle of Love One Another. Disordered yesod functioning
could lead to excessive or fixated energies based on hedonism and the
exclusive pursuit of pleasure. Symbolically, Hugh Hefner's Playboy empire
typifies the high energy pursuit of joyful sexual behavior, seductiveness
and display. Isolated yesod energies may not tune into higher order
emotional and spiritual faculties of a physically attractive person. If
you are drawn sexually and physically to someone else and you base your
communion needs solely on that area, you are probably at a more primitive
level of soulmate preparation.
A more sophisticated and spiritually mature person would not only be
attracted to a person's physicality and sexuality, they would also be
highly tuned in to the emotional and spiritual development of that
individual. It seems that physical and sexual magnetic attraction occurs
first in our evolutionary interactions with one another. It is only later
on, when more intimacy develops, that you may become acutely aware of the
level of spiritual and emotional evolution of a potential partner.
However, for any kind of mating to take place, there has to be that early
powerful yesod/second chakra energy attraction. In and of itself, sexual
magnetism is not enough to cement and meld a long-lasting powerful love
relation communion. Long-lasting, permanent relationships do require a
replenishment and consistent activation of sexual passion and attraction
in order to sustain and build soulmating connections. Combine that with
higher order and levels of spiritual/energy infusions of consciousness
and you have soulmate stability. That also requires the second chakra
capability for protecting and maintaining the boundaries and integrity of
that relationship.
If you can't attain and sustain those activities, you will activate
negative second chakra warfare/demolition energies. If you have any
doubts about your ability to work through and transcend your yesod
inclinations, you can always meditate and pray to God for deliverance,
wisdom and understanding. If you believe that you are ready for true soul
mating, praying to the divine power to send you your soulmate, is
absolutely appropriate and recommended. Don't try to do this all on your
own, based on your limited powers of judgment. Trust in God to hook you
up with your better/other half. At the same time, don't be afraid to ask
for heavy infusions of wisdom and understanding.
MBO ( Motahida Bangash Organization )
Kohat
Owner M WALI KHAN.