Sex As Symbol
The Ancient Light in Modern Psychology
by Alvin Boyd Kuhn
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The Author explores the deep connection that the human animal has with procreation and how that fundamental drive was the precursor to a vast world of symbolism surrounding it, but more than that he elucidates on how the ancient philosophers saw sex itself as a symbol of life. The Father/Spirit plunging into the Mother/Matter human body. In many religions, the Male was represented by fire, the Sun or possibly a small flame,while the female was represented by water or the Moon, or possibly a candle for instance.....material things. Matter is "Virgin" until it receives the Spirit of life. So sex would symbolize the immersion of spirit into matter. A very good read.
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Sex As Symbol: The Ancient Light in Modern Psychology
March 1997, Kessinger Publishing
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in English
1564591794 9781564591791
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"IN a very venerable document, Records of the Past (XII, 68) we read that in remote days of antiquity geographical mapping and local naming were instituted according to a plan which has almost totally escaped recognition in our search for understanding of archaic culture."
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