Re: Digest Number 635

[Guest guest]

Thank you Steve, for sharing your true profound thoughts. They particularly

speak to me now because I just lost my beautiful Persian cat, a beloved

companion of 14 years, to a sudden violent death by a coyote. This, only six

months after I lost Pasha, his brother of twelve years. The night before he

passed, I felt Pasha's presence in the room with us. It was as if he had come

to take Shadi (joy in Persian) away with him. Or was it that Shadi could no

longer live without Pasha? I don't know how to live without either one of

them in my life now. . . The Beloved is always with me, but He can't purr for

me as I hold and carress him!

Sad Ghazaleh

In a message dated 07/04/2001 12:02:58 AM Pacific Daylight Time,

JUNG-FIRE writes:

<< Subject: Irreconcilable

> Although man & woman unite they nevertheless represent irreconcilable

> opposites which, when activated, degenerate into deadly hostility.

When activated negatively, then perhaps they

would degenerate into " deadly hostility " . For that which

does not abide by the creative and constructive aspects

of life enters into death. Though a man cannot be a

woman and a woman cannot be a man, because their

natures are opposites, does not mean that they cannot

love and unite. Lovers have given up their lives because

they were forbidden to live with a loved one. Mates have

given their lives freely to save the life of a loved one.

Cases show that one who upon having lost a loved one

with whom he or she has lived with for many years,

degenerates and dies a short time later as if one is missing

a part of his or her soul and cannot live without that part

anymore.

> Do you think these opposites are irreconcilable?

I believe we have to be careful to understand in what

context Jung meant this. The soul of man or a woman is

androgynous. We have both genders within us, and

without this duality life would not be since there would

be no energy flow. It is exactly this seeming irrecon-

cilability that drives one to seek out the mystery and

desire for that which is opposite to him or her self. This

is the spice of life, to be separated so that we may unite

and feel the other in us. Love reconciles all. True love is

so powerful that it opens up to infinite depths this most

beautiful mystery that is to be found in the opposite of

one's nature. As long as the ego does not get in the

way, this love affair and desire for union then becomes

a divine quest and an eternal longing. " Between the lover

and the Beloved there must be no veil. Thou thyself are

thine own veil. Get out of the way. "

Within the infinite levels of this mysterium,

blessings of conjunctions are had by those who

yearn for and nurture their inner beloved for

whom our whole life should be one of longing.

The opposites do become reconciled. The

mystical wedding is had and transpires within

the heart. Then the inner companion is projected

out and found in the world as one's true love.

Regards

Steve Kalec

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