The Mystical Marriage

The Mystical Marriage

Cupid and Psyche, Hansel and Gretel, Sylvie and Bruno, Sleeping Beauty and Prince Charming. These fairy tales and their characters evoke in us the simplicity of a child, and are designed that way so as to serve as a guide to, a reminder of, and a help to promote higher centers.

But what are higher centers, and why do we call them thus? If you’ve been following the posts here, then you’re familiar with the four lower centers; instinctive, moving, intellectual and emotional. We spend most of our lives in the lower centers. Every once in a while, a state of what Peter Ouspensky described as “How strange - I, in this place” occurs. At other times, perhaps we encounter moments of extreme or mortal danger and for a few fleeting moments time seems to slow down and impressions take on an almost surreal quality. Both of these experiences are moments of higher centers.

Self-remembering is closer to the first of the above states. Except, rather than rely on chance, school work prepares the student to intentionally experience self-consciousness. The student understands their place in the cosmos in relation to the whole. In a state of consciousness where externals (one’s life, one’s health, one’s environment, etc.) are crumbling about one, objective consciousness is experienced. Walt Whitman’s description of “A simple separate person,” is an accurate account of this state.

Self-remembering, or self-consciousness, or the third state, is imbued with love and compassion and infuses it into itself and it’s externals. Objective consciousness, or the fourth state allows the individual to calculate, rather than contemplate, what is needed for it’s own and other’s conscious evolution. There are other qualities and characteristics of higher centers, but even the above descriptions, simply do not even come close to the actual experience.

But what of the man (or woman) in whom these two states of consciousness are developed and permanent? The mystical marriage of these two states of higher consciousness are permanently fused together in the same vessel. Since consciousness can exist without functions, the death of the body or four lower centers is meaningless to such an individual. Immortality is no longer implied; for such an individual, it is a reality.

Charles R.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.─ William Shakespeare

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The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine, Barna da Sienna, circa 1340