Male Mystery School

The spiritual and the erotic naturally belong together as One, something our global civilization has largely lost track of, and that we hereby reclaim.

The earliest prehistoric stick-figures that represent human beings, scratched, carved or painted on stone or bone surfaces include ithyphallic men, that is men proudly sporting erections. These figures are often shown masturbating, sometimes masturbating in groups of men. Since before language facilitated the alienation of mind from body, men living fully present in their bodies have naturally celebrated penile arousal and pleasure together with fellow men.

Perhaps the most ancient Phallic mythology is simply that of the primordial Phallic Father who wanders the Primeval Phallic Forest with his erection hugly engorged and upright, inspiring the vertical growth of all the mighty Trees, + all the plants and living things of Nature are created, maintained and transformed by the Eternal Presence of the Phallic God. He sits naked and aroused, cross-legged, horned of head, a Moon God, Rain God, Lord of Growth.

The early Phallic Gods primarily arise as various Sky Fathers or Rain Gods such as Indra, Lord Menu, Uranus, Zeus, Thor, Tlaloc, or Quetzalcoatl's Children of Thunder, the Little People bringing rain, the greening of vegetation beneath the hot Sun: the Rising Green. In the microcosm of the human body the cycle of penile flaccidity, erection and subsidence returning to erection echoes cyclic processes of Nature itself. This parallels and echoes natural cycles such as the solar and lunar cycles, seasons of vegetative sprouting, growth, dying back and regeneration, tidal cycles, and numberless related cycles.

In ancient Egypt, the annual flood of the Nile left deposits of rich black soil called Kemi, from which the term "Alchemy" may derive. Reflecting this literal emergence, Lord Atum, the Complete One, Lord of the Primordial Mound whose self-pleasuring alchemized his existence as the first being became a distinctly masturbatory Creation God.

Lord Atum, the Complete One, becomes the spirit of the first Thing in the overwhelming context of No-thingness. This Lord of the Primordial Mound, aware of the swirling liquid chaos of NU surrounding his mound, his distinct existence, begins touching his own body, caressing himself and pleasuring himself as a means of self-awareness to preserve his own existence. Thus he maintains and sustains himself as a manifest, embodied being.

As Lord Atum pleasures himself, his increasingly ecstatic awareness remains distinct & coherent in relation to the the dissolving chaos of NU. Eventually Atum ejaculates into his own mouth. Then in two coughs he spits out his first two children: Shu, the Lord of Air; Tefnut, Lady of Mist. Atum adores his firstborn Son & Daughter, warning them "Please do not to stray too close to the shore of the Mound. You may be swepot back into the Void from which I came. Keep close."

Of course, the Children stray, & are swept away into NU. The Lord of the Mound wisely remains standing where he is, sending out the Eye of his brow into the siwrling liquid chaos. The Eye valiantly searches all through NU & at length finds Shu & Tefnut & brings the lost children back to their father. meanwhileAtum has replaced the absent Eye with the Sun & Moon in his face, so the Great Eye henceforth abides in a special place of honor in the middle of the brow of the Complet One, thus being called the Wisdom Eye, or Udjat.

Shu & Tefnut become the parents of Earth & Sky. Children of the Earth & Sky are called the Ennead of 9 Egyptian Sun Gods that stand in the Boat of A Million Years.

Likewise, the early Valley God Festival of carrying Lord Menu (pron. MEE-new) in his Sacred Boat through the emerald fields west of the Nile was accompanied by a season of license. Males masturbated openly in public places and in mixed company, something otherwise taboo even among the relaxed, secure, pleasure-loving inhabitants of the Nile Valley.

The Potter's Wheel Creator

Another variety of Male Creation Myth is that of the precise and artful fashioner, such as a ceramicist using clay. This implies a fatherly male type turning and shaping the roundness of the world on his potter's wheel. The artistic craftman as world-creator has a vessel overflowing with quarks, the basis of stardust for his living creation.

He employs fully-human hands in the process of formation, spinning all cycles, journeys, returns, completions, transformations, the inner carvanserai of his DNA scapes. This Creator swears by his own testicles as an sign of his covenant with the One, the Unseen God, the Unseeable Lord of Divine Nature, planet-former, Seed-Father of Planetary Life. A gentle, creative, artistic, sensitive form of masculinity belies his creative intensity as fashioner of biological containers, ecosystems, gravity-wells for planetary Life.

This hand-builder Creator God embodies masculine creative energy and heart energy that holds the entire world in his hands, as well as embodying the virile, potent masculinity of his human tribe of desert warriors.

The Divine Logos, "I" or Zero

The Logos or Divine Word of Creation is another form of Creation Story. The Creator speaks or sings the Universe into existence.

Vibrations of the Word rippling through the Plenum generate the manifest world. This Plenum is sometimes call the Void, however it is not empty, not at all, in fact the Void overflows with limitless potentials. It is fullness. The Plenum is all possibilities from which actuality emerges. Far Eastern traditions may represent this archetype through the primordial sound of Om or AUM, while in the West it may be called Logos.

Belief in the Creation by a Word, words or sounds of invocation by a deity stem from the fact that human language, how we actually create the world of our experience with the words we use to describe and interpret our reality, language as such is the oldest form of human Magick. Creating symbols that "represent" actual things or aspects of experience is a dual-edged sword, of course, both creative and also masking our direct experience of uninterpreted "reality." As such, reality can only be described as in fact existing beyond words as something like experiencing the universe as nothing but flowing energy.

Here the "I" of the "I AM" = The E of Zero Point, Source, Singularity. This "I" is not the individual self of a human self-image crafted by the ego, rather it is the Divine Being of your essence that you may call the Self. Originally this painted image bore the moniker of "Metatron." That intimidatingly high angelic name, I switched to "Crown of Creation." Of course, these titles were mere stepping-stones to the realization of "E" as the painting's name.

The vertical focus of the World Axis, Cosmic "I," E or "Eye" emerges into Creation at the leading edge of the process as rainbow-arcs of emergence from emerging.

Essentially this form of Male Creator says "Let it be."

The New Adam in Paradise

The New Adam is your essential Self as an embodied human male composed of stardust, sleeping in the Garden of Original Innocence, from there dreaming your life into existence.

The current paradigm is that of allowing actuality to dissolve illusion. You awaken within the dream of your life to the Pure Soul you are in your essence as a stardust being. You are this New Adam, waking without opening your eyes before the Morning Star dissolves upon the lips of daytime. Your penis stirs with the weight and fullness of pleasurable dreams that linger in this "pleasantest place between draming and waking."

"I AM," you murmurs to yourself, "that I AM, the Anthropos, the Human Image of stardust evolving nearly 4 billion years on Earth. Son of Gaia, I AM Humanity itself. Nature is the Source, the Garden, the natural home and habitation of all I AMs."

You as the New Adam awaken to this revelation: "I AM born pure-hearted, good, gifted, aware, my golden talents overflowing the chalice of this lifetime. The scales of time and separation have fallen from my eyes! We have lived in the Garden all along! The Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil was duality itself, the basis of all illusion and conflict. The Tree of Life, rooted between my legs, is the return to Paradise."

Your human nature is an aspect of your animal nature that is part of Nature itself. All along there has really only been this One Tree of Life, this spiritual umbilical connecting your being with both stars beyond you and stardust within you from between your legs.

The Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil is merely dualistic thinking that can seem to separate your humanity from Nature & even from its mysterious universal Source. Such dualistic thinking becomes the place you live when you live in your head, in the realm of though & mental imagery. However that separation of you from Nature is the ultimate delusion. Your penis viewed as a spiritual umbilical cord restores, maintains and nourishes your deepest inherent connection with bothe Nature and the Source of All Things.

You are born in Original Innocence. All else is only a story of losing your way and seeking the return. This realm of Paradise consciousness or Heaven on Earth as a pure soul remains alive within you. Your entire body standing upright expresses the World Axis of energy ascending in relation to the downward pull of gravity; your penis while erect is ALWAYS aimed toward levitational bliss and ecstatic actualization, and during high erotic ecstasy your penis acts as a kind of spiritual umbilical cord connecting your entire body & being in nondual connection with Source.

Rather than conceal this New Adam's genitalia with a fig-leaf, his genitals are hereby proudly UN-covered. His body is placed naked and revealed instead upon the fig-leaf, chest and heart and thighs wide open to universal wavelengths of bliss.

As the Triple God incarnate, you claim the full range of your inherent divinity embracing the Boy, the Man, and the Sage; the Creative, the Maintaining, and the Transformational aspects of your masculine creative energy. Your erotic energy as the Phallic God connects directly with the creative power that creates the Universe for it IS the same energy. Your erotic ecstasy is how creating the Universe feels to the Creator.

In terms of experiencing your male human body, your penis IS the nonduality at the core of all dualities, the central principle around which all things revolve, and around which all things exist in symmetrical relation.

Your erection IS the Tree of Life, the World Tree, Ladder to the Sky, the Stairway to Heaven on Earth, Cosmic Serpent,the World Serpent. Similarly every actual Tree is the Tree of Life; every tree is part of the Forest Primeval. Every actual human erection is part of the Phallic Forest of the earliest mythic-erotic dreamtime of human prehistory.

All trees in the Phallic Forest Primeval are the Tree of Life and this Only Tree rises from between your legs.

YOU are the New Adam.

-- Bruce

(Original artwork Copyright 2009 Bruce P. Grether)