WHY IS IT SO HARD TO FIND REAL MEN ANY MORE?

By Lubomir Dimitrov MSc,
Professional Astrologer, Australia

To Jean Parkinson, who inspired me to write this article.

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In the first part of this article we outlined some of the reasons why is it so hard to find real men any more.
It was pointed out that every 2,000 years or so, the planetary influences on Earth change dramatically in order to reflect the new evolutionary impulses. All souls, who happen to be incarnated in human bodies on the border between the 20th and the 21st century, have the unique opportunity to experience the global changes associated with the waning of the Age of Pisces and the waxing of the Age of Aquarius.

This global planetary change can induce a lot of apprehension and fear if these processes are not understood properly. As far as the relations between men and women are concerned, what was typical for the Age of Pisces – a life-time lasting, exclusive and total union between a man and a woman is now extensively becoming obsolete. The new Age of Aquarius requires a new “family” model, which is going to be based on independence, originality and freedom. In the previous articles we took a brief history tour in order to point out that the traditional family model as we know it today, existed only for the last 2,000 years, which is a relatively short period in the human evolution. Before that, the attitude of the ancient Greeks and Romans (and before that Egyptians, Chaldeans, Persians and so on), had completely different views about a family structure. Thus, if observing the changes in the society for the last 20-30 years only, the difference can seem huge, but the picture looks completely different from a higher angle, when observing the evolution of the humanity in
the last, let’s say 6-7 thousand years.

The single most important element in the relationships between men and women that is completely new for the Age of Aquarius and which cannot be traced back in all other epochs, is the total emancipation and independence of women. This impulse for women’s liberation is really very new; it is only about 30-40 years old, which shows us that in its essence it is a typical “Aquarian” deed. Naturally, this is to be expected from this sign, which is essentially associated with liberty, freedom, independence and humanism. We know that each of the big, evolutionary Ages last approximately 2,000 years, but going back to the age of Pisces, Aries, Taurus and even Gemini we are cannot find a society where women have an equal say in the social and political life as it is at present. The question arises why women in
previous times were always in a submissive, subservient role? Couldn’t they just get organized as they did in the late 60’s, to form a women’s liberation movement and fight for their rights in previous epochs?

To answer this question we have to immerse ourselves in the atmosphere of the previous times and try to submerge into the type of thinking that the ancient people used to possess. First of all it would be very wrong to think that ancient people used to have exactly the same type of logical and conceptual thinking as it is normal for the modern men. The abilities of modern men to think logically in concepts became more or less prominent in the last 500-600 years; the very first traces of such thinking were established by Pythagoras in ancient Greece. Before that, people were largely driven by spiritual impulses rather than from intellectual conclusions, typical for modern men. Their spiritual and religious beliefs were
playing a crucial role in their life. They did not reason about the possibility of existence of God; they knew that God existed. They did not wonder if there is life after death; they felt directly the presence of their death relatives around them. They did not analyze if their actions are good or bad, because they sensed directly what consequences their actions had in the spiritual world.

So, if we immerse ourselves into the spirit of those past epochs we will see that in all their actions, ancient people were driven directly from the impulses coming from the spiritual world. Modern men today can have only a vague idea of the impulses that drove those people through life. This is largely because it is extremely difficult to grasp the spiritual truths using as a tool only our conceptual and analytical thinking. Something else has to help us in this process and this “something else” has to come from the heart. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people close their hearts and rely on the conceptual thinking only, thus losing the opportunity to comprehend even the most minuscule spiritual truths.

The single most important source of spiritual wisdom, available for modern men remains the Bible.

However, we should bear in mind two important points about it. First of all, this key spiritual document was written relatively late in the human history; the new Testament is less then 2,000 years old. The reason for this is that humans in previous times did not rely on written text as it is the case with the humanity today – most of them being clairvoyant could tap directly to the source of spiritual wisdom and extract from there whatever truths they needed. And naturally, if something is obvious for most people then there is no need to produce written evidence about it.

The second point is that most of the truths stated in the Bible are actually coded and cannot be read in everyday, ordinary language. In order to extract these truths, the person, who reads the Bible should be in a possession of a special knowledge, or “keys” as to how to decipher the text in it. There is a reason why the Bible was written in this way. In its development it was envisaged that humanity undergoes a slow “descent” throughout the ages until it completely emerges into the matter. That meant that people had to gradually lose their clairvoyant abilities in order to develop the rational and conceptual thinking.

That changed from the point when Christ came to earth. From this point onwards the people were givena choice. They could either “ascend” to gain the spiritual truths again, stepping on their new logicalthinking abilities, or they could chose to “descend” even further into the matter, thus blocking for themselves any opportunities for further spiritual development. Thus, the Bible was written using special coded language and the keys to de-code this language were made available only to those who chose to embark on the first path of development and achieved some level of initiation in the ancient Mysteries.

The call of the time today – in the Age of Aquarius – is to make this ancient wisdom available to everybody again, through publishing some of the “keys” which are necessary to read the Bible properly to the general public. Some of these “keys” can be obtained from the occult literature (theosophy and anthroposophy in particular) and some of them can be obtained through clairvoyance or with the help of astrology. In this article we will use one of this “keys” that will shed more light on the question why the role of women in previous ages was traditionally subservient?

We all know from the Bible the story of the Fall of Adam and Eve. In the beginning of times Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden, where everything was provided for them and they lived opulently and care-fee. The only thing that God forbade them to do was to eat from the fruit of the tree of Knowledge.

He told them "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die." (Gen. 2:17). But the serpent, which “was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made” said to the woman: "You will not surely die…For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." (Gen. 3:4-5).

This is just one example where a story in the Bible is told allegorically. Although the Fall did not happen in the literal sense, this myth remains insightful and profound of certain spiritual truths. Adam and Eve represent the two substances that emerge directly from God – the masculine and the feminine energy. In the ancient science of Kabbalah these substances are represented with the Kingdom of Power (Geburah) and the Kingdom of Glory (Gedulah).

For those readers who are familiar with the basic Christian Lord’s prayer, the following words should sound familiar: “For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.” (Matthew 6:9-13). God reveals himself through two apostates – the Power, which
is the masculine, the active, the assertive part of God, and the Glory, which is the feminine, the passive and receptive part of God. In other words he exercises his power in order to express his glory. Each one of these parts is equally important and cannot exist without the other. The passive part needs the active one in order to assert its actions in the outer world (Eve makes Adam pick up the fruit), but the active part needs the passive one in order to express itself (Adam needs Eve in order to know himself).

Although both energies emanate from the same source and cannot exist one without the other, there are some primary differences between them. In the first place, the masculine energy being more straightforward and direct is more diligent in obeying the God’s Law – the serpent did not succeed inconverting directly Adam to its cause.

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