{Love and Sex (2) [continued]}[30th July 1989]

[Redbook6:174-175][19890731:1141b]{Love and Sex (2) [continued]}[30th July 1989]

19890731.1141

[continued]

Why so anti-sex?* Well, the answer is: not at all: I anticipate that either or both of the spiritual lovers may well be happily or contentedly married to another, and/or may even have boyfriends or girlfriends in a sexual relationship. I do not see such relationships as lacking in spiritual content,** at their best, but they are inevitably compromised by the requirements (present or future, actual or potential) of Diversity: reproduction, and all its consequences in the need for material and general security.

[Text extracted from ms diagram reproduced above:]

	C
	|
G~	– + –	M~
	|
	A~

[Text extracted from ms diagram reproduced above:]

	C
	|
G~	– + –	M~
	|
	A~

The spiritual meeting-ground between the sexes is above the line:*** the sexual, below the line. (This does not, incidentally, mean that close physical intimacy as a primarily loving, rather than sexual, expression, is ruled out at all in spiritual love: I should place it on the line, having the potential to go up or down.)

Relationships of either kind may still be inner- or outer-circle. If an apparently spiritual relationship is outer-circle (for example, selfish), it will find itself moving downwards and disintegrating – probably through domination, exploitation, and sexual intercourse. On the other hand, a below-the-line sexual relationship can still be inner-circle if it is founded (for example) on willing self-sacrifice, detachment from self, and disinterested Love. Such a relationship might be a marriage, which after reproduction and raising of a family should tend in time to ascend towards a spiritual love.****

*[See last previous entry]

**So marriage partners, for example, should not be jealous of the other’s spiritual lovers. Some hope! – Mutuality of experience & faith is the key.

***[The G~-M~ line, presumably]

****(as, indeed, it may have begun)

→ [[Redbook6:177-178][19890801:1013]{Love and Sex (3)}[1st August 1989],] 177

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