The True Man
Ha Shamim השמים – The Heavens.
In the beginning God created (השמים) “the heavens” and (הארץ) “the earth.”
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. – Genesis 1: 1-3
Madya means “wine” and what we are talking about when we talk about wine in this case is the grape. Grapes and wine are very symbolic in many traditions. Wine is a symbol of the blood of the Christ, a symbol of that fire or that energy we need in order to sustain ourselves. In the terms of Madya, this Sanskrit term, what we are talking about is the vibration of that Solar Light which manifests through the tattva of Vayu, which we know of as Air. So, the Alchemist or Tantrika consumes the grape or grape juice and does so in order to receive the purest and most potent hydrogens related to the tattva Vayu. That pure energy is consumed as part of the process of transforming the energies of the organism in order to produce the purest and most potent sexual energy, which in turn becomes the foundation stone of the temple of the soul.
From the point of view of Gnosis, in fact, in any real spiritual tradition, we understand that everything that exists has its origin in the womb of the Divine Mother. That womb is a vastness, an emptiness we call the Akash or Akasha. It is a primordial substance, but it is also not a substance. You could say it is “undifferentiated matter,” but it is before matter. It is called Mulaprakriti, which is the great womb of Divine Mother space, and from that womb arises everything that exists, everything that manifests. So, in synthesis, we are saying that all atoms, all matter, all energy in its root is derived from this womb.
The womb of the Divine Mother space is symbolized in the Book of Genesis as the primordial waters. Likewise, in many other traditions we have the Great Ocean or the Great Waters from which life emerges; and you have this tradition in Hinduism and in various traditions in central and South America.
Aries – Benjamin – Power of Penance
Taurus – Issachar – Love
Gemini – Levi – Association
Cancer – Zabulon – Fecundity
Leo – Judah – Faith
Virgo – Aser – Willpower
Libra – Dan or Manasses – Judgement
Scorpio – Gad – Memory
Sagittarius – Joseph – Sympathy
Capricorn – Simeon – Knowledge
Aquarius – Nepthalim – Altruism
Piscis – Reuben – Perception