Introduction
This point was raised by a marvellous missionary giving a
talk in the New Zealand retreat. This was not the title of his talk but was a
point that he brought up suing his talk.
It initially struck me as interesting, when I began to think
about it, I discovered that what he was saying is right. This post then is
about what I understood in relation to his point.
Fornication to do with Mind, Word and Sex
If I remember correctly these were the words that he said. So
straight away we are told that we don’t only fornicate by losing the sexual
energy physically we fornicate mentally and with our words.
I would dare to say that if we fornicate mentally we also fornicate
emotionally and with our will. With a bit of reflection this can be found to be
true as well.
To me it seems that fornication is related always to energy
in its various forms. In the general sense fornication in Gnostic terms in the
psychological and esoteric sense is to waste energy, where that wasted energy
produces negative results.
The Word Fornication
If we look at the etymology of the word fornication we will
find out that it has related to the burn, or furnace and this makes sense because
we a person fornicates on any one of these levels they are burning out their
energy supplies. Especially to do with sexual energy, because our sexual energy
is our igneous humidity and when that humidity that can be transformed by transmutation
into fire is all run out of the body through fornication, we are left dry and
burnt out, no energy etc.
I have included below an excerpt from the Gnostic Teachings
website (https://gnosticteachings.org/faqs/sex/1666-what-is-fornication.html)
about the etymology of the word fornication.
Etymology of Fornication
“Originated from:
gwher-, meaning "To heat, warm." Derivatives include brand, brandy,
forceps, and fornicate.
Zero-grade form *gwhr-.
a. burn, from Old English beornan, byrnanbærnan (transitive), to burn; b.
brimstone, from late Old English brynstfornicationn, “burning mineral,” sulfur
(stfornicationn, stone; see stei-); c. brindled, from Old Norse brenna, to
burn. a–c all from Germanic *brennan (intransitive) and brannjan (transitive),
formed from *brenw-
a. brand, from Old
English brand, piece of burning wood, sword; b. brandy, from Dutch branden, to
burn, distill; c. brandish, from Old French brand, sword; d. brandade, from Old
Provençal brand, sword. a–d all from Germanic *brandaz, a burning, a flaming
torch, hence also a sword.
Suffixed form
*gwher-m(n)o-. therm, –therm, thermo-, –thermy; hypothermia, lobster thermidor,
from Greek thermos, warm, hot, and thermfornication, heat.
O-grade form *gwhor-.
forceps, forcipate, from Latin forceps, pincers, fire tongs (< “that which
holds hot things”; -ceps, agential suffix, “-taker”; see kap-).
*gwhor-no-. a. Fornax,
furnace, hornito, from Latin furnus, fornus, fornfornicationx, oven; b.
probably Latin fornix, arch, vault (< “vaulted brick oven”): fornicate,
fornix.
[Etymology quoted from
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language (Fourth Edition,
2000).]
It is common to read
that fornication is derived from the Latin fornix.
fornic or fornix
(Latin): plural: fornices. A vault or archway.
In Roman times,
brothels were called "fornices," seemingly because prostitutes could
be hired near the "arches" of certain buildings. Thus, it is said
that the word fornication appeared (ca. the year 1303) to describe a sexual act
with a prostitute. Yet, this word "fornices" is also related to the
word "furnace," which is a significant symbol in the Bible.
Nonetheless, the most
significant relationship here is between gwher, "to burn," and the
word fornication.”
Conclusion
So what is important here is to be very mindful that we
waste our energy by misusing the mind, emotion, will and word. We have to be
very watchful over our use of them and be very interested in not wasting the
energies that make these parts of ourselves to function.
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