Some Notes as to the Origin of the Functioning of the Defect of Lust - (3621)

We know that within us there are the male and female divine principles. The human soul (Manas or Tipereth) and the spiritual soul (Buddhi or Geburah).

In order to create certain aspects of the inner universe of our Being, these two Divine parts complete the sexual act. A divine act. They combine and create within our interior from their divine union.

When these parts unite there is further unity and completion in the Being. When all parts of our Being have been found there is unity and completion. 

That unity is of happiness and sexual energy being an energy of unity and an energy ultimately of the inner Being is also happiness. The nature of the divinity is happiness and this is present in the sexual energy.

That is why many people seek the sexual act, out of the instinctive knowing of the quality of that energy. Usually the interior states that need compensating for such as sadness, boredom, feeling low, cause a person to seek the sexual act.

It has been said that the utmost authentic happiness of the Being occurs when the Being unites all of its parts.

With the fall, the unity within the Being was broken. A great divide and a great disconnection occurred within the Being. 

The initiatic path is about repairing this inner disconnection, one stage at a time.

The defect of lust, like all the other egos has its functions. One function is to try and repair this great inner divide.  

There exists this impulse that arises from deep within and it takes that impulse and adds to it, its mechanical modes of functioning, in order to take that impulse to fruition. But of course being mechanical it does not do things very well and can make that divide much worse. 

Lust and sex are something separate really. Lust uses sex but it itself is something else. It is a psychological person within us that has its use, thinking and desires related to sex but it is not sex itself.

We know also that the defect of lust constantly searches for relationships. It always looks at others for that possibility. It is unknowingly acting on that impulse trying to bridge this disconnection between the two souls within.

It searches to help out that impulse to reconnect the inner disconnection between the two souls within the Being through external means, through the senses, through relativity, through sensations, etc.

End (3621).