The Lost Innocence

Dear friends,

In the Spirit, there is no obstacle to perception. This leads to a conclusion which will be controversial, but I hope you can consider it dispassionately. It is a conclusion I have come to after much thought.

Our clothes are reflections of our auras. A Celestial being is clothed in light, radiant from her form, and light is transparent. That means see-through clothes are the most spiritual.

The female form is a reflection of the Divine Image, and the parts of the body have symbolic meaning. The nipples are the source of nourishment, the vulva the generation of life, and the buttocks of stability. Contemplation of these parts can have a spiritual effect, which I have discovered in practice. We must do so with control of ourselves. Dedication to spiritual development means we never give way to lower impulses. Providence brought about the nudity taboo because we lost this self control, but I think we are working back to gaining it. You may think this is impossible with such a subject, but it depends on what we are used to.

I am 71, and happen to have had a father fond of reminiscing about his past life. He was born in 1914, so the event I am about to mention must have happened some time in the 1930s. He told me of a man who left a dance because he was tired of looking at the women's legs. The skirts of that time came well below the knee, but he must have been sexually aroused by them. Can you imagine, these days, a man being aroused by skirts of that length? We are used to naked calfs, and that gives us control of them.

I once visited a commune in which the female members wore bikinis without the tops and found it possible to see naked breasts without arousal if you have self control.

The story of Adam and Eve clearly records a time when people were not embarrassed by nudity. Their discovery that they were naked, causing them to be ashamed, records a lost innocence.

The legend of Lady Godiva relates that the townsfolk decently averted their eyes, except for Peeping Tom, who went blind. There is a version in which he is mentioned as being a tailor. That means he would not have wanted people to go about naked. He went blind because he did not want people to look at Lady Godiva. You see the logic? He did not want people to see, and went blind. In early folk lore, tailors were in low repute, and this was given the machismo explanation that their work was not manly, but this is not an adequate explanation. Nobody ever despised a trader because his work was not physical.

In the book The Eye Goddess by O.G.S Crawford, there are many depictions of the symbolic representations of nipples and vulvas, with nipples often being indicated by solar symbols. It is important to note that I have never, in any book, found an ancient depiction of the sex act. If there were ever societies in which promiscuity was practiced, there would be. These legends and depictions were not meant to encourage promiscuity. Such depictions may actually reduce the desire to have sex by giving a release of tension.

In Myth, Religion, And Mother Right, Bachofen explains that the Spartan women had more revealing dress than the other Greeks, and had a lower level of sexual immorality. Engels, The Origin Of The Family, Private Property, And The State, gives information that contradicts this, but he is not a reliable writer. He stated that Bachofen had proved that matriarchy is related to polygamy, when Bachofen had actually argued the opposite. He is capable of making facts up, so it is best to disregard what he says about the slack behaviour of this highly disciplined race.

May She be with you,

David.