A Sacred Pursuit

If you’ve never read Song of Solomon (or some of the more prurient sacred texts), it could be summed up as sex is sacred while being exactly as physical as it is, and that sex is a kind of oneness which is very akin to other forms of oneness.

I read Song of Solomon as a child, and I remember thinking how gorgeously sexual it was, for an otherwise sad book (the Bible.) Metaphors aside, that particular book is incredibly blunt about the joy of sex.

As the divine, we are ardently pursued by the divine. The spirit pursues us throughout our lives—sometimes, we can’t get very close to each other, but as our lives go on and we slowly shed attachments, the spirit can come closer and closer, eager to lift us up and set the divine free in us.

The spirit is eager to have us join the divine, when we can. We have all the time that ever was to get there.

Oneness does not mean the same. The divine is one, but not all aspects of the divine are the same. All is one, but not all is the same. Thinking of oneness as meaning everything is the same is a rather lazy way to view it.

The oneness of the divine is infinite in its variety. I am one with you, and you with me, no matter who you are.

The Song of Solomon is a reminder that the body is not excluded from the spirit. The body is not bad, nor false, nor foul, nor even a bad guide. It is exactly as it is, whatever that is, and it too is a part of the path to the divine. Your body and your spirit, as different as they are, are one and that oneness is pursued by the spirit.

In that oneness is joy. Endless joy. That is why the spirits pursue us: to lift us into that joy.