Priest and Priestess / Thelemic Mass
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Just meditating on the what the Priest and Priestess represent in the Thelemic Mass, it occurred to me that the while the Priestess represents the permanence of the "Mother" and the Priest is the impermanence of the "Father", and since they are working different formulas, maybe they both represent two aspects of the Eternal, in a way that on the surface they seem to be different, but while the Priestess is obviously always "there", the Priest "appears" to go unseen until the next cycle of death and rebirth. He doesn't really die, of course, but dissolves to be reabsorbed and then reconstituted, sort to speak. In a way, in all the change, there's stability for him. Perhaps, the changes the Priestess goes through are just becoming the Virgin and then the Priestess, two aspects of the same reality for her. It is interesting though, that what is more obvious about change in nature is the Moon, the Sun, on the other hand, doesn't have phases. The semen is white like the moon and the menstrual blood is red like the sun... one implies the other.
In any case, I guess maybe I don't have a question after all and I'm just rambling...
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So, M., were there any other questions?