Often the wisdom of the body clarifies the despair of the spirit.
For the first time in history, men and women are seriously exploring the possibilities of relationships based on separateness rather than togetherness.
Instead of clinging to Yahweh, to a rigid set of laws established by a jealous Father-God who will rant in fury if he is disobeyed, they are simply ignoring that ranting, walking away from it, and attempting to put their trust in the irrational.
In other words, they are trying to live by the spirit.
In recognizing individual lives, they are compelled to take human imperfection into account.
Those who have broken with the rigid codes, faced their own breakdown and strengthened their own ego, find new life through relationship.
So long as one does not cling to another, nor try to possess another, mutual love is the bond, and new depths of personality are released.
What gradually emerges is an individual morality in which the inner laws are absolute.
If, for example, a woman is genuinely in her body so that spirit and matter are one, she cannot separate her sexuality from her love.
Sexual union with a man she does not love is self-betrayal, and therefore rape.
Individuals who have become conscious of certain laws within themselves, laws about food, alcohol, tobacco, etc., laws that become more refined as consciousness develops, discover that persisting in the old ways leads to physical illness in which the illness mirrors the psychological problem.
This body/spirit relationship is another example of the sword exactly fitting the wound.
Often the wisdom of the body clarifies the despair of the spirit.
Breaking the stone does not give us licence to do as we please.
Rather it opens us to our own inner laws and the fulfillment of our own destiny. ~Marion Woodman, Addiction to Perfection, Page 186-187
