Of course,
another interpretation of the "Twin Soul" teaching, which it sounds like Steiner advocated ...
is that the Twin in question, is OUR Soul. 
Thus, while we, the outer man, or woman, go searching - for our "other half" - it (him/her) is actually with us all along.
And thus, we proceed along the Path, and make the additional
at-one-ments which are called
Initiations, both Great and small, some occurring
every single day, others marking the major milestones on the Path of Self-Unfoldment.
During the
Third, or Transfiguration Initiation, we stand
Face to face with God Transcendent, the Lord of the World. The moment arrives as spoken of
in the Aaronic or Priestly Blessing, passed down to us by Aaron himself, brother of Moses.
The
Lord presents His Face to us, as we
finally are enabled to lift ours to
meet His, His Countenance
Shines upon us
(Who was it, that Bright Bearer of Light? Who, PLURAL?) ... and we are "given Peace" - that which "passeth Understanding."
The result?
Our at-one-ment
shifts to a direct, increasing rapport between
Spirit and the Christ-born, purified & consecrated, Transfigured personality. What Theosophists call
the Monad begins to guide the
Soul-infused persona ... and with the following, Arhat Initiation,
the person becomes Jivan-Mukta - a "free Soul."
Technically, the Soul
departs, for such a One is now
Spirit Incarnate, a Spark of the Divine, manifest in form via Kriyashakti from here on out ...
It is a high, and lonely path. "
The adept is the rare efflorescence of a generation of enquirers." And no, this doesn't sound very
romantic, except in the strictest,
Idealistic sense of the word.
Why are some,
rare relationships between man and woman so
wonderful, so beautiful, and so indicative of the Right Relationship which we hope will one day characterize all Human life upon our planet?
Because ... as we progress along the path, the very
lower, sexual-creative energies which have caused us so much trouble for many incarnations, become transmuted into
the Higher Creativity through which the Soul, the
Christ Principle, works out the Divine Will upon Earth.
As we demonstrate
that we can stand as a Soul, it becomes only natural that a foreshadowing, a very special glimpse of our future spiritual condition, becomes possible. This can include both highest Bliss, as well as some of the most arduous and trying, yet Joyously rewarding Work that we will ever do!
But this work
can never be done alone, to the same degree, or with the same effectiveness, as it can
in group(s). Thus as a husband and wife, or
romantic partnership, with equal dedication to
a spiritual Ideal ... and from there,
working in cooperation with one's esoteric GROUP, we serve.
Even the Masters,
the Greatest beings upon our Planet, do not work alone. A Master is the
heart of His Ashram, yet with His Ashram He works
as a Unit. And by extension, via His
Group, there is a single Purpose, and a single focus of vision.
Every step of the way, there are complementing energies -
a positive and a negative, or an impressing and a receptive, "side" of things. For the Master, that may be
a Senior Master, the Christ (above all Masters), or even Shamballa Itself (`God'). Probably there are dozens more possibilities ...
But there is an
ever higher Center which impresses us, while we, in turn, have the responsibility to
impress those who come behind us on the path. So with nations and groups within Humanity, as well as Kingdoms within the evolutionary Plan.
~+~+~+~
At an early stage, Humanity existed neither
as empty forms, nor as Divine, formless Lives,
seeking experience and expression. We came forth as
both, yet not co-existing as a Unit,
as is the case today. And so we had to
be evolved.
So in our distant past,
forms were prepared for us ... and when these forms were finally evolved to the point that we could
benefit by incarnating within them,
we did so. And since we are
not yet a Perfect planet, this process has had its karmic fallout, much of this centering around
use and misuse of the "sex force" - or our
lowest expression of Divine Creativity.
I would agree that we are learning to
properly use the energies of the 3rd Aspect, by sublimating them to the Plan and Purpose of the
2nd Aspect, as we
submit ourselves to the disciplining, magnetic, synthetic effect of the 1st Aspect.
This can be true, and applied to,
the personality itself, the Soul as the real Individual, to
groups within Humanity (parts of the Whole, or World Soul), and also to various planetary Kingdoms ... even in an Interplanetary sense.
If we remember that Creation is
not something limited to Earth, and that Humanity is
not just a term referring to Intelligent Life upon our little globe, then we are thinking in a broad, universal sense. But we certainly have our own evoution, and the specific details of life on our planet are
not necessarily the same for other schemes of evolution, even within our own Solar System!
Who knows, for instance, what evolution was like,
in terms of the form, and male & female energies, within the Venusian Scheme, which is nearly complete? How about on Mars? Or Mercury? Modern science, of course, does not even
as yet admit of
an evolution (
per se) UPON (or within) these globes!
So I think this all makes for interesting contemplation, while obviously the focus comes back to
Earth Humanity ... and what it means -
to use the creative forces wisely, and properly.
Exoteric religionists often struggle with the very
concept of becoming "Co-Creators with God," as there is simply
no framework in place to bridge the gap (in thinking) between
one's own role, or place, in the Divine Scheme ... and God's.
This, for me, is what is really worth exploring,
since as long as we speak of `God' and really mean, The Absolute, such talk as "co-creating with God,"
is indeed - nonsense.
~+~
You can smack me for semi-hijacking your thread, Bruce ... that wasn't my intent. Just kinda
running with it. Let me pass the ball back to you though, and see what's next.
Namaskar,
~andrew
