Glimpses of the Left..

we open ourselves to aU unusual desires and aspirations, gaining new will
and of On the other when we start to realize why we
act the way we do, why we desire things, we are on a good way to liberate
ourselves them. By to the source of we can satisfy and
use them for a conscious action. Naamah is said to endow the L"�'I'l".L�L
with all pleasures and riches of the world. And it is so indeed. But if this
meant in material we would be bound even more to the
"nlnpl"p of matter, instead of from the shackles of the world.
The way to the true spiritual progress is far from any dualisms. Heaven
and hell are within us and the "riches of the world" are only a tool to
perceive and experience the material plane in a conscious and chosen way.
That is why Naamah is called "Beautiful" - for she shows us the true
beauty which emanates onto the material world from the centre of our
existence.
" Pleasant" and IIGroaning"
The joy of life and satisfaction with in harmony with oneself are
in another of Naamah's character. As we have
observed, the Goddess was also called . The followers of Cain,
after exiled from the Garden of Eden, had to conquer the hostile
world and create own space on the earth. This was the of
civilization, with its technical achievements, culture and arts. While Tubal
Cain was the inventor of advancement - the symbolic first
blacksmith and craftsman - his sister Naamah everyone with her
talent for music instruments and singing. Monotheistic religions saw the
joy of life by sexual intercourse or as i.e.
distracting man from following the way of God. This was because such
elements led to affirmation of life and its power, and encouraged man to
seek happiness in himself, not in a mere of in a distant,
abstract world which is available only in the afterlife. Moreover, the
aversion to ecstatic music and pagan folklore was caused by the fact that
music was used as a ritual tool, connected with the conviction that the
spirit of a deity inhabited the instrument and spoke to the priest through
the sound. This could also be controlled by means of music.
What is a familiar ascribed to the famous witch of Endor
was an old lifeless instrument, made from an old goatskin.
"Yobal made reed instruments, and harps, and and whistles,
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