TANTRA RELIGION FOUNDED BY WOMEN – SOME ANCIENT ROOTS, STILL BEING PRACTICED ALL OVER THE WORLD IN THE EAST AND IN CLANDESTINE WESTERN CIRCLES
Tantric Buddhism flourished in China under the Six Dynasties, T’ang, and Mongol Yuan, until Confucian patriarchs succeeded in eliminating it. Japanese Shingon is an attenuated remnant. Tantrism is no longer mentioned in China or Japan; its art was destroyed; authorities pretend it was never there at all.
The same denial appeared in areas dominated by Islam where Sufi mystics had perpetuated a form of Tantrism. They emphasized the discipline of fana, “rapture,” attainable only with a pir (Peri), a fairy mistress, also known as Fravashi, “Spirit of the Way.” Through her, a man might achieve “the larger full surrender” said to pass beyond God to realization of the ultimate Void that swallowed even the gods.
WE ARE GOING BACK TO THE FEMININE DIVINE, IT IS SURGING UP NOW, AND ALL RELIGION AND SEXUALITY WILL CHANGE. FEMALE SEXUAL REPRESSION WILL END. WOMEN WILL ENJOY MALES AS THEIR SEX OBJECTS OF PLEASURE. NO MORE REPRESSION, GUILT, SHAME OR FEAR FOR WOMEN. THEY WILL HAVE FUN ONCE AGAIN, INCLUDING THE OLDER WOMEN WITH YOUNGER MALES.
Early Gnostic Christians sometimes called their religion synesaktism, the Way of Shakti, another name for Tantrism. These Christians were influenced by Oriental Tantrism as well as by some of its western forms, philosophies of Goddess-worship filtered through Pythagorean and Neoplatonic mystics. Plotinus equated the mind’s progress toward the Ineffable with “the sight of a beautiful lady.” Ascent of the mind toward realization of divinity was divided into six steps, beginning with perception of woman’s beauty, culminating in contemplation of Universal Beauty.
Christians like the Ophites and Montanists apparently practiced sexual adoration of the feminine life force under the name of Sophia, the female Holy Spirit, a feminine soul or Shakti of God. Their rite of “spiritual marriage” was misunderstood by the orthodox, who later called it a Test of Faith. Certain male and female saints, they said, had proved their chastity by Iying together naked without copulation. Possibly it was not sexual intercourse per se that such “saints” had avoided, but only male orgasm. Like Tantric yogis, Gnostic saints sometimes thought themselves “perfected” by coitus reservatus, so they could indulge in nakedness and promiscuity without being sinful.”
These sects were destroyed by the end of the 5th century A.D. and no more was heard of the famous Test of Faith. Orthodox fathers of the church ruled that sexual intercourse should have no purpose other than to beget offspring, and sexual pleasure should be altogether denied to women.
While Tantric Christians were condemned as heretics, Islamic leaders were attacking Sufi cults of love. Sufi mysticism survived underground, in the hands of troubadours who called themselves Lovers and adored the female principle as the world-sustaining power. Sufi yoni-worship influenced European troubadours, who founded cults of Courtly Love in the centuries following the crusades. The church called them devil-worshippers because they “sinfully” loved women instead of God, and women were equated with the devil by the theological opinion of the time. See Romance.
Heroes of the Courtly Love movement apparently practiced Tantric maithuna under the name of drudaria, a kind of love associated with male self-denial, yet not at all chaste. On the contrary, its poetry was highly erotic. Bardic romances sometimes showed distinct connections with eastern Tantrism, as when Peredur’s mystic lady-love revealed that she came from India, or when Tristan told his lady-love Iseult that his name was the syllabically-reversed Tantris.
ISLAM, JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, ALL RELIGIONS CAME FROM FEMALE-CREATED, FEMALE LED RELIGIONS WORSHIPING GOD AS MOTHER. THEY WERE STOLEN FROM WOMEN WHEN MEN FEROCIOUSLY ATTACKED GODDESS-LED, AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITIES, RAPED AND PLUNDERED, AND FORCED THEIR OWN CULTURE OF DEATH UPON HUMANS.
Though never officially recognized, Tantric sex has been practiced throughout history in western nations, either in accordance with a secret teaching, or as an independent discovery. Medieval Goddess worshippers vilified as “witches” apparently knew of it, and may have used it as a birth-control technique. It was claimed that no woman was ever made pregnant at the witches’ Sabbath.
“The Way,” Chinese version of Tantrism. Men were taught to reserve their vital forces, which could be dangerously depleted by ejaculation, and to let their weaker Yang nature absorb the powerful Yin force engendered by a woman’s orgasm. Men were advised to keep thls “key” secret from women, for if women learned to suppress their own orgasms while bringing men to ecstasy, they would greatly surpass men in wisdom and spiritual energy. Their already superior Yin magic would remain in their bodies, while the man’s lesser Yang magic would be added to it.
Lao-Tse said: “How unfathomable is Tao – like unto the emptiness of a vessel, yet, as it were, the honored Ancestor of us all. Using It we find it inexhaustible, deep and unfathomable. Now pure and still is the Way! I do not know who generated it. It may appear to have preceded God.”
