One well-known witch, Sybil Leek, who is called the "mistress of the
occult," proclaims that the Yin-Yang theory is:
"...an idea that inspired such things as Chinese boxing, breath control
[used in yoga, meditation, etc.], the use of special herbs, and some
rather erotic sexual exercises designed to nourish the Yang with the Yin?
She adds: "Crucial to Taoism is the idea of Yin and Yang.''
"According to the ancient Chinese philosophers, in the beginning was
Tao. But then Tao separated into the two prime principles, yang and yin.
And from the many combinations of yang and yin everything else that is in
the world has emerged.
"Yang and yin produced the 'five elements', which are metal, wood,
fire, water and earth. Everything in life is in a constant state of flux;
in fact, the only thing that you can be sure of is that it will change."
Another book states:
"The Yang-Yin symbol is one of the easiest to recognize and understand.
It represents the two opposite, conflicting forces found in every action,
and which are responsible for the dynamic universe....The Yang and Yin
operate in the universe primarily through the agency of the five elements:
Earth (Saturn), Water (Mercury), Metal (Venus), Wood (Jupiter), and Fire
(Mars). These elements under the guidance of the five planets form, with
the Sun and Moon, the seven rulers. Each of the elements may also be Yang
or Yin, so that combinations of all these could produce broad number
possibilities (sic) and astrological alternatives. Each, of course, has
its symbol which can be, and often was, incised into jade.''
Shu shu (occult practices)
The
concept of yin and yang (also called Tai-gi-tu), likewise plays an important
role in many other occult practices. For instance, the Dictionary of
Mysticism states the following about the practice of shu shu:
"Shu shu: The ancient Chinese system of magic, divination and occult
practices, including astrology, dream interpretation, the art of
coordinating human affairs by the active and passive principles of the
universe (yin yang) and the Five Elements (wu hsing), fortune telling by the
use of the stalks of the divination plant and the tortoise shell, and
miscellaneous methods such as dream interpretation, the regulation of forms
and shapes of buildings, etc.''
Of course, many of the Chinese exercises, medical practices, etc., are
also based on the theory of yin and yang. In Health: A Holistic Approach we
find:
"The techniques of acupuncture, acupressure, and moxibustion apply
needle, pressure, or thermal (heat) stimulation respectively to meridian
points to effect a change in the orderly flow of Chi through the
meridians. This treatment helps to re-establish the yin-yang balance by
initiating normal energy flow in stagnant meridians. The choice of
meridian points to be stimulated is arrived at by using specific laws
derived directly from the five-element theory and knowing the order of Chi
distribution in the meridians. The five-element theory is the practical,
tangible application of the complementary opposites--yin and yang.
"The Chinese system of physiotherapy, or therapeutic exercises, is
represented primarily in the practice of T'ai Chi Ch'uan, which is a
system of exercises performed in close co-ordination with regulated
breathing. The exercises are comprised of thirty-seven movement patterns,
the composition of which is regulated by the principles of yin and yang.
"The philosophy of T'ai Chi Ch'uan is rooted in Taoism, which advocates
natural effort, and in the I Ching, or Book of Changes. The movements and
inner teachings are derived from the complementary relationship between
Yin and Yang, two fundamental forces that create and harmonize the
Universe by their interaction.
"The
interaction of Yin and Yang is vital to the practice of T'ai Chi Ch'uan
since physically and mentally the practitioner is continually shifting
between empty and full and soft and hard to achieve a proper and evolving
equilibrium.''
In fact, T'ai chi came to be "represented by the circle divide into the
light and the dark, yang and yin.''
Other interrelated techniques dependent upon yin/yang are zone therapy,
polarity therapy, macrobiotics, Shiatsu, Jin-Shin, Do-In the martial arts
(such as Kung Fu, Chi Kung, Karate, T'ai Chi), etc.
Palmistry, the occult practice of foretelling the future by reading the
hand, is also based on the theories of yin and yang and the Five Elements.
In another occult book, The Chinese Art of Healing, written by a Buddhist
monk, the author explains how the ancients relate massage, which includes
Reflexology, to the Five Elements and to palmistry. He states:
"The thumb, for example, was associated with the spleen, which belonged
to the earth element, the index finger with the large intestine (metal
element)...and so on....The form of massage known as 'from the water
element to the earth element,' reminds us of occult concepts of this kind.
"According to Oriental magicians, the palm of the hand contains the
secrets of life. There was also an ancient Chinese school of thought
which maintained that the palm of the hand was a replica of Yin and Yang
and could provide information about illness and good health and one's
entire fate."
Masonry also uses the concept of yin and yang in their symbolism but it
is in a disguised form. Albert Pike states that the black and white pavement
symbolizes "the Good and Evil Principles of the Egyptian and Persian creed.
It is the warfare of Michael and Satan, of the Gods and Titans, of Balder
and Lok; between light and shadow, which is darkness; Day and Night; Freedom
and Despotism ...."
Masons also use the two triangles to represent this idea of opposites.
In the Short Talk Bulletin, a pamphlet which is to be read in the Lodges, we
are told that the triangles "are symbolic of good and evil, day and night,
the Chinese yang and yin, etc.''
The two triangles joined together to form a hexagram indicate sexual
union. This same viewpoint is also associated with the yin/yang. In
Our Phallic Heritage we are told:
"But since union of the sexes is necessary to produce offspring, both
sexes were represented in most religions. In the crudest forms of
worship, representations of the genitalia of both sexes, or of the sex
organs in union, were worshiped. Such was the worship of the
phallus-kteis in Greece and Egypt, the lingam-yoni in India, the
massebasher of Syria, the yoseki-inseki in Japan, the yang-yin in China,
and the baal-peor of the Canaanites in the Bible.''
Masonic author, George Oliver, states:
"Thus the monad and duad were the phallus and kteis of the Greeks, the
lingam and yoni of the Hindoos (sic), the woden and friga of the Goths,
and yang and yin of the Chinese, and indeed, of the creative and
destructive powers of every country under Heaven."
This thought is reiterated in Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and
Civilization:
"Lingam and yoni, Shiva and his goddess, symbolize the antagonistic yet
co-operating forces of the sexes. Their Sacred Marriage (Greek:
hieros-gamos) is multifariously figured in the various traditions of world
mythology. They are the archetypal parents, Father and Mother of the
World, themselves the first-born of the pairs of opposites, first
bifurcation of the primal, cosmogonic reality, now reunited in productive
harmony. Under the form of Father Heaven and Mother Earth they were known
to the Greeks as Zeus and Hera, Uranos and Gaia, to the Chinese as T'ien
and Ti, yang and yin.''
One catalogue that sells statues of gods and goddesses as well as many
other occultic items states:
"At once the most sacred and the most mysterious path to higher
consciousness, Tantra refers to the Divine Union of Opposites. Taoists
refer to these energies as yin (from yoni, the active principle) and yang
(the recumbent principle)."
Yin Yang Promotes Homosexuality
Since
there is some yin (female) in the yang (male), which is represented by the
little dot, and some yang in the yin, the concept of bisexuality is also
symbolized. The photo to the right is advertising
shirts for gays (notice
the yin-yang symbols). Charles Berger remarks:
"Sometimes efforts were made to make gods bisexual. Hermaphrodite
is the best example of this. He was the son of Hermes and Aphrodite
and embraced Salmaco, a nymph, who called upon the gods to make them
inseparable. The gods heard the plea, and formed of the two a
perfect being who possessed the characteristics of both sexes. From this
mythical being comes the term hermaphrodite. Omphale was a queen of
Lydia and the task-mistress of Hercules. She is represented with a
lion's skin and a club, male symbols, while Hercules wears her gown and
spins for her. Omphale is thus represented as double-sexed, as is
Hercules by his dress and his work. The name Omphale is a bisexual name,
coming from 'Om,' the Universal Mother, and from phallus, the male organ.
Likewise, Janus of the Greeks not only had opposite faces but was
double-sexed, or hermaphroditic.''
The
New Age movement looks favorably on homosexuality. In fact, in
alchemy, the androgyne (meaning male and female in one body) was considered
to be "the image of human perfection and wholeness. By some ancient
traditions, the original and perfect form of the human being.... A
fashionable look among some celebrities.'' "Bly, Nin, and Jung tell us that
each individual must achieve inner marriage of their masculine and feminine
natures to encounter true equipoise."
The assumption of yin/yang also leads to
homosexuality. In one issue of the Whole Life Times was a letter
from David Lang. He wrote:
"For example, macrobiotic theory explains homosexuality as a yin-yang
imbalance caused (or at least aggravated) by excess consumption of yin foods
(such as raw fruit) on the part of males and excessive ingestion of yang
foods (such as animal flesh) on the part of females.''
Texe Marrs explains:
"Homosexuality and bi-sexuality are accepted, even encouraged by the
New Age teacher. The unholy doctrine of reincarnation and the
principle of yin/yang are perfect excuses and rationale for homosexuality
and other forms of sexual immorality. If you are a homosexual or a
lesbian in this lifetime, New Age teachers believe that it is probably
because you were a person of the opposite sex in a previous incarnation or
past life. The residue and influence of that past life is simply retained
within your brain and consciousness.
"The yin/yang principle, also called unity, integration or polarity,
holds that a person is born with both masculine and feminine traits. A man
supposedly could have been a man 250 times and a woman 250 times in
previous incarnations, and the memory of those past life experiences are
said to remain as indelible traces of consciousness. Thus, we are each a
combination of male and female, masculine and feminine. The New Age
encourages children and adults to appreciate and practice the harmony of
opposites, teaching the individual to merge the two selves, man and
woman.''
Many of the gods and goddesses of paganism are shown to have dual sexual
natures. Mercury, called the 'male-female' was an androgyne.
Even much symbolism contains this dual nature. For instance:
"The serpent's head and neck is distinctly a masculine symbol, but the
serpent is sometime symbolized with its tail in it mouth [oroboros], the
body forming a circle which is feminine. Also, the mouth is feminine,
while the tail, which is in the mouth, is masculine. Thus for two good
reasons the serpent with its tail in its mouth represents both sexes.
Sacred fire was often prepared on religious occasions by rotating a
realistic wooden representation of the phallus in a wooden representation
of the kteis, rotating being done by an apparatus resembling a bow. The
cornucopia, or horn of plenty, was double sexed in symbolism. The horn was
masculine and the inside was feminine. The fruit inside symbolized
productiveness of the female."
"The four-limbed cross generally had a different meaning, and
represented the male and the female in unison, in the act of creation.
From time immemorial a perpendicular line or object has been used to
symbolize the phallus, and a horizontal line the kteis or vulva. The
surface of water, a female element in creation, was horizontal, and women
were practically in the horizontal position in the act of creation.
Prostitutes were spoken of as 'women who made their living horizontally,'
and the term was applied to women who were kept in their own room by some
wealthy man. Coitus has been called 'horizontal exercise.' Horizontales
(horizontals) is one of the names which the French apply to women who sell
love favors, women of easy virtue. The four-armed cross was an easy figure
to make, being an intersection of two straight lines at right angels, and
it became a symbol of man's most lofty and most holy activity, expressing
the reverence for the act. Some of the Asherahs of the Bible represented
Baal in union with Astoreth. The results of the union between the sexes
resulted in a new life. Separately, man and woman were incomplete,
important, and barren, but in their union they became a perfect soul,
realizing the immortality of life."
The damnable occult forces
of "Yin" and "Yang" are a lie, they do not exist in reality.
One
particular group that knows the sexual implications of the yin/yang and
intentionally uses it as their official symbol is The Sex Information and
Education Council of the United States (SIECUS). This group
promotes extensive sex education in schools. SIECUS Position Statements
reveal the following:
