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Symbol 34

A Summary Explanation of Symbol No. 34 - The Act of Copulation or God’s Spirit in the Darkness

The symbol symbolises the major principles that work together in the act of copulation. Martinus describes how the spirit of God directly pervading all living beings is the very highest principle of the experience of life. The beings must go through darkness in order to gain the ability to personally experience knowledge, beauty, love and bliss. But no being is left alone during this experience of darkness. Through built-in special organs in the organism it has the possibility to experience tangibly in the middle of darkness a ray of light from God’s eternal ocean of light or abundance of love. This divine ray from God’s eternal ocean of light is the beings’ highest leading and guiding force in their primitive state and their experience of darkness. Here they experience in glimpses life’s very highest feeling of pleasure in the form of the “highest fire” in the act of copulation. The act of copulation is a stimulus that promotes zest for life at the same time as it provides the organic opportunity for the beings to be born anew in physical matter.

See also Martinus' description of symbol no. 34 in The Eternal World Picture 4.

The main details of the symbol:

The round figure at the bottom left symbolises a male being, and the figure at the bottom right symbolises a female being.
The large yellow rays that emanate from these beings symbolise that they are engaged in the act of copulation or intercourse.
The round figure at the top symbolises a discarnated being that is living in the kingdom of bliss.
The yellowish grey section around the being of bliss symbolises an atmosphere that is a mixture of the aura of the being of bliss and the copulatory aura of the physical beings. This atmosphere brings about the connection or contact of the being of bliss with the creation of the embryo in the womb.
The cruciform figure, which is partly made up of rays and is situated between the two copulatory beings, symbolises the climax of the act of copulation.
Originating in the rays emanating from this figure there is an indigo-coloured thread-like figure that goes up around the being of bliss at the top. It connects this being with the female being and animates the embryonic material in the womb. And thus begins the creation of a new physical organism.