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Sacred Sexuality in the Bible: Hidden Meanings of Religious Symbols and Teachings

• Ioannis Kokkinos

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In this episode of the Bridger of Worlds Podcast, host Ioannis Kokkinos dives deep into the hidden links between Christian mysticism and sacred sexuality. He reveals how sacred sexuality transcends physical intimacy, pointing to a higher energetic and spiritual union known as the hieros gamos—the sacred marriage of human and divine.

Drawing from both biblical symbolism and Eastern spiritual traditions, Ioannis uncovers the universal language of sacred union through:

  • The Hieros Gamos (Sacred Marriage) as the archetype of union between spirit and flesh
  • Pentecost and Kundalini Fire, illuminating parallels between Christian awakening and yogic energy practices
  • The Serpent of Moses as a mystical image of rising life-force energy within the body
  • Solomon’s Temple and the Church as symbolic blueprints for the human spiritual vessel
  • The Song of Songs as a sacred love poem that encodes divine erotic union
  • Resonances between Taoist alchemy, Kundalini yoga, and Christian esotericism

Through these explorations, Ioannis encourages listeners to discover their own path of sacred embodiment, reminding us that divine connection is not something external but an innate reality waiting to be awakened.


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Hi everyone. Welcome to another episode of the Bridger of Worlds podcast. I'm your host Ioannis Kokkinos. Thank you so much for joining me. If you're on YouTube watching, thank you for tuning in and if you're on one of the podcast platforms, thank you for tuning in as well. 

Recap of Previous Episode

So today I'm going to build on the previous episode.

Last week, I made the connection between christian symbols and sacred sexuality as a creed for divine union. Basically, that all religions and spiritual teachings across the globe through the ages repeatedly and consistently talk about hieros gamos, the sacred marriage, tantric union between the sacred masculine and the divine feminine.

There are more symbols throughout the Bible to unpack. So last week I talked about the seven churches, aka the seven Chakras in Revelation. I talked about the Holy Fire, the Kundalini fire. So today I want to get a bit more specific or just bring more symbols to the table, because throughout the Bible, even the Old Testament, not just the New Testament, there are citations and references of the serpent energy and of course divine union. So a little bit of overview. I would definitely touch base with last week's episode and the two episodes before that. Basically, this is a series on sacred sexuality. 

Sacred Sexuality and Christianity

So I do wanna emphasize here before I continue that when I talk about sacred sexuality.

It does not solely or is not just limited to physical, erotic union between two human beings. This literal, erotic physical union is a symbolic act of the union that is already taking place energetically and spiritually, that is sacred sexuality. So when I'm making the connections between sacred sexuality and Christianity, the Christian doctrine, it's not to say that Christianity is teaching how to have sex, right? It's about the doctrine of the sacred marriage, the energetic, spiritual union of the divine feminine and the sacred masculine. So I just want to emphasize that before I continue.

So a bit of an overview. Basically the last few episodes I talk about the raising of sexual energy to become spiritual energy. We see this in Kundalini yoga as well as the microcosmic orbit of the Taoist teachings. And then the current of manifestation, which is the current that comes down. So that current coming down is basically the way we are able to manifest using our sexual energy.

The Pentecost and Holy Fire

Now, I talked about this last week , and I did mention the Pentecost, right? So the Pentecost was the fires descending from the heavens. So I want to elaborate a bit more on this because it is very symbolic and it is very significant as far as the circulating of the sexual energy is concerned within our body, and that sexual energy is of course, meant to become spiritual energy. So in the Bible, the Pentecost is the reference of not only the fires descending upon the people , where it references that they're able to speak many different languages , which is a metaphor for something else, which I'll get into in a little bit. And also the creation of the church.

The Church as the Body

Now, I did mention last week that esoterically speaking the church is not just the physical outdoor, structure that we visit to pray and to go to ceremony and to go to ritual. The church is in fact our body. And Jesus very much was emphasizing this throughout his teachings that his body, Jesus Christ body is the church, right? So he was saying that he as an invocation and a channel for the Holy Fire and Holy Spirit exists within his body because our body holds the Holy fire. The Holy Spirit, the Christ energy. So the creation of the church, the physical church, because the fire descended, this symbolically represents that the sexual energy, the sexual fire, was raised up into the heavens, became spiritual energy. And then as current of manifestation, the current that comes down to materialize the physical was the creation of the church. And this happened through fire Holy fire because fire represents transmutation and creation, and of course this fire is represented by the holy fire or spirit throughout the Christian teachings.

There's also a very important reference of the body also resurrecting along with the Christ from the New Testament. So, basically, the Holy Spirit is what raised Jesus Christ from the dead, and it is also the Holy Spirit that will make the mortal body alive again, just as it did with Jesus Christ. So we of course, have a body from the day we're born, but we don't truly come alive until we become spiritually awakened and through Christian terms, it is the Holy Spirit that spiritually awakens us. It is the holy fire. So you'll never, ever, ever, ever read or see in the Bible that the holy fire is synonymous with our sexual creative, erotic energy.

The Taoist Connection

Now, the Taoist tradition is onto something because what the holy fire is in Christianity is Chi in Taoism. Chi is Life Force. Holy Fire is life force. Pneuma is life force. Prana is life force. Life force is the in-between energy, let's say, between the material and the physical.

So by raising the holy fire through our body, we become spiritually awakened. We a.k.a resurrect because we go through ego crucifixion and our body also becomes alive because then it is conscious of the Holy Spirit that dwells within it. Right? So then we become healthier, we become more vital, we become more energized. It becomes very natural and innate to want to take care of our bodies, our health, because this in fact serves our spirituality.

So the fires descending from the heavens, and then it touched upon the people, and they were able to speak many different languages. This does not mean that they started to speak, you know, Mandarin, Greek, Italian, Arabic, hebrew and so on and so forth, right? The many tongues of fire that touched upon the people and they started to speak many languages, basically means they started to access universal or Christ consciousness.

So remember in the episode where I said, once we reach up the crown chakra with the current of liberation, the crown chakra is where we receive the downloads, where receive information, universal consciousness, and then we are meant to bring it back down. This is the exact same thing as the Pentecost or the the day of the Pentecost, and the fire is descending because sexual fire needs to become spiritual fire.

Remember what I said about the crown chakra and the message of the Laodiceia church. The test here is that we must turn our crown chakra on fire by the raising of our sexual energy. Not to stay lukewarm, not to stay mildly hot. We need to blaze up here by the raising of our sexual energy so that sexual energy becomes spiritual energy, and then that fire comes down as the current of manifestation.

Of course it's not literal fire, it's spiritual energy, and this is how we're able to materialize and manifest, right? The word made flesh, the current of manifestation, and then the creation of the church. We already have a body. We're not creating our body, but we are in a sense, making our body become alive by the spiritual energy that comes down into our lower centers because we want the energy to come up, and now we want the energy to come back down. We can move this energy into our third eye, into our throat, into our heart, into our solar plexus, into our sacral, into our root, and it's a circuit, just like I talked about with the microcosmic orbit.

So, yes, they created the church, right? They created the physical church because spiritual baptism happened through the holy fire that came down from the heavens. But really, this just means that the holy fire became spiritual fire and descended down into the body, and the body was quote unquote created, but really made alive again.

The Phoenix and Alchemy

And here I wanna refer to the Phoenix from the Taoist teachings, right? The Phoenix is a symbol of rebirth, and I talked about in that episode that the current of manifestation is represented by the Phoenix, whereas the current of liberation is represented by the dragon. So it's quite symbolic, right?

Because in the Christian teachings, fire comes down to make the body or church alive again, and in the Taoist teachings, this symbol for rebirth that happens through fire, right? The Phoenix represents the current of manifestation in the microcosmic orbit. So right, we are meant to raise our sexual energy, which can very much heat us and really stimulate and activate us, but we cannot stay in that hyperstimulation and hyperactivation because then we become very ungrounded and we become too charged. Right? We need to lower the fire. We need to lower that energy. And also, alchemize. Fire is the symbol of alchemy and what is the whole point of doing sexual energy circulation and transmutation is to alchemize energies, to alchemize emotion. We want to transform the lower emotions and vibrations into higher, lighter emotions and vibrations, and we do this by circulating our sexual energy. So the phoenix coming down in the microcosmic orbit is very similar to the day of the Pentecost, when the fires descended down into the physical to create the church and to permit many to speak many different languages, which basically means they have access to universal cosmic Christ consciousness.

Semen Retention in Taoism

The Taoist teaching also very much emphasizes for men to practice semen retention. So a part of the Taoist doctrine and the microcosmic orbit is in order to really learn how to circulate the sexual energy, man must learn how to retain his seed. Semen is the creator of life, right?

It's the seed. It's the catalyst for life. It is what enters the womb to create a baby. The taoists perceive the seed and the womb as very divine processes of human nature, regardless of what the West has branded our genitals, and these parts of our body. In the east, even in Kundalini yoga and Hindu tantrism, the penis is the lingam and the vagina is the yoni, which are both sacred symbols of divine channeled creation.

So in the east, these lower, private, dirty, quote unquote parts of us are not at all dirty or shamed or anything like that. They are sources of generative and regenerative spiritual power because they create life. Semen creates life. Womb creates life. So as part of the microcosmic orbit, we are to, as men, learn how to hold our semen. So yes, move into orgasmic energy, but that does not mean to spill the seed. That does not mean to waste the seed because we need the Jing to transform into qi. And the only way for sexual energy as part of the Taoist teachings to transform into Qi is by conserving the seed.

Now early Christian mystics actually perceived the semen as the sacred offering toward God. This is why Jesus Christ said that the rivers of life move within your body, and this is the Eucharist. The Eucharist, in church is the symbolic act of giving thanks and giving an offering to God, but esoterically speaking, the living waters that move through our bodies is the semen. The semen, because it is the catalyst and the creator of life. So early Christian mystic also perceived the seed of life and man's semen as something sacred, just like the Taoists do today.

Early Christian mystics also use the Phoenix as a symbol of resurrection and ascension. Just putting that in there as well. So again, we see this play on fire and water fire representing the masculine and water representing the feminine. So the living water within the female body is of course the womb.

The womb is the holder, the carrier, the gestator and birther of life, all that is possible because of water, the womb of creation. So this is why in church we see grails and we see cups filled with water. The grail is a very prominent archetype of the divine womb.

Any imagery that we see in a grail or in a cup filled with water is a representation of the divine womb. This is the living water within the feminine body. The living water moving through the male body is the semen which is also interesting because this is also the spermatikos logos, which is fire, which I talked about a few episodes back.

So both fire and water, archetypally speaking are the creators of life. Fire is the creator of spiritual life, and water is the creator of physical life. In Hindu tantra, Kundalini Shakti, the feminine sexual force is represented by fire, so it's not so black and white. We see many cultures and many teachings across the globe where fire can be masculine, but it can also be feminine. Water can be feminine, but it can also be masculine because this is really what the Divine union teachings are. The union of the sacred masculine and the divine feminine.

Raising the Serpent

Now another very fascinating, or two very fascinating references from both the Old Testament and the New Testament is the raising of the serpent. So in the Old Testament. There's a reference that Moses must lift the serpent so that the people can be healed. And in the New Testament, it is said that just like Moses raised the serpent, so the son of man must be raised.

What serpent raising are they talking about? Let's look to the east. The Kundalini serpent is what is raised in the East to promote spiritual connection and spiritual realization. So throughout the Bible, Old Testament and New Testament, there's a reference of the raising of the serpent. This is the raising of the sexual energy.

So by Moses raising the serpent for all to be healed, references that this is the potential of what raising the sexual energy means. And then in the New Testament. Just like Moses raised the serpent. So the son of man must be raised, the son of man as a symbol, is the holy fire, is the Kundalini fire, is the Kundalini serpent.

So by raising the Kundalini serpent, this means that we are raising the holy fire or spirit, which is our sexual creative energy that is meant to become spiritual energy.

Temple of Solomon and Kundalini

In the Old Testament, we also have the Temple of Solomon. So Solomon was an Israeli king and Jesus Christ is said to be a descendant of Solomon. And Solomon had this temple, which was to his name, the anchor point for heaven on Earth. It was the institution back then of what represented organized spiritual institution.

It had the area called Holy of Holies, which was basically where I think one priest a year can go inside in order to commune with God. It had two pillars, Boaz and Jachin, I dunno if I'm pronouncing that right. So all this is like literal, right? The temple, the pillars, the Holy of Holies. But symbolically, this actually represents the Sushumna, pingala and ida nadis within the human body. So I talked about Pingala and Ida and Sushumna from the Kundalini teachings that basically this is where the Kundalini energy is raised and how it goes up and down within our bodies.

The Temple of Solomon Esoterically speaking along with the pillars and the Holy of Holies is our pingala, ida and sushumna channels, and Jesus Christ is referenced with the temple because he said to tear it down and he will raise it up again in three days. So here Jesus Christ is once again referring to that , it's not outside institution or an outside structure, that you will find God because Jesus Christ kept referring to his body as the church and where God dwells.

And by him referring to the three day raising basically speaks to the resurrection. His resurrection that took three days after he was crucified. So this is a parable. This is a, this is a metaphor. By tearing down the temple and Jesus Christ, raising it again in three days basically represents the holy fire or spirit, the Kundalini energy that is meant to be raised up within our own bodies in order for resurrection and the meeting point of heaven on earth, how it is to happen because the temple of Solomon was the meeting point of heaven on earth, and Jesus said to tear that down. And watch him raise it in three days because he was acting again and speaking on behalf of the Holy Fire. The Holy Spirit, which dwells within our own bodies, and we are to raise the holy fire within our body in order to experience ascension, resurrection, and spiritual awakening.

Song of Songs and Sacred Sexuality

And another fascinating thing about Solomon is that he wrote the Song of Songs, a deeply erotic poem, talking about two lovers, a story between two lovers and what they experienced to come together and really, the end conclusion of them coming together very erotically and very lovingly, is through the divine flame, through the divine fire.

So. It's interesting because Jesus Christ is a descendant of Solomon, right? And the Song of Songs is a very deeply erotic poem, basically depicting sacred sexuality. But both the Jews and Christians would never ever admit that sacred sexuality is what the Song of Songs is talking about.

So for the Jews, it's basically the female is Israel and the male is God. And for Christians is the male, is Jesus and the female is the church, but again, this is all symbolic. It's basically the union of the masculine and the feminine. The Song of Songs is a poem Rich, rich, with symbolism and deep meaning as far as sacred sexuality is concerned, and the utilization and channeling of sexual energy as a means to meet the divine.

This was all knowledge as I said, that was very much available pre-organized institution days. But as the modern day religion started coming into power, they wanted to suppress all of this because to know that the sexual energy within us is how we get to meet the divine basically renders us very sovereign and very autonomous.

It actually renders us to the point where we don't really need to look outside of us or to go anywhere to feel God and to feel that spiritual connection that is very much already within us, is our birthright. And nothing, and nobody can say otherwise. Nobody. Nobody and nothing can tell me or you what you have to do or what I have to do in order to experience and feel God.

The bride and the bride groom that the Song of Songs keeps referring to is the Feminine Principle of Creation and the Masculine Principle of Creation. Yes, it talks about a man and a woman very much in love. What they experienced, an ordeal. They experienced separation. They come back together, they reunite.

There's a lot of desire. There's a of, a lot of longing. And yes, this is the same desire and longing that we can experience for God, for the spiritual nature of life, right? Longing and desire are not bad to things to feel. The deepest longing that we have, the deepest desire that we have is to experience reunion with the source. This is where we came from, and we can experience this kind of source connection with another through sexual union. It's not to say that that person is God or you know goddess, but it is through our physical and erotic union that we both get to remember where it is we came from, that longing and that desire is satiated and is satisfied because we remember through physical erotic union that this is creation and this is where we came from.

And that is what the Song of Songs is all about, right? So it's there. I mean, you go read it for yourself. It's not even hidden in plain sight. It's a very erotic poem filled with longing and desire and all sorts of references of pleasure and so on and so forth. So that came from Solomon. Jesus Christ is a descendant of Solomon and Jesus Christ is acting, speaking, and moving on behalf of the Holy Fire, holy Spirit, which is basically what needs to be raised within our bodies in order to experience God consciousness.

Revelation and Chakras

And last week I also talked about Revelation and the seven chakras as the seven churches. So Revelation is channeled information from John who went in the cave in the Greek island of Patmos. And this is where he heard and saw all kinds of visions and messages. So Jesus Christ wrote letters to each of the churches, which is the seven chakras of the human body. And there's a very interesting reference as far as what the vision was when John was receiving these messages. And that was basically that within the holy fire, he saw a man wearing a crown, was sitting on a throne, and he was in circled by a rainbow and seven lamps were blazing. I mean really you can't make this stuff up. So the seven lamps blazing are the seven chakras and encircled by a rainbow. Each chakra has a color, and these are the colors of the rainbow, right? So the seven visible colors of the visible spectrum of light, red, orange, yellow, green, blue. Indigo Violet, which is a rainbow, are also the colors of the chakras. So John saying that he saw someone within the holy fire, that seven lamps were blazing, and this person, he's obviously referring to Jesus Christ, is encircled by a rainbow, he's talking about the seven chakras of the human body.

And it's very significant that he says it's within the holy fire because that's exactly what happens within the Hindu tantric teachings. It's the Kundalini fire that we raise up every single chakra, and this is how we quote unquote, light up. What was the message of the Laodiceia church? The crown chakra. We need to blaze, in order to experience spiritual awakening, we need to raise the sexual fire so that it can become spiritual fire, and then we bring it down.

That is the microcosmic orbit of the Taoist teachings. That is the day of the Pentecost when the fires descended from heaven. That is the word made flesh. That is the spermatikos logos, the seed fire, the catalyst of life. That is the living water that moves within our bodies, the semen and the womb, because physical life comes from spiritual, energetic life. I keep saying that we are reflections of the macrocosm. We have sex, we make eros. We come together to create life because this was all happening before we were even here.

So there are a few more symbols for you. 

Conclusion and Final Thoughts

There are more, but I picked some of my favorites and the ones that I think really stand out throughout the Bible. I'll leave it here for today. I really hope you enjoyed this episode. I know how much I enjoy talking about this. I love talking about this stuff.

This is why my podcast is called Bridger of Worlds. It's, yes, the bridging between the world of matter and spirit, but it's also putting pieces together or bridging different worlds together that you would not think could make connections otherwise. Right? So throughout my years, especially as far as sexual healing is concerned, I've turned to Kundalini Yoga to the Microcosmic Orbits, and then I started finding similarities throughout the Bible.

Because to this day and age, no matter how much I've read from other cultures and other religions, I still very much feel Jesus Christ within my heart, and I just needed my own way to get there. Right? So. Maybe you're not struggling with sexuality, you're not struggling with the things that I've struggled with, but you are struggling with someone from the outside telling you how you need to experience and feel, God, what you need to do in order to experience and feel Jesus Christ, maybe that is where we find common ground. So I do hope this serves you in any way, shape, or form.

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