Bride and Bridegroom (Cosmic Twins)

When I was around 9 years old, I had a dis­cus­sion with my Grand­mother about the “twin” con­cept.  Dur­ing my NDE’s, I would recieve insights and knowl­edge con­cern­ing an ancient teacher who had lived in the past.  The ‘spirit guides’ would ref­er­ence him as far as spir­i­tual knowl­edge being left behind in the world.  I knew this man as “Yeshua.”   I was con­fused when peo­ple told me it sounded like I was talk­ing about some­one they knew of as Jesus.  

My Grand­mother and I were sit­ting at the kitchen table.  Dur­ing this con­ver­sa­tion, I had sight and sound of the ‘spirit guides.’  In fact, I had been speak­ing to them prior and they had directed me to have a pri­vate con­ver­sa­tion with my Grand­mother about “Yeshua.”  I would get con­fused and knew that in the past she had ref­er­enced Jesus.  I couldn’t fig­ure out if they were one and the same or if they were two dif­fer­ent teach­ers.  I was try­ing to grasp the ‘twin­ship’ con­cept in a pri­vate dis­cus­sion with the spirit guides and was get­ting frus­trated with the wording.

My Grand­mother asked about the ‘invis­i­ble friends’ and I told her they were stand­ing at the end of the table — as far as my eyes could see and my ears could hear.  I was used to my fam­ily being blind, deaf and dumb when it came to the ‘invis­i­ble guides.’   My fam­ily called them ‘imag­i­nary friends’ but my Grand­mother was the one per­son who had an open mind and felt they might be ‘min­is­ter angels’ teach­ing me about the truth.

So — I asked my Grand­mother if the one she knew of by the name of Jesus — had a twin with him dur­ing his walk on earth.  (That is how she would refer to Jesus and his time.  When Jesus walked the earth.)   She told me that she hadn’t read any­thing in her good book and as far as she could remem­ber — noth­ing had ever been men­tioned in the reli­gious dis­cus­sions she had been involved with.   The ‘voice of the spirit’ guides directed me to ask my Grandmother,

“What about the bride with the bride­groom Grandma?  Does that book of your say any­thing about that?”

She said she did know of a verse which ref­er­enced that and was puz­zled about it because as far as she could tell — he was an unmar­ried man.  When she told me there was a ref­er­ence, I got very excited.  I knew that as I got older my con­nec­tion to the spirit guides was going to fade from view.  I only had a child­ish per­spec­tive and wasn’t as knowl­edge­able con­cern­ing the theme per­tain­ing to reli­gion.   I looked at the con­ver­sa­tions with the ‘spirit guides’ like bread crumbs I was lay­ing down in a dark for­est and I had to have a trail lead­ing me back to my ver­bal con­ver­sa­tions in an effort to retrieve the instruc­tions given to me by the spirit guides.   My com­mu­ni­ca­tion with them was like a vapor that was going to con­dense and evap­o­rate with time.

He that hath the bride is the bride­groom: but the friend of the bride­groom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy there­fore is ful­filled. John 3:29

I told my Grand­mother this was a dif­fer­ent word­ing for the same thing I knew of as the twin­ship.  I even used my left and right arms to illus­trate the  two parts of the same ‘inner’ body.  In my young mind — the two inner parts had to be joined together.

“Each soul and spirit prior to its enter­ing into this world, con­sists of a male and female united into one being. When it descends on this earth the two parts sep­a­rate and ani­mate two dif­fer­ent bod­ies. At the time of mar­riage, the Holy One, blessed be He, who knows all souls and spir­its, unites them again as they were before, and they again con­sti­tute one body and one soul, form­ing as it were the right and left of one indi­vid­ual.“
– The Hebrew Zohar

The verse, “And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent” (Gen­e­sis 24.67), our mas­ters have inter­preted to mean that the Divine Pres­ence came into Isaac’s house along with Rebecca. Accord­ing to the secret doc­trine, the super­nal Mother is together with the male only when the house is in readi­ness and at the time the mas­cu­line and fem­i­nine are con­joined. At such time bless­ings are show­ered forth by the super­nal Mother upon them.
– Zohar, Genesis

“And no one will be able to escape from these once they seize him unless he receives both Male and Female Power, which is the Bride­groom with the Bride. One receives them in the mir­rored Bridal-suite. So it is if the Imagery and the Angel are mated together, nei­ther can any­one dare to vio­late the Male or the Female.“
–Gospel of Philip

“Until She is sep­a­rated from His side, and cometh unto Him so that She may be con­joined with Him, face to face. And when They are con­joined together, they appear to be only one body. Hence we learn that the Mas­cu­line, taken alone, appeareth to be only half the body, so that all the mer­cies are half; and thus also is it with the Fem­i­nine. But when They are joined together, the (two together) appear to form only one whole body,. And it is so. So also here. When the Male is joined with the Female, They both con­sti­tute one com­plete body, and all the Uni­verse is in a state of hap­pi­ness, because all things receive bless­ing from Their per­fect body. And this is an Arcanum.“
–Kab­balah Unveiled

I found another verse where the trans­la­tor made a com­ment which ref­er­ences “twin” as well as ‘twinning.’

The soul of Adam came to exist by means of breath. The soul’s twin is the spirit. His mother is the thing that was given to him. His soul was car­ried (to him), and he was given a spirit where the soul is. When he was uni­fied, he spoke words incom­pre­hen­si­ble to the pow­ers. They envied him.
–Gospel of Philip
Com­ment by April DeCon­ick: I trans­lated the word “uni­fied” but it lit­er­ally means “twinned” and is the same word, although a verb, as ear­lier in the pas­sage with the spirit is called the soul’s twin. 

This com­ment and pas­sage also reflects other con­ver­sa­tions I had dur­ing my child­hood where I ref­er­enced the ‘spirit’ and the ‘soul’ as two dif­fer­ent things.  From my per­spec­tive — the ‘spirit’ is what incar­nates into the phys­i­cal body.  The ‘soul’ itself — doesn’t.   Another word for the ‘uni­fied’ or ‘twinned’ process would be in ‘uni­son.’  It was not a phys­i­cal ‘uni­son’ or uni­fy­ing process as much as it was an inner and spir­i­tual process.