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Sacred Sexuality and Esoteric Christianity: The Hidden Teachings Behind Christian Symbols

• Ioannis Kokkinos

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In this episode of the Bridger of Worlds Podcast, host Ioannis Kokkinos uncovers the hidden layers of esoteric Christianity, showing how its sacred symbols mirror Eastern spiritual traditions like Hinduism and Taoism. At the heart of this exploration is the idea that Christianity carries a mystical doctrine of sacred sexuality, encoded in allegory and scripture.

Key themes explored in this episode:

  •  The parallels between Kundalini Fire in Hinduism and the Holy Fire in Christianity.
  • How the seven churches of Revelation reflect the seven chakras in Tantric teachings.
  • The concept of the body as a living church and a vessel for spiritual rebirth.
  •  The union of the Divine Masculine and Feminine as a key to awakening.
  •  The roles of Mother Mary (manifestation) and Mary Magdalene (liberation) in Christian mysticism.
  •  Hidden spiritual messages encrypted in Christian scriptures.

This episode bridges Christian mysticism, kundalini awakening, sacred union, and hidden teachings of the Bible—inviting you to experience Christianity as a living path of inner transformation.


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Hi everybody. 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.

So last week I told you that last week's episode is prepping for this week's episode, and today is quite an episode, for a few reasons. 

Exploring Esoteric Christianity

A, we are really going to look into deep symbolism and metaphors regarding some very important historical, quote unquote truths that were written. B, we're going to challenge what we've been taught and C, this is incredibly generational and ancestral because we are diving into esoteric Christianity. Now, I have spoken on some episodes ago about a few aspects of esoteric Christianity, basically comparing the Kundalini fire of the Hindu teachings to the holy fire of the Christian teachings. But what I want to do in today's episode is basically compare to what it is I talked about last week as far as manifestation, liberation, and even the circulating of the sexual energy throughout our bodies is concerned. I now believe more than ever that Christianity is a doctrine of sacred sexuality deeply, deeply hidden in metaphor, allegory and symbols. So today I'm going to unpack some of the most, uh, prominent symbols and allegories and messages that the Bible contains, including revelation of the New Testament. So let's go on this journey. I have a lot to bring to the space. So because I talked about the current of manifestation and the current of liberation last week, this is where I will start today.

Symbolism in Christian Teachings

So according to the Christian teachings, the current of manifestation and the current of liberation also exist. Now it is worded much more differently. So the current of manifestation, as far as Christian terms are concerned is the word was made flesh, which can be found in the New Testament. So the citation, the word was made flesh has a lot of symbolism, carries a lot of symbolism and meaning. So the word is synonymous to the logos, which is the reason for all existence, which I've talked about before in some episodes. And to make it flesh means that it materializes into physical form.

So the logos is universal consciousness. Christ consciousness, since we're talking about Christian terms and it becoming flesh, means it materializes into the physical plane. So that is exactly the same as the current of manifestation that exists within our bodies. So if we compare Christianity to the Eastern teachings, the Eastern teachings very much make our body, the focal point of spiritual practices and spiritual anything really.

But in Christianity, this is not the case. In Christianity, the body is actually something to ignore, neglect, right? Kind of, um, almost want to get away from because our body is the reason for sin, right? And we are to redeem ourselves by avoiding any bodily, physical, primal needs and urges. Right? I mean, that's really the takeaway message of modern day Christianity. 

The Body as a Spiritual Temple

So here I will say that the church that we all go to and pray to and, you know, perform ceremonies in and go through ritual in esoterically speaking, the church is our body.

So, you know, the expression, my body, my temple. My body, my church, esoterically speaking, our body is our church because this is where the Christ dwells, and this is where heaven on Earth can in fact be experienced by attaining spiritual awakening, spiritual realization, and so on and so forth.

So that's a small little parentheses in order to portray that the current of manifestation, which is what the word was made flesh does exist within our bodies. It's not something outside of us. And the current of liberation, which I talked about and really speaks, especially in the tantric teachings, to the Kundalini serpent rising is the Christ resurrected.

So we have Jesus Christ, the human, and then we have Christ, the Holy Fire, the cosmic Christ as the spiritual energy that is alive within us, is alive in the cosmos and basically is the life force of creation. So Christ resurrecting was a historical event, but it is also a symbol as far as what it is we need to do to raise the inner fire, the inner sexual fire.

So we'll never, ever, ever think of sexuality when it comes to the Christian teachings. That's how deeply, deeply, deeply conditioned we've been for generations upon generations. But the message is there. It's just steeped in symbolism. So we also have the holy fire as Pentecost descending , which symbolizes a ritual of rebirth. This also represents manifestation, right? So last week I talked about we need to release old matter.

We need to raise old matter old energy up here into our crown chakra, transform this into energy, and then move energy down back into, through our body, right? So the Christ being baptized, which symbolizes rebirth,

it basically catalyzed the Holy Spirit or the holy fire to descend down into the physical. Again, this is a symbol for the current of manifestation working alongside the current of liberation. Because that's what baptism is, is a ritual of rebirth. And we go to the water to symbolize the rebirth because it is through the womb of creation. Womb is the water, the cradle of water, which holds life and gestates life that we need to return to symbolically in order to become reborn spiritually.

And with the womb comes the seed. Now the seed is the Logos. The Logos is the spermatikos logos, which contains the pattern of life. The consciousness of life that is to be made manifest. And this is symbolized by fire, because the seed can only ever grow and manifest whatever it is supposed to grow and manifest from solar light and esoterically speaking, the sun is the Christ is Christ consciousness because the sun is the giver of life and allows every single seed here on our planet to grow into whatever that seed is supposed to grow in, and that is symbolized by fire. So that is why the Logos or the spermatikos logos, which is from stoic philosophy, is the seed pattern and alongside the seed comes the womb. Where else do we see seed and womb? Sexual union. So as you can see, Christianity uses symbols of physical creation, and we as human beings can physically create through sexual union. This is how we create life.

The cross of Christianity also carries its symbolism. So we have the vertical line intersecting, the horizontal line. The vertical line represents the current of manifestation and liberation. So it's a journey of up and down. It's also the line of spirit because we are moving up towards spirit and we are coming down from spirit into the physical plane.

That's the vertical line of the cross. The horizontal line is the plane of matter and also the union of opposites, the union of masculine and feminine, the Union of Spirit and matter, and basically the physical plane. Where we are to manifest heaven on earth. Last week I said, when Shakti, the feminine sexual force meets Shiva up in the crown chakra, this represents nirvana, bliss, heaven on earth once we realize that cosmic consciousness, we are to bring it back down. Same thing with the microcosmic orbit, right as we loop through the back channel that is the spine, and we bring the sexual energy, which is jing, which becomes Qi, which becomes sheen. We need to bring that energy back down. That's the current of manifestation.

So that represents materializing or manifesting heaven on earth because we realize heaven through liberation, ascension, resurrection in Christian terms, and then we bring the energy down into the physical, which is the current of manifestation. The word is made flesh. We make the word flesh as we receive information, reason, divine knowledge, cosmic knowledge as Logos, as a reason for the, the existence and creation and manifest into the physical.

So do you see the similarities between these Christian citations and Taoism and Hindu Tantrism or Kundalini yoga?

The Seven Churches and Chakras

And another very significant piece to all of this that really backs up my claim that Christianity is a creed for sacred sexuality are the mentioning of the seven churches in Revelation. So the seven churches in esoteric teachings are actually the seven chakras. So in Kundalini yoga we have the seven chakras where the Kundalini serpent is meant to be raised to reach cosmic consciousness which I've talked about. In Taoism, in the microcosmic orbit, there's no mention of chakras, but we have the seven glands.

So as we're moving Qi through the body and transforming it into Shen through breath, through attention, through focus, through awareness. We are activating our seven glands. So these seven glands, these seven chakras are the seven churches mentioned in Revelation, and I'm gonna go through each and every one of them to compare them to the Hindu tantric definition of each church or chakra.

So Ephesus is the Church of the Root Chakra. And , basically, each church represents a stage of evolution or a challenge that the Kundalini energy, the Christ must pass through in order to get to the next stage. This is the exact same process of Kundalini awakening as Kundalini goes and moves through each chakra.

This is a transformation in itself because it is a ladder, we need to start from the root. To move to the sacral to get to the solar plexus, the heart, the throat, the third eye, the crown. It's the exact same thing with the seven churches. So the key message of the Ephesus Church or otherwise known as root chakra, is you have forsaken your first love.

What does this mean? And all these messages are basically Jesus Christ, writing letters to each of the churches. Now, these churches were churches in Asia Minor, present day Turkey. But symbolically speaking, these churches represent our seven energy centers within our bodies.

Mainstream Christianity will never admit this or say it's heresy, it's wrong, this, that, but the symbolism is there. The messages are there, and these similarities are there. So let's get into it. So Ephesus, which is the root chakra, the first, the base chakra is you have forsaken your first love, , which basically means that your first love is your spirit, right?

Our original home, our origin story, and where it is we truly come from is spirit, great cosmic, infinite creative, uh, everythingness. I mean, um, that's our first love, right? That's where we incarnate from. So our root chakra is our base chakra, and it's basically our survival chakra.

So it's our, all our basic animal needs of survival. Eat, drink water. Procreate, stay warm. You know? And as far as like our humanity's concerned, it's about our relationship to money, safety, security, procreation, you know, ba basic, basic survival, and what it is we need to feel safe and secure in this physical reality.

So that's what you have forsaken your first love means. That is the first test that we have, is to basically start to realize we are not just these physical beings and we are not to completely and totally attach ourselves to the material experience, but that is the journey for everybody. We do come here to forget, but we also come here to remember our first love, which is creation.

The second church is Smyrna, and the key message here is you are rich through being poor. What does that mean? Being poor does not mean just having financial troubles. Being poor means being so attached to the material experience. When we start to practice non-attachment to the material experience and to, you know, the physical condition, this is where we start to quote unquote become rich because this is how we start to realize more of our spiritual nature and spirituality and God.

So here in a sense, Jesus is saying to suffer is a good thing because by suffering, we let go and we start to non attach. And it is to non-attachment that we do realize our spiritual natures and spirituality. It's not condoning suffering, right? We're not just here to suffer. We're not here to be martyrs.

But suffering is a part of life. And the sacral chakra , is associated to the water element and the womb. The womb of creation is the sacral chakra. So, as I said before, we need to return to the womb, symbolically speaking, in order to experience a second birth or spiritual rebirth, and that will happen through suffering.

We see this through actual birth, right when women are giving birth. It is a very painful, grueling experience filled with suffering, but once it's all said and done, a baby is born right. That is absolute and total purity and love and a miracle in itself. So that is the message of Smyrna, the sacral chakra.

The next chakra is Pergamos, and here it's the message of Satan Dwells here. So this is very interesting because often when we think of Satan, we think of fire, right? According to Christian lore, Satan is the ruler of hell and Hell is a place filled with fire. The solar plexus is associated with the fire element, and I've talked about the solar plexus in previous episodes.

This fire is not really Satan fire, but the solar plexus is also where the ego develops. That doesn't mean we are not to have an ego because quote unquote Satan dwells here, but we are here to experience a sense of power and will, but not through material attachments and egoic desires. We have to raise our fire, right?

We are raising our Kundalini fire, the holy fire within us, and here is basically the battleground and where the ego experiences death. So we have to quote unquote, kill Satan at the level of the ego, which also represents the crucifixion. So as the Holy fire raises, as the Christ raises within us, we experience crucifixion here, otherwise known as ego death. And then we move up into the heart, which is the Church of Thyatira. And here the message is you tolerate Jezebel. Jezebel was a historical figure in Israel who was very much into, uh, human sacrifice manipulation, uh, sexual immorality. She's very much an archetype of shadow wounded feminine energy. So again, this is very, very symbolic that this is the message at the heart chakra.

So Thyatira is associated with the heart chakra and the heart is really where the union of the masculine and the feminine happen. So by saying that you tolerate Jezebel and you stay stuck at the level of the heart without raising is really about not using the sexual fire or the sexual energy for divinity because as we raise the Christ, as we raise the holy fire, we are raising our sexual energy, and that sexual energy basically needs to come all the way up, right? So the heart is responsible for love, it's responsible for connecting. It's responsible for unity.

It's responsible for bringing two people that are in love to physically connect in order to create life. So the challenge here, or the test here of the heart chakra is basically to not just stay to yourself or withhold that sexual energy in order to remain immoral, in order to use it for egoic purposes, manipulation, and so on and so forth. And we can also compare this to Kundalini Shakti, right in the Hindu tantric teachings, the Kundalini Shakti energy is the feminine sexual force because sexual energy is meant to bring two entities together, bring two people together in order to come into that union in order to make that connection.

So we do have to face the shadow aspect of our sexuality. We all have a shadow aspect as far as our sexuality is concerned. It doesn't matter if we've had sexual trauma or not because that sexual energy is really, its ultimate destination is to become spiritual energy. So we have to move up the heart, in order to render that wounded shadow feminine energy healed as she reunites with the masculine polarity, which is up here in the crown chakra, which I'll get to in a little bit. So after the heart, we have the throat chakra, in Revelation. This is Sardis, the Church of Sardis, and the key message is you have a name for being alive, but you are dead. So that's not literal, right? It means we have a name, we have an ego. We know who we are, but we are not yet truly alive because we have not yet truly awakened. The throat chakra is about creative expression, and it's also associated with communication, writing, speaking, but really truth, speaking our truth and expressing that truth. In order to become truly alive here, which basically Jesus saying, in order to realize your spiritual nature, you have to know and speak your truth. That is the only way you will no longer be dead, quote unquote, even though you have a name.

So moving along, we reach the third Eye. In Revelation, this is the Church of Philadelphia, and the key message here is I have set before you an open door. So now in the Hindu tantric teachings, we know that when we come up to the third eye, it is to open it, right? So to open the third eye is to open the door, and Jesus here is speaking in the first person.

So basically saying, I am the reason. I the Christ am the reason the door will open that your third eye will open. And by opening the third eye, this is where we open our perception of the non-physical. This is where we start to connect to the etheric, the astral, the akasha, and we can start to work with guides, archetypes, deities, and so on and so forth.

And last but not least, in the Hindu tantric teachings, we reach the crown chakra. In Revelation, this is the Church of Laodiceia. And the key message here is lukewarm... poverty, nakedness and blindness, which means in order to come up to the crown chakra, we have to blaze, right? When he says, lukewarm doesn't mean it's hot enough and Jesus Christ here is referring to the holy fire, to himself, basically to the cosmic fire, the cosmic Christ that we need to raise the sexual fire up into the crown so that it can burn.

We need to realize our spirituality. We need to realize our spiritual nature through the burning, being baptized through the holy fire. So, we do know from the New Testament that literal baptism happens through water, but spiritual baptism happens through fire and the spiritual baptism through fire is represented by becoming one with the holy fire, becoming one with the Christ.

And that means no longer being blind, no longer being poor, no longer being naked. It's about realizing God consciousness. It is about realizing creation and our origin story and our spirituality, and all this starts with the inner fire, the inner sexual fire that is to be raised through the chakras or churches in esoteric Christian terms.

And once we raise the holy fire, right, we go through baptism, we go through the resurrection, we go through the spiritual baptism, and then we incarnate, the word is made flesh. The word that is the logos, which is the seed fire that gives life to everything, seed and womb, divine union between sacred masculine, and divine feminine.

We will never, ever, ever see these words anywhere in the Bible. Right. But they're there. They're there through symbolism, metaphors, and parables.

So another very important factor to note is that the New Testament contains the four canonical gospels. We also have the gnostic gospels that were discovered in Egypt in 1945, and pretty much the most famous ones are the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, and the Gospel of Mary Magdalene.

Mary Magdalene and Sacred Union

So there is also a lot of information pointing to that Mary Magdalene was the beloved of Jesus Christ, and she was not the whore that the church painted her out to be, but she was actually a priestess of the hieros gamos, or sacred sexual mystery rights.

I'm not here to prove if that's true or not because I was not there. I'm really going based on inner resonance and how I've understood the information and knowledge, as well as listening to my own intuition.

But it's very interesting because there are two prominent Marys in the life of Jesus Christ, which is Mother Mary and Mary Magdalene. So Mother Mary was the mother of Jesus Christ that gave birth to Jesus. And Mary Magdalene was she who first witnessed his resurrection. This, to me is incredibly symbolic because to me, mother Mary is she who physically birthed Jesus or the logos or the Christ consciousness.

So basically represents the current of manifestation because spirit became flesh. Spirit became matter through the mother birthing the son, and then Jesus Christ resurrected and first appeared to Mary Magdalene, the Apostle to the apostles so she can go and tell everybody that Jesus Christ returned, which symbolizes matter becoming spirit, otherwise known as the current of liberation. But If we take into account the symbolism of sacred masculinity and divine femininity, we can say that Jesus Christ is the sacred masculine, and Mary Magdalene is the divine feminine and their union, we don't know if it was physical. We don't know if it was erotic. We don't know. But symbolically, the union of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene coming together represents the ascension, represents the resurrection, represents matter becoming spirit, which is synonymous with the microcosmic orbit of the Taoist teachings and Kundalini raising Kundalini awakening of Shakti, the feminine meeting with Shiva, the sacred masculine.

So I wanted to bring this to the space today because it is information that is quote unquote, heretical. And when the churches were coming into power, all this information was very much available. It was very much a part of the human collective and how they used to perceive life and spirituality, especially as far the union of the sacred masculine and the divine feminine is concerned. As I said in previous episodes, the Hieros Gamos Mysteries, the Mysteries of sacred sexuality, which were a form of channeling, prayer, and really symbolizing the spiritual union of the masculine and feminine was the prominent religion throughout many ancient civilizations. It is more socially acceptable now in the east, even though there is organized institution there. But we do have the microcosmic orbit of the Taoist tradition. We do have kundalini yoga from Hindu Tantrism, right? So we have this information, we have this knowledge that is still available, and this knowledge very much existed in the West as well, but unfortunately the church suppressed all of this. But as we can see, the information is there. It's just encoded in a lot of symbolism and metaphor and parables and allegories. There's actually a lot more if we go through the Bible, especially, if we look at the citations regarding the holy fire, which is the Holy Spirit, and also citations around water. The grail, right? This is very much the symbol of the womb. And we have the literal womb that we can create physical life with. But then we have the spiritual or symbolic womb that we must return to. So we can also say that Jesus Christ was born through the literal womb, which was Mother Mary, and returned to the spiritual womb, which was Mary Magdalene. And this is why he appeared to her after his resurrection.

Conclusion and Final Thoughts

So I hope you enjoyed this episode. I've been waiting quite a while to talk about this. As I said, I've already talked a little bit about esoteric Christianity, especially like the comparison between the Kundalini Fire and the Holy Fire. So if you haven't touched base with those episodes, please do so.

It will give you a lot of context as far as what I was talking about today. I will leave it here. I think that's definitely enough food for thought. So, uh, thank you for being here with me. If you're on YouTube watching, please hit that like subscribe button. I so greatly appreciate it if you are on one of the podcast platforms.

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