there's a lady i know ...

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

 "all the gods are one god, and all the godesses are one goddess, and there is  
  one initiator.
  she is called by many names by many men; but to all she is the great goddess, 
  space and earth and water. as space she is called rhea, mother of the gods 
  that made the gods; she is more old than time: she is the matrix of matter; 
  the root-substance of all existence, undifferentiated, pure. she is also 
  binah, the supernal mother, that receiveth chokmah, the supernal father. she 
  is the giver of form to the formless force whereby it can build. she is also 
  the bringer-in of death, for that which has form must die, outworn, in order 
  that it may be born again to fuller life. all that is born must die; but that 
  which dies shall be reborn. therefore she is called marah, bitter, our lady of 
  sorrows, for she is the bringer-in of death. likewise she is called ge, for 
  she is the most ancient earth, the first formed from the formless. all these 
  is she, and they are seen in her, and whatsoever is of their nature answers 
  unto her, and she has dominion over it. her tides are its tides; her ways are 
  its ways; and whoso knoweth the one, knoweth the other.
  whatsoever ariseth out of nothingness, she giveth it. she is the great sea, 
  whence life arose, to which all shall return at the end of an aeon."

                      (dion fortune: the worship of isis)   
 

  "... but now, it seemed, the subconscious and unconscious depths of my mind 
  were showing off their residual contents, the mechanical leftovers not yet 
  purified of the past. the divine shakti was active in me, and i was taking on 
  the form of my inherited, western religious mind.
  my own mind, infused with the divine shakti, had projected itself outwardly, 
  and become a living, visionary apparation. the 'virgin mary' was not 
  believable, but she was there! and i found that, after the first few moments 
  of surprise and irony, i began to relate to her quite easily, with profound 
  feeeling, and in a very 'christian' manner. the divine shakti had itself, 
  through a visionary appearance, taken on, for my sake, a human female 
  likeness, even a form that, perhaps better than any other in the 'great 
  tradition' of mankind, symbolized and represented the archetype of the 
  'mother'. therefore, her very 'motherly' presence evoked a 'son'-like response 
  in me. and, spontaneously, i found myself growing in profound devotion and 
  love. she was, to all appearances, the 'virgin mary', but, nonetheless, i knew 
  her to be the divine shakti itself, alive in front of me.
  just as the presence (and the entire apparation) of the virgin was not 
  physical, but subtle, her communication to me was internal, as i had earlier 
  known it with baba. in this manner, as we stood together in baba's ashram 
  garden, she taught me a form of the catholic chistian prayer 'hail mary'. then 
  she told me to buy a rosary for devotions. it was difficult to satisfy this 
  demand. i had to find some excuse to get permission to go to bombay. but i 
  managed it, and she was satisfied. thereafter, i found myself reciting the 
  prayer constantly, as a mantra, while i worked and lived in the ashram.
  after several days of this devotion, the virgin showed me an image of the face 
  of jesus. it appeared visibly in my heart, and she seemed only to uncover it. 
  that image, and the feelings it immediately awakened in me, had been hidden 
  and surpressed there since my childhood. therefore, instantly, spontaneously, 
  i was in love with jesus!"

                              (adi da: the knee of listening, pp. 302f.)



  gepriesen seiest du maria! 
  
                              
                                 gesegnet seiest du unter allen frauen!

  
      gesegnet sei auch die frucht deines leibes: jesus!





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