AtD, p. 848 Ultraviolet Catatastrophe or When I Get Old, I Shall Wear Purple

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                MK:
                Great stuff........don't you think TRP thinks certain
                'radiant women' are ALL THIS POSITIVE PURPLE 
                ALLUSIVE STUFF, more or less?
 
                As if they are the original V. back?    Graves' White 
                Goddess draped in purple, so
                to allude loosely?

We are all bi-located when we read Against the Day.

We are in the present, knowing full well what sorts of folks are 
"Into" Tarot, Scrying, Channeling, Crystal Magic---not to 
mention the T.W.I.T.S/O.T.O.

But we are also in the near past, the first gleamings of Crowley's
"New Aeon"/"New Age". The two ages overlap, much like the 
Texcutioneer'spresence in Jeshimon, much like the catastrophic 
destruction of "The Great City" [or at least parts of it] from 
something that was supposed to stay buried in the abysm of time.

      From:
      Catherina Halkes: Feminism and Spirituality

          GODDESSES

          In the goddess movement two aspects of feminist 
          spirituality coincide: the connection with the old 
          pre-patriarchal religions and women's search for 
          their own strength and life style.

          Now-familiar objections have been raised from many 
          sides against the god-images in the dominant patriarchal 
          religions Jewish, Christian, and Islamic. Further, many 
          women have come to prefer the Goddess as the feminine 
          expression of the divine. In her they experience 
          recognition and identity. They experience their 
          being-as-woman affirmed rather than ignored or belittled.

          The Goddess symbol stands for the life force and the 
          processes of birth, death, and rebirth. That is how we 
          have known her for a long time from religious studies and 
          mythology - the Great Mother, the Goddess with the 
          many names.

          The movement places strong emphasis on immanence, 
          understood in the first place as "the Goddess within yourself," 
          through which you become strong, become creative, and 
          gather strength from your own resources. Purportedly, in 
          a matriarchal societies power was widely shared, life was 
          more peace-loving (


          Crete . . .

Crete was the centre of the Minoan civilization (ca. 2600–1400 BC), 
the oldest form of Greek and hence European civilization. (wiki entry)

Also. . . .

http://tinyurl.com/6yhjky


          . . . .is an obvious example), and 
          people had a sense of strong ties with nature and respected 
          it. It is also generally accepted that in a society in which the 
          Goddess was central, women played an important role in 
          religion as well as in public life. Even though none of this 
          can be proved, it is still of vital importance for this movement 
          to see in the Goddess and what she symbolizes a utopia from 
          which women can draw life.

Much more at:

http://www.spiritualitytoday.org/spir2day/884033halkes.html