Return of the Mother

[Guest guest]

Beautiful. Thank you for sharing this.

 

, "Randy" <colli01@a...> wrote:

> Andrew Harvey, in his book "Return of the Mother," discusses the

> Divine Feminine as it exists in Ramakrishna, Aurobindo, Sufism

> (especially Rumi), Buddha, Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism, Mary, and

> Christ. At the end of the book he gives 10 Suggestions from the

> Mother(Goddess).

>

> 1. I am the Mother(Goddess). I am both transcendent and immanent,

> source of all that streams from it. I am one with all things in

> creation and one in boundless light within and beyond it. Adore

me.

>

> 2. Adore every being and thing, from the whale to the ladybird, as

> life of my life. I am appearing in everything as everything.

>

> 3. Honor yourself humbly as my divine child, and see, know, and

> celebrate all other beings as my divine children. Whatever you do

to

> or for anyone, you do to or for me.

>

> 4. See through constant practice of adoration that nature is the

> sacred body of my sacred light, and do everything at all times to

> horror its laws that are my laws and to protect it from

destruction.

> I and you and nature are one love, one glory; protecting nature is

> protecting yourselves.

>

> 5. Dissolve forever all schisms and separations between sects and

> religions. Whatever you adore is a face of me, and everyone is on

> his or her own unique path. Know that there are as many paths as

> there are people.

>

> 6. Dissolve forever through repeated holy inner experience of my

> unity all barriers between what has been called "sacred" and what

has

> been called "profane". Know the whole of life as my feast.

Realize

> ordinary life as unbroken flow of normal miracle.

>

> 7. End all hatred of the body, all guilt and sexual shame, and

> discover and celebrate my sacred Eros in all its ecstatic

connections

> and revelations. Preserve its purity and power, in my name, with

> truth and fidelity and mutual honor.

>

> 8. Unlearn all the "religious" propaganda that rises to tell you

that

> you need intermediaries in your relationship with me. I can be

> contacted by anyone, anywhere, at any time and in any

circumstance,

> simply by saying my name, however you can imagine it. No

> intermediaries - no gurus, priests, "experts" - are every needed.

> You and I are always, already, one.

>

> 9. Do not make of my worship another dogma, another mind-prison.

> Remember always there is no "Mother" without the "Father",

> no "Goddess" without "God". I do not want a new religion in my

name;

> I want the whole experience on the earth to become holy and

> integrated in love. I want the return of harmony and sacred peace

> and balance, the union of the sacred marriage at the greatest

depth,

> and in everyone, of "masculine" and "feminine", "earth"

and "heaven",

> body and soul, heart and intellect, prayer and action. Men are as

> much my children as women; the wound of the loss of the Mother

> (Goddess) is felt by women as well as men. Any separatist or

> prejudiced or one-sided attempt to worship me worships only a

> distorted image of me. Dare to know me in my full majesty and all-

> encompassing humility, and know that there is never any end to the

> journey into me and that the conditions for that journey are ever

> deepening faith, radical trust, and radical humility.

>

> 10. If you trust and love me, put your trust and love into action

in

> every aspect of your life - emotional, sexual, spiritual, social,

> political - with my passion, my clarity, my unsentimental

> practicality. Know that my revelation is a revolution, a

revolution

> that demands calmly a transformation of all the terms and

conditions

> of life on earth. Establish justice for all in my world, in my

name,

> and in my spirit of all-embracing inexhaustible compassion. Let no

> one be poor, or discriminated against; may all sentient beings

> everywhere be cherished and safe and protected from harm by law

and

> by love. Turn to me now and I will fill you with all the grace,

> strength, courage, and passion you need to transform the world at

> every level into a living mirror of my truth, my love, and my

> justice. If you truly love me, change everything for me.

>

> Randy

[Guest guest]

Whoa, Randy...

 

What a wonderful list of suggestions!

Thank you so much for sharing that. I will print them

and take them to heart. Beautiful, well put,

empowering and challenging.

 

Warmly,

 

Janel

 

--- Randy <colli01 wrote:

> Andrew Harvey, in his book "Return of the Mother,"

> discusses the

> Divine Feminine ... he gives 10

> Suggestions from the

> Mother(Goddess).

 

 

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