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The Divine Feminine: The Great Mother

 

IT IS THE MOTHER WHO CREATED THE UNIVERSE. THE FATHER WAS JUST A

WITNESS TO THE WHOLE SHOW. IT IS SHE THAT MAKES IT BEAUTIFUL SO

THAT HE SEES THE SHOW,THAT HE BECOMES THE SPECTATOR, BECAUSE SHE

LOVES HER CREATION. THE FATHER WANTS THAT IT SHOULD BE SUCH THAT HE

SHOULD BE ABLE TO LOVE IT. HE IS A PERFECTIONIST. HE WANTS

EVERYTHING TO BE PERFECT. BUT A MOTHER ACCEPTS AS THE CHILD IS,

BECAUSE THAT IS HER OWN CREATION. IF THERE IS A DEFECT IN THE CHILD

SHE ACCEPTS THAT DEFECT AS HER OWN AND SHE WORKS FOR IT. SHE WORKS

VERY HARD. SO YOU SACRIFICE BECAUSE YOU ENJOY IT, YOU ENJOY DOING

THAT. YOU ENJOY WORKING FOR YOUR CHILDREN AND IF IT WAS NOT SO, THIS

WORLD WOULD NEVER HAVE EXISTED.

 

(Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, The Mother, 1980.)

 

 

Today's modern era is undergoing a fundamental paradigm shift

insofar as archeological and religious history are concerned. Indeed

we are beginning to reclaim religious knowledge that is deeply

rooted in ancient indigenous traditions found not only in the

Americas, but also in Old Europe, Australia, Africa, and much of

the rest of the world.

 

As little as a generation ago Sumer was considered to be the cradle

of civilization. An archeological paradigm shift has occurred as it

has become more recently known that there were numerous cradles of

civilization thousands of years older than Sumer. It has also been

recently brought to our awareness that not only social organizations

but also belief systems encountered in these early cradles of

civilizations were remarkably different from what is our present

societal patriarchal belief system. [1]

 

" To begin with, these early cradles of civilization seem to have

been remarkably peaceful. There is in the archeological record a

general absence of fortifications and signs of destruction through

armed conquest. In contrast to the motifs we are all so familiar

with, there is also a general absence in the art of these societies

of images of men killing each other in battle or raping women.

 

" Second, these seem to have been remarkable equitable societies where women and

the feminine occupied important social positions. In fact, there is overwhelming

evidence that while both female and male

deities were worshiped in these societies, the highest power in the

universe was seen as the feminine power to give and sustain life,

the power incarnated in the body of woman.

 

" This new knowledge about a time before divine and temporal power

were associated with all-powerful fathers, kings, and lords clearly

has important implications for archeologists, students of myth and

religious scholars...It puts at issue the very foundations of a five-

thousand-year-old system in which the world was imaged as a pyramid

ruled from the top by a male god, with the creatures made in his

image(men), in turn divinely or naturally ordained to rule over

women, children, and the rest of nature...

 

" In the Judeo-Christian Bible, we learn of a male Father Creator,

the source of all life. But many of the earliest known creation

stories are of a Great Mother: a female giver and nurturer of life,

the Goddess of animals, plants, and humans, waters, earth, and sky.

Gaia is an ancient Greek name for the Mother Creatrix, one of many

names for the female deity worshiped for many thousands of years as

the giver and nurturer of life. In the Fertile Crescent she was Nammu, Mother of

the Universe; in Egypt she was Nut; in Africa she was called Nana Buluka; in the

Americas she was the Goddess of the Serpent Skirt. But while she was invoked by

different names in different places, she was everywhere the symbol of our

essential unity, of the oneness of all life on this Earth – the Mother from

whose womb all life ensues and to whom all life returns at death, like the

cycles of vegetation, to be again reborn. " [2]

 

" Almost all societies have legends about an earlier, more harmonious

age. For example, one of the most ancient Chinese legends come to us

from the Tao Te Ching, which tells of a time when the yin, or feminine

principle, was not yet subservient to the male principle

or yang, a time when the wisdom of the mother was still honored

above all. " [3]

 

Nature of the Tao

 

Origin of all things.

 

There is a thing, formless yet complete.

Before heaven and earth it existed.

Without sound, without substance,

it stands alone and unchanging.

It is all-pervading and unfailing.

One may think of it as the mother of all beneath Heaven.

We do not know its name, but we call it Tao.

25.[bodde].

 

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The origin of the world is its Mother;

recognize the Mother and you recognize the child,

embrace the child and you embrace the Mother.

— Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching 5

 

 

" Over the last hundred years or so, some one thousand engravings,

reliefs, and sculptures of female images from the Paleolithic period

have been found, dating from ca. 33,000 to ca. 9,000 B.C...Clay or

marble figurines abound in southeastern and east central Europe of

6000 – 35000 B.C., their number approaching thirty thousand... The

Mother Goddess takes many forms whether in her appearance as human

female or in such diverse forms as a water,bird, snake, owl, toad,

bear (and probably as she-bison in the Upper Paleolithic). " [White

Buffalo Calf Woman of the Lakota] [4]

 

" Female snake, bird, egg, [spider, corn, sun, sky] and fish played

part in the creation myths, and the female goddess was the creative

principle. The Snake Goddess and Bird Goddess create the world,

charge it with energy, and nourish the earth and its creatures with

the life-giving element conceived as water. The waters of heaven and

earth are under their control. The Great Goddess emerges

miraculously out of death, out of the sacrificial bull, and in her

body the new life begins. " [5]

 

" We find the female principle in all the Polynesian cultures as well

as the cultures of Africa, Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, and North

America. That pretty much covers the whole world. Sedna was the

female spirit of the Inuit people. She has been known as the goddess

of the sea and mother of the ocean, just like the Mother Earth, that

we hear and read about. [in the Native Traditions]

 

Even in the Aztec culture, where we hear a lot about Quetzalcoatl

(the male, green-feathered serpent, serpent creator God), they also

had Teleoinan, whom they called the Mother of the Gods and who

signified the heart of the world... Inti was the male god of the

Incas and was married to the female goddess Mama Quilla. They were

considered co-creators of the Incan people... Native Americans

worshiped many deities, but one of the most famous was Awonawilona,

the creator god of the Zuni. Awonawilona is both male and female;

you might even consider them twins. Two other Native American gods,

Father Sky and Mother Earth, arose from the streams and mists that

came from Awonawilona's body. Mother Earth had four wombs from

which the creatures of the world were thought to arise. " [6]

 

White Deer of Autumn states in `The Native American Book of

Life,' that Indian children were taught that Sky is Father and

Earth is Mother and that the Great Mystery is neither male nor

female, but aspects of both. Sky and Earth - one cannot flourish

without the other. Each has a separate role, but each is equal to

the other. [7]

 

I am the Father and the Mother of this Universe.

— Bhagavad Gita 9.17

 

The principle of the Divine Feminine, the Great Mother, has thus appeared

throughout the ages in numerous diverse cultures and religions, culminating in

this age with the Great Mother's Incarnation, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Who has

fulfilled the Native American Lakota White Buffalo Calf Woman's promise that She

would return again to purify the world.

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi has come " to deliver and explain in detail the

Primordial Being's Divine Message of the promised General Resurrection and

evolution into the eternal spirit " . In Her Incarnation as the Holy Ghost, Who is

the reflection of the Primordial Mother, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi is the

catalyst for Her children to achieve their Birth of the Spirit through Kundalini

awakening.

 

http://www.adishakti.org

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi speaks about the connection of Sahaja Yoga

[union with the divine] with Mother Earth, with Kundalini, Kumbha,

Aquarius, and the present movement of human consciousness - men and women -

" towards the feminine expression of Life " :

 

" To say something about the connection of Sahaja Yoga with this

Mother Earth, it is very important that we must understand the value

of the Mother Earth. She has been very kind to all of you, She has

been sucking your vibrations. She has been, otherwise also, She has

given you everything that you see around. So today, we have to

understand the connection, and the symbolic expression of the Mother

Earth within ourselves. I have told you before also that Kundalini,

which is in three and a half coils is placed within a triangular

bone. Now this abode of the Kundalini is called as Mooladhara, and

is represented in this Universe as Mother Earth. Or in the Puja it is

represented as the Kumbha...

 

And Aquarius is the same as the Kumbha, is the Mother Earth. So we

are at the level of the Mother Earth. You can also see in the

consciousness of human beings — I'm saying not only men, but women

also and men — the consciousness is moving more towards the feminine

expression of life. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Mother Earth, London, UK - August 21, 1983

 

And so it is that the Incarnation of the Divine Feminine, Shri Mataji Nirmala

Devi, the Holy Ghost, offers the precious gift of Second Birth to those whose

desire it is, to receive their Birth of the Spirit, their Salvation, in this

time of the Last Judgment.

 

Humanity's consciousness is indeed moving " towards the feminine expression of

life. "

 

 

 

 

References:

1.Eisler, Riane. " The Goddess of Nature and Spirituality: An

Ecomanifesto. " In All Her Names: Explorations of the Feminine in

Divinity /edited by Joseph Campbell and Charles Muses,

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3,4,5,11. ISBN 0-06-250629-3

 

2.Eisler, Riane. " The Goddess of Nature and Spirituality: An

Ecomanifesto. " In All Her Names: Explorations of the Feminine in

Divinity /edited by Joseph Campbell and Charles Muses,

HarperSanFrancisco, Division of HarperCollinsPublishers, 1991 pp.

3,4,5,11. ISBN 0-06-250629-3

 

3.Eisler, Riane. " The Goddess of Nature and Spirituality: An

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Divinity /edited by Joseph Campbell and Charles Muses,

HarperSanFrancisco, Division of HarperCollinsPublishers, 1991 pp.

3,4,5,11. ISBN 0-06-250629-3

 

4.Gimbuta, Marija. The " Monstrous Venus " of Prehistory ,

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5.Gimbuta, Marija. The " Monstrous Venus " of Prehistory,

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Divinity / edited by Joseph Campbell and Charles Muses,

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6.Sylvia Browne. Mother God: The Feminine Principle to our

Creator. Hay House, 2004. pp.6,7. ISBN 1-4019-0309-6

 

7.White Deer of Autumn. The Native American Book of Life. Beyond

Words Publishing, Inc. 1992. p.30. ISBN 0-941831-43-4 (v.2)