10/25/2024
*As long as Mind and Soul, Masculine and Feminine are locked in an endless embrace, the whole exists, but it is static. She speaks first of her timelessness: - “I am the first and the last.”
In this way she declares her coexistence with the Highest God who has neither beginning nor end. She was with him always and will be with him forever. Yet because she has separated herself from the Father in whom she was enclosed, she can now assume a duality of her own. Her qualities express the most profound paradox of her existence:
Being one with the Father yet being one in herself. She differs from the Father in that he is spoken of only in terms that glorify and exalt him, while she declares herself in terms of polar opposites: “I am the honored one and the scorned one.”
Being the consort of the Father, she is honored, but having dared to think for herself without his consent, she brings scorn upon herself. When she is at rest in the heaven beyond the planets and the fixed stars, she is the holy one; when she descends to the lower realms out of love for those below, her all-embracing love earns her the epithet of “whore.”
She fulfills the abundant roles of the Feminine: mother of the daughter, the one and single, and the mother of many children. She is subservient to the All, yet she rules over him, or overrules him, when she uses the power that comes from him to follow resolutely her own path of mercy and compassion.
Paradoxical as is her nature, the eternal Feminine knows who she is and demands that we pay attention to her. Doing so, we recognize in her the reflection of our own soul, which is feminine in nature whether we are physically male or female. While our minds remain aloof and impartial as they observe what is before us and judge it accordingly, our souls rejoice with those who rejoice and suffer with those who suffer. The soul's feeling for all creation draws us into the midst of relationships, and she cannot rest until we have set them aright. If our intellects insist on our being in the right, our souls can see the validity of both sides of any question.
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