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Subject: Re: [K-list] Priestessssss!! Was: seeing our own faults in others then criticizing
From: Mystress Angelique Serpent
On 2001/07/20 12:18, Mystress Angelique Serpent posted thus to the K-list:
At 05:23 AM 7/19/01, SerenasblissATnospamaol.com wrote:
>". . . the anima is bipolar and can therefore appear positive one
> moment and negative the next; now young, now old; now mother,
> now maiden; now a good fairy, now a witch; now a saint, now a
> whore." (_CW_ 9i: 356) Jung
Bipolar.. or nondual? For all of his insights, I think Jung did not
really understand nonduality. Goddess is All that Is. She is all of that,
and judgments of polarity and good or bad are human. Integrating the
Priestess is encompassing nonduality, and part of that is transcending your
fear of death.
Recently I wrote to one of my Priestesses:
> ... now you are moving into the deeper physical world of the lower
> chakras.
>
> The insatiable sex intensity of the second chakra, and now the heavy
> dark death/life rebirth Goddesses of the root.. The tip of your tailbone.
> That energy scares a lot of people.
> The ..... ritual starts a process that usually takes a year or more to
> complete itself. The ritual defines the path, and walks it on a mental
> and spiritual level, but it takes time for the integration, and for the
> body to catch up. The path to the center of the Earth is a walk between
> sex and death, where we come from and where we go to, on the physical
> level. Going into the Earth is going into the underworld, the realm of
> Hades, God of death and Persephone, Goddess of spring and rebirth. Hades
> is brother to Zues, the Sky God of lightning. Persephone is daughter of
> Demeter= Gaia, the planet Mother. Before Persephone marries Hades, she is
> called the Kore.. the maiden. The marriage of Persephone is the marriage
> of ...... Male and fem unifying, yes.. Most Kundalites do not experience
> this so fully.. it is the path of the Shaman.
>
> Your dissatisfaction is part of the process of surrendering all
> attachments.. as you surrendered your life itself, in the ritual.
>
> You used to take comfort in moving up out of your body.. now you are
> pushed to go deeper into it, down into your body and into the Earth and
> into the mysteries of nature, life eats life, life and death and rebirth,
> the wheel.
> Seeing perfection in the fox that hunts the rabbit, and the Divine
> Gift of mercy that is a rabbits heart so weak that it stops from fear
> before it feels the teeth.
>
> When you truly integrate the center, there is a gateway.. the vertical
> imagery of the grounding is actually a circle, joined by the Void at
> either end.
> Oroborus, the serpents head meets and eats its tail in the wheel of
> life that is the symbol of unity, non duality. Above and below are One.
> Life and death are one. Light and dark are one.
>
> I suspect that completion will come in the fall.. the more you get
> into your body the more you are linked to the cycles of nature.. The
> wheel of life and the wheel of the year. The pagan harvest festivals are
> about how the stag king dies with the fading sun and the cutting of the
> grain, so we may eat. We eat death, to live. >>>>>>>
>Mystress' comment was, to paraphrase, that images
>of crafty powerful women abound in our culture, but that
>these women always come to a bad end,
>because they don't need
>men and they aren't rescued by princes on white horses.
Well, that is an inaccurate paraphrase, but I did not explain myself
well. Take the "because" out of it and it becomes accurate again.
The "be-cause" is a whole other story. I did not want to get into it
because it is a long story, and one I have told many times before. Once I
get started I can go on and on, because there are layers and layers of
history, symbolism and meaning.. check the archives for "Matriarchal" and
"Patriarchy".. words like that, you will find more of the same. Matrifocal,
Patriarchal, Priestess, ...
It is no accident that my Tantra course is oriented around the Goddess.
Spirit is truly genderless, but focusing on the feminine aspect of the
Divine gives balance to a male dominated culture.
It was not until women became respected Archaeologists that the truth
of prehistory began to be known. Where a male Patriarchal eye saw abstract
geometric symbols and fanciful images of birds and snakes, a female eye saw
the icons of Goddess worship. The spiral, the pubic triangle, the serpent
and the wings.
Maria Gimbutas was the first of the brilliant feminist archaeologists,
and a web search will reveal some of her vast life's work on this subject.
Other female scholars followed, and the result was an accepted view that
prior to the old testament, the Greek Patriarchy and the Vedas, the world
was a Goddess worshipping, Matriarchal society. Patriarchy is approximately
5000 years old, much less in some places. The Sphinx is estimated to be
30,000 years old.. just to give you perspective. Patriarchal ideals are the
new boy on the block, they are weak.. only your fear gives them power. Fear
is the only power they have ever held, and it has been wielded for millennia..
Once, the world worshipped the Goddess. Acts of pleasure were her
rituals, and tombs were shaped like wombs to give the dead rebirth through
Her infinite fertility. Womens' ability to bleed without being harmed was
the mystery, and war is poor male imitation of the women's rituals of
giving blood to the Earth to increase its fertility. The Priestess/whore
was sacred, and any male could come into the Temple and feel her embrace.
It served an important social function: the release of pleasure provided an
alternative outlet for testosterone driven male violence... which today
erupts in gang wars and homicide. A man who is fed with Goddess-fired
female sexual energy of a fully awakened woman is a happy content man who
serves society.
Women have ten times the spiritual energy and power that men
do, because it is women who carry the power of life, the womb of birth
where we all come from. We have the feminine intuition, the instinct, the
unified brain and the power of sexuality. We are in tune with the phases of
the moon and the seasons, our bodies compel it. Male religion seeks
dominion of nature; women ARE nature!
The only way to disempower a woman is to persuade the women herself,
that these are inferior powers.. sinful, unclean, evil.. so she builds the
walls to hold back the power, in her own mind. So it was done.. first by
the sword, and then by generations of women teaching their daughters to
hide their sexuality, feel ashamed of their moon blood and embarrassed at
their pregnant fertility.
The quickest routes to awakening, the body-first pleasure methods were
suppressed, the Serpent was made the icon of evil, and all the
negative judgments of a dualistic perspective were laid at the feet of the
Priestess, who encompassed non duality with a fluid empowering grace that
Patriarchal spirituality has never managed.
So it still is... Patriarchal religions, Judaeism, Muslim, Christianity
teaches that women are inferior, sinful, unclean... that womens power is
unworthy power. Women buy into it, and by inherited fear of death and
cultural programming are terrified to reach out to that inner wild woman
Priestess who is their birthright.
Wake up, Serena! They burned the Witches because they were scared of
them! Scared of the wild uncontrollable power of fully awakened women
manifesting the Goddess! Scared of the female sexuality that makes a man's
blood run to the little head so he cannot control his raging desire.
If a woman gives a priest a hard-on when he looks at her, she must be a
witch, right? LOL!! Casting her spell on the vulnerable male who feels
helpless because he cannot control how his body responds and so projects it
outwards by judging the woman. Seeing the fault in another indeed... but
the criticism came with fire and torture and painful death, not just to the
woman but often to her children and husband as well. These are the
emotional memories carried in your DNA, in the collective consciousness of
all women who have not yet walked the road of sex and death to reclaim the
Goddess within.
Yet, the times are turning.. Patriarchy served the Goddess in the
technological advances that allow me to send this post to you.. Creating a
unified world consciousness through communications technology.. through
that lovely first photo of Earth from space.
Patriarchy has become overbalanced, with the male toys of war and
arrogant attitudes of "Dominions of nature" threatening the wellbeing of
the planet itself! So, now the pendulum swings the other way.. women like
yourself are feeling the call of the Goddess, and you need not fear because
that power will protect you through your journey to reclaiming that which
you truly are.
http://www.fire-serpent.com/14matgod.html
Blessings!
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