THE DIVINE FEMININE AND THE LAW OF MANIFESTATION

by Aeptha

Excerpt from Sunday Service

October 4, 2009

We have been called today to work with the power and potency of the Goddess, the underlying foundation from which manifestation and creation have always flowed.

We should remember that manifestation is not only the seeding and the sending forth of new growth, but that at the right time -- as reflected around us in the falling leaves -- there is also the shedding of that which has served so that new life can come forward.  And in some cases that shedding actually appears to us as death and destruction. 

There are times that we must have the courage to cut away that which no longer serves, to let the old fall away so that there can be new growth and new beginnings.   And this takes love because the ultimate call of the Goddess concerns the Law of Sacrifice.

The sacrifice that I am speaking of – and I will use a caveat here -- to the best of the understanding that I can grasp at this point, being that I am ever open to growth and to change and a multiplicity of possibility of expressions – but the sacrifice that I am speaking of is what the personality experiences as we allow Spirit to fully express through all aspects of our beingness. At the level of the personality that is an experience of sacrifice. The more that we surrender to our Higher Self, to our Solar Angel, to our Soul, and allow ourselves to be Soul-infused, the more the personality experiences the death, destruction, limitation and the disciplining of all the things that it wants. And it experiences this as sacrifice. But it is through this experience of having no-thing that you then grasp all things because the nature of our personality is the experience of its own individuality; the releasing, the sacrifice of that individuality is the embracing of the whole.  And it is through the embracing of the whole that the doorway of manifestation opens and the law of love and life follows.

This moon is a harvest moon.  It is the gathering of community and the kingdoms that have offered us food have sacrificed themselves so that we have life.

In the stories of creation there is an omnipotent, omnipresent consciousness that narrows itself down so that it can move further and further out until it expresses as a single point – I always see it as a funnel coming in -- so that it holds that space of expanded consciousness but brings itself down to a point so that manifestation can occur.  This is the sacrifice of itself in order that life can come forward and then through that life it knows Itself.  And then that life comes to know itself as divine – again sacrifice.

Many esotericists see the Great Mother, the World Mother, as being an office, a title, not unlike the way that The Christ is a title.  And through the ages, through the eons, there have been certain Beings that have come into form, just as Jesus came into form and embodied the authority and the title of the Christ, so there have been those who have come into form and embodied and taken on the title of the World Mother.  And it is said that in general in this particular age the one who is the focal point of that energy is Mary, the mother of Yeshua and Mary Magdalene.  And there are others in different traditions that carry that title. But of course what has happened is that in our human way we have taken that interpretation of who Mary is, or who Mary Magdalene is, or who Our Lady of Guadalupe is, and then we have limited that.

It is said that the World Mother is beginning to unveil Herself.  We all know that there is an awareness that the worship of the Great Mother, of the Divine Feminine, has always been there, but as we know it became more and more subjugated.  It is also said that in the Atlantean period there was a much more interactive relationship with the Divine Feminine principle, with the vehicles of manifestation of law and of life, but there was also abuse and this abuse led to the destruction of Atlantis with only a few surviving to carry those seeds forward.  It was at that time that, so to speak, Isis became veiled, that the World Mother veiled herself until we had garnered more wisdom to be able to utilize Her laws, Her powers and Her potencies more effectively.

What is interesting is that at about the end of the nineteenth century there was an upsurge of teachers that came forward and started new movements of thought, like Blavatsky, Alice Bailey, Dion Fortune and Mary Baker Eddy.  These women came forward and introduced new thoughts and new traditions and it was around that period of time that Mary Baker Eddy introduced the invocation of Father-Mother-God.  This is something that we take for granted now; even in more traditional venues you will now hear references to Father God and Mother God but that was unheard of for an extremely long period of time.  But it has taken root, so to speak, and grown quickly into manifestation.

When I was doing the research on this I came across something that I was unaware of.  I knew that in the Gnostic tradition and in the Gnostic gospels you would see many references to the Divine Feminine and that the Divine Feminine was there prior to the introduction of God, the Divine Masculine, into the equation.  What I did not realize was that up until the fifteenth century there was a huge movement where they actually had statuary of the Divine Feminine form -- Maria or sometimes Sophia – which would open and out of the statue would come God the Father, Christ the Son and the Holy Ghost. Out of Her body, literally, would emerge the manifestation of the Trinity.  This was a widely popular concept that from the Divine Feminine these other manifestations came forward.

Many of us look at the Islamic tradition and may not realize that this too has recognized the Divine Feminine. In fact in the seeding from which Islam came there were three primary Goddesses that were worshipped.   But there are actually some roots in the Islamic tradition that feel like the Divine Feminine.  In the Ka’aba, the Islamic shrine, there is a black stone that is honored, and it is said that this stone is in recognition of the Goddess.  In Hinduism and Buddhism the Great Mother precedes all things.  So once again there is a deep-seated seed of truth in these traditions.

The World Mother, the Great Mother, aligns Herself with the devic evolution.  The devic evolution is of the feminine polarity.  Humanity in general is of the masculine polarity.  If you want to manifest successfully then you need both polarities. So if we are holding the masculine polarity and we are trying to manifest without aligning with the feminine polarity, then nothing will happen.  We must align ourselves with the Divine Feminine, and that is more than calling Her name.  Invocation is a powerful thing but if you are not connecting to what you invoke then nothing will happen.  There must be the establishing of that relationship on a primal level where there is no fear of going into the darkness, into the womb, into the cave, of moving into the chalice.  It is to trust, to know that it is out of that darkness that light springs forth.  It is to embrace the unknown, including all the polarities of the feelings, the thoughts, the experiences and the complexities of whatever it is that you desire to manifest. It is embracing it all and yet not trying to encapsulate it and it is taking all of that and going into that fertile womb. It is bringing yourself as a source of light because that creates the polarity. You are the fertilizer. You are the sperm.

What I am hearing is that the reason that the Goddess veiled Herself after Atlantis is that we had become proficient at accessing the tools for manifestation, but we did not have wisdom.  We all understood the laws of manifestation but we were misusing the sacrificial energy.  Instead of sacrificing the personality to Spirit, we were sacrificing Spirit, which is why we misused the laws and we disconnected more and more and yet we were proficient at manifesting and it was because of this that Atlantis fell and it was because of this that She was veiled.

Do you know that between 1925 and 1999 there were 378 reported apparitions of the Mother?  Prior to 1925 there were only 14. What has been happening is that there is an outpouring in the human consciousness across the globe, including in countries that are not particularly oriented toward the Madonna energy, because we are being called to a different level of conscious manifestation, which is the manifestation and expression of the Divine on earth.  

So the kinesthetic experience of the Law of Sacrifice starts with an alignment with our Higher Self.   I am going to repeat to you what I am hearing from Those who are standing with us, which is that before we move into our rituals, our meditations, our contemplations, where we are holding the space of the womb, where we are entering into the initiatory cave, we must first and foremost consciously choose to align with and to call to the power of our Soul, our Higher Self, our Solar Angel – She is not as hung up on the words as we are.  She will then unveil Herself to us to allow us to truly enter into the halls of Her Mysteries. Many of us will step through the doorway of the cave and when we are in the foyer we think that we have arrived but we have not because we are only in the hall of mirrors.  But She will open for us beyond the foyer; She will take us into the Sanctum of the Sanctums, into Her womb -- and by the way in early Judaism the name for the House of God was the womb - the word House and womb are synonymous.  She is saying is that there must be intent and our intent must include not going in with the personality in charge.  The intent is to have an understanding of the personality as the wonderful servant that it is, but to place Krishna -- our Higher Self -- in the seat of the chariot.

So that is the formula: we must align with the Soul and do the clearing, the purification and we must do the forgiveness.  I would like to tell you what forgiveness is because that is another word that we have a lot of confusion around.  Forgiveness is a level of alignment because the forgiveness is for the parts of ourselves that don’t want to align.  We have to go into compassion for those parts of ourselves that are not aligned and are in fear, that are holding onto negativity, anger and resentments.  We call in a down-pouring of light and of love and we let that light move even to those places that we want to keep separate from Spirit.  And we work with this until we feel a sense of unification with all of our humanness.  And then we take that sense of oneness with all of our parts and we move into Her womb.

We call to the great void, to the beauty, the power and the potency of the sacred darkness from which light emerged, for light is, has been and ever will be, for darkness and light, in the truest and deepest sense, are one and the same, for the Goddess is One.  And then we take this fragmented consciousness that is reflecting its multiplicity of light and we take it into the inner sanctum and there with our desire, with our yearning, with our love, with that which is the essence of our being, we connect with the Great Mother and we lie in the womb of Her being and we pour out our heart to Her and we hold the seeds of that which we seek to manifest and we plant them deep in the womb.

I am being shown an interesting image: some of us want to float on the surface but what   I am being shown is that we must submerge ourselves into Her being, into the embryonic fluid and then as lovers we join and we allow ourselves to climax in that union and then we move out of the womb and into our day-to-day life and we take the experience of that union with us, just as when you have a lover you carry that lover in your heart.

We desire union with the Goddess for She is All.  And so let us open ourselves above and below and let us take those parts of our lives, those feelings, those thoughts that we experience as hell, as painful, those people, those things, be they in the past, the present or even the anticipation of the future and let us take all those things and gather them in compassion but we also gather them with the force of the light as we call to our Solar Angels.  And so we call to our Higher Power for the down-pouring of the light as we offer all that we are physically, mentally and emotionally to the Divine.  We willingly and consciously, to the degree that we are capable, participate in the law of sacrifice which is in truth the law of manifestation, the law of Love and of Light.  Let there be light!  Let us be the light and let that light now go into all the places of our being as we prepare to enter into the womb of She who has no name, She who has ten thousand names, She who is both known and unknown, knowable and unknowable, She who was here before, who is here now and who will be, She who breathes the throat, She who is breathing you, She who is in your cells, in your blood, your skin, your thoughts, She within and without.

Find the yearning, the longing and the desire, for it is within you.  Reach out to Her in the silence, in the darkness of the unknown and unknowable and tell Her what it is that you need or want, what you desire, and be open to Her response.  She offers healing, strength and guidance.  Listen to Her.  Listen deeply with your heart. Let Her echo through your heart, through your body and through your consciousness.