Preparing for the Miraculous

164 eleven talksThe Great Mother is known in all great spiritual andoccult traditions, even though variously named and described.We find her in Isis, Cybele, Sophia, and the VirginMary. She is the One who became Two – the active Brahmanfrom eternity divided into Ishwara and Shakti, Purushaand Prakriti. On the Origin of the World, a gnostic textfrom around 200 CE, defines her in terms which, if properlyunderstood, agree with those of the Vedantic scriptures:It is I who am the offspring of what gave birth to me[what gave birth to her being the One];And it is I who am the Mother[the Great Mother, the one original transcendent Shakti];It is I who am the wife[Shakti to Ishwara, in human metaphorical language];It is I who am the virgin[for ever the untouchable Origin of all];It is I who am pregnant[with all the power and manifestations of the universe];It is I who am the midwife[the middle term chit-tapas in the Vedantic sat-chit/tapasananda];It is I who am the one that comforts pains of travail[who justifies the pains of the evolutionary manifestation];It is my husband who bore me[Ishwara is also the Brahman];And it is I who am his mother[who gives shape to him in his manifestation – Isis, Mary];And it is he who is my father and my lord.It is he who is my force[because I am his force, Shakti];I am in the process of becoming[the complete Divine is growing up in the Manifestation],Yet I have borne a Man as lord[the cosmic Purusha, the archetype of what humanity is tobecome].