She Who is Everything

The Goddess in all her forms exists at the centre of all life. She draws the earth upward, that Her blood might flow down to nourish the four corners of the world. She is the earth, mother and womb of all that lives, that which has received the God’s life giving forces, and brought forth all creatures. She is the Matter, Mater of the whole universe, the stuff the worlds are born or made of. The seeds of the earth are born upon Her breath, that they might find a home in the desert, and thereby bring the fiery spark of new life to those once desolate places. The oasis in the desert, like life in the cosmos, is a miraculous jewel, improbable almost to the point of impossible. Only the fourfold energies of the Goddess that penetrate space and time to intersect at this place bring forth Life. She is the soul of all mankind, our fairy Godmother, who is our inner mother, lying behind and beyond our physical mother.

She is the Mistress of the Four Elements (terrestrial earth and water, and celestial wind and fire - symbols of both the divided functions of body and spirit and the rational and creative aspects of the mind). As the embodiment of all the forces of nature, She is Mother of all life. It is Her Elemental Will that forges the transcendent, static and ethereal (the sky) with the immanent, dynamic, material, (the earth) into the unitary miracle of living things.

She is personified by her names as the world-protecting, feminine, maternal side of Ultimate Being, and as such, stands for spontaneous, loving acceptance of life's tangible reality. She affirms, she is, and she represents and enjoys the delirium of the manifested forms. She is Eve, "the Eternal Feminine," she embodies all three aspects of the maternal trinity. Her colours were white, red, and black, the colours of the Virgin-Mother-Crone. Like every other form of Kali, she was Creator, Preserver, and Destroyer.

As Isis she holds next to Her breast the Egyptian symbol known as ankh. It literally translates as life or vitality, but it is also a pictograph of man (head, arms and body). This is the image of mother and child. Like all mothers, she struggles to protect her children - and cannot. As children grow and wander far from their mother's gentle protection, they must eventually suffer. Like all mothers, she suffers the pain of her children, and suffers in her helplessness to prevent it.

As the physical feminine brings forth physical life, so, too, does the spiritual feminine bring forth spiritual life. It is through this aspect of the Goddess we hold in our hearts that we are reborn: not merely physical, but spiritual beings.

We must learn to resonate with and unify those divine elemental vibrations of earth and sky (that is, unify the two halves of consciousness) the terrestrially informed rational and celestially informed creative, the masculine and feminine, and the conscious and the unconscious. To be sensitive to the energies of nature is to be attuned to the Goddess and Her transcendent nourishment that informs the needs of both body and spirit. Between the passive and active extremes of the living experience, is the centre wherein one makes contact with the Goddess, and is replenished and sustained by Her life-giving benevolence.

It is a central role of the feminine archetype - the Great Mother Goddess - to bring one into this centre, where the transformation occurs. Our stories about the Goddess are stories about ourselves. And our desire for the miracle benediction of the Goddess is pervasive.