At the left hand of God
I’ve been thinking lately (I know, I know, but can’t help myself) about that dream I had that my life’s purpose is to help support the feminine energy. What does that entail?
I think I need to help raise the Goddess back to her throne at the left hand of God. The zeitgeist of our time is leaning that direction, thank goodness, what with women’s liberation and all. Actually, come to think of it, the feminine and divine energies of the cosmos are not “the Goddess”, they are Goddess, the same way God is not “the God”.
So that puts me on the other side of the fence from masculinized religions, where God is always a boy. Just because girls can’t throw, I think.
So I’m here to say it doesn’t matter that girls can’t throw. They are still the living manifestation of Goddess, the Great Mother, She Who Rules Beloved at the Side of God.
Rock on, O Goddess,
LWIII
LWII,
Your Website is a blast! I’ve book-marked it to come back and explore some more.
I thought you might enjoy watching Leonard Nimoy talking about his work with the feminine energy of Shakti – the female principle or organ of generative power:
http://threestonefire.com/?p=145
Not sure I agree with the idea of the feminine principle being “at the Side of God” – kind of still a subservient notion. In other words, why isn’t it that the male “God” is not at the side of the Goddess? We are conditioned not to see it that way. Also the Left Hand connotation speaks volumes as to what that means in many cultures, archetypes=unclean. Something to ponder…
A fascinating topic, so glad you put it out there!
-Carla
Thanks so much Carla. That is so sweet to hear. I made the site for people like you. For a writer, especially young writers with spiritual yearnages, I would recommend the Extracto Literarium. Up over 6,000 quotes now, a liberal education in a page.
And you were right about me enjoying that link. When Spock talks I listen. Had to pause it to come back and talk to you, though. I am so happy to meet you, Carla, if you are a storehouse of such great wisdom, plus you like my work. Whew, the ol’ double whammy.
I want to address your points, which are so very well-taken, but I have to talk about Jung’s Red Book first. I was so fired up when I heard it was coming out I pre-ordered at Amazon. But then when I got it and was sitting in my recliner with its enormity open on my lap, I knew it was too much.
For one thing, it smelled so good. My apt is a haven for cigarette smoke, so opening that blessed volume was like planting lilacs in a pig-sty. The workmanship on that book is astonishing. The paper they used is the finest I have ever seen, felt, or smelt in any book. The only book I ever read by smell. Oops! I could tell right away it was over my head in my present spiritual condition.
And it’s so freakin giant. The tallest book I ever saw.
“So, you read the Red Book yet?”
“Well, I goggled at those amazing paintings for a bit, but it smelled too good and was too tall for me.”
It’s a reason. Someday if I have a library room with a reading stand that has enough acreage to hold it, I will leave it sitting open, wafting its sacred scent to the world. Until then it stays wrapped up under the bed, the only place in my writer’s hovel that’s big enough to hold it.
Anyway, with the Goddess being at the side of God thing, I was hoping to make it seem like they were co-equals, side by side in Divinity, not that Goddess was some kind of sidekick or something. Still, that would beat being shuffled off to the basement, where she has been biding her time in seclusion while the masculine energies ran amok for a few millenia. Whoa, Trigger.
And the left hand connotation was meant to be archetypal, not so much in the unclean sense but as “The Other” the outcast parts of ourselves that need to return to their rightful – or in this case leftful – places. Right is associated with linear logical thought and left with devious intuitive feeling. And I don’t mean devious in the bad sense, but in the sense that it is curling and deviating and swirling and swooping etc.
Thank you for helping me ponder. My favorite thing!
LWIII
(…not to be picky or anything, but my father was Lone Wolf the Second. I am the third of our gregarious brood.)
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