Mother, Great

He is hidden in the heart of the flower. If, through the breath, awareness can be turned upon itself, Nandi (Siva) is seen. One then finds the center of all phenomena. Then the flow and expansion of consciousness can be directed by one s own will, irrevocably united to the will of the Great Mother... "You ll make them [the eight shaktis] obey the Mother s commands."... 

The great mother Vallabai Shakti gives birth to the shakti in us all, and in turn, Bhogar advises us to redirect that force of life in us back to its source the Great Mother. 

Neumann, E. The Great Mother, trans. R.Manheim. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1955/1963. 

The prophets of Jehovah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, had pro claimed that He had doomed Judah to destruction. What then of the Great Mother. Perhaps she at least would hear them But in this hour of extremity no paltry substitutes would suffice. We may well believe that the frenzied worshippers of Astarte cried, It is meet that one man should die for the whole people. And who but the High Priest of Tammuz could prove an acceptable sacrifice ... 

Now all these features were, as we have seen, characteristic of the Rites of the Great Mother and her lover Son all over the world, and most... 

The celibacy adopted by the majority of the Essenes was almost certainly a mild substitute for the emasculation at one time demanded by the Great Mother, which still at this date (A. D. 71) was exacted from the Priests of the more primitive forms of the cult at Heirapolis and elsewhere. 

I removed alms-gathering except for that peculiar to the Great Mother during a few days. It fills minds with superstition, and it drains... 

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