In the ancient world of the Middle East it was the Goddess who descended through the seven nether spheres to revive God. This was common to myths describing what is known as the mystical year or the death and rebirth of nature annually.

From earliest times, people have been fascinated by the moon. They realized the vital connection between a woman's monthly menstrual (from mensis, Latin for "moon") cycle, and the waxing and waning of the moon. They also recognized that the moon controls the tides, whose ebb and flow parallels the organic rhythms of female fluids. Because of these connections, the moon has been universally associated with femininity and women's procreative power. In popular ancient Israelite belief, too, the moon was thought to influence fertility; the women wore moon-shaped pendants, as discovered in archaeological finds and as mentioned by Isaiah in his admonition: "On that day, my Lord will strip off the finery of the anklets, the fillets, and the crescents."

Jewish woman have long celebrated the special female symbolism of the moon. From the talmudic period to our day, Rosh Hodesh, the minor festival of the New Moon, has been especially sacred to Jewish women. According to legend, the women in the wilderness refused to contribute their jewelry to make the Golden Calf, and were rewarded for their faithfulness by being granted the New Moon as a day off from work. For many centuries, Jewish women refrained from doing heavy work on this day.

Among the Kabbalists, the moon has traditionally represented the Shekhinah, God's feminine aspect, whose exile is symbolized by the moon's monthly waning. Thus, for them, the blessing of the new moon and the anticipation of Rosh Hodesh, marking the moon's return, came to symbolize the renewal of hope in the restoration of Divine Unity. In a contemporary reading of this midrash, Jewish women will acquire full equality within the tradition. "In this orientation," "Rosh Hodesh becomes a renewal both of God's presence in the world — the Shekhinah, a female aspect of God — and of the female side of the human race and the human soul."

The moon is exactly the same size as the sun in appearance in the heavens; It is 400 times smaller in its diameter and 400 times closer in proximity to the earth than the sun is. In an eclipse they are perfectly matched, there is no scientific explanation for this. It is the moon goddess that descends through the seven orbits in the heavens; the triple goddess of the ancients. It is the moon that weds the sun in the mythologies, nature and God! She is the Pearl! Jesus and Mary are this myth embodied and this dream come true!

Her very body commits her to the drama of existence and links her with the rhytm of the Cosmos. In relation to Mary's receptive aspect, the Church was viewed as the "bride of Christ," to be united in Sacred Marriage with Christ when humanity would receive the full divine influx at the end of the age.

Here is a mystery; an ancient Hebrew legend speaks of pearls as being the tears Eve wept upon being banished from the Garden; a Medieval Christian tradition saw the pearl as a sign of hidden wisdom; what color are the pearls the sea has given to princess Anima?" How is it that we seem to have forgotten these things only to replace them with the destructive dualism of Babylon.

And why is it that thousands of years later, Helen's story still has the power to haunt us? Is it not that we long to believe that beauty could really do that; That there really might be someone worth launching a thousand ships to regain and someone willing, out of passionate love, to launch those ships?

The reason we identify with fairy tales in some deep part of us is that they rest on the true that the hero or heroine really does have a heart of gold and the beloved really does possess hidden beauty.

Jesus' Feminine Complement As the first human to witness the resurrection of Christ, Mary Magdalene clearly occupies the pivotal position at the very origin of Christianity. Just as Jesus was the Bridegroom, Magdalene is the true bride of the Church - the feminine physical principle which complements the transcendental Christ. It is to her if anyone that the chruch should turn as a physical embodiment of the Shekina in history. Her time of penitence is ended.

The name Mary wether it is Mary the mother, or Mary the wife, or Mary Jerusalem; whensoever it is employed in the Bible is the name of those who bore the image of our (Female Holy Spirit) 'Goddess' expressing Herself through humanity.

She magnifieth Her nobility: yea, the Lord of all things himself loved Her. Wisdom of Solomon 8:3

 

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