Mother (symbol)

Mother is a symbolic way of referring to the principle of matter in its different stages of differentiation. Some of the phrases that are associated to the mother are "Waters of Space," "Universal Matrix", chaos, etc.

The “Waters” is another name of the “Great Deep,” the primordial Waters of space or Chaos, and also means “Mother,” Amba, meaning Aditi and Akâsa, the Celestial Virgin-Mother of the visible universe.

According to H. P. Blavatsky the first something that can be conceived has to be treated as a feminine principle:

It is the goddess and goddesses who come first. The first emanation becomes the immaculate Mother from whom proceeds all the gods, or the anthropomorphized creative forces. We have to adopt the masculine or the feminine gender, for we cannot use the neuter it. From IT, strictly speaking, nothing can proceed, neither a radiation nor an emanation.

Virgin mother

When the Third or manifested Logos appears, the pre-Cosmic Substance becomes the Virgin-Mother.

Mother becomes the immaculate mother only when the differentiation of spirit and matter is complete. Otherwise there would exist no such qualification. No one would speak of pure spirit as immaculate, for it cannot be otherwise. The mother is, therefore, the immaculate matter before it is differentiated under the breath of the pre-cosmic Fohat, when it becomes the “immaculate mother” of the “ Son” or the manifested Universe, in form.

The virgin egg corresponds to the Virgin Mother:

The “Virgin Egg” is the microcosmic symbol of the macrocosmic prototype—the “Virgin Mother”—Chaos or the Primeval Deep.

See also

• Female Logos
• World-Mother
• Motherhood

Online resources

Articles

• God, the Mother by Mary K. Neff