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'''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",<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 62.</ref> [[chaos]], etc. | '''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",<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 62.</ref> [[chaos]], etc. | ||
== General description == | |||
<blockquote>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.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 460.</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>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.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 460.</ref></blockquote> | ||
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<blockquote>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.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge'' (Pasadena, CA: Theosophical University Press, [1946]), 4.</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>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.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge'' (Pasadena, CA: Theosophical University Press, [1946]), 4.</ref></blockquote> | ||
== Eternal mother == | |||
== Virgin mother == | == Virgin mother == | ||
Revision as of 19:46, 2 March 2016
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",[1] chaos, etc.
General description
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.[2]
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.[3]
Eternal mother
Virgin mother
When the Third or manifested Logos appears, the pre-Cosmic Substance becomes the Virgin-Mother.[4]
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.[5]
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.[6]
See also
Online resources
Articles
- God, the Mother by Mary K. Neff
Notes
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 62.
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 460.
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge (Pasadena, CA: Theosophical University Press, [1946]), 4.
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Collected Writings vol. IV (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1981), 359.
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Collected Writings vol. X (Adyar, Madras: Theosophical Publishing House, 1964), 397.
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 65.