Bruce Michael
Well-Known Member
Dear Friends,
We can picture Jehovah as the Madonna cradling and protecting the Earth from the Moon sphere as it abuts our Earth. This is quite separate to Mary the Mother of Jesus of course.
I was pleased to see that Jehovah was indeed depicted as feminine by many authors, and in the Jewish tradition. Jehovah is shown in the Zohar as the third Sephiroth (moreover a feminine passive potency) Binah.
Last time I quoted from Edward R. Smith's monumental work:
"it was necessary for another ELOHA TO SACRIFICE ITS MALE ELEMENT, THUS BECOMING PREDOMINANTLY FEMALE. THAT ELOHA WAS YAHWEH, who then went to the Moon.
Yahweh by NOW BORE PRIMARILY A FEMALE CHARACTERISTIC, Moon-like. The female menstrual and human birth cycles take their characteristic from that aspect."
You can read some of Rudolf Steiner's account of Genesis here.
From W.W, Westcott:
Blavatsky:
Maybe we should take a look at the Black Madonnas with all this in mind. The Madonna is sometimes represented standing on the Moon. Could the Black Madonna be a Moon aspect?
Some interesting thoughts on the Celestial Madonna....
-Br.Buce
We can picture Jehovah as the Madonna cradling and protecting the Earth from the Moon sphere as it abuts our Earth. This is quite separate to Mary the Mother of Jesus of course.
I was pleased to see that Jehovah was indeed depicted as feminine by many authors, and in the Jewish tradition. Jehovah is shown in the Zohar as the third Sephiroth (moreover a feminine passive potency) Binah.
Last time I quoted from Edward R. Smith's monumental work:
"it was necessary for another ELOHA TO SACRIFICE ITS MALE ELEMENT, THUS BECOMING PREDOMINANTLY FEMALE. THAT ELOHA WAS YAHWEH, who then went to the Moon.
Yahweh by NOW BORE PRIMARILY A FEMALE CHARACTERISTIC, Moon-like. The female menstrual and human birth cycles take their characteristic from that aspect."
You can read some of Rudolf Steiner's account of Genesis here.
From W.W, Westcott:
The Kabalah, indeed, is full of Jehovah, IHVH, the Divine Four-Lettered Name, the Tetragrammaton, but it is as the Name of a group of Divine Conceptions, of Emanations from a central Spiritual Light whose presence alone is postulated; from Absolute God there is a series of Emanations extending downward to reach Jehovah, Who is the Divine One of Binah, the Supernal Mother;.....
Blavatsky:
HPBNow "Tetragrammaton" is Father-Mother and the "Son" in one. It is Jehovah, whose name is written IHVH, ...... It is composed of two masculine letters (IV) and two feminine characters (two H, he); or the "superior" and the "inferior" H. The first is the "supernal mother" or "the female Jehovah, as Binah"; the other is the inferior H," or the 10th Sephiroth, Malkuth, the foundation of matter."
"Jehovah," in its best aspect is Binah, "the Upper mediating Mother, the Great Sea or Holy Spirit;" therefore rather a synonym of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, than of his Father; that "Mother, being the Latin Mare" the Sea is here also, Venus, the Stella del Mare, or "Star of the Sea."
Maybe we should take a look at the Black Madonnas with all this in mind. The Madonna is sometimes represented standing on the Moon. Could the Black Madonna be a Moon aspect?
Some interesting thoughts on the Celestial Madonna....
-Br.Buce