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GODDESS, LADY, OR WOMAN (CELESTIAL)

A symbol of the buddhic principle, or of the matter aspect of manifestation, in its highest condition.

"I have remembered in Her (Lady) what I had forgotten; and I, even I, live and am not hurt to my destruction. Therefore give unto me, give Thou unto me bliss and Thy peace: that the grasping of the four winds may knit together my parts." - Book of the Dead, Ch. CX.

In the buddhic (Lady) nature of the soul is seen to be all that is contained and evolved in and by the lower vehicles through the building of which the recovery of the true inner Self-knowledge has alone been rendered possible. And the true Self lives and alone survives the temporary associations in the lower life, which have led to the Higher Self's apprehension of Itself. For this reason bliss shall be committed to the soul, inasmuch as bliss is of the true nature of the Self which in essence is pure bliss. The full control of the lower nature in the quaternary, as the means of evolution, serves to knit together the nature which is to be expressed under manifold aspects on higher planes.

"Varro derives the male divinities from heaven or Jupiter as the active principle, and the female divinites from the earth or Juno as the passive principle, while Minerva denotes the ideas as proto-types." - ZELLER, Hist. of Eclecticism, p. 177.

"Heaven” and “earth” are symbols of Spirit and Matter.

"Minerva " signifies the buddhic plane, which contains the prototypes of the manifest.

 

See Also

ALTER (fire)
ATHENA
BUDDHI
COME
ESTHER
FEMININE
HERA
ISIS
ISTAR
LADY
MÂYÂ (Higher) PROTOTYPES
RETURN
WINDS (four)
WISDOM
ZEUS, SON OF CRONUS