The divine feminine cover art
I put a strong emphasis on the word “awaken” because we are all deep asleep… being born, going to school, going to work, going on vacation, family, kids, old age, death… is that ALL there IS?! is there a meaning to all of this? What are we doing to our God(dess) -given right, to come to this world to be happy and co-create with him/her? What about the desires of our unique souls? What about the realizations of our talents? I think for the last 2000 years most of the humanity in the Western civilization was in a nightmarish slumber… Otherwise I have no explanation for all the mad things that had happened, all the wars, and crimes against each other. My message is to men and women alike who wish to awaken to a new type of consciousness. If I antagonize “male” and “female”, what I will accomplish is only more opposition. This is my attempt to unite the opposites, not to oppose them.
THE DIVINE FEMININE COVER ART SERIES
I would like to begin with the series of my works dedicated to the Divine Feminine, the current that is so much missing in the psyche of today’s civilization. Woman is the magician born of Nature by reason of her great natural sensibility, and of her instructive sympathy with such subtle energies as these intelligent inhabitants of the air, the earth, the fire and water.” Have you ever realised that there does not exist a single flame without a special intelligence which animates it, or a single grain of sand to which an idea is not attached, the idea that formed it? It is these intelligent ideas which are the elementals, or spirits of Nature. And what is Nature if it is not an assemblage of thoughts clothed with matter and ideas which seek to materialise themselves? What is this eternal attraction between ideas and matter? It is the secret of life. She finds her force in her alliance with the sympathetic energies of Nature. What do we find in the modern development of religion to replace the feminine idea, and consequently the Priestess? When a religion symbolises the universe by a Divine Being, is it not illogical to omit woman, who is the principal half of it, since she is the principal creator of the other half – that is, man? How can we hope that the world will become purer and less material when one excludes from the Divine, which is the highest ideal, that part of its nature which represents at one and the same time the faculty of receiving and that of giving – that is to say, love itself in its highest form – love the symbol of universal sympathy? That is where the magical power of woman is found. Even in the Old Testament we find the Priestess Deborah, and the New Testament tells us of the Prophetess Anne.
“Only in our ephemeral time has it been neglected. “The idea of the Priestess is at the root of all ancient beliefs”, she said, on one occasion. I could not express it more beautifully, than it was already done by Moina McGregor-Mathers, already 109 years ago in an article called “Isis Worship in Paris” by Frederic Lees, in the magazine The Humanitarian. The modern woman has to claim her right as a Priestess, and not necessarily in outwardly form,but mostly by understanding the Divine Feminine, intrinsic to her very nature.
The Priestess is also an archetype, laying dormant and undisturbed in the depth of our unconscious. My point is that to find our way back to the Divine Feminine, we need to awaken the Priestess in our psyche.
Surely, there were priestesses in matriarchal times, there were underground priestesses in Middle Ages and in the hardest times of the Witchhunt. We were divorced from the worship of the Divine Feminine, and as I have stated in my previous post, we should find our way back to Her, otherwise we are doomed. Having said that, I want to stay faithful to the motto of this blog, “To unite the opposites” and invoke the Divine Feminine in the psyche, through the use of imagery. Their very foundation simply is not built for that. There are some changes taking place in certain protestant churches to allow female priests as well but the patriarchal institutions, such as Roman Catholic Church, or Orthodox Church, not to mention Islam, by their own essence and structure would not have women. No, there are no females among the clergy. Saying that women are all but missing from the most of ecclesiastical positions, would be stating the obvious.