We cannot know or even imagine the nature of the consciousness which is the universe. All we can do is formulate an image of what we conceive as divine in relation to the limitations of our own consciousness. We do not know how or when the goddess-or-god image first arose, whether from dreaming sleep or from waking vision. All that can be said is that the experience of divinity exists in the soul and that the soul insists on making an image of it because, through that image, it feels itself related to something greater than itself. The image is sacred, for it is this above all that binds that part of the psyche incarnated in time and space to the unseen dimension that enfolds it.
(Anne Baring and Jules Cashford, The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image, Arkana: London, 1991, p. 484)
another excellent quotation. i'm so happy that these books are becoming current again, at least in some circles.
ReplyDeleteI think perhaps that won't be the last quote I take from that particular book. :)
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