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What is the Goddess?
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declaration by the Egyptian Goddess Isis could be considered the
quintessential definition. If the Goddess is everything, then
all matter and consciousness are part of Her, and She must then
also be the Prime Cause, the Creatrix, the womb from which the
universe sprang, the source of all potential and manifestation.
Whether there is one Goddess of Whom all Goddesses are aspects,
or children, She can be seen as the energy of life, of
evolution, of death and new life, the way and the experiences on
the way.
Why the Triple Goddess?
Maiden, Mother, Crone
The Trinity or
multiplicity of the Goddess can be traced quite a long time
before christianity, and it wouldn't be too bold to risk the
idea that one was the origin of the other. But, not as in
christianity, in Wicca the Trinity refers to three different
states or aspects of the same entity. Entity which is, in turn,
the feminin aspect we can discern from the Divine.
Each of this
aspects has it's characteristics, making it quite distinct from
the others, each of them possible to be related to inner aspects
of our psyche. These images of the Maiden, Mother and Crone have
appeared and been revered by humanity for millenia, sometimes
appeared in myths that were obviously obscured by the conquests
matriarchal societies suffered.
An example that
can get us closer into understanding this about the three
aspects is to imagine each of them as a facet in a precious
stone. We can view each facet on it's own, and wonder at the way
it refracts the light, but if we really want to comprehend it
all, we need to step a little aside and see it as a whole. And
even then, there is always an aspect that remains hidden.
Observation and meditation on each of these facets is a door
that can open ourselves to the echoes and resonances of each
reflection on our inner self.
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