IV Black Madonna's birth

[Guest guest]

The second face of the Black Madonna is one that seems immediately

paradoxical, and this face is of the Queen of nature, and of all of

fecund and glowing and sensual and sexual processes of nature – the

face of the black soil that bears the richest and deepest golden

corn. And this face, the face of the Queen of nature is calling out

to us and saying " Awake to your connection with the corn, awake to

your connection with every single animal, feel the richness of the

Earth within you, feel the leap of the dolphin within you, rise up

and spout from the middle of your head the great cataracts of water

that the whale spouts in the middle of the seas of Hawaii – realize

that you are connected at the primordial sense with every part of my

creation that I am, and that you follow its rhythms, and that you

have its blood pulsing in your veins, and that you know it from

within it, because I live in it and in you on every level, and I am

the Queen of nature and nature is my manifestation. "

And this Queen of Nature is inviting all of us to give up our

anthropological and anthropermorphic, our self-obsession as human

beings and start realizing that we are in the best and highest and

most paganly, radiant sense animals which have an animal connection

to all that lives, that is supremely beautiful, supremely empowering

and supremely in danger of being destroyed by the completely

artificial situation that we have created which is killing us and

nature.

So, this face of the Queen of nature beckoning us to know her

rhythms, follow her logic, participate in her dance of death and re-

birth, open to her fecundity, trust our animal instincts, enter into

a radiant interconnection with everything that lives – this Queen of

nature is trying to wake us up to our part of divine nature before in

our dissociation, and in our coma we destroy this planet, ourselves

with it.

That is the second face of the divine, Dark One.

The third face is that she comes to us, this Dark One, with the face

of the tantra – the face of sublime, sexual ecstasy. The face of a

sexuality that is not derided, isn't stamped down, isn't indulged in

pornographic ways, but is a sexuality that is consecrated as her

sexuality is consecrated to the divine masculine, given up totally in

abandoned love. Beat/Beat said to me – the most beautiful teaching I

ever received on tantric sexuality, he said – the problem with the

West is that it can see sexuality only in terms of repression or

indulgence, and their two sides of Puritanism, but there is another

way – which is the way of the Black Madonna, which is a way that

gives access to tremendous healing, radiance and power and glory and

celebration and golden energy – and that is the way of tantric

sexuality, which is a way in which two beings, they can be gay or

straight – come together to honor, worship and celebrate each other

and to dedicate their lovemaking to the divine in each other so that

their lovemaking can flame out with God bliss.

And this flaming out of God bliss in the core of tantric ecstasy is

not simply an indulgence for the human race, it's actually one of the

holy energies that are going to re-build the human race cellularly –

because once that pagan energy is explosively let out, and once its

connected to all the other chakras, including the transcendent

chakra, then what you have in your body is a racing column of fire,

of flame, of energy that never runs out – because it is the love

energy of the universe – it's the pagan love energy – and that pagan

love energy is what will give all sacred activists their juice, their

wildness, their courage, their sass, their hutspa, their capacity to

go on as fully embodied, fully radiant beings radiating the joy of

being alive.

So when the Queen of Tantra turns up to humanity and says isn't it

time you give up your stupid repressions and your Puritanisms and

your idiotic games of control in the bedroom and give up too your

addictions to pornography and your addictions to domination and start

becoming radiant ones again, innocent ones again, people who make

love with the force of the whole of reality behind you, and the whole

adoration of the divine in you and come into the spaciousness and

grandeur of who I really am and what I will give, if you do – which

is nothing less than the divine energy in your own body – and in your

own life.

That is the third face of the great Dark Queen.

The fourth face is the face that the Hindus call Kali, and Kali is

always shown with a necklace of skulls around her head, her tongue

lolling out with blood dripping from it, and a sword, which she is

using with some kind of acrobatic lunacy. And what is symbolized by

that image is something that every woman knows very well, and every

woman knows very well is terrifying to almost every man, who hasn't

dealt with it – which is a feminine power to see through hypocrisy,

to see through games, to see through agendas, to see through

fantasies and an absolutely ruthless commitment to the truth that

lies on the other side of all those illusion and agendas and

fantasies.

In other words, when that Black Kali is let out, her creative

destruction of illusion, her creative destruction of agendas, her

creative annihilation in a kind of sacred fury of all those neurotic

absorbtions with the limitation that keep you and I trapped in our

limited identity – that is what that force lets out. That is what

that force does to you – it strips you, it burns you, it shakes your

life to your foundations, it makes your worst fears materialize in

front of you – not to terrorize you, but to finally take you into

that place where you are laughing with her as she chops you up into a

million pieces, because you know that the person who is laughing –

and the laugh and the goddess are one.

Right?

So, the Queen of the Destruction of Illusions, the liberator from

this realm of illusion.

Harvey November 2005 from a speech to an audience of Caroline

Myss's at CMED.

[Guest guest]

" So, the Queen of the Destruction of Illusions, the liberator from

this realm of illusion. "

This I like, one giant step toward Truth.

Thank you. I was sort of down on Harvey since he broke with

Mother Meera. Reading him he made me long to look into those eyes of

hers and I thought his present leanings were just a place where his

sexual preferences were justified. I have a renewed respect for him

from your posting.

Love,

Betty

>

> The second face of the Black Madonna is one that seems immediately

> paradoxical, and this face is of the Queen of nature, and of all of

> fecund and glowing and sensual and sexual processes of nature – the

> face of the black soil that bears the richest and deepest golden

> corn. And this face, the face of the Queen of nature is calling out

> to us and saying " Awake to your connection with the corn, awake to

> your connection with every single animal, feel the richness of the

> Earth within you, feel the leap of the dolphin within you, rise up

> and spout from the middle of your head the great cataracts of water

> that the whale spouts in the middle of the seas of Hawaii – realize

> that you are connected at the primordial sense with every part of

my

> creation that I am, and that you follow its rhythms, and that you

> have its blood pulsing in your veins, and that you know it from

> within it, because I live in it and in you on every level, and I am

> the Queen of nature and nature is my manifestation. "

>

> And this Queen of Nature is inviting all of us to give up our

> anthropological and anthropermorphic, our self-obsession as human

> beings and start realizing that we are in the best and highest and

> most paganly, radiant sense animals which have an animal connection

> to all that lives, that is supremely beautiful, supremely

empowering

> and supremely in danger of being destroyed by the completely

> artificial situation that we have created which is killing us and

> nature.

>

> So, this face of the Queen of nature beckoning us to know her

> rhythms, follow her logic, participate in her dance of death and re-

> birth, open to her fecundity, trust our animal instincts, enter

into

> a radiant interconnection with everything that lives – this Queen

of

> nature is trying to wake us up to our part of divine nature before

in

> our dissociation, and in our coma we destroy this planet, ourselves

> with it.

>

> That is the second face of the divine, Dark One.

>

> The third face is that she comes to us, this Dark One, with the

face

> of the tantra – the face of sublime, sexual ecstasy. The face of a

> sexuality that is not derided, isn't stamped down, isn't indulged

in

> pornographic ways, but is a sexuality that is consecrated as her

> sexuality is consecrated to the divine masculine, given up totally

in

> abandoned love. Beat/Beat said to me – the most beautiful teaching

I

> ever received on tantric sexuality, he said – the problem with the

> West is that it can see sexuality only in terms of repression or

> indulgence, and their two sides of Puritanism, but there is another

> way – which is the way of the Black Madonna, which is a way that

> gives access to tremendous healing, radiance and power and glory

and

> celebration and golden energy – and that is the way of tantric

> sexuality, which is a way in which two beings, they can be gay or

> straight – come together to honor, worship and celebrate each other

> and to dedicate their lovemaking to the divine in each other so

that

> their lovemaking can flame out with God bliss.

>

> And this flaming out of God bliss in the core of tantric ecstasy is

> not simply an indulgence for the human race, it's actually one of

the

> holy energies that are going to re-build the human race cellularly –

> because once that pagan energy is explosively let out, and once its

> connected to all the other chakras, including the transcendent

> chakra, then what you have in your body is a racing column of fire,

> of flame, of energy that never runs out – because it is the love

> energy of the universe – it's the pagan love energy – and that

pagan

> love energy is what will give all sacred activists their juice,

their

> wildness, their courage, their sass, their hutspa, their capacity

to

> go on as fully embodied, fully radiant beings radiating the joy of

> being alive.

>

> So when the Queen of Tantra turns up to humanity and says isn't it

> time you give up your stupid repressions and your Puritanisms and

> your idiotic games of control in the bedroom and give up too your

> addictions to pornography and your addictions to domination and

start

> becoming radiant ones again, innocent ones again, people who make

> love with the force of the whole of reality behind you, and the

whole

> adoration of the divine in you and come into the spaciousness and

> grandeur of who I really am and what I will give, if you do – which

> is nothing less than the divine energy in your own body – and in

your

> own life.

>

> That is the third face of the great Dark Queen.

>

> The fourth face is the face that the Hindus call Kali, and Kali is

> always shown with a necklace of skulls around her head, her tongue

> lolling out with blood dripping from it, and a sword, which she is

> using with some kind of acrobatic lunacy. And what is symbolized by

> that image is something that every woman knows very well, and every

> woman knows very well is terrifying to almost every man, who hasn't

> dealt with it – which is a feminine power to see through hypocrisy,

> to see through games, to see through agendas, to see through

> fantasies and an absolutely ruthless commitment to the truth that

> lies on the other side of all those illusion and agendas and

> fantasies.

>

> In other words, when that Black Kali is let out, her creative

> destruction of illusion, her creative destruction of agendas, her

> creative annihilation in a kind of sacred fury of all those

neurotic

> absorbtions with the limitation that keep you and I trapped in our

> limited identity – that is what that force lets out. That is what

> that force does to you – it strips you, it burns you, it shakes

your

> life to your foundations, it makes your worst fears materialize in

> front of you – not to terrorize you, but to finally take you into

> that place where you are laughing with her as she chops you up into

a

> million pieces, because you know that the person who is laughing –

> and the laugh and the goddess are one.

>

> Right?

>

> So, the Queen of the Destruction of Illusions, the liberator from

> this realm of illusion.

>

> Harvey November 2005 from a speech to an audience of

Caroline

> Myss's at CMED.

>