The Goddess Speaks
Mother Eve
Anima Mundi/World Soul
It
is time, and past time, don’t you think? Many men have worked to
create an amazing world, but they did it without women’s guiding
hand. And in the end, they've created death rather than Life. Now the
Earth is dying: her waters polluted, her air poisoned, her fires
fierce and destructive, her body ripped opened and abused, her people
afraid and unsure.
It
is time, and past time, for women of spirit to step forward
and reclaim our ancient powers: to help the old die and to guide us
into a new birth.
Therefore,
I ask you to join me in calling on the Divine Feminine Spirit of
Life, who holds the feminine powers that we’ll need to
re-create our society.
Each
and every goddess and heroine of legend
has
had her story stolen by patriarchy. So now it is time for us to hear
their true stories, for these stories will give us courage to face
the future, compassion to help the world and power to accomplish it.
Let
us begin at the beginning. The First One, Mother Eve
wants
to set her story straight.
Eve,
the Mother of Us All
Eve ~ Susan Seddon Boulet
I look at my world and weep.
I
weep that my human children have chosen to be so cruel and
unconscious that they are killing my beautiful creation. I weep for
my healing waters and fresh air; I weep for the web of life broken; I
weep for all my children, dying so that a few might live.
For
those children who can hear me, I will tell my true story so you may
know what I created for you.
Eve
Speaks:
Don’t
believe all the stories you’ve heard about Eve, Adam, the
Serpent and the Garden. They are twisted out of shape, just as part
of Adam is twisted and broken. What happened to Adam changed him on a
cellular level. Do you know that all my human children start life
with 2 X chromosomes? And that it is only after a few months
of gestating that one of the X chromosomes mutates into a Y
chromosome?
When
the Father of Lies mutated Adam’s second X chromosome into a Y,
Adam lost his innate ability to go within to connect with Spirit. He
lost his connection to the Source and cursed his sons to live in
servitude to an outer god, rather than to their own inner Spirit. And so my sons have their Quest -- to reclaim their lost feminine soul.
Through
the millennia, my sons have struggled to find that Source within, but
most have seen it as sacrifice and struggle rather than as acceptance
and joy. And they have grown jealous of and fear my daughters, who
have retained their connection, for they are the Life-Givers. And so
they hid the Truth behind their lies, and now they believe those
lies.
It’s
time to set the story straight. Adam’s sons have tried to stop my
daughters from living by their natural connection to Source. Eve’s
daughters are still vilified, ignored, enslaved and abused around the
world. But now many of my daughters are strong, and they stand up for
themselves. They are acknowledging their connection to each other and
to Mother Earth, and they are again living from their Source. They
will do wonders.
Blessed
Be!
That
is why we need to tell these stories – the stories of our feminine
powers, so that women and men will know their true nature. And what
is our true nature? Adam’s sons would have it be War. But our
true nature is Love!
So
Yes. It happened in the Garden. Adam banished himself from our
blissful existence. That part’s true. But that old story you grew
up with gives you a bit of the truth, but it points you in the wrong
direction.
Fake
News indeed!
In
the Beginning...
I
am Eve, an avatar of the life-force of this glorious cosmos. I have
danced with galaxies, made love with gods and given birth to worlds,
and so I was sent to nurture a jewel amongst planets. I was sent here
to this planet
to
bring it LIFE.
Specifically, I was sent to Earth to create a GARDEN,
a
place of beauty and grace and peace. It’s what I do best.
I
danced
the
cosmic rhythms of life upon this planet, seeing
its
potentials, singing
LIFE into
the dirt, the waters, the fires and the air. I woke the planet’s
energy body and watched it coalesce.
When
my Earth was born, She lit up the heavens with her energy.
Then
I began to channel Her energies into more life.
I
enticed plants to grow and thrive on sunlight, just as I did. I gave
them colors to play with and shapes to best suit them. And then asked
the trees to grow tall to shade us from the fierce heat of my young
sun. And it was good.
I
leapt and let the air currents sweep me where they would, dispersing
seeds, spreading abundant life. Churning the oceans. Refreshing my
Earth. I birthed my winged children to help. I gathered moisture and
wove clouds and danced on them. And
it rained.
I
swam in the deep waters of Earth and gave birth to magnificent
children who knew how to go with the flow and when to stay rooted. I
blessed the springs that quenched my thirst with healing and delight.
And it was good.
I
traveled the lava roads, midwifing new lands from fire and earth.
Each land had a voice I listened to. I discovered what it wanted to
bear—forests and meadows, blossoms and fruits, deserts and plains.
And so it did.
Then
I blessed the holy ground I walked on, called on the rains, drew in
the fires of creation and asked the World Tree to gather us in Her
arms. To hold and sustain us, as She does with all the worlds. And
She did.
As
my Beloved Earth took hold of herself, I shaped my Garden around the
Tree, with sights and sounds and tastes and smells to delight and
refresh the senses. For the blessings of life are joy and beauty.
Thus,
I called forth the foundation of this Earth of ours – Nature, which
is a single entity, a unified whole. A living presence. And Earth
herself awoke.
Then
Earth gave birth to more children, for now she was a co-creator with
me. And it was good.
For
an eternity, I walked in my Garden with Strength and Pride, Subtlety
and Loyalty. You know their forms as lioness, horse, snake and wolf.
Innocence came to me as a unicorn and power flew over me in the shape
of a mighty dragon. Each being in my Garden was a source of
living light and knowledge, part of Earth’s dance of life. And
it was glorious.
Susan Seddon Boulet
So
abundant is my Beloved Earth’s imagination that soon my Garden was
home to every variety of Life that we could imagine and shape. Our
children came and went, learned to hunt, to couple and to die. And
it was all good.
Everywhere
I walked, I walked in beauty. All my children lived in beauty and
harmony, life and death flowing in cycles as we orbited our sun in an
eternity of bliss. But even bliss can deepen.
One
day as I walked alone, a sudden wish of my heart grew strong in me.
It soon overflowed my heart and filled me with such delight that I
shaped it into a song. As I gave it my voice, the song rang out into
my Garden, a star burst of energy, like the birth of a sun. And
it was very good.
As
my song filled the Garden, my Beloved Earth rose up and gathered the
song to Herself, shaping a form of clay and dirt, green leaves and
warm sunshine, clear water and soft breezes. Shaping her response to
my longing. Offering her gift to me.
The
Adam. My mate. My Green Man. He who would share this paradise with
me.
And
so we did, for many eternities. Surrounded by our living Garden, we
knew each other and all our relations who lived within
Mother
Earth’s sheltering arms. We shared our blessings and
it was very good.
Your
Genesis book turns the truth around. Their story says that Adam named
the animals and plants, and was to have dominion over them, but that
is not true. My beautiful Earth is alive and each of her aspects has
its own name. We are part of one being. Together Adam and I communed
in our Garden with the spirits of the trees and plants; of the shape
shifting waters, the rain, the snow; of the 8-fold winds, the divine
fragrances; the wild flames, the secret fires. The magic and mystery
of this Earth was your blessing.
In
the Garden, we shared our essence and we knew our grace and
blessings.
Later,
I watched in sorrow as Adam put a name to their essence, locking them
into a singular form by the power of his newly acquired Word. Naming
was only the beginning. I watched Adam learn to dominate instead of
cultivate. My heart cried to see him so.
And
where did he learn that? From the Father of Lies. Oh yes, there was a
serpent in my Garden, but it wasn’t mine. He
came down from the heavens in his chariot of fire. When he stepped
onto my Earth, she cried out in pain. For she felt his great fear and
will to dominate the creative
chaos
of life. Her life.
And
so it was that Adam came to be tested. And
he chose power over Love.
This
cosmic being
came
to test, to dominate, to destroy. If he could. You know him by the
name of
Yahweh,
the demi-god who calls
himself
– I AM
THAT I AM.
He came and seduced Adam, with his tricks and illusions, his ideas
and delusions.
When
he first appeared, Adam was wary of him. He didn’t trust his smell.
And I told him truthfully what I knew from other worlds. That Yahweh
is
a demi-god,
a cosmic principle, shaped
on
a
desert planet, harsh in judgment, jealous of his power, eloquent in
his use of words. He is one
who
travels the galaxies looking for followers. He lives off their energy
and they keep him alive. Your Christian Gnostics knew him as such.
Yahweh
bewitches
with
Words – in
the beginning was the Word and the Word was God-- spoken
with power. He told Adam he would teach him to create in a new way –
with words of Power, and by the power of Naming. He
promised him a new
magic, one that would give him
power over life instead of just creating life.
He
seduced Adam and
captured
his
heart with the desire to Name,
which Adam
was already
beginning
to discover on his own. But instead of growing into his new
consciousness naturally, he allowed Yahweh to
force
his
growth.
Yahweh
did it by stealing one of my apples and offering it to Adam. He told
him I was keeping a great secret from Adam, a power I refused to
share. He created a division in Adam’s heart, and whispered lies.
And finally, Adam believed him. And asked for Yahweh’s blessing.
Yahweh mutated Adam as he ate the apple until all that he heard within was
– I am that I am,
I am that I am, I
am that I am. The
Father of Lies
enticed
Adam to go against his own nature – he commanded Adam to
stop
listening within to the voice of Source. And to only
listen
to Yahweh’s voice. And to Yahweh's rules. I
am that I am. I am that I am. I am that I am.
Adam
listened and obeyed.
He
destroyed the Balance.
Truthfully,
this is the original sin.
So stop blaming it on me and my snakes.
This
wound
has been passed down to Adam’s sons. This is the Fisher King’s
wound and only the Grail – Love – will redeem them. It is my hope
that my daughters will help them heal this mutation, this wound. So
they can reclaim their inheritance, so we can all heal this wondrous
Garden.
