Esoteric Art : Visions of Gnosis
Lite Daze
"They say that the soul is the food of the Rulers and powers without which they cannot live, because she is of the dew from above and gives them strength. When she has become imbued with knowledge… she ascends to heaven and gives a defence before each power and thus mounts beyond them to the upper Mother and Father of the All whence she came down into this world."
(St. Epiphanus, Against Heresies, Chapter 40, from Hans Jonas’ The Gnostic Religion, p.169, pub. A.D.1958)
An archetypal image that came to me in a dream: a young woman’s journey into the mysterious lands of fertility and adult sexuality. Dazed by toxic shock syndrome and lost in a hallucination, she rides a magic-carpet tampon off into an ethereal repesentation of Primal Woman while all-seeing eggs drift lazily by. According to gnostic mythology, the goddess Barbelo created the universe of time, space and matter through a similar act of primordial cosmic menstruation - such ideas are also reflected in language: mother=matter=matrix=meses, etc.
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