Like an electric circuit with a fuse that isn’t able to carry the charge, if the power is too great for the individual’s capacity, he blows. So before approaching a goddess or god, there are manners of preparing oneself, of insulating oneself, as it were, to meet, receive, and subdue the power of the deity.

Those who seek their worship out there do not understand at all. Turn inward, and there you will find the footprints of the mystery of being.

Now this is the masculine emphasis against the Goddess emphasis; when this occurs in individual psychology you’re overemphasizing the father role: you repudiate nature, you repudiate women. This is what Nietzsche calls the Hamlet experience, bowing to the father and saying, “Ophelia, you can go drown yourself.” “Oh, that this too sullied flesh woul

The whole history of the Old Testament is Yahweh against the nature cults. The Goddess is called the Abomination, and she and her divinities are called demons and they are not given the credit of being divine. And along with that comes the feeling that the divine life is not within us; divinity is out there. The attitude of prayer now is outward, w

“God is an intelligible sphere known to the mind whose center is everywhere and circumference

Serpent, bull, moon: the sun pounces on the moon and the moon dies into the sun; the lion pounces on the bull; the eagle, the sun bird, pounces on the serpent—this is a basic triad of paired symbols. What the moon, the bull, and the serpent represent is the power to throw off death and be born again.

The serpent is a tremendously important figure in all the planting cultures of the world. It is associated with the power of life to throw off death because the serpent can shed its skin and be born again; it sloughs its skin, just as the moon sloughs its shadow.

Cézanne had a saying, “Art is a harmony parallel to nature,”

People often think of the Goddess as a fertility deity only. Not at all—she’s the muse. She’s the inspirer of poetry. She’s the inspirer of the spirit. So, she has three functions: one, to give us life; two, to be the one who receives us in death; and three, to inspire our spiritual, poetic realization.