Beauty is Eternity gazing at Itself in the mirror.
You are Eternity & You are the mirror.
As the language of the Divine — beauty is a key ingredient in the process of awakening; for it is from beauty and wonder that we find the substance of life. Her enchanting nature is the active and penetrating force of Great Mother — that is, Love turned outward.
This dancing force produces clear seeing, formidable knowing, primal wisdom, spiritual power. Witnessing the swirl of Her joyous exuberance is awe inspiring, fascinating us into obliteration. Extravagance is the point, coaxing the grip of the mind and weaving it into the body, so as to learn from and actualize Her intensity.
Grace personified, Beauty is any experience or action that exalts the spirit.
a flower that gives way to fruit
a healthy mind that is interested in life
a finding of one’s way after rejection and exile
Beauty is a symptom of Life.
In archetypal form, She reveals Herself as the Muse. As such, she drives awareness through the formation of an intuitive, visceral, complex relationship with Her.
INSPIRATION MYSTERIES
“Inspiration is a divine action which qualifies the individual to receive and communicate sacred revelation.“ — Neville Goddard
To indulge in the mystery of the Muse is to frolic with the phenomenon that is ecstasy. Ek-stasis [Greek] meaning “standing outside one’s Self" is the dance of the individual with the All.1 When one yields to Her, it is impossible to stay the same. That is the service of mystery to the psyche. It pulls, evokes. Much like the chariot card of the tarot deck, the Muse drives forward — Her wild, bawdy essence tempts one to awaken, ascend, and merge with the Sacred. She is the trance of the whirling cosmos.
Her enigmatic qualities are not understandable, yet they are apprehendable — our experiences of Her can be held and embodied, even if we are unable to explain them coherently. And a rich bounty such as Hers should not be reduced to mere language. Beauty serves the transcendence of the soul because it cannot be diminished to logic. If it could, it would not hold meaning. That is the sanctity of mystery. To scientize everything is to cheapen existence.
Just as the seeker intuits clues to reveal truth, Muse is the psychopomp that helps us recognize the real meaning of life, of ourselves. Her presence is portal to forgotten knowledge and sacred medicine. The Muse is the one who removes the veil over the eyes and unlocks the soul voice. Our experience of ecstasy and inspiration is a flowing toward, a bodily reciprocity between Self and the Sacred Essence.
Trust that mystery is a much greater guide than certainty.
This is what it means to come to peace with the Infinite.
To commune with Her is to complete You.
BEAUTY = APOTHEOSIS
The word ‘muse’ is derived from Old French ‘muser’, meaning 'meditate’. In Her active state, Muse is the soul’s impetus. To contemplate Her is to deify one’s own psyche.
According to Carl Jung, the Muse is an archetype that reveals an aspect of the soul that is related to the deepest levels of the unconscious. As the radiant, guiding messenger between two worlds, engaging with Her is to shed the divisions and boundaries of the conditioned self and to recognize the innate Divine. Alluring and seductive, awakening what’s dormant — to shatter these limits is to reach Nirvana.
Far from a faraway Being that demands worship in a building, She draws close and makes Herself known in the mundane. She beckons for conversation with us in every moment — from the quiet observance of glittering rivers, to the gratitude available in a sink full of dishes, to the subtle discomfort of painful memories. It is through these rapturous seizures that She leads us to look closer at how we live our lives — and what is more godly than that?
The task is to allow the numinous substance that is Her to wash over us, amazes, shock and even spook us —
and to stay with it.
Incognitive and evocative, She is the medicine of enchantment — taking you to your deepest inner corners, the place that is the holiest of heavens. Oracle fully received, Her Wild Grace provides supraconscious power.
It is in these experiences that we meet our own divinity.
You are Her, She is You.
RECOGNIZING THE BOUNTY
"Everyone will be called to account for all the legitimate pleasures which he or she has failed to enjoy.” — the Quran
It is easy to mistake Beauty as a mere pleasurable distraction, a relief to be turned to when the “real world” becomes too much. No, Beauty is a medium for interacting with the truth of existence — if you have the eyes to see, the ears to hear, and the heart to listen.
Let Her poeticize your presence, blushing you pink with blissful ecstasy.
Following in Her footsteps, may the way you live your life be muse, the art you leave behind, the wealth offered to the spiritual ecosystem —
this is the holy aspiration of the soul.
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Source: The Great Cosmic Mother by Monica Sjöö and Barbara Mor
Outstanding!
Related so deeply with this Vashti. My journey is with HER! Loved this..."The task is to allow the numinous substance that is Her to wash over us, amazes, shock and even spook us —
and to stay with it." And to stay with it, because it is feral, wild and untamed, at times even chaotic. Yet it is full of eros, passion, creativity and fire! A unending chasm of HER grace!