THE ETERNAL FEMININE

This is part of the inauguration speech of the Gnostic Women Congress, a celebrated movement during the course of the first Gnostic Anthropology Congress, in the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, in October of 1976. (Lecture completely revised from the original recording) Samael Aun Weor The concept that says that only men can reach the Christification, is false, because God is also woman. In the name of truth I have to say, in an emphatic way, that if God shines through the Cleopatras of the Elephantine Isle, that if God shines through the Vestals of Egypt and of Persia and of Greece and of Rome and of Syracuse, he also shines gloriously through the women of each time and of each epoch, and through the mother who lulls her child in her armsSo, in the name of truth I have to say, that the women have the same rights as the men. The man is never more than the woman, although he wishes to be. The Universal Feminine Principle shines in each stone, in the rising-and-falling bed of each creek, in the delicious mountain covered with trees, in the whole of NatureThe feminine principle shines in every work: in the bird that flies taciturnly, that returns to its nest to lull its chicks; in the fish that glides between the depths of the stormy point; amongst the most terrible beasts of Nature. The Universal Feminine Principle, the Eternal Feminine, glitters amongst the furthest bright stars that dwell in the heart of all women who have shone with the dissolution of the Ego and the Christification. Therefore, in the name of truth, we cannot but feel admiration with regard to the Eternal FeminineOsiris, unfolded, converted into woman, nests with his love in the heart of the solar system. The Eternal Feminine is the basis wherefrom all life sprouts in the dawn of the Mahamvantaras Aurora. The Logos makes chaotic matter fertile, makes the womb shine of the Virgin-Mother, of the Eternal Feminine, so that the universe rises from amidst the chaos, glittering Therefore, there are no reasons why the women in the Gnostic Movement should feel sad or depressed, supposing that they only serve as a vehicle for the men who want to christify themselves. In fact, they have the same right and attain the same heights. If the woman is the vehicle for the man, through which the latter can christify himself, I also have to tell you, Gnostic sisters, that the man is the instrument, the mediating vehicle, through which every one of you can attain the Christification. The J and B columns of every temple, are present in the heart temple. The masculine and feminine columns are not excessively close, nor excessively far apart; there is a space between both so that the light can penetrate between them.

The Eternal Feminine shines not only in that which has no name, not only in the Universal Spirit of Life, not only in the stars (which attract and repel in accordance with the Laws of Polarities), the Eternal Feminine also shines within the atom, within the ions, within the electrons, within the protons, within the most infinitesimal particles of everything which vibrates and pulsates in creation. The Eternal Feminine makes a wonderful beat with the Eternal Masculine to create and to return again to create. The Eternal Feminine, God himself converted into Mother, works intensively in this creation. The Eternal Feminine is the ray that awakens the dormant consciousness of men. The moment has arrived in which each woman raises the torch of the verb with her right hand in order to illuminate the path for the males. With deep pain I have to say: men of this time march along the line of entropy, in other words, walk in a downward, involutive way. The moment has arrived in which the women will extend their right hand to the males in order to lift them up, to regenerate them, to make something distinct out of them, something different. The instant has arrived when the women will comprehend that the masculine element is in involution in these times; the moment has arrived in which the woman fights intensively to regenerate the man. So, in this Age of Aquarius a great role belongs to the women, which is to regenerate the decadent masculine element. In the name of truth I have to say, that love is the foundation for the intimate Selfrealization of the Being. A perfect marriage is the union of two beings, one who loves the more, the other who loves the better. Love is the best attainable religion for the human species. In order for love to exist, it is necessary that there is an affinity of thoughts, affinity of feelings, identical preoccupations The kiss comes to be, precisely, like a mystical consecration of two souls eager to sensibly express what they inwardly live. The sexual act comes to be the consubstantialization of the love in the psychophysiological realism of our nature. Love, as such, is an effusion, an energetic emanation of the deepest that we have in the interior, in the consciousness. Observe, for example, an elder in love; those forces that flow from their intimate make the endocrine glands of the whole organism vibrate intensively, and these intensify their hormonal production; such hormones circulate through the blood vitalizing the entire physical body, and thus the elder regenerates himself, rejuvenates, vitality glows in him. Obviously, love is grandiose in itself. To love? How great it is to love! Only the great souls can and know how to love. In order for love to exist, one needs an absolute affinity

of feelings. Love, in itself, is the highest of wisdom. Love cannot be defined, because then it will be deformed. In the lands of the Orient they never build monuments for the heroes, for the men, but for the women who know how to love. One renders worship to the Eternal Feminine with the diverse oriental names: she is the Hindu Shakti; she is the divine Kundalini; she is, precisely, the Verb in its universal feminine aspect. In the Orient one appreciates love more, much more than the merely intellectual theories. The priestesses of Japan, the women of lovethey never profane it there, they consider it as something too sacred. In the world of ancient Greece, the Vestals were always respected by all the men, because, truly, they were themselves the priestesses of love. God in its feminine aspect is the adorable Isis, chaste Diana, she is also the Great Alaya of the Universe. God in its feminine aspect is the matrix of this whole creation; in reality, never would the worlds have emerged from amidst the chaos, from amidst the Great Alaya, if the Eternal Feminine had not previously existed. God-Mother, the universal matrix, shines deeply amidst the chaos. The woman, herself, has every power since she is fruit of the divine. The woman, herself, should help the man. The hour has arrived to comprehend that the Eternal Feminine is the most grandiose power of this Universe. The hour has arrived to understand the state of transcendent and transcendental receptivity that the woman possesses: that intuition, that capacity that she has to perceive the truth directly and by herself, and without so many theories. The hour has arrived to comprehend that alongside the J column is the B column. The hour has arrived to understand that within the atom, the masculine and feminine principles, the ions and the electrons, regulate and agitate intensively. The Eternal Feminine, God-Mother, is the Soul of the Universe, as Plato would say, the World Soul, crucified on planet Earth. The Midnight Sun lives enamored with the woman. The Midnight Sun, the Logos, loves the woman. She is Uranian-Venus, the one who has the book of wisdom in her hands. She is, precisely, the Vestal who stands between the two columns in the Egyptian temple. She is the spouse of the Third Logos. Once these principles are understood, we, the men, should revere the woman, render worship to the woman, because without the woman we would not be able to reach the intimate Self-realization of the Being. The feminine Yoni is represented by the Holy Grail, by the Vase of Hermes and of Solomon. It is in this delicious chalice where the Christ drank from, in the Last Supper. In these instants the reminiscence of Abraham comes to mind: it is said that when he returned from the defeat of the Kings (since he fought against Sodom and Gomorrah) he found a large military fortress; in that place, later on, Jerusalem came to be built, the beloved city of the Prophets. The legend of the centuries says that Abraham paid his tithes and first fruits to Melchizedek, King of Salem. It was there where Abraham met the Genie of the Earth, Melchizedek.

Melchizedek, after having celebrated the Gnostic Unction (precisely with Abraham and his people), gave Abraham the Holy Grail, that wonderful silver chalice where the Christ had drunk from, in the Last Supper. Such a chalice vividly represents the feminine Yoni, and because of that it is venerable. Through the centuries, that chalice was given to the Queen of Saba. With time, that dame, carrying such a valuable relic, arrived in Jerusalem; she submitted King Solomon to distinct tests: one of them was that he had to explain, from a group of twenty-five young people, which ones were men and which ones were women. Those young ones who came with the Queen of Saba were equally dressed, were equally made-up, neat, were of similar ages and it was difficult to define which ones were men, which ones were women. That wise King ordered the young ones to wash their hands, and in the way that they washed their hands he could know who were the men and who were the women. Thus the great King came out victorious. He received the precious jewel from the hands of the Queen of Saba. When the great martyr of the Calvary celebrated the Last Supper, it is said that that relic shone on the sacred table. In that relic he drank the wine of wisdom. The martyr of the Calvary used, then, the blessed chalice in the Last Supper. When he was crucified, the earth shook and Nicodemus, that wise Senator from ancient Rome, gathered into the blessed chalice the blood which was emanating from the wounds of the Adorable. He then stored the chalice in a secret place, at his house, underground, and he also hid the lance with which Longinus had wounded the Lords back, a wonderful phallic symbol. When the roman police broke into the house of the great Senator, in reality, they found neither the chalice nor the lance, and that illustrious man was locked in prison for many years. When he left prison, together with the chalice and the lance, he went on the search for the Christian Gnostics in the august Rome of the Caesars, but in reality, he could not last long in that place, due to the fact that Nero had initiated the persecution against our Gnostic ancestors (because it was the Gnostics who were thrown into the Circus of Rome, in the Circus of the beasts; the Gnostics were the persecuted ones, the Gnostics of the catacombs, the Gnostics that were devoured by lions). The great Roman Senator, with the chalice in his right hand, and the lance, went along the shores of the Mediterranean heading towards Catalonia, SpainOne night, in a vision, that colossal saw that an angel was approaching him; that divinity said to him: That chalice has great power, because enclosed in that chalice is found the blood of the Redeemer of the world; bury it there. And he showed him the mountain of Catalonia, Spain, a place where a truly wonderful temple existed. Nicodemus obeyed, and that blessed chalice (symbol of the female sexual organ) together with the phallic spear, was hidden inside the wonderful temple of Montserrat, in the transcendent Castle of Montsalvat. So, dear Gnostic sisters who are present today, it is good to comprehend what the Holy Grail is. The hour has arrived to understand that without the blessed chalice from which the divine Rabbi of Galilee drank, it is not possible for the men to reach the absolute Christification.

The hour has arrived to understand that in every Temple of the Adepts of the Inner Lights Universal Fraternity, the Holy Grail always shines. It would be inconceivable that in the Temple of any Adept of the Great Light, the Holy Grail would be missing. It is in the Holy Grail where there is the Manna of the desert, with which the Israelis fed themselves for forty years. In the Ark of the Alliance, inside the Sanctum Sanctorum of Solomons Temple, the Gomor or Sacred Vase was always enshrined, containing precisely the Manna of the desert. Inside the Arch of the Alliance, the Rod of Aaron and the Tablets of the Law werent missing eitherThe Elohim that watched over that precious Ark touched themselves with their wings and found themselves, precisely, in that state of the man and the woman during the sacred copula. When the soldiers of King Nabucodonosor, invaded the Sanctum Sanctorum, horrified they said: Is this the God of yours who you adored so much, the Jehovah of the Armies? It is obvious that those people did not understand what the Great Arcanum is. So, in the name of truth I will say, that the Eternal Feminine also shines within the Sanctum Sanctorum, she shines in all that has been created, she shines in all that is, has been and will be With great joy I am inaugurating today, precisely, this Feminine Gnostic Congress; with great joy I initiate the august works of these adorable ladies. Inverential Peace.