DELLA CARITA CAPOLAVORO - MASTERPIECE OF LOVE
The Madonna and Child are God's supreme truth - Michelangelo
We are blessed with three mothers in the course of life; our biological mother, mother nature, and Mary, our spiritual mother. Mother is a metaphor in the case of nature and of Mary. They are mothers in the sense that they represent a structure that acts in a motherly way; forming, transforming, protecting, instructing, directing and redirecting, warning and initiating. This is an energy in the universe called mother nature and an energy in the soul personified as Mary. The life-giving powers in nature were sacred in ancient times. This referred not only to the physical but to the inner Source that is always alive and and one and the same in the world and the pscyhce. Nature has laws that exert an energy that compels and draws but also accompanies us through the phases of life.
Aldobrandesca, a medieval mystic of Siena, when close to death had a vision of Mary with this message : 'Daughters, be obedient to the law of the Mother'.
Mechtild of Magdeburg saw Mary as the spiritual mother of all humankind : 'I suckled the prophets and sages before God was born'.
Juliana of Norwich saw visions of the motherhood of God and also said 'Our Lady is our mother in whom we are all enclosed ..... and our saviour is our mother in whom we are endlessly born ..... To motherhood belong nature, love, wisdom and knowledge, and this is God'
Allah has chosen you, Mary. He has made you pure above all women - The Koran
You will open the hearing of the wayfarer's heart (fu'aadi min saalikin) because the subtle knowledge of Her is Her proof. Grant us union with Her always and cause us to withdraw from every sensory existence.- Songs of Shaykh Muhammad ibn al-Habib
Inciting love in every heart, you bring forth generation after generation - Prayer to Venus, Mother of Rome, by Lucretius (d 55B.C.)
The Tao is the great mother, empty and yet overflowing, bringing forth the infinite universe. And it is forever inside you - Tao Te Ching
Mary held all these things within her, pondering them in her heart - Luke 2:19
I have to mention PetiteMichelleLouise for some of the beautiful printed tags and holy cards that I used here - her handiwork is inspirational. See her blogspot http://petitemichellelouise.blogspot.com and her shop on Etsy.com
Mary is not an invention of the Church, but the masterpiece of God - David Richo
Her blessings to you!
how beautifully inspirational. some of my favorite images of the divine mother. merci for incorporating some of my "handiwork" and for your kind words about them.
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