The Universe as we imagine it was created out of the Creator’s Desire for differentiation. This Desire was to create for Himself a reflection of Himself as Creation, a reflection of Himself into & upon which to project Light and to distill, constrict, coagulate, and congeal Wisdom into Understanding. Thus, Creation itself– and Torah, with which Creation was established– is the Great Love Story of a Desire for reflection that necessitates differentiation as plurality and duality as polarity: to define by being defined by that which one creates and creates with. Just as man (a Husband) is given Purpose by & with the woman he finds as Wife, Ezer Kenegdo, an Eyshet Chayil. Thus, we don’t see the Face of the Creator the same way we can never see our own face except through a reflective surface– mirrors, glass, camera lenses, the surface of water, and, most importantly, the eyes of another human being. We do not meet The Creator face to face, as His Face is hidden, like our own– it is only as reflected in & by another are we, in the Divine Kiss of Alchemy, and He, to come to be known.

All Alchemy is masculine and feminine– thus, marriage is the foundation of creation, as all life & everything under the Light of existence is created by masculine and feminine union, a sensual & delicate dance of polarity, duality, and complementary natures. Light itself, differentiated through a prism to create color, is a dance of plurality, as all colors in the spectrum are complementary and themselves combine to create secondary colors, just like a man and woman as Mother and Father create a New Thing, a child blended of the two-become-one, yet something altogether unique. Sobonfu Some eloquently describes this process as the Spirit of Intimacy borne of & from marital union, the Third Spirit born to and from the Alchemical merging of who were once two strangers (and, likewise, born as a witness to the Alchemical merging). Indeed, the Womb of a woman may be seen as a Crucible in which a combination of Fire (masculine) and Water (feminine) combines and creates a Divine Being through coagulation of cells and substance while heating to sublimation (for, in fact, the body temperature of a woman increases due to the hormone progesterone from the time of ovulation through, during, and after conception).

A man is crowned upon exiting his mother’s womb: the moment of a baby’s head emerging from the vaginal canal as the labia and perineal floor are stretched due to pressure, is often referred to as the “Ring of Fire” by mothers and doula-midwives/birthworkers alike. This Ring indeed encircles the baby’s head as a crown, thus, woman– specifically, Mother– is the first initiatrix, as women have always been a critical part in ritual anointing of Kings, Sovereigns, and Priests throughout history and mythology across all cultures. The man, leaving his mother’s womb, embarks upon what Jung calls “The Hero’s Journey” and what the 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot depict as “The Fool’s Journey”. This journey is the means through which man seeks outside of himself for meaning in the world, only to return to the interior, the Sanctuary of the Womb (as he “leaves to later cleave” and eventually joins in Sacred Marriage/Hieros Gamos with woman-as-Wife). Here, upon his return to the Womb, he finds himself at his purest and most vulnerable again, given Purpose and anointed through the Rite of Immersion (Mikveh) in the waters of the Grand Mystery of the Feminine Mystique. Interestingly, in return for the pain of the mother’s Ring of Fire that was necessary to deliver him into Life itself, man gives back to woman (now a Wife) a ring of Betrothal: in return for the painful sacrificial Rites of birthing, crowning, & anointing him, with his ring he vows and binds himself to give her pleasure, provision, and protection.

Perhaps it is man’s innate reverence for the awe-inspiring, sublime & sublimating power of a woman’s capacity to give birth, that compels man to worship the Divine Feminine.

….(end of excerpt) read more in my UPCOMING BOOK entitled:Mother-God or Mother of gods? The Divine Feminine in Torah & The Kabbalah pt.1

Originally written and Copyright © Gloria “Chauah Hadassah” Steele, aka/DBA Hadassah Hadara/HadaraCare Holistic Organics, LLC, 23 Adar 5784/03 March, 2024