Author: Hettienne Grobler
The river of Light, which is kundalini
The New Light
Haridwar, holiest city in India
One day workshop in Temple of Mary – Saturday 19 October 2013
Third Initiation into the Mysteries of Isis-Maria-Sophia – Lady Wisdom
5 pm – the baking of the sacred goddess loaves in the kitchen – each participant to knead and shape their own loaves
7 pm – the holy feast and sacrament of Eros
To be followed by sacred dancing
-entering the Vortex through vibration
Afternoon will be spent preparing for the sacred drama and Procession of the Holy Grail :
Bring your cloak or shawl that you will use for the evening’s sacred ritual and sacred drama – please bring needle and thread (gold or red) for working onto you shawl – unless you are going to do this beforehand
Please bring pen and paper, black bed sheets and white bed sheets (if you have), safety pins, kokis and a poster size sheet of paper, a small pair of scissors, a tube of Pritt
You will need a chair for meditation and a blanket
Sunday will be focused on all the sacred Temple Mysteries and practices; the meeting of the Ishta Devata and on the integration of the Initiation of Asherah-Wisdom-Sophia
The program will finish at lunch time on Sunday
Asherah, Lady of Wisdom, Queen of Heaven, Sophia, Shekinah and today known as Mary
(See my previous post)
Visions and dreams : there are those that stand out with such luminosity and with a strong aura of having significant meaning. I have written, journaled and painted some of my visions and some of my dreams. Some of my dreams are only images and colours captured during the events of the day; some are personal and archetypal and then there are those that I never forget. These have layers upon layers of meaning. Some of the meaning I immediately understand and the other layers are revealed with time.
Such a dreamvision I had over the past few nights. One of the Tree of Life, the Goddess, the Lion and Serapis.
Let me share the background to the dream with you.
For the past few months I have been dreamvisioning the thirteen alchemical goddesses for the Wheel of the Year for Temple of Mary and the Sacred Feminine Conference we are hosting in October 2013, as well as the alchemical wheel of Shekinah and its initiations during the Temple of Mary retreats. (You can read more about these on my other blogs and website.) And I have been working specifically with the goddess Asherah as matriarch of the Mary line, through Asherah, Astarte, Queen of Heaven and eventually Mary.
My son has been planning a very special tattoo for himself. One that has great meaning for him. It contains a lion and a tree. A few nights ago I dreamt the image in a beautiful synthesis of the lion and tree of life : the one merging into the other, like a sacred marriage.
A week ago I went through a very intense experience with the catalyst being a severe allergic reaction to Vit E oil – an allergy I did not know my body had. I ended up in hospital with drugs being chased into my body as my body spiralled down in anaphylactic shock. I left my body and witnessed the extreme distress and rapid lowering of my blood pressure and the panic when the epiphinidrine hit my heart. For the next three days I was in and out of my body while being aware and conscious. I visited realities and dimensions that I cannot really capture verbally yet. Whatever was revealed to me during this time, will now be distilled in my subconscious till my mind is ready to give birth to this immaculate conception.
Since I returned fully to my body a few days ago, the words ‘vision’ and ‘dream’ has taken on a new profound meaning.
The Vision :.
‘We were all gathered in the courtyard. The light had the luminosity of the Otherworld. In the centre of the courtyard grew the Tree of Life, its trunk twisted and gnarled, housing an entire city of light. The sound of the heavens played in its leaves. I was below, at the base of the trunk, in my role as healer. I blessed those that came up to me. A man sat down in front of me, asking for healing. As I placed my hands on him, I felt the healing power coursing through my body and flowing down my arms and hands. I was familiar with this transference of healing energy and was unperturbed. The next moment he jumped up, amazement on his face. He shouted out “look at that beautiful being!!”. Before I turned around I was aware of the pillar of light behind me and as I turned around I said ‘oh yes, that is Serapis. I saw a beautiful light being in intense white light.
As I was looking at this pillar of light which my Self recognised as Serapis, the vision expanded. A lion appeared from the branches of the Tree of Life, facing the East and the rising Sun. She growled and her mane shook and reverbated and the hair became one with the branches of the giant tree. She roared into the sky, ‘Osiris!!!!’
As I was watching the scene in awe, my lips formed the word FORTEZA and I continued chanting this word as I returned to consciousness.
(Here follows the research that I did then, but since then more had been revealed to me – this has now been included in the manual for the third initiation)
I then did some research and the very first page I open give me the following and more. (you may want to explore the pages at http://thequeenofheaven.wordpress.com Asherah Part III The Lion Lady)
Serapis Bey is Chohan of the Fourth Ray, the white ray. Serapis can help people prepare to receive the Holy Spirit’s gift of the working of miracles. Serapis Bey works specifically with kundalini awakening and ascension and the ability of working miracles through the kundalini energy in the root chakra. He is often depicted with the caduceus staff.
And he was known as the god Osiris in ancient Egypt!!
Serapis was a Greco-Egyptian god in 3 BC whom many believe that the story of Jesus was based on and he was known as Serapis Christus.
.One of the very first Egyptian goddesses was Qadesh and she was known as the Lion Lady. She was also known as Asherah, Astarte-Anat, the Canaanite goddess, spouse of the Canaanite bull god, El.
Asherah was depicted as both Lion and as the Tree of Life. And her sacred symbol and object was the staff with two serpents! The same staff that Serapis Bey carries and the modern-day symbol of healers.
Aherah Astarte Anat |
Blessed day of the Holy Bride – Imbolc – 1/2 August
Irish imbolc derives from the Old Irish i mbolg “in the belly”. This refers to the pregnancy of ewes.[4] A medieval glossary etymologizes the term asoimelc “ewe’s milk”.[5] Some Neopagans use Oimelc as a name for the festival.
Since Imbolc is immediately followed (on 2 February) by Candlemas (Irish Lá Fhéile Muire na gCoinneal “feast day of Mary of the Candles”, WelshGŵyl Fair y Canhwyllau),[6] Irish imbolc is sometimes rendered as “Candlemas” in English translation; e.g. iar n-imbulc, ba garb a ngeilt translated as “after Candlemas, rough was their herding”.[7]
29 July 2013 – Christmas of the Era of Love
(The path of Beauty is a valuable and intrinsic part of The Temple of Mary
to be explored in depth)
call this period of time the Lion’s Gate Initiation
And here we are, on a mystical Christmas Eve,
witnessing the Star of Bethlehem in the skies
announcing the birth, re-birth and resurrection
of the Lion, the Christ, the Holy Son and Daughter of the Most High
Through the symbolism of the Lion we are shown that
we are on the eve of a return to Innocence, to the unadulterated
symbolism embedded in the depths of the unconscious of humanity;
a return to a true sense and intuition of the God within, as opposed
to the mythical and masculine creature created by man and called God
in Heaven, separate and devoid of the feminine.
First the three moons appeared reminding us of the three wise men
who followed the first Star of Bethlehem.
(In the Judaic tradition Bethlehem is regarded as the City of David)
And tomorrow the Star of David will appear in the sky,
beckoning all to witness the birth of the consciousness
that will be able to grasp and understand that
the literal and mythical interpretation of God is no longer necessary.
Enlightenment is when you pass through the gateless gate.
When you realise that you are both the gate and they key
and that neither truly existed.
This is the birth of a new consciousness that will be available
to all of humanity. This new era of Love will be accessible
to those who are willing to let go of the lower realms of the mythical
gods and goddesses and who are courageous enough to embrace
the dictum ‘you are the gate and you are the key’.
The Christed Son and Daughter of the Most High is the Self.
In The Temple of Mary we will immerse ourselves in these energies
during the Third Initiation and we will explore
the stone buried at the foot of the Tree of Life.
blessings
Hettienne BhaktyMa
Further reading and resources :
http://divinespace.co.za/planetary-alignment-july-2013/
http://www.northernway.org
The Hebrew Goddess – Raphael Patai
All books by Karen Armstrong