Divine Mary – Her Grace Sacred Art

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Hettienne Grobler

The arms of the Mother

Gate of Heaven

you are round and open,

beckoning.

Your hands are raised in blessing

blessings rain down on our uplifted faces,

Mother of the All,

you contain the answer to our deepest longings.

Fill me with hope for the new world,

a world of pervasive peace and unmitigated justice,

where swords are hammered into plowshares,

and our leaders sow vegetable seeds.

Lady of the Mountain,

I have struggled for your summit.

The ascent has been harrowing,

but I have grown strong on my journey.

Now I see the world as you see it,

broken and beautiful,

flawed and perfect.

– Mirabai Starr from Mother of God, Similar to fire

An old furniture polish tin turned into a shrine

Give yourself over to the arms of the Mother.

Oh child of the father’s house; you have never

known such sweet Mercy

as can only be known in the arms of the Mother.

Her hands drip blessings, waiting for the asking.

Put down the weariness and dust of the ordinary world

as you turn your mind off and your heart on.

Leave the darkened room of the intellect and its

self-obsessed self-pitying behind and step through

into the garden of the physical senses and delight.

Ask for your own arms and hands to be grown back

so that you can partake of the paradise which is Earth.

Take off the blindfold of patriarchy and the lies of history,

and raise your arms to the Gate of Heaven.

She is the round Gate of Heaven.

Impossible for the intellect to wrap itself around that

vision, strangling its light and passion into dust.

Now is the time beloved, now.

Do not wait to become convinced

as the heart is born convinced of the sweet nectar

of the Mother’s love.

blessings

Hettienne

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Hettienne Grobler

The path of love

The way of love is a path of service and silence.

Remember that human consciousness can make

a great deal of noise to attract your

attention and divert you from contemplating

the divine.

Be not afraid of silence;

of looking within yourself.

Be silent now, close your eyes,

and let your consciousness rest

within the precious and secret garden

of your heart.

I AM here

and the pink rose of love

is safely growing in your heart.

Nurture this rose carefully and constantly,

until its aura of beauty and love

expands,

completely enfolding you at all times.

Treat yourself with compassion

and tenderness

and eventually the perfume

will permeate all your thoughts and actions.

Ave Maria

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Hettienne Grobler

Divine Mary Says – the kiss of Light

It is a soft dawn sprinkled with the drops of birdsong.

In the sky the new moon is hanging just above the rising sun.

I ponder my statue of Mary on a pillar and what this symbology

means. I know that there is a Mary on the Pillar in the cathedral

in Chartres which I am set to visit in September.

Cloaked in the haze of the morning light, intense bliss rises in me,

both tightening and releasing my heart and chest simultaneously

and I hear the voice of Mary.

‘You are not who you think you are. It is not necessary,

and at times quite pointless, to hang on to your weaknesses,

foibles and strengths with such intent and focus.

Your nature may not always please you,

or suit your idea of who you are.

The more you resist what is happening in your life

and the more you resist your nature,

the greater the wall which is blocking the light.

Only the warmth of the Light and its spiritual

qualities of acceptance, compassion,

understanding and peace, can

bring life back to the barren wasteland that lies

behind that wall.

Seekers do not realise that it appears to them that they

are indeed making choices, but this is very seldom true.

You are a compilation of impressions, feelings, reactions,

memories, half-felt emotions, fleeting desires and wishes

and unexplored and half-lived dreams.

You carry within you the memories of all time.

At times you may appear to be a book, its pages the

Keeper of all stories ever told and at other times

you may feel like the blank pages, ready to be written onto.

Both of these ideas may drive you to frustration,

and into trying to become either or both or even

to transcend the human experience by side-stepping

the creative dance of creating and destroying.

But you are so much more than

all of the above. Within you lies the Godseed, dormant,

waiting on the Kiss of Light. Only the mind, with its

ideas like clouds in the sky, is obscuring the Light

from awakening the Tree of Life within you.

A mind locked down with ideas and concepts and beliefs

of how you should be, is like concrete poured down onto

a pavement. It is only with the wearing away of time and

weather that cracks can form, through which the tendril

of a soft new plant can grow. This tiny plant has the

potential to become the beanstalk

that will take Jack into the heavens

of the giant.

A mind concretized with set ideas and theories, is the greatest

obstacle to peace and ongoing ‘enlightenment’.

There is so much that you are unaware of.

You can only see through your own lens of perspective

and perception. You only have a choice between

fear and love. When fear is the stone buried at the

foot of the tree of life, then all those living tendrils and

branches will be weakened and twisted by fear.

However, if your Philosopher’s Stone is cast in love,

then the Tree of Life will be rooted in the Real.

Only that which is Unchanging is Real and True.

The mind changes constantly. Thoughts are blown like

clouds in the winds of the body.

The mind and body absolutely fears and resists change.

on all levels.

There is a saying, ‘rather the devil you know’

Indeed!

Then there is the great inner Judge thrown into the mix as well.

And the desire for self-improvement.

All of these are fertilised by the idea that who you are is not

good enough and that you and your life should be different.

Your life can look different and your experiences can

be different. You can achieve goals and have your

desires and wishes fulfilled

But you can also have peace and harmony,

joy and human understanding,

compassion and love for everything and

everyone, right now, without making any

changes and definitely without improving yourself

or your life.

That moment of absolute alignment with the

Spirit within, is the kiss of the Light.

And all you need for that to happen, is to drop everything.

By that I mean that you can let your mind

and its many doors and passages and rooms, drop away.

Over and over.

Repeatedly

Every day

Every time

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know and I will add your name.

The boundary and limitation

that time creates, is the wall around the garden of Eden

and your willingness to enter naked,

leaving the fear behind, opens the gate

and makes it possible for you to

receive the inner Kiss

The biggest secret is that there is no secret.

Everything in every moment is as it should be.

Actions taken in Time have set the wheel of destiny

in motion and only a Philosopher’s Stone of Love

combined with the Kiss of Light

has the alchemical power to break the bonds of time.

Teaching yourself to live in alignment with the Spiritual Sun

and the Light of God, is a skill.

In order to acquire this skill, you have to tame and master

your mind to accept either fear or love.

That is the only choice you have.

In every moment you can ask yourself :

what would Love do?

One can replace Love with Acceptance or

Surrender to God, or to the Great Spirit,

or the Tao or the Unlimited, Eternal and Unchanging.

Does my action or reaction imply Love or Fear?

When you criticize yourself for getting angry – ask yourself

is that response based in fear or love?

If I root myself in the Real, in Love, would I

judge anger and deem it as a ‘negative’ reaction?

And why would I do that?

Is it because I fear that it will drag me down into

dark emotional depths which I fear?

And is it that I believe that God is not in the

darkness and that I will be separated from

my Creator?

Is it because you fear ‘losing yourself’?

That would imply that yourself is the True Self.

How better to allow the True Self, the one that is

aligned with the Light, the Spiritual Sun within,

to emerge by losing the false self?

The self is a set of ideas and beliefs grounded

in the belief that you are separate from your Creator.

The mind that creates this limited self is intent

on keeping you bound in this belief system and it will

show you many other theories and paths and

systems that support this theory.

As long as you believe that you have been cast

out of the garden and that you are now

begging outside the walls of the castle,

you will try to find the key to the secret door

which does not exist.

You are the Keeper of the Castle and you can only

stay the beggar whilst you allow your mind

to talk you into holding that begging bowl up

to God, begging for that which you have already

been given.

You have the power to put any theory to the test

and to be transformed by your own realisations.

You are standing in the Light and each moment

that you open your heart and you accept yourself

and your nature and the many selves that you have created,

you will receive the kiss of Light.

And I ask you to share your love with everyone,

as we are all the One.’

Ave Maria

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Hettienne Grobler

Birthday of Mother Mary – 8 September

The dates of 7 and 8 September are the most sacred to devotees of Mother Mary. The 8th of September is known as Her birthday. The first initiation into the Temple of Mary is taking place on these auspicious days.

Mary is personification, embodiment and goddess of spirit in ‘matter’ (mater = mother). The sacred body of Earth and all living beings is the Mother.

As we approach the end of Kali Yuga, a transformation is taking place and a new mythos is being born into the consciousness of humanity : that of the Cosmic Mother and the Sacred Feminine and very importantly and powerfully, the mythos of the Sacred Marriage, the Union.

Mary, as divine mother for our times, is recognized in all cultures and traditions. Here is an extract written by Elizabeth Clare Prophet in the lineage of the Ascended Masters :

Mary – World Mother

In knowing Mary as she really is, I have come to see her as a relentless and constant force, challenging the oppression of her children everywhere, in every faith, in every religion.
She is a World Mother, and I have seen this in her tremendous mastery of life. Her knowledge of administration and organization, as she has conveyed it to me, has given me the real teaching of how to administer my organisation and, with a very capable staff, bring it to this level of complexity of service that we enjoy.

The Mother Flame

When we want to master the details of life in any field, we realize that it is the Mother aspect of God that actually corresponds to Matter, or the Matter universe, as mater is the Latin word for Mother.
And so, here on earth, if we are going to accomplish anything, we must invoke the Mother flame. We must understand the Hindu concept of the Mother aspect of God as the Shakti, the active principle, the force that brings into manifestation the Father’s will.

Ask Mother Mary

So if you want to know how to get things done and how to get them done because your aim is helping people and glorifying God—which is our only reason for being—then ask Mother Mary. And you will find that she is truly a master and not an ignorant peasant woman who happened to be called to give birth to Jesus, as some would have us believe.

Twin Flame of Archangel Raphael

Mother Mary is of the angelic evolution. These hierarchies also serve on the seven rays of the Godhead that emerge through the prism of the Christ consciousness.
Mother Mary’s ray is the fifth ray, the ray of emerald green, the ray of healing. It is the ray of science, of medicine, of supply and abundance. The economy also comes under the fifth ray.

The Mind of Mary

Mother Mary, then, has great talents in many areas. I don’t think there is a field of human endeavor where she does not have the expertise and understanding to teach others how to realize and implement the highest and best goals. Mother Mary’s mind is vast, vast beyond comprehension.
As we see Mary in the present day, we move to the understanding of a woman in our midst—a Mother Mary who is as modern, as liberated, as tough, as determined as many of the finest women we might meet on earth who are fighting for various causes.

Friend and Companion

We need to see her as friend, as companion, as sister, although she may rightfully be called “goddess” because of the tremendous God consciousness she has.
We must not place her on the pedestal that forces us to become idolaters of her image. But we should revere her in the sense that she has great attainment and great standing in heaven and was chosen to be the mother of Christ because she had the ability to hold the light and the balance for his entire mission.

Mother Mary – Healer

And so the Mother comes to heal us of our sense of sin regarding ourselves or other people. She comes to liberate us, especially in the Christian world, of the enormous division that renders Christianity ineffective. And of course, she comes carrying the sorrow of the people of every single nation on the planet and the determination to help them as we give the prayers and the calls.

Archetype of the New Age Woman

Mother Mary has bequeathed to humanity the archetype of the New Age woman. By her example and constancy, she calls forth the Divine Woman in us all.
She not only shows us how the feminine principle can be redeemed, but why it must be redeemed in order that the Divine Manchild as the unfolding Christed man and Christed woman might appear within every son and daughter beloved of God.
Until the feminine principle of the Godhead is ennobled in each man and each woman, the Christ cannot be born. And until Christ is born in the individual, the evolving identity of man and woman cannot experience the new birth.
Thus, the rebirth of the Christ in man and woman, often referred to as the Second Coming, is necessary for the salvation of the soul; indeed the individual Christ Self is the Saviour of the world of the individual.

Mary’s Appearances Since Her Ascension

Since her ascension, Mary has made several famous appearances and continues today to respond immediately to the call of any and all of her children on earth. In the twentieth century alone, more than two hundred appearances of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, have been reported in over thirty countries.
Some claim Mary has appeared to them as they pray. Others say they have watched her statues “weep” or have seen her images on walls or windows. And some tell us that Mary has revealed to them urgent prophecies and secrets.
Mary has entrusted her messages to unlikely ambassadors—not prelates or popes, presidents or politicians, but children and simple folk. Innocent ones who could receive her messages in humility and convey them with undiluted simplicity.
For forty years Mother Mary gave messages through Mark and Elizabeth Prophet to comfort and enlighten spiritual seekers of all paths.

Excerpted from The Age of the Divine Mother, The Golden Word of Mary series by Elizabeth Clare Prophet.

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Hettienne Grobler

Upcoming retreat by The Temple of Mary

Rose Window Cathedral Notre Dame de Paris

Many voices tell us the same message in different languages, symbology, hidden messages and at times obscure poetry. One has to keep in mind that there is always power at play. When you have something that someone else wants, you are holding the power. This is also true for the ‘spiritual’ journey. There is only one way to ‘know’ and that is to trust your heart and to disobey the Judge.

Seemingly a simple and straightforward step, to trust yourself, but as we know, layers of conditioning have distorted your mind and has led you to believe in the ‘other’ within. At all times you are self-conscious and aware of watching yourself or being watched by others and acting on the assumption that you are separate from ‘God’ and that there are others who know better or more.

When you discover that you are the ‘other’ and that all beliefs in separation grows from your own mind, you face an inner chaos and darkness which seems impossible to navigate and survive. And it seems easier and simpler to hold onto someone else’s belief system or to jump back into trying to control your physical reality.

True knowing is not an intellectual activity. The left brain that continually analyses and tries to make sense of what is going on, depletes your energy system; breaks down your immune system; opens you to accident and events that is hurtful. The left brain ‘rapes’ and plunders the psyche, the Soul within, the heart which is intrinsically part of the One Heart.

This inner division grows into a web of characters and sub-personalities and the inner child (the heart self) becomes stressed and falls into childhood patterns of thinking and reacting. You may feel overwhelmed and disheartened by the ‘state of affairs’ when you look upon ‘the wasteland of the lands ruled by the wounded fisherking’. Indeed, fairy tales and myths, mystics and religions alike, have been telling us that we are living in the age of the mind, the brilliant Sun, that scorches the land in the absence of the rain of mercy.

In the alchemical process we are shown the importance of becoming the one. Or I should say, realising the One. The duality is created by the mind – the One exists at all times, behind the shadow play of the mind. And remember, this is not an isolated case of Maya; this is a collective group mind that has developed through the Age of the Father.

The first step is to become one in the personality self. To end the voices of dissension and self-sabotage; to unite under the Beloved leader within and to obey each and every command of the heart, without question. One could call this Answering the Call.

Once you have answered the Call, you have to stay with the course, despite the winding labyrinth that your journey takes. Here you will face many adversaries : distractions, fear, doubts, suspicion, and running after every red herring that crosses your path.

But it is to stay focused, with your eyes fixated on the symbol of the Beloved, reminding yourself that this work demands the tempering and forging of the sword (the symbol of the mind that serves your healing and highest purpose).

The symbol of the Beloved in the Temple of Mary is indeed the Eternal Bride, the Beloved Goddess and the Sacred Feminine, the Feminine Soul of the One. The qualities of the feminine are wisdom, beauty, mercy, grace, compassion, nurturing and feeling : an all-embracing Self that creates and births the alchemical container through Self-Acceptance and Self-Love.

The centre of the alchemical process is the hermetically sealed container and the ability to live with the pressure and the tension of the ‘cooking process’. Indeed, the many layers of the self will be melted down and this is not a glorious process. It will invoke fear and resistance in you; you will try every trick in the book to escape this certain dissolution of the walls of the castle; and you will fall and you will fail. But you always have the choice to return to the Great Work and to pick yourself up from the last fall and to take the next step.

The Great Work is the Hieros Gamos, the Sacred Marriage between self and Self; Heart and Mind; Psyche and Eros; God and Goddess.

You right now, already know yourself as all of the above, you are just not aware that it is indeed conscious and present. Who is looking through your eyes right now? Who is reading these words? Who is it that feels great love awakening within your heart?

Maria Sophia is one of the oldest names of the Goddess in Sanskrit. Maria Prophetissa is the oldest known Alchemist in our mythical history. She is the Soul, the Shekinah, the in-dwelling Divinity and Presence in you. The undivided One.

Why do we refer to Her as feminine? Why do we use gender at all? Why the Great Mother and the Goddess?

Do not be blindsided by the terminology : symbols are a way of describing that which we cannot describe with words. Words limit our knowing and experience as it puts us back into the left brain. By stepping into the imagery through ritual, ceremony, movement, sound, contemplation and witnessing our feelings, we immerse ourselves into the Knowledge of the One : the One who is closer than your own breath.

This is a small taste of what you can expect during the first initiation of the Temple of Mary, during the weekend of 7 September. A weekend of awareness and direct experience; simple and practical exercises to awaken the inner knowing; ritual to stir the unconscious and bring the Love to light – a balance between structure and free flowing. You will receive a note book which you can read in leisure after the retreat and keep with you as a guidebook. This weekend will be the first of many – each designed to deepen the knowing of Love and to support you as you step out on your path of Soulful purpose and meaning.

All energy blessings (diksha), darshan and any blessings that you receive during this weekend, you may use for your own healing and the healing of others; you may freely pass it on to others and you will be shown how to do this.

In Grace