Feminine

“The feminine is the matrix of creation. This truth is something profound and elemental, and every woman knows it in the cells of her body, in her instinctual depths. Out of the substance of her very being life comes forth… Our culture’s focus on a disembodied, transcendent God has left women bereft, denying them the sacredness of this simple mystery of divine love…

Because humanity has a central function in the whole of creation, what we deny to ourself we deny to all of life. In denying the feminine her sacred power and purpose we have impoverished life in ways we do not understand. We have denied life its sacred source of meaning and divine purpose, which was understood by the ancient priestesses…

... the first step is to acknowledge that the world is a spiritual being, just as you acknowledge for yourself that you are a spiritual being. And the next is to recognize the mysterious relationship between the individual and the world, known traditionally as microcosm and macrocosm, in which every human being is the microcosm of the whole…

... we have a problem now. The world is dying. It is not supposed to be like this. I am convinced that human beings are not meant to sit looking at a flickering screen ten hours a day pressing buttons. Human beings are so extraordinary! They are full of light; they have this divine intelligence. They are meant to live in a sacred way, not spend their life looking at a flickering television or computer screen. That is not what we were created for.

So you have to show up in your life and you have to show up in the life of the world. And the life of the world is not a shopping mall, not a computer-generated model. Just as you’re not a computer-generated model… You are a mixture of heaven and earth, an incarnation of a divine spark. And the relationship with the world is a relationship of microcosm to macrocosm, a spark that goes from your consciousness, from your heart, to the heart of the world… Something in you is woken up. And suddenly your whole life changes. There is this light, there is this hope, there is this sunshine in the eyes—it’s incredibly beautiful, the most precious moment. I know when it happened to me when I was 16, suddenly the whole world was there—as it had always been, but I had never seen it—full of light, full of beauty.

And all you have to do is to be present and to say “yes.” To be present in your life and in the life of the world, the life of the world as it belongs to the soul of the world. We have forgotten about Her for so long. But She is alive. She is here now. And She is waiting to wake up.”

~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, The Return of the Feminine & the World Soul.  Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee is a Sheikh of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order. Born in London in 1953, he has followed the Naqshbandi Sufi path since he was 19. In 1991 he moved to Northern California and became the successor of Irina Tweedie.                                        
                                                
~ Anat Vaughan-Lee has followed the Naqshbandi Sufi path since 1973. For many years she has been working with groups and dream work in the Sufi tradition, which encourages the deep feminine way of inner listening. Recognizing the need and urgency of the moment for the re-emergence of the feminine, she compiled and edited the writings of her husband, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, on the subject of the sacred feminine, which has emerged as the book The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul.