On Jul 26, 2007, at 12:49 PM, jim_flanegin wrote:
Thanks- This really advances my understanding of where to look next.
I'm especially interested in the shape and design of the matrikas.:-)
Traditionally the matrikas are the letter-goddesses of the (Sanskrit)
alphabet. In inner tantra the way we nudge open this level of
cognition is to imprint the matrikas into consciousness.
The Vedic "hymn of creation" touches on this level of creation very
nicely:
In the Principle, darkness concealed darkness;
Undifferentiated surge was this whole world.
The pregnant point covered by the form matrix, from conscious fervor,
mightily, brought forth the One.
In the Principle, thereupon, rose desire,
Which of consciousness was the primeval seed.
Then the wise, searching within their hearts, perceived That in non-
being lay the bond of being.
Stretched crosswise was their line, a ray of glory. Was there a
below? And was there an above? There were sowers of seeds and forces
of might: Potency from beneath and from on high the Will.
Who really knows, who could here proclaim Whence this creation flows,
where is its origin? With this great surge the Gods made their
appearance. Who therefore knows from where it did arise?
This flow of creation, from where it did arise, Whether it was
ordered or was not, He, the Observer, in the highest heaven, He alone
knows, unless…He knows it not.
