Testimonies
And a great sign appeared in heaven, a woman robed with the sun, beneath her feet the moon and on her head a crown of twelve stars. Revelation 12:1
To me the Goddess is the feeling I have when I’m troubled or confused and I keep quiet for a moment and then another voice comes into me. It’s my own voice, but I feel like it’s also another. It guides me. It gives me some specific action to take. This is my personal understanding of the Goddess. The voice is always female and totally loving, warm, caring, and understanding – motherly, sisterly. Whenever I feel hopeless about this world, it comforts me.[i]
If you focus on the Goddess, it is almost as if she begins to notice you and takes you under her wing. She gradually begins to reveal herself in all her complexity, and sometimes in unexpected ways. This is an ongoing process, spiraling to deeper and deeper levels, always continuing. As you allow the Goddess to become part of your daily life, you will become more and more to embody the Sacred Feminine and complete your whole self.[ii]
I saw and met a divine presence that was toweringly female yet beyond sexuality; She was arresting and awe-inspiring. There was the impression of a great dark mask covering what was not a face. Above the mask of the face-not-a face was an impression of hair, sweeping upwards and outwards on either side, becoming great wings, as of an eagle facing me, poised to soar upwards or beat downwards in bone-breaking fury. The hair becoming wings, was not joined to the mask, but above and close to it. Between the wings was neither shape nor form, but a dark purple fire. The presence came unasked, an encounter with the whole being of the one God, known in that moment as She. It was as if the complex diamond of the divine shone at me intensely from that one facet.[iii]
[i] Barbara Walker, Restoring the Goddess, (Prometheus Books, NY, 2000) 222
[ii] Hallie Iglehart Austen, The Heart of the Goddess, (Wingbow Press, CA, 1990) xxiii
[iii] Paul R. Smith, Is it Okay to Call God “Mother”, (Hendrickson Press, MA, 1993) 191
"The last stage of perfection will come when you are completely identified with the Divine Mother and feel yourself to be no longer another and separate being, instrument, servant or worker but truly a child and eternal portion of her consciousness and force. Always she will be in you and you in her. You will know and see and feel that you are a person formed by her out of herself."
--Sri Aurobindo
"A mother's affection cannot be weaned from her child, because the mother-love includes purity and constancy, both of which are immortal. Therefore maternal affection lives on under whatever difficulties. It wasn't long after I gained a clearer understanding of God as Mother and expanded my spiritual sense of Him as Father-Mother that I was permanently healed."
--Mary Baker Eddy
"I was looking down on all this, when suddenly I felt a ‘presence.’ It seemed very ancient and wise and definitely female. I can’t describe it any closer than that, but I felt that this presence, this being, was looking down on me, on this church and these people and saying, ‘The poor little ones! They mean so well and they understand so little.’ I felt whoever ‘she’ was, she was incredibly old and patient; she was exasperated with the way things were going on the planet, but she hadn’t given up hope that we would start making some sense of the world. So, after that, I knew I had to find out more about her."
--Alison Harlow
"Since Mother God is the overall earth ruler, She can dart in and out and be wherever She needs to be. Let’s say you are having financial problems or a lawsuit. Mother God will interfere with you and help you with this, if you petition her. You may say, “Why would I petition Mother God for money matters? Because she can interfere, that’s why! She is the crusader against negative energy. Visualize her standing in front of you with Her beautiful golden sword, who can literally take the brunt of any negative energy. She can handle anything."
--Sylvia Brown
She knows when I need Her and She responds without being asked. She calms me when I get frustrated with things not going just right and when I have a decision to make or I’m wrestling with a problem. She helps me rationalize each situation to its best result. I’m so happy that She has taken my hand and is walking step by step with me.
--Sylvia Brown
"I will never forget the first time Mother and Father God came to me in meditation. They came to me because I asked them to. Mother God came first and then Father God came to me. I have never had such an outpouring of emotion in this lifetime. My body was shaking uncontrollably and tears were streaming down my face. The energy and the love that I felt from them cannot be described. Mother and Father God told both Brenda and myself that they don't want to be worshiped, they simply want us to know them, they want us to know and feel the love they have for us, and they want us to love ourselves and all living things. For love is who we truly are."
--Author Unknown
"So I am walking along the road, shaking my fist and saying, ‘Why am I not growing anymore? What am I supposed to do?’ And I’m furious and getting more freaked by the whole situation when I get this message. I didn’t hear a voice. I just got this message: ‘your problem is that your concept of the Eternal One is masculine, and until you can know the One as Feminine, there’s no way you’re going to grow.’ So I said to myself, ‘That’s weird. I never would have thought of that."
--Penny Novak
"Years ago, I had a direct experience with God as Mother and Father. This experience occurred at a time of great personal distress, in which I needed an absolute answer about my future. To show Heaven my sincerity of heart, I did a spiritual condition involving prayer, fasting and other penances for 120 days (three 40-day periods). On or around the evening of the 40th day, I came home alone to my apartment and eventually knelt in the living room and began to pray. Unlike any time before (or since) in my life, this prayer seemed to open up the spiritual world, and even as I fell into a semi-dreamlike state, I felt my spirit exit through the top of my head. I entered into a place that was ethereal -- my surroundings were white like clouds and there was nothing that was substantial. I knew I was not on an earthly plane. A woman appeared and began drawing close to me. She was statuesque, dressed in a full-length, shimmery robe of some kind, and had long dark hair. I do not recall her face other than it was kindly and feminine. As she came closer to me, I came closer to her. After a time, she started becoming larger (or perhaps I began becoming smaller), and she gathered me into her arms, as if I was a baby… I then realized she was baring her breast to nurse me, and I remember thinking to myself, “How can this be? I am a full-grown woman!” But I didn’t resist her at all, and during the nursing experience, I felt a stream of life-giving nourishment, a warming energy (of love?) flow into me and through me, until it reached my toes. It was rapturous… With time, the embrace and the glow that she had given to me passed away, and I found myself floating freely in the white space. As I floated peacefully, I opened my eyes and saw that I was looking into the face of God the Father. His face was as big as my whole field of vision. … His dark eyes, his nose, his mouth … all looked as if they filled my world. Overwhelmed, I closed my eyes. And then He began to speak. He answered my question … which I will not share here. He also told me, “I love you, I love you,” and gave me several specific instructions, such as “stop crying and go back to work” and other details of my future (all of which have come true or are coming true, by the way). After my encounter with God the Father, I found myself slowly drifting back to the earthly plane and finally awoke in my living room. According to the clock, I had been gone for 45 minutes. I wrote down the details of this experience, so I would have a record. But was an indelible experience and remains with me as if it happened only moments ago."
--Anonymous
My personal vision of God the Mother incarnated in my mother and her mother, gave me, from childhood, the clearest certainty of woman as the truer image of Divine Spirit. Because she was a force living withing me, she was more real, more powerful than the remote Fathergod....I believe in her because I experienced her.
--Cristina Herencia
Our God is a Mother and a Father too
Our God is a Friend who will always pull us through
Our God is a Sister who loves you and me
Our God is a Brother who sets us free
Our God is a She and a He
But Loving God is much more you see,
For God who could make both you and me,
Is as great as great can be.
--Jann Aldredge Clanton
To me the Goddess is the feeling I have when I’m troubled or confused and I keep quiet for a moment and then another voice comes into me. It’s my own voice, but I feel like it’s also another. It guides me. It gives me some specific action to take. This is my personal understanding of the Goddess. The voice is always female and totally loving, warm, caring, and understanding – motherly, sisterly. Whenever I feel hopeless about this world, it comforts me.[i]
If you focus on the Goddess, it is almost as if she begins to notice you and takes you under her wing. She gradually begins to reveal herself in all her complexity, and sometimes in unexpected ways. This is an ongoing process, spiraling to deeper and deeper levels, always continuing. As you allow the Goddess to become part of your daily life, you will become more and more to embody the Sacred Feminine and complete your whole self.[ii]
I saw and met a divine presence that was toweringly female yet beyond sexuality; She was arresting and awe-inspiring. There was the impression of a great dark mask covering what was not a face. Above the mask of the face-not-a face was an impression of hair, sweeping upwards and outwards on either side, becoming great wings, as of an eagle facing me, poised to soar upwards or beat downwards in bone-breaking fury. The hair becoming wings, was not joined to the mask, but above and close to it. Between the wings was neither shape nor form, but a dark purple fire. The presence came unasked, an encounter with the whole being of the one God, known in that moment as She. It was as if the complex diamond of the divine shone at me intensely from that one facet.[iii]
[i] Barbara Walker, Restoring the Goddess, (Prometheus Books, NY, 2000) 222
[ii] Hallie Iglehart Austen, The Heart of the Goddess, (Wingbow Press, CA, 1990) xxiii
[iii] Paul R. Smith, Is it Okay to Call God “Mother”, (Hendrickson Press, MA, 1993) 191
"The last stage of perfection will come when you are completely identified with the Divine Mother and feel yourself to be no longer another and separate being, instrument, servant or worker but truly a child and eternal portion of her consciousness and force. Always she will be in you and you in her. You will know and see and feel that you are a person formed by her out of herself."
--Sri Aurobindo
"A mother's affection cannot be weaned from her child, because the mother-love includes purity and constancy, both of which are immortal. Therefore maternal affection lives on under whatever difficulties. It wasn't long after I gained a clearer understanding of God as Mother and expanded my spiritual sense of Him as Father-Mother that I was permanently healed."
--Mary Baker Eddy
"I was looking down on all this, when suddenly I felt a ‘presence.’ It seemed very ancient and wise and definitely female. I can’t describe it any closer than that, but I felt that this presence, this being, was looking down on me, on this church and these people and saying, ‘The poor little ones! They mean so well and they understand so little.’ I felt whoever ‘she’ was, she was incredibly old and patient; she was exasperated with the way things were going on the planet, but she hadn’t given up hope that we would start making some sense of the world. So, after that, I knew I had to find out more about her."
--Alison Harlow
"Since Mother God is the overall earth ruler, She can dart in and out and be wherever She needs to be. Let’s say you are having financial problems or a lawsuit. Mother God will interfere with you and help you with this, if you petition her. You may say, “Why would I petition Mother God for money matters? Because she can interfere, that’s why! She is the crusader against negative energy. Visualize her standing in front of you with Her beautiful golden sword, who can literally take the brunt of any negative energy. She can handle anything."
--Sylvia Brown
She knows when I need Her and She responds without being asked. She calms me when I get frustrated with things not going just right and when I have a decision to make or I’m wrestling with a problem. She helps me rationalize each situation to its best result. I’m so happy that She has taken my hand and is walking step by step with me.
--Sylvia Brown
"I will never forget the first time Mother and Father God came to me in meditation. They came to me because I asked them to. Mother God came first and then Father God came to me. I have never had such an outpouring of emotion in this lifetime. My body was shaking uncontrollably and tears were streaming down my face. The energy and the love that I felt from them cannot be described. Mother and Father God told both Brenda and myself that they don't want to be worshiped, they simply want us to know them, they want us to know and feel the love they have for us, and they want us to love ourselves and all living things. For love is who we truly are."
--Author Unknown
"So I am walking along the road, shaking my fist and saying, ‘Why am I not growing anymore? What am I supposed to do?’ And I’m furious and getting more freaked by the whole situation when I get this message. I didn’t hear a voice. I just got this message: ‘your problem is that your concept of the Eternal One is masculine, and until you can know the One as Feminine, there’s no way you’re going to grow.’ So I said to myself, ‘That’s weird. I never would have thought of that."
--Penny Novak
"Years ago, I had a direct experience with God as Mother and Father. This experience occurred at a time of great personal distress, in which I needed an absolute answer about my future. To show Heaven my sincerity of heart, I did a spiritual condition involving prayer, fasting and other penances for 120 days (three 40-day periods). On or around the evening of the 40th day, I came home alone to my apartment and eventually knelt in the living room and began to pray. Unlike any time before (or since) in my life, this prayer seemed to open up the spiritual world, and even as I fell into a semi-dreamlike state, I felt my spirit exit through the top of my head. I entered into a place that was ethereal -- my surroundings were white like clouds and there was nothing that was substantial. I knew I was not on an earthly plane. A woman appeared and began drawing close to me. She was statuesque, dressed in a full-length, shimmery robe of some kind, and had long dark hair. I do not recall her face other than it was kindly and feminine. As she came closer to me, I came closer to her. After a time, she started becoming larger (or perhaps I began becoming smaller), and she gathered me into her arms, as if I was a baby… I then realized she was baring her breast to nurse me, and I remember thinking to myself, “How can this be? I am a full-grown woman!” But I didn’t resist her at all, and during the nursing experience, I felt a stream of life-giving nourishment, a warming energy (of love?) flow into me and through me, until it reached my toes. It was rapturous… With time, the embrace and the glow that she had given to me passed away, and I found myself floating freely in the white space. As I floated peacefully, I opened my eyes and saw that I was looking into the face of God the Father. His face was as big as my whole field of vision. … His dark eyes, his nose, his mouth … all looked as if they filled my world. Overwhelmed, I closed my eyes. And then He began to speak. He answered my question … which I will not share here. He also told me, “I love you, I love you,” and gave me several specific instructions, such as “stop crying and go back to work” and other details of my future (all of which have come true or are coming true, by the way). After my encounter with God the Father, I found myself slowly drifting back to the earthly plane and finally awoke in my living room. According to the clock, I had been gone for 45 minutes. I wrote down the details of this experience, so I would have a record. But was an indelible experience and remains with me as if it happened only moments ago."
--Anonymous
My personal vision of God the Mother incarnated in my mother and her mother, gave me, from childhood, the clearest certainty of woman as the truer image of Divine Spirit. Because she was a force living withing me, she was more real, more powerful than the remote Fathergod....I believe in her because I experienced her.
--Cristina Herencia
Our God is a Mother and a Father too
Our God is a Friend who will always pull us through
Our God is a Sister who loves you and me
Our God is a Brother who sets us free
Our God is a She and a He
But Loving God is much more you see,
For God who could make both you and me,
Is as great as great can be.
--Jann Aldredge Clanton