Receiving and living reality giving birth to matter

The great feminine includes:

• The woman, all women: They can take up seed and give birth to new life.
• The human body: It receives impulses from the consciousness ("male") and translates them into words, deeds and new reality.
• The collective (group, people, the whole of humanity): It reacts to impulses (for example in the form of information such as news) with moods and actions. It also takes up the instructions of the ruler and shapes new reality according to them (carries out instructions, such as building roads).
• The earth: It can take up seeds and give growth. In addition, it also reacts to various impulses ("spirit"), for example from the cosmos (such as solar activity) or to human behavior with global phenomena such as climate warming or volcanism and cooling. (Thereby the "cosmos" means in the traditions more than the universe. To it the element of the fire is ascribed and therefore also divine-spiritual and initiating strength, see. The four elements, meaning.)
• Thewhole of creation: it is given over to transience and thus in the "underworld".
• The unconscious, symbolized by the underworld (s. The Great Feminine in the Underworld).

 [S. Female wholeness, living matter - potential, reality and destiny..]

The female as living matter can absorb impulses of consciousness ("seed") and give birth to new reality and therefore belongs by definition to the unconscious (see. Consciousness and the Unconscious and Male and female, the two primordial forces of creation).

Living in negativity (non-being, non-life)

This minus means nothing else than that the daughter has lost the positive access to her body due to abuse and is no longer grounded in it. Thus she has also lost her anchoring in matter and living reality, is "as if dead", namely in unconsciousness, thus at the mercy of pain and drive. And here - if at all - the guilt aspect comes into play: the (unconscious!) negativity is followed by anger and feelings of revenge with corresponding deeds.

(Abuse - the stolen life and The woman, 3-in-1).

Power through eroticism and delusion

Thus caught in lack and negativity, she has something to compensate for. Separated from her body, she "tilts" into the mind and strives for power to remedy her sense of lack. To this end, she uses her charms ("WHORE") and subtlety ("SNAKE") to achieve her goal through seduction and delusion ("White magic"; see illustration). Thus she represents the opposite side of pure love ("VIRGIN"), which surrenders itself.

A collective body of pain and curse

Where young women have had painful experiences, a collective body of pain has been created that destructively affects both women and men. If it is not worked through, it is passed on from generation to generation and has the effect of a curse that pulls life and relationships in a destructive direction (power instead of love).

In the god of air or storm, also called Seth, Satan or the devil, this energy is personified as a negative spiritual drive in matter.

[S. The negative animus as devil or pain body.]

The path through the underworld and the resurrection of love

Woman, and also the whole of human existence, attains wholeness by overcoming negativity in the power of love and finding reconciliation.

[S. Healing by the Light.]

Thereby the way of man leads in the power of his loving consciousness (CHRIST) through the underworld. This is an image of facing his shadow and loving and forgiving himself in his weakness. It is the encounter with unselfish and unconditional love that reawakens the love that has died (s. The Integration of the Shadow and The Integration of the Animus).

Abuse by women and the great feminine (humanity / destiny)

The dark side of the goddess of love is literally the poisoned apple that women pass down from generation to generation. (Because the apple has always been considered the fruit of the goddess of love).

With this, for the sake of completeness, it should be mentioned that women can also abuse daughters and poison their pure, innocent love. (For example, by instigating them to live power through seduction, with statements such as, "All men are pigs, you must take what you can from them!").

[S. The poisoned apple: abuse as a collective reality as in Snow White.]

Maleficent as Sleeping Beauty Interpretation

The modern Disney interpretation with Angelina Jolie in the role of the thirteenth fairy describes the Lilith theme in a way that leads to reappraisal and reconciliation. In it, the dark fairy is portrayed as the guardian and savior of virginity and pure love who fights for justice. (S. Maleficent as Sleeping Beauty Interpretation. Although Maleficent is strictly speaking the fourth fairy here, four represents the checksum of 13 and is considered the unlucky number in China, for example.)

[pp. The great original sin; Dark secrets in families and collectives as a curse and Power and abuse: curse and redemption in traditions.]

The death and resurrection of love

The Sumerian tradition tells that the tree of life of the goddess of love is occupied by Lilith, the dark maiden and the serpent that cannot be tamed (s. Inanna, Lilith and the tree). Shortly thereafter, she brings the still young hero Gilgamesh into her garden, who unceremoniously cuts down the tree and smashes the head of the snake. From the context it becomes clear that this is an image for around the deflowering of the goddess of love by Gilgamesh, which at the same time signifies the initiation of both of them by making him their hero-king (s. Inanna and the felling of the tree).

The path through the underworld and the resurrection of love

Later, the goddess sets off on her way through the underworldwhere she is killed. The Sumerian creation account formulates it in this way: Love has "died" ("carried away to heaven") and the great feminine, life itself, has fallen into negativity, unconsciousness and thus into the underworld. In that the Sumerian goddess of love courageously faces her shadow, i.e. her own death, and overcomes it in the power of the Father's love, she rises again and also heals her relationship.

From evil to good king

The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic tells the way of the ruler from the bad to the good king. Thus, the young Gilgamesh is described as a tyrant and rapist who worships the god of air. The epic describes in code that he cut down the one tall cedar tree (symbolizing the highest virgin in the land) as well as countless other "trees." His personal justification for this is that he considers the goddess of love a whore. This corresponds to the truth insofar as his inner ideal image of the woman - and thus his anima or even "goddess" - is actually the whore first.

[S. The negative anima as whore or snake.]

In the further course of the epic, however, Gilgamesh is led on the true hero's path and thus through an inner dying. In the process, he also meets the man who survived the flood, recognizes his failure and is given a new chance to prove himself as a good king.