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The mouth of the womb
The
renaissance philosopher Giordano Bruno was convinced that the entire
universe was held together by erotic love. Love in all its variations
ruled the world, from physical nature to the metaphysical heavens, from
sexuality to heartfelt love of the mystics: it led either to the
animals (sexuality), or to the intelligible, and is then called the
divine. Bruno was found guilty of heresy by the Inquisition in 1600 and
burned at the stake. Marguerite Porete, executed by fire in 1310,
believed love and not the church was her only authority,
and Margaret Ebner (d. 1351) said God was “Not a
robber of the senses but an enlightener of the senses”.
“All
witchcraft comes from carnal lust, which is in women insatiable. There
are three things that are never satisfied, yea, a fourth thing which
says not, It is enough; that is, the mouth of the womb. Wherefore for
the sake of fulfilling their lusts they consort even with devils. More
such reasons could be brought forward, but to the understanding it is
sufficiently clear that it is no matter for wonder that there are more
women than men found infected with the heresy of witchcraft. And in
consequence of this, it is better called the heresy of witches than of
wizards, since the name is taken from the more powerful party. And
blessed be the Highest Who has so far preserved the male sex from so
great a crime: for since He was willing to be born and to suffer for
us, therefore He has granted to men the privilege.”
Malleus Maleficarum
Woman is the
fire of transformation, it is through woman that men are
received into heaven or cast into hell.
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“My transcendental body is the abode of
splendid pastimes and beauty, of which this world does not posses even
a pale reflection. My restless eyes burning with curiosity, do not
enter this network of creepers. In this forest wanders a lovely
demigoddess decorated with black-mascara, who lures beautiful young
girls into her forest-domain.” Sri Ujjvala-Nilamani by Srila Rupa
Gosvami
On unity or
Love Cornelius Agrippa wrote: “The world is an animal, partly
masculine, and partly feminine; and Orpheus also calleth Nature or the
Jove of this world both the male and the female, and that the gods
partake of both sexes. Hence it is that Trismegistus salutes Minerva,
you are indeed both man and woman; and Apuleius in his book of the
world, out of the divinity of Orpheus produceth this verse of Jupiter:
Jove is both male and female, immortal.”
“And when Nature saw that Form of beauty that can never satiate, she
smiled with love; for it was as though she had seen the image of God's
fairest form upon her Water, His shadow on her Earth. He in His turn
beholding the Form like to Himself, existing in her, in her Water,
loved it and willed to live in it. And Nature took the object of her
love and wound herself completely round him, and they were
intermingled, for they were lovers. Man, though male-female, is from a
male-female Mind; and though he is sleepless from a sleepless Sire, yet
is he overcome by sleep.” Hermes Trismegistus
“Of all illusions, the
illusion of woman is supreme.” Guhyasamajatantra
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