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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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