“[On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of life - rather than death and the fear of death - were dominant in society as well as art.” IfsMenGivingWellsArtReligionReligiousDyingFiguresBirthCrossesAncientOur TimeLife And DeathLove LifeDominantFear Of DeathUnreasonableVenusGiving Birth Author:Riane Eisler
“The Cross was the place of your spiritual birth; it must ever be the spot for renewing your health, for it is the sanatorium of every sin-sick soul. The blood is the true balm of Gilead; it is the only catholicon [remedy] which heals every spiritual disease.” SoulSpiritualSinBloodBirthDiseaseCrossesSickHealSpotsRemedy Author:Charles Spurgeon
“Giving birth is priestess work; it requires a woman to pass through a painful and dangerous initiation in which she journeys to the threshold between worlds and risks her own life to help another soul cross over.” WorldGivingSoulHelpingRiskJourneyDangerousBirthCrossesPainfulWorking ItThresholdGiving BirthInitiationPriestesses Book:Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul Source: Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul
“The whole life of Christ was a continual Passion; others die martyrs but Christ was born a martyr. He found a Golgotha even in Bethlehem, where he was born; for to his tenderness then the straws were almost as sharp as the thorns after, and the manger as uneasy at first as his cross at last. His birth and his death were but one continual act, and his Christmas day and his Good Friday are but the evening and morning of one and the same day. And as even his birth is his death, so every action and passage that manifests Christ to us is his birth, for Epiphany is manifestation.” FirstsWholeActionLastsDiesPassionFoundChristBornMorningBirthCrossesWhole LifeEveningManifestationPassagesTendernessFridayMartyrThornsEpiphanyStrawsUneasyChristmas DayGood FridayBethlehemGolgotha Author:John Donne