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Those who truly meditate on Thee, the Spouse of Hara, who art seated in the cremation-ground strewn with funeral pyres, corpses, skulls, and bones, and haunted by female jackals howling fearfully; who art very youthful, and art in full enjoyment upon Thy Spouse, are revered by all and in all places.
Hymn to Kali
“O dark mother, hear me calling thee
Mahapralaya, bring to me
Through all illusions I shall see
I shall cremate this world and set my essence free”
(via 42ndthrash)
Kali is the Black Destroyer as well as nurturing mother. Often represented as a Black Demonic Goddess, Kali stands atop her husband, Shiva, holding in her hands blades dripping with blood, and upon her neck a necklace of human skulls. Kali is black because all that transpires returns to her, she is the Abyss in it’s feminine aspect. All time melts into this Goddess. Kali is also life giving, a nurturing and loving mother, granting ecstasy to those who would invoke her in the rites of Tantra, through which the sexual combination of opposites set in motion the process of Creation. The union of Male and Female with a magickal aim or focus presents an accessible window to the astral and dream plane. Thus through OZ being PAN can desire become flesh. It is through the divine Woman that the essence of Magick and Witchcraft is found. Those seeking beyond this path will often miss it altogether, due to the consistent denial of ones’ own feminine or Lunar side which must be invariably joined with the Male or Sun aspect.
Michael W. Ford
