"Mother’s Day – Mother Energy"
by Rev. Christine 5/11/03Today, being Mother’s Day, my talk is based on the Mother Energy of the Bible, in particular the New Testament. My first observation while preparing for this was the number of different Mary’s and a Martha (both beginning with the letter "M", and thinking there must be more to this than meets the eye. In most cases Mary was a mother, but she was also a sister and a friend. And, so with my natural curiosity I began to investigate and meditate upon a deeper meaning.
There were three main Mary’s; Mary mother of Jesus, Mary Magdalene healed of seven demons, and Mary the sister of Martha and Lazarus – the number three representing the trinity or law of creation. In all I counted seven different Mary’s – the number seven means spiritually complete.
You may have heard me say in the past that the New Testament was really about Mary – the feminine aspect of us all. Mary is the soul of us, and the different Mary’s that served Jesus and the disciples represent the phases of the individual soul; our emotions, feelings and beliefs – our subjective side.
Beginning with our Mother Mary filled with the Holy Ghost she embodies the Son of God, the Divine Idea to be made manifest, and brings forth giving birth to Jesus. Another name for Jesus was "Emanuel" meaning "God with us." God is within and without, both invisible and visible.
Mother Mary from the time of conception was to be dedicated to the temple, and at the age of three was given to be raised in the temple in preparation for the virgin birth of Jesus the Christ.
According to the Metaphysical Dictionary, "Mary, the mother of Jesus, represents the soul that magnifies the Lord "daily in the temple" (our body temple) and through its devotions prepares itself for the higher life." Daily going within to pray and meditate, and then bringing forth into your daily activity of devotional life with the intention of always serving God.
"Mary signifies the divine motherhood of love. She also represents the higher senses of intuition. Jesus, the perfected-man manifestation, is conceived in the intuitive or soul nature, and is molded in its substance. This coming of the Christ body into activity is the result of an exalted idea sown in the mind and matured by the soul (Mary)."
Mother Mary is also symbolized as our Mother Earth, or as matter, living energy. In fact, matter is a word meaning Mother energy, and is derived from the word "mater" meaning mother.
In this age we do not deal with things and objects – we deal with energy. Regardless, of what you are doing or where you are to recognize God everywhere as the invisible and visible energy. What ever you touch – whatever you look at say, "This is called energy – divine energy." Seeing this way is being devotional. Mary the mother of creation, embodies the Holy Ghost, intuits Divine ideas, and gives birth to Divine Substance – Divine Energy in and as all living matter.
Our next Mary, Mary Magdalene, was first introduced in the Bible as being healed by Jesus of seven demons. Demons can be that which torture us, make us suffer, such as, our fears, pain and suffering, beliefs in lack, evil, illness, desires and attachments to the physical aspects of life. The five outer senses that believe the world of matter has power over our life, or our sensations entice us to worship the physical over our spiritual nature.
In the Christ presence we are lifted in Truth, our demons are released, and we become disciples of the Christ within us. Mary Magdalene always faithful, loving, devotionally serving, and filled with gratitude for her master. She was dedicated to the Christ. Then at the tomb, Mary looks within and weeps for she does not see her living master, and then hears "Why seek ye the living among the dead?" This suggests the forgetfulness or disbelief of sense consciousness, for Jesus told the disciples that he would rise from the dead, yet they were looking in the tomb for him, and weeping at their loss. But then the true sight came, intuition, and Mary Magdalene was once again able to see Jesus, and rejoiced in his living.
Next we have Mary of Bethany, the sister of Martha and Lazarus. Mary here represents the devotional soul, and Martha represents the practical soul. Mary and Martha also represent two aspects of love: Martha the love that ministers to the physical necessities, and Mary that which attends to the spiritual. Jesus commends Mary above Martha.
Martha is busy fixing food to serve all the company, and complains to Jesus for Mary not helping; for Mary is sitting at Jesus feet listening to him speak as she anoints his feet using her hair to apply the oil. Judas too complains to Jesus for Mary wasting the expensive oil upon Jesus’ feet when it could be sold for money and given to the poor.
Judas is a thief, that part of our self that will cheat or steal from us that which is precious for our soul, by making work or money more important than our giving love to our spiritual nature – the Christ within us. So here we have the practice of devotional time in our holy temple with our master Christ.
Metaphysically: Mary is sitting at her master’s feet – this represents a devotional practice "anointing in love" of daily meditating in silence – and now abiding in that state of union. Anointing with oil, is our pure love – our full attention is given to our inner temple. Hair is a symbol for knowledge from above, and the feet is a symbol for understanding from below – the two are brought together and Mary wipes the oil with her hair upon his feet – meaning knowledge is embodied and brought into full understanding.
How often do we put the physical first, thinking that it is wasteful of time to be in the silence of prayer and meditation – being in the presence of God, the Christ within. Instead we run about doing our chores or work at hand without the inner guidance or understanding that meditation would bring.
This also reminds me of the parables that Jesus taught that had to do with women; The ten virgins; also known as the five foolish virgins who were without oil for their lamps, and the wise virgins who lit their lamps and went with the bridegroom. Ten is the number of the Tree of Life, of wholeness and totality for eternal life – this is instruction for the Tree of Life.
The five foolish virgins represents living in our outer senses or physical nature, and not being prepared or taking the time to receive the Christ within in daily practice of meditation and prayer. So when these foolish virgins went to the bridegroom without their light, they were not recognized and turned away. You must have your oil – pure love – to be recognized and received in spirit.
The five wise virgins represent those that have developed the inner life, and the higher senses of intuition, unconditional love and compassion.
In the parable of the Lost Coin, we have a woman who has 10 silver coins, and if she loses one, will light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she find is. And when she has found it call together her friends and neighbors rejoicing for she has found the coin which had been lost.
Again we have the number 10, representing our wholeness and totality for the Tree of Life. The coins represent marriage, as they wore their dowry as a necklace or head dress. Silver represents our life force energy. The loss of one coin would represent imbalance or disharmony that can restrict communication between the Christ self (husband) and the individual soul (wife). Sweeping is the clearing out of the darkness in her house or mental/emotional state of mind. Lighting the lamp is the Light of Truth to see clearly and fill her house with light.
Today we have been reminded of the importance of women in the New Testament – the higher evolved female energy that transforms the fallen Eve into Mary who is whole and complete in Christ, and partakes of the Tree of Life.