“Mother, How Can you do Both?” It is Who I am | Steve Beckow

The Mother with the Trimurthy in her heart

By Steve Beckow, October 10, 2021

(Golden Age of Gaia)

“Mother, How Can You Do Both?” It is Who I am – Part 1/2

I started out writing an article on something remarkable the Divine Mother said and it quickly became an article on the Divine Mother herself.

Maybe it’s time to review who the Divine Mother is, for new readers. I can’t think of a subject more important while waiting for events to occur.

When we’re talking about the Divine Mother, we’re referring to the active side of God, the Creator, Preserver, and Transformer of worlds. (1)

“The Mother” is a title she herself uses. (2)

She also uses the names we use. So, for instance, Linda Dillon calls her “Universal Mother Mary,” honoring the fact that the Mother incarnated as Mary, Mother of Jesus – a name the Mother accepts – and I more often use the term “Divine Mother,” reflecting habits formed from eastern studies – which she also accepts.

She says of herself:

“I am known by many names, and that is appropriate. And I am thought of in many forms — as Mary [Mother of Jesus], as Shakti, as Marḗ [the Ocean of Love], which is very close because it is the word for ocean in your world and language. It represents the movement and the giver of life, the creator of life, of love, of form, of substance, of essence.” (3)

She is movement from creation to preservation to transformation. She is also the source of the natural law, which applies only to her domain and governs all that occurs.

She uses the term “Heavenly Father” for her companion.

What’s the difference between the two? She is God in movement, in action. He is God in stillness, in passivity. (4) She explains:

“I am known by the movement within you and the movement within your Earth, within all things, within all universes. …

“If you were to think of the Father in terms of what you will come to understand, you would think of the Father as complete stillness, still point.

“And in fact so often when we urge you to go to that place it is that union that you are seeking with the Heavenly Father, with that complete sense of simply being.

“I am the creative force throughout this universe, throughout the multiverse, the omniverse, but we source each other. We source each other’s energies and we move as one and yet separate and distinct.” (5)

She continues:

“When I am in the Father, I do not require that movement, for that is not the way that I have created the Father. …

“Let me explain further. In many traditions, I am considered the Mother of All; in some traditions, the Mother of God, Source, One. Now, what does this mean?

“It means exactly what it says: I am the beginning and I am the completion, the end. ….” (6)

When the One became two, the second was the Mother. That which we call the Mother is aware that she is the One in form.

In my opinion, she’s saying I begin as the Father, arise as the Mother, and merge with the Father again. She explains:

“I have strongly encouraged you not only to discover but to find the masculine aspect of yourself, and the feminine, the stillness and the movement — you cannot have creation of any kind without both.

“Creation comes from movement, and it is movement into form, into energy, into substance, into essence — however you conceive of that.

“But do not negate the role of the Father, of the masculine, because in that is the stillness of what you think of as the moment of creation. So it is the combination.

“You say, ‘Mother, how can you do both?’ It is who I am.” (7)

She is all of it and she is all we’re ever going to be hearing from or speaking to. The Father is silent as well as still.

Creating, preserving, and transforming – everything in creation is based on this initial, primal pattern. (8)

An iron instrument is created, persists, and rusts away. A bird is born, lives, and dies. A fruit is created, ripens, and falls away.

Why, even us: we go out into the world from the Father, persist until we discover who we are, and then return to the Father. Even that follows the trajectory of the Mother’s pattern.

We don’t even notice the pattern; I think we’ve become conditioned to it. (9)

Jesus was pointing to this relationship when, upon being asked to set a password for the disciples, he replied, “A movement and a rest.” (10) She is the movement; he is the rest.

So that is the basic distinction between them.

(Concluded in part 2, below.)

Footnotes

(1) Creator/Procreatrix/Prakriti.

(2) Is it “She” or “she”? Michael says: “We do not want anything capitalized.” (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Aug. 12, 2016.)

(3) “The Divine Mother: Come to Me as I Come to You – Part 1/2,” Oct. 17, 2012 at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2012/10/17/the-divine-mother-come-to-me-as-i-come-to-you-part-12/.

(4) This is my hypothesis: God is in stillness, in passivity when considered from our material standpoint only. There is movement, just not material movement, in God the Father. Love moves, love flows in the Divine Male. In the One, none of this discussion would be relevant . No one knows what transpires in the One, save the Mother.

(5) “The Divine Mother: Come to Me as I Come to You,” ibid.

(6) Loc. cit.

(7) Loc. cit.

(8) All existing things on the Third Dimension go through the three phases – creation, preservation, transformation – which pattern I imagine is intended to remind us of the Mother or predispose us to the knowledge of her when it comes. The gift of enlightenment – when it does come – is solely hers.

(9) Hindu readers will understand me when I say that the primal pattern is reflected here: Akar, Ukar, Makar (AUM); rajas, sattwa, thamas (gunas); Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva (Trimurthy), all of which are subsets and creations of the Divine Mother. Also, in humans, the pattern prevails: inbreath, pause, outbreath.

(10) “If they ask you: ‘What is the sign of the Father in you?’, say to them: ‘It is a movement and a rest.'” (Jesus in A. Guillaumont et al, The Gospel According to Thomas. NY: Harper and Row, 1959, 29.)



By Steve Beckow, October 10, 2021

(Golden Age of Gaia)

“Mother, How Can You Do Both?” It is Who I am – Part 2/2

(Concluded from Part 1, above.)

Using energy – which is to say love – the Mother brings all things into being, preserves them for a while, and transforms them, in accordance with her universal laws and Divine Plan.

Only what she wills occurs; if it isn’t in her Plan, it won’t occur. And the victory of the deep state is not in her plan; the victory of love is. (1)

On another occasion she had this to say of herself:

Steve: You once said to me that Shakti [the Divine Energy], the Holy Spirit [spiritus – breath, a metaphor for energy], was only a small part of you. Can you explain what you meant by that? Is Shakti only limited to a certain dimension, universe or realm?

Divine Mother: No. No. When I have spoken about … Shakti, I have spoken about a part of me.

“As I have said, I am the bridge, I am the clasp between the Father and the universe and your world. And Shakti has been experienced — yes, inter-dimensionally for eons as you well know – but she is not the totality of my being.

“My being is bigger than you can fathom, dear one. So I do not simply mean that she is an aspect manifesting. But it is simply larger than any of you can imagine, particularly at this point.” (2)

Give up? Or love a good mystery!?

***

Have we any examples of sages realizing the Mother?

Yes, here’s the realization of the Mother by Sri Ramakrishna’s Vedantic guru, Totapuri.

Totapuri had been denying the existence of the Divine Mother. He’d say:

“Whatever is within the domain of maya is unreal. Give it up. Destroy the prison-house of name and form and rush out of it with the strength of a lion. Dive deep in search of the Self and realize It through samadhi. You will find the world of name and form vanishing into void, and the puny ego dissolving in Brahman-Consciousness.” (3)

Well, Sri Ramakrishna was a devout lover of the Mother; such words were not pleasant to his ears.

Meanwhile, having accomplished in life all he wanted to and seeing no further reason to carry on, Totapuri determined to end his life by drowning in the Ganges.

But no matter how far into the Ganges he walked, the water did not come above his shins. What was happening?

“Suddenly, in one dazzling moment, [Totapuri] sees on all sides the presence of the Divine Mother. She is in everything; She is everything. She is in the water; She is on land. She is the body; She is the mind. She is pain; She is comfort. She is knowledge; She is ignorance. She is life; She is death. She is everything that one sees, hears, or imagines. She turns ‘yea’ into ‘nay’; and ‘nay’ into ‘yay.’ Without Her grace no embodied being can go beyond Her realm.

“Man has no free will. He is not even free to die. Yet, again, beyond the body and mind, She resides in her Transcendental, Absolute aspect. She is the Brahman [God the Father] that Totapuri has been worshipping all his life.” (4)

The Mother’s nature “is simply larger than any of you can imagine, particularly at this point.”

***

Let me use this opportunity to put forth the Mother’s Plan at the very highest level.

On February 13, 1987, I saw how the movie ended. I got the whole story. I watched a vision of the entire journey of a single soul from God to God. I saw what the whole chain of being is about. (See footnote 5)

Drenched in bliss, I watched a small golden star, which I knew to be the Child of God (Christ, Atman, Self), emerge from a large golden Sun, which I knew to be the Heavenly Father, and streak out into space. I watched it enter a cloud that I knew to be the Divine Mother’s domain and go through lifetimes in matter before two enlightenment events had it streak back to the Father and merge with it.

I was left with the words ringing in my ears: Enlightenment is the purpose of life.

I spent twenty years unravelling that mostly-wordless puzzle.

I can therefore say that the only thing that matters in life is to find out who we are.

Time traveller, back from the future, says: It all works out in the final reel. And it gets better and better along the way. The way is finite, yet continuous. By the time you figure that one out, this discussion won’t matter.

The Mother furnishes us with a school of experience in a world of matter (mater, Mother), in which we discover the secret of our existence.

She pays me to tell you this (just kidding): Self-Discovery, Self-Knowledge, Self-Realization brings life’s fulfillment.

Thank you, Mother, source of all good things, destination of every heart and soul.

Footnotes

(1) Divine Mother: Make no mistake, Sweet One, Love will win because that has been my Plan always. (Divine Mother in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, April 30, 2019.)

Divine Mother: [I am speaking about] those in … positions where control and abuse of power have been rampant. That will not be the platform [from] which integration of the various galaxies takes place. That is not the Plan.

I know very clearly, sweet one, as do you, if it is not [in] my Plan, then it will not occur. (The Divine Mother in “Enter the Delegations – Part 2/3,” May 5, 2019, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2019/05/05/enter-the-delegations-part-2-3/. Reading, April 30, 2019.)

(2) “The Divine Mother: Come to Me as I Come to You,” ibid.

(3) Swami Nikhilananda, trans., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1978; c1942, 28. [Hereafter GSR.]

(4) GSR, 31.

(5) On the vision itself, see “The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment – Ch. 13 – Epilogue,” August 13, 2011, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2011/08/13/the-purpose-of-life-is-enlightenment-ch-13-epilogue/

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