Lingam & Yoni
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an idea symbolized in the early phallic imagery, which continues in India in the
symbols of the lingam and yoni, where the male organ is represented
penetrating the female organ from beneath. And when we are
standing there regarding this symbol, which is that of the pouring of divine
transcendent energy into the sphere of time and space within which we all dwell,
we are, as it were, within the womb of the Goddess beholding and appreciating
the mystery of the continuous creation, the continuous pouring forth of the
transcendent principle into the temporal sphere. It is within
the sphere of time and space that we all dwell, it is within the sphere of the
pairs of opposites, the categories of thought that we all dwell.
The goddess of logic as well as the goddess of time and space limits us
in our thinking and in our action. And so even the names of
god, even the forms of god, wherever god is worshipped, are those of Her
children. She is the primary divinity, the Mother, and Her
womb encloses us. G72