Our Lady of Divine Darkness

       

“I heard a voice speaking to me: ‘The young woman whom you see is Love. She has her tent in eternity… It was love which was the source of this creation in the beginning when God said: Let it be! And it was. As though in the blinking of an eye, the whole creation was formed through love. The young woman is radiant in such a clear, lightning-like brilliance of countenance that you can’t fully look at her… She holds the sun and moon in her right hand and embraces them tenderly… The whole creation calls this maiden, Lady. For it was from her that all of creation proceeded, since Love was the first. She made everything…” ~Hildegard of Bingen 

This is actually quite Biblical. In the book of Proverbs, chapter eight, Wisdom (Sophia) speaks as the divine feminine. She says that she was at play with God at the creation of the world and he delighted in her. She is the Shakti, the power of creation. Without her divine darkness there would be no light, without her divine womb there would be no creation, without her divine silence there would be no Word, without her divine love there would be no Christ.

 

 Image: by Dan Hillier