The beginning of the universe is often called Marie, Tehom, Sophia,
Tara, Tiamant, and Thinking Woman, throughout the world. In physics, She is called the Unmanifest
Implicate Order, to use the terms of physicist David Bohm. As a woman's ovaries contain eggs that are
potential people, the Unmanifest contains the possibilities of all that we may
imagine and conceive.
The reason that the Feminine is united with the Unmanifest is evident in a woman's ovaries that contain the potentials of human life. Those eggs existed in her when she herself was inside her mother's womb.
It is her egg that became us. The seminal input to our unfolding was from sperm. Once the two unite, the fetus grows in line mathematically with what many refer to as the Flower of Life. The Flower of Life is also reflected upon the Word's arrival, which is the line in Genesis 1:3 that says, "Let there Be Light." After this statement, there is a division of the Waters into our world. The story begins with Darkness (Unmanifest) out of which Light (Manifest) is born. From there the universe unfolds in the same mathematical progression that an egg unfolds to become the person writing and the one reading.
This is NOT a point in time. It is what is termed in mystical writings as the Eternal Now.
In essence, I'm saying that Woman is the container of potential (mirroring the Unmanifest) and the Man is that which sparks (Eros/Desire) that potential into manifestation.
"As above, so below" the saying goes. As it is in Heaven (the Unmanifest) so it is on Earth (the Manifest).
While lovers of the Unmanifest (Marie, Tehom, Tiamant, Aluna, etc.) may see Her as distinct to each of the world religions, She is actually one. Her power of containing potential is nested in every newborn girl who has all the eggs within her that she will carry into adolescence, at which time the eggs begin a monthly cycle that if not fertilized results in menstruation.
To help you visualize the Mother via the metaphor of the Ocean (the meaning of Marie, as in Marina), consider the following account of Aluna, the Great Mother Goddess of the Kogi, a South American tribe of Native Americans:
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