I do want to comment on this statue. I realize that the Bible speaks harshly about "graven images." And, I agree. However, in meditating on this image, you can get past the statue and understand the process it is pointing towards. Even during visions and dreams, I always realize that the characters, including Sophia, were metaphors for deeper truths. In other words, you need to get past the noun vision of God and into the verb.
The two are not two, ultimately. Indeed, I would say the Verb manifests as the Noun. Thus, Prajnaparimta, Sophia, Christ and Buddha all reflect the essence of the Godhead, which manifests in each one of us. Or, as Christian mystic Meister Eckhart puts it, "all creatures shout God." That includes theist, atheistic, and neither.
Not realizing this is the essence of not knowing ourselves in both our cosmic view (which is imageless) and earthly (image). Our incarnation as woman, man, plant, animal and rock is simply a manifestation of Sophia's Eros (desire) to manifest and express all facets of Herself.
This is why Mother has the term "other." If there were no other, then that which is no other would never know Herself. If we remained in the ovaries as eggs, then we would have never have expressed God in the essence of our Being. Thus, God becomes an-other serving as a mirror to God.
How many parents see themselves in their kids?
And, what of death? Unfortunately, we deny death as a process of life. Thus, we lock ourselves into coffins at death because we are so attached to what and who we think we are, our smaller ego-self. In ancient Egyptian times, this was the purpose of mummification. Our western culture is thus saturated in a non-evolutionary process. We allow ourselves to live, think and die inside a standardized, circumscribed box. Thus we have been stuck in a non-evolutionary status.
Mirroring this, many Christians say Christ died so we don't have to. He is the scapegoat for all of us. He dies so we don't have to.
However, this is not what the Man said. Indeed, He said to pick up and suffer the cross as He did. It was due to this death that He was resurrected into higher form. Thus, I would ask these Christians to please read what the Man actually said.
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