Venus - Mary - Star of the Sea

by Gloria Ssali

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Venus - Mary - Star of the Sea

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Gloria Ssali

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Drawing - Drawing

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Venus (Latin: [ˈwɛnʊs]) is a Roman goddess principally associated with love, beauty and fertility, who played a key role in many Roman religious festivals and myths. From the third century BC, the increasing Hellenization of Roman upper classes identified her as the equivalent of the Greek goddess Aphrodite. Name
The noun form venus means "love" and "sexual desire" in Latin,[1] and has connections to venerari (to honour, to try to please) and venia (grace, favour) through a possible common root in an Indo-European *wenes-, comparable to Sanskrit vanas- "lust, desire".[2][3]
Venus' name might embody the function of honours and gifts to the divine when seeking their favours: such acts can be interpreted as the enticement, seduction or charm of gods by mortals.[4][5] The ambivalence of this function is suggested in the etymological relationship of the root *venes- with Latin venenum (poison, venom), in the sense of "a charm, magic philtre".[6] Here I wish to consider Venus Goddess of Love in a slightly different light: not merely as Creatrix, but as the very "motive-force" behind creation; the reason why there is a universe and not nothing.
In speaking of the "motivation" behind creation we are clearly on ground properly termed "esoteric", and we should beware of over-literalism. Nevertheless, the importance of Love, and the Sushuric principle, is so little understood in the current world that it seems worthwhile to give some indication of its truly fundamental nature.
I have already spoken of the Creative symbolism surrounding Venus Goddess of love and its relation to the symbolism of Our Lady Mary, whose Image is also closely related to that of the Primordial Creatrix. I have noted that the Orphics saw Venus/Aphrodite not as a goddess who rules over carnal love but rather as the cosmogonic goddess who gives the irresistible urge to the Aethyr to create forms out of the substance of the Earth.
This is fundamental to the metaphysical understanding of being: all things are a marriage of form (or Essence) and substance. While substance is the underlying "stuff" of being, the Essences, or Archetypes are what give it the shape of all the "ten thousand things" that constitute a universe. I wish to present her as Our Lady Mary, Venus, Star of the Sea

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