Aseity, Queen of the South
Mother Self of the Cosmos
The word Aseity gives a personal name to the most basic concept in all systematic Theology and Philosophy, uniting in one word both the essence and the existence of all Selflife in the Cosmos.
The Medieval Schoolmen, in the development of their Scholastic Philosophy, gave much earnest consideration to a being who had life from itself, i.e., a se. Such a being was said, in Latin, to possess the attribute aseitas, in English, aseity. Like all abstract nouns in Latin, aseitas was classified grammatically as being of feminine gender. There is every reason to maintain this gender distinction, and where appropriate, to refer to Aseity as the Mother Self of the Cosmos with the pronouns she and her. She is Eve, named in biblical mythology as Mother of all the Living.
Aseity is selflife. Her essence or nature is selfexistence. Aseity is not only selflife, spoken in the act of her own very self as “I AM”, but is also shared selflife for all her begotten spaced time imaging and reflecting otherselves spoken in act as “Thou art”. It is a logically valid extension and meaningful innovation to use the proper noun Aseity as the personal name for the being whose act and art is unveiled and revealed in the self-functioning self-evolving Universe.
It is timely, though disturbingly revolutionary for some observers, to add also the epithet pregnant to the personal name of Aseity in whose metaphysical womb all self↔other existential relativity gestates. There infinite becomingness is begotten, spaced time worlds without end. It is still convenient to distinguish Aseity from her human begotten images by referring to her as divine. Controversy is avoided by limiting any meaningful use of the gender words god and goddess just to Mythology and human make-believe.
It is also relevant to associate Aseity with she whom we have become accustomed to refer to as Mother Nature and also as Gaia. Such concepts add perceptual dimensions to our interior growth in reverential awe and contemplation of the Universe as a Living Whole. At the same time, it encourages personal human self-other intimacy within the womb of the maternal source of all Selflife, now shared with us in her self-evolving Cosmos. At the pinnacle of Planet Earth’s Tree of Life reigns the human placental mammal, made in the image and likeness of The Divine Maternity.
Down under
at the ends of the earth,
in the Southern Land of the Holy Spirit,
lies the City of Adelaide. It is called Queen of the South,
being founded and named, in 1836, after the reigning Queen Adelaide.
at the ends of the earth,
in the Southern Land of the Holy Spirit,
lies the City of Adelaide. It is called Queen of the South,
being founded and named, in 1836, after the reigning Queen Adelaide.