Holy Whore

paladin · #1 12-19-2006, 11:47 PM

Clipped and pasted from a spiritual site.

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Sacred Prostitutes

Holy Whore, a Sacred Prostitute uses sex as a means to God/dess and to enlightenment. Fundamentalist Christians believe that the door to the kingdom of heaven is opened to those re-born of fire and water. Occult traditions such as Tantra, and magickal orders which esteem the Holy Whore, persuade us to experience our divinity by immersing ourselves in the fires of sexual passion and the baptismal waters of sexual ritual. Sexuality becomes sacred when the Goddess residing in every women is honored. (and she doesnt need to get pregnant, which ties her down. something very suspicious about that, every time she wants to do it, shes at risk? i say ball/bullcrap on that and that has to be FIXED next time. and not transformed--i said fixed. thats another trick IMO, anyway, more...The term "sacred whore" is not oxymoronic. If we explore the etymology of the words "whore" or "harlot," we find that the split between "priestess" and "prostitute" is a relatively recent one. In her book When God Was A Woman, Merlin Stone informs us that the Hebrew word zonah means both prostitute and prophetess. Barbara Walker, in her Dictionary of Woman's Myths and Secrets, points out that the Hebrew word hor means a cave, pit, or dark hole. The Spanish word for whore, puta, derives from the Latin term for a well, but the Latin term for grave, literally "a hole in the earth," is puticuli, meaning womb of rebirth. These terms for whore were not derogatory.

The Latin term had its root in the Vedic, an early Sanskrit language, wherein the word puta is defined as pure and holy. The cave, the pit, the hole, and the bottomless black lake were metaphors for the Great Goddess, She who is unnameable, that darkness primordial from which all life (light) is born. She is the Everything and The Nothing -- Hole-y, Holy, Wholly. The Sacred Whore at work was, in fact, the manifestation the Great Goddess.

The separation into priestess and prostitute, or sacred and profane polarities, occurred for western civilization when the early fathers of Christianity claimed power by abolishing goddess worship and other nature-based pagan religions. In actuality the bipartite woman, both whore and madonna, was a construct of the early Papal Councils around 600 AD.

Vestal Virgins and Sex Magick

Ishtar, the Great Whore of Babylon, was sometimes called the Goddess Har since she was the mother of the Harlots. These Harlots were not prostitutes as we know them, but priestesses, sorceresses, prophets, and healers. Sacred Whores were known sometimes as the Holy Virgins of Goddesses such as Ishtar, Asherah, or Aphrodite. The famous Vestal Virgins were thought to have practiced secret sex magical rites in honor of the Roman Goddess Vesta, the same as the Greek goddess Hestia -- Goddess of the Hearth, or "center of the world."

But Holy Whores weren't man-haters. Their function was dispensing the grace of the God/Goddess through sexual worship by sharing their bodies with worthy initiates and with each other. The power to heal.

In the Beginning

The Great Goddess was the All and her son represented the self-realized human, male or female. Women were thought to be able to access the power of the Goddess more easily because they could more easily identify with Her. In these early days, women were the mediators between the Goddess and the tribe. Later the masculine force became imbalanced by the male need to overcompensate and relegate women to a lower class. Such imbalance may have been caused in part by men's fear of women's magic -- particularly the ability to give birth, the blood, and her intuitive gifts. Most men, though, are not afraid. Its the ones with agendas that have trouble.

Before science explained away the mystery, women seemed magical, almost frightening. Women bled in sync with the phases of the moon. They bled in sync with each other and, to the awe of men, did not die. Women bore the babies and from their breasts flowed milk to sustain life. While the men went out to hunt, women explored, gathered food, and gained knowledge of medicinal herbs. They were the healers who produced magical cures for snake bites. Women were privy to divine wisdom. The Delphic oracles listened to pythons, while Eve took the sage advice of a serpent. Woman's "innate" ability to tune into the Goddess was facilitated by her knowledge of herbs, including perhaps, psychoactive botanicals that produced visions.

When God was definitively female, women had the edge. It was thought necessary for a man to go through a woman in order to achieve contact with the Deity. Male devotees of the Great Goddess would offer gifts, undergo painful or humiliating preparatory rituals, wait years, fast, and give just about anything for the opportunity to be initiated by a Sacred Whore. In doing so, they attained the power of the Great Goddess, as well as the opportunity to contact what some modern mages or witches refer to as the True Will, Higher Self, or Holy Guardian Angel. man oh man--see how that really pissed off the priests, theyre yellin ya gotta go thru us!!! all the while, peter and who ever else were screamin it. REALLY JEALOUS. Of the slit. Thats what thats all about. The "great" church and all its pawns, have been behind the cover-up, the power play, oppression. Theyre being guided by their masters, and yet, supposedly that bad alien queen is under the vatican. We have a thread on it. (Remote viewing under the vatican--and she is evil and degenerate, jealous too, of the other queens).

She of the Temple Tower

Priestesses devoted their lives and their bodies to the Goddess. Herodotus wrote that Babylonian brides were required by law to prostitute themselves at the temple for seven days prior to marriage in order to appease the Goddess, who disapproved of monogamy. Spending time as a holy whore blessed the maiden. The profession also became a refuge for women who wished to keep claim of themselves and their rights. In Hellenic Greece, courtesans maintained a social status legally and politically equal to men, while wives were reduced to servants.

later, they became get this.....NURSES. ive always been one, or the other, one way or another. The first nurses in history were the temple prostitutes. Controlled by the same patriarchs, from the beginning.

The patriarchal entity is a tyrant who feeds on control, or "power over." The Holy Whore is a manifestation of "power with, power shared, and power for all." Think of the Strength card in Tarot: A woman holds the lion's mouth open. In this image, woman has identified and taken control of her sexual and creative power, symbolized by the lion. The path of the lion. Its all there. Its strength, honor, integrity, healing.

Sex, Death and Transformation

Love/Sex is also linked with death. Renaissance poets called orgasm "the little death." The Goddess is more than Mother and Whore, she is also the Crone, the Destroyer, the Eater of Men. This trifold goddess is akin to Hindu Goddess Kali. Powerful Kali gives birth with one hand while squatting over her dead consort Shiva and devouring his entrails with the other. If we conquer our fear of the trifold Goddess' powers and embrace the natural sacredness of sex and death, we can truly begin to understand the cycle of life.

Life Out of Balance

Many believe that the world's chance of survival is dependent on the reclamation of the female aspect of deity and its integration in the minds of the people "en masse." We will evolve in the images of the God/Goddess that we created. The Sacred Prostitute represents energy, light, and expansive creative force. The repression of this positive force puts society in crisis. As poet/prophet William Blake writes, "Repressed energy breeds pestilence." The world became the place where violence replaced creative sexual expression and goddess energy.

Our society's god-of-choice is miserable, grouchy, and usually on the verge of suicide. Just like that mila said, they all killed themselves. And rightly so, but long after they became more and more decrepit. From the beginning of decay, from over-looshing it, which they were overly-addicted to, which made them need more and more, and they had a hard time feeding themselves, as lifeforce in those great vampires began to ebb away (ann rice novels and have wanted to get that in here for a while, she took it back to sumer, to anu, the woman did her homework)... Their god only evinces the "restrictive" saturnine intellect and represents a degeneration, a far fall from the original Father-Mother-Sister-Brother God/Goddess of Jewish paganism named YHVH. The punishing grey-beard whom Blake deemed "Nobodaddy," has been severed from feminine wisdom. His children are stillborn, waiting in the ethers for the nourishing milk of their mother.

Reclaiming Female Power

Yahweh's obviously not happy alone on the mountain. He lives at Motel 6. He's afraid to check out by 2. He needs love, understanding, a warm shoulder to cry on, some kindness, and a little laughter. It's hell/hard out there, FOR A PIMP. The holy whore gets up tho, cleans herself off, and says leave the 20's on the nightstand, stupid. (under her breath, she knows a good customer when she sees one). Reclaim the sacred prostitute's spirit, humor, and sheer joy in the flesh. FOR NOW. Help this pitiful God remember how to treat the Goddess's bountiful tit. And plot against him all the while. The Goddess is as her people act: As above, so below. I did not wanna show how women can be vindictive, but he asked for it. Dont cross an elf or a woman/goddess/witch.

Nurses were whores.....these are the women who were healing the wounded up to and during America's civil war.

"Who heals the healers?"
~~carefulcarpenter

orchestral · #2 12-19-2006, 11:51 PM

where do you come up with this shit?
have you met book bbq? you two would be fast friends.

paladin · #3 12-20-2006, 12:10 AM

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The patriarchal entity is a tyrant who feeds on control, or "power over." The Holy Whore is a manifestation of "power with, power shared, and power for all." Think of the Strength card in Tarot: A woman holds the lion's mouth open. In this image, woman has identified and taken control of her sexual and creative power, symbolized by the lion. The path of the lion. Its all there. Its strength, honor, integrity, healing.

paladin · #4 12-20-2006, 10:28 AM

What are the traitsof the divine feminine?

Pandora9 · #5 01-01-2007, 04:00 AM

I once heard virgin children drained of life could not be free without the chance of rotting in hell.

That makes no sense to me.

However, a stinky disrespectful ho with the moral level of the doggy's doo smushed on the ground desereves to learn a lesson before entering the gateway to heaven.