LOVE PRODUCES RADIANCE (The Arts of Devotion & Love Making in Ancient Sumer) 🌙

In Ancient Sumer, Temple Priestesses served as intermediaries between the World and the Higher Mysteries, and carried aspirants to the Goddess by sacred embrace. Ancient Love Goddesses were juicy, lush and luminous; golden amber and amaretto flecked their eyes, aglow from the unbridled expression of passion. Their sleek manes, glittering with fresh fire blossoms, delicately sheathed their exquisite, full silhouettes. A fragrant billow of myrrh, aloe, and spice rose steadily from the Temple, fanning over the mountain’s crest. Moon cakes were nestled amongst milk, dried flowers and honey. The Priestesses transformed into scarlet avatars of Inanna, the primordial Venus, by intense worship, also called tadrupata in Tantric Philosophy. Inanna ruled over the sacred arts of erotic dance, costumery and love making. Thus, priestesses healed with sensual magic and transmitted mystical knowledge to aspirants through the Blood of their Hearts.

Spiritual sophistication is not cultivated simply by lavishness alone, but in the oceanic devotion ritual expresses. Such rituals reflect the underlying principles of Bhakti, a lunar yogic path which brightly promulgates sacred worship and devotional love as ultimate realization, often through ornate, highly detailed rituals. There are many arrangements of truth, so there are many yogic paths suited to the alchemy of each aspirant. The sense that we naturally and intensely attain to bliss by satisfying the deepest essence of another, be it Deity or lover, is fundamental to this path. Embellished makeups, fabrics and jewelry are not only symbolic offerings, but enrich a sensorial atmosphere which typifies the very essence of Venus. By saturating in Venus, a joy for Art blooms in itself; it is shining, unselfish and therefore magical. When Love falls open, like petals of Devi, its tendrils give back; as do the sheaths of prismatic light which engulf the Soul, each color its own marvel, flowing outwardly in a polytonal maelstrom of unbridled radiance. And all this rosy beauty veils and reveals deep secrets for those seeking to love the Goddess.

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