Course XXXV - Teaching 13: The Wisdom of the Mother

The veil of Aeia is image of life as a result, it is the effect manifested of a hidden cause. The whole Universe is image of the Divine Mother; from sidereal bodies to the tiniest grain of sand.
But the primary cause, source of life and existence, is what remains hidden, veiled.
To discover the unique, basic, fundamental secret of life is to have discovered the Eternal Secret, is to have raised the Veil of Aeia.
All ancient religions symbolize the Divine Mother in female form and veiled. The female woman is the spiritual manifestation of God, and the veil covering her is the material manifestation of God, who shows herself with the total beauty and materiality of life, maintaining ever veiled the power that brought him into being.
The sage knows perfectly and in detail the process of development, growth, flourishing and fructification of the ear of wheat. But what sage in the world could imitate and form an ear of wheat? The veil was always symbol of wisdom; not human wisdom but Divine Wisdom.
The early Popes of the Christian Church, when spiritual life was exclusively in force in this Church, wore a hood as symbol of wisdom and dignity. But when Roman Pontiffs lose the pristine fervor and rather desired material goods than spiritual goods, they left the white hood to crown themselves with a tiara of gold and silver.
In old days, the great sages of India covered their heads to indicate they were dedicated to the study of Divine Wisdom.
Just as the Veil of Aeia is image of Spiritual and fundamental Wisdom, Beatrix is image of substantial wisdom. Beatrix is dressed in gold because the yellow color corresponds to the superior Mind; and she is crowned with stars because she knows all the creation, all expressions of life and changes of it. She is seated on a Dragon to symbolize she holds sway over the world and knows material secrets, since the Dragon is symbol of human wisdom. This is to such extent true that, in ancient texts, sages were called “sons of the Dragon”.
All are able to possess Beatrix’s wisdom; but so that the secret of thing is revealed and Aeia’s Veil –or Spiritual and Divine Wisdom– is known, necessarily She must submerge the aspirant in the Eternal Fountain.
This fountain, eternal spring of wisdom, teaches a man that, by his own means, he can reach the wisdom of Aeia; he has to suspend all his senses and be able to know her by ecstasy and renunciation.
What happens to a man when, submerged under the water, has no air to breathe? All his senses are suspended and his only desire is air.
The Divine Wisdom is also suspension of everything that one knows, to know the “Only Truth”, the only expression, the only secret of life.
The Dragon dies, is killed, because he who reached realization does not need any more means or ways to arrived at Her. He is the Path. Without consciousness, not remembering it, he maintains all the power of what he knew before; so the Pilgrim bathes himself in the blood of the Dragon.
To descend into the place of death expresses the three trials that the candidate has to undergo before the Divine Union: physical trial, mental trial and spiritual trial.
One can take part in these trials only being as if one was dead, because the Divine Union is death for men.
The three descending wheels are the three stages of these trials that will enable IHS to unite himself with his Eternal Beloved Lady.