In my continued immersion into the Divine Feminine, I found The Blessed Virgin Mary: Her Life and Mission, book written by Corrine Heline. Nicholas Roerich called the image on the cover, Mother of Light, and he tells of her legend.
It is said there is a.great snow peak among the Himalayas where no human food has ever trod. Here a shrine has been prepared for her, and in the day of Earth’s extreme crisis, she will arise here, and lifting her hand like a shaft of light, she will summon the aid of far-off worlds floating in space. He declares this Mother of Light is the bridge of unification between East and West, and from this unification will be produced the rarest spiritual treasure the world has ever known.
When I read this quote, I immediately copied it into an email and send it to Inna Didkovska, my long-time Ukrainian friend and colleague. I quickly received an affirming and confirming response from her. We both have a deep connection to the Divine Feminine and the work of the Roerichs, and made pilgrimages to their home high in the Himalayan Mountains in northern India.
The legend of Mother of Light gave a deeper meaning to our long relationship . . . along with an appreciation of how we have helped each other become more whole, more global, in our understanding and experience of the world. She helped me develop my Eastern side and I helped her develop her Western side–we can understand issues from both sides of the planet, both internally and externally.
Being with Inna in Ukraine for 14 months in 2020 and 2021 was an immersion experience into a culture anchored in feminine values. It helped me realize that all my reading about the archetypal feminine and HerStory was very abstract and mental, and how much my consciousness and behavior was anchored in mental and masculine values.
I returned to the US feeling like I had left “home,” and was returning to do missionary work with my own people–bringing the message of the experience of the Divine Feminine . . . which is why I created this website.