Last week I was telling you about how much I enjoyed a book that has been sitting on my bookshelf for years -- Heaven's Face, Thinly Veiled: A Book of Spiritual Writing by Women. It is definitely a book to treasure and refer to again and again.
I marked some pages that especially touched me with green sticky notes. By the time I was finished reading the book, it looked like a tree branch in spring. I'd like to share some of my favorite parts.
Here is Katharine Trevelyan, writing about a mystical experience she had in a garden:
The wonder was beyond anything I have ever read or imagined or heard men speak about. I was Adam walking alone in the first Paradise. That it was a garden near the outskirts of London in the twentieth century made no difference, for time was not, or had come round again in a full circle. Though I was Adam, I had no need of Eve, for both combined within me. Marriage and maternity fulfilled and surpassed, I had run beyond womanhood and become a human being.
I love the quote "for both combined within me" because it echoes one of the themes of The Gemini Bond, that the masculine and feminine aspects of our personalities must combine in order for us to evolve and grow. Delicious stuff.
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