Shaktism - worship of the Supreme Mother
Shaktism is actually a distinct Indian religion, like Vaishavanism, Shaivism, etc; all these religions being lumped in the West under the heading "Hinduism".
Shakti is translated "Cosmic Energy." She implies "power, ability, capacity, strength prowess; regal power; power of composition, poetic power, genius; the power or signification of a word or term; ...
Shakti who is in Herself pure blissful Consciousness (Cidrupini) is also the Mother of Nature and is Nature itself born of the creative play of Her thought.
The Cosmic Shakti is the Force behind the Universe & the entire Universe is her play & display. Kundalini is Her microcosmic representation. She has been depicted as the Mother Goddess in Pagan philosophies.
Songs of the Shaktis of the Dhyani Buddhas, and their Bodhisattvas
The Dakini Principle: "khadro" (sky goer)
Dakini Land: realm of the Dakini: celebration of the female spirit as manifest in the Dakini
Dakini Tantra ...
26) These other Shaktis stood
to show the path above.
I reached the jeweled doorway.---Oh Mother
I reached the jeweled doorway.
is, in the deepest sense, of sevenfold constitution, for in the three lie enfolded the seven, as also in the Trimurti, when you begin to think, you will find the seven involved; for in the Trimurti you are obliged to recognize in each the Shakti ...
Both Hindu Shakta Tantra and Crowley's magic do center in large part around the acquisition of power (shakti in the Indian case), a power that flow lies within both the natural cosmos and the human self, ...
Four upright triangles represent Shiva, or the masculine. Five inverted triangles represent Shakti, the Divine Mother, or the feminine. Together, the nine triangles form a web that represents the cosmos.
 See also: World, Spirit, Ritual, Spiritual, Tantra
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