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john davies
notes from a small vicar
from a parish
in Liverpool, UK

    Sunday, December 09, 2007
    Another Eve
     
    It is I who am the part of my mother;
    And it is I who am the mother;
    It is I who am the wife;
    It is I who am the virgin;
    It is I who am pregnant;
    It is I who am the midwife;
    It is I who am the one that comforts pains of travail;
    It is my husband who bore me;
    And it is I who am his mother,
    And it is he who is my father and my lord.
    It is he who is my force;
    What he desires, he says with reason.
    I am in the process of becoming.
    Yet I have borne a man as lord.
    - On the Origin of the World, from the Nag Hammadi texts, thus describes Eve. Struck me that it's equally suggestive of Mary, as her week in Advent approaches...