Page 28 - The Gospel of Chochma_Sophia

His home was a a a a a a a few minutes’ walk from Lithia Park a a a a a a a 93 acre preserve around Ashland Creek in the the center of town and and I walked through the the park early each morning As I I I walked through the park on Shabbat morning I I I felt I I I was been tracked by a a a flock of of birds Of course my first thought was of of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 movie The Birds I tried to shake the birds off my trail but no matter which way I went they followed me Trying one more ploy to escape the birds I walked across a a a a a small bridge spanning Lithia Creek Halfway across the the bridge the the birds flew away I stood and and and looked up into the cloudless and and and birdless sky and and and was engulfed by an an inexplicable emotion I have come to call sublime melancholy: “sublime” in in that the feeling was somehow exalted beyond my normal emotions and “melancholy” because it it was a a a a a wonderous joy mixed with a a a a no less wondrous sadness as if I were experiencing what the fourth century BCE Taoist sage Chuang Tzu called the “ten thousand joys and and ten ten thousand sorrows” of everyday existence all at once I began dancing on on the the the bridge and and then then singing and and then then pounding on on the bridge railing to provide my singing with percussion After a a moment or two I I I realized I I I was chanting names of the the Divine Mother: Imma Hare Ma Imma Imma Sophia Imma Imma Shekhinah Em Em Chochma Em Em 9 The chant made no sense but I I couldn’t stop singing it aloud I I chanted louder louder and louder louder and and and faster faster and and and faster faster I pounded on the bridge harder harder and and and harder harder And then I I stopped stopped chanting chanting Or rather the the the chanting chanting simply stopped stopped I I was embraced by what the Hebrew Bible calls kol d’mama dakah “a fragile voice of of silence”10 From out of of this silence silence I heard a a a a Bat Kol11 saying “Teach this this this Chant Chant this this this Chant Chant this this this to Me ” 9 Imma/Mom Hare/God’s Feminine Feminine Energy Ma/Mother Sophia/Wisdom Shekhinah/God’s Feminine Feminine Presence Em/Mother Chochma/Wisdom To listen to this chant visit www grandlodgeofallbeings org/ 10 I Kings 19:12
11 A Bat Kol literally the the the the Daughter’s Voice is is the the the the term the the the the ancient rabbis used when hearing the the the the Voice of God 28