Grail: An Essay on the Mystery of Sacred Love

"The Mystery of Androgyny can be contemplated as a moment of our formative power as human beings, which arose from our ability to gather forces more elevated and, therefore, deeper, relative to the lunar element strengthened on the physical plane by the Sun's separation from the Earth. The currents capable of ruling the lower lunar element, would be recognizable in the aforementioned symbol of the Virgin that corresponds to the aspect of the Isis-Sophia. We will see during the course of the present study how the path toward restoring Androgyny's radical force is the undertaking alluded to in the saga of the Grail and likewise corresponds to the symbol of Isis-Sophia. This (Isis-Sophia), in fact, takes on and redeems within itself the tenebrous Hecate. We will see, in any case, why woman holds the keys to the reintegration of man (so that the Virgin would be called Janua Coeli) and how the present civilization can risk permanently losing the sense of such a reintegration, by reducing woman to man's erotic companion, or to a mere begetter of children."