the throng of angels he had created and exalted himself over them.”
In
The Gnostic Gospels
, Elaine Pagels writes, “According to the
Hypostasis of the Archons
, discovered at Nag Hammadi, both the mother and her daughter objected when ‘he became arrogant, saying, “It is I who am God, and there is no other apart from me.” … And a voice came forth from above the realm of absolute power, saying, “You are wrong, Samael” (which means “god of the blind”). And he said, “If any other thing exists before me, let it appear to me!” And immediately, Sophia (“Wisdom”) stretched forth her finger, and introduced light into matter, and she followed it down into the region of Chaos…. And he again said to his offspring, “It is I who am the God of All.” And Life, the daughter of Wisdom, cried out; she said to him, “You are wrong Saklas!” ’ ”
So to answer the question, this is the God to whom I refer in the song “God.” I am not referring to Jesus’ Divine Father termed the “holy Parent, the completely perfect Forethought, the image of the Invisible One, that is, the Father of everything, through him everything came into being, the first Humanity,” again from Meyers. In this translation Jesus frequently refers to himself as “the Child of Humanity.”
CONVERSATION BETWEEN TORI AND ANN:
At that time my life as a woman seemed settled. I was involved with my producing partner, Eric Rosse. We thought we were a lifelong thing. We were looking at buying a house in the Taos area of New Mexico. But the truth is, we were more collaborators than man and wife. We were really dear friends. There was a deep respect and pairing, but I wasn't his girlfriend at heart. I wasn't his squeeze.
After making
Under the Pink
, we were just worn out. We broke up during the tour. The whole crew knew about the breakup and saw other mensort of coming in and out of my life. There was certainly gossip. Mark, my future husband (who kept his distance), was around; he was the engineer on this tour. He just kept to the sidelines, observing, occasionally bringing me a cup of tea. I had a crush on him from the first day I saw him, but this was months and months before we got together. And I was busy chasing baby demons.
The
Under the Pink
tour was long, and the compartmentalization within me had gotten worse and worse. The fragmentation process had worked perfectly. It can be very functional. I think that's why a lot of women have affairs, why they lead other lives. It all has to come out some way unless you find a way to say,
No, I'm one person, I let my hair down, I have a good time with my friends, I put my hair back up, but either way I'm the same person—I just have different sides.
Shapes with different sides … The hexagon. The honeycomb, a structure of hexagonal cells constructed from beeswax. While writing the songs for
The Beekeeper
, my latest album, I've been walking through many different types of gardens. The songs were trying to show me that they formed a shape and were independent but connected to each other, no different from the structure of hexagonal cells that make up the beehive.
Margaret Starbird, author of
The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail
and
The Goddess in the Gospels
, has been inspirational to many daughters of the Christian Church, myself included. She is also “a faithful daughter of the Roman Catholic Church” and years ago set out to prove that the idea of Jesus’ being married to Mary Magdalene was a heresy she had to clarify. This educated Christian woman has shaken one of the pillars of the Christian patriarchy. In her words, “It is my conviction that Christianity and its inception included the celebration of the hieros gamos, the ‘sacred marriage’ of opposites, amodel incarnate in the archetypal Bridegroom and his bride—Jesus Christ and the woman called Magdalene.” In her latest book,
Magdalene's Lost Legacy
, she writes about the
In
The Gnostic Gospels
, Elaine Pagels writes, “According to the
Hypostasis of the Archons
, discovered at Nag Hammadi, both the mother and her daughter objected when ‘he became arrogant, saying, “It is I who am God, and there is no other apart from me.” … And a voice came forth from above the realm of absolute power, saying, “You are wrong, Samael” (which means “god of the blind”). And he said, “If any other thing exists before me, let it appear to me!” And immediately, Sophia (“Wisdom”) stretched forth her finger, and introduced light into matter, and she followed it down into the region of Chaos…. And he again said to his offspring, “It is I who am the God of All.” And Life, the daughter of Wisdom, cried out; she said to him, “You are wrong Saklas!” ’ ”
So to answer the question, this is the God to whom I refer in the song “God.” I am not referring to Jesus’ Divine Father termed the “holy Parent, the completely perfect Forethought, the image of the Invisible One, that is, the Father of everything, through him everything came into being, the first Humanity,” again from Meyers. In this translation Jesus frequently refers to himself as “the Child of Humanity.”
CONVERSATION BETWEEN TORI AND ANN:
At that time my life as a woman seemed settled. I was involved with my producing partner, Eric Rosse. We thought we were a lifelong thing. We were looking at buying a house in the Taos area of New Mexico. But the truth is, we were more collaborators than man and wife. We were really dear friends. There was a deep respect and pairing, but I wasn't his girlfriend at heart. I wasn't his squeeze.
After making
Under the Pink
, we were just worn out. We broke up during the tour. The whole crew knew about the breakup and saw other mensort of coming in and out of my life. There was certainly gossip. Mark, my future husband (who kept his distance), was around; he was the engineer on this tour. He just kept to the sidelines, observing, occasionally bringing me a cup of tea. I had a crush on him from the first day I saw him, but this was months and months before we got together. And I was busy chasing baby demons.
The
Under the Pink
tour was long, and the compartmentalization within me had gotten worse and worse. The fragmentation process had worked perfectly. It can be very functional. I think that's why a lot of women have affairs, why they lead other lives. It all has to come out some way unless you find a way to say,
No, I'm one person, I let my hair down, I have a good time with my friends, I put my hair back up, but either way I'm the same person—I just have different sides.
Shapes with different sides … The hexagon. The honeycomb, a structure of hexagonal cells constructed from beeswax. While writing the songs for
The Beekeeper
, my latest album, I've been walking through many different types of gardens. The songs were trying to show me that they formed a shape and were independent but connected to each other, no different from the structure of hexagonal cells that make up the beehive.
Margaret Starbird, author of
The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail
and
The Goddess in the Gospels
, has been inspirational to many daughters of the Christian Church, myself included. She is also “a faithful daughter of the Roman Catholic Church” and years ago set out to prove that the idea of Jesus’ being married to Mary Magdalene was a heresy she had to clarify. This educated Christian woman has shaken one of the pillars of the Christian patriarchy. In her words, “It is my conviction that Christianity and its inception included the celebration of the hieros gamos, the ‘sacred marriage’ of opposites, amodel incarnate in the archetypal Bridegroom and his bride—Jesus Christ and the woman called Magdalene.” In her latest book,
Magdalene's Lost Legacy
, she writes about the
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