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The Four Great Aspects of the Mother

Four great Aspects of the Mother, four of her leading Powers and
Personalities have stood in front in her guidance of this universe
and in her dealings with the terrestrial play. One is her personality of
calm wideness and comprehending wisdom and tranquil benignity
and inexhaustible compassion and sovereign and surpassing majes-
ty and all-ruling greatness. Another embodies her power of splendid
strength and irresistible passion, her warrior mood, her overwhelm-
ing will, her impetuous swiftness and world-shaking force. A third
is vivid and sweet and wonderful with her deep secret of beauty
and harmony and fine rhythm, her intricate and subtle opulence, her
compelling attraction and captivating grace. The fourth is equipped
with her close and profound capacity of intimate knowledge and
careful flawless work and quiet and exact perfection in all things.
Wisdom, Strength, Harmony, Perfection are their several attributes
and it is these powers that they bring with them into the world,
manifest in a human disguise in their Vibhutis and shall found in the
divine degree of their ascension in those who can open their earthly
nature to the direct and living influence of the Mother. To the four
we give the four great names, Maheshwari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi,
Mahasaraswati.

Maheshwari

Imperial Maheshwari is seated in the wideness above the think-
ing mind and will and sublimates and greatens them into wisdom
and largeness or floods with a splendour beyond them. For she
is the mighty and wise One who opens us to the supramental in-
finities and the cosmic vastness, to the grandeur of the supreme
Light, to a treasure-house of miraculous knowledge, to the mea-
sureless movement of the Mother’s eternal forces. Tranquil is
she and wonderful, great and calm for ever. Nothing can move

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