The Secret of Liliths alchemical transformation lies in the darkness of the final stage of her threefold process. The Dark Goddess who shares a name with the astronomical black moon is related to the Black Mother of Eastern mythological traditions. Many old amulets for protection against Lilith are in the form of knives, which represent Liliths quality to instinctively cut to the essential nature of things. The Hebrew Lilith, the Flame of the Revolving Sword, is an ally of the Hindu Kali and the Tibetan Black Dakini, the destroyer aspect of the Triple Goddess. Emanating fiery sparks, she brandishes her curved knife in one hand and in the other hold up a severed head. This symbolizes cutting the attachments in the egos beliefs in a separate self. The spiritual practice of the Black Mother cuts away at the ways in which we perpetuate our mistaken beliefs concerning our true nature....With her curved knife she severs all our false images and pretensions that have accumulated in our individual and collective repressed past. She does not tolerate any attempt to falsify ourselves; when we try to do so it ends in disaster. She ruthlessly destroys all that is not our true individuality or appropriate life path...Her compassionate wrath allows us to see who we really are and forces us to be true to ourselves. - Demetra George in Mysteries of the Dark Moon
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