Wyse Wymen of the White Owl
and the Lunar Mysteries
The Women gather around the Moonstone. Their eyes shine with
the light of the stars. Their bodies are filled with star light. Their hair
pours from the font of the sun in strands of gold, red, brown and black. It is
flame licking their shoulders. Their skin gleams like the petals of lotus
tongues. Their faces are moonlight caught in pools of the earth, flinging
their images back into the sky. The Women are bold yet not concerned with
boldness. They are at peace, yet do not seek peace. They are LOVE, but their
mouths know not the formation of the words of love. They become one with the
Moonstone, baring it's single white tooth to the heavens. It marks the
distance from nothing to nowhere. As the Women hold the note of Love among
them, so the Moonstone glows brighter and seems to take on a living, human
form. She Becomes...her limbs outstretch, her face tilts upward, her eyes are
planets in the starry firmament. Out of every soul of the Women, so SHE is
given her nature...and that nature is divine.
The priestess oracles of Lemuria and Atlantis, as well as some
other early sacred sites, were known as ‘Magiratha’, or ‘Wyse Wymen of the White
Owl’. Other than the White Owl, their sacred symbols were the Rowan and Oak
trees, the honeybee, the blue star sapphire, and the labyrinth (often in the
form of a labyrinth-cave). The labyrinth was their symbol as it represented the
spiral path one must take in order to receive true wisdom.
A Magiratha was ‘sworn to the Stone’; that is, she took vows before a large
white stone in the center of a ceremonial pool, which represented the isle of
‘Ava’ in the lake of ‘An’. A labyrinth of dark stone was set into the bottom of
the pool, encircling the Stone underwater. There was a mythical legend in which
a large honeybee bore a young maiden to the center of a sacred lake. He told her
that he would create a ‘land of honey’ in the waters for her if she would keep
watch over the sacred lake and sing it into the ‘New Creation’. She agreed, and
he made an island for her of spun honey where she dwelt, and there she sang her
song of creation. As she sang, so her isle of honey became a white cube stone,
the foundation of the New Creation, and the lake of An became the cosmic sea,
filled with star fish of the New Heaven. The Goddess Ashara, who had sent her
honeybee to carry the maiden to the lake, threw her necklace of sea pearls into
the lake and it coiled into a labyrinth about the Stone. So long as the maiden
chanted the holy song, only those who carried the mark of the New Creation upon
their foreheads would make their way through the labyrinth of Ashara to the
Sacred Stone. The Foundation Stone contained the imprint or template of the New
Heaven and Earth. This myth is part of a greater Creation Myth. We only excerpt
a small portion of it in order than you may feel the sacredness of the vows the
oracles swore upon the Stone.
As a Magiratha entered the lake on a golden barge, rowed by four priestesses and
accompanied by another Magiratha or Mage, she began to chant the Creation Song.
The words of this song were highly cryptic and meant to be comprehended only by
the initiated. Once she reached the Stone, she dipped some water from the lake
into a small crystal amphora (vase) and poured it over the stone, saying: “I
cover thee with the veil of An. Thou art anointed with my vow to thee.
Henceforth shall I keep my way in thy Light, for I am that which you are, the
Way of Creation through the labyrinth of Ptah.” Then the priestess oracle would
reach into a small golden bowl of honey held by the other Magiratha accompanying
her, and place the silken amber upon her hands. She would ‘wash her hands’ with
the honey, which came from the most sacred of hives, and then from her hands,
she would coat the Stone ( token portion of it) with the honey, saying: “I
return to the hive of my fortune. I guardian the sweetness of the wisdom of
Past, Present and Future.” Then the other Magiratha held a blue star sapphire to
the new priestess-oracle’s forehead and spoke, “Behold, she who guardians the
labyrinth of Ashara, she comes in the night, she sleeps in the day. She holds
the star before her, she gives birth to the sun.” The Magiratha taking her vows
would then bend to gaze upon her reflection in the lake, and speak these words:
“I am a mirror to those who come through the winding way. I vow to be the sealer
as well as the revealer. I guard that which is for those who taste the sweetness
of the fruit of the tree. I therefore set the serpent upon the path and the bee
above the throne.” Through this cryptic vow, the Magiratha had sworn to impart
the knowledge she was opened to receive in a way that only those who were true
adepts of the wisdom therein could understand.
The underlying principle of this act as concealed in the vow is thus: knowledge
of the Greater Akashic must be truly valued by the soul and commanded through
wisdom and integrity in the mind. To accomplish this, one who receives this
knowledge has to be an initiate of the Labyrinthine Path leading to the Stone of
Wisdom, and ordained to the Light within the Word. Such truths made plain for
the lesser mind do not raise the seeker into his / her spiritualized Mind-Heart,
where the wisdom of the knowledge is suffused into every fiber of the being.
This is the most profound intention within the communication of the knowledge
from the Greater Akashic translated through the priestess oracle, to the
adept-initiate.
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I have been guided to open a path to energetic interface with
the Lemurian Priestesses or 'Wyse Women' of the White Owl in the on-going
Mystery work I will be facilitating.
This article above on the ‘Magiratha’ or Wyse Wymen of the White Owl (written several years ago) can
also be found on The Rite of Avalon, a
sub-web of Spirit Mythos.