Why have people in our part of the planet attributed exclusively patriarchal characteristics to the Divine for the past three thousand years? Ten thousand years ago, the sole form of Divinity, the sole object of veneration, here as elsewhere, was feminine and maternal.

What has caused us to forget? Why was the original message of Christianity distorted, leaving us ignorant of the Divine Mother? Can we not detect in the Judaeo-Christian sacred texts - and in the countless works of art they inspire - the veiled and covert presence of the Universal Mother, hidden in symbols, but readily decoded?

Did not the Gnostics and the early Christians, about whom so much has come to light through the recent discovery of the “apocryphal” texts, venerate the Goddess, and did they not also identify Her with an inner power able to grant liberation?

Those who seek the Truth are rediscovering this hidden reality. Thus the West is once more “returning” to the way of the Goddess and, through Her, gaining access to the wonders of the New Age. Could this age of ours, following the Age of the Father (Yahweh) and the Age of the Son (Christ), be the Age of the Mother?