CEREMONIAL CROWNS A class recently offered at Rancho La Puerta in Tecate, Mexico, that is supposed to reconnect you with your "inner queen, king or deity".
When you dress up, even in a pedestrian way, like putting on a little make-up to go to work, you're honouring a little deity, an inner beauty.
Spiritual Guide: Who is your principal Spiritual Guide (e.g., the Buddha, Jesus, the Prophets, Brahma, other Deities, an inner Guide, a respected Spiritual teacher...)?
In times of trouble, devotees sometimes make inner vows to Sundar Mata (or any deity), no matter where they are.
However, the main assembly hall here had minor images of Tsongkhapa, Choyi Gyeltsen, Shakhyamuni Buddha, Three Deities of Longevity, and two inner chapels – the Jampakhang with 'speaking' image of Tara (protector of the springs in Sera) and Lama Tubten Kunga (who renovated Sera Me) and Gonkhang chapel with the image of the protector deity Gyelchen Karma Trinle.
He never explicitly mentioned a deity, but Drake's tales of inner wandering, set to music that holds infinite corners of resonance, are essentially concerned with the soul.
Other deities within the cosmology of Thelema are Hoor-paar-kraat (or Harpocrates), god of silence and inner strength, the brother of Ra-Hoor-Khuit, Babalon, the goddess of all pleasure, known as the Virgin Whore, and Therion, the beast that Babalon rides, who represents the wild animal within man, a force of nature.
The first (or inner circle) was composed of devout, full-time adherents of the cult for whom the deity retained a separate and decisive identity (e.g., those of Yahweh, Zeus Serapis, and Isis).
In contrast to the creation by a supreme sky deity, there is another type of creation myth in which the creation seems to emerge through its own inner power from under the earth.
Each deity holds weapons.
