Lilith - from April, 2011
Lilith: "No one ever made me. I defy that Power to unmake me from a free woman! You are his slave, and I defy you! you may be able to torture me - I do not know, but you shall not compel me to anything against my will!"
Mara: "Such a compulsion would be withot value. But there is a light that goes deeper than the will, a light that lights up the darkness behind it: that light can change your will, can make it truly yours and not another's - not the Shadow's. Into the created can pour itself the creating will, and so redeem it!"
Lilith: "That light shall not enter me: I hate it! - Begone, slave!"
Mara: "I am no slave, for I love that light, and will with the deeper will which created mine. There is no slave but the creature that wills against its creator. Who is a slave but her which cries, 'I am free,' yet cannot cease to exist!"
- From the book Lilith by George MacDonald, p. 200
MacDonald was credited by C.S. Lewis with being the first one to write in the fantasy genre. He had a huge impact on the writings of Lewis, especially, but was also admired by Tolkien.
In myth, Lilith was the first wife of Adam. She rejected the purpose for which she was created, so God created Eve. She was not in the Bible, but many stories about her have been told throughout the ages. While Eve was the mother of all living, Lilith was the anti-mother and anti-wife who believed herself to be free. She finds herself fighting against her own nature, yet cannot be free of it. Even so, she calls herself a free woman.
I think that the spirit of Lilith is alive and well in our day. I suppose that is why the myth is so powerful and enduring.
I have been reading this book.
Mara: "Such a compulsion would be withot value. But there is a light that goes deeper than the will, a light that lights up the darkness behind it: that light can change your will, can make it truly yours and not another's - not the Shadow's. Into the created can pour itself the creating will, and so redeem it!"
Lilith: "That light shall not enter me: I hate it! - Begone, slave!"
Mara: "I am no slave, for I love that light, and will with the deeper will which created mine. There is no slave but the creature that wills against its creator. Who is a slave but her which cries, 'I am free,' yet cannot cease to exist!"
- From the book Lilith by George MacDonald, p. 200
MacDonald was credited by C.S. Lewis with being the first one to write in the fantasy genre. He had a huge impact on the writings of Lewis, especially, but was also admired by Tolkien.
In myth, Lilith was the first wife of Adam. She rejected the purpose for which she was created, so God created Eve. She was not in the Bible, but many stories about her have been told throughout the ages. While Eve was the mother of all living, Lilith was the anti-mother and anti-wife who believed herself to be free. She finds herself fighting against her own nature, yet cannot be free of it. Even so, she calls herself a free woman.
I think that the spirit of Lilith is alive and well in our day. I suppose that is why the myth is so powerful and enduring.
I have been reading this book.
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