The Cosmic Womb
By Jim Miles
The ancients expressed their insights and intuitions through stories, myths, metaphors, symbols or veiled axioms, generally referred to today as Ancient Wisdom. As the earth’s most abundant compound, water played a key role in expressing this wisdom. What did the ancients understand about the unique qualities of water?
Obviously, they observed that water was necessary for all sentient life-forms. And they surely realized that it had the unique capability of existing in three distinct states: solid, liquid and gas. They saw that water fell from the heavens and that it came up from the ground. They refreshed and cleansed themselves in sweet pure water from streams, rivers, springs and wells. They traversed and mined the limitless expanses of the salty seas and oceans. They observed the flexibility and fluidity of water, and its ability to be shaped, formed or limited by external conditions.
Beyond these physical properties, the ancients also believed water to be a conscious and living entity and a link between the physical world and the heavens. Inherent in water, they intuited, was the memory of all things, events and occasions since the beginning of time. They believed that water carried within it the memory of all creation. Ancient sacred texts stated that water was a symbol for the primordial "non-stuff" from which the Creator manifested the known universe. These sacred texts used words such as "the deep," "the void," "the abyss," "the primordial seas" and "the waters of chaos" as metaphors to describe this formless potential that existed before creation. These words were another way of describing the Cosmic Womb. This formless potential that existed before creation, “one vast nothing materially, yet all things potentially,” was described as an aspect of The Absolute. Metaphorically, water was the mother of creation, the feminine aspect of The Absolute. The ancients believed that all life emerged into the physical world from the primordial "waters of chaos" and that everything would eventually return to those same waters, only to reemerge again in endless cycles of evolution.
In religious ceremonies of all ages, water has held a special place in rituals of cleansing, purification, re-birthing or baptism. Upon entering a house of prayer, one often dips one’s fingers in the water font and blesses one’s self with "holy water." In seasonal rituals, spiritual leaders bless the animals, the crops, the fleets, the dying and the dead with "holy water." Intuitively, the ancients "knew" that water possessed profound sacred qualities. As the Cosmic Womb of all life, water is receptive to any quality of vibration imprinted on it. What may not be recognized is that water, an infinitely powerful vibrational generator, has the innate ability to amplify and magnify whatever intentions, thoughts, words or vibrations it receives. That is why spiritual ceremonies involving water, with devotion and pure intent, are powerful and healing rituals. There is power in the intent, and there is even more power in the water.
This immeasurable vitality in water comes from the unique properties and symbiotic interaction of its two chemical components. Water is not simply made up of two hydrogen (H) atoms and one oxygen (O) atom, but rather is a complex web of interconnected water molecules. Due to the ultra-dynamic frequency of its H- bond activity, this complex web of molecules is forever recreating its connections at the astronomical rate of about a trillion new molecular formations per second. The hyper-frequency of these molecular formations create an energy field that allows for endless possibilities of absorption and inclusion. Though it's the most reactive atom known in the universe, hydrogen is also the simplest and most abundant.
The word “hydrogen” is Greek, as hydro means water and gen means generating or forming. This water-forming atom (hydrogen) represents about 75% of the atomic mass of the universe. Oxygen is the third most abundant atom in the universe and, after hydrogen, the second most
