Thank you. I was just scanning the messages on Ancient Mysteries where it looks like you were kind of looking into the Holy Spirit as female. After studying Eastern religions a lot, I can go with that. Eastern religions opine that to raise the Kundalini(the Serpent), one must have a meld of the male/female energies within (Hindu take on the subject) or the Compassionate activity (method - male)/ Wisdom (female) energies as the Tibetan Buddhists refer to it. To the Tibetan Buddhist the female energy is seen as Wisdom - Sophia. In this context, when the meditator or mystic or yogini or whatever has stabilized and balanced these two energies, the Kundalini raises and opens the chakras and the siddhis (powers) are obtained, which include the ability to see the future. The Goddess religions may have taught it a different way - and yet the Serpent recurs, doesn't it? Even in the Egyptian religion, we find this. The Tibetan Buddhist religion is interesting because they still maintain a religion in which they understand the concept of becoming one with Deity. In becoming one with this Buddha force, whether it be Tara or whatever, they literally become the energy of that force. In the same way, I feel that in the Goddess religions, the priestesses were trained to become one with the Goddess - to become her force - and thus her Wisdom. Because Tibet was isolated so long, we see many things in their religion that have passed away in the Western countries. For instance, in the Potala in Lhasa in Tibet, they dressed their Buddha statues with fine clothes and jewels in the same way that the Egyptians dressed their gods and goddesses - ditto with the Greeks. Along the lines of what has been mentioned in the Ancient Myseries site, there is a book by R. E. Witt called Isis in the Ancient World where the basic thesis is that all the goddesses in the Ancient World were Isis in disguise - she simply traveled the Mediterranean - including Mary. Christmas, by the way, is on Dec. 25 which was, I believe, the feast day of Isis.