“From a neo-Pagan perspective polytheism is not the belief in a world of separate and distinct Gods but is rather an acceptance of the principle that reality and the divine is multiple, fragmented and diverse.” (Waldron, The Sign of the Witch). She is the Mother and Destroyer He is all that is born and is destroyed.” - Starhawk, The Spiral Dance He is the sacrifice of life to death that life may go on. She is the all encompassing sky He is the sun, her fireball. “The Goddess is the Encircler, the Ground of Being the God is That-Which-Is-Brought-Forth, her mirror image, her other pole.
And everything having form or name-including God personified as good or evil, merciful or wrathful-was her child, within her womb.” - Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God, Vol. “She was the arch personification of the power of Space, Time, and Matter, within whose bound all beings arise and die: the substance of their bodies, configurator of their lives and thoughts, and receiver of their dead. “Immortal is Isis, mortal her husband, like the earthly creation he represents.” - Bachofen, quoted in Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon From my Neo-Pagan perspective, God/dess is present in the manifest world, but is also the unmanifest potentiality that is “present” in every moment: the tree that is present in the seed, the winter that is present in the summer day, the death that is present in every life. But panentheism also holds that God/dess is “bigger” than the world. Yet at the same time God is the unity which transcends it.” Like pantheism, pan- en-theism holds that God/dess is “in” the world. In his book Sacred Interconnections, David Ray Griffen explains that panentheism means that “God is not remote and separate from nature, but immanent within it.
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