To help my meditations, I decided to adopt a mantra.

The one I chose was “Om-Gaia”, thus honoring both God and Goddess, the Universe and the Earth, Eastern and Western religions, and male and female principles. It was reasonably short and kind of melodious, vibrant with numinous meaning.

It goes from En-Sof the incomprehensible to Neza the long-term sustainable, the root of fruitfulness and the five kingdoms of life on Earth.

Neza comes after the symmetry-breaking, the mythical breaking of the vessels in Kabbala. Hence life chooses only d-sugars and I-amino acids in its physical construction. She places the heart on the left, the liver on the right, and makes the two brain hemispheres different.

Neza is like the Gnostic Sophia – lower among the Emanations, but mother of the material world, with all its imperfections, but still wondrously harmonious.

I cannot approach Om. I can only worship His female emanations, as the Catholics worship the Virgin Mary. The fruit of her womb was also wondrous.