One must give the woman good treatment, good food, good, healthy entertainment so that she can have that comprehension that she is the ‘Divine Mother’ in the material, physical aspect. One must give the woman everything because she gives us (the man) everything.

1 - The first thing a woman aspires to have in her life is a little house and it is the man’s duty to give her just that. If the woman is an altar, the first thing she should have in her house is an altar because this is the reflection of that woman. Then, after putting her altar in her house, she must pray before it. That altar where she prays is in the heart of the man; does the woman fall in love with the physical presence of the man or because of his moral strength? The woman prays to that part of the man that she loves and it should be to the heart of that man. That is where she should see her altar. The woman is a temple where the man officiates, but his heart is the altar where she prays. When a woman has a man, she gives him what she has and that is love. Where does she deposit that love? That love is deposited in his heart.

2 - The woman must be the temple for that priest.

3 - The woman must be her husband’s teacher plus her children’s teacher. The principle things the man learns in life have been taught to him by the woman. A man who travels the world tells the stories of the women in his life. From the moment one is born the woman begins to teach the child until the child has that encounter with his companions and then this teaching ends. When the man marries, the woman teaches him to be careful.

4 - The woman has to get up earlier than the man; nature teaches us this since when the sun rises, the morning star helps Mother Nature by telling all the creatures of the earth that the ‘chief’ is coming – the Sun. ‘The Sun’ of the woman is her husband. The man always goes to bed later than the woman because the woman lies down to rest while the man sees to what it is he must attend to in order to keep the house safe.

5 - The woman must try hard every day to learn the art of cooking. One must put great love into what one is cooking (at the moment of preparation). The woman must be putting that bit of strength in that food which will give force and strength to the physical body and the soul of her husband and her children.

6 - The woman must be very clean. A woman who is well-centered in the Divine Mother has her presence at all times and the mother cannot be dressed in things that do not fit her dignity. The woman must use essences that please her; she must be very clean and share her pleasures with her husband.

7 - The woman is the gospel and the man is religion; there is no religion that does not study some gospel nor a gospel that does not belong to some religion.

8 - If there is no integration between the two, we will not sound that note in order to get to God. For us to arrive at the feet of God, we must be integrated in harmony; God-Woman and God-Man.

V.M. Lakhsmi (excerpt from “Alchemy II”)