(1) "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free."
The Christians are the children of the City Above, a
symbol of the mother, not sons of the earthly city-mother,
who is to be cast out; for those born after the flesh are
opposed to those born after the spirit, who are not born
from the mother in the flesh, but from a symbol for
the mother. One must again think of the Indians at this
point, who say the first people proceeded from the sword-hilt
and a shuttle. The religious thought is bound up with
the compulsion to call the mother no longer mother, but
City, Source, Sea, etc. This compulsion can be derived
from the need to manifest an amount of libido bound up
with the mother, but in such a way that the mother is
represented by or concealed in a symbol. The symbolism
of the city we find well-developed in the revelations of
John, where two cities play a great part, one of which
is insulted and cursed by him, the other greatly desired.
We read in Revelation (xvii:1):
(1) "Come hither: I will shew unto thee the judgment of
the great whore that sitteth on many waters.
(2) "With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
(3) "So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit on a scarlet colored beast, full of the names of blasphemy, and having seven heads and ten horns.
(4) "And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colors, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup[10] in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication.
(5) "And upon her forehead was a name written: Mystery.
