Hinduism and Buddhism: An Historical Sketch v2.c41.76

v2.c41.76

¹ Yet the English mystic Julian, the anchoress of Norwich (c. 1400), insists on the motherhood as well as the fatherhood of God. “God is our mother, brother and Saviour.” “As verily God is our father, so verily God is our mother.” So too in an inscription found at Capua (C.I.N. 3580) Isis is addressed as *una quae es omnia*. The Power addressed in Swinburne’s poems *Mater Triumphalis*, *Hertha*, *The Pilgrims* and *Dolores* is really a conception very similar to Śakti.