The Secret Lady is the true supreme spirit or being that is the secret object of devotion of the People, the Wise ones. She is the Great Queen of Elfhame, the Blood-Mother… The first mother of all our Families. We give our fealty and our loyalty to her, before any.
First She was, and from within her issued forth all things, including her mate, The Ellfed, who gives, who returns to her to be renewed eternally. The “renewal” simply lives; it is part of things. There is an illusion here in how the man thinks of it. Always in motion, the life in us; there is something beyond life and death, but again, something that creates life and death. The lesser circles the greater forever, but they are not thereby separate, one following the other.
Called by many names, The Secret One that we are devoted to is the concealer. She is the giver of sorcerous power and mystical insight. She teaches the mystery of soul-flight, leading the hordes of discarnate powers across the sky on the Hallowed Nights…The Dame of Witchery above all. She gives and she takes, as the sow who gives forth her children, only to devour them at her whim. Sometimes peaceful and giving, other times cruel and frenzied…she is the very dual spirit of nature: at once bountiful and beautiful, and harsh and fearsome. Light and Dark are met in her, life and death; she who gives and takes, only to give again.
The Queen of Elfhame is a manifestation of the true origin, or Creatress…the spirit of Nature itself. At once a being unto herself, and at once a part of all things in creation, She, like us, is sprung from the underlying awareness of all things. She IS the underlying awareness….manifest in the form of the Queen of the Underworld…
Deep is the mystery of her true being, and of her relationship to her children, to the land, and to dreams…