ⁱThis holy book was written during my final semester of training under Francesca De Grandis in the Third Road® tradition and was based on a couple of suggestions by two non-Pagan friends, Carl Pritzkat and John Godges. The thealogy expressed herein owes more to Francesca and her teaching than can be specifically cited. In addition, both John and Francesca provided their editorial expertise extensively in the development of this material.

ⁱⁱWhatever might be said about Graves’ scholarship, the fact remains that his vision of the poet as one who praises the Goddess is one that I whole-heartedly embrace. See The White Goddess.

ⁱⁱⁱThe Latin root "Mater" = "Mother" is the root of both "Matrix" and "Matter". Thus, the Goddess is seen to be the Universe in which we exist (the Matrix) and the Matter in that Universe and the Mother of all that is.

^ivThe debt that we owe the Feminist Scholars of the past century is immense. Barbara Walker provided much of the intellectual foundation of my writing. See in particular The Woman’s Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects, The Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, and Amazon.

^vThis concept is an extension of a vision of Francesca De Grandis. My notes from the Third Road® training read, "Faerie Tradition is that life is primarily dark. Past the atmosphere is mostly dark. Most of matter is emptiness. Faerie wants to look at the real nature of things. If light does not come out of darkness, there is barrenness. It is cyclical. Darkness is not our shadow, but our mirror. In darkness, we get to express a precious part of ourselves. Our cells are life-sparks. Seeing yourself as a star-god is important at this stage. (Francesca had this as a vision, and Victor Anderson radically altered it. Francesca had prayed for a prosperity visualization when she got this vision.)" In her interpretation, Goddess is the darkness between the stars (and the interstices of matter) and God is the light that emerges from the darkness to fructify it. My extension here is to envision the God as Time rather than as Light. The concept that light and matter are the offspring of space and time is a simple statement of Physics. Special Relativity is founded on the simple idea that Time is the "Fourth Dimension" of space and that the speed of light is the constant that converts one to the other. This relationship between time and space is further cemented in Quantum Mechanics in which the motion of all particulate matter is described through mathematical formulae called "wave functions". These wave functions consist of a spatial component and a temporal component, and, in a mathematical sense, a real part and an imaginary part. Although it is an accident of language, it is delightful that a fundamental description of light and matter would consist of reality and imagination.

^viHeinlein, of course, although pantheism was by no means his invention. See Stranger In A Strange Land.