THE GAEA THESIS

In order to understand the nature of the All-Mother, we must first understand our
own origins. Each of began our individual life as a single, fertilized cell or zygote.
In the process of its innumerable divisions and multiplication's, that cell kept
dividing up and redistributing the very same protoplasm. That protoplasm which
now courses through all of the several trillion cells of your adult body is the very
same substance which once coursed through the body of that original zygote.
For when a cell reproduces, the mother cell does not remain intact, but actually
becomes the two new daughter cells. And this is why, no matter how many times
a cell fission's in the process of embryological development, all the daughter cells
collectively continue to comprise but one single organism. We may imagine that,
should our cells have consciousness akin to our own, they may very well fancy
themselves to be independent entities living and dying in a world that to them
would seem to be merely an inanimate environment. But we know them to be in
fact minute components of the far vaster living beings that we ourselves are.

Over four billion years ago, life on Earth began, as do we all, with a single living
cell containing a replicating molecule of DNA. From that point on that original
cell, the first to develop the awesome capacity for reproduction, divided and
redividied and subdivided its protoplasm into the myriad of plants and animals,
including ourselves, which now inhabit this third planet from the Sun.

But no matter how many times a cell fission's in the process of embryological
development, all the daughter cells collectively continue to comprise but one
single organism. All life on Earth comprises the body of single vast living being --
Mother Earth Herself. The Moon is Her radiant heart, and in the tides beat the
pulse of Her blood. That protoplasm which coursed through the body of that first
primeval ancestral cell is the very protoplasm which now courses through every
cell of every living organism, plant or animal, of our planet. And the soul of our
planetary biosphere is She whom we call Goddess.

"First life on my sources
First drifted and swam
Out of me are the forces
Which save it or damn
Out of man and woman
And wild-beast and bird