This was written and spoken as the conclusion to a Women-Church presentation, Sydney, Australia, by Glenys Livingstone, on August 16th 1990. This was the seed for her later doctoral work which did not begin until 1999, after much trauma and collapse – a falling apart before the new could re-created: PaGaian Cosmology emerged.

We are all Goddess – the Divine is immanent in all of us, but it often remains invisible to us. We are often unable to touch it, to name it, because the sacred has been named as something external to our everyday ordinary reality. This realm of little consequence is the one we need to re-enter, see again our sacred sites, and claim them for ourselves.

Goddess calls from deep within our past, through the generations of our mothers – a flame passed down; She calls in the present from within our flesh, our lived experience, our Be-ing and the Be-ing of all creatures; and she calls from the future through the generations yet to come who are reaching out for the world we will help to rebuild.

She is old, She is now, She is future. She has been with us from the beginning and is that which is attained at the end of our desires.

Glenys Livingstone, August 16^th, 1990.