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It appears that the Aztecs, long before the arrival of the Spaniards, had been in the habit of worshipping in this very place a goddess, who was known as Teotenantzin, "mother-god," or Tonantzin, "our mother." She told him to go to the bishop, and tell him to build her a temple on the place where she stood, giving him a lapful of flowers as a token.
After a long mental struggle, the agonies of which he has recorded in heart-rending words, now entreating God in the tenderest of terms, now resigning himself to despair, now appealing with the petulance of a pet child for what he deemed his birthright, now apologizing in all humility for thus taking liberties with his Mother-God, he succeeded at last in gaining a restful place of beatitude a state in which he merged his soul in the universal soul," that is, Illumination, or cosmic consciousness.
The great mother-god, Venus, Urania, quivers and thrills as she holds forth her offspring the angel, the young Eros of life eternal. Meditate thereon, as the last of the triune God. He who vibrates in pain will quiver in ecstacy. Only those who have agonized in Hell can thrill in Heaven. "Thou art called forth to this fair sacrifice For a draught of milk; with the Maruts Come hither, O Agni!
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