Here is a passage from her book on ‘Women’s Mysteries’. Harding is talking about the symbolic meaning of the word ‘virgin’ not the literal (as in the Christian Virgin Mary). I love the line ‘fully awaken to what’s slumbering in her own nature!’
‘Woman can only become ‘one-in-herself’ when she is fully awakened to the possibilities slumbering in her own nature, what it is to be set afire with passion, carnal and spiritual, and has devoted her powers to the service of the goddess of instinct. Then when the non-personal, the divine energy has been aroused in her she attains chastity of soul, singleness or wholeness of her being, by dedicating her deepest emotion to the gods of instinct, by whatever name she may call them.
Ester Harding ‘Women’s Mysteries’, p.146-147
