1 and 2: connection and heterogeneity.: "any point of a rhizome can be connected to anything other, and must be". I will present the different and varied ways in which Lilith's image reappears, while attempting to understand what today's admirers view as her unique contribution to their spiritual and/or feminist purposes.ĭeleuze and Guattari discuss the rhizome as being "absolutely different from roots and radicles" 6. To answer these questions, I would like to review how Lilith's image is utilized in contemporary feminist spiritual discourse, and to analyze the values and ideas embodied in these appearances. What purposes or ends does her image serve nowadays? Why is she once again referred to and appropriated? What is there about her story that has had such wide appeal to so many in the feminist movement and in various forms of alternative spiritual discourse over the past few decades? Does she represent a certain value, leadership, spiritual perception, or a certain feminist movement? Her image, which appears in ancient tradition as a personification of the forbidden temptation, turns up and is manifest in our time in secular, religious, spiritual, and post-secular contemporary circles1 as an alluring and relevant character. Even thousands of years later, Lilith, the demonness, still tempts many.
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