Kali - the feminine force

Quotes from the book "Kali - the feminine force" byAjit Mookerjee.

The image of Kali is generally represented as black, 'just as all colours disappear in black, so all names and forms disappear in her' (Mahanirvana Tantra). . . In her absolute, primordial nakedness she is free from all covering of illusion. She is nature (Prakriti) stripped of 'clothes'. She is full breasted; her motherhood is a ceaseless creation. She gives birth to the cosmos parthonegenetically, as she contains the male principle within herself. Her dishevelled hair (elokeshi) forms a cutaion of illusion, the fabric of space-time which organizes matter out of the chaotic sea of quantum-foam. . .

As Virgin-creator, Kali is depicted as sattva-guna, white; as sustaining Mother, rajas, red; as the absorber of all, tamas, black. In the equilibrium of the potential state there will always be disturbance arising from the desire for creation - a cycle of Kalis 'opening' and 'closing'. Her world is an eternal living flux in which all things arise and all disappear again. She is the archetypal image of birth-and-death, giver of life and it's destroyer. . .

Great Godess, who art Though?

She replies; I am essentially Brahman [the Absolute]
From me has proceeded the world comprising Prakriti [material and substance]
and Purusha [cosmic conciousness]
the void and the Plenum.
I am [all forms of] bliss and non-bliss.
Knowledge and ignorance are Myself.
I am the five elements and also what differens from them,
the panchabhutas [five gross elements] and tnamatras [five subtle elements].

UI am the entire world.
I am the Veda as well as what is different from it.
I am unknown.
Below and above and around am I.