The Cult of Tara Quotes

“The practitioner empowers his food and drink into nectar with the three syllables OM AH HUM , and he eats it as if it were an offering to the deity whom he vividly visualizes himself to be; he empowers his clothing and seat also into "ornaments of self-luminous knowledge" with the three syllables, and thus he enjoys them.”
― Stephan Beyer, The Cult of Tara: Magic and Ritual in Tibet

“Always and in all practices, he must visualize himself as the Holy Lady, hearing in mind that his appearance is the deity, that his speech is her mantra, and that his memory and mental constructs are her knowledge—that everything is an untrue illusion, a play of Reality.”
― Stephan Beyer, The Cult of Tara: Magic and Ritual in Tibet

“After all these optional prayers to the gurus in the person of the goddess above his head, the practitioner performs the actual yoga, the taking of empowerment called "the four initiations on the occassion of the path." From the forehead of the deity—his guru and the Blessed Lady inseparably one—there comes the white nectar and light of body; from her throat the red nectar and light of speech; from her heart the blue nectar and light of mind; and from her navel the yellow nectar and light of knowledge. These enter into the same four places of the practitioner; they fill his entire bidy, purify his four obscurations, grant him the four initiations, and through this entering into him of the empowerment of body, speech, mind, and”
― Stephan Beyer, The Cult of Tara: Magic and Ritual in Tibet