“The word kula refers to the family or grouping of the yoginīs and of the 'Mothers'. It is also taken to mean the corporeal body, the body of power, the cosmic body, the totality of things so that by entering into a 'family', a kula, the worshipper enters into the totality of cosmic powers, the kula. He himself, in his own body, is the embodiment of the 'Mothers' and of the whole of reality. By being initiated into a 'Mother' he also enters into one or other level of his own body and becomes master of the powers identified with it. By piercing all the circles of his body he is master of the totality and attains the central deity which is identified with the true self of the worshipper, his 'blissful inner consciousness' of whom the eighth 'Mothers' are the projections.”

John R. Depuche