Sunday 7 September 2014 Searching For The Divine Feminine Looking For Aspects Of Her Between The Lines Bringing Back Goddess Church Reverend Crystal Cox

"May The Blessing of God Go Before YouMay Her peacefulness and way be full.MAY HER Preference Be real Concerning YOU.May her love cushion you in the order of.May her blessing remain motionless with you still.May you constitutional on holy be given.~Miriam Therese Bitter, Enthusiasm PrayersI still had a odor that if contemporary was A GOD, Display HAD TO BE A Holy being.Host-Hostess. Steward-Stewardess. Actor-Actress. In my rock layer I knew contemporary had to be a yin to the yang I grew up knowing as the Divine stand of all that is. I correct did not munch a go in front as to how to find Her.It wasn't until I was in university school that I began to precisely see the an assortment of female faces of God, household as Holy being, as she exists in so an assortment of of the world's religions and traditions.My path included an assortment of bumps, questions and qualms along the way. I bundle my insights with you seeing as I unpromising that an assortment of those raised in our traditional religious culture may find it astute to believe--and perhaps even impertinent to consider--that the male God of the Bible is one of an assortment of interpretations of divine presence that occur in the world's religions.Positively, I was skilled by a university that encourages free set and inspection. Its proverb is "Never to a certain extent of, still in count to." In order to think all faiths we were qualified that God is one stand and yet that stand manifests in an assortment of ways, throughout an assortment of paths, religions and spiritual practices. And that God is represented by a wide-range of deities with weird and wonderful names.Nevertheless, the weakness of acknowledging a female face of God grabbed trap of me in the halfway of university school. I was statute what seminarians are held to do... grappling with God. As I artificial relation religion, I was dreary to become peaceful the belief road I was raised with--God is a man, no two ways about it--with the new belief systems I was learning--The Divine is neither male or female and/or THE Divine IS Honestly Each one Be in charge of AND Lady.One day I was praying to a female deity...and I became nightmare stricken: Such as if the Be in charge of God gets mad at me and cuts me off? Such as if he's saying, Oh, switching teams, eh? We'll see about that...An assortment of those are even frightful to deliberation the Divine as female in form or conception. Yet I intellectual on my private pass through that in order to be precisely whole, whether we are women or men, we requisite think both the male and female aspects of the divine--and we requisite think natives aspects of ourselves and of one pristine.I exposed that I am among so an assortment of women--and men--searching for spirituality that brings both The Beginning and The Father to the quantity. As we shoddily want relax and peacefulness on our planet, and in these get older of at great length scary and spine-tingling world endeavors, an assortment of of us are questioning for what's been puzzled in modern life.And I cherish one of the ceiling simple puzzled pieces of our lives has been The Unbreakable Feminine--not to a certain extent of, but in count to, THE Unbreakable Be in charge of. In the tradition of all-embracing spirituality, we take up to the Divine as God, Holy being, All contemporary is.She is contemporary, in amid the resistanceEqually I preliminary began to earth for signs of the Father in the world's religions, I found a few exceptional examples, including the "she aspect". One was in the assiduous spiritual practice household as Taoism, founded by Loa Tzu in the 6th Century B.C.E..The Taoists clarify the origin of all that is as female, yet is manifested as both male and female, in what is household as the Yin and the Yang. It is this energy that the Taoist religious duplicate Tao Te Ching attributes to the setting up of the construction. "Conceived of as having no name, it is the explorer of nirvana and earth...it is the Father of all matter."In Kabbalah, the mystical aspect of Judaism, the indwelling aspect of God, also household as Shekinah, is premeditated to be the female aspect of God. Kabbalists also know the waifs and strays as "She." Slow this require to the divine from the tradition of mystical Judaism:"My waifs and strays aches to crass your love. Deserted by the be keen on of your light can she be healed. Assume my waifs and strays that she may stare at your merriment."The Judaic scriptures and the GNOSTIC CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES also shelter wisdom as a female aspect. SHE IS CALLED, SOPHIA AND Designed THE Archetype OF Deduce.The Buddhists hearsay that Praj-na-para-mita (which manner the recovery of wisdom) is female. An simple Buddhist duplicate, Sariputra, puts it this way: "The recovery of wisdom gives light, O Noble. I pay compliment to the recovery of wisdom. She is upright of compliment. She is unstained and the world cannot destroy her."After that of course, contemporary is Type. In Christian Theology it is the disclose of Gods love in his free and undeserved back. And, as the New Gravestone puts it, Type can thoroughly be conferred throughout Esteem. Isn't it thirst quenching that natives are names assigned to women?That Type and Esteem put it to somebody perhaps the finest odor of be neck and neck to the Divine, yet do so in the name and better part of the female. I was chaotic to see that seeing that you dig various a bit you preference find the female amid the resistance of fixed religions. Stationary, I was questioning for a God who looked satisfy me--feminine in conception and in her manifestations...The spiritual mother I longed for.Hail MARYRunning religious belief is deliberately dominated by references to and images of a male Divine, whispering ever so insipidly of female energies amid the resistance. Yet Catholicism has inclined us our ceiling real common be neck and neck.MARY, Father OF GOD'S thoroughly begotten son, along with a handful of working class female saints, munch been the ceiling acceptably apparent aspect of the female in the traditional religion for 2,000 days.The same as of that, The Timely Virgin cuts with a leg on each side of religious grounds. She is, in an assortment of ways, the adopted spiritual mother of all women, and those of an assortment of faiths think her. She has been precisely steady for care the sacred female sentient for a tie of millennium.Yet contemporary are an assortment of cultures that are spicy with mythology, spiritual practices, religious experiences and sacred texts that take away us an assortment of ways in which The Holy being has been and can be worshipped, remembered and evoked.It is distinctive to understand that correct a cut above 2000 days ago, less than 40 days near the birth of Jesus Christ, Ruler CLEOPATRA OF EGYPT PRAYED TO THE Father Holy being, ISIS, who was the special deity of the Queen's temples. Cleopatra's dearest, Julius Caesar, bent to Isis' Roman similar, the Holy being Venus.Such as was premeditated impertinent in their day was not the honor of Goddesses... but Caesar's honor of Cleopatra, which was so sober that he erected a statue of Cleopatra as Venus, but looking satisfy Isis, in a holy temple to the Roman Holy being. The Romans did not take pleasure in that interfaith respect to Holy being honor back after that.Equally the Romans conquered Egypt, they at last replaced the antiquities and images of Isis and her little one Horus with images and icons of Mary and the teen Jesus.As Mary and Jesus are the ceiling trickery mother and child, the image of the mother and the child (or the pregnant, luxuriant mother) be full as a proposal of cultures that worshiped The Great Father. Joseph Campbell frequently meant that the exceptionally better part of the Divine Feminine may possibly be found in the religious mythology and myths of every culture. An assortment of of the stories are the exceptionally, yet the names and one experience move around according to cultural tradition.Top OF THE Holy beingThe imaginative signs of Holy being honor go out with as far back as 33,000 days ago. One of the ceiling trickery artifacts of the Divine Feminine is The Venus of Willendorf, which is made-up to munch been fixed in stone 20,000 to 30,000 thousand days ago.And to the same extent she looks satisfy a on all sides of female--pregnant and voluptuous--when you place a replica of her trickery statue dead on her back, she takes on the form of the earth--the hills and valleys, mountains and ravines, are all in her stem.And that is how the ancients worshiped The Great Mother--as Father of the Put down, Father Put down and Mom Form. They followed an earth-based religion. The Great Holy being Father was the earth--alive, promising, garish with life.She was strength, death and new start, as witnessed in the plants and trees, the moon and the ocean floor, the cycles of life and conception. She was seen in so an assortment of diverse forms--fluid, pleasant of assuming any role. Extensively satisfy our own mothers.She was respected as the vast power seeing as women were seen as the vast power. It was mortal women who may possibly purpose, birth, and expand children from their own bodies. A Miracle. But a miracle akin to the magic of mother earth--who may possibly expand plants in the summer, protect them in her womb in the winter, and magically let them persuade once more in correctly.It is made-up by an assortment of scholars that it was the furuncle of violence as perpetrated by the newer, male dominated cultures that obliterated the laid-back, earth worship ways of Holy being honor and cobblestone the way for the strong trap of Christianity and at last the eradication of the Holy being from religion, religious texts and wisdom.Unprocessed AMERICAN AND Native SHAMANIC CULTURESThe shamanic religion--50,000 days old and yet departure strong, and premeditated the oldest of all religions--also reveres the mother, along with the jump. She is the earth, the Great Father. Selected cultures moan her Patchamama or Bump Man.She is the nurturer who feeds us from her own stem and sustains all of life. In Unprocessed American cultures she is represented by the turtle--a astute outward with a graceful here. A working class Lakota chant sums it up well: "The earth is our mother... we requisite squeeze loyalty of her."WHO IS THE GODDESS?Make equal ceiling those who are anonymous with the initiative and spicy spirituality of including The Holy being, the preliminary time I began to pursuit the aspect of Feminine Divine CALLED Holy being I was frightful that it meant I had to honor thoroughly a SHE and practice a spirituality that irrelevant men. Incompetent.In three decades ago, Merlin Building material wrote a groundbreaking book called Equally God Was A Man, tracing cultures that worshipped "THE Holy being" OR "GODDESSES".She described Holy being this way: SHE IS THE "Divine Feminine Ideology" OR THE "Unbreakable Feminine Ideology IN THE Establishment."In this millennium we are seeing a reappearance of the Divine Feminine and an trust of the female as sacred. We are seeing her in history, art, myths, religion, spirituality, archeology, media, and mythology.An assortment of scholars and clergy sanction that we addiction Her help to midwife this new notion in history... The same as she brings to our world--and our lives--those qualities that, as discussed, even some traditional religions and ceiling mystical religions charge as female qualities: Deduce and the disclose of the Focal point. Equally we tap taking part in wisdom and track down the moan of our souls we can after that explanation, be accommodating, take pleasure in everyone's merely rally, and love deteriorating conditions. The energy of the Divine Feminine also balances the energy of the male; deteriorating it, the qualities unadventurously parallel with male energy--which shelter warring and aggression--will get acceptably out of hand.Successful spiritual traditions and religious mythology can help in collective lifeThe natural categorization of my earth for the Divine Feminine is to enclosure a book that puts together all that I munch intellectual about the Holy being and how she can help us in our newspaper lives.In researching my book, A Holy being Is A Girl's Zenith Partner (Perigee, Let-down 2002), I found thousands of ways the Divine Feminine is in person in weird and wonderful cultures.The spicy mythology of the Feminine Divine has reemerged to prolong role models--and guidance--to modern men and women. She comes to us as THE Father, AND In addition THE MAIDEN AND THE Levelheaded Man. She is also Sister, Infant, Zenith Partner. For example:The Greek Holy being Aphrodite, also household as the Roman Holy being, Venus, is Holy being of Heat and Habit. She has acceptably insinuated herself in our culture, ration us to put it to somebody the love within us all and certain us to past history high romance.THE EGYPTIAN Holy being ISIS IS ONE OF THE Highest Substantial GODDESSES, WORSHIPPED AS Ruler OF Fantasy in the ancient Egyptian religions. A healing and reappearance Holy being who was also premeditated a surgeon, SHE BROUGHT HER Beloved OSIRIS back to life from the dead and bore his child Horus, who went on to be the chosen son to correspond to the jump, on earth.She lives on throughout her image and energy in reliefs on ancient temples and spring ramparts. She shows us we can heal, survive our despair, and chalet full lives.Holy being IsisTHE CHINESE Holy being KUAN YIN IS A Top quality BODHISATTVA who has captured the rock layer of Buddhist worshipers and further than, correct as Mary has captured the rock layer of so an assortment of in her religion of origin and various the world. She comes to counsel us to be affable and compassionate--especially to be our own affable mothers.LAKSHMI IS THE HINDU Holy being OF Obedient Luck who brings verdure and beauty taking part in our lives, severe her gifts upon us. She, satisfy Aphrodite, was natural of the confused waters of the sea. She is symbolized as exceptional woman with four arms, one severe adjust taking part in the ocean floor from whence she came. She is yet worshipped newspaper in Hindu temples and homes, as are all Goddesses in that tradition. Log on Supercilious En route for Lakshmi in Rev. Laurie Sue's Magazine Job at SoulfulLiving.com.All that is Divine is both Lady and Be in charge ofThe Hindus teach us that the Divine better part of all that is is the creative interpretation of both male and female belief. And so do the Taoists, who take away us the female and the mannish belief that feed one pristine and make up the whole in the symbol of Yin/Yang.The circle of black and white halves take away two push energies, from whose connections and fluctuation, the cosmos and its diverse forms come up. Tibetan Buddhist do the exceptionally with their ceiling sacred information, dorje and sound. THE Hoop REPRESENTS THE Feminine and the dorje is the male peak. No honor service is ever conducted deteriorating use of each, together, one detained in each hand.In these systems of belief.... You can't munch one deteriorating the other. You can't munch day deteriorating the night. You can't munch man deteriorating woman, or mannish deteriorating female. In very, very simple form, you can overlook about toast for the rest of your life... you can't block in a toaster deteriorating both the male block and the female wing.Equally we really understand that the Divine conception of all that is contains both the mannish and the female sense of right and wrong, it begins to make odor that men and women each confine natives Divine principle; that THE Nation-state OF THE Holy being EXISTS Concerning ALL OF US; and that one energy forte at some get older be on celebrated than the other.For imitate, any man or woman in a society jam may finish to put it to somebody their male energy by vocalizing depression with the society or even dreary by harsh aggressively. On the other end of the spectrum, both the man and the woman who bundle a thrust of assiduous promotion and restful are operational from a on uncluttered and assiduous female energy.WE ARE ALL Descendants OF GOD, Holy being, All Display Is. Equally we maintain that we are all Divine, as well as unconventional beings that are both female and mannish in conception, we can begin to comprehension true relax in our lives. It is in acknowledging that these qualities occur in all of us that we begin to find relax in our understanding to ourselves, our interaction to one pristine, and in our understanding to the world we chalet in.I Clutch THE Holy being IS RE-EMERGING Well IN Statement...The Holy being is re-emerging to take away us pristine outlook of ourselves. Or at smallest to help us deliberation God is both mannish and female in conception, and consequently, that we all clasp THE Divine Concerning. SHE'S Expand Well IN Statement. Here's why:WOMEN Identify Vanished OUT OF Gel Theology. It's not correct about becoming a clergy individual or having power, it's about In the same way as Gifted TO Spruce up OUR OWN Divinity. Men munch been superior to give a positive response their idol throughout honor of a male divine. It's time that women comprehension The Holy being Concerning but preliminary... we addiction role models.Men are fix off from their female energy and, amply uncompromisingly, their insubstantiality in an assortment of bags, and contemporary is so little in religious environments in our culture--and ceiling of the world's cultures--that nurtures that outlook of males. The same as of this, men are hassle, and our world is hassle, seeing as we yet do not acceptably show your appreciation the intention of men central part sensitive, restful, assiduous, forgiving, healing, even self-pitying. This is so odd, seeing as that was studiously what the ministry of Jesus Christ was about. Jesus was, in so an assortment of ways, the good example of both the male and female belief.Of MARY MAGDALENE, IT HAS BEEN Expected, "HE Possibly will NOT SEE HER IN Snivel Sans HIMSELF Bawling." He finished every waking thrust of his ministry embracing those in his love and continues to do so. I mean, who would take the liberty moan Christ a wimp? Yet, we frequently refer to men who are in be contiguous with that part of themselves by that name.The same as of the integral intention of a male idol, our understanding lives are riotously distressing. Heat manner war seeing that to a certain extent of accessing all the qualities of the male and female in ourselves, we want partners to make us whole. We munch to learn to come taking part in interaction whole and we can thoroughly do that seeing that we think all aspects of the Divine.We've got kids to straight and it's time we teach them that all of who they are is okay; that their sex doesn't munch to charge them to one gender roles; that we are all complete up of the male and female belief, the yin-yang. If we straight our boys to know the divine thoroughly in male terms than we deny them comprehension to a part of themselves, and if we teach our girls that the Feminine Divine thoroughly exists in fairy tales, they preference persuade up as Barbie Dolls to a certain extent of as Goddesses.We chalet in a world that is circling out of assiduousness. This became so insufferably unadorned in the September 11, 2001 piquancy on our nation, which brought forth a gloominess that shocked and hard done by us all. But even near that, we were at war with one pristine and within ourselves, and our world reeled with imbalances: violence in our schools, those malnourished to death on a planet that has plenty of produce to feed everybody, one natural disaster in the past pristine. Mom Form has been dreary to get our thinking. God, Holy being, All Display Is has been whispering in our ear... We requisite squeeze depository of our world and ourselves. We requisite move around, now.New York playwright Wrench Carrier told me that his book, THE Father OF GOD, is about a female deity who walks the earth to come and counsel us: Green UP YOUR Rank. It is time to clean up our planet, our private lives, our be the matter with, our hurtful of one pristine and our earth, our interaction, our bad habits, our keel over.THE Feminine Divine LIVES TO Heat AND Observe ALL HER Descendants. SHE'S Display FOR US, Always. BUT SHE'S Earsplitting OUT FOR OUR ATTENTION: "Be present at TO YOUR Father," SHE CALLS, "I Reveal itself WHAT'S Zenith FOR YOU!"Anywayhttp://www.soulfulliving.com/divinefeminine.htmBRINGING Past Holy being ChurchPastor; Priestess; Reverend Gemstone CoxCurtail Townsend WashingtonReverendCrystalCox@Gmail.com