A multi-part exploration of my path from my Christian, male image of God to the Feminine Divine.
In the beginning…
Imagine you’re an almighty being, Uhmmmm… God for instance, and you decide to create heaven and earth and all things therein.
To do so, you’d need to be a pretty smart cookie. Have a slightly better than PhD understanding of physics, quantum physics, biology, animal husbandry, fluid dynamics, celestial mechanics, molecular chemistry and well, just a plethora of other disciplines. The kind of smartness that leads your followers to say stuff like, “He works in mysterious ways”, which drives the non-followers nuts. But come on. Can you honestly explain without Googling it, spooky motion at a distance? (yes, it’s a thing) Soooo… you really think you can grasp the need for bad things happening to good people in an entire universe of inter-activity? Ever heard of the butterfly effect? Yeah. Pit your mind against Gods. That’ll be fun.
So anyway back to my hypothetical. You spent the better part of a week whipping up a universe, made heaven AND earth, populated it with all manner of critters, and finally came to your crowning achievement – humans.
Being the logical being your are (look at all this and tell me God isn’t logical. Even chaos has logic, which seems illogical, but God’s probably an amateur comedian on his off hours) do you;
A.) Create a male in your image and then give him a weaker being to support him? A being not as useful in hunting and dragging stuff back to the cave, fighting, lifting and building, who is a burden on his resources and in need of his physical strength and efforts to protect it?
OR;
B.) Create female in your image and give her a stronger servant – one that she can easily seduce and manipulate – in order to protect your most valuable, perfect incarnation of yourself?
Oh, I hear you already! But Brett, some women are stronger than men and, and, and… Yeah. That’s called deflection. It’s the tool unintelligent people use to avoid discussing things in the vein the presenter intended, but okay. Your playing a video game and one very pissed off Lionziod jumps out of the tree in front of you armed with a battle axe! Quick!! Pick your defender!!! The larger, heavier, more muscled male dressed in full body armor or the smaller, lighter, less muscled female scantily dressed in next to nothing? (It’s a video game after all) Seriously, you know what I meant when I said “stronger”.
If you still balk at believing female is God’s true image on earth, let’s look at some of the qualities of the feminine;
- Intuitive.
- Heart-centered.
- Compassionate.
- Wise.
- Accepting.
- Forgiving.
- Collaborative. (more on this one later)
- Reflective.
Sounds sort of like you’re describing a loving God, huh? So, if in fact woman is made in God’s image and man was her ‘suitable partner’, then Godd-ess is a far more apropos title don’t you think?
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