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Yin and yang
The World needs a Mother
When I was a child, I loved my statue of Mother Mary. When I received the statue of Mother Mary on my first communion, I was almost in tears. From an early age, I needed to connect with the feminine aspects of Christianity.
Every Sunday, my family would go to church. I saw the Father (the priest) but no Mother. The church has been out of balance for hundreds of years because they will not allow women to be priests.
When I was a child, I wrote letters to God. And then, each week, I would go to the empty church and hide my letters in the hymn books or behind pictures.
As an angry teenager, I searched the Bible for passages about women. To my dismay, the Bible has a negative view of women, and there are only a few passages. Therefore, reading the Bible only brought more frustration and disconnection from God.
Now, so many years later, I am putting the puzzle together. There are many missing pieces in the Bible. But now, with a new consciousness, I can see the feminine in the Bible and the Catholic Church.
The world desperately needs a Mother. Every human being on this planet has a mother and a father. The spiritual world has yin and yang. Hinduism has Sakti and Siva. And the Bible has Adam and Eve. We also have Christ (consciousness) and Sophia (wisdom).
It is time to bring back the Divine Feminine to her rightful place in the world as a Goddess. The Godhead is Mother and Father – just like on Earth.
There’s a lot of feminine symbolism in the Bible and the Catholic Church. I wish I had realized the symbology earlier in my life.
There is feminism in the symbolism in the cross, on the altar, statues, artwork, and in the Bible. I find it everywhere when I look at the Catholic Church. So, why is Divine Feminine hidden in Christianity? Why is the Gospel of Mary Magdalene not taught?
The simple explanation is the Catholic Church wants to have power and control over women.
In this blog post, I will discuss the cross. According to Bede Griffiths (spiritual guru and monastic theologian), the word ruach is the Hebrew word for “spirit,” which is grammatically feminine. He continues to say that later the words “Holy Spirit” means Mother or Sophia.
Therefore, during the Sign of the Cross, the fingers touch the forehead (third eye chakra) for Father. And the fingers touch the solar plexus for Son, and for the Holy Spirit (Mother), the fingers touch the left and right shoulders (yin and yang).
The Holy Spirit is also in the Trinity. “The Holy Spirit could well be considered the feminine Person in the Trinity, the Mother, because the Spirit is a principle of receptivity and giving, of receiving love and sharing or reflecting it in an unlimited way,” Griffiths says.
According to the Gnostic Gospels (Secret Book According to St John), the triadic figure is: Father, Mother, and Son.
Griffiths says the Church represents an old woman. Someone asked Griffiths why this is so. And the answer is that she was created before all else. Griffiths said, “The world was created for her.”
Namaste.
The Ancient Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching
The Tao gives birth to the One, the Origin.
The One, the Origin, gives birth to the Two.
The Two give birth to the Three.
The Three give birth to every living thing.
All things are held in yin and carry yang:
And they are held together in the qi of teeming energy.
According to Yin and Yang, the ancient Chinese philosophy, no object exists without a partner. Therefore, there’s a partnership of masculine and feminine energies – like the sun and moon. So why does the world want to hide the truth about the moon and the feminine energy? The only reason I can think of is that the Origin is yin/Shakti. Ancient people fully knew the power of spiritual practices oriented towards Shakti.
The Tao Te Ching says that “all things are held in yin and carry yang.” The Institute of Medicine Committee on Understanding the Biology of Sex and Gender Difference says in their research, “All fetal genitalia are the same and are phenotypically female. After approximately 6 to 7 weeks of gestation, however, the expression of a gene on the Y chromosome induces changes that result in the development of the testes.”
In the beginning, the Divine Mother gave birth to twins: yin and yang. They are the same but different. In our patriarchal world (false yang), the sun is enormous compared to the moon. However, the ancient Chinese principles tell us that the sun and the moon are the same (twin forces). To move forward as a human race, we need to respect the feminine. It’s all about balance and remembering our Original Love.
As soon as our leaders tell the truth about the sun and moon, we can restore balance on this planet. The Tao Te Ching is more than two thousand years old (from 400 BC). It teaches us the one undivided truth, so we never forget our true Origin.
Namaste world.
Twin Forces
Twin forces are needed to create life. These two forces are equal – yin and yang. The yin is the feminine force – the mother. And the yang is a masculine force – the father. The balance and blending of these energies create life.
Martin Palmer, in the book, The Jesus Sutras, says, “The Stone spells out the Chinese belief that when yin and yang were created, the lighter vapors of yang rose to form Heaven and the sun, the heavier vapors of yin sank to form the Earth and the moon. The yang sun creates day, and the yin moon creates night.” Both energies support life on Earth.
The mysteries of the moon and its strong connection to women must be honored again. The moon is like a womb – giving birth to new possibilities- the Shakti.
According to Taoism, the Trinity is the yin, yang, and qi (life breath).
Tao Te Ching The Tao gives birth to the One, the Origin. The One, the Origin, gives birth to the Two. The Two give birth to the Three. The Three give birth to every living thing. All things are held in yin and carry yang: And they are held together in the qi of teeming energy.
Namaste world.
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