January 7, 2016
Post #13
Dear Readers,
We are dedicated to the absolute co-equality and balance between men and women! Our premise is that God created us this way to be whole, complete, unified – as One, through one another, masculine and feminine. We are discussing how the Word of God as taught by Jesus of Nazareth was willfully or inadvertently misrepresented or misunderstood such that men came to believe they were somehow more equal. God is One! We are one! Jesus said,
“Hear O Israel – The Lord our God is One Lord. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’
This is the first and great commandment.
The second is like it, namely this: You shall love your neighbor as your-self.” (Pages 305 – 306)
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You are reading one in a series on the “Feminine-ist” teaching of Jesus of Nazareth.
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Jesus is not a Hellenist!
We have discussing events that took place in Israel before Jesus’ birth. In particular the invasion by Seleucid Greek Hellenists from Syria, and their efforts to outlaw our One True God and enforce their man-worship. In the wake of their defeat, we saw a division among the people. In particular the “Traditionalists” like the Maccabees aligned with Sadducees against the Pharisees who aligned with the “Hellenists”. This useful insight provides context for Jesus ministry and helps us understand that Jesus was anti-Hellenist and so not just critical of men generally, but the Pharisees in particular. (Refer to the notes below for additional information about Hellenism)
What did Jesus say?
“Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees – you are hypocrites!
“You bar entry to the Kingdom of Heaven but you do not enter in yourselves, nor do you allow those who want to enter to go in.
“You devour widow’s houses and for a pretense make long prayers.
“You travel the seas and the lands to convert a single proselyte! And then, when he is converted, you make him twofold more a child of hell than you are.
“You pay your tithes in mint and anise and cumin but have overlooked the weightier matters of the Law – judgment, mercy and faith.
“You blind Pharisees,…
“You cleanse the outside of the cup and the platter but within them they are full of extortion and excess.
“You appear righteous to men on the outside but inside you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
“You are indeed the children of your fathers who did kill the prophets.”
(Pages 310 – 312 and elsewhere)
In even just these few of many more sayings Jesus asserts his own “Traditionalist” views juxtaposed to the Hellenist tendencies of the Pharisees in his pointed criticism of these men in particular. Clearly he was a teacher and Rabbi opposed to the male-dominance of Hellenism. And do we not see the same patterns today? To suppress, marginalize, even terrorize women into submission?
We refer to his teaching about God’s Divine Balance of masculine and feminine energy as “Feminine-ism“.
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God is undifferentiated masculine and feminine energy in perfect balance, whole, complete, unified, and co-equal! God is neither male nor female, and yet both – inseparable! And yet God made each of us manifest male and female, man and woman, in God’s perfect likeness! Truly a state of grace.
How Adam’s actions brought about the fall from this state of grace is something we will discuss elsewhere. Suffice it to say that long before Jesus was born, men and women were already out of balance. In the more immediate sense of events which took place in Israel before Jesus was born, I found the Seleucid Greek invasion critically important because of the belief system we call “Hellenism” the Greeks forced on the children of Israel at that time.
It may not be especially well known today but the Seleucid Greeks from Syria outlawed our One True God! They forbade the worship of God under the penalty of death. Their King Antiochus IV Epiphanes (Antíochos D’ ho Epiphanḗs, “God Manifest”), believing he was god, decreed the people would have no other god before him.
Coin depicting King Antiochus IV: “Image of (G)od; bearer of victory”
Hellenism did cause divisions among the people though. On one hand identifying with the Greek empire and culture could enrich certain elite Israelites, but on the other hand their man-worship violated God’s Law. This divided not only those who were “Hellenists”, their supporters and adherents, from those who were “Traditionalists“, but also, apparently, men from women. Why? Because it is also in the nature of Hellenism that women be subordinate to men.
But our One True God was definitely not a Hellenist, right? Given that, Jesus was not a Hellenist – quite the opposite. We might characterize Jesus’ ministry as anti-Hellenist – teaching men in particular about the Divine Balance of God’s Feminine and Masculine aspects, specifically “Feminine-ism“. I briefly outline some basic principles of Jesus of Nazareth’s life and ministry, as they are revealed in “The Word 2.0”:
1. Jesus was a “Traditional” Hebrew-Jewish teacher and Rabbi – to say the very least!
2. Jesus was not a “Hellenist” in any sense of our understanding the word.
3. Jesus espoused and promoted that our One True God – the God of Israel, is a perfect co-equal balance of both masculine and feminine, as is reflected in all Creation.
4. Jesus said that we must love the Lord our God first and foremost, and then love one another as we love ourselves.
5. Jesus taught that love, beginning with God’s “Ruach HaKodesh” – the Breath of Life and Holy Spirit, as aspects of God’s Divine Feminine, is the only way that men can experience the Kingdom of God.
6. Jesus rejected the kind of egocentric, selfish, self-centered thinking and behavior of men that characterizes “Hellenism”.
We will discuss each of these points in much greater detail as we continue, and, look for my study guides they will soon also be available!
Happy New Year!
Miguel
