January 12, 2016
Post #18
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. That is what Jesus taught men. 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 yourself.” (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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You will read and hear us refer again and again to Jesus’ teachings about God’s Divine Balance of masculine and feminine energy as “Feminine-ism“. That is because somewhere, somehow, some 2,300 years ago with the advent of Hellenism in Israel/Judea, the body of Judaism was afflicted by Greek Hellenism. This affliction occurred when Greek Seleucids from Syria invaded, conquered and occupied Israel. It was not so much the fact of their conquest or occupation so much as it was their outlawing God. Their policy of attempting to banish God from the lips and minds of the Israelites was accompanied by punishing the worship of God by death and desecrating the Temple in Jerusalem – God’s Tabernacle on Earth. We encourage you to study this era for yourself. It has everything to with men coming to believe they should rule – especially women, and so everything to do with events which were to follow.
The first, most important event was the Maccabean Revolt by Jewish Traditionalists against the Greek Hellenists – both the invaders themselves as well as Jewish men who came to accept that belief system. As you may have read, below or elsewhere, this event is crucial because the Maccabees overthrew the rule of Antiochus IV Epiphany, who personified the Hellenist belief and worship of a man as god. We see that our One True God, before whom there is no other, was unacceptable to this man, and so had to be eliminated. There are two takeaways here: First, the Festival of Lights – Hanukkah was established to call to our remembrance the rededication of the Temple. And second, the defeat of this idea of Hellenism – god-as-man; male-worship.
Of course while the invading army could be defeated and the Temple rededicated, the idea was not vanquished. Indeed over the next 160 or so years the seeds which had been planted by Antiochus and the Hellenists took root in the Pharisee movement and grew. This had sent the Traditionalists – represented by the Sadducees, and the Hellenists into a civil war. Into the midst of this division among the children of Israel the Romans entered the land. Not quite the Hellenists yet, the Roman culture was very male-dominant nevertheless. And of course the idea of Jewish Hellenism would grow on them over time.
From the perspective of male-dominant man-worship, understanding our One True God is all about the equality of God’s the masculine and feminine aspects in perfect Divine Balance. This is the basis of all life – the blending of male and female energies on every level of existence. And as God said in the beginning of Havah (Eve),
“She [woman; the female; the feminine aspect] (is) the Mother of all living things.” (Page 27.)
Into this world of aggression, violence, and domination men had invented – like a male-oriented overlay on the feminine Earth, Mary, the Mother of Jesus was born. Try to imagine the juxtaposition of these two positions: Women give life, while men take life. Women create, while men destroy. And perhaps most important to grasping the Messianic Age: women serve, while men combat. This dichotomy in particular is so crucial to our understanding we must revisit it soon, however for now our focus is on Mary the giver of life.
Thank you,
Miguel
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This weblog, our pamphlets, study guides and other materials are inspired by Miguel’s book, The Word 2.0, a new biography of Jesus of Nazareth in his own words, based upon a single, unified timeline.
Find us at Amazon.com or our website: www.whatifjesuswasawoman.com
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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 as a reflection of God’s Divine Balance, God made each of us manifest as 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!
