January 17, 2016
Post #23
Dear Readers,
Jesus is not a Hellenist! His mother Mary is not a Hellenist! God is certainly not a Hellenist! Indeed the very existence of Hellenism, and certainly men’s belief in it, is an affront to God. Not just because it violations so many mitzvahs (translated ‘commandments’) given to us by God through Moses as pointers, but because it places the worship of the male form, indeed “man-worship”, before God. [There are additional notes below]
We are dedicated to the Traditionalist view Jesus taught of 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 also 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, indeed superior to women. 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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We have been discussing Mary, as both the mother of Jesus, and as a reflection of God’s Divine Feminine aspect. In the manner by which our book is organized – along a single, unified timeline, we have a unique opportunity to study her life as it flows along with his. But Mary was chosen by God was she not? Herstory begins before Jesus’ beginning. We first learn her cousin Elizabeth, John’s mother, is her cousin and “a daughter of Aaron, the brother of Moses” (Page 40.) Mary is from a noble and influential priestly family that follows the Traditionalist path in their worship of God, and is opposed to the Hellenists.
No less so than Zacharias or Elizabeth (Page 41.), Mary is literally filled with God’s Holy Spirit – God’s Divine Feminine aspect. So when Mary is approached by the Angel Gabriel (Page 41), informing her the new life to be called Yeshua (Jesus) will be conceived in her, she needs only to receive God’s Divine Masculine aspect (Page 42.) to create life through her as God proscribed in the beginning of Creation (Page 27.). But we learn much more – she is actually brilliant – a radiant light of knowledge, insight and wisdom (Page 43.). Mary is a true sage inspired by Spirit in her own right.
As it was for every woman before her, beginning with Havah (Eve), and every woman since, she will have to endure tremendous hardships carrying this new life to term. And except for the support of other women, Mary will deliver her son Jesus in a barn – a stable, where he will be laid in a feeding trough (Pages 46 – 47.). It is through her strength, her perseverance, her balance his life is created, but we quickly learn this is only a new beginning.
Faithful to the Law of Moses, and her Traditionalist ways, she assures eight days are given to God for cleansing and purification before Jesus is brought to Jerusalem to be presented to the Lord God. Only then can Mary, Joseph and Jesus return to Nazareth (Page 47.). Again it is a mother’s love for her child – the life she only has brought into existence, that is the pure reflection of God’s Divine Feminine aspect. Spirit – the Love of God. This is the energy, the force if you will, that balances the masculine aspect. As an absolutely co-equal force, we will see it balance and guide Jesus through his formative years. A co-equal force that can guide and balance all men.
Little snippets though they were, still the scene of Jesus at 12 in Jerusalem (Page 50.) demonstrated a mother’s love – albeit in the form of concern and worry! Likewise nudging Jesus toward his own chosen ministry in Cana (Pages 60 – 61.) illustrates another way the feminine love not only balances masculinity, but can point a man toward God’s healing purpose of wholeness, unity, oneness. And then as he grows in knowledge and wisdom, how it can truly inspire him (Page 129.). In the intervening years we have a unique opportunity to be as followers ourselves observing Jesus minister the Word of God’s Divine Feminine to sick, afflicted and infirm men who are not whole.
The question for Jesus, as it is for all men – particularly Hellenized men, is would they be whole if they could? Do men honestly desire to know and do God’s will for them? Because without Spirit’s healing touch – a spiritual rebirth as it were, it is simply not possible for a man to even see the Kingdom of God, right? So would men lay down their ego and selfish self-will and accept the Oneness God offers only through the feminine? Through whom all life – especially eternal life, flows? Again it is with Mary that Jesus provides men their most crucial example. What did Jesus say to his mother Mary seeing her and John standing with other women by the cross?
“Woman, look upon your son!”
And to John?
“Look upon your mother!” (Page 376.)
We will embrace the cross itself another day. For today imagine that as one who reflects God’s Divine Feminine, Mary can be every man’s mother who desires she be so. Her love, her power, her knowledge, her wisdom, and the many balancing feminine traits she displayed are as readily available to each and every man just as they were to John. Indeed as they were available to Jesus himself. The gifts of Spirit – Feminine-ism if you will.
Namaste
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.
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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!
