Post #31
Dear Readers,
Question: When we look closely at so many of our institutions, why do they often seem to be men-only clubs – good old boys or otherwise?
Answer: Almost every form of organized activity, regardless of its focus, is predicated upon applied aspects of Greek Hellenism. Whether public, private, governmental, religious, work, play, or whatever, it was founded to promote the interest of men, by men and for men.
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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“The Word 2.0” References are to pages in the book. And our many thanks to Wikipedia!
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As a “Traditionalist” Rabbi opposed to “Hellenism”, Jesus’ teachings are drawn entirely from the Law, the Hebrew-Jewish Scripture and Traditionalist doctrine of his day. As we have read in “The Word 2.0“, he chose as a pillar of his ministry to specifically emphasize God’s Divine Balance – the absolute co-equality, balance, unity, harmony and Oneness of God’s masculine and feminine aspects.
Just seven days ago, in Post #24 we celebrated Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as a true “Son of God”. Yes, Martin was a man – just as Jesus, David, Moses, and Abraham were all men. Men who were truly “born again in Spirit“. Men who could “see the Kingdom of God” (Pages 62 – 63.). Men who, despite their other shortcomings and flaws, grew to become powerful servants of God, their fellow men, but really all people. This reflects God’s Divine Balance – God’s true nature as undifferentiated masculine and feminine energy.
Now juxtapose their balanced and undifferentiated service to God with Greek Hellenism. Especially the Seleucid Hellenists of Syria who invaded and occupied Judea-Israel long before Jesus’ birth. Men who outlawed our One True God while enforcing their ‘man-worship‘ on the people (see our notes below). So by idolizing and worshiping men as gods – and a man in particular as (g)od, women are necessarily marginalized and disregarded.
Typical Hellenist art depicts the naked male-form as the object of worship – godly.
Male-oriented, male-dominant Hellenism is by its nature out of balance. In light of the Shema, it is not surprising under Hellenism that to worship God was to risk death.
Having invented the illusion of differentiation between the masculine and the feminine, the male and the female, men and women, it was neither difficult nor unpopular among like-minded Hellenist-leaning men to forcibly exclude women from all organized activities public and private. The spread of Hellenism as an idea was dependent on elite, established, wealthy men maintaining power. The very men – Pharisees in Judea-Israel, whom Jesus criticized in his teachings. Men who differentiated themselves form one another.
Does it come as any surprise that men does it that elite, established, wealthy men with power invent differences between themselves and other lesser men that included not only belief in Hellenism, wealth and income, but race, color, creed, national origin, and other made-up discriminators? Even today? Were we surprised that the industry association for motion pictures who nominate and distribute awards is regarded as both sexist and racist? Comprised almost exclusively of older, established, white males? Actor/Producer/Man Danny DeVito draws our attention to the deeper issue of racism in America.
We refer to Jesus as a “Feminine-ist” and his teaching about God’s Divine Balance of masculine and feminine energy as “Feminine-ism“.
Must men declare some allegiance to Hellenism? Carry an ID card or whatever, to unconsciously harbor Hellenist leanings? No! Each Monday we will be discussing the institutions of men that seem to promote masculine imbalance.
Peace & Joy!
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 that reveals important new details about his life and ministry! For example that Jesus was not a Hellenist!
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!
