Post #35
Dear Readers,
Are all men Pharisee-Hellenists? Do all men share anti-feminine, male-dominant leanings? Are all men basically the same?
Written as it is along one continuous timeline, we experience more clearly all the different men Jesus either introduces us to, comes into contact with, or tells stories about. Indeed they represent many different kinds of men. Wealthy men, middle managers, laborers, professionals, lawyers, religious leaders, and more. Remarkably, yes, many have very similar traits and behave in the same almost predictable ways suggesting men are more the same than they are different. And yes, Jesus was critical of most of them, which we will discuss later. But not just those who were Pharisee-Hellenists. By contrast, some we might never suspect actually demonstrate the values of Spirit he teaches.
We cannot of course be certain, but men needn’t identify with Pharisee-ism or Hellenism to exhibit egoic, selfish, self-centered and anti-feminine characteristics do they? Men are men after all – even if they are not all the same. And that illuminates an essential aspect of Jesus’ ministry to men: You should want to, you need to really, look closely at yourself! See and hear yourself as you truly are!
Only through this sort of deep honesty can men identify those key characteristics, traits and behaviors that simply must change. Regardless though, Jesus provides us example after example of these traits and characteristics, and the behaviors they produce – the fruit they bear. And throughout his ministry we get to meet seemingly different men who exhibit these. Fortunately, we also get to meet women, and even some men, through whom we can understand what we call God’s “Feminine-ism“. By comparing and contrasting their qualities and virtues we can explore God’s Divine Feminine aspect.
Pushing back against Hellenism, Pharisee-ism or any of its other variants, men must acknowledge God’s true nature as co-equal masculine and feminine energy in perfect Divine Balance, unity and harmony – what is called “Oneness“. This can open men to the possibility of accepting women as not only their equals, but as the only source of balance in their lives. And it is only through balance, a key to the creative power God gave us in the beginning, can be unleashed. As Jesus explains in Revelation, this will bring about Universal rebalancing and change.
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Will, or even can men receive the word that in and of themselves they are not god, godly, or god-like? Regardless of what their ego informs them? Regardless of what this or that philosophy or religion allows, even encourages them to believe? What at its core, Hellenism and its various permutations attempts to convince men is true? It most assuredly is not, but is in fact the lie. A lie we find repeated in so many different ways from even the most unsuspected and unlikely of sources.
Jesus makes it very clear men are only too willing to believe this big lie on page 204. But it would tend to narrow the purpose of Jesus’ ministry unnecessarily to focus exclusively on Pharisees and Hellenists. As we have spoken of elsewhere, unbalanced men are indeed prone to these urges and impulses naturally. Hellenism simply provides them an avenue to express their inherent tendencies.
Namaste!
Miguel
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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! Consider the Sh’ma (Shema):
“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.
As a Traditionalist Rabbi opposed to Hellenism, Jesus’ teachings are drawn entirely from the Law, the Hebrew-Jewish Scripture and the Traditionalist doctrine of his day. To which he chooses to specifically emphasize God’s Divine Balance – the absolute co-equality, balance, unity, harmony and Oneness of God’s masculine and feminine aspects.
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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.
Typical Hellenist art depicts the naked male-form as the object of worship – godly.
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!
