January 9, 2016
Post #15
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 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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References are to pages in the book. And our many thanks to Wikipedia!
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Jesus is not a Hellenist! Indeed, not only is Jesus not a Hellenist, his ministry is anti-Hellenist. As a Traditionalist, if not entirely “Orthodox” Rabbi, he used his teachings, his storytelling, and his many works to stand against the Hellenizers.
We have also discussed how Greek Seleucids from Syria had invaded Israel (Judea) years before Jesus’ birth and sought to enforce their brand of Hellenism upon the people. We have also discussed how, sparked by a priest named Mattathais and led by his son Judah, the ‘Revolt of the Maccabees‘ defeated the Greeks and restored their right to worship God. As we recall, however, by then Hellenism had taken root among certain men in elite ruling circles such as the Pharisees. Men who favored their status, influence, positions of authority, and their power in the Jewish community.
However it was always then as it is seemingly impossible now to reconcile our faith in men – a man, any man really who is without regard for women, with our faith in our One True God. Balance simply cannot be achieved without the co-equal influence of the feminine. The version of the Shema which Jesus teaches (above) is a balanced love of God and one another blending all our masculine and feminine aspects of the heart, the soul, the mind and the body. We delve further into this “God + Spirit + Mind + Body” pathway that connects us with God in the study guide, while for now understand and accept it is only by this blending of masculine and feminine aspects that we can become one. As God said in the Law, and Jesus later reiterated:
“This is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife.
“That they are no more two, but one flesh.” (Page 27 and page 269.)
God also said in the beginning, when God made all things masculine and feminine, male and female, that God created man and woman on the sixth day in God’s own image and likeness saying:
“Let us make humankind in our image – in the likeness of ourselves.
“(So) God created them male and female in God’s image.” (Page 26.)
The Seleucids having invaded Israel (Judea), no doubt for her strategic value, were unable to reconcile their own male-dominance, their worship of a man as god, with the our God of balance and co-equality of the masculine and the feminine. They did what conquerors and occupiers typically do: they outlawed God, the worship of our One True God under penalty of death, and defiled God’s Temple – God’s Tabernacle on Earth (Page 37.). That was some 170 before Jesus was born into this world.
Though the Greek Hellenists were defeated, the lingering influence of Hellenism continues to this very day, unreconciled with God’s true purpose of equality and balance throughout all Creation. Drawing upon an assortment of Greek ideas and ideals, man-worship not only survives but seems to thrive. As does the subjugation of women – reflecting God’s Divine Feminine aspect. It is difficult to say men today even resemble God’s Divine Masculine aspect, so detached from God as they are. That however is the subject of another study.
Typical Hellenistic Art depicting the naked male-form as the object of worship.
The other perspective on Jesus’ teachings about God’s Divine Balance is what we call “Feminine-ism” – God’s Spirit arising in all men and women. We will discuss why Jesus did so those many years later over the coming weeks.
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.
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 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!
