January 15, 2016
Post #21
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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References are to pages in the book. And our many thanks to Wikipedia!
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God said all life flows through the feminine, the female – woman. We see it plainly in the pattern with which all Creation – the Universe if you must, came into being, and it is true for each and every one of us. Havah’s name means “Life” (Page 27.) – the first conscious woman God made, and it is for every woman, including Mary, Jesus’ mother. And just as Adam was taken from the dust of his Mother Earth in the Garden of Eden (Page 26.), Jesus too was taken from his mother Mary – in a stable in Bethlehem. (Page 46.)
But in the way all women who have conceived a child and felt life growing within them, and have carried this new life to term and given birth, Mary suffered – accepted, tolerated and endured many hardships. Not all of them unique to the era in which she lived, but are unique to creating life. The gift God alone bestowed upon women – the female, the feminine. Hardships that don’t end at childbirth – in Mary’s case the day Jesus was born. As every mother knows, and some enlightened fathers struggle to comprehend, the real effort of love begins at birth. Raising a child presents not only challenges, but is fraught with concerns and dangers too! Like Jesus’ disappearance at 12 years old! (Page 50)
Each of the three excerpts from the book that we have discussed so far have taken Mary’s perspective so we can glimpse small fragments that reflect God’s Divine Feminine – the Light, at work through her. Another aspect of “Feminine-ism” as we say. In the context of Jesus’ life, let’s skip ahead to when he is 30 years old. We perceive that Mary was his primary teacher from a young age – his understanding, insight, wisdom displayed at just 12 years old in Jerusalem. And now, clearly, as he begins his own ministry, he would have studied under other great teachers, Scribes, Rabbis and even sages – men of the Traditionalist view, so as to become a teacher and Rabbi himself.
As we will come to see, his Traditionalist teachings will honor God above all things, especially men themselves. About which we can say will be anti-Hellenist at best. But he is not going to be a priest in the Temple, for obvious reasons, nor will he settle into the community life of a synagogue. His calling is to minister and heal the children of Israel by traveling the country. (Page 168.) He will select a number of disciples to join him, and he will attract others along the way as the Nazarene sect will grow about him. However, he will not be alone unless he chooses to be.
In the way that few of us ever really get God’s will for us, the question becomes what must Mary think about her son’s choices? Regardless of all her faith in God, is this the life she would have chosen for him? Yes, as far as we can tell Jesus is something of a risk-taker, confident, skilled, able. But still, the highways and by-ways were not exactly safe. Have they ever been? Are they now? Mary would have been concerned – worried even. But perhaps more that that, she was also very supportive. As any mother would, she would want the best for her son – that he succeed at whatever he chooses for himself. Right?
And toward that motive, Mary as reflecting God’s Divine Feminine acts to support the masculine aspect – her son, toward God’s objective of restoring balance and equality. So now it has been 12 years since we looked in on Mary, and of course Jesus. Whatever else she might think or believe about his choices and decisions, she is going to support and help her son any way she can. In this case it is nudging him toward achieving his potential. Does he necessarily understand or appreciate what she is doing? Does he have to in order to benefit by her influence? What he says is,
“Woman , what have I to do with it? My hour has not yet come.”
This is what men do not begin to comprehend about God’s Divine Feminine – the female, woman. She alone has the power to help him co-create change in his life – manifest a new reality. And by her so doing, and he so accepting, his very first recorded miracle occurred. Perhaps it was not the miracle of birth, but still water into wine to help a young couple celebrate their marriage? (Pages 60 – 61.)
Mazel Tov!
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!
