Post #32
January 28, 2016
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.
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Post #32
We know from his ministry, as well as the influence of his mother Mary, as well as her family, that Jesus was not a Hellenist. He did not support the Greek Seleucid incursion into Judea-Israel, their attempts to outlaw our One True God, nor could he have supported their “man-worship”. Despite the events of the Maccabean Revolt taking place some 160 years before Jesus was born, or the Hasmonean Civil War some 40 years before, it was the Pharisees supported Hellenism while the Sadducees supported Traditionalism – as did Jesus and his family. So it was that Jesus continually criticized the Pharisees – they had converted to Hellenism placing the worship of the male form – a man, men generally before their faith in God.
Throughout his ministry, Jesus points us toward so many of the distinctions between his belief as a Traditionalist and those of the Pharisees-Hellenists. Over the next few months we’ll discuss many of his distinctions. Today we are going to talk about what Jesus refers to as the new traditions of men saying:
“Why do you also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:
‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me. It is in vain that they worship me – teaching as their doctrines the commandments of men.’
“You neglect the Commandment of God, and instead hold to the tradition of men…” (Page 163 – 164)
You could and should of course read for yourself about these traditions men were reinventing. What Jesus points out is that as far back as the Prophet Isaiah, men were criticized for how they were interpreting the Law to suit themselves. Our intent here though is not to debate the relative merit of one or another point of God’s Law as opposed to any man or group of men interpreting what that passage of law means.
Instead let’s stop and consider how Hellenism feeds upon men’s pre-existing condition egoic self-will. What we refer to as men’s underlying evil nature and sinful behavior. In our Study Guide 2.2, Dreams & Visions, Before the Common Era, for example, we discuss God’s anguish and disgust in the time of Noah regarding the thoughts, words and actions of men, seemingly from their childhood (see also Pages 28 – 29.). In that context it was God’s Divine Feminine aspect that interceded to preserve life on Earth when God’s Divine Masculine aspect would have destroyed all life.
The Mother, through whom all life flows, naturally acts to preserve and maintain life. The Father is naturally more reactive and even destructive. On balance however, we tend to imagine The Great Flood, as it is called, a cleansing – a mikveh, a ritual washing of the Earth. God using living water to wash away the sins and ego of the world men invented. Did men behave any differently thereafter in Scripture? Or to this very day in the world?
Later in the same study guide, the Sons of Noah no sooner stepped back onto dry land when they began building what is call The Tower of Babel (see also Pages 30 – 31.). Regardless of whether you treat these as figurative, metaphorical or literal events, they illuminate how men think. They seem to have believed then that they could achieve god-hood, as it were. An idea that Hellenism teaches as a new tradition of men. An idea the Hellenist-Pharisees promoted that Jesus opposed.
Are men, in and of themselves, capable of changing – being different? Repenting of their egoic and self-willed nature, as Jesus might say? We think not, so long as they deny the co-equal balancing influence of the feminine, the female – woman.
Mange Tak!
Miguel
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God is One! We are one!
Consider the 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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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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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!
