Post #41
Dear Readers,
How does ‘Ash Wednesday’ celebrate where we come from? Where we are inevitably headed? What we choose to do with the time we have? With respect to the holiday, Jesus spoke of men repenting of their egoic, selfish, self-willed ways. God as the Divine Father spoke of the Earth – the Divine Mother, and our return to her.
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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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Writing about ‘Ash Wednesday‘, Wikipedia says:
“Ash Wednesday derives its name from the practice of blessing ashes made from palm branches blessed on the previous year’s ‘Palm Sunday‘…
“…and placing them on the heads of participants to the accompaniment of the words:
‘”Repent, and believe in the Gospel“‘
(Page 81 and elsewhere. John’s admonition on page 52.)
or
‘”Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return“‘.”
(God’s Word in the Law, B’Resheet/Genesis 3:19b)
From our writings below, and from the Law itself, we understand that “God” is undifferentiated masculine and feminine energy, neither male nor female, and yet both. And it was only through the process of creation, this act of Love, that God as Mother and Father differentiated man and woman comprised of both that energy and matter – as all Creation is. What God said was:
“Let us make humankind in our image – in the likeness of ourselves.” And so,
“God created them male and female in God’s image.” (Page 26.)
Consider God as the Father’s declaration that we are of the dust – the Earth, the Mother, and to the dust we will return. Now recall from the Law, the sixth day of Creation, Yom Shishi: “ADONAI, THE LORD GOD formed a man from the dust of the ground…”. And God, “breathed into his nostrils the Breath of Life (God’s Ruach HaKodesh, Holy Spirit – Spirit, the essence of God’s Divine Feminine) – and Adam became a living soul.” (Page 26.)
Later, “the LORD GOD said, ‘It is not good for a man to be alone.’ Then God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and, while he was sleeping, took one of his ribs, made a woman and brought her to him.” (Page 27.) And so Havah, the woman, through whom all life flows, was also created in God’s image and likeness. (Page 27.)
Adam and Havah were created, given life, and souls as a perfect expression of God as One – the Divine Balance of the Law and the Love, the Masculine and the Feminine, the Father and the Mother. The importance of this point cannot be understated. We might say obvious, but to many men it is not. Perhaps it is because men struggle with the concept that God pre-existed “the beginning” as it were. The unity, harmony, balance and absolute co-equality of God’s Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine aspects, though not differentiated as such, was “I Am” untold ages before God had an impulse or urge to create.
Obvious because all life on Earth, from the beginning, through Creation to this very moment reflects God’s perfect Divine Balance of masculine and feminine, whether men honor that or not. Indeed whether men comprehend it or not. And so when, on Ash Wednesday, when the church embodies the rituals of the day in God’s Word saying, “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return“, consciously or not, the church elevates the Mother, the Divine Feminine, Spirit to her proper place in the awareness of men themselves.
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!
