Jesus the Sacred Feminine
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| A statue of Isis nursing her son, housed in the Louvre |
I am not here to proselytize nor ridicule I am here to simply point out the reality that throughout humanities story the Divine has eventually always come to include the Feminine. Today the Roman Catholic Church has 'Mary the Queen of Heaven'. Ancient Judaism had Ashira. Egypt had Isis. Chinese Buddhism of many denominations has Kuan Yin.
It seems to me that there is an inherent need to honour the Feminine. I am sure that there are many reasons for this need. But all I know at this time is that when I try to bring my personality into balance I find a need to become a nurturer. To tend a garden, to offer praise and assistance, to encourage and sustain people who are in trouble. To become in some way what Western Society has traditionally seen as a woman.
This will undoubtedly sound strange to many who read this but consider the following:
A person who heals the sick, teaches the ignorant, feeds the hungry, visits the jailed, hauls water for the thirsty, clothes the naked, listens, cries with, cares about others, and just in general goes out of their way to nurture and sustain is most of the time thought of as a woman.
And yet anyone who has read the Christian Sacred Scriptures may well recognize Jesus. He even talks of himself as a mother figure:
'American Standard Version
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!'
Maybe, just maybe Jesus was onto something?
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