Our understanding of God as Mother lies in the acceptance that She is the Father in another form. The Mother is the Father in our Material World, and the Father is the Mother in the Spiritual World. There is no difference. God, as with everything else, has two opposite aspects. Therefore God is always One and the same but with two contrasting functions.
Aspects of God
If we were to personify God, we would have to say that God is a "Hermaphrodite Being". All of us have a portion of masculine and feminine aspects or sides of our nature from God within us. But when we have finally achieved total and complete perfection, we too will be hermaphrodite in our being.
In mythology the Mother represents the "stage of achievement" we all are striving for. This simply means attainment of God perfection or God consciousness. And this would include Omni-science, Omni-knowledge and Omni-wisdom. Our entire material (form) universe is an expression of the Mother Principle and Personality, in all Her aspects. Remember that one aspect of God is the "Personal Personality", and that is the Mother.
The Father´s aspect (Spirit) has the quality best described as "Impersonal Impersonality". This means that we regard or perceive the Father as distant and seperate from ourselves... and yet He is a part of us. The Father is Spirit and therefore "spiritual". He is always Omni-potent, Omni-science and Omni-present. This "Impersonal" quality is perceived and accepted by us because the Father is the Law of Creation Itself in absolute perfection. God favours none of His children. Each and every one of us is an expression or extension of Himself (Spirit). Therefore all God´s children are equal, no matter what position or circumstance in life one holds and experiences.
Characteristics of the Trinity
As explained earlier the Mother´s aspect (Mater--ial) is a "Personal Personality". We are one with the Mother through all our earthly lives. We are living in Her Mater Cosmos and our physical mother portrays and radiates Her energy and vibration of Light... namely Love!
The aspect of the Son (i.e. the Living Word we humans must manifest), is an "Impersonal Personality". Which means that Christ was personified in Jesus, although Christ is still impersonal, as Christ is God´s Light and Love that must come into manifestion (Man-in-festation) in all God´s children.
Now the aspect of the Holy Spirit is actually God in action through Humanity itself. This makes the Holy Spirit a "Personal Impersonality". So we actually have the opportunity, through the power of the Holy Spirit working within us, to manifest here on Earth all that is above in Heaven.
In other words... Spirit is the Father and this aspect of God is masculine thereby containing or expressing the Divine qualities of :- Producer, Giver, Positive, Plus, Yang.
The Mother is the World of Form and Her Divine Qualities are as follows :- Attraction, Receiver, Negative, Minus, Yin.
Eastern Religious Cultures
The many and various gods and goddesses found in eastern religions are simply symbolic aspects and representatives of the different "sides" of the One true God.
In these religions it is not regarded as being or behaving in any way against God´s teaching of worshipping idols or gods through objects as pictures, statues and the like. The simple explanation for this being that it is not the actual "object" itself one is worshipping but the Divine aspect the particular object represents. These people realise and acknowledge there is only ONE God, but God has also many "sides" or aspects in which to express Itself.
The religious culture and understanding in the east of the dangers of earthly "ties" or attachments and the practise of idolatery are far more advanced than in the west. They have a better understanding than the west about Spirituality. Our limited western ideas about spiritual development have been handed down to us through Judaism. But Judaism has been influenced, from ancient times, by a past culture or era of corruption and decadence from Egypt.
Humanity´s Lower Nature
In Egypt, during the time of Moses, when the Jewish people were finally freed, Egypt had reached its lowest level of spiritual development. Just imagine, it had once achieved the heights of spirituality, culture and a society that, even today, the world has never seen or experienced. But, with time, Egypt degenerated into a niveau so low that it became a place of self-idolatery. Self-idolatery is the worshipping of the human nature and ego. (EGO = Edge God Out). They stooped to the level or attitude of pleasure for the human personality above all else. This situation grew so bad that the people lost both contact and understanding of the Divine.
Now because the Jewish population had been so long under the influence of Egypt´s corruption, they were unable to discern just what was idolaterous behaviour and what was worship of the Divine. It then became necessary to teach the people that it was no longer allowed to either own or worship pictures, idols, statues etc. as their underdeveloped abilities of discernment would not allow them to see the difference between idolatery and actual worship of Divinity.
Unfortunately this attitude remains today in many Christian Churches. We can all recall the story from the bible about the worshipping of the Golden Calf. But the true meaning of worshipping false gods is simply humanity prioratising material things over or before God.
Attitudes of the West
In our western world we always seem to "personify" the Divine. We feel that is the best way we can identify with God and it would seem our understanding and acceptance demands this form of identification. People just have a need to compare and identify with things to actually understand them.
Let´s look again at the Trinity. We identify God as the Father, and the Son is personified in Jesus Christ, whilst the Holy Spirit is pictured as a White Dove or Tongues of Fire, or perhaps even as a "mighty wind" (descending energy force). We have to admit that we acknowledge or identify more with God as a "PERSON" rather than a "PRINCIPLE".
Objects and Divinity
It might be of interest to some that when we actually worship or commune with God through a "representative" (i.e. statue or picture), God can and will bless and make holy this "Object" or aspect of Divinity. God will penetrate and saturate the object with His/Her Electronic Presence. In other words, God can transfer a portion of Its own energy into the said object.
So, regarding the Divine Mother, it must be a great joy to now know that when we pray to or commune with Her through a picture or statue of say... Mother Mary or other representatives of the Divine Mother, we will receive their divine energy-flow and blessings. This fact applies also to other Holy Personages, as long as we remember that it is the Spirit behind the representative and not the object itself that we are worshipping or communing with.
