THE FEMININE PRINCIPLE -- PART TWO

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.

THE FEMININE PRINCIPLE -- PART ONE

The Mother / Mater is created from the four basic elements -- Fire, Air, Water and Earth. It is the lessons of these elements that we, as children of the Mother -- which means God´s children on planet Earth -- must master. We must experience and master the challenges that the four elements present to us. 


Influences Of The Elements

A short resumè of the influences these four elements have on humanity are as follows : The Fire element teaches us about "Unconditional Love"; the Air element will teach us how to exist and behave with "Brotherly Love and Compassion"; the element of Water is to teach us "Self Control over our emotions"; and the Earth element will teach us "Service unto others in a spirit of goodwill".

The four elements are also connected to four layers of consciousness. These planes of consciousness belong to and function in our "mater cosmos". But we can achieve the necessary mastery over these elements by experiencing, acknowledging and expressing God (or goodness) through their challenges and qualities.

Four Planes of Consciousness

The four planes of consciousness are : Unconsciousness, Subconsciousness, Consciousness and our Higher Consciousness. All these levels of consciousness are "part and parcel" of the same package -- God Consciousness!! This God Consciousness begins to unfold within us as our spiritual development expands.

To achieve the freedom and advancement from Earth´s schooling, it is necessary for each soul to experience and master the various disciplines the elements of this planet will teach us. In this way we can grow and expand our consciousness further. And this is why we continue to incarnate here on planet Earth.

We must understand that God has given a portion of "Itself" into our material world. Just consider now the word "Mater--ial". Mater = Mother. Our world is the world of "Form" and thereby the term the Mater / Mother Cosmos. The Father aspect of God is Spirit, and is therefore known as the Spiritual Cosmos.

Our Teacher

It is quite natural that one would first identify with the Divine Mother´s aspect and Her principles. Before we do we won´t be able to understand the Father aspect of God. The Mother is our teacher, filled with compassion, intelligence and wisdom. We identify with Her in our hearts, where the Mother Flame (or the God Spark) burns constantly. In the heart chakra and base chakra (over tailbone) God has placed this Feminine Energy or part of Itself.

Having placed a portion of Itself in every human body, it should go without saying that we should respect our "temples", keeping a high standard of purity both within and around us. In this way we can radiate and manifest the Divine here on the Earth plane. With a close and conscious contact with the Divine Mother we will achieve the wisdom and enlightenment necessary to break our karmic wheel and "imprisonment" here on Earth and, by doing this, enabling us to continue our evolution through God´s eternal Cosmos.

The Mother´s Function

The Mother is the personification of the basic elements. She is the Holy Spirit itself that moves across and influences all life on our planet. This Divine Mother´s very essence are the waters of life, wisdom, love and peace.

Now the Mother will show Herself in many disguises. She is our teacher and examinator. She will appear in many forms and situations to test us, and yet to strengthen our souls through these tests. She does just this out of Her Cosmic Love to prepare us for our final initiation. This final initiation is our "at-onement" or union with the Light or God, known as the Sacred Marriage with the Cosmic Christ. This sacred union is the result of our achievement of Cosmic Consciousness, and that is the final victory over death and rebirth.

The Greatest Task

The Mother´s greatest task is to teach us not to become attached to earthly things or relationships. Not to become reliant upon life on this earth plane or third dimension under any circumstances whatsoever... and that includes even the effect of Earth´s four elements and their corresponding levels of consciousness.

The Mother would like to teach us how to achieve complete dominion over these basic elements with their corresponding challenges and "lower bodies". In this way we will be able to master life in the material world -- the world of form -- and thereby complete our schooling for the soul here on planet Earth. We will then be eligible to continue our soul´s evolution throughout God´s fantastic creation.

The following will illustrate how the four elements correspond with our four lower bodies which make up the aura.

Element: Fire -- Body: Etheric/Memory -- Lesson: Unconditional Love
 Element: Air -- Body: Mental -- Lesson: Brotherhood / Co-operation 
Element: Water -- Body: Astral -- Lesson: Selfcontrol over Emotions
Element: Earth -- Body: Physical -- Lesson: Service with a Goodwill


Part two follows....