Imre Vallyon - God the Mother: The Feminine Aspect of Divinity

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GOD THE MOTHER

The Feminine Aspect of Divinity

by Imre Vallyon

The Spiritual Path Series Vol 14

ISBN 978-0-909038-24-3

March 2015

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GOD THE MOTHER

The Feminine Aspect of Divinity

Imre Vallyon

When we awake internally to the idea that we are more than what we appear to be, that we have to follow a spiritual path, it is She calling usbecause She is us. Then, when we start following that call, the aid will come from Her unasked. We dont have to pray to Her; all we need will be given to us, and more.

God The Mother

If you have been brought up in any of the three Western religionsthe Jewish, Christian and Muslim religionsyou know that they are basically male-oriented religions. They can only think of the Deity as a male god. In Christianity there is the Father, who is male; the Son, who is male; and the Holy Spirit, who is also male. In the Muslim religion there is just one God, who is male, and, of course, in the Jewish religion God is also male. Consequently, the hundreds of millions of people who have been brought up or are being brought up today in these three Western religions are fed with the idea that God is male, and thats it.

As a result, the ecclesiastical hierarchies of these religions are also male. The Jewish rabbis are male, the Muslim mullahs and church authorities are male, and the Christian priests are all male. The Anglican Church is an exception as it does allow female priests or representatives of God, but that wasnt the original idea of the Christian Church. So the idea that there is a femaleness in the Cosmos has been obliterated in these religions, which concentrate on the masculine expression in their theologies, in their thinking about reality, and in their priestcraft and practices.

In the Eastern religions, however, there is a great emphasis on the balance between male and female polarities, like Yin and Yang in the Chinese religions and the gods and goddesses in the Tibetan, Buddhist and Hindu religions, where its quite normal for each god to have a corresponding goddess. So the idea that you can worship a female deity in conjunction with a god, or go straight to a female deity for Enlightenment, is quite normal in the Eastern religions. They understand that the Female has all kinds of powers and they can invoke a female deity for material, psychic or spiritual purposes.

The Western religions, however, do not have this idea that you can approach Reality through a female ideal. Because of the total concentration on the masculine side, the Western consciousness does not know that there is a female side, that there are feminine powers that can be awakened, and so it would be quite abnormal for them to start worshipping a female deity.

The Feminine Aspect in Western Consciousness

It is interesting to look back at the history of the Roman Catholic Church and see how, over many centuries and without any real understanding on the part of the authorities, the Church unconsciously introduced the Female idea.

First of all, there was Jesus, who was the Christ and was considered to be a Divine Incarnation. About two hundred years after the death of Jesus, the Church Fathers, who had not given much thought to the mother of Jesus, started wondering how a Divine Incarnation could be born to an ordinary mortal female, and they built up a complicated, tortuous theology around the thinking that if Jesus was a Divine Incarnation, then naturally the mother of that Divine IncarnationMary, or Miriammust have been a special person.

So they decided that she wasnt really a normal human but a special incarnation, as she had been chosen to bring Jesus the Christ into the world. So they lifted her one step higher and she became a unique reality unto herself, no longer part of the normal male-female human species but a special embodiment that was able to produce the Divine Incarnation. Then, because Mary died of natural causes, they thought that she obviously could not just go to heaven like every other woman, so they decided that she must have ascended, been lifted up by Divine Grace.

For a couple of centuries the church authorities were happy with Marys status, but then they started thinking, Okay, if she ascended to Heaven, what is she doing there? What is her relationship to the Father, who sits on a throne in Heaven, and to Jesus, who sits on another throne? So they decided to give her a throne of her own and she became the Queen of Heaven. Later, they realized that as the Queen of Heaven she must have power and authority, so they gave her rulership over the angelic and human hierarchies, and she became the Queen of the Angels and the Queen of Human Beings.

This is why the Roman Catholic Church says that you can pray to the Virgin Mary and she will do things for you. Now, I think this is rather exploitive. Imagine eight hundred million Roman Catholics praying to the Virgin Mary every day, one praying for a car, one for a son, another for a new wife or husband, another for a new trinket, another for a new job. Logically, this is impossible; even if she heard the prayers she would be kept busy trying to organize everybodys karma and circumstances to fulfil their desires. Its the wrong conception of what the Feminine Principle is about.

So we started with Miriam, a humble village woman from Israel and the mother of Jesus, who became further and further exalted until she became the Queen of Heaven and someone to whom we could pray for favours. And nowadays, of course, the Roman Catholics still worship her as the Queen of Heaven. But what is wrong with this picture? Why did this idea develop in such a warped way?

What the Church did over these eleven or twelve hundred years was to re-establish the truth that the Ancients knew: there is a Divine Feminine in the Cosmos that has always been in existence. But because they could not openly say that this power existed before the time of Christ, they had to do a tortuous manoeuvre of lifting a human female and giving her all these degrees and powers. Actually, Mary was just a mortal human, a highly advanced spiritual disciple, but she certainly was not the great Shakti, the great Universal Power, the great Mother of the Cosmos, who has always been in existence and from whom the whole Cosmos has come into being.

If you are a Roman Catholic, it is important to understand that this idea of worshipping Mary came about in a contorted way and that it is not a new idea at all. In actuality, the Feminine was worshipped in all the ancient religions and, what is more, there were women in the priestcraftpriestesses in Rome, Egypt, Greece, India, China, Tibet and all over Asia. The Roman Catholic Church is still struggling with the idea of priestesses. Since the 1960s theologians have been trying to shift the idea of Mary the Queen of Heaven a bit further, to make it more universal, and they have been trying to convince the Pope that the Church should have priestesses doing the same things that the priests do. But at this stage, the Church has still refused to do that. That would be too much of an expansion because if there were priestesses that would mean that God is also a Goddess, which is something that the Church cannot yet accept.