See previous article: Masculine/Feminine: Faith

Warning: this is PG-13 and probably even TMI. Also, I go back and forth between symbolism and mapping meaning constantly as I ponder them.

I had a dream. It was vauguely sexually, but symbolic. The vague sexuality was showing me something.  I woke up, trying to put words to what I understood.

The emotional body is the feminine. It is dark, mysterious, easily misunderstood but holds wisdom and greatness and fullness. Moses approached the thick darkness, penetrated it and found unspeakable light. (see also Nephi and Lehi). The masculine principle wants to know. The feminine is the veil, it is covered, waiting, wanting to be known. She is the center around which the male revolves. It is where seeds are planted and must be waited upon with care. While waiting to know wisdom is gained, a little here and there.1

Our search for God is a search into the deep, thick darkness. Into the feminine. Into that which is mysterious, yet yielding to the masculine touch and pursuasion.

The feminine is desireable, difficult to seduce, yet desires to be known. The secret of women is that they desire to be known. Men desire to know, and then to protect what they know. "I the Lord God delight in the chastity of women, and in the chastity of truth." The dance of male and female is symbolic of our search for truth. The female desires a confident male who shows the fortitude to support her and her offspring. The offspring of faith is the power of Godliness. She is turned off by weakness,2 and even in suggesting to the man that she desires weakness from him, she, in a a dark way that is mysterious even to herself, tests the male and his fortitude.3 Nothing but strong faith, or confidence, or the male principle of faith that the darkness can be communed with will succeed with God.4 God desires to be known.

The push for equality, sameness between the sexes, or rather inequality, is the push to deny our nature, and the symbolism God has prepared. Unnatural adjustments and denial of the symbolism may confuse some, but it will be like trying to push back the ocean. Some temporary, tiny success can be gained with levees, but over just a short time those levees will be eroded and destroyed without constant up-keep and care. The very constant up-keep required tells a story itself.

 

Notes

1. A little here a little there, precept on precept.

2. Weakness in this case being the opposite of confidence. Women are typically pleased with a physically strong man, but in the very least he needs to be confident.

3. In Denver's 9th parable, it states that sometimes we are tested by God, but unaware of the real thing being tested and that it can often seem unfair.

4. "For these are the effects of faith and always have, and always will at tend it. For where faith is, there will the knowledge of God be also, with all things which pertain thereto— revelations, visions, and dreams, as well as every other necessary thing in order that the possessors of faith may be perfected and obtain salvation; for God must change, otherwise faith will prevail with him. And he who possesses it will, through it, obtain all necessary knowledge and wisdom, until he shall know God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, whom he has sent: whom to know is eternal life: Amen." (Lectures on Faith, Lecture 7)

 

See Also

When I woke up to write this, I saw a comment on my Remnant quote request regarding closely related subject. Not an answer, but the comment boosted the attention to the request and was exciting in itself.

The feminine awaits the male. The consummation is symbolized by marriage, and a feast.

The feminine is intuition and intelligence. The masculine by comparison is like monosyllabic words. The masculine has a role, but its primary role is to learn enough to return with wisdom, to yield to that which is greater as opposed to supposing to have a little authority and insisting upon monosyllabic dominance. The knowing mind, the confusing, competing marketplace is the masculine, the silence of that mind (be still and know that I am God) leads to learning from the feminine or intuitive mind.

Man was created complete, the feminine was taken out of man to show that the feminine was in man. "Man" being both man and woman. The feminine being that intuitive part of them. The differences between males and females show this inward distinction that is in both males and females, but in different balances. The masculine plants seeds which the feminine works upon, and by this dependence the feminine is "of" the man. She depends on his seed for her existence. But the masculine is nothing without the creation of the feminine, such that he is "by" the woman. All things of God.

"...the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God. Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering." (1 Corinthians 11:7-15)

The male searching is masculine, the feminine, or the kingdom, is within. Both become harmonious and fitfully framed, the one with the other like a rider on a horse who holds in check the power of the horse, yet it is a power borrowed, but willing, if not a somewhat untamed.

The male has two testicles, the female two ovaries. Two represents duality or opposition. Two unite as one in the male, two become single in the female. The two (male and female) come together as one and two cells unite into one. It then begins splitting into two and life continues.

"If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things--that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before." (Steve Jobs)

Christ (male) went inside the tomb (female) and came out a glorified, perfected being.

The organ of the male was to be uncovered, or circumcised in a covenant, but the female was to remain veiled.

 

 

I remembered that I had read something about darkness and feminine. This isn't the first thing that queued me onto this, but when I read it a couple days ago, I was floored. I believe it was what instigated/inspired my dream.

http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/articles_nature.html

The Nature of God (Elohim)

By Jeff A. Benner

The modern western perspective of God ignores the Hebraic concept of "balance," which is an integral part of the Ancient Hebrews perspective of who God is.

The Masculine and Feminine nature of Elohim

In our modern culture we tend to view God in masculine terms and imagery. While the word Elohim (Strong's #430), the plural form of the singular noun elo'ah (Strong's #433), is a masculine noun, it does not have to imply that the Elohim is plural or even masculine. To illustrate this, notice that the word Elohim is used for a female goddess in the following verse.

For Solomon went after Ash'toreth the goddess [Elohim] of the Sido'nians. (1Ki 11:5, RSV)

In the first chapter of Genesis we receive our first glimpse of the nature of Elohim's gender.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. (Genesis 1:27, KJV)

Notice that in this verse it states that Elohim made humans in his image, but then it defines this image as male and female. From this we can conclude that the attributes of God are both masculine and feminine. We can then surmise that he placed his masculine attributes within the man and his feminine attributes within the woman and when a man and woman come together and become one (See Genesis 2:24), they together become the image of Elohim.

Another reference to the masculine and feminine nature of God can be found in the following passages.

Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. (Psalms 24:10, KJV)

Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. (Psalms 41:13, KJV)

In the first verse is the phrase "LORD of hosts," which in Hebrew is Yahweh Tseva'ot. The word tseva'ot is the plural of the word tsava (Strong's #6635), a feminine noun meaning "force." When two nouns are placed together they are in the construct state, therefore this phrase would be translated as "Yahweh of the forces."

In the second verse is the phrase "LORD God," which in Hebrew is Yahweh Elohim." The word Elohim means "one[s] of power and authority," or simply "powers." Again, this phrase consists of two nouns put together to form a construct and should be translated as "Yahweh of the powers." I should note here that the phrase "LORD God" not only ignores the Hebrew word "Yahweh," which does not mean "lord," but also the construct nature of the phrase. In Hebrew grammar two nouns put together always form a construct, usually identified in the English language with the word "of," and to my knowledge, nowhere else in the Bible are two nouns not translated in the construct state.

Notice that the two phrases Yahweh Tseva'ot and Yahweh Elohim are synonyms, one using a feminine plural word meaning "forces," the other a masculine plural word meaning "powers."

Also note that Yahweh is not the tseva'ot but a part of it, Yahweh is a part of the "forces," hence the usual translation of "LORD of hosts." In the same manner, Yahweh is not the Elohim, but a part of it, a part of the powers. But notice that while the translators will consistently use "LORD of hosts" for Yahweh Tseva'ot, they never use "LORD of powers" for the phrase Yahweh Elohim.

The idea of a single male deity is unique to our modern era. In all the ancient cultures, the Elohim was a male and female. In Egypt it was Osiris (masculine) and Isis (feminine). In Canaan it was El and Elat (also known as Asherah). To the Greeks it was Zeus and Hera. To the Romans it was Jupiter and Juno. To the Germans it was Odin and Frigg. I am not making the claim that the Elohim of the bible are a god and goddess, just that the attributes of Elohim are both masculine and feminine.

The Positive and Negative nature of Elohim

When I speak of the positive and negative nature of Elohim, I am not speaking about a "moral" positive and negative, but the "forces" of positive and negative, much like the two poles of a magnet or the forces of the protons (positive) and electrons (negative) of an atom. God is a perfect balance of positive and negative: Good and Bad, Light and Dark, Large and Small, Make and Break, Loud and Quiet, Far and Near, One and Many, Male and Female, etc.

This concept of "balance" is virtually unknown in our western philosophy, but is a very important one in the ancient philosophy of the Israelites and other ancient peoples. From this ancient perspective, "balance" is "order" and anything out of balance is chaos. In the following two verses we can see this balance of positive and negative within the actions of Elohim.

In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth. (Genesis 1:1, LT)

I (Elohim) will destroy all [flesh] with the earth. (Genesis 6:13, LT)

 

In the first verse we see Elohim creating (positive) the world, but in the second verse we see him destroying (negative) it.

And Elohim said, Let there be light, and there was light. (Genesis 1:3, LT)

And Moses drew near to the thick darkness where Elohim was. (Exodus 20:21, LT)

In these two verses we see Elohim being associated with light (positive) and darkness (negative). It is interesting to note that Jews and Christians always associate Elohim with light and Satan with darkness. However, almost every time Elohim appears to the Israelites, he is in the darkness.

In Genesis 1:4 we read that "Elohim separated the light from the darkness." The word for light is feminine while the word for darkness is masculine. Not only is this verse about the balance of light and darkness, but it is also about the balance of the masculine and the feminine.

In the next two verses we see two contrasting attributes of Yahweh, mercy (positive) and a consuming fire (negative).

Yahweh your Elohim is a consuming fire. (Deuteronomy 4:24, LT)

Yahweh your Elohim is a merciful El. (Deuteronomy 4:31, LT)

In Genesis 1:26 we find that the image of Elohim is male (positive) and female (negative). In Genesis 3:5 and 3:22 we see that Elohim is good (positive) and bad (negative). In Joshua 23:15 we read that Yahweh does good things (positive) and bad things (negative). In Deuteronomy 30:1 Yahweh provides blessings (positive) and curses (negative). In Isaiah 45:7 we are told that God makes peace (positive) and evil (negative).

Below is one of the most vivid passages in the entire Bible that demonstrates this positive and negative aspect of ancient philosophy.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace. (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, ASV)