Who got in and planted the “L” on DEVI? While we were asleep did the “enemy”, whomever that might be, sneak in the back door and plant an “L” on the beloved Goddess DEVI? Devi is a Sanskrit word for Goddess, used mostly in Hinduism. She is the female counterpart without whom the male aspect remains impotent and void. However, that was long ago before Patriarchalism took over.
That was then, but where is DEVI today?
DEVI the Divine Mother has been shoved aside. As the joke says, “Karma has run over the dogma”. Oral traditions were codified (can you say canonized?), The VEDAS (the Hindu version of the Christian inerrant Word) and a male priestly class was set up pushing aside the feminine aspect of Spirit. The revered Rig Veda says, “The mind of woman brooks not discipline, her intellect has little weight.” DEVI is no longer honored with blood sacrifices, but appeased with trinkets.
How the mighty have fallen!
The feminine in India fell to such a low that women once could not own property and in-laws were allowed to burn brides with insufficient dowries until 1961. DEVI is not quite the DEVIL, but she holds no standing like that which was before the laws, rituals, and male dominance took over.
In like fashion Christianity was turning the world upside down until the Spirit of the Christos was placed in a box. It took nearly 300 years to get the box built; however, once finished and the emperors stamp of approval put on the final twenty seven books that would be the Christian New Testament, the feminine spirit was shoved aside in Christianity much like it had been in Hinduism.
The Gnostics and Mystical books were ordered banned and burned.
The Nag Hammadi dig and discovery of 1945 has revived the mystical aspect of Christianity. The collection of thirteen ancient codices containing over fifty texts, was discovered in upper Egypt in 1945. This immensely important discovery includes a large number of primary Gnostic scriptures — texts once thought to have been entirely destroyed during the early Christian struggle to define “orthodoxy” — scriptures such as the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, and the Gospel of Truth.
The Christian landscape has been radically and quickly altered over the last 50+ years. The only real devil is the ego that seeks to separate us from God, keep in place the destructive duality of male-female, and deprive us of the true ONENESS that we ARE.
As a spiritual-futurist, I have a BA degree majoring in history. One cannot know the future without knowing the past which holds clues to what is on the horizon. The world is in such a rapid expansion of knowledge that we are close to entering a tipping point that will forever change earth as we know it.
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