Venus of Willendorf |
The Ancient Great Mother
So
what do these teachings mean in our present day society of the 21th
century? We live in a world that has been dominated by the men for
the last 5,000 years. The result has been a world of conflict,
oppression, war, genocide and chaos. We are now in danger of
destroying ourselves with destructive weapons like nuclear bombs as
well as widespread pollution.
The
situation is now becoming so dangerous that the One is encouraging
women to regain power so we can return to the protection of the One.
Unfortunately, too many women are learning how to gain power by
learning from men. But men can only teach women how to be more
aggressive and competitive. Teachings like this only take us all
further away from the One.
An
example of this would be politics where women politicians are taught
by men to be as deceptive, corrupt and competitive as male
politicians. The result has been that when female politicians act and
behave like men, they can only mimic what men do and are not leading
us back to the One.
Although
as more women that come into positions of power the more confident
women will eventually become in being themselves and no longer have
to pretend to be men. When they finally do this they can start to
lead humanity back to the One.
About
5,000 years ago men took control of our world and they were able to
do this when women listened to deceitful men who encouraged women to
break their connection to the One.
So
there was a time in the past when women ruled the world and
patriarchy has since tried to destroy all knowledge and evidence of
this. So how could women rule the world when men are physically
bigger and stronger as well as being more competitive and aggressive
than women?
When
women ruled the world there was a religion where people worshipped
the Great Mother who gave birth to our world. The Great Mother is of
course the One. She is all-that-there-is. It was through this
religion that women connected to the One as the Great Mother.
Women
then were representatives of the Great Mother in this world and so
all women were worshipped by men as goddesses. So men have a natural
desire to worship women and this desire becomes far stronger when
women find ways to connect to the One. This means, the more women are
able to once again connect themselves to the One the more men will
want to worship and obey them.
So
how did women lose the connection to the Great Mother? Although the
One had unlimited wisdom and intelligence it didn’t know or
understand the world of separation. It was only men who knew and
understood this world. The One couldn’t comprehend the world of
lies, deception and trickery created by men. So didn’t know what to
do when these things were used against women.
Also
the One gives us all unconditional love and this includes love for
the worse type of man you can possibly imagine. For this reason the
One never took sides when ambitious men set out to destroy the power
of women. When ambitious men told women that it was unfair that
people only worshipped a female deity and they should be allowed to
worship a male god as well.
Women
allowed this to happen, and so men were allowed to form their own
priesthood and worship male gods. In the spirit of fairness women
began to worship these male gods as well and in the process lost
their power. This was because these male gods represent separation
and conflict and took women away from the Oneness of the Great
Mother.
So
the male priests began to teach and practice masculine teachings
which were about aggression, competitiveness and hatred. They also
taught women about sacrificial love which is close to women’s
maternal love for their children. So the priests taught women that
maternal love and sacrificial love where the same thing.
This
seems to be true because a mother will sacrifice herself for her
child. but for a mother to be able to care for her child she has to
ensure she is strong enough to do this. So the sacrificial aspect of
this is limited because if a mother sacrifices herself completely,
she can become so mentally or physically weak, she cannot properly
care for or protect her child.
The
women who listened to the priests began to feel guilty about putting
any of her own needs before the child and the priests sensing a
weakness, encouraged this feelings of guilt even more. So in the end
women began to feel guilty about loving herself in any situation and
as the result she began to lose her connection to the One and was no
longer in tune with her Goddess power.
The
One has never demanded sacrificial love, the One is an all
encompassing love for everything and that includes our love for
ourselves. The male priests in the spirit of separation encouraged
the split between our love for ourselves and others. They were
encouraged to do this when they saw it broke women’s connection to
the One.
The
priests also encouraged men to be selfish when dealing with women but
unselfish when supporting the power of the new patriarchal rulers.
Through
this, these men were able to break away from the control of the
women. They quickly created a world of chaos and conflict and when
they were challenged about this they defended their power through
deception and violence.
So
the holy women of the Great Mother religion then found themselves in
conflict with male dominated religions. The women who returned to the
original teaching of the Great Mother saved themselves but the women
who tried to compete with men lost out.
Some
women went as far as becoming Amazons and fighting men on the
battle-field. But men have all the physical advantages in warfare and
women lost when attempting this. This means that when women try to
act and behave like men, they find they are at a big disadvantage.
Another
problem for women is that men have what Sigmund Freud called the
Madonna–whore complex. The famous psychologist points out that men
either worship women as Goddesses, or treat them as abused slaves.
Men
are like this is other ways when they say, “you’re either for us
or against us.” It is there competitive instincts that make it hard
for them the take the moderate line in anything. As they divide the
world up into winners and losers. So men have a similar attitude
about women.
It
seems men had not problems in worshipping women as Goddesses but when
patriarchy undermined this, men went to the opposite extreme and
treated women as abused slaves.
People
can only tune into the power of the One through love because
unconditional love and Oneness are the same thing. Once women start
to compete against men then they lose that sense of Oneness. The One
possess all the wisdom, intelligence and power of the whole universe,
so women become all-powerful when they make that connection.
Masculine
power on the other hand is the power of conflict. Men can become
extremely powerful when they are totally ruthless, brutal and
deceitful but this power if unchecked can only destroy itself.
Patriarchal
rulers have gained power and kept it by knowing how to gain power
over other men. The patriarchal age hasn’t benefited most men as it
paradoxically turned the majority into slaves, serfs and peasants.
The ruling elite of the patriarchal world found that all men are very
obedient to anyone who presents themselves as figures of authority
and exploited this to the full.
So
instead of worshipping women as Goddesses, men found themselves
worshipping the male ruling elite who treated them like slaves. In
the past male rulers set themselves up as gods and expected the
people to worship them as such.
Later
when people saw through this deception the rulers then claimed they
had the, “divine right of kings,” and that it was ‘God’s
will’ that they are rulers. Yet, even today when people are aware
that their rulers are not gods or divine-rulers, common people will
still worship those who have political and financial power.
Because
of this the vast gap between rich and poor is as bad as it ever has
been, because most men will meekly obey anyone in position of
authority.
Men
obedience to authority is clearly shown in war. We tend to think
solders as tough macho men but the best soldiers are so passive they
will obey the most insane orders without question. An example of this
is World War One when soldiers of all countries would come out of the
trenches to be mowed down by machine gun fire because they were
ordered to do this. The military will spin this as iron discipline,
but it is also extreme submission to authority.
The
Japanese in World War Two went a step further and used Kamikaze
suicide pilots to deliberately crash their aircraft into enemy
shipping because they were also obeying orders. They weren’t
volunteers, they were simply ordered to do this and none refused to
obey.
So
it means that women do not have to compete with men for power, all
they have to do is present themselves as Goddesses and men will obey
them. Perhaps we can learn something about this from the Femdom
scene.
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