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The Goddess in
Christianity
Officially there
is no Goddess in Christianity.
This is because of
a lack of education
in religious
matters among Christians.
In the New
Testament the Holy Spirit is a woman.
Because Western
languages are not able to give a reliable
translation of the
original Koine Greek
in the tranlation
of the New Testament
the impression is
that the Holy Spirit is male.
So the Trinity is
God the Father (male)
God the Mother
equals the Holy Spirit (female)
God the Child
equals Jesus (male).
To study the
Goddess in Christianity
we have to realize,
that Christianity is an ancient religion,
many times
transformed into the thinking of new cultures,
the so-called "inculturation"
and many times forcefully
overpowered by influential clerical leaders.
So rethinking of
the old positions into new cultures
has been part of
"normal" Christian behavior.
We know from
ancient writings, like the Pistis Sophia,
and the Apocryphon
of John that the Goddess in Christianity
was called Sophia,
which means Wisdom.
Wisdom also is
found in the Old Testament on many places.
It will be very
interesting to study
very direct words
from the Goddess, which are noted down in
the Old Tespament,
Proverbs, chapter
8:1 until 9:6
1. Is not wisdom crying out, and the
voice of knowledge sounding?
2 At the top of the highways, at the
meeting of the roads, she takes her place;
3 Where the roads go into the town her
cry goes out,
at the doorways her voice is loud:
4 I am crying out to you, O men;
my voice comes to the sons of men.
5 Become expert in reason, O you simple
ones;
you foolish ones, take training to
heart.
6 Give ear, for my words are true,
and my lips are open to give out what is
upright.
7 For good faith goes out of my mouth,
and false lips are disgusting to me.
8 All the words of my mouth are
righteousness;
there is nothing false or twisted in
them.
9 They are all true to him whose mind is
awake,
and straightforward to those who get
knowledge.
10 Take my teaching, and not silver;
get knowledge in place of the best gold.
11 For wisdom is better than jewels,
and all things which may be desired are
nothing in comparison with her.
12 I, wisdom, have made wise behaviour
my near relation;
I am seen to be the special friend of
wise purposes.
13 The fear of the Lord is seen in
hating evil:
pride, a high opinion of oneself, the
evil way,
and the false tongue, are unpleasing to
me.
14 Wise design and good sense are mine;
reason and strength are mine.
15 Through me kings have their power,
and rulers give right decisions.
16 Through me chiefs have authority,
and the noble ones are judging in
righteousness.
17 Those who have given me their love
are loved by me,
and those who make search for me with
care will get me.
18 Wealth and honour are in my hands,
even wealth without equal and
righteousness.
19 My fruit is better than gold, even
than the best gold;
and my increase is more to be desired
than silver.
20 I go in the road of righteousness, in
the way of right judging:
21 So that I may give my lovers wealth
for their heritage,
making their store-houses full.
22 The Lord made me as the start of his
way,
the first of his works in the past.
23 From eternal days I was given my
place,
from the birth of time, before the earth
was.
24 When there was no deep I was given
birth,
when there were no fountains flowing
with water.
25 Before the mountains were put in
their places,
before the hills was my birth:
26 When he had not made the earth or the
fields or the dust of the world.
27 When he made ready the heavens I was
there:
when he put an arch over the face of the
deep:
28 When he made strong the skies
overhead:
when the fountains of the deep were
fixed:
29 When he put a limit to the sea,
so that the waters might not go against
his word:
when he put in position the bases of the
earth:
30 Then I was by his side, as a master
workman:
and I was his delight from day to day,
playing before him at all times;
31 Playing in his earth;
and my delight was with the sons of men.
32 Give ear to me then, my sons:
for happy are those who keep my ways.
33 Take my teaching and be wise; do not
let it go.
34 Happy is the man who gives ear to me,
watching at my doors day by day,
keeping his place by the pillars of my
house.
35 For whoever gets me gets life,
and grace from the Lord will come to
him.
36 But he who does evil to me, does
wrong to his soul:
all my haters are in love with death.
And continuing into the next Proverbs, chapter 9:
1 Wisdom has made her house,
putting up her seven pillars.
2 She has put her fat beasts to death;
her wine is mixed, her table is ready.
3 She has sent out her women-servants;
her voice goes out to the highest places
of the town, saying,
4 Whoever is simple, let him come in
here;
and to him who has no sense, she says:
5 Come, take of my bread,
and of my wine which is mixed.
6 Give up the simple ones and have life,
and go in the way of knowledge.
Many parts of the modern
Bible
are about Wisdom,
who is Sophia, the Goddess.
The Wisdom
writings were part of the Goddess religion.
In many cultures
Riddles were part of the Goddess religions too.
So were the
original fairy-tales of old.
Wisdom sayings have
a special structure:
an opening
sentence and a parallel extra detailed sentence.
In old Dutch
thousands of Wisdom sayings were known
and I learned many
Wisdom proverbs
by the teaching of
my relatives,
who were still
insiders of the Goddess religion.
I have no doubt,
that in many languages and cultures
these Wisdom
sayings were known.
Some comment on the text above:
The house of the
Goddess has seven pillars. 9:1
This reminds us of
Hathor.
Apparently the
Holy Supper was part of the religion
of the Goddess,
but was taken over into
the liturgy of the
Jesus literature. 9:5
The Goddess was
given her place
from the birth of
time 8:23
The Lord Creator
has made the Goddess the start of his Way
the first of His
works. 8:22
Ancient Greek:
Argoon hodoon
Now we know the
Hodos starts at the Goddess.
The Goddess is
heard on the cross roads and the high-ways 8:2
This explains the
fact that the ancient holy places
were found on the
crossings of ley-lines.
Ofcourse the Jesus
movement has brought these words
in relation with
Jesus,
but this is in
contradiction with the whole setting
of this text and
also in contradiction
with the wider
ancient Christian tradition of Sophia.
This is certain
and sure:
Everything starts by God the Creator,
the Almighty,
the all Knowing, Invisible, Love.
Ancient Egypt used
the name "Amen"
for the unvisible,
almighty Creator God.
The Sun disc was
His symbol, even in Christianity
until modern
times, let us say until 1550 AD.
We have no name
for the Almighty Creator,
or may be
"God the Father".
Also the Hebrew
text does not give a name.
"Elohim"
is clearly a title, not a name.
So is
"Adonai" a title.
The name
"Jah" comes later in the parallel creation story.
The name of God is
never pronounced by the Hebrew people.
So we should not
expect the name of God in the text either.
The Goddess Sophia
is the first of His works. 8:22
The Goddess played
with the sons of men 8:31,
calling the sons
of men: "My sons". 8:32.
Jesus is the first
born from the Mother of God.
The ancient
Egyptians named her Hathor,
or also Nefer Mut,
which connects to the word Mother.
This brings Jesus
back into very ancient times
far before the
Roman times of the New Testament.
The above text of Proverbs 8:1 to 9:6
could very well be taken as a part
of the Full Moon ritual.
See the Full Moon Ritual page.
We hope, that the
above Bible citation
does not hurt any
copyright.
We don't know
whether there is any copyright,
or whom it belongs
to.
It seems that this
citation is
from "The
Bible in Basic English".
If necessary I
will make my own translation.
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15, 2012
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