Julian of Norwich & Nicholas of Cusa Correct Patriarchy

We have been meditating on bringing back the divine feminine which means, among other things, wisdom.  Wisdom is feminine around the world.  The Modern era has practically idolized knowledge at the expense of wisdom.  Such idolatry has set humanity against Mother Earth and against indigenous peoples who are close to mother earth, Pachamama, whose religion has been characterized as “aboriginal mother love.”  We have meditated on Julian of Norwich’s teachings about God and also Christ as Mother and how all of us yearn for mother qualities like compassion to be honored once again.

In the video two days ago, which was Yom Kipper feast day in Judaism, a holy day of Atonement, I talked about the need for all three Abrahamic religions—Judaism, Christianity and Islam—to name and atone for the sin and distortions that Patriarchy preaches and has preached for too long.  How would the world change if we converted Patriarchy to a balance of the sacred masculine and the divine feminine?  Think about that for a while.  

Read Julian of Norwich to learn more about what that might mean for children, for the earth and her other creatures, for education to move from the idolatry of knowledge to an embrace of wisdom along with knowledge, for upholding rights of girls and women, for honoring art and creativity, and so much more.

One amazing teacher of wisdom was Nicolas of Cusa, a mathematician in the time of the sixteenth century renaissance, who was a deep ecumenist way ahead of his time.  Among his teachings is this: Wisdom is to be found “everywhere.”  It is “burning in all things” and “allures us” and we are “swept toward it with a wonderful desire.”  

Adapted from Matthew Fox, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, p. 125.

To read the transcript of Matthew Fox’s video teaching, click HERE.

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Queries for Contemplation

Do you agree that some Atonement is in order from the Biblical religions’ bias toward Patriarchy and at the expense of the Divine Feminine?  How best to bring about the healing that is needed in souls and society and social structures?

Recommended Reading

The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Healing of Mother Earth and the Birth of a Global Renaissance

In what may be considered the most comprehensive outline of the Christian paradigm shift of our Age, Matthew Fox eloquently foreshadows the manner in which the spirit of Christ resurrects in terms of the return to an earth-based mysticism, the expression of creativity, mystical sexuality, the respect due the young, the rebirth of effective forms of worship—all of these mirroring the ongoing blessings of Mother Earth and the recovery of Eros, the feminine aspect of the Divine.
“The eighth wonder of the world…convincing proof that our Western religious tradition does indeed have the depth of imagination to reinvent its faith.” — Brian Swimme, author of The Universe Story and Journey of the Universe.
 “This book is a classic.” Thomas Berry, author of The Great Work and The Dream of the Earth.