![]() ![]() Aramaic is an ancient Hebrew language that was spoken by Jesus. The Greek word for it in the Bible is Pneuma which is gender neutral, but the Hebrew is Ruah and the Aramaic is Shekinah and they are both female words and imply a feminine divine presence. Solomon also speaks of wisdom as a woman in Proverbs (9:1) “Wisdom hath built her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars.” Solomon also honors Wisdom in Ecclesiastes: “Wisdom gives life to the one who possesses it”. This love poetry is read out in Catholic churches on St. Wisdom is personified as a woman and as the bride in the Song of Songs. Sophia, the Spirit of Wisdom, is also revered in the Old Testament, especially by Solomon. It is related to the word Allah, and the words Allat and Elat, which pre-Mosaic peoples of the Middle-East used to refer to sacred unity as the great Goddess. Elohim is a plural word, the singular is Eloha, the feminine form of El (Lord or God). The Elohim were said to have made mankind in their own image. ![]() The Bible has references to the goddess, for some of them you have to go back to older sources than the King James Bible, such as the Wycliffe Bible, or even better, the originals. She speaks in the Book of Proverbs in the Wycliffe Bible (8:23,30) “From without beginning I was ordained and from eld times, before that the earth was made… I was making all (these) things with him.” ![]() As Raphael Patai said in The Hebrew Goddess, “Of the 370 years during which the Solomonic Temple stood in Jerusalem, for no less than 236 years…the statue of Asherah was present in the Temple, and her worship was part of the legitimate religion.” There was a common blessing around the time of Solomon ‘Blessed be by Yahweh and his Asherah’. Originally Yahweh was spoken of as having a wife, Asherah. The Church wanted to keep patriarchal control and remove the Goddess from Christianity. Yeshua (Jesus) spoke of the Goddess often but the books that mention it unsurprisingly weren’t included in the Bible or were mistranslated to edit out the Goddess. We shall look at some forms of the Goddess that were part of Christianity. In the oldest stories of many lands, the creative generative essence of the universe is female. Gnostics, Essenes, Cathars, Celtic Christians, Templars, Rosicrucians and other mystics kept that underground stream from trickling out and kept the flame of the goddess burning into the twenty-first century. Veneration of the Divine Mother continued in pockets of Christian groups who weren’t completely wiped out by agents of Rome. There has always been a goddess in Christianity, she has been hidden for long enough. ![]()
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