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Cheers for that V,
seem like you've read a little more of it than I have.
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Hi Kim,
Following on from your musings, I'd say that there have been female light beings, too. Isis was a goddess, not a flesh-and-blood person like Jesus for example, so I don't know if I'd count her as a 'light being.' The trouble is, nobody has taken women very seriously.
Love,
Patsy.
xxxxxx
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Dear Patsy so very true!
Dear Giles
The Buddhist sutra's claim that Buddha had feminine incarnations and she is Quan Yin, known as Kannon in Japan and Kuan Yin in some of the other far eastern and indonesian countries. So certainly not androg more like male and female incarnations just like we have.
Her greatest shrine/temple is in Penang. Also in China where there is a mountain named after her.
You will find figures of her in most Buddhist temples.
The energy and words of Quan Yin are quite beautiful just like Mother Mary.
being love
Kim xx
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How about the concept not that women are always in 'subjugation' to men as per Gilly above (though I agree this has been true in some eras and some places on the globe, and even now in places), but rather that it's often the role of the female to be the equal to man yet in a supporting role? By that I don't mean inferior role, but that the male may be the figurehead, yet the female can be equally important and might in some cases even be the real unacknowledged power?
Sri Aurobindo is quite well-known, but his consort, The Mother, was his support. Ramakrishna is quite well-known, but his consort, Saradeva, continued much of his work and was the focal point for the bereaved disciples. In Jesus' case there were the Marys including his mother. St. Francis had his St. Clare, Abelard his Heloise, etc.
It works that way even in the opposite realm of darkness at times -- what was the name of that awful dictator ousted from Yugoslavia a couple of years ago, and it turned out that his wife was the one who took all the decisions behind the scenes?
So I'm suggesting it's often a gender role - male to the fore, female as a power from behind - and not that females are necessarily so overshadowed.
Venetian
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Hello David,
Women were once afforded great status in society. Many pagan and early societies revered women to the point where they made figures of them ('venuses') and it was realised that women were to be worshipped. It was only when religions became more formalised and when society changed from a nature/fertility type, to a more patriarchal one, that women lost that high status.
I do realise that in some Indian groups, the maternal energy is still worshipped, but this is the exception rather than the rule in many other religions.
Love,
Patsy.
xxxxxxx