Interestingly enough, many of “Jesus’” disciples and followers in Israel or Palestine were women. Yes, you understood them to all be men? Well what does “disciple” mean? It means admirer, buff, devotee, enthusiast, fan, follower, groupie, apprentice, beginner, freshman, intern, neophyte, newcomer, novice, novitiate, pupil, chela, recruit, rookie, student, tenderfoot, trainee, believer, convert, follower, zealot – – – – -, how many do you wish?
Man again set his own rules and laws. The women were considered to be “unworthy” by the orthodox Jewish priests to enter into the Inner Temple of the synagogues. Women were viewed as existing solely for the service of men and were definitely second class citizens, if now even lower in class unto third or fourth. Jesus decried this inequality and the double standard of justice meted out to women, as in the case of the adulteress: (”He among you who is without sin, let him cast the first stone.”) It would be logical that some of the men in the crowd had even bedded with the woman if indeed she was an adulteress.
Jesus made no distinction between men and women when it came to His followers, and it is perhaps for this reason that Jesus showed Himself first to a woman—Mary Magdalene—upon His coming into his higher being of light.
Better quoted:
” .. an old woman who had approached the group, to better hear Issa, was pushed aside by a man, who placed himself before her.
“Then said Issa: ‘It is not good for a son to push away his mother, that he may occupy the place which belongs to her. Who so doth not respect his mother–the most sacred being after his God–is unworthy of the name of son.
“‘Hearken to what I say to you: Respect woman; for in her we see the mother of the universe, and all the truth of divine creation is to come through her.
“‘She is the fount of everything good and beautiful, as she is also the germ of life and death. Upon her man depends in all his existence, for she is his moral and natural support in his labors.
“‘In pain and suffering she brings you forth; in the sweat of her brow she watches over your growth, and until her death you cause her great anxieties. Bless her and adore her, for she is your only friend and support on earth.
”’Respect her; defend her. In so doing you will gain for yourself her love; you will find favor before God, and for her sake many sins will be remitted to you.
“‘Love your wives and respect them, for they will be the mothers of tomorrow and later the grandmothers of a whole nation.
“‘Be submissive to the wife; her love ennobles man, softens his hardened heart, tames the wild beast in him and changes it to a lamb.
“‘Wife and mother are the priceless treasures which God has given to you. They are the most beautiful ornaments of the universe, and from them will be born all who will inhabit the world.
”’Even as the Lord of Hosts separated the light from the darkness, and the dry land from the waters, so does woman possess the divine gift calling forth out of man’s evil nature all the good that is in him.
“‘Therefore I say to you, after God, to woman must belong your best thoughts, for she is the divine temple where you will most easily obtain perfect happiness.
”’Draw from this temple your moral force. There you will forget your sorrows and your failures, and recover the love necessary to aid your fellow-man.
“‘Suffer her not to be humiliated, for by humiliating her you humiliate yourselves, and lose the sentiment of love without which nothing can exist here on earth.
”’Protect your wife, that she may protect you–you and all your household. All that you do for your mothers, your wives, for a widow, or for any other woman in distress, you will do for your God.’”
This does not mean that woman, then, goes forth and battles against man to put him beneath her and proclaim herself above him. In this day the balance has been tilted by the thrusting and “fighting” for equality of the sexes as to become absurd in the other direction. The balance is the respect and love of one sex for another in equality according to the abilities and responsibilities involved. THE BALANCE SHALL NEVER BE THROUGH LEGISLATION FOR MAN CANNOT LEGISLATE MORALITY! IT WILL COME THROUGH THE EQUAL MEETING TOGETHER OF MEN AND WOMEN IN SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING. IT HAS NAUGHT TO DO WITH “JOB” OR “STATUS” AS DEFINED BY SOCIETY.
Clearly, the Master Teacher did not view women as inferior to men. On the contrary, He stressed that it was the feminine aspects of love and compassion that men themselves must cultivate if they are to realize the highest spiritual truths.
Even your current “scientists” are recognizing the need to place greater emphasis on stimulating the right hemisphere of the brain, which is considered to be the portion that is associated with what you have “traditionally” considered feminine qualities– love and nurturance, cooperation and compassion, patience and tolerance, intuition and creativity. However, as you MARCH and demand and push and shove, you women acquire the very traditional attributes accorded “to men”. Yet if you see your own feminine reflection in a male, you denounce him as being a “wimp”.
Likewise you go further and make a big to-do about the left hemisphere of the brain to be the analytical side that controls logic, reason and qualities that have been “traditionally” associated with men. NOW WHO DO YOU SUPPOSE SET UP THESE GUIDELINES? DO YOU SUPPOSE IT WAS YOUR LOCAL DELEGATION OF WOMEN?
Rise above this ridiculous separation of gender; cast aside this foolish perception of division. You are forcing a major segment of your society into proclaiming homosexuality wherein in actuality, the sexes simply are thrust apart and are no longer in comfort one with the other and has actually no relationship to homosexuality in the least–it becomes a behavior pattern and a deadly one at that. You are developing a segment of female that is more violent, more addicted to self-greed, and less nurturing than in all times since creation of your placement.
It is right that women take a stand for equality of respect and in services rendered but ones must always use wisdom and caution that in the righting into balance the scales are not tipped off-balance to the point of great destruction and past the ability of righting. The perception is that the Mother Earth is coming into her time of feminine projection–can you ones not accept that it cannot be one or the other and maintain balance?
Women are beginning to call for a new vision of your future, politically, eco- nomically, and spiritually: a vision of mutual cooperation, not competition; of trust and love, not suspicion and hate. Examples can be seen worldwide as women become more visible and begin to gain a new sense of awareness and confidence in themselves and in their ability to perform the various roles assigned to them in God’s Cosmic Play: as wives and mothers, scientists and teachers, social activists and politicians, and above all, as spiritual leaders calling for Peace in the world.
But let us consider what else has happened by not correctly analyzing the problem.
You have continued to misuse the tools of procreation and turned it into some type of “right” for fun and games. Therefore, being that women bear the children and men tend the woman and child during pregnancy and childbirth, at least originally in traditional manner, it has become chaos.
The children who are birthed are tossed to child tenders who basically keep the child alive. The mothers move off into the workplace and men feel rejected, to feel unrejected they hop into bed and prove their manhood, thus causing either stringent birth control or unwanted children or abortion. The cycle grows larger and larger and now you have a planet overpopulated by some 5 and 1/2 billion people and total unbalance between your sexes. You make your marriages and build in contracts to cover the divorces and the children are caught in the middle of total nightmare existence of insecurity and rejection. Adults of both sexes are so miserably unhappy that escape is sought in more loose morality and substance abuse to simply make it from day unto the next. You do not look at what the problem really is, you move on in the wave of chaos and asking ”why doesn’t the government do something, put in more money, use more police, make some more laws and on and on, without once regaining balance and morality along with responsibility for actions, to solve the problem. You simply remain blinded by the false perception of the problem. YOU CANNOT LEGISLATE THESE THINGS INTO SOLUTION.


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