The Divine Feminine Aspect

[Tobin S.]

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Someone here alluded to feminism and religion the other day and it got me thinking about a few things. The ideas I'm about to convey would be considered heretical by many Christians, but I think there are just as many who would welcome them.

Carl Jung, the famous psychiatrist, wrote extensively about symbolism in the Christian faith, and he once said that he was a believer in the God of the Bible. But his take on Christianity was much different than you'll hear in Church on Sunday mornings. For one thing, he believed in a divine feminine aspect. He said that there was evidence that in early Christianity Mother Mary was considered an aspect of God divine in her own right. In his view the trinity was actually originally a quaternity with the feminine aspect considered to be a part of God. Jung was really into dream symbolism and he thought dreams of squares and rectangles were particularly poignant , even bordering on sacred- the four points of the square being symbolic of this ancient quaternity concept that probably actually pre-dates Christianity, but found it's ultimate expression through Christianity, at least in the very early days of the church.

Interestingly, in many parts of Latin America Mother Mary has been elevated to deity status. She appears to be much more revered there than in America and Europe.