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Embracing the Divine Masculine

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For Mother’s Day we focused on the Divine Feminine, so it is good that we consider the Divine Masculine this Father’s Day.

As a reminder, with masculine and feminine references to spiritual concepts, we’re not talking about gender. We’re talking about the functions of mind. We associate the intuition with the feminine and the intellect with the masculine aspects of our being. I think of our intuition as the inlet to God and the intellect as the outlet. It is our primary interactive faculty with the material realm.

It’s probably fair to say that most people spend the lion’s share of their time engaged in intellectual activities. By this I don’t mean we’re drawn to doing crossword puzzles or spending our time working out math problems. I mean we devote a great deal of our attention to the world of the senses. When Emilie Cady said the intellect and intuition are meant to travel together, but with the intuition leading the way, she was reminding her reader of the importance of remembering our larger connection with God.

Imagine standing in the open, front door of your home. You are facing inside the house where you live. To your back, a vast world opens up. If you spend all your time inside the house, your life will get smaller and smaller. Your view of the world is that which you see through the windows. It’s important to get outside and retain your connection to the larger world. Doing so inspires new ideas and a greater appreciation for your home.

The intellect allows us to translate spiritual inspiration into books, music, cinema, art, acts of love, and reminders to others that we’re thinking of them. It is our ability to give form to intuitive feelings that have no form and would not otherwise be conveyed. For me, writing on spiritual subjects is a therapeutic exercise of capturing, as in a literary photograph, insights that I can hang on the walls of my house; reminders that on the other side of that front door there is a very large world.

The intellect without the intuition can become a house with the drapes drawn and the doors shut. The intellect can also throw open the doors and pull back the curtains to let in that intuitive light of God ready to illuminate our world.

Embracing the Divine Feminine

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Much of our thinking about God is influenced by the masculine, Judeo-Christian image. Attempts are made to counter this with the notion of God as Father/Mother. While this is an appropriate exercise in stretching our thinking, we do best to think of God as one power expressing as masculine and feminine energies. We might think of it as a magnet. Two poles, one negative and one positive, make the magnet what it is.

When we think of our own mind, we understand we have intellectual and intuitive faculties. The intellect is the fact-processing aspect that helps us do our shopping and balance our checkbook. We use it to navigate the world of external appearances. The intuitive side opens to our spiritual source. The practice of meditation is the releasing of the dominating intellect and opening to intuitively received spiritual impulses.

If you observe the workings of your own mind, you will notice how the intellect keeps an audio/video program running all the time. We’re thinking about the past, anticipating the future, making shopping choices, wondering how long we’ll have to wait in line at the grocery store, or trying to remember where we laid our car keys. To embrace the divine feminine is to bring this mental movie to a halt and settle into a receptive state of being. We turn from external concerns, and we open to the subtle energy of spirit that is the living source of our being. Our habit of chasing the intellectual movie lines makes being still and listening a challenge. With practice, however, we can learn to relax and pick up on intuitive promptings that will surely come.

What is the value of doing this? It lifts us out of the incessant chatter of the surface mind and reveals a much broader state of being. The broader our horizons, the more relaxed and creative we become. We’re more receptive to the presence of God as our guiding, healing, prospering source.

Embracing your divine feminine is opening yourself to the wholeness that you are. Bless the wonderful tool that is the masculine intellect and give thanks for the broader vision that is made known by embracing the divine feminine that is your intuitive side.