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We Are All Brides of Christ

The early Jews believed that on the Sabbath, Yahweh and his Shekhina were joined in marital bliss, becoming one. The new testament says that we are all brides of Christ. When we invoke the spirit of wisdom, the Shekhina, we become a receptacle for the divine spirit, we become a holy grail for his blood.

In the new testament, Christ is called the Bridegroom. He comes to us because he is love. He comes to our bodies, because we are the temples of Godde. We are temples not made of hands. Christ dwells within our hearts. When we become Christ's bride, we become one with the divine, one with everything.

The symbol of the menora represents the seven light-wheels of our body. In the east these wheels are called "chakras". When each wheel lights up it illumines a path up to Godde.

The form of the menora is like a tree with branches that reach up into heaven. In the ancient middle east the goddess was represented by a tree. The goddess is the bride reaching up to her bridegroom. When we invoke the goddess we become that tree which connects the earth to the heavens.

We are all brides of Christ.



to our daughters. We yearned to entrust to them a foundational treatise upon which hope could build and thrive. We were dependent on them to convey the message to their children, so the way of the world might someday change. It mattered not what its fate would be; it was our responsibility to put forth the effort. When the truth looked us in the eye and held its gaze, we knew the importance of communicating that truth to all who were important in our lives. We did all we could. Now, this man, countless generations since our lifetime, looks at the old artifact and ruminates. Thus, my spirit heeds the call to surface and observe. I watch him as he looks into my eyes. Do you see the image of the young, dark-haired woman with the telling eyes, painted at the top of the scroll? It is I, Miriam, so very long ago. My cousin, Amelia, depicted my sister, Rebecca, and me in the frame of the message that she scripted, copying it carefully from the old broken pottery that first held the message. Rebecca’s image rests at the bottom of the scroll. Look how her eyes betray her fear. She came on that journey reluctantly. However, I felt my pride bursting forth to have a role in this veiled truth. My grandmother, Sophia, taught me its wisdom.



 

  

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 Thomas Merton wrote simply, "There can be no doubt that Lady Julian is the greatest of the English mystics." So who was Lady Julian? Nobody knows who she was: she calls herself a simple, unlettered creature. She was careful to conceal any personal details of her life except those that bore directly upon the authenticity of her experience of the Showings. Thus we do not even know her name; yet we do know the exact date of her Revelation-May 8, 1373-and, indirectly, her date of birth, somewhere in December 1342. And while there is no date for her death, she herself tells us that for twenty years following the Showings she dwelled upon their meaning. We also have records of Norwich wills, one of which bequeaths to Dame Julian, still living in 1428, making her a very old lady in her late eighties; but we cannot be certain that this is the same as the author of Revelation.

Julian herself tells us that she experienced her Showings in three ways: one, bodily visions, that is to say she was aware of them with her senses -both sight and hearing and sometimes even smell; second, ghostly visions, by which she means spiritual visions and sayings directly imparted to her soul; and third, intellectual enlightenment, whereby her mind was illumined with new understanding of God.

These are the three classical ways by which the mystic has always experienced God directly. The remarkable characteristic of Julian is that, having undergone dramatic experiences of this nature, she is content to fall back upon the life of faithful prayer and patient practice of religious exercise more familiar to the rest of us.

It is common that the mystic should feel compelled to communicate something of his or her experience. In Julian's case, we feel as if the compulsion came from the very nature of that experience: that, having known the love of God-for all his creation-she needed to share it abroad. This sense of the urgency of her message can be felt again and again in the manner in which Julian writes. At once, she is crying to get her words across and, at the same moment, these very words break and splinter at the sheer burden she wishes them to bear. As Thomas Merton witnesses, no one has uttered more finely in the English tongue.

It was in 1373, when Julian was just over 30 years old, and before she moved into her cell, that she received her visions. In her book she tells that she had desired 3 graces from God (1) to have the consistent recollection of Christ`s Passion, (2) to experience bodily sickness when she was 30 years old (the same age as Jesus as he began his ministry) and (3) to have 3 wounds; true contrition, loving compassion and longing for God. In her 30 th year she became sick to the point of death. The priest came and prepared her for death and gave her the last rites on Easter morning. Suddenly the pain left her and a series of wonderful `Revelations` or `Showings` began. during the next 12 hours she received 15 revelations of God`s love centering on the cross of our Lord; then a 16 th early on Monday morning. She eventually wrote these down in the Middle English of her day: the first book written in English by a woman.

The subject of the Revelations is love - God`s love for mankind shown in the Passion , suffering and death of Jesus Christ, and the response of man towards God, his Maker, Keeper and preserver. This love creates all that exists, it sustains all and redeems all. It is unfailing even in times of sorrow or trial. It is a love plenteous beyond imagining: it is all powerful and all embracing. God`s whole purpose is to bring all into the bliss of heaven. "All shall be well!"

 

 

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The Old testament word for spirit is ruwach meaning wind, breath, inspiration,
and the OT Hebrew noun is always feminine. In the "Odes of Solomon'; the oldest surviving Christian hymnal, the Holy Spirit is female.

The original tongue of the Hebrew or Aramaic would translate 'Holy Spirit' as female. Also, Greek would translate 'Holy Spirit' as female or 'neuter in reference to the subject' and it only became 'He' in Latin and English bibles. Clearly the ancient church traditions refer to the Holy Spirit in feminine rather than masculine terms.

It is important to speak of the Holy Spirit, the Comforter and Reconciler, with a feminine pronoun. The functions of the Holy Spirit as characterized in Biblical texts are often, but not exclusively, those which have been associated with women: consolation, birth of the spirit, emotional warmth, and inspiration.


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