Early Christian Thoughts on a Feminine Creator
Though it is still largely rejected by most Christians today, a massive number of scrolls concerning some of the earliest Christian thought was discovered in the 1940's which, collectively, has been called "The Nag Hammadi Library." Contained in this library are a number of scrolls which differ from, and sometimes outright contradict, the accepted Gospel as known through the New King James version of the Bible. In it, there are some pretty amazing revelations, notably, that Jesus was married to Mary Magdelena, that salvation comes through personal revelation and not faith, that women should hold leadership positions in the church, and, my personal favorite, that the creator god was not in fact male, rather the god who created us was female and that she was a reflection of the original god, who was simply pure, omniscient existence.
This feminine version of god was known as "Pistis Sophia" and many of the early Christians sought out her wisdom through a process akin to the kind of meditation performed by magical cults of today. Poems like the one included in this text would have prompted early worshippers to try to wrap their minds around the grandness of Sophia and that she is everything in existence, good and evil. She was seen as the beginning and end of all things, and her femininity granted early Christian women special status amongst members.
I'm not entirely sure from which text this poem is taken, but it sounds typical of the early Christians' mantras and chants. It clearly embraces the feminine nature of Sophia.
The purpose of writing this is just to bring some perspective to a site upon which many of its members may not have known, or have forgotten, that women were once "on top" of human civilization. This poem is in no way anti male. Rather, it serves as a reminder of the divinity that resides within women everywhere, regardless of status, and despite how profane we may get from time to time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LJW_9XTycg
This feminine version of god was known as "Pistis Sophia" and many of the early Christians sought out her wisdom through a process akin to the kind of meditation performed by magical cults of today. Poems like the one included in this text would have prompted early worshippers to try to wrap their minds around the grandness of Sophia and that she is everything in existence, good and evil. She was seen as the beginning and end of all things, and her femininity granted early Christian women special status amongst members.
I'm not entirely sure from which text this poem is taken, but it sounds typical of the early Christians' mantras and chants. It clearly embraces the feminine nature of Sophia.
The purpose of writing this is just to bring some perspective to a site upon which many of its members may not have known, or have forgotten, that women were once "on top" of human civilization. This poem is in no way anti male. Rather, it serves as a reminder of the divinity that resides within women everywhere, regardless of status, and despite how profane we may get from time to time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LJW_9XTycg
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