{The Genders of the Trinity [continued (3)]}[26th August 1990]

[Redbook7:251-252][19900826:1728g]{The Genders of the Trinity [continued (3)]}[26th August 1990]

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Certainly Jesus – who had* to be born {either} male or female{,} and possible would not have been permitted to function, by his culture, as a female – seems to have taken pains to be non-gendered in all his actions; and certainly God the Creator in the Old Testament is ‘male’ in his characteristics, so it should not surprised us that the Spirit is ‘female’. This is supported by the identification** with σοϕια,*** the (female) spirit Wisdom; and the C[ircles] A[nalysis] and S[ynthsesis] identification of the 1^st I[nner] C[ircle] degree {r~} (where wisdom is{,} and the Spirit moves one)**** with pure Love.

I have referred to the Spirit as ‘It’{,} in order to get away from the Christian ‘He’ which I find absurd; but ‘She’[,] is wonderful. The relationship of the Spirit and the Creator, as I understand them, is similar to that of woman and man, at least as primitively understood: she gives birth to him, (because she gives birth to everyone), and he goes out and does things (hunting, farming, making); but always has her in mind and comes back to her.

*[Underlining inserted later]

**{of the Holy Spirit}

***(Sophia)

****[ie ‘one’ as an impersonal equivalent to ‘you’]

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