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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What gender is the Spirit, the Ultimate Reality, the Creator, God or whatever else you call it?
I used the word it so as not to prejudge the situation.
In Persian we do not have he she or other gender based language constructs. So whenever I have asked the gender of God from people who only speak [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What gender is the Spirit, the Ultimate Reality, the Creator, God or whatever else you call it?</p>
<p>I used the word it so as not to prejudge the situation.</p>
<p>In Persian we do not have he she or other gender based language constructs. So whenever I have asked the gender of God from people who only speak Persian, they reply, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be ridiculous God does not have a gender.&#8221;</p>
<p>However, in male dominated societies people call God a male. But is this so?</p>
<p>Before I answer that I need to add that in many wisdom traditions and mystical systems people talk about God with a face (that&#8217;s to say God with personality) and God without a face (apersonal God). The apersonal God has no gender and is totally abstract. But at times people need the Godhead to be associated with a person. What then?</p>
<p>In Genesis one &#8211; the Creator of the universe is called the Elohim. Elohim is etymologically an interesting word. It is a plural word (Gods not God) with a masculine ending. However, the singular part of Elohim is a feminine God. Moreover further on the Elohim create Adam (not an individual but the species human being in the abstract as a soul with Spirit) in own image: Male/female.</p>
<p>Again we see that God is male/female (not he) as is the idea (Platonic idea or archetype) human species. Later God cleaves Adam and splits the male female from each other.</p>
<p>This cleaving myth is repeated independently by Plato in his Symposium.</p>
<p>Now for the following quot from Paramahansa Yogananda:</p>
<ul>
<li>In the great saints we see combined the ideal masculine and feminine qualities. Jesus was like that, so were all the masters. When you have attained that perfect reason-feeling equilibrium, you will have learned one of the major lessons for which you were sent here.</li>
<li>[] the basic nature of the soul is spiritual.</li>
<li>You are a soul made in God&#8217;s image&#8230; [] remember always, &#8220;I am neither man nor woman; I am spirit.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
<p>Now from the words of Jesus in the Gonstic Gospel of Thomas:</p>
<ul>
<li>When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female, female&#8230; then will you enter the kingdom.</li>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Course In Miracles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paramahansa Yoganada writes in his book, &#8220;Man&#8217;s Eternal Quest:&#8221;
&#8220;The greatest of all enemies of man is himself.&#8221;
He continues that more than anything else we should fear ourselves when we are wrong. And as A Course in Miracles tells us we live in a world of illusions. We are constantly wrong when we are not in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What gender is the Spirit, the Ultimate Reality, the Creator, God or whatever else you call it?</p>
<p>I used the word it so as not to prejudge the situation.</p>
<p>In Persian we do not have he she or other gender based language constructs. So whenever I have asked the gender of God from people who only speak Persian, they reply, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be ridiculous God does not have a gender.&#8221;</p>
<p>However, in male dominated societies people call God a male. But is this so?</p>
<p>Before I answer that I need to add that in many wisdom traditions and mystical systems people talk about God with a face (that&#8217;s to say God with personality) and God without a face (apersonal God). The apersonal God has no gender and is totally abstract. But at times people need the Godhead to be associated with a person. What then?</p>
<p>In Genesis one &#8211; the Creator of the universe is called the Elohim. Elohim is etymologically an interesting word. It is a plural word (Gods not God) with a masculine ending. However, the singular part of Elohim is a feminine God. Moreover further on the Elohim create Adam (not an individual but the species human being in the abstract as a soul with Spirit) in own image: Male/female.</p>
<p>Again we see that God is male/female (not he) as is the idea (Platonic idea or archetype) human species. Later God cleaves Adam and splits the male female from each other.</p>
<p>This cleaving myth is repeated independently by Plato in his Symposium.</p>
<p>Now for the following quot from Paramahansa Yogananda:</p>
<ul>
<li>In the great saints we see combined the ideal masculine and feminine qualities. Jesus was like that, so were all the masters. When you have attained that perfect reason-feeling equilibrium, you will have learned one of the major lessons for which you were sent here.</li>
<li>[] the basic nature of the soul is spiritual.</li>
<li>You are a soul made in God&#8217;s image&#8230; [] remember always, &#8220;I am neither man nor woman; I am spirit.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
<p>Now from the words of Jesus in the Gonstic Gospel of Thomas:</p>
<ul>
<li>When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female, female&#8230; then will you enter the kingdom.</li>
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		<title>Quotes from Hildegard of Bingen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hildegard of Bingen was a mystic of the twelfth century. She has been called an &#8220;ideal model of the liberated woman&#8221; and &#8220;a Renaissance woman several centuries before the Renaissance.&#8221;
Here are some quotes from her writing which help elucidate &#8220;A Course in Miracles.&#8221; I have bolded the relevant segments:

I, the highest and fiery power, have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What gender is the Spirit, the Ultimate Reality, the Creator, God or whatever else you call it?</p>
<p>I used the word it so as not to prejudge the situation.</p>
<p>In Persian we do not have he she or other gender based language constructs. So whenever I have asked the gender of God from people who only speak Persian, they reply, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be ridiculous God does not have a gender.&#8221;</p>
<p>However, in male dominated societies people call God a male. But is this so?</p>
<p>Before I answer that I need to add that in many wisdom traditions and mystical systems people talk about God with a face (that&#8217;s to say God with personality) and God without a face (apersonal God). The apersonal God has no gender and is totally abstract. But at times people need the Godhead to be associated with a person. What then?</p>
<p>In Genesis one &#8211; the Creator of the universe is called the Elohim. Elohim is etymologically an interesting word. It is a plural word (Gods not God) with a masculine ending. However, the singular part of Elohim is a feminine God. Moreover further on the Elohim create Adam (not an individual but the species human being in the abstract as a soul with Spirit) in own image: Male/female.</p>
<p>Again we see that God is male/female (not he) as is the idea (Platonic idea or archetype) human species. Later God cleaves Adam and splits the male female from each other.</p>
<p>This cleaving myth is repeated independently by Plato in his Symposium.</p>
<p>Now for the following quot from Paramahansa Yogananda:</p>
<ul>
<li>In the great saints we see combined the ideal masculine and feminine qualities. Jesus was like that, so were all the masters. When you have attained that perfect reason-feeling equilibrium, you will have learned one of the major lessons for which you were sent here.</li>
<li>[] the basic nature of the soul is spiritual.</li>
<li>You are a soul made in God&#8217;s image&#8230; [] remember always, &#8220;I am neither man nor woman; I am spirit.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
<p>Now from the words of Jesus in the Gonstic Gospel of Thomas:</p>
<ul>
<li>When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female, female&#8230; then will you enter the kingdom.</li>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have quoted the first chapter of Tao Te Ching a few times already. I believe that different wisdom books like the Tao Te Ching, I ching, Gita, A Course in Miracles and so on all complement each other.
So here are a few quotes to complement the ACIM workbook:

When a person is alive, he is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What gender is the Spirit, the Ultimate Reality, the Creator, God or whatever else you call it?</p>
<p>I used the word it so as not to prejudge the situation.</p>
<p>In Persian we do not have he she or other gender based language constructs. So whenever I have asked the gender of God from people who only speak Persian, they reply, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be ridiculous God does not have a gender.&#8221;</p>
<p>However, in male dominated societies people call God a male. But is this so?</p>
<p>Before I answer that I need to add that in many wisdom traditions and mystical systems people talk about God with a face (that&#8217;s to say God with personality) and God without a face (apersonal God). The apersonal God has no gender and is totally abstract. But at times people need the Godhead to be associated with a person. What then?</p>
<p>In Genesis one &#8211; the Creator of the universe is called the Elohim. Elohim is etymologically an interesting word. It is a plural word (Gods not God) with a masculine ending. However, the singular part of Elohim is a feminine God. Moreover further on the Elohim create Adam (not an individual but the species human being in the abstract as a soul with Spirit) in own image: Male/female.</p>
<p>Again we see that God is male/female (not he) as is the idea (Platonic idea or archetype) human species. Later God cleaves Adam and splits the male female from each other.</p>
<p>This cleaving myth is repeated independently by Plato in his Symposium.</p>
<p>Now for the following quot from Paramahansa Yogananda:</p>
<ul>
<li>In the great saints we see combined the ideal masculine and feminine qualities. Jesus was like that, so were all the masters. When you have attained that perfect reason-feeling equilibrium, you will have learned one of the major lessons for which you were sent here.</li>
<li>[] the basic nature of the soul is spiritual.</li>
<li>You are a soul made in God&#8217;s image&#8230; [] remember always, &#8220;I am neither man nor woman; I am spirit.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
<p>Now from the words of Jesus in the Gonstic Gospel of Thomas:</p>
<ul>
<li>When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female, female&#8230; then will you enter the kingdom.</li>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meister Eckhart quotes relate to ACIM:
Meister Eckhart was a true renaissance person who lived before the beginning of the main renaissance. He lived between about 1260 to 1329 and was a mystic, feminist, philosopher, preacher, theologian, administrator, poet, spiritual genius and of course he was declared a heretic. Unfortunately whereas Islam and Judaism tended to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What gender is the Spirit, the Ultimate Reality, the Creator, God or whatever else you call it?</p>
<p>I used the word it so as not to prejudge the situation.</p>
<p>In Persian we do not have he she or other gender based language constructs. So whenever I have asked the gender of God from people who only speak Persian, they reply, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be ridiculous God does not have a gender.&#8221;</p>
<p>However, in male dominated societies people call God a male. But is this so?</p>
<p>Before I answer that I need to add that in many wisdom traditions and mystical systems people talk about God with a face (that&#8217;s to say God with personality) and God without a face (apersonal God). The apersonal God has no gender and is totally abstract. But at times people need the Godhead to be associated with a person. What then?</p>
<p>In Genesis one &#8211; the Creator of the universe is called the Elohim. Elohim is etymologically an interesting word. It is a plural word (Gods not God) with a masculine ending. However, the singular part of Elohim is a feminine God. Moreover further on the Elohim create Adam (not an individual but the species human being in the abstract as a soul with Spirit) in own image: Male/female.</p>
<p>Again we see that God is male/female (not he) as is the idea (Platonic idea or archetype) human species. Later God cleaves Adam and splits the male female from each other.</p>
<p>This cleaving myth is repeated independently by Plato in his Symposium.</p>
<p>Now for the following quot from Paramahansa Yogananda:</p>
<ul>
<li>In the great saints we see combined the ideal masculine and feminine qualities. Jesus was like that, so were all the masters. When you have attained that perfect reason-feeling equilibrium, you will have learned one of the major lessons for which you were sent here.</li>
<li>[] the basic nature of the soul is spiritual.</li>
<li>You are a soul made in God&#8217;s image&#8230; [] remember always, &#8220;I am neither man nor woman; I am spirit.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
<p>Now from the words of Jesus in the Gonstic Gospel of Thomas:</p>
<ul>
<li>When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female, female&#8230; then will you enter the kingdom.</li>
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		<title>Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paramahansa Yogananda is famous for having written Autobiography of a Yogi and was the person who introduced the West to Kria Yoga. He started the Self Realization Fellowship organization. The SRF has a few Ashrams (temples) in Southern California as well as other parts of the USA. He was truly an enlightened person whom many [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What gender is the Spirit, the Ultimate Reality, the Creator, God or whatever else you call it?</p>
<p>I used the word it so as not to prejudge the situation.</p>
<p>In Persian we do not have he she or other gender based language constructs. So whenever I have asked the gender of God from people who only speak Persian, they reply, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be ridiculous God does not have a gender.&#8221;</p>
<p>However, in male dominated societies people call God a male. But is this so?</p>
<p>Before I answer that I need to add that in many wisdom traditions and mystical systems people talk about God with a face (that&#8217;s to say God with personality) and God without a face (apersonal God). The apersonal God has no gender and is totally abstract. But at times people need the Godhead to be associated with a person. What then?</p>
<p>In Genesis one &#8211; the Creator of the universe is called the Elohim. Elohim is etymologically an interesting word. It is a plural word (Gods not God) with a masculine ending. However, the singular part of Elohim is a feminine God. Moreover further on the Elohim create Adam (not an individual but the species human being in the abstract as a soul with Spirit) in own image: Male/female.</p>
<p>Again we see that God is male/female (not he) as is the idea (Platonic idea or archetype) human species. Later God cleaves Adam and splits the male female from each other.</p>
<p>This cleaving myth is repeated independently by Plato in his Symposium.</p>
<p>Now for the following quot from Paramahansa Yogananda:</p>
<ul>
<li>In the great saints we see combined the ideal masculine and feminine qualities. Jesus was like that, so were all the masters. When you have attained that perfect reason-feeling equilibrium, you will have learned one of the major lessons for which you were sent here.</li>
<li>[] the basic nature of the soul is spiritual.</li>
<li>You are a soul made in God&#8217;s image&#8230; [] remember always, &#8220;I am neither man nor woman; I am spirit.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
<p>Now from the words of Jesus in the Gonstic Gospel of Thomas:</p>
<ul>
<li>When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female, female&#8230; then will you enter the kingdom.</li>
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