The God-head issue, Trinities, Quadrinities, Pantheons, Co-creators, etc...
My
experience and study over the soon to be four decades of life, has
allowed me to witness various ideas and understandings of the
god/goddess relationship and interaction with humankind.
I grew
up in a mainline protestant christian church. We were Baptists. There
was this guy named Jesus risen from the dead. The same guy my Grandpa
prayed to; he also called out to with cusses each time he smashed his
thumb with a hammer. Somehow this Christ guy we are thankful to for the
Turkey, Potatoes, and pumpkin pie at Holiday Dinners is the same one we
blame for smashing our thumbs with hammers. Also, this living Jesus has a
Father whom I am to address as Holy Father. I am to understand that the
Roman Catholics have a Holy Father too, but we are not to associate
with them, because Our Father in Heaven has another family that prays to
the mother of this guy Jesus. Somehow that is evil and against this guy
Jesus. Oh and those Catholics do not use enough water when baptizing.
Not to mention that they baptize babies. I'd use less water too.
Sorry, rambling.
Anyway,
I found out that there is also the Holy Ghost, "BOO, with Blessings!"
Some say Holy Spirit. I guess Spirit is preferred nowadays because Ghost
references the dead and Spirit is alive. So there is this guy Jesus, an
all around good guy and teacher who just wanted everyone to get along,
so they killed him. Then there is his Father in heaven, (which I
understand the older one is wearing the young one's shirt so he can get
some teenaged girl pregnant, or something), and the almost always
forgotten about Holy Spirit. Someway all three of these people are the
same dude. [Can we say "multiple personality disorder", hey it could
apply to god just as much as jealousy does.]
Yet, I am still
confused. What became of this guy Jesus mother that if I pray to her I
am a blasphemer and evil? Oh doesn't he also have some evil twin brother
with a much more awesome name, Luci...Luke...something like that. (A
later topic.)
Then comes the witches. So these chicks, when I
was a randy teenaged boy, would hang around had shown me somethings more
than what lies beneath their netherworlds. No, I am just teasing you.
They were exploring the realms of Magick. Magic cool, I am a big fan of
David Copperfield. With-in a few weeks I was also a big fan of Scott
Cunningham too. Along with my friend, Seth, the group of us formed a
circle. We learned together about the Maid, the Mother and the Crone and
like that guy Jesus, his Father, and that Ghost, these ladies are all
the same chick! Hah, who, knew.
~~Wait!, is this the Mother of
that guy Jesus?? The ones the Catholics prayed too? "No one expects the
Spanish Inquisition!" What the heck! does anyone like this guy Jesus and
his mother? They slabbed both of them to stakes and put them to death
in the name God Almighty! Wait Jesus' Father was abusive! Jesus was
beaten and hung out like an old shirt to dry, and his mother and most
who honored her were burnt at the stake.
Gnosticism, what is
this? Oh now there are two gods, hold on more than two. Let me read some
more. Oh the god the killed this guy Jesus and His mother, is not
Jesus' Father. Oh he is a jealous despicable being. Blinded by his own
arrogance, envy, and pride. Jesus from his Father of pure Light, Along
with Our Mother of our souls, his hated by the god of this world. This
why he killed them, while at least tried.
The Mother-Father of
All, those from before, from the One. Those whom we all come, those to
whom we all shall return. Whether we call them Lord and Lady, Theos and
Thea, Father and Mother or Cristos and Sophia,
These are the ones
whom have guided us to come here. to join us together to create in their
Name this Third Millennium Church. We are Theans.
When it comes
to the doctrine of the God-head, whether we come from Father-Son-Holy
Spirit, or Maid-Mother-Crone or Frog-Goat-Mushroom, it really does not
matter.(Matter, BAD!). We are coming to be Theans, of Mother-Father
along with Son-Daughter but mostly we are honoring the One from whom all
blessings come.
Scripturally I was going to suggest the concept
of the Elohim. +Bishop Katia has a wonderful slide presentation about
the wife f God, on the northernway website. (see links page.) In it it
describes the Elohim in Genesis as a male-female dual god planing to
make mankind in both male and female in their image. The word translated
into English for Elohim is god. Elohim in Hebrew is a word that has
dual properties alike our word everyone. It is singular in usage and
understanding yet it implies a group or multiple persons in concert.
Therefore the Elohim is god, but more like gods together. most likely a
god and goddess a mother father god, co-creators. Some have suggested
that there are 7 in the Elohim, and Christians say it is the triune god
F-S-HG. Regardless the number of the persons in the Elohim, As a point
of doctrine in the Thean Church, we could say we accept the Elohim,
creators of heaven and earth and all things seen and unseen. Thus we
cover the trinty/quadrinity, or just the duality of Mother-Father, the
Elohim.
-Curate Joseph.
