“A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.”
I Timothy 2:11-12
It is with a
deep sadness that nowadays and increasingly so, I still see men and some
scholars as well as the so called Initiates literally interpreting the sacred
texts.
Here I
focus on some texts that for centuries have served as an argument to degrade the
human female. For the sake of the comfort of summarization, I will not dwell
too much, but will give only a few examples and decoding as quickly as
possible.
With the
hope of awakening some, and with enormous respect and admiration for women:
To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pains in
childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be
for your husband, and he will rule over you."
I Genesis 3:16
"Woman" here is the
unconscious, the world of thought, the abstract world of ideas. The world that
is indestructible, abundant and invulnerable. Source of all things we consider
real.
And, ironically, it is actually the exact opposite, as that what we call "reality" is in fact a product of mind and illusory. But that's material for another article. Similarly, "man" is the will, and in a broader sense, choice, conscious choice and "Children" symbolize the results, realizations, "creation".
Let us
consider, for reasons not explained here, the basic principle that everything
in reality stems from this world of the mind. This mental world is accessed by
means of brainwork, the brain being the organ that "affects” the mind. And
assume this metaphorically.
So then we
have:
In this
physical universe, there is a limit expressed by the principle of conservation
of energy (one of the laws of thermodynamics) which implies that, in our actual
physical reality, there is nowadays, as far as one knows, no pure
"creating” in itself but only “transformation" at the expense of
existing resources and therefore finite physical reality dictates this. This
price is metaphorically described as "pain" as the process of
"nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything is transformed",
depending on the context, it is indeed "painful" in the sense of not
being intrinsically free (it requires interaction, energy, space, time and
relative conditions (pints of view), etc.).
If for
example the unconscious (woman) is implanted by the will (man) with the idea of
"success" (son), a whole world of conditions have to point in the
same direction, the process requires linearity and rules (pain). Needless to
say, also metaphorically, that nothing neither falls from the sky nor
materializes out of nowhere, nothing involving the three mentioned metaphors
(man / desire; woman / unconscious; children / results). There is a concept
that allows the conclusion for it to be possible to break the rules of reality,
if only for the mental exercise of the design, which is naturally that of God,
the All. All, which by analogy,
is that that becomes what is transformed, the essence, the only Truth.
“neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.”
I Corinthians 11:9
“A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume
authority over a man; she must be quiet.”
I
Timothy 2:11-12
“Now
I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the
woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.”
I Corinthians 11:3 Finally we have the will (man) that is headed by Christ (in a state of ideal consciousness the "Christ" consciousness is a state of oneness with all things, divine, the real "I"; in the day to day it is however confused with the ego, what we think / believe and not what we really are).
