Israel and the Shekhina

Day 21 of Troops Home Fast

War in the Middle East doesn’t go away. But it could with the introduction of the Goddess into planetary politics. A lot of us know that patriarchal religious wars have been plaguing the world for thousands of years. They will continue to do so until there is a women’s spirituality movement that has the power to reorder the world.

Not only do male utopias not work to create social harmony, but they destroy the planet through their institutions of social inequality, their trillion dollar bombs, their mega-toxic wastes and pollution factories, and their oppression/suppression of women visionaries. Nationalism is a male dystopian mind parasite that blocks up global energies. It put walls between nature and people. Like nuclear weapons, nationalism needs to be abolished so that global energies can be free to save us.

Some male leaders don’t seem to learn that war is bad for the Earth. It doesn’t work to solve conflicts but it makes things worse. There is no war that is a war to end all wars because war doesn’t hold the love energy needed to transform the world into an ecofeminist planetary utopia where women regain their natural sovereignty.

Isn’t it ironic that some writers have said that founding father of Israel is Hitler? After all, it would have never been created if not for Hitler’s holocaust. My Crone mentor Phyllis told me once that Israeli soldiers are reincarnated Nazis. She is the wisest woman that I know and she happens to be Jewish from Brooklyn. Since the time of Israel’s creation, the world has been cursed. One of the first states to be abolished along with the United States should be Israel.

The Gaia Religion is an ecofeminist spirituality that has the purpose of establishing a utopian vision or what I call Neutopia, a new good place. One of its tasks is to build a Solar Jerusalem, an ecological city. So, how do we do this?

In Jewish mythology, there is an independent feminine aspect of the Deity, the Shekhina. She is both transcendent in that she overshadows the world and immanent in that she dwells in every aspect of creation. She stands up to God when he loses his compassion for humanity’s suffering, sick, poor, and when he sins against his neighbors.

According to legends, Moses wanting pure communication with the Shekhina, lived apart from his wife. This gave raise to the myth that Moses and Shekhina lived as husband and wife. The Shekhina became God’s divine Matronit, the mother and community of Israel. Moses, therefore, abandoned his wife for the promised land of Israel.

When Israel became a nation among nations it was plagued with the same fragmentation that causes tribal wars, racism, sexism and militarism around the planet. The Shekhina was lost. The sins of Israel forced the Shekhina to go into exile.

In the Hebrew Goddess, Raphael Patia, writes, “When Israel departs from God, the Matronit-Shekhina is said to depart from Her beloved, God, and go "into exile" -- when this happens, the Name (ie the Godhead) is not complete, but consists only of 'YHV'...and the whole world, but expecially Israel, suffers. Only when reunited with the Shekhina will God again be YHVH (Yahweh).

There was really no “promised land.” There was only the promised Earth that Shekhina dwells in all. Israel is not a nation-state. It was a state of planetary wholeness, Gaia, the spirit of oneness, not a piece of dirt in the Middle East.

If the Goddess Gaia (the Earth) could gain a voice and rebirth the Hebrew Goddess back into society, perhaps we can find a way to the Golden Age. The reunion of the God and Goddess is what I call the Gaia Messiah. It is the beginning of a partnership society evolving us beyond the dominator war mentality into an age of world peace and lovolution.

Our goal is to reach a consciousness of oneness—through the sacred marriage of God and Goddess-- so that we can create a global management system necessary to building ecological cities—arcology—on Earth and in Outer Space. As long as we have nationalism that divides the world into pieces, we can’t discover the peace of wholeness.

Patia writes, “The divine coupling was, and is, profoundly influenced by human behavior, or to be more exact, by the comportment of Israel. When Israel sins, these sins force the divine couple to turn away from each other; when the people repent, God and the Shekhina turn back to each other and unite in love. When a pious earthly, human husband and wife perform the great "mitzva" of marital union, the mystical power contained in and issueing from this act enables, and more than that, induces, the King and Queen on high to do the same, and thus to become restored to their pristine unity.”

The oneness they experience through the sacred union—the Gaia Messiah-- ushers in the one world mind. It is believed that the Shekhina will reappear to struggle for the salvation of the planet at the end of time. Ask yourself, does the Shekhina, the Gaia Messiah, dwell within you?