A Weblog for Our Mother God

This is the weblog or "newspaper" of the Chapel of Our Mother God. All new articles are announced here, together with many other news items and discussions. You are encouraged to bookmark this page and check it regularly or else subscribe to the RSS feed. You are also warmly invited to send your own questions and comments, and also relevant news-items.

Mother of Mercy

Sweetest Raya, most Glorious Queen,
Oh Mother, fount of Heavenly Life,
Look on our sighing, on our tears,
Regard our cries and end our strife.

And heed us, reach Your arms to find,
Your exiled children, draw us near
Unto Yourself, to Your bless'd Heart,
Oh Clement Love, our voices hear!

Med Moura

It is the day when Moura disciplines are suspended and also the day of honoring mistresses, mothers and other closely-attached superiors. A day to show our gratitude for their care and guidance throughout the year.

The Three Eternal Truths

The Drispeal, or Three Eternal Truths is a fundamental statement of faith that every devotee of Our Mother God should know.

All-Girl Worlds reprints a very old article on the Drispeal that we recommend everyone to read. The Amazon history may be conjectural, but the statement of the Three Eternal Truths and the metaphysical analysis of their inner meaning is wonderful.

Meeting with Mary

I just want to let you know how much I appreciate this website especially the Mary pages. I was born a Christian (Methodist) decided in my twenties that it ws all too male for me and studied many goddess religions and found that to be very satisfying for a long time but...then Mary showed up - in dreams and my everyday life. I tried to avoid Her as She represented Christianity to me and I was having none of that male dominated religion. But Mary persisted and I gave in. I was confused at how I would fit Mary into my life but I knew I had to since I finally felt the Divine connection I had been yearning for all of my life and found this year at age 52. Your website answered all of my questions. I remade Mary to fit my way of thinking with some of your Mary prayers and Christian Mary prayers reworked as well as inventing my own and changing some of yours.

I realized that Mary is the Feminine Force of the Universe and doesn't care how we adore Her just as long as we do. I have a feeling She will be surprising many other people in the days to come as the planet shifts towards the positive. I also ordered and read the Gospel of Our Mother God another wonderful help to me.

An Egg? Really?

I have just visited a "super social bookmark" sort of site where they discuss other sites that have caught their attention. They were having a discussion about this Chapel of Our Mother God.

It all struck my inexperienced-in-these-places mind as rather odd; they all seem to be a particular sort of person, and I am not sure how representative they are of Outlanders in general. The ambience of their site has been compared by Wikipedia to that of "a good university", and certainly many of their comments were not unintelligent - although completely locked within a particular framework.

Their reaction to this Chapel was one of incredulity (sometimes expressed by a set of initials which apparently invokes the procreative act). Finally they settled on the idea that we are "roleplaying" which seemed to make it all all right in their minds. No one questioned the probity of "roleplaying" with religion. Taking religion seriously seemed to be outside the boundaries of their thinking.

"Do these people really think the world hatched from a giant egg?? Are they completely ignorant of astro-physics or is this a roleplay based on the Eggworldverse?"

One might be tempted to reply teasingly "Why a giant egg? It might have been a very small egg."

The truth is, of course, that the World-Egg is neither large nor small, since size is a quality of physical objects and the World Egg precedes all physical manifestation.

And while we are by no means ignorant of astro-physics and its ability to explain (provisionally) certain functions within physical manifestation, the whole point of our thinking is the belief that Intelligence, Archetypes, Symbols are not a late development (via the accidentally-evolved human mind) of matter, but are its underlying cause.

That is what all humans have believed before the irrational faith of the modern West that a closed system (physical manifestation) can have its cause and explanation within itself.

To which our friends, I imagine, would reply WTCC? (What The Chryselephantine Cantaloupe?).

Easter Egg Origin - the Great Dove

Is the easter egg origin of the world itself? We examine the ancient roots of this modern festive tradition in the sacred lore of Our Mother God.

Explore the Chapel in Depth

The Chapel of Our Mother God is a very large site packed with information. From this page you can find a full site-map showing every page, many of which may be hard to find.

Lessons of Gobekli Tepe - the earliest known temple on earth

The discovery at Gobekli Tepe of a temple "older than civilization" raises important questions about the current patriarchal historical timeline.

The Coming of Moura

The first of Moura (Feb 19) begins the 28-day penitential period leading up to the New Year at Eastre.

This last year has been the Year of Sai Rhave, and has been an extremely difficult year for many of us.

The coming year will be the year of Sai Raya, and we hope that, in keeping with the bright and warm nature of the Solar Angel it will be a year of happiness and good progress.

In preparation for the New Year and the death and rebirth of God the Daughter it is customary to observe special disciplines or abstinences during the month of Moura. These are not fixed by custom but may be chosen freely by oneslf (or in consultation with one's spiritual directress if one has one).

Moura should not be seen a solemn or sad period, but rather one of purification and preparation. It is traditionally also a time for cleaning and readying the house for the coming of the Daughter and the New Year.

Let us remember that the house and the body are both microcosms of the world into which Our Lady is coming, so in purifying both we are enacting a profound ritual.

There is one day during Moura in which disciplines are suspended, and that is Moura 14th (March 5th). This is a day traditionally associated with the honoring of mothers, spiritual mistresses and other guides and mentresses.

Moura is usually seen as part of the Filianic faith, as expressed in the Filianic Creed although most worshipers of Our Mother God observe this month of purification in preparation for the New Year.

Many of us like to think of sacrifices we make as gifts to Dea and perhaps as a tiny childlike "thank you" for the Great Sacrifice She makes for us.

In the Faith of our Mother God a childlike attitude is not considered a bad thing. As it says in the Gospel:

May Our Lady bless us all in this season of purification and help us to make a good Moura.

How to Worship Our Mother God

Good afternoon. My name is Miss Deena Ashworth and I found your site yesterday. I realized very quickly that my years of searching for God were at an end, that the reason I had such a hard time finding God was because God is Mother God, not father and I had been searching in all the wrong places. :)

I have some questions about shrines. I would like to create an alter to Dea in my home, but even though I've read your articles, and they were very helpful, I'm basically unsure how to find the right statue for a representation of Dea or even where to start.

The religious organization I was part of for many years absolutely forbade images in worship, so I don't even have a basic idea of how to properly worship Dea.

The "iconoclast" controversy (opposition to images representing Deity) is an old one and one that seems to have arisen mainly in the Abrahamic religions.

Why is this? One reason is that perhaps a "Father God" seen as Sole Deity is, even for believers, a little too awkward and unnatural to depict graphically.

Christianity depicts Mary, Jesus and saints, but very rarely "God the Father", while atheists (almost exclusively a product of Western Christian culture) regularly seize on "an old man with a beard in the sky" as a means of ridiculing believers. They rely on their hearers will perceive the inherent absurdity of the image.

On the other hand, the Image of Our Mother God is not absurd. It is natural and right and even in patriarchal cultures, people have again and again gravitated back to Her Image.

For this reason we do recommend an Image-oriented worship, provided that is meaningful to you. It is not in any way obligatory to use Images, but most of us find them helpful. Take some time to find which images - Mary, Kwan Yin, Mahalakshmi etc. - are most meaningful to you. Each is a form in which Our Mother has appeared to Her children.

As to how to go about worshiping, there are really no rules. We are not a Church or an organization. Many devotees recite the Great Hymn to Mahalakshmi daily, or say some or all of the Daily Offices (both found in the Gospel).

The most important advice of all is to talk with Our Mother about it. Ask Her what is the right way for you to serve Her. The answer may come in many ways. It may come in a sudden illumination, or most likely it will slowly grow within you.

Coming home 3

Hello! I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate the information you have presented here. Finding this website was like finding an oasis in the Sahara. I was always at least somewhat unsettled by the treatment of women (among other things) in the evangelical Christian religion of my youth, and left that path shortly after I was old enough to give the issue free and serious thought. However, I still felt an unnameable longing for the Divine.

I tried Wicca and various other Neo-pagan paths, but they always left me cold. I simply could not believe in such a limited, fertility- and earth-bound "Goddess". It felt neither authentic nor inspiring. After searching for a more traditional, monotheistic path to the Feminine Divine and finding nothing, I simply gave up.

That is, of course, until I found this lovely website. I admit that I wondered at first whether these beliefs were "real" or not (perhaps due to some sort of ingrained, subconscious patriarchal beliefs still clinging to my psyche).

However, after reading these pages, and the information of other like-minded communities (the CESB and Shakta Hindus, for example), I became more hopeful that perhaps I have at long last found my spiritual home. I have ordered both The Gospel of Our Mother God and The Feminine Universe, and eagerly await their arrival for further study.

Thank you again for the wonderful wealth of resources you have provided here -- they are greatly appreciated.

Coming home 2

All of your articles that I have read (and the videos that I have watched) have helped me see the Mother God in a different way. I was raised Catholic but always knew God as mother, not as father. This site has helped me in so many ways, thank you so much!

Coming home

I discovered your website this morning and just wanted to say a very heartfelt thank you and Mother God bless you!!! I feel like I've come home after a very long and dry search, even though this is so very new to me and I really have no idea where to start. I've spent hours reading through the material on your site and have ordered both books offered. I am so looking forward to receiving them!

Orange County Temple

Hello, my name is Jamie and I am the development director of the Goddess Temple of Orange County. You have a beautifully rich site of great information. Our Temple is located in Orange County, California in Irvine. I would like to get more information regarding your organization. I love the idea of the virtual shrines also and showing women about the home shrines. Excellent Excellent. We have shrines dedicated to durga, kali and we have a quan yin meditation room. Where are you located? I would love to speak with you more about your wonderful work.

Actually we are not an organization. The site is here to provide information to all devotees of Our Mother God as well as making available the Holy Gospel and other vital resources.

We say that we are not an organization because we are continually asked such things as "can men join?". There is really nothing to "join" - we are simply here to provide information, advice and resources.

If you have any questions we shall be happy to answer them to the best of our ability.

The Amazon Empress's Speech

This breathtaking video presents a piece of historical fiction dating from the late bronze age - a reconstruction of the speech which launched the great Amazon Campaign that ended in the liberation of Atlantis according to both Greek and Egyptian historians.

The video is likely to be of interest to readers of the Chapel Chronicle, since, while not primarily religious, it comes from a world in which the worship of Our Mother God is taken as axiomatic and forms the basis of the Empress's appeal to her followers.

Today is the Feast of Lights

Remember (if it if possible and if you are stable enough in one place in this strange, uncertain year) to bless candles you are going to use for devotional service in the next year or if you are attending Aristasian Virtual Service or have them ready at Rhavedi's (Saturday's) Rite.

The liturgical color for the Feast of Lights is white and its traditional emblematic flower is the snowdrop.

Discussion on "The Cursing Ape"

Some time ago we drew attention to an illuminating article entitled "The Cursing Ape", which made some important points about the use of foul language and the inadequacy of Christian sin-based morality to deal with the real issue, which is clearly understood by the Deanic law of Thame and by the Scriptures of Our Mother God.

This article has since attracted considerable interest and sparked some detailed and valuable discussion. So we thought we should let you know - you will find the link to the discussion of the article below.

My Faith

I want to thank you so much for your help during my conversion and even more for your wonderful site.

As the days pass, the idea of a masculine god fades more and more into the distance as the Goddess fills my heart and mind.I can no longer perceive of any but a Female Dea and more and more of my thoughts and feelings strengthen my Faith.She is my God.

Thank you honored Miss Eve. It is communications like this that make it all worth while!

Giving his due

Nothing can be "sicker" than modern patriarchy. This "Simpsons" comment of theirs is just more evidence of same. The ONLY redeeming feature of the Simpsons is that one of its creators, Mr. Sam Simon, took the tremendous amount of money he earned in consequence and used it to establish the Sam Simon Foundation, which rescues dogs from shelters and trains them to assist the hearing-impaired. (I do feel this fact should be known; also, we acquired our little dog from the Foundation!)

The Vatican Newspaper and the Bankruptcy of Patriarchy

While researching something else we came across a story widely reported some time ago.

The official Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano praised a television program called The Simpsons. We have never seen this program, but have it on good authority that it is coarse and unsuitable for a pure maiden.

The Vatican paper itself refers to the "excessively crude language, the violence of certain episodes [and] some extreme choices by the scriptwriters."

However it goes on to praise the program and uses these rather extraordinary words:

"Rigid censors turn off the television but the more serious analysts praise the realism and intelligence of its scripts".

What is horrifying about this is that an official voice of the Vatican itself is siding with the degenerate forces of the nastier elements of Western "pop culture" in mocking and undermining those who would keep their sacred hestia and hearthfire pure and free from ugliness and coarseness.

They are "rigid censors" we are told, merely because they have the temerity to turn off the television - unlike the intelligent people, the "more serious analysts".

Where will patriarchal Westerners turn for support in protecting their homes from coarseness? It seems only the more extreme fundamentalists with their inverted-lasciviousness provide any real support for mental cleanliness. Are we wrong in thinking modern patriarchy is very sick indeed?

Christianity - sin-based though its theology is - seems to have failed badly in not understanding that foul language and coarseness are a moral and spiritual question.

A Survey for Collyridians

This new and developing denomination which worships Our Mother God as sole supreme Deity is working to position itself as an ecclesiastical body in the new decade.

A Sermon in Outer Space

What effect does outer space have on our spiritual outlook? We present a fictional analysis of a very real spiritual question.

Ave Janua Coeli

In regard to your discussion of the feminine gate of heaven, I would like to point out that "Gate of Heaven" is one of the titles of the Blessed Virgin in Roman Catholic Mariology.

Thus St. Bonaventure: "No one can enter Paradise unless [s]he passes through Mary, who is the gate"

Like most iconic Roman Catholic Marian (crypto-Deanic) formulations, the notion of Mary as Janua Coeli (Gate of Heaven) goes back far beyond Christianity and has a profound metaphysical significance.

January - the Month of Juno/Diana?

Please direct the person who questioned Janua Coeli being the feminine Gates of Heaven to the following website:

The article there clearly shows the portals of heaven were originally understood to be feminine and named after Juno/Diana. Only patriarchal preference for masculine deities changed them to Janus.

The Gates of a Feminine Heaven

I read your post about Janua Coeli: Heaven's Gates and I must say that not mentioning at all god Janus is a mistake, moreover when you try to explain where January gets its name from.

I understand your point of view, it's necessary, but I think you should not negate the existence of 'the other', otherwise you are not doing any better than the 'patriarchal' point of view. Yin + Yang, feminine + masculine, addition instead of substraction, at least that is what think.

One more time, my english is not good enough to express my ideas, but I hope the meaning is clear.

Thank you for your interest. The god Janus is named for the Gate of Heaven (specifically the northern gate). Our article was examining the fundamental ideas behind this - not one particular Western patriarchal tradition.

To say that we are "not doing any better than the patriarchal point of view" is not really to the point. Patriarchal points of view are valid within their own "oeconomy". We have never said that patriarchal traditions are inherently wrong.

Masculinizing the divine was a historical necessity for the patriarchal world. We do not follow that way, but we certainly do not say that Christians and others who follow patriarchal traditions are wrong.

Yin and yang, within a feminine tradition are both feminine: the "blonde and brunette" or chelanic and melinic tendencies of the cosmos.

This is the way we look at things as a purely feminine tradition, and we have the right spiritually to do so. We do not demand that others follow the same way, but this is our perspective.

Happy and Blessed Nativity

A Nativity Story

A beautiful Nativity story is being serialized on a new website in the last few days leading up to the Holy Nativity of Our Lady.

It is not a religious story (although we have been told that there may be a minor religious theme) but it is a story of people who celebrate the True Nativity and a lovely Disneyesque story everyone will love.

With or without the Daughter

I have come across a few pages where a distinction between Filianism and Deanism is made. I have a few questions about it: What are the practical (meaning, devotional) differences between the two? And can a person feel more comfortable being one or another?

I know that in Aristasia Pura no distinction is made, for both would be considered only Deanic Faith (or so I understood), but I feel somehow more inclined to the simpler devotion of Dea, and I felt these were very important things to ask.

All worshipers of God in Her original feminine form, as the One, Supreme Deity, are called deanists. Only those who have the specific doctrine of both Mother and Daughter (usually in Trinitarian form) are called Filianists.

Practically, devotion to the Mother (which is sometimes called Pure Deanism) is, as you say, simpler. Much of the doctrinal content of our faith is associated with Filianism.

However, there is not a sharp distinction between the two. The Daughter is seen as a particular way of seeing the Salvific aspect of the Mother and many Deanists who consider themselves simple Mother devotees regard the stories and teachings of the Daughter as found in The Gospel of Our Mother God to be a valuable aid to devotion without necessarily taking up a fully doctrinal Filianist position.

Probably this "soft Filianism" is the most common position among Aristasian Deanists. But one needs to be aware that this is not as illogical as it might seem from the modern Western perspective, for we understand that the formulations of religion can never be more than aids to help our human understanding grasp that which is necessarily far beyond it.

So whichever form of faith is right for you, please follow that. All that is truly needful is that you should love our Mother.

Death and Justice

There is still something that bothers me (here's my Catholic background coming out). At death, will 'good' people be treated the same as murderers, rapists, and other bad people? This is where the idea of a 'just' god makes sense.

Deanists believe in the concept of werde, which means that the actions we take in this life, good or bad, have consequences in this life and beyond.

Yet we are also told that calling on the Mother or the Daughter and loving Her can save us from all ills.

We must remember that all of us are fallen beings, and all need Her salvation.

Now in general, we would say, yes, definitely. In fact we would say that the Purgatory doctrine in Christianity is a way of bringing that religion closer to the universal beliefs of tradition - that maid does not only have one life followed by a judgment, but that she continues her journey.

This is necessary because it is quite clear that most souls do not leave this life in a condition of perfection, or purged of all sinful tendencies.

What we believe is that a soul may be taken into the Paradise of the Daughter, but this is not Final Union with Dea which is the true end of the journey for every being.

We believe that every being must be saved in the end "even to the last blade of grass", for all things begin in Dea and all must end in Her.

Nevertheless evil has terrible consequences for the soul in the meantime. Not because Dea wishes to harm us, but because in doing evil, we cause harm to ourselves.

Can we escape this harm by devotion? We believe so, but only by true repentance. Why is this? Essentially because what is happening in our hearts is what determines our fate.

In other words, if we think evil, we do evil, and so long as we have evil in our hearts, we carry that evil, and it will harm us. Even if we escape it in this life, it will pursue us and harm us as long as it is in our hearts.

The All-Protecting Daughter

I have been closely following this site for almost two years. I am ready to convert to the true religion -- the worship of Dea, our Mother God.

I have read The Feminine Universe and recently began rereading the Holy Gospel. The Gospel is the most wonderful description of the Creation and the Tripartite Goddess.

I have a problem -- I was raised Roman Catholic and deep in me there is still a belief in Jesus and in rejecting him and his teachings I will go to hell. This fear continually places raodblocks in my devotion to Dea.

One question you might ask yourself is: Do you believe all Buddhists are going to hell? Or all Hindus or Taoists or Jews?

It is not long since Roman Catholics taught that all Protestants were damned (and vice versa). Recently such ideas have been increasingly dropped, perhaps in a spirit of pulling together against the rising tide of godlessness. This is good, but it certainly shows the - shall we be gentle and say pragmatism? - of these anathemata.

We are not saying followers of the Abrahamic religions do not worship the true God. We believe they do. But we also believe they have overlaid Her pure devotion with political expediency and patriarchal cruelty and that this goes hand in hand with depicting Her in masculine form.

We believe in a God who loves Her children and would never torture them to punish them for seeing Her incorrectly.

We believe that the concept of a torturer-god is very much a case of man remaking God in his image.

Amazing Grace

Lotus Flower Symbol of Our Mother God

The lotus flower symbol or Our Mother God is beautifully depicted in the dance shown on this video. The dance of the Feminine Holy Trinity and the lotus flower.

Early publication of the Mother Scriptures

When it is said that Lux Madriana was the first organization to publish the Filianic Scriptures this is correct but a little more detail could be added here. We need to remember that we are talking about the 1970s before the internet and before desktop publishing. Publishing anything was a complex and expensive process.

Only a minority of the Scriptures were actually issued in booklet form: the rest were simply circulated as hand-typed papers that were photocopied or retyped. This made them very vulnerable to alterations and redactions. We continue to see these to this day. The addition of male elements, for example, and of "clearer" wording that implies New-Age ideas.

Lux Madriana actually tried to regulate this process by stamping copies circulated within its sphere of influence with the "Madrian Literature Circle" imprint, however there were several "Madrian" versions in many cases, and many others outside the Madrian ambit.

Lux Madriana's published version of a part of the Scriptural body had already been circulated in this form for some time beforehand and was subject to this process.

The nearest thing to a definitive version is that found in The Gospel of Our Mother God which is the product of careful research and metaphysical understanding of the texts (sadly lacking elsewhere), together with a very cautious approach that puts the emphasis on creating a spiritual resource that can be trusted.

Note on Lux Madriana

Anyone who is seriously interested in the Scriptures and researches them in Elektra is bound to stumble upon self-proclaimed representatives of Lux Madriana and other groups and individuals with a less than sincere, religious approach. While I understand that the Chapel might simply not have wished to be associated with them at all, not even in negating any association, I have felt that some sort of clarifying statement has been needed for a long time.

Lux Madriana and the Filianic Scriptures

Lux Madriana Is sometimes credited with originating the Filianic Scriptures. What is the truth about this?

Julian Jaynes Bicameral Mind Critique

A critique of Julian Jaynes's Bicameral Mind theory from a metaphysical feminine pespective.

The "Great She", the Queen of Heaven

We do not use the term "Goddess" for a number of reasons. Firstly because it implies something secondary to a (presumably masculine) "God". Secondly because the term is widely used by neo-Pagans, "witches", feminists and others who are not referring to the One Supreme Being, but to anything from a psychological concept to a metaphor for "all women" or "planet earth".

Our worship is for God Herself, the one Supreme Being and Creatrix of all, not for some demigod or "goddess".

"Patriarchal" is a broad concept, but in religion we generally use the term "patriarchal" to refer to the transition from the worship of God in Her original feminine form to the picturing or the Divine in a variety of masculine forms. Also to the "demotion" of Our Mother God to the inferior elements of earth and moon while the male "gods" usurp Her position as Queen of Heaven and Solar Spirit.

This being the case, we appear to be one of the few sites that actually reject patriarchy, while most "goddess" cults wholeheartedly embrace the patriarchal movement to lunarize and chthonize their "goddess" (another reason we prefer to avoid the word).

Not that we reject lunar and earthly functions. We see the Lunar Divine as being primarily the Daughter of Our Mother God, the savior of all beings.

But we recognize that there is a hierarchy of being in which the Sun stands higher than the moon and the Heavens stand higher than the earth.

The early patriarchs recognized that too. That is why we have a so-called "earth goddess" supplanting the true Queen of Heaven in patriarchal culture.

Top Pagans?

The Daily Reviewer has included your Chapel Chronicle in its list of 20 Top Pagan Blogs.

"Paganism" tends to divide into the very masculine "Odinist" forms, which we obviously have no dealings, the neutral-ish god-and-goddess forms - with which we equally obviously have no relationship, and the "feminist", "goddess" element. You can read this conversation to see how very far we are from that group.

All modern "paganism" is based on profoundly anti-traditional ideas spread by people like the "Theosophist" Madame Helena Blavatsky and the self-styled "witch" Gerald Gardener, and mutated by the 1960s "hippie" generation into what became called the "New Age Movement".

But whether paganism means the lost patriarchal religions of the Hellenic or Teutonic peoples, or the mish-mash of modern "Wicca", worshipers of Our Mother God leave it well alone.

Kwan Yin as the Holy Daughter

Thank you for sharing with us the story of your discovery of the beautiful and wonderful statue of Lady Kwan Yin, which graces both your altar and the cover of The Gospel of Our Mother God. Your realization of her place as The Daughter on your alter is profound. Such finds as these are a continued reminder of the love our Mother has for each of her daughters.

The Cursing Ape

Is swearing a sin? Modern Christians do not think so. But is that a flaw in their sin-based morality. What is the real spiritual truth behind dirty language?

Lady Mary and Our Mother God

The previous questions about how Filianists see Jesus Christ reminded me of something I meant to ask long ago.

We see that, according to what was answered before, Jesus Christ could be an Avatara of the Daughter. But even if He isn't, it doesn't change the fact that His birth and life is a reflection of the Perennial Truth of the Daughter's Birth and Sacrifice. Of course, it also doesn't change the fact that Mary, the Mother of Christ, is a reflection of Our Mother God herself.

Now I think I might be playing a bit of devil's advocate, but I really wanted to ask this: How much is it correct to take Mary as a devotional image of God Herself?

What I mean is, being Mary a historical and human figure, can we really take her name as being the same as Dea Herself in our devotions and prayers? Would it not be considered wrong or sacrilegious in some aspect?

I feel like I somehow know the answer to this, and yet I wanted to leave it in the hands of the truly knowledgeable ones to provide me with the correct answer.

We would agree that praying to a historical human being would be wrong, and we do not do it.

As a Filianist, I would say that we worship the Mother and the Daughter, and we find Their images in various places - in statues of Kuan Yin or of Mahalakshmi as well as of Mary.

As Filianists, many of us would go further. Rather than saying "we are not merely speaking of a certain Jewish woman who lived at the turn of the first century" we would say that we are not speaking of that woman at all.

Christianity and the Daughter

I have been a devoted follower of the Chapel of Our Mother God. I've have the 'Feminine Universe' and read the 'Gospel of Our mother God'.

This is an interesting question and one to which there is perhaps no single answer. Deanism/Filianism is not Christian so Jesus Christ is not "part of our religion" any more than he is part of the Buddhist religion.

So different Deanists may look at the matter differently. I think all would agree that Christianity is an authentic religion. Some would even say that Jesus is a reflection or even an incarnation of the Daughter (rather as Sri Lalita took on the form of Krishna for the salvation of the Gopis).

Others would say that Christianity is simply a patriarchalized "translation" of the Daughter Mythos - of which there have been many - Atthis, Adonis, Osiris, etc.

Whether Jesus was a true Avatara or a human teacher who became the focus for the worship of the True "Christ", or Savior (who we would say is most perfectly seen as the Daughter), there is no doubt that the Christian faith has been a providential vehicle for the message of salvation in a patriarchal age - and through the Image of Mary, a path by which devotion to Our Mother God might continue in an otherwise hostile environment.

The Wonderful Statue

The story of the statue used on the cover of the Gospel of Our Mother God is told in a blog by Miss Sushuri Madonna.

She also shows how the statue was used to create a Filianic Mother-Daughter shrine.

Wearing the Rosary

I was wondering if you could tell me as to why the rosary is not worn around the neck? In history, was the rosary ever worn around the neck? The shape of the rosary appears to be made to wear? Is the rosary to be used for praying and hand held only? Any info you can provide...would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so very much.

I am not sure why you say that the rosary is not worn round the neck, but I think you may be referring to this discussion from last year.

As you will see, while there have been some objections particularly in patriarchal Catholic circles, we generally feel the practice is a perfectly happy and devout one.

As you say, the Rosary seems made to be worn, and it is not merely an "aid to prayer" as some moderns seem to think, in a rather utilitarian way. It is also an symbolic artefact - enacting the reality of the many worlds and beings connected by the ever present thread-Spirit (Strivate) who is Our Mother God.

Reverend Mother Cobb Explains

It is quite valid for you to questioned my use of the "feminine" for all the "main concepts" described in Bereshith/Genesis. Many Hebrew scholars do insist that many (not all) of these Hebrew words are masculine.

However, it is my understanding that they do so because of their automatic assumption that any concept dealing with origins, authority or primal intelligence, must necessarily be masculine.

Some will even grant that "Bereshith" conveys the the meaning of "wisdom" and Elohim conveys the meaning of "knowledge". But instead of accepting these as being the fount (Mother) and the outpouring (Daughters) of the one source, they insist that "Wisdom" is the "Father", and "knowledge is the "Mother". [Later on in this narrative, they even insist on the division of the waters above and below the firmament as being a division between the Heavenly-masculine waters and the Earthly-feminine waters].

This is the same idea that we find in the Vedas and Upanishads in which the Sanskrit scholars insist that the Source is masculine and the Out-flowing is feminine.

Neither Hebrew nor Sanskrit scholars are able to perceive of both the source and the outflow as being feminine.

It was my desire when creating an English expanded translation of all the Hebrew words as feminine to convey the idea that they could be understood as such.

This translation was based entirely on my Deanic/Filianic reading of the Hebrew.

The Genesis Translation Continued

Genesis 1:5

God named the light 'Day', and the darkness He named 'Night'. It was evening and it was morning, one day.

Vayikra (And calls) Elohim (Great Feminine Elemental Powers) la-or (The Visible Illuminating Energy) "yom" ("Feminine Model") ve-la-choshech (and The Hidden Veil of Darkness) kara (She calls)laylah ("Feminine Mystery") vayehi-(and comes to pass/is called into being) erev (Lady of the Evening/Darkening) vayehi-(and comes to pass/is called into being) voker (Lady of the Morning) yom (Feminine Model) echad (One/United).

These are my interpretations of the inner feminine meaning of these ancient Hebrew words. It is my understanding that certain Jewish mystics, as well as some Benai Noah understand Bershit to be "The Mother". One Jewish mystic even interpreted the phrase "tohu va vohu" in its metaphysical sense (literally without form and void, i.e. raw information without substance and raw substance without information) not something empty or chaotic, but something so pristine it cannot be described because it has no qualities.

Reverend Mother Georgia Cobb

I have been reading the post about the translation Honored Reverend Cobb provided us with quite some interest. I am not really an "unbeliever" when it comes to the feminine essence of all religious traditions, but I was very intrigued with the fact that, seemingly, the nouns and verbs (if I can call them so) in this translation are very specifically and explicitly feminine.

I went to the internet to do a research on the meaning of those words, to see if they matched the translation posted here. Of course I have little to no knowledge of the hebrew language, but the meanings I found in my rather shallow search were, quite oppositely, explicitly masculine.

I do not wish to enter the realm of "faithlessness" or excessive need of scientific proof of things, but I am very curious to know, if possible, how the words in this first part of the Genesis are so closely related to the Feminine Essence as Reverend Cobb showed us.

Hail Mary, Fount of Grace

On the phrase "Hail Mary Fount of Grace". It seems that there is controversy over the phrase "full of grace" and "fount of grace". "Full of Grace" showing the Mother Mary being the source of all grace and "Fount of all grace" showing The Daughter Inanna distributing graces.

However the phrase "Fount of Grace" is kept in the Hail Mary prayer to show that she is the source and not the recipient of grace. I have a possible solution why don't you alter the prayer to be Hail Mary Source of Grace.

We are not aware of this precise controversy, but it seems to be based on a slight misunderstanding of the word "fount".

The term does not only mean a "fountain" or distributor, it more profoundly has the sense of fons et origo: "fount and origin".

A fount, in this sense, is the spring from which a river rises - in other words, its source.

The secondary sense of a Fountain or Distributor of Graces is decidedly the less important of the two meanings, though it also is implied.

Actually the term "Full of Grace" is deprecated by Deanists precisely because it does not mean "Source of Grace".

It could be taken - and by Christians is taken - to mean full of Grace from a source outside Herself, which, to Deanists, is a grave error.

The Filianic Hail Mary is used in The Gospel of Our Mother God

The Dark Queen

I am a faithful lover and worshiper of Our Heavenly Mother Mary. I love the Filianic Scriptures especially The Daughter Mythos. One thing that puzzles me is the character of the Dark Queen mentioned herein.

Obviously the Dark Queen of the Queen of Hell and the mother of the vile demons. Though my question is precisely who is she? Is she the Devil in our religion? Why is it that when Mary descends to Hell to retrieve Inanna that it mentions the Gatkeepers retreating because of the power of the Mother but it neglects to say what happens to the Queen of Hell. What exactly is the Queen of Hell and is she even a literal character or a metaphorical character.

Was she the snake that tempted the First Daughter of Creation? I know that this is not something we focus on anyways as our true devotion is to Dea and her Janyati but this is a question I have been having for a long time.

Yes, in a certain sense the Dark Queen could be called the devil in our religion. All religions accept the existence of demonic forces - of a Darkness that is opposed to the true Light (this is not "dualism" - dualism is the belief that good and evil, God and devil, are "equal and opposite" - we do not believe that).

"Is she a literal character?" This raises a fundamental question. Is she human? No. Is she a fallen angel (like the Christian Lucifer)? No. The Janyati, by definition, cannot fall.

When we look at intelligences that are not human or material, we really have moved out of the realm of everything we mean by "literal". We are not talking of "individuals" such as we appear to be. But this does not mean we are talking of something unreal.

Metaphysically some would say that we are talking of the opposition to the Divine which exists at every level of creation, including within ourselves. But this does not mean that the Dark Queen is a metaphor or does not really exist. She does.

One very vital difference between our conception of the Evil One and that of the Hebraic religions is that we believe she will be saved in the end, along with all creation "even to the last blade of grass". In other words, we are universalists.

Logically, we believe that this is the only position that makes perfect sense. A reconciliation that did not include every being would be imperfect. There would still be dualism and division. In fact, we would say that the concepts of the non-redemption of the evil one and of eternal damnation fall into the error of true dualism by affirming that there is eternally something that remains outside God.

Sinners' Prayer

How can I be saved by God in her original feminine form? Is there a sinners prayer?