A Weblog for Our Mother God

George Lakoff, Metaphor and Metaphysics

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:23:22 GMT

George Lakoff and his research on the universality of metaphor shines an interesting (and unintended) light on the fundamental metaphysical basis of human thought and speech.

Arrogance Beyond Belief!

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:24:21 GMT

A reader comments on our recent article on Spiritual Evolution:

The behavior of "Swami" Kriyananda is really astonishing: He goes to an Eastern society, is welcomed into their religion, defiles their Holy Orders with gross sexual misconduct and then attempts to teach "the savages" that their traditional doctrine of the cycles must be stood on its head! And on what evidence? On the evidence of the "obvious superiority" of Western technical civilization! The arrogance is truly beyond all belief!

Spiritual evolution

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:24:56 GMT

"Spiritual evolution" is one of the key notions of the "New Age" movement. We examine this deceptive and anti-traditional doctrine.

Eckhart Tolle

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:00:12 GMT

I have read about Eckhart Tolle and his philosophy. Apparently many people find it appealing. However, something about it is disturbing to me. Would you please comment on whether his ideas are compatible with the Deanic/Filianic Faith or not and why. Thank you, Rev. Madria Georgia Honored Madria Georgia, we cannot claim to be in any way experts on the writings of Herr Tolle, although we have encountered the name before and done a little research. Essentially the work seems to be rather similar to many New Age writers who take bits of the more "airy" aspects of world traditions and stick them together to make something new. While this is in itself a little dangerous, by far the worst part of the New Age is not the bits it collects, but the "glue" it uses to stick them together, which invariably turns out to be modern individualistic ideas, post-Freudian "psychology", Darwinist evolutionism projected onto a supposedly "spiritual" plane etc., etc. Alarm bells should immediately ring when we read (on Herr Tolle's official website) that:

"at the core of Tolle's teachings lies the transformation of consciousness, a spiritual awakening that he sees as the next step in human evolution."

This is one of the key "fingerprints" of New Age error - the notion that humanity is "spiritually evolving" into a higher phase, when in fact, in spiritual terms, humanity in the late Kali Yuga has never been at a lower ebb. This adoption of the modern progress/evolution superstition (and when a biological theory and a social ideology are mixed together, as they are in most people's minds, as though they were somehow the same thing, one can only speak of superstition) and then re-packaged as a "spiritual truth" we know we are dealing with one of two things: unfortunate error or deliberate charlatanry.

On Using a Statue of Kuan Yin

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:42:06 GMT

Annalinde Matichei wrote the following as part of a discussion on worshiping the Daughter in the form of Kuan Yin: This is an interesting question. I have a statue of Thousand Hand Kuan Yin as my main Altar-piece. Do I "worship Kuan Yin"? What would that mean? I do not see her according to Buddhist doctrine - though I do believe that she refused Deity until all being was saved "even to the last blade of grass" - which is just another way of putting the Daughter's Taking on of Fate that we celebrate at Luciad (the Feast of Lights). I certainly do not believe she was the daughter of a king who was murdered and freed the souls from hell as some legends state, but I do believe she is the Daughter of the One Queen of the Universe, who descended into Hell, died and was reborn and freed the souls from Hell. I would not especially refer to Her as Kuan Yin, but I would not be averse to calling Her that either. This is not like modern Pagans who say "I'm working with Bast this week" - I do not believe that deities from different traditions are separate entities, like the people we meet on the street. They are simply different ways of seeing the same Universal Truth - and of course I believe that a lot of patriarchal accretions are highly misleading. And having said that, is there something different about seeing the Daughter through this statue rather than, say, a Marian one? I think there is. It has a special quality of contemplative purity. She is in perfect repose, while her "thousand" arms (actually 24 on this statue, but figuratively a thousand) so clearly and beautifully represent her all-saving omnipotence. They also help us to be free from the "humanism" of the Christian perspective, in which everyone is a "historical figure" and of the pagan perspective (which I have never inclined to, but is in fact just a natural outcropping of modern individualism) that "Deities" are individuals, pretty much like people. So this statue represents Dea - and in particular the Daughter - under a very particular aspect, stressing certain of Her Divine qualities, because as humans we can't see them all at once. To me in particular it represents repose, purity and Unacting Action ("Earth moves, but Heaven is still"). As for names, I am not inclined to give personal names to Dea. The Scriptures once mention the name Inanna (which is just a universal Name of the daughter) but other than that She is never referred to by a name in the whole narrative. To me using the Name Quan Yin would tend to localize and historicize the statue (even though I love the name!). This is not a statue from some part of Telluria of some particular figure in some particular tradition. This is a universal statue of Dea in Her Daughter form, in perfect repose and perfect compassion.

Some of the Other Angels

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:57:50 GMT

Many devotees of Dea are familiar with the names of the Seven "Planetary" Janyati. However, many of us have also heard mention of other Janati. I would imagine that there are many Janyati whose names we do not know. However, I would be interested in seeing a list of the names and characteristics of some of the other Janyati whose names are known to Aristasians. Thank you, Rt. Rev. Georgia B. Cobb The Seven Great Janyati are of course the primary ones, but there are several others. While we do not have an exhaustive list, some of the more important are: The three Werdes: Sai Maia, Sai Werde and Sai Kala, said to be daughters of Sai Thame. Sai Herthe Janya of hearth and home. Sai Annya the Janya of fire - very important in some forms of Deanism. Sai Ouranya Janya of the sky - often seen as an "emanation" of Sai Thame. Sai Vaya the Spirit as Wind or Breath - sometimes conceived as a Janya.

Who "Borrowed" Epiphany?

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:51:16 GMT

The High Feast of the Epiphany of God the Daughter falls on the 12th of Herthe (6th of January). Surely worshipers of Our Mother God "borrowed" this from Christianity? No indeed - it is exactly the other way about. Learn more about the Feast of Epiphany here.

"Little Nativity"

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:23:28 GMT

Herthe 11th (January 5th) is Duodecima - the Twelfth Day of Nativity. Herthe 12th (January 6th) is the High Feast of the Epiphany, popularly known as Princesses' Day. Epiphany, the showing-forth of the new-born Daughter of Dea is often called Little Nativity, and is one of the most joyful and important festivals of the year. Read more about it here.

The Day of Sai Herthe

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:50:22 GMT

From an Aristasian blog: We had a wonderful Herthedi Service today! Honored Raya gave one of her inspired talks that really suddenly made it clear to me how the Day of Sai Herthe fits into the mystical journey that is the Year. We really should try to record these Services, as honored Raya says so many wonderful things that are nowhere to be found in Elektraspace or anywhere else. On the other hand, maybe it is part of the magic that these things are shared with the Family, with those who choose and make the time to be present and part of the Sacred Event. It is hard to summarize what honored Raya said as it was so inspired - but she was talking of the Star Fairy coming down the chimney, and of how in the Motherland folks take this kind of "legend" on a very serious level, whereas in Telluria, even religious people don't think there is anything very important about such "peripheral" traditions as opposed to Scriptural religion. Honored Raya said that many Tellurians would consider that taking these charming "folk" stories seriously is the sign of a less sophisticated people, but honored Raya said that it is in fact the sign of a more sophisticated people. A people that sees beyond the childish literalism of "it did happen or it didn't happen" to the much deeper spiritual truth that lies beneath the surface of the narrative. She explained how Nativity is about the Divine Light descending vertically from the spiritual realm to the manifest cosmos - entering the House, which is the world, through the vertical chimney (cheminée, camino - way) into the heart or hearth and thence as radiant light and warmth into the world/soul. The Day of Sai Herthe is, in a certain sense, the same Event seen from the perspective of the World, or House. In the Motherland - certainly in those places that follow the Fire Temple tradition (such as Rayapurh and Novarya), Sai Herthe's day is the only day of the year in which the sacred house-flame (from which, in more traditional times, every hearthfire, candle and lamp was lit and every flame that cooked food) was allowed to go out. It was ritually re-lit by a flame taken from the sacred Temple Fire. Thus the kindling of the World-hearth from the Spirit-hearth is enacted in the microcosm of the home and the great Event of the Coming of the Light is actualized on the domestic level. The "new year" element of the festival, although our actual New Year is three months away, lies in the fact that the home-fire is extinguished and re-lit at this time, the only time in the year, and so a new cycle begins (and, interestingly, the death and rebirth of the light in the home is an obvious reflection of Eastre, the true New Year).

The Twelve Days of Nativity

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:28:51 GMT

A Filianic blogger writes:

I say "Nativity" and not "Post-Nativity" thoughts, because it is still Nativity. Please do not think that when the first day of Nativity has passed all that magic Nativity Snow is just plain ol' snow snow. It isn't. It may be inconvenient at times, but it is still the Snow of Nativity.
Nativity lasts until the Feast of the Epiphany. Not all of it may be holiday and merrymaking (though in some parts of the Motherland it is), but all of it is the most magical season of the year. Carols are still in season and two important festivals lie ahead in the next two weeks.

The great Midwinter Festival of the Birth of the Light has always been a twelve-day season at its core (in fact it has often been much longer - its penumbra beginning in the fall and not fully ending until Luciad, the Feast of Lights, six weeks after the Solstice).

The one-day Christmas was a Victorian invention, made in a world where the wheels of industry and commerce must not be allowed to stop for more than the briefest period.

The oft-stated perception that the season "starts earlier every year" is almost a drift back to the older tradition. It is commercially driven, of course, but as stated in our recent article on Nativity, even commerce cannot help but reflect the powerful pull of the Universal Event called Nativity.

What has remained as a Victorian heritage, though, is the dead-stop on Boxing Day (Masquiday in Aristasian tradition) - though even this is in some places giving way to an extended holiday or semi-holiday from Nativity to the Day of Herthe (Christmas to New Year). It is not, however considered, at least in Protestant countries, "still Christmas".

For Filianists, it is very definitely still Nativity until the Epiphany. It is a magical, beautiful season. A time for continued celebration and a time when the subtle world and the physical world are very close.

A happy continuing Nativity to you all.

Hail to the Princess Who is born and Whose glorious showing-forth we still await!

On the Second Day of Nativity

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:50:20 GMT

Nativity has not ended, but what has ended is Astraea, the Star-month. We are now in Herthe, the Hearthfire-month.

In Astraea, the Star-month we look upward and in Herthe, the Hearth-month we look inward. Nativity is the Northern Gate of the Cosmos through which the Divine descends to earth. This is reflected in the Star Fairy coming vertically down the chimney into the heart(h) of the house, and of course by the birth of God the Daughter into the world of manifestation.

During the month of Astraea, the Divine is a star in the heaven-world, about to descend. During the month of Herthe She is born in our hearts and present in the heart(h) of our sacred households where She is born on the last Star-day.

Interestingly also is that the Feast of the Conception of the Daughter (Astraea 11th) is exactly a month from the Feast of the Epiphany, or showing-forth of the Divine Child (Herthe 11th/12th).

Especially fascinating in this context is that this is true only in terms of the Filianic calendar, even though Christians celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception (of Mary, not of Jesus) on the same day (December 8th/Astraea 11th).

HAPPY NATIVITY

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 15:53:18 GMT

13. And when the voice of the Janya ceased, a silence fell that was the first true silence since the beginning of the world, and the last that shall be until it end. 14. And the children of earth watched the sky as the first rays of dawn crept across the heavens. 15. And a cry issued out of the cave, saying: The holy Child is born from the most holy Mother; Light has come forth from Light, Perfection from Perfection. 16. And at once the air was filled with the daughters of heaven, and the sky was ablaze with the radiance of their joy. 17. And they sang aloud to the glory of Dea.

Magical Transformation and Nativity

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:09:24 GMT

Excerpt from a recent blog post that may interest our readers, reprinted with permission: We had a little catch-up meeting today so the pettes who missed Cinderella this Rhavedi could see the missed epis. And we saw my favorite scene when the Fairy Godmother transforms from an ordinary(ish) Godmother to the Queen of the Fairies. It reminds me very much of the Magical Girl transformation scenes in Anime that never fail to thrill. I talked to honored Raya about it so fulsomely (the last time I saw it) that she actually preached about transformation scenes at the Service this Rayadi. She explained why it is that we are so thrilled by them and why even an audience that is often bored with any repetition will watch lengthy transformation scenes that may be the identical in every episode, often regarding them as the highlight of the episode. And the reason has to do with Nativity! What really fascinates us is the moment when the ordinary is infused with the Transcendent, when the material is touched by the Spirit whether it be in the individual soul or in the cosmos (for the two are really different levels of the same thing - microcosm and macrocosm). The Divine bolt that enters the world (in the microcosm of the House, through the chimney) lighting and warming the True Heart[h] with spiritual luminance - the only Light there really is. In the Cinderella story, of course, the Fairy God-Mother (in this version) transforms herself and also transforms the exiled soul (Cinderella), and in this lovely scene, she is at first the Spirit in Disguise, even (partly and ambiguously) disclaiming her own power and proclaiming the magical and miraculous to be dekanai (impossible). And the ambiguity here is the fundamental ambiguity of the impossible, paradoxical interaction of Dea with the world. For as the Scriptures say, God the Mother gave birth to a Daughter that was not separate from Her but One with Her, and the Child of Her Light. Dea came to the place where Dea is not. So it is indeed dekanai: impossible. And at the same time, it happens every day, and must happen if the manifest universe is to survive even a moment. That is the highest level of the truth expressed by this pure, traditional "fairy tale" (this particular one is found in just about every culture known). But Truth operates on every level. Cinderella is a story for us, who are exiles. And the scene below is also about the true possibility of miracle and magic in every level of our lives:

Things for Nativity

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:09:59 GMT

As Nativity draws closer here are two things that may delight you! Hail to the Princess A beautiful Nativity carol The Dream Key A heartwarming feminine seasonal story. May Dea bless you all!

Reader Comment - demons in the modern world

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:51:43 GMT

This is more of a simple point in an area of interest of mine: the "paranormal". Now, I don't dally in it, myself (thats just dangerous!), but I do watch documentaries and read stories. I have just this minute been watching a documentary I have on a disk, and a very interesting point on demonic infestation came up. It was said that a demon's sole goal is to destroy all [maid]kind. This point was also followed by another: that in a demonic haunting, the diabolical entity begins this task by destroying the family unit, by tearing it apart. In this age of conflict, nothing could be closer to the truth: this is an age where nearly all that is good is twisted and made to appear undesirable, and what is wrong is made to seem desirable. Among those good things is the concept of family and dependence. Family units are encouraged to go their own ways, to separate, to be "independent" of one another. This story of diabolical haunting seems to be a small-scale case of what is happening in the modern world this very day. The forces of darkness are at work, pulling apart the harmonious bonds of love and interdependence in their efforts to destroy maid altogether. Just as in the documentary I watch now, the only way to fight this demonic influence is by reasserting the bond of family and the principle of Love. Unfortunately, most don't understand that message, and the central reason for this is because of the vilification and trivialization of faith. People don't believe in fundamental Good -- nor to they believe in fundamental Evil. Could there be a greater tragedy? Let us pray that someday soon this grave situation is remedied. -- Willow Marina-Marie

Thank you for this very insightful comment. Indeed it is true that in the current world demonic activity on the "macro" level, affecting the whole society is more significant than such activity on the "micro" level, affecting individuals and families one by one. It is one reason why those of us who resist the demonic pattern of the overall society are often more subject to attacks from the Forces of Darkness. To them we are "escapees" or "pockets of resistance" to their overall domination. But in the end darkness cannot overcome light.

Readers' Comments

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:03:19 GMT

Thank you for your excellent explication of the concept of Anima Mundi. The threefold constitution of the cosmos and of the jiva as microcosm is of course a central teaching of the perennial philosophy. Sri Lalita Herself is named Tripura Sundari, the "beauty of the three cities (worlds or selves)".

Dear loving friends,I wanted to comment on your great website.I myself am Jewish and I am a great believer in the Divine feminine alongside the God of Fathers and Mothers.I am not Filiyanic but I love the great wealth of Goddess knowledge you afford to all women of all faiths. I am also a straight woman as well with a lesbian daughter and granddaughter.I like the comment of the YouTube about the beliefs coming out of the 60's with neo-paganism.I am learning about the Mother in my own life and faith-The Shekinah-Shabbat-Sofia.I do however believe in both Genders for God as Father and Mother God both equal.The Goddess is becoming more a part of my life and I am really learning a lot on your site. Can you explain to me what Filiyanic means compared to the other terms you relate to in other faiths? In my language and faith Abba and Ima bless you and your wonderful site. Malka Miller. Thank you for your kind appreciation. The term Fliyanic, or Filianic refers to those devotees of Our Mother God who adhere to the Mythos of God the Daughter. The exact beliefs of the Filyani, or Filianists are outlined in the Filianic Creed.

Anima Mundi and the Human Psyche

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:07:27 GMT

What do we mean by the Anima Mundi and what relation does it bear to the human psyche?

Why Advent Comes So Soon!

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:15:08 GMT

From a recent blog post: We had a lovely Eve of Advent Service on Rayadi, and Honored Raya in her sermon explained something I have never understood. Why does Advent come so suddenly? Because it does, doesn’t it? Every year, even though some shops have had Nativity displays since the Feast of the Dead, we suddenly think “Golly-gosh-oh-greenies, is it Advent already? Well there really is a spiritual reason for that. I don’t know if I can explain it as well as Honored Raya, but essentially it is because Nativity, the Winter Solstice, really is the Northern Gate of the Year, where Heaven enters the realm of earth – and the birth of God the Daughter really is a Mystery and an apparent paradox (Dea coming where Dea is not). So the Coming of the Daughter really is a “surprise” in the deepest spiritual sense, and, as superficial things metaphysically reflect deep things, the Advent always tends to take us by surprise.

The Advent of the Nativity of God the Daughter

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:17:52 GMT

In the Filianic Calendar, Astraea 1st (Nov. 28) is the first day of the one-month Advent period leading up to the Nativity of God the Daughter on the last day of the month. We decorate the house in anticipation of the coming of the Divine Light in the darkest part of the year. There is no historical reason whatever for placing the birth of Jesus at the Winter solstice. So what is the truth behind "Christmas"? It is this.

A New Aristasia?

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:13:48 GMT

Aristasia has long attracted rather strange rumors and been associated with "discipline" in many minds - what is the real truth about the Feminine Empire today?

The Question: A Tale of Queen Werde

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:01:20 GMT

In this traditional tale, a maid looking for answers to the mysteries of life encounters Queen Werde. This story is followed by a commentary.

Tamala: the Feast of the Dead

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 01:11:54 GMT

The Feast of the Dead is one of the Great Festivals in the Calendar of Our Mother God. A feast of fear and separation? Or of love and return?

Goldenhead Now Available

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:57:15 GMT

Annalinde Matichei's new book Goldenhead has launched. This follows her widely acclaimed book The Flight of the Silver Vixen. Goldenhead, while not a religious book, is set in an all-feminine reality with priestesses who serve Our Mother God and are revered by all. It is a story of the conflict between Good and Evil in a fundamentally Deanic context. It is also a much more "fantastical" book than Silver Vixen (which was mostly "science fiction" albeit with a feminine twist). It considers such subjects as the limits of imagination, the reality of "imaginary" friends and worlds, and is very much a book for those who do not feel at home in the modern patriarchal world and believe they truly belong somewhere else. A profoundly imaginative book (as is fitting for this Year of Sai Candre), expect to encounter some unexpected and challenging ideas - such as whether the anime style actually represents a mode of reality - as well as encounters with tree-spirits, the sorcerous power of music, and battles with demons who are the very incarnation of darkness. The Flight of the Silver Vixen was hailed by one critic as "this rare and exhilarating book". Goldenhead pursues themes even rarer in a manner even more exhilarating. Goldenhead is currently available only as a virtual book on the Amazon Kindle (paperback to follow), but readers are reminded that a free Kindle reader is available for Windows and Macintosh computers, as well as most mobile devices, and that digital realease allows the book to be sold for only 2.99.

Magic and Religion

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:33:10 GMT

Magic and Religion: What does the Faith of Our Mother God say about magic?

Can Anything Travel Faster than Light?

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:02:07 GMT

Recent observations at CERN, the world's largest physics laboratory, show certain sub-atomic particles traveling faster than light. Similar observations have been made in the past, but the margin for error allowed for the particles possibly traveling at sub-light speeds. The current observations are wholly unambiguous, and CERN scientists are asking other facilities to run similar experiments to confirm or refute their findings. This is important because the entire edifice of modern physics is based on the absolute limit of light-speed in the universe. If that is disproved almost nothing done since (and including) Einstein's work is any longer certain. A while ago we discussed the manner in which some scientists who really should know better treat "science" as a sort of faith. In this particular case Professor Stephen Hawking:

"The universe is governed by science", [Prof Hawking] states. Now clearly this is nonsense. The universe is not governed by science. Science is a human activity. The word means "knowledge", or literally vision. It has been narrowed since the 17th century to mean in the popular mind "knowledge of purely material things". Science (purely material or otherwise) may develop models and theories of how the universe works and the forces described by these models and theories may or may not govern the universe. The fundamental philosophy of empiricism on which all material science is based tells us that every theory is only a probability, never a certainty.

These recent findings are simply a very telling case in point. The CERN observations may or may not be proved correct. We have no vested interest in disproving the very foundations of modern physics. Considering the metaphysical significance of Light, there is every reason why it might well represent an absolute limit to the possibilities of manifestation. But what we all need to remember is that nothing in physical science can ever be more than a probability. New findings can overturn a century of "certainty" in a week. That is the nature of physical science and of the empirical method. Certainty and Truth (with a capital T) cannot ever lie in physical findings of any sort. Truth is a metaphysical concept and only metaphysics can ever provide it. To claim that science is certain of anything is to turn it into a pseudo-metaphysics. Which is bad metaphysics and bad science.

Cuivanya: The Autumnal Equinox

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:30:07 GMT

The autumnal equinox festival of Our Mother God is called Cuivanya or the Feast of Divine Life. What is the spiritual meaning of this ancient harvest celebration?

Your Chapel Hits a Landmark!

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 19:51:58 GMT

This Chapel of Our Mother God has long been one of the more popular religious sites on the Internet. Not up there with the mega-churches, but big by independent site standards and huge by feminine Faith standards. We average around 600-700 unique visitors a day (that is, actual different people during that day). We have often gotten into the 900s, but we hadn't broken the thousand until this month. This month we had one day with 1,140 unique visitors and another with 1,224. Our stats in general are trending upwards and we are hoping daily unique visitors in excess of a thousand will soon become the norm. Especial thanks to YOU, dear devotees of Our Mother God, for making this site such a success, both with your visits and with your kind donations that help to keep us going.

Answering Dr. Karl W Gilberson - would Jesus really believe in evolution?

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:59:07 GMT

An article by Karl W Gilberson suggests that Jesus would believe in evolution because Jesus is truth and so is evolution. Can we spot the fallacy here?

The Day of Werde

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:56:28 GMT

The Day of Werde is the day when we contemplate our personal fate and the direction of our lives.

Can Demons Create?

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:50:47 GMT

Can demons create? Do they put hateful ideas into the minds of criminals, writers, and other human agents? Or are evil and creativity fundamentally incompatible?

More on Religion and Role-Play

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:20:23 GMT

In reply to the preceding article, "Is Filianism a Real Religion", Lady Aquila writes: Religion does not have to be opposed to "this world". In traditional societies the religious perspective and that of society in general form an unbroken whole. The real point, as this article makes clear, is that current Western society is inherently non-religious if not anti-religious. It espouses a "philosophy" (pop-scientism) dedicated to explaining the world with no reference to its spiritual roots, and culturally it encourages - and enforces - a degree of coarseness, vulgarity and immorality that no genuinely religious person can participate in. This necessarily raises the question of so-called "role-play". Religious people, at least those like Filianists, who understand that coarseness is not "morally neutral" but that mental and verbal impurity is as damaging as physical filth (if not more so) are obliged to live and act in ways that are different from those of the surrounding culture. Filianists are by no means the only religious people in this position. Coarseness, sexual delinquency (and I am not talking about the "gay" question or any other minority question - I am talking about the mainstream), cynicism and harshness are deeply embedded in current Western culture at every level. A sincerely spiritual person cannot live in the manner of such a society: therefore, on some level, she has to opt out. Therefore she and her community of fellow believers necessarily engage in "role-play", if by that term you mean anything that is not "mainstream culture". The attack on "role-play" is really the self-policing of the mainstream's lackeys. The attack on "escapism" speaks for itself. Who regards "escape" as a crime? Why, the prison guards, of course.

Is Filianism a Real Religion?

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 01:12:45 GMT

A reader quotes a recent blogger on the view that the worship of Our Mother God "does not feel like a real religion". We examine this question.

Mommy And I are One

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 20:09:29 GMT

"Mommy and I are one" is said to express the fundamental desire of the human heart. But is it a regression to childhood, or the innate presence of the first Faith - the worship of Our Mother God?

Comments on "Mommy and I are One"

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 01:04:24 GMT

It is clear that “the good mother of early childhood” is not one’s actual mother. It is either an inbuilt intuition of the Divine Mother or an idealization of our own mothers that for some reason we all possess. Modern psychology, which is committed to explaining all things in terms compatible with a fully materialist universe, can only opt for the latter. However, whichever way one takes it, it is clear that there is no equivalent “good father of early childhood” hard-wired into the fundamental workings of the human psyche. It is surprising, then, that modern patriarchal academics are so hostile to all the evidence of the universality of the Religion of the Mother in ancient times. Even if one wishes to “psychologize away” religion as a phenomenon of the human mind, the historical primacy of Our Mother God is the only thesis that makes sense.
____ I find it fascinating that the phrase that emerged from this research was "Mommy and I are one". Union with Godhead is the aim of religion. From a humanist point of view the wish to re-merge with the Mother, to negate one's own individuality and move to a point of pre-separation would seem a very strange one. On the other hand, from the Filianist perspective, which sees our separation from the Mother as the fundamental problem of human existence: the real nature of "original sin". "Mommy and I are One" from a secular humanist standpoint can only be seen as a strange, world-denying wish for the individual non-existence that preceded our birth. From the Filianic perspective "Mommy and I are one" is a concise statement of the goal of the individual and, indeed of the cosmos, when all creatures shall return to Dea "even to the last blade of grass". So it is either a psychotic death-wish, or the supreme aim of the world's first Faith. It seems to be the root desire of the human mind, so it would seem to be that at its deepest level the mind is either mad - in the sense of wishing to negate its own existence - or devoted to Our Mother God. I would tend to believe the latter.

Mommy and I are One

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 23:23:42 GMT

Research on the effectiveness of subliminal messages shows that while the popularly imagined ability of subliminals to implant ideas is of very limited effectiveness, if any, there is a certain message - only one - that does have a real effect:

A couple years ago researchers Lloyd Silverman and Joel Weinberger published a paper summarizing numerous experiments, the gist of which was that if you flashed a certain message before and after some other, more conventional training technique (e.g., antismoking therapy), you greatly enhanced the therapy's effectiveness. Now things start to get weird. The most effective message is said to be "Mommy and I are one." This is supposedly because "there are powerful unconscious wishes for a state of oneness with `the good mother of early childhood' … and gratification of these wishes can enhance adaptation," according to Silverman and Weinberger. S&W pointed out the following facts: (1) psychologically neutral messages, such as "people are walking," have no effect; (2) disturbing messages, such as "Destroy Mother," have a negative effect, at least on psychiatric patients; and (3) in areas such as the south where the usual term of affection is "Mama" rather than "Mommy," "Mommy and I are one" has no effect.

Interestingly the "key message", the true hidden desire of the human soul, has nothing to do with "sex" despite what modern western culture would lead one to expect. The real desire is to return to Mother. As the researchers say "the good mother of early childhood". Of course this part rests on the materialist assumption that our motivations are all based on this-world experiences. Looking at the matter more realistically from a spiritual perspective, we would say that the One True Desire is for THE Mother, the eternal, all-good Mother worshiped by all cultures before the artificial religions of patriarchy. We cannot help but note that after millennia of "Father God" propaganda, the message "Daddy and I are one" has no effect. A few millennia of heresy has no effect on the eternal human heart.

Ghosts and the Modern Mediaeval Village

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:36:04 GMT

A comment following our last post: People who see ghosts and go on being rationalist/materialists do so because their social conditioning is stronger than the evidence of their senses. Whenever there is a rupture between the two it is uncomfortable, but if we decide to go with the social side it isn’t very uncomfortable because we just ignore any evidence and talk with our fellow-believers (which is why seeing ghosts makes so little difference to the scientism faithful). As for ghosts – well I don’t find ghosts very interesting in themselves, and I don’t pretend to know what they are (I don’t believe that the ”soul” is still present in a ghost – I think it is some kind of ”outer psychic shell” that the soul has shed but that still has a kind of emotion). But what is really fascinating is the way the dogma of materialism has reduced the state of information about ghosts to a pre-mass-communication level. Ghosts do exist. Lots of people experience them daily (many hauntings are just a part of the life of a particular building) or sometimes yearly (there are such things as annual hauntings on the anniversary of some particular event). They follow laws that have been verified over numerous cases and can accurately predict some of the phenomena that will be present in new cases. There are organizations that have carefully-kept records dating back to the latter part of the century before last. But because of the mythos or ideology of Western Telluria, all this knowledge is reduced to the anecdotal level – the state of knowledge that might be found in a remote village before the advent of the printing press. It is as if while one set of people possess a detailed collection of notebooks on the habits and biology of otters, everyone else is still arguing about whether otters actually exist, and the people who actually know all about otters aren’t listened to (and rarely even admitted to exist themselves) because – well otters aren’t a respectable subject. All very odd.

The Circularity of Scientism

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:58:41 GMT

The following note came in a discussion at the Heartbook Clubhouse. We thought readers might find it of interest: Sushuri-chei wrote: "For example, if you see a ghost walking with her knees at floor level, or a foot above the ground, you can be sure that research will discover that that is where the floor level was at the time the revenant’s human component was alive." We know this because of the work of psychic research societies which have been gathering and collating evidence from haunted places for over a century. They work in the approved "scientific" manner diligently gathering and recording evidence and collating it. None of this counts for anything in the eyes of the scientific establishment for a variety of excuses, such as "you can't reproduce it in a laboratory" (like hurricanes and black holes, you mean?) There is actually no possible set of evidence that would be accepted as "scientific" because the subject of study itself goes against the scientistic mythos. Just as no studies that indicate the impossibility of transformist evolution (and there have been several) can be accepted. The the last line of defense against "dissident science" is an impregnable circular argument. The people carrying it out are not "real scientists" because they aren't part of an accredited university and aren't published in peer-reviewed academic journals. This argument is exactly equivalent to saying that an atheist's arguments are invalid because they haven't been approved by a committee of bishops. No accredited academic organization will - or dare - accept work that disturbs the established mythos. And if they did the opponents of the work that shows the evidence for ghosts or disproves that for evolution would quickly have another line of defense. "Oh that isn't a real University, it lost its accreditation last week". All societies are based on myths or story-pictures and feel the need to defend them. Scientism is the myth of current Telluria,

A Note on Kali Yuga

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:58:00 GMT

A commentator on the Amazon World History Timeline at All Girl Worlds writes the following:

The yugas or ages are concepts of Vedic knowledge. The yuga’s first introduction is in the Mahabharata. According to Vedic knowledge the duration of each yuga is: Satya-yuga 1,728,000 years, Treta-yuga 1,296,000 years, Dvapara-yuga 884,000 years, Kali-yuga 432,000 years. The Vedic knowledge states that in the Satya-yuga there is neither hate, envy, fear, nor care. That there is only one God, one Veda, one law, and one ritual. The following yugas are a decay of this golden yuga.

To which the editors reply as follows:

Thank you for your information. It is indeed correct. The Yugas are indeed found in the Vedas, while the Four Ages (Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron) are found independently in the Hellenic tradition and the same idea is found in many other traditions throughout the world, including the Hebrew, Mayan and Inca. As you correctly state, the movement of the four Ages is one of decline and decay. As to the length of the Cycle or Manvantara, one must realize that there are cycles within, cycles, from the great Cycle of Manifestation itself (ie the "lifetime of the universe") to a single in/out breath of any given being. The cycle of most relevance to the history of the current humanity is of about 60,000 years, though certainly this is only one sub-cycle within the greater cycle you mention (which itself is a sub-cycle of yet greater cycles). For more information on cycles in the primordial feminine tradition, please see the following

The Day of Return, not the Day of Judgement!

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:30:05 GMT

Hi..greetings from Malaysia...My name is Tesh recently i have read about the final judgement thingy...and i would add on... in Eastern philosophies...(all the same as Vidya, She is Omnipresent) the Final Dissolution or the "destruction of the world" (as the low intellect of patriarchs put it) is done by Maa Maha Kalika! She is the One True Mother God that absorbs All creation into Her and Begins a new creation altogether...Divine!!! ain't it? t Thanks and my humble apologies is I am wrong in any way... Jai Maha Devi Mangla Kali Saraswathy! No you are not wrong at all. We believe that the Dark Mother outbreathes the world at the dawn of time and inbreathes it at time's ending. And then there will be another cycle, another creation. As we pray:

Glory be to the Holy and Eternal One,
To the Blessed Mother
To the Divine Daughter
And to Dea beyond form
Who was before the beginning
And will be when all the worlds are ended.

While the in-breathing of the world may be seen as "destruction" from a worldly perspective, it is actually the completion of the cycle. It is also why there is no "final judgement" that involves condemning some beings. In the end all creation must return to Dea, even to the last blade of grass, and no single being can be lost.

The Meaning of "Sai" and "Janyati"

Fri, 27 May 2011 05:12:15 GMT

I would like to know where the words "Sai" and "Janyati" come from And what they mean. "Sai" was the name of a very prominent Hindu "Guru" who recently died, but I asume there is no connection? Greetings,
Alexandra Janyati (singular, Janya) comes from a root meaning "born" or "produced", cf. Jataka = birth-stories (of the Buddhas) and in the Latin languages, such words as generation and genesis. Also genius meaning originally a guardian spirit - génie in French, which was also used to translate Arabic Jinni (singular of Jinn) - hence modern English genie. (Some versions of Deanic texts actually "Latinized" Janyati as "Geniae"). The term "Janya" means a spirit born or generated directly from Dea (the Absolute), and thus a secondary emanation of Deity - a spiritual "stream" that has its Source in Her. It is sometimes rendered as either "angel" or "goddess", but both can easily be misunderstood, and so Janya is preferred. The term Sai (usually prefixed to a name) can be compared to Sanskrit sri or western saint. Its usage is closer to sri than to the modern usage of saint, since it can be used of both divine beings (Janyati) and saintly humans, and sometimes even of other holy things. This is, however, in line with the older usage of saint as in "St. Cross", "St. Savior" (San Salvador) or "St. Trinity", all found in the names of old churches. Sai is usually prefixed to the name of any Janya, hence Sai Raya, Sai Sushuri etc.

Judgement Day

Sat, 21 May 2011 17:50:31 GMT

An exchange fromHeartbook: The so-called "Judgement Day": does it mean anything to Deanists/Filyanists? If not, is there an equivalent in our faith? Just some thoughts! I don't think there is any such thing as a Judgement Day in Filyanic/Deanic faith. Our actions create our werde so if we do bad things they return to us, and if we do good things they return to us. There will be a time when "all the worlds are ended", but I think that is when all beings finally return to Dea. I think that is the difference. We believe that every being, even the demons, will eventually return to the Pure Harmony of Dea. There are no beings that will be eternally lost.

Stephen Hawking: Fairy Tales and the Faith of the Faithless

Wed, 18 May 2011 03:39:02 GMT

Stephen Hawking has described Heaven and the afterlife as a fairy tale. We examine this astonishing declaration of the Faith of the Faithless.

A Question on the Scriptures of Our Mother God

Sat, 14 May 2011 23:42:45 GMT

I have ordered and am reading The Gospel of Our Mother God and am pulled to it with something I suppose is faith. It feels right in my hands, I don't know how else to explain it. I was drawn to your site in particular because I honestly thought I was the only one who felt a strong pull to Mary, Isis, Dea and felt that these were all paths to the same place. I've carried rosary beads and meditated with them since I was a kid without really being able to define what it was I was doing but knew I found comfort in it. It's been a relief to finally find out that I'm not the only one. I've tried to do some research on where the mythos in the beginning come from and I'm constantly led to fictional feminism writing sites. I know that google does not know all and thought that perhaps you could lead me in the right direction? I'm trying to define the basis for the creation mythos? Is it a mixture of modern ideas or a mixture of old ideas or neither? I apologize if the answer is somewhere on the site and I just can't find it. I would like to know how to define this book when I share it (and I will be). Is it feminine writing or something older? The various Scriptures (other than the Sanskrit ones) appear to have been written in their current form 30 to 40 years ago. There have been claims that they are much older, but we feel there is little evidence for that (at least in the literal sense of these exact texts being much older). Many of the motifs and archetypes in the Scriptures clearly have analogies in ancient traditions, and we certainly do not believe them to be at all influenced by modern feminism, "new age" beliefs or other modern doctrines. We believe their purity and holiness shines out far beyond anything of that sort. Some people hold them to be a revelation of ancient truth, and others simply regard them as inspired poetry. The only claim we make for them is the one you also have noticed - the fact that they feel so right. They have inspired people and changed lives for over three decades, and for many who find the patriarchal redactions of our ancient traditions unpalatable, these are the Scriptures, putting into words appropriate to the late Kali Yuga (but by no means influenced by its prejudices) the ancient Faith of Our Mother God. We have found these Scriptures to be a wellspring of truth and beauty, and we hope you will too.

After the Exaltation of the Queen of Heaven

Mon, 02 May 2011 07:01:09 GMT

In terms of the Wheel of the Year, the Exaltation of the Queen of Heaven represents the final and culminating festival of the quarter-year Eastre Cycle. It is also the final High Feast of the Daughter Half of the year. However, while the Eastre Cycle ends on this day, the Daughter Half continues for another six weeks until the High Feast of Rosa Mundi, the first festival of the Mother Half. Like the period leading up to Nativity (the Festival that ends the Mother Half), this final phase of the Daughter Half is seen as a Mother/Daughter period. The Daughter is now reunited with Heaven (and therefore with Her Mother) after Her descent to Earth at Nativity. The parallel early winter festivals that come at the end of the Mother Half, while centering on the Mother, are concerned with the coming of the Daughter.

May Day: The Exaltation of the Queen of Heaven

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:47:50 GMT

May Day is an ancient festival. For devotees of Our Mother God it is the Exaltation of the Queen of Heaven. Learn more about one of the year's most beautiful festivals.

Flight of the Silver Vixen now in Paperback

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:32:01 GMT

The Flight of the Silver Vixen, reviewed on this site a while back, is now available in a shiny new paperback edition. It first launched as a digital-only book on Amazon Kindle. While this action-adventure story is not primarily a spiritual book, it is written from a Deanic perspective. Don't expect the sort of outright preaching that you find in some "Christian literature", but do expect a characters who, even when they are rebellious young tearaways, fundamentally believe in Our Mother God and base their lives around a Dea-centric philosophy. The book is set in an all-feminine Aristasian-style world (two such worlds, in fact) and has a philosophical thread that will definitely resonate with readers of The Feminine Universe. You can now order the paperback for $15 with free shipping to anywhere in the world, or get the Amazon Kindle version at only $2.99 for instant delivery to your Kindle (or to the free Kindle reader on your personal computer or iPad)

A new article about Sri Durga

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:43:06 GMT

A new article on Sri Durga (the Indian Sai Vikhe) has appeared at the Exotic India site. As usual this is an excellent piece and well worth the attention of those interested in learning more about Sai Vikhe in Indian culture.

Durga, the most highly worshipped goddess of Indian masses held in alike reverence in all sectarian lines, even Buddhist and Jain, in her form as Durga or in one of her many transforms - the ferocious Tara of Buddhists or the nurturing mother Ambika of Jains, is the ultimate of divine power capable of eradicating every evil and every wrong, and nurturing and sustaining life in whichever form it exists.

The article makes it very clear that, despite efforts to "edit" Sri Durga into the later patriarchal scheme, not only does She long predate such attempts, but that Her supremacy continues to be asserted by Her devotees even in the patriarchal period. Of the fifth century Devi Mahatmya it says:

The text is full of expressions that are denotative of the Durga's supreme divinity, such as 'Durgam jayakhyam', that is, victory is her other name, or 'Durgasi Durgabhawasagaranaurasanga', that is, Durga is the boat that takes across the cycle of birth and death; the one, that is, Durga as victory is the ultimate of all worldly acts, and the other, that is, Durga as 'Tarini' - redeemer from the cycle of birth and death is the ultimate of every spiritual endeavour. In the 'Viniyoga', the introductory couplet of the second Canto, the Devi-Mahatmya asserts this supremacy of Durga metaphysically too. . . . As regards her antiquity Durga is an entity beyond time. Even the Markandeya Purana that identifies Mahamaya - Devi's proto form, as Vishnu's 'shakti' contends with specificity that it was her who gave to Vishnu, as also to Brahma and Shiva, their forms. This statement has two implications, one that she preceded not only Vishnu but the great Trinity, and the other, that she was Vishnu's 'shakti' by invocation and by her favour, not by Vishnu's authority. Thus, by whatever name, the Great Goddess preceded all forms, their creator, sustainer and destroyer, the time that spanned them and the space where they evolved.

In this Kali Yuga with its violence and patriarchal domination, it is natural that where Dea was recognized as the one supreme Deity, it should be her Vikhelic form that came to the fore.

Maia: the Goddess, the Month and the World-illusion

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:50:08 GMT

Maia is the second month of the year, the "goddess" of spring and the illusion of worldly existence.

What's Wrong With Deconstruction?

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:32:21 GMT

The conversation on the idea of Universal Metaphor sheds light in many directions. When we see the things of material life as metaphors for higher things we are able to participate at a much deeper level in our experience of physical creation. Of course the idea is only another approach to an old question. Miss Trent showed in The Feminine Universe how the belief in nature as mere epiphenomena of chemistry and biology popularized by the Darwinist mythos robbed the Romantic movement of the ability to see nature in spiritual ways. The post-modernist movement, despite its self-imagined radicalism and skepticism, is really a logical progression of late-19th century popular Darwinism/scientism. To take a very common example, I recently read someone who was advocating (for the several-millionth time) "deconstructing gender". Leaving aside exactly what such deconstruction might consist of, what strikes one about this is not the radical skepticism, but the absolute, unquestioning faith that underlies such a statement. To believe that it is possible to "deconstruct" gender we have to assume that we know exactly what gender is. And of course all "radicals" do assume that. For them gender has two elements and two only: the biological and the human-cultural. Everything that is not determined by biology was "constructed" by human culture and it is, at least theoretically, possible to strip away our human culture and leave our animal nature. We can then (if we choose to) build our own "constructs". But all this is based on a huge and completely arbitrary hypothesis: namely that biology and human construction are all there is. That the universe has no meaning, and that biological gender is not already a metaphor of something higher. In believing this, they completely contradict the entire wisdom of the human race from the earliest known times to the late 19th century. And, ironically, these "multi-culturalist" haters of Western imperialism, are absolutely unable to consider that anything other than modern Western scientistic ideology even might be true. In "deconstructing" the fundamental metaphors of manifest existence, the modern world is taking a huge gamble that modern Western ideologies about the ultimate nature of life and manifestation are correct. But the "radical" has no doubts whatever. Her blind faith in popular scientism is as absolute as that of any Jehovah's Witness in her creed.

Metaphors and Deeper Science Fiction

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:42:31 GMT

Yesterday's post on the universal nature of metaphor has prompted a very interesting response from Deanic science fiction writer Annalinde Matichei. The authoress of The Flight of the Silver Vixen commented on her blog at the Sun Daughter Press upon how this understanding of metaphor as not purely literary, but inherent in the very nature of being has important implications for science fiction and how it gives a much deeper answer to superficial questions like "why do so many alien species look so much like humans". Miss Matichei whose work we have reviewed on these pages, has made fascinating contributions to a genre of science fiction based on traditional metaphysics rather than materialistic physical-only science. As she says in today's piece:

Of course, I am not proposing [universal metaphor] as a "solution" to some of the problems of current Tellurian science fiction. That genre, going back at least to the days of Jules Verne, has been rooted deeply and exclusively in the "Enlightenment" Tellurian view of science, which is inherently accidentalist. What I am proposing is something far more radical. A new form of science fiction with much deeper ontological roots.