DWQA QuestionsCategory: Divine RealmA viewer asks: “Who are Father God and Mother God? Are they an extension of the divine, or New Age phenomena (if the latter, who are they referring to)?”
Nicola Staff asked 2 years ago
This is a way that New Agers can describe God more in keeping with intuitive sensibilities that recoil from the trappings of a male patriarchy, which has become associated in the mind with the description of a harsh judgmental male God, all too ready to punish people. So it is a way of leveling the perception to acknowledge that human females have equal standing and value and are worthy of respect, to think of there being a Mother God as well as a Father God but, in a sense, this undercuts the idea of equivalence by maintaining the dichotomy, even at the divine level, and begs the question, "Does Mother God walk behind Father God? Does She defer to His decisions and rulings? Who has the most power? Who is the most lofty?" and so on. So we see such notions as simply a reflection of the flaws in human thinking and projecting them onto ideas of the divine. There is metaphysical truth that the divine contains both gender characteristics, thus making them both divine, but yet with each favoring certain attributes more than others. There is nothing wrong with that happening for lesser beings, in the sense of extensions of the divine in the myriad of souls in existence, some of whom have a male orientation and some a female, and others more evenly balanced. That is done deliberately to create a wide variety of possibilities of uniqueness so no person is identical to anyone else, all are unique. Even with a great overlapping and a quite wide range of attributes rather than a narrow focus that is rigid and inflexible, having an array of capabilities allows people to adapt to many circumstances they might need to.