Words are just not applicable for Reality, for Reality cannot be reduced to symbols and as it cannot be reduced to image, it cannot be reduced to words and remain what it is. Creation results when we try to express the inexpressible. We create the image! We create God. Language gives possession to that which is being described so that it looses its reality and becomes the symbolic word. Humanity does not have awareness of Reality due to its choice to block Reality with the walls of creation. So it becomes necessary to create that which was blocked and, consequently, can no longer exist within the created non-reality. God is the symbol for Reality in the narrow confines of creation. When the Reality is symbolized by God, God becomes the symbol for Reality and the word 'God' becomes the symbol for God itself. Here the process of division is noticeable as image breaks down image, breaks down image....over and over again. God becomes what we make God out to be and takes on human characteristics we consider as ideal or as Perfection. Thus besides creating God, we also create Perfection. God and Perfection are One because that is how they are created to be with the same identical human characteristics.
Essentially, if Reality exists, non-reality exists and more importantly, if non-reality exists, Reality, as reality of the image, certainly exists! The pattern of duality governs creation by replaying the Reality/non-reality scenario on the image of the stage of creation with an imaged cast of characters. With each replay, that is with each layer or level of Time, the Reality/non-reality duality moves farther and farther away from Truth. With each layer, truth becomes more distant and more faded.
Here is where the pretense begins. If we choose to actuate our desire to become God---to become the Reality, we set in motion the wheels of creation, creating ourselves as we image ourselves to be. We create ourselves as we image ourselves to become God, to be in God's place, to possess God's qualities, and to have all that we deem God to have. In choosing to become God, we see ourselves as possessing all power and able to do all things, for now we are God. Consequently, for us dreamers, Reality no longer exists. For the transference to take effect, we must play the game, the game that Reality does not exist. We must play the game that the God of Creation is the God The Reality as we dream, desire, and choose it to be.
Our world is a patriarchal society. As with world society in general, it is safe to say that religion is patriarchal and is the basis of patriarchy in society. This can be determined by observation of the sexual roles in religious hierarchy---by teachings, by its history of female degradation and misogyny. In a patriarchal society, to be feminine means to be vulnerable. Feminine is a result of creation's process of division; amoeba dividing down to masculine and feminine. In a patriarchal society, power is absolute. If power is absolute, weakness must be created, all following the dichotomy of duality in creation. No matter where in the process of division whether sex, race, age, economic worth, etc., to be vulnerable means to be deprived of masculinity, to be deprived of power. To create power it is necessary to create weakness. Strength must be removed and fed upon that weakness will result. There can be no strength without weakness We cannot know strength unless we first know weakness. To remove strength is to remove masculinity. To remove masculinity is to devalue and make inferior and beyond that, worthless. The history of religion is the history of the vulnerability and abuse of the feminine. To be inferior is to be the food that creates strength in the powerful.
Removing masculinity is becoming female. Religion is the classifier, namer and claimer of sin and grace, and as such has created, encouraged, promoted, and is responsible for the male/strength, female/weakness dichotomy that has grown stronger but more subtle and disguised at each level of history, at each level of Time. Religion established society's moral code by naming sin/evil, good/grace. Religion placed, endorsed, and promoted the vulnerable, the feminine, in a category that separated, classified, and excluded the feminine fro respectable society and all that qualifies as truly and respectfully human. This placed the feminine in an abusive and inferior position that has been served up as food to power hungry appetites.
This is the introduction to 'The Abuse of the Vulnerable'
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