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Do
you
know
that
the
Holy
Spirit
is
a
feminine
being?
She
is
God’s
spirit,
Father’s
wife,
and
my
perfect
Mother.
It’s
good
to
know
that
heaven
is
not
populated
entirely
by
masculine
energies.
Long
ago
in
ancient
Rome,
the
pronouns
used
in
Hebrew
and
Greek
texts
to
describe
God—and
other
heavenly
beings—abruptly
changed.
When
the
Church
translated
the
Greek
text
to
Latin,
Mother
turned
into
a
“man.”
Most
of
the
angels
did,
too.
Since
the
days
of
Emporer
Constantine,
for
more
than
1,600
years
western
Christians
have
honored
two
male
Parents.
The
irony?
This
frightful
concept
began
in
Holy
Rome.
All
Christians
and
Jews
believe
in
the
Holy
Spirit—with
one
key
difference.
In
the
languages
Jesus
used,
Hebrew
and
Aramaic,
Rúach
(spirit)
and
Rúach
Hakodesh
(spirit-‐the-‐holy)
are
feminine
nouns.
But
Jesus
does
not
suggest
the
Holy
Spirit
is
a
woman,
for
she
has
no
physical
body.
Instead
my
perfect
Mother,
or
“Ima”
(Hebrew
for
"Great
Mother”)
is
the
nurturing,
manifesting,
feminine
aspect
of
God.
Christianity
grew
out
of
Judaism,
one
of
the
world’s
oldest
father-‐
mother
belief
systems.
Even
so,
due
to
a
decision
made
in
Rome
400
years
after
Christ,
western
Christianity
still
remains
today
a
father-father-‐son
religion.
Dating
back
more
than
3,000
years,
the
image
of
God
as
Father
and
Mother
is
the
cornerstone
of
the
Judaeo-‐Christian
belief
system.
The
concept
of
a
feminine
Holy
Spirit
was
vitally
important
to
the
ancient
high
priests.
How
do
we
know
this?
In
the
Bible,
Mother
appears
first.
In
the
beginning,
at
Genesis
1:2,
the
Spirit
of
God
hovers
over
the
waters.
Today
the
Orthodox
Jewish
Bible
still
uses
the
feminine:
Rúach
Elohim.
Before
Christianity
came
to
Rome,
the
feminine
noun
Rúach
was
replaced
by
the
Greek
noun
Pneuma,
which
carries
no
gender.
Then,
in
the
first
Latin
Bible
(Vulgate,
c.
384
CE),
the
Roman
Catholic
Church
replaced
Pneuma
with
the
masculine
Spiritus.
In
short,
major
shifts
in
the
gender
of
the
Holy
Spirit
have
made
it
next
to
impossible
to
locate
my
dear
Mother
in
our
western
Christian
Bibles.
Next,
consider
the
vast
number
of
Bible
references
to
spirit
and
Holy
Spirit
in
both
Testaments.
Rome
must
have
expended
vast
resources
to
completely
separate
the
feminine
from
God.
Question:
how
much
theology
was
reworked
in
order
to
create
an
all-‐male
Trinity?
Wouldn’t
it
be
so
much
easier,
less
confusing,
and
more
respectful
to
create
a
feminine
Latin
pronoun
to
honor
my
perfect
Mother?
Sadly,
in
what
seems
to
me
its
greatest
hubris,
the
Church
adopted
Mother’s
title.
It
would
be
completely
wrong
to
state
that
the
image
of
the
Holy
Spirit
as
a
woman
and
mother
is
caused
by
the
fact
that
the
Hebrew,
Aramaic
and
Syriac
words
for
“spirit”
are
(nearly)
always
feminine.
In
the
Old
Testament
we
can
find
Mother
in
the
Seven
Gifts
of
the
Holy
Spirit.
Here
the
Hebrew
term
for
wisdom
(and
also
the
other
six
gifts)
is
attributed
to
our
Mother,
Rúach
Hakodesh,
at
Isaiah
11:2-‐3.
One
English
reference
to
Mother
exists
at
Luke
7.
We
catch
a
brief
glimpse
of
her
through
the
son’s
eyes
while
Jesus
proclaims
wisdom—chochmah—as
his,
yours,
and
my
perfect
Mother:
“The
Son
of
Man
came
eating
and
drinking,
and
you
say,
‘Here
is
a
glutton
and
a
drunkard,
a
friend
of
tax
collectors
and
sinners.’
But
wisdom
is
proved
right
by
all
her
children.”
(Luke
7:34-‐35)
The
most
intimate
personal
relationships
on
earth
exist
within
the
typical
human
family.
Indeed,
brothers,
sisters,
and
parents
know
one
another
inside
and
out.
In
the
same
way,
acknowledging
God
as
our
true
Family
can
enhance
our
relationship
to
heaven,
creation,
and
how
we
fit
in.
When
compared
to
the
Bible
I
find
that
the
raw,
unedited
words
of
the
first
Christians
benefit
me
the
most:
Honor
your
father
and
your
mother,
so
that
you
may
live
long
in
the
land
the
Lord
your
God
is
giving
you.
(Exodus 20:12)
She
alone
is
the
truth.
She
makes
the
multitude,
and
concerning
us
she
teaches
this
alone
in
a
love
through
many.
Dear
Mother,
I
am
so
very
sorry
about
the
dreadful
mix-‐up.
I
want
to
help.
At
the
same
time
I
know
that
this
doesn’t
offend
you.
You’ll
make
it
all
right
when
the
time
is
right.
I
trust
you,
love
you,
and
believe
in
you.
But
still
I
pray
for
some
nice
brother
or
sister
to
fix
the
typo.
Forever
yours,
Andrew
[1]
The
Holy
Spirit
as
Feminine:
Early
Christian
Testimonies
and
Their
Interpretation.
HTS
Theological
Studies
Van
Oort,
J.
(2016)
View
article
online:
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v72i1.3225