The masculine and feminine

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Hello,

This is kinda har to grasp, and I’m not completely sure I understand it myself.

peterkreeft.com/audio/09_priestesses.htm

I listened to this audio speech by Peter Kreeft, in which he talks about the priesthood. He then goes on to talk about priests and priestesses in Nature religions, gods and godesses and finally the Masculine and Feminine.

All cultures seems to have understood that some things in the world look like the feminine, and some things look like the masculine. Therefore in basically any language (NOT English), you have gender attributed to things.

Kreeft argues, that the masculine goes beyond malehood, and femininity goes beyond womanhood. The Earth is not called Mother because it looks like a woman, but because both the woman and the earth look like the Feminine.

But what is then the masculine and feminine? Any characteristics?
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In very general terms, the feminine bears life (brings it forth) and nurtures it. The masculine creates life by engendering it. It then protects and provides for the life the feminine brings forth from the womb/earth/waters, etc.

God shows the qualities of both since he is the origin of both, but since he engenders, protects, and provides, he is presented to us as masculine. And he chose to show himself as a male, thus cementing this understanding for us human beings.

That’s how I understand it, anyway. 🙂
 
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