XXXV  THE LAST MATRIARCHAL AGE

 

 

by guest author WILLIAM BOND

 

 William Bond has been working on these issues many years, his  book, ‘Gospel of the Godess’ was published thirty years ago.  He’s a rare man who understands things on the subject as no other man I know.

So what do these teachings mean in our present day society of the 21th century? We live in a world that has been dominated by the men for the last 5,000 years. The result has been a world of conflict, oppression, war, genocide and chaos. We are now in danger of destroying ourselves with destructive weapons like nuclear bombs as well as widespread pollution.

The situation is now becoming so dangerous that the One is encouraging women to regain power so we can return to the protection of the One. Unfortunately, too many women are learning how to gain power by learning from men. But men can only teach women how to be more aggressive and competitive. Teachings like this only take us all further away from the One.

 

An example of this would be politics where women politicians are taught by men to be as deceptive, corrupt and competitive as male politicians. The result has been that when female politicians act and behave like men, they can only mimic what men do and are not leading us back to the One.

Although as more women that come into positions of power the more confident women will eventually become in being themselves and no longer have to pretend to be men. When they finally do this they can start to lead humanity back to the One.

About 5,000 years ago men took control of our world and they were able to do this when women listened to deceitful men who encouraged women to break their connection to the One.

 

There was a time in the past when women ruled the world and patriarchy has since tried to destroy all knowledge and evidence of this. So how could women rule the world when men are physically bigger and stronger as well as being more competitive and aggressive than women?

 

When women ruled the world there was a religion where people worshiped the Great Mother who gave birth to our world. The Great Mother is of course the One. She is all-that-there-is. It was through this religion that women connected to the One as the Great Mother.

 

Women then were representatives of the Great Mother in this world and so all women were worshiped by men as goddesses. So men have a natural desire to worship women and this desire becomes far stronger when women find ways to connect to the One. This means, the more women are able to once again connect themselves to the One the more men will want to worship and obey them. 

 

(RASA SAYS:  THE ONE REFERS TO NONDUALITY, SEE THE LAST TWO CHAPTERS ON THIS.  IN NONDUALITY  YOU ARE NOT SUBJECTIVE IN YOUR VIEW OF THE WORLD, YOU SEE IT OBJECTIVELY, FROM A VIEW OF THE GOD-SELF.  YOU SEE YOURSELF ACTING LIKE A CHARACTER IN A MOVIE OR PLAY.  THIS WAS IMO WHAT HAPPENED TO ADAM & EVE ‘IN THE GARDEN.’ THE APPLE IS GOOD & EVIL, IT IS NONDUALITY VS SEPARATION.  IT SHOWS THE FALL OF MANKIND, NOT DUE TO WOMEN IN TRUTH, BUT DUE TO PATRIARCHY, MEN. 

HERE WILLIAM RIGHTLY BLAMES MEN FOR WOMEN LOSING THE ONE – WE ALL LOST IT WHEN MEN TOOK OVER.  BEING IN THE NONDUALITY MODE, IN CHRISTIAN TERMS YOU MIGHT CALL IT CONTEMPLATION – YOU ARE LIVING IN A HEAVEN ON EARTH, LIKE THE GARDEN OF EDEN.  IT’S A CONSCIOUSNESS OF BLISS, HAPPINESS; IT’S THE ONLY WAY & PLACE WE CAN BE HAPPY.  THERE IS MUCH MORE TO BE SAID ON THIS IN FUTURE.)

 

 

So how did women lose the connection to the Great Mother? Although the One had unlimited wisdom and intelligence it didn’t know or understand the world of separation. It was only men who knew and understood this world. The One couldn’t comprehend the world of lies, deception and trickery created by men. So didn’t know what to do when these things were used against women.

Deceitful and ambitious men told women that it was unfair that people only worshiped a female deity and they should be allowed to worship a male god as well.

 

Women allowed this to happen, and so men were allowed to form their own priesthood and worship male gods. In the spirit of fairness women began to worship these male gods as well and in the process lost their power. This was because these male gods represent separation and conflict and took women away from the Oneness of the Great Mother.

 

So the male priests began to teach and practice masculine teachings which were about aggression, competitiveness and hatred. They also taught women about sacrificial love which is close to women’s maternal love for their children. So the priests taught that maternal love and sacrificial love where the same thing.

 

This seems to be true because a mother will sacrifice herself for her child. but for a mother to be able to care for her child she has to ensure she is strong enough to do this. So the sacrificial aspect of this is limited because if a mother sacrifices herself completely she can become so mentally or physically weak, she cannot properly care for or protect her child.

 

The women who listened to the priests began to feel guilty about putting any of her own needs before the child and the priests sensing a weakness, encouraged this feelings of guilt even more. So in the end women began to feel guilty about loving herself in any situation and as the result she began to lose her connection to the One and was no longer in tune with her Goddess power.

 

The One has never demanded sacrificial love, the One is an all encompassing love for everything and that includes our love for ourselves. The male priests in the spirit of separation encouraged the split between our love for ourselves and others. They were encouraged to do this when they saw it broke women’s connection to the One.

They also encouraged men to have sacrificial love for others and were even successful in making some men feel guilty about loving themselves. This guilt was used by the male priests to help them gain greater control over men.

 

Through this, these men were able to break away from the control of the women. They quickly created a world of chaos and conflict and when they were challenged about this they defended their power through deception and violence.

 

So the holy women of the Great Mother religion then found themselves in conflict with male dominated religions. The women who returned to the original teaching of the Great Mother saved themselves but the women who tried to compete with men lost out.

Some women went as far as becoming Amazons and fighting men on the battle-field. But men have all the physical advantages in warfare and women lost when attempting this. This means that when women try to act and behave like men, they find they are at a big disadvantage.

 

Another problem for women is that men have what Sigmund Freud called the Madonna–whore complex.  The famous psychologist points out that men either worship women as Goddesses, or treat them as abused slaves.

 

Men are like this is other ways when they say, “you’re either for us or against us.” It is there competitive instincts that make it hard for them the take the moderate line in anything. As they divide the world up into winners and losers. So men have a similar attitude about women.

It seems men had not problems in worshiping women as Goddesses but when patriarchy undermined this, men went to the opposite extreme and treated women as abused slaves. 

 

People can only tune into the power of the One through love because unconditional love and Oneness are the same thing. Once women start to compete against men then they lose that sense of Oneness. The One possess all the wisdom, intelligence and power of the whole universe, so women become all-powerful when they make that connection.

 

Masculine power on the other hand is the power of conflict. Men can become extremely powerful when they are totally ruthless, brutal and deceitful but this power if unchecked can only destroy itself. 

 

Patriarchal men has gained power and kept it by knowing how to gain power over other men. The patriarchal age hasn’t benefited most men as it paradoxically turned the majority into slaves, serfs and peasants. The ruling elite of the patriarchal world found that all men are very obedient to anyone who presents themselves as figures of authority and exploited this to the full.

So instead of worshiping women as Goddesses, men found themselves worshiping the male ruling elite who treated them like slaves. In the past male rulers set themselves up as gods and expected the people to worship them as such.

Later when people saw through this deception the rulers then claimed they had the, “divine right of kings,” and that it was ‘God’s will’ that they are rulers. Yet, even today when people are aware that their rulers are not gods or divine-rulers, common people will still worship those who have political and financial power.

 

Because of this the vast gap between rich and poor is as bad as it ever has been because most men will meekly obey anyone in position of authority.

Men obedience to authority is clearly shown in war. We tend to think solders as tough macho men but the best soldiers are so passive they will obey the most insane orders without question. An example of this is World War One when soldiers of all countries would come out of the trenches to be mowed down by machine gun fire because they were ordered to do this. The military will spin this as iron discipline, but it is also extreme submission to authority.

The Japanese in World War Two went a step further and used Kamikaze suicide pilots to deliberately crash their aircraft into enemy shipping because they were also obeying orders. They weren’t volunteers, they were simply ordered to do this and none refused to obey.

So it means that women do not have to compete with men for power, all they have to do is present themselves as Goddesses and men will obey them. Perhaps we can learn something about this from the Femdom scene.  (End William Bond’s article.)

   

From Rasa:  Remember, Woman thou art God! 

That means you can right the wrongs, once you find your identity with Mother God.  There will be additional chapters on nondulity/finding the One or the God Self – there’s a science to it that I am familiar with.

It is not for everyone but it could be for you, if you are to save yourself, others & the world. 

To be continued    Article by William Bond  for The New Religion – ‘Woman Thou Art God’ -    Words from Rasa Von Werder     11-8-19