he Holy Spirit is the breath of God’s life, the flame of his
glory, and the stream of his love. In Her elusiveness She is
God’s mystery. In Her liveliness, beauty, and grace, She is
God’s poetry. In Her compassion She is God’s comfort. Through
Her we come to know God most intimately. In the Holy Spirit of
love we learn that the heart of God is Infinite Joy. From the
Holy Spirit we come to understand that all of Creation springs
from this Divine Joy. It is the celebration of sharing God’s
interior happiness, or as it used to be called, beatitude. It is
She who begins to interpret for us what Jesus did; and does in
us subjectively all that Jesus Christ did for us objectively.
A major consideration in the discussion of the femininity of the Deity must be found in the many, many references to the "Spirit" of God. In Hebrew, the word is actually "Breath" and similar roots are present in both the Latin and Greek words used to translate it. In Hebrew, this "Breath" is most often mentioned using the feminine form of the word. There are those who proclaim that the Holy Ghost is the focus of femininity in the Trinity. The orthodox would argue that all members of the Trinity are equally male and female – indeed that they radically transcend the whole dynamic. A female Holy Ghost, however, receives further reinforcement from the "Wisdom" literature in the Old Testament. There, "Wisdom" is portrayed as lover and spouse of humanity. In Proverbs 5:17&f she is presented as: "the wife you married in your youth, fair as a hind, graceful as a fawn, Let hers be the company you keep, hers the breasts that ever fill you with delight, hers the love that ever holds you captive.” Indeed, the next verse reveals a very, very frequent theme of the prophets too, that turning from proper worship to false gods is adultery. Now if the "son" commits adultery when committing idolatry, then it stands to reason that God is the true wife!! Isaiah 54:6: "Yes, like a forsaken wife, distressed in spirit, / YHVH calls you back." This kind of rhetoric has led to the building of churches like Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom – now the great mosque of Istanbul). It has also led to the cult of Sophia as the Bride of God which is popular among neo Gnostic strains of Christian Esotericism. In Classic Gnosticism, Sophia is often the emanated entity who forgets the true source and engenders the demiurge! Further, much of the poetical rhetoric of the scripture about Sophia was applied quite early to Mother Mary.
The spirit of Wisdom is
intelligent and holy. She is of one nature but reveals herself in
many ways. She is not made of any material substance, and She moves
about freely. She is clear, clean, and confident; She cannot be
harmed. She loves what is good. She is sharp and unconquerable, 23
kind, and a friend of humanity. She is dependable and sure, and has
no worries. She has power over everything, and sees everything. She
penetrates every spirit that is intelligent and pure, no matter how
delicate its substance may be. 24 Wisdom moves more easily than
motion itself; she is so pure that she penetrates everything. 25 She
is a breath of God's power-a pure and radiant stream of glory from
the Almighty. Nothing that is defiled can ever steal its way into
Wisdom. 26 She is a reflection of eternal light, a perfect mirror of
God's activity and goodness. 27 Even though Wisdom acts alone, she
can do anything. She makes everything new, although she herself
never changes. From generation to generation she enters the souls of
holy people, and makes them God's friends and prophets. 28 There is
nothing that God loves more than people who are at home with Wisdom.
29 Wisdom is more beautiful than the sun and all the constellations.
She is better than light itself, 30 because night always follows
day, but evil never overcomes Wisdom. Her great power reaches into
every part of the world, and she sets everything in useful order.
Wisdom of Solomon: 7;22-30, 8;1
Creativity is ever-vital. Vitality is ever-creative. She *is* the energy-force of creativity, itself. She is the vital essence of vitality. Her numinous vitality is creatively generating across the parallel dimensions, evolving realities. We *are* Her vitality, Her mercy, Her creativity, Her ever-evolving reality -- every organism, every *thing*; not only the animate but the inanimate. She is the If of yet-to-be, the ineffable, the wholly free... She is Living Eternity... & even to be but momentarily aware of this, as light*spark dancing within Her veil of because, brings a brightening of awe in the Presence of Her mystic splendors, Her radiant darkness, enwombing the Cosmos..