Divine feminine or divine feminine principle

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I just come across these words in a divine book. Please explain it to me if you can.

Clive · Accepted Answer

Hi,

You mean a religious book? A book about religion?

What's the context of the phrase?

Clive

User_gary · Answer

Thank you Clive. Yes it was a religious book.

Here is one context from Google :
As we approach spring, flowers blossom and birdsong and fragrances fill the air, we feel uplifted and very alive. We could be forgiven for thinking that the countryside has taken on a very feminine and voluptuous aspect on earth, but what is really happening esoterically speaking, in all the dimensions, as a reflection of this?

If we work on the principle of "As is above so is below" we would see that Mother Nature is the maker of life, she is the feminine principle that creates all the conditions needed to gestate, give birth and nourish life. So whether this is a woman gestating and giving birth to a baby, the soil gestating seeds and providing them with nourishment and a place to grow, or human beings embarking on a spiritual path to create and nourish their human soul, the Divine Mother is present in all these processes.

In ancient cultures, the Divine feminine principle was worshipped equally along with the masculine. Anyone who has studied them would note that the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Aztecs and Celts to name but a few, had innumerable feminine deities. Even the Kabbalistic tree of Life demonstrates how "***" or the cosmic consciousness unfolds from the Absolute (Ain) between the opposing masculine and feminine pillars of Jachin and Boaz. In the atom, the interaction between the positively charged protons and the negatively charged electrons, form the basis of the processes of energy, matter and life itself. True creation only happens when opposing forces such as these attract in this way. The cosmos, the galaxies, the planets, the earth, all that lives on it, us, our cells and the molecules and atoms that make us all follow this divine law.

In our spiritual work, The Divine feminine principle within us (whether we are male or female!) is known as Devi Kundalini. She has the power to create and rejuvenate us spiritually and physically and destroy those aspects within us, that we no longer need or are holding us back. In the Christian tradition, she is an unfolding of the Sacred Holy Spirit and represents our potential to be creators of new Human beings in the physical, or the ability to create other bodies to investigate the cosmos and our own psychology, in other dimensions.

Source : http://www.gnosis.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=121:the-divine-feminine-principle-&catid=46:articles&Itemid=175

Clive · Answer

Hi,
The part in pink seems to be the definition.
As I'm sure you understand, the questions you are asking are religious or meta-physical rather than linguistic or grammar-related.

Clive

Thank you Clive. Yes it was a religious book.

Here is one context from Google :
As we approach spring, flowers blossom and birdsong and fragrances fill the air, we feel uplifted and very alive. We could be forgiven for thinking that the countryside has taken on a very feminine and voluptuous aspect on earth, but what is really happening esoterically speaking, in all the dimensions, as a reflection of this?

If we work on the principle of "As is above so is below" we would see that Mother Nature is the maker of life, she is the feminine principle that creates all the conditions needed to gestate, give birth and nourish life. So whether this is a woman gestating and giving birth to a baby, the soil gestating seeds and providing them with nourishment and a place to grow, or human beings embarking on a spiritual path to create and nourish their human soul, the Divine Mother is present in all these processes.

In ancient cultures, the Divine feminine principle was worshipped equally along with the masculine. Anyone who has studied them would note that the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Aztecs and Celts to name but a few, had innumerable feminine deities. Even the Kabbalistic tree of Life demonstrates how "***" or the cosmic consciousness unfolds from the Absolute (Ain) between the opposing masculine and feminine pillars of Jachin and Boaz. In the atom, the interaction between the positively charged protons and the negatively charged electrons, form the basis of the processes of energy, matter and life itself. True creation only happens when opposing forces such as these attract in this way. The cosmos, the galaxies, the planets, the earth, all that lives on it, us, our cells and the molecules and atoms that make us all follow this divine law.

In our spiritual work, The Divine feminine principle within us (whether we are male or female!) is known as Devi Kundalini. She has the power to create and rejuvenate us spiritually and physically and destroy those aspects within us, that we no longer need or are holding us back. In the Christian tradition, she is an unfolding of the Sacred Holy Spirit and represents our potential to be creators of new Human beings in the physical, or the ability to create other bodies to investigate the cosmos and our own psychology, in other dimensions.

Avangi · Answer

Some would consider Mother Nature a pantheistic concept, but the author considers it Divine, with a capital "D." It is part of ***'s plan that part of the feminine quality is the business of the regeneration of life.
Mother Nature is the essence of what the author has labled The Divine feminine principle.

User_gary · Answer

Thank you Clive and Avangi.

But still I cannot understand it. Particularly I'm confused with the use of "principle" and "dimension" here.

Avangi · Answer

User_garyI'm confused with the use of "principle" and "dimension"

Off the top of my head, I'd say that a principle is an idea which unifies a number of different things. It's a particular common thread running through them.

You might say that certain rules of grammar are "principles."
When we try to study and analyze a subject, we look for things that seem to us to repeat. Then we try to describe that repetition. It's something like forming a theory.
We ask, "What's the idea behind all this?" ("What's the principle behind all this?")
Different people come up with different ways of explaining the same thing.
The pleasure principle: People prefer to do what pleases them.

User_garybut what is really happening esoterically speaking, in all the dimensions, as a reflection of this?

This is not talking about "length, width, and height." It's talking about all the different ways of looking at things and measuring things.
How will this affect my pocketbook? What's the relationship between my religion and my job? etc.

You're into some pretty heavy material here, gary.

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