LUKE

[@jewishbride5010]

Lord almighty, praise you for strengthening those who are weak and humble themselves towards you, thank you for uplifting the low and putting down the high, thank you for crushing the inward thoughts of the proud! In accordance with luke 1:46-55 and this word I loosen my soul to be magnified in God almighty, in the name and blood of Jesus Christ, amen and hallelujah!

[@corymihal7789]

thank you

[@mkl62]

I am an ELCA Lutheran from South Carolina. Today (December 19, Advent 4), we read this in lieu of the psalm that is usually read. Today, that psalm would have be Psalm 80:1-7. Maybe you can do a talk on it sometime in the future.

[@time4peace726]

To be blessed is due to her “ full of grace” meaning without sin. Full of all graces of God as the angel calls to her Hail Full of Grace- a name meaning God has given you a special gift of graces for a reason- a purpose. Holy means full of all graces of God. She is the embodiment of spiritual virtue of holiness.. 66 virtues to master in holiness. Holy Spirit came over her and embodied the Holy Spirit within her- together become the vessel of the incarnation of the Word of God. God became man through a holy vessel of Mary.

[@mpress469]

Spiritualy speaking (gender aside), matriarchal wisdom can begin with a fundamental understanding of the cyclical nature of reality (God). Represented by the snake in many creation myths, the living cycle has a trinity of a beginning (head), a middle and end (tail). As above so below, the sexes were created in the image of God's cyclical nature where Mother is the head and opening to all beginnings and Father holds the tail to all endings (through which the sowing of seeds allow for the next great matriarchal rebirth).The joining of the two (symbolized by the Ouroborus or the marriage ring) is the sacred union needed in assuring the creation and continuation of new life cycles. To speak of the present day God as "Our Father" is simply an admission to our collective positioning within the bigger cycle. As all mothers have direct experience with the creator quality of birthing, so is the direct experience of rebirthing the divinity within (baptism) belong to that which is spiritualy matriarchal. (John 3, verse 3-8). Sekhmet statues carry most of their weight in symbolic memory of what was an ancient fertility culture dedicated to the direct experience of baptism. As the leg shaped hairlocks extend from maternal breasts to the womb of rebirth, the lioness's head proportions are such that they highlight the bust of a second animal figure. The Lioness's ears as eyes and eyes as nose (nostrils) brings to life the figure of a reptile. 'Neath the halo headress of the solar egg, the lioness's egg fertilization process being internal (Set) and the reptile's egg fertilization process being external (Setting), such being key components to the safety of entering the trans-egoic or "born again" state. The life threatening fear associated with the predatory nature of a lion and/or crocodile encounter are reflective of the intense ego death experience associated with the transpersonal awakening process. In spiritualy matriarchal times (Mother culture), illumination could be seen as wearing the false beard (ancient Egyptian funerary ego death mask) as the high state of cyclical self knowing; high cyclical awareness of both our upper matriarchal half and our lower (later) patriarchal half (compared with a mini lower body replica, an "as above so below" tail end beard extension); in full recognition of her civilizational Underworld; her inevitable cyclical destiny. The male pharaoh wears his beard tapered in reverse, indicating a pointing upwards towards the patriarchal head, divine representative of God's tail end cycle. To carry the Ankh was perhaps to symbolically carry that upper and lower understanding. As the upper matriarchal womb symbolised the fertile birthing of civilization, below, the now Christian cross is carried to place emphasis on the lower (later) "End Times" Father principle of the great cycle. Ganesha, the elephant headed Hindu diety, displays a cyclical head to trunk symbolism and points to the Mother head of his matriarchal elephant society. A whole temple was dedicated to the ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor, who is the matriarchal "Uterus" personified. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gGHQYa2AiKp5gZI In the name of the Father, the Son and the holy ghosted... ? ... inevitability.

[@JoniFullard]

Yes! Sophia is Wisdom. ❤ 🕊