Tuesday, March 11, 2025

When can we expect Female Messiah?


Female Messiah? What Church tried to erase

(MorgueOfficial) Started streaming March 10, 2025 (during Women's History Month) Dawn of the New Earth (The Neogenian Dawn). Ancient texts speak of a mysterious, powerful figure — a female Messiah — whose wisdom was hidden, suppressed, and nearly lost. Was she the true Christ (Kristos, "Annointed One," drugged with entheogens or venoms in the mystery school, according to Dr. Ammon Hillman)?


The Gospel of Mary, attributed to Mary Magdalene, offers a unique perspective on salvation through self-knowledge and inner exploration. Contrary to traditional Christian teachings, this ancient text challenges the concept of sin, framing it as an illusion tied to the physical body. It reveals a vision of spiritual authority where wisdom is accessible beyond institutional limits. Rooted in Gnosticism, this work highlights the diverse landscape of early Christianity, advocating for a personal connection with the divine.

Is there a Buddhist Messiah? Is it Maitreya?
I'd better flatter women so that they'll know they're loved (statustown.com)
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Prajna Paramita of Java
Who will it be, who will rescue the humans and gods (devas) from the blights of greed, hatred, and delusion? The world sleeps under the pall of delusion, and it is high time we awaken. But we can't rouse ourselves. Someone arrives to help. This special being was predicted long ago and named "Friend" or maitri. This Maitreya or Metteyya may be the origin of the Western world's "Messiah"). Might it be a woman? Ancient tradition seems to have been altered to exclude women in a worldwide sexist push that erased much of their contributions, leaving half the population as a sidenote. Indeed, there have been powerful women.

Prajna Paramita Devi, Tibet
In Buddhist lore there is the great Prajna Paramita, a goddess personification of the "Perfection of Wisdom" and the Goddess of Compassion Kuan Yin, a Mother Mary figure for the worldwide Mahayana tradition, which accounts for 90 per cent of Buddhists today. In the past, in Early Buddhism, there was great recognition of the female enlightened ones:

KhemaUppalavanna, the Buddha's foster mother Queen Pajapati Gotami, Bhaddha Kaccana (Princess Yasodhara, Bimba Devi, Rahulamata, mother of the Buddha's son, Rahula Bhadda or "Lucky Fetter"), and many others still found recorded in the Therigatha, the "Psalms of the Enlightened Sisters."

Madonna and child: Pajapati and Siddhattha

But the question really comes down a savior figure, a reviver of the Dharma, a future buddha like Maitreya. Can it be a woman?

Vajra-yogini from a thangka - wrathful deities
Now the Teachings have been construed to say no in Theravada and Vajrayana traditions, but Mahayana holds out that there are many powerful female deities, the Taras, the dakinis, protectors (lokapala) and wrathful guardian spirits, and though no "Cosmic Buddha" like Amitabha or Vairocana are ever depicted as female, the caveat is always that a being determining to become a supremely awakened (samma-sam) buddha will transform into a male before achieving that ambition.

So many females and males take bodhisattva vows with the stated goal of delaying their own liberation (nirvana) to save all other sentient beings, as messiahs are won't to do. It may be a useful mindset if not an achievable goal.
If I'm reborn as a woman, I want to be sexy hot.
But as the Dalai Lama once joked, "Any woman can become a buddha...so long as she becomes a man first." Why he thought this was funny, that we may never know. (Endemic sexism and androcentrism in an all-boys monastic club in the imperial Potala Palace?)

Asherah Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven
Nevertheless, none of us are really male or female but have the potential to express the best qualities of both. In the derivative Catholic/Christian faith, there may still be hope or recovering the Mother Goddess (Queen of Heaven AsherahGod’s Forgotten Wife, or Miriam, the Son-God's mother, a restored and reappointed Eve or Mary Magdalene. We can all see how openminded the God of those Abrahamic traditions is, so amenable to being talked into things like the divine rapport emphasized in Judaism, but we won't be holding our breath).

Is the Blessed Virgin Mary Chinese Guanyin?
Marco Lazzarotti, Aug. 2023
Virgin/Guanyin in Chinese dress (researchgate.net)
In this book the author describes "Ancestors’ Ceremonies" as practiced in the Taiwanese Catholic Church. The author’s point is to demonstrate how the Chinese symbolic universe made a deep translation of the "new" symbolic system represented by Catholic doctrine. At the same time the effort of the Catholic Church in order to adapt the Gospels’ message to the local situation built up a particular phenomenon that the author defined as cultural dialogue. It is this dialogic relationship the process that the author defines as Culture.


...[The] most usual and popular representation of this Goddess is a beautiful and gracious woman, who holds a child in her arms [Maya and Siddhartha rather than Mary and Jesus] and wears a rosary [mala] around her neck. This iconography has been reused in order to paint the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary at a point where it is hard sometimes to distinguish between the two figures (Figures 3a and 3b).

My point is not that Catholic people consider the Blessed Virgin Mary as the Christian reference of Guanyin [Kwan Yin, the Mahayana Buddhist "Goddess of Compassion"], but I want to stress that, when honoring the "new" supernatural figure, Taiwanese Catholics still maintain the forms they learned through their involvement in popular religious practices from an early age, which are linked to the cultural system they inhabit. God Jesus and the Ancestors: An Ethnography of the Ancestors’ Rites in the Taiwanese Catholic Church

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  • MorgueOfficial; Wise Quotes, Oct. 10, 2024; CC Liu, Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

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