Is the Holy Spirit - Feminine? / by kevin murray

The Holy Trinity consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.  Right away, when taking a look at the Trinity, one can't help but notice that there is no feminine call-out whatsoever, while, no doubt, the history of the world, is usually seen via a male-centric standpoint, or as simply using words whose typically connotation is either male or defaults to words that are associated with the masculine gender, this does not mean, on the surface, that the feminine connotation or female gender has been marginalized, but it is definitely disconcerting.  The very first thing to do, therefore, is to take a careful look at the Trinity and to try to determine what was first meant by the Holy Spirit, as Genesis 1:27 tells us: "So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them;  male and female he created them."

 

From the foregoing, it is fair to say that the Trinity has far more meaning and makes much more sense when the Holy Spirit is seen as representing the Divine Mother, as then within the immutable Godhead you now have the Father and the Mother with the God-child, which we see demonstrated here in the nuclear family on earth, as well as being represented in the higher dimension by our Creator.  This means that if we take our Bible and begin to translate into our minds that the Holy Spirit is the Divine Mother, a new and deeper interpretation of its passages can now enter into our heart.

 

While it is true that historically the Bible when translated into English, typically treats the Holy Spirit as either a male pronoun or interprets it as a noun without any specific gender designation, this doesn't necessarily mean that it is literally or symbolically correct and may be more in keeping within the conventions of those that translated ancient scripture from Hebrew or Greek in the first place.  The fact of the matter is that for some select scholars, the Holy Spirit has been translated as being in the feminine pronoun and they based that on their interpretations of ancient scripture which has taken into account the language and the time period of which the writings were originally made.

 

Rather though, than having a great debate about the Holy Spirit and its most appropriate connotation, it is of far greater merit and usage, to understand that the Holy Spirit is there ultimately for our benefit.  I do believe that if more people were to see the Holy Spirit as being more akin to the Divine Mother, that more people would therefore have a better appreciation of the Holy Trinity as a whole, and would find this to be quite comforting. 

 

Each one of us here on earth, has a mother, or we would not be here; therefore, it would not be any stretch of the imagination, to conceive that each one of us also has a Divine Mother, that cares for us, nurtures us, consoles us, and envelopes us, much like a Divine Spirit.