A Father's Day thought
On the masculine and the feminine.
This Sunday is Father's Day. It got me thinking about the concepts of fatherhood, motherhood, the masculine, and the feminine inspired by Neville Goddard's Feeling is the Secret (available in PDF).
According to Goddard, the Bible is a metaphor for human states of consciousness. Whatever is said in the Bible about man and woman, bride and groom, has nothing to do with rules of behavior or "proper" gender roles, but about the masculine and feminine characteristics within each of us. Our active side and passive side. Our conscious mind and the subconscious.
The masculine says the word, the feminine does the deed. For instance, the architect is masculine, the builder is feminine. That is, the builder does the will of the architect, but the architect trusts the builder and doesn’t control the details.
In government, the legislative branch is masculine, the executive is feminine. Meaning (in theory at least), Congress expresses the will of the people through legislation, and the President enforces the laws and administers the programs without Congress sweating the details.
An aspiring father can do very little in the formation of the child aside from actively "planting the seed." The mother receives the seed and then the formation of the child is entirely within her. The manifestation of the child may be the will of the father, but he has no control of events that lead to birth.
Generally speaking, what the masculine thinks, the feminine manifests. Again, this has nothing to do with how male and female relationships ought to be. It isn't about women being subservient to men. It's about the relationship of the conscious to the subconscious within each of us.
What the conscious mind imprints on the subconscious is what the subconscious will bring into reality. It's like data being fed into the computer; if you don't like the results of the computer's calculations, it isn’t the computer's fault. Maybe you gave it the wrong data. And it's not the fault of the subconscious if it is being fed pessimistic thoughts or sad feelings; it will manifest more of the same.
Optimistic thoughts and joyful feelings, however, will deliver more joy and more optimism.
For instance, when you're defeatist, you might see a door “see” that it's closed shut, so you move on. When you're optimistic, however, the idea will pop in your head that there’s no harm in knocking. As you approach the door, you perceive that the door isn't really shut, it's open by a crack, and you may enter.
As Goddard says, "Be careful of your moods and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world."
A father can't abuse the mother of his child yet expect the child to be healthy and happy. Likewise, we can't feed our subconscious mind with pessimistic thoughts and feelings of worry and regret, yet expect to manifest the life we want.
A good father loves the mother and child. To live the life you want, you must love yourself.
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