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“We can choose courage or we can choose
comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the
same time.”
Brene Brown, PhD
Creating Balance with the Divine Feminine
Creating
Balance by
Integrating the
Divine
Feminine
The fact is that there has
been a long history of the
battle of the sexes –
patriarchy and matriarchy.
And often for good reasons.
But in Zion, I believe that the
masculine and feminine is
balanced.
We can create balance by
integrating the divine
feminine —
“Make whole”
Creating is a godly quality. The Gods create – it’s the first sentence in Genesis:
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
“And then the Lord said: Let us go down. And they went down at the beginning,
and they, that is the Gods, organized and formed the heavens and the earth.”
“So the Gods went down to organize man in their own image, in the image of the
Gods to form they him, male and female to form they them.” (Abraham 4:27)
The divine feminine is hidden in
most ancient records -- not to
protect her, but through the
manipulation of texts to obscure
her importance. This will be
reversed in Zion.
“The closest a woman deity comes to speaking and
displaying complex agency in the Bible is in Proverbs 1-
9, which presents the figure of Wisdom (hokma),
remarkable for her unabashedly female voice and her
disruption of roles.”
(Crawford, p. 14)
“In Proverbs 3:19-20 she is the means by which Yahweh
created the world, and likewise chapter 8 speaks to the role of
(“Lady”) Wisdom in creation:
‘The LORD acquired me at the beginning of his work/the first of
his acts of long ago,/Ages ago I was poured out/at the first,
before the beginning of the earth’ (8:22-23)
And further, ‘when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
then I was beside him, like a master worker’ (8:29-30 NRSV)
(Crawford)
This creative aspect of Lady Wisdom may be connected
with the (grammatically feminine) spirit (rûªḥ ʾĕlōhîm) in
Gen 1:2 that moves on the face of the waters.
(Crawford)
Genesis 1:2
And the earth was without form, and void; and
darkness was upon the face of the deep. And
the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the
waters.
And the earth, after it was formed, was empty and desolate,
because they had not formed anything but the earth; and
darkness reigned upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of the
Gods was brooding upon the face of the waters.” Abraham 4: 1-2
BROOD:
1. To sit on and cover, as a fowl on her
eggs for the purpose of warming them
and hatching chickens, or as a hen
over her chickens, to warm and protect
them.
2. To sit on; to spread over, as with
wings; as, to sit brooding over the vast
abyss.
swallows the God Re (the Sun) every evening, and bears him aga
(Nut Chapel, Dendera, Egypt.)
Goddess Nut
"O my Mother Nut, stretch Yourself over me, that I may be placed among the
imperishable stars which are in You, and that I may not die." Nut was thought to draw the
dead into her star-filled sky, and refresh them with food and wine: "I am Nut, and I have
come so that I may enfold and protect you from all things evil."
Isaiah calls those who serve as proxy saviors “foster fathers”
and “nursing mothers.” These minister to lower levels, acting as
kings and queens first in a spiritual sense – by ministering
salvation to God’s people – and second in a political sense, in
the millennial age.
Each gender is unique and indispensible; neither duplicates the
other. People often depict a woman’s role in terms of the phases
of the moon. Much of it such as nurturing and extending comfort,
is hidden and unseen.
A man’s role resembles the phases of the sun. In his descent he
dies so that he might rise again and beget new life. Reflecting
that idea, ancient Near Eastern kings were called the “sun” of
their peoples.
(Gileadi, Isaiah Decoded, p. 203)
“The first embrace, the
aspasmos, is that which the
mother of life gave to the first
man as he separated himself
from her in order to come
down to the earth to be
tested. She wishes him luck
and hopes he will be able to
carry on, covers him with
love, etc. as they embrace, as
he separates in order to come
down to the earth for testing.
[When he returns] He comes
to the gate finally …The first
person to embrace him was
the last person to embrace
him as he left. It was his
Heavenly Mother.”
(Hugh Nibley,Lecture 4, Pearl of Great Price)
Adolphe Jourdan (1825-1889) A Mother's Embrace.
As early as 1839, Joseph Smith
told Zina Diantha Huntington that
she would see her recently
deceased mother again on the
other side of the veil, and “more
than that, you will meet and
become acquainted with your
eternal Mother, the wife of your
Father in Heaven.”
When Zina in astonishment asked
‘And have I then a Mother in
Heaven?’
The Prophet replied, ‘You
assuredly have. How could a
Father claim His title unless there
were also a Mother to share that
parenthood?’
(Susa Young Gates as quoted in Do We Have A Mother in Heaven? Kevin
Barney)
Eve Creates
Balance as the Divine
Feminine
Adam and Eve “came on
purpose to fall. They fell
‘that man might be; and
man is, that he ‘might
have joy’. They ate of the
tree of mortal life, partook
of the elements of this
earth that they might
again become mortal for
their children’s sake.
They fell that another
world might have a
probation, redemption
and resurrection.”
(The Women of Mormondom, p. 180)
“God becomes as we are, that we may be as he is.”
(William Blake, Natural Religion)
According to the Gospel of Philip
and the Apocalypse of Adam –
“Adam and Eve were united in
celestial union before the creation
of the world, but upon descending
to the earth, became separated,
with death entering into the scene.
Christ came to earth ‘for the
express purpose of bringing them
together in eternal life. Thanks to
him those who are united in the
Bridal Chamber will never more be
separated.’”
(Nibley, p. 104)
And who wants to upset this
balance – Satan. And so we have a
continual battle of the sexes so to
speak – matriarchy vs patriarchy in
this telestial kingdom.
Adam and Eve
“The perfect and
beautiful union of
Adam and Eve
excited the envy
and jealousy of the
Evil One, who made
it his prime
objective to break it
up. He began by
making both parties
self-conscious and
uncomfortable…
• "Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve" — William Blake
(1757-1827); William Blake's illustrations of "Paradise Lost", 1808.
“Ho, ho,”said he, “you are
naked. You had better run and
hide, or at least put something
on. How do you think you look
to your Father?”
They had reason to be
ashamed, because their
nakedness betrayed their
disobedience. They had eaten
of the forbidden fruit.
But Satan wanted to shock
them with his pious show of
prudish alarm—he had made
them ashamed of being seen
together, and that was one
wedge driven between them.”
(Hugh Nibley, Old Testament and Related Studies,p. 88)
“The woman thou gavest
me and commanded
that she should stay with
me: she gave me the
fruit and I did eat.” She
led, he followed. Adam
comes to her defence –
“you commanded her to
stay with me, what else
could she do but take
me along with her?”
(Nibley, p. 92)
Curses
“God puts a curse upon both
Adam and Eve (and the Serpent
for that matter). Adam is cursed
to toil and bring forth food by the
sweat of his brow, and
“Eve’s curse consists of three
parts:
• her birth pains will be severe,
• she will desire her husband,
and
• he will rule over her.”
(Crawford)
Brigham Young and early LDS
women, believed that the curse
would one day be lifted.
In the blessing that Emma wrote out for herself (because Joseph asked her to do it,
as he was being taken to Carthage jail) – Emma pleads, “I ask, my Heavenly
Father that through humility, I may be enabled to overcome the curse which was
pronounced upon the daughters of Eve.”
In 1907, Emmeline Wells said, “We believe in redemption from the curse placed
upon woman. If you ask why we tell you it is a part of our religion and we are
working to bring it to pass.”
(Boyd Jay Petersen, p. 163, Eve in the woman’s Exponent)
The Curse on both Adam and Eve may be removed when Zion is built – when the curse
on the land will be removed: D&C 61:16-17:
And it shall be said in days to come that none is able to go up to the land of Zion upon
the waters, but he that is upright in heart.
And, as I, the Lord, in the beginning cursed the land, even so in the last days have
I blessed it, in its time, for the use of my saints, that they may partake the fatness thereof.
No patriarchy or matriarchy in the garden or in Zion
– they work together. “-archy” means always to be
first in order, to be number One.
(Nibley)
Sarah Creates
Balance as the Divine
Feminine
Sarai leaves Haran with the
souls that she and Abram
had gathered converted.
“And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot
his brother’s son, and all their substance
that they had gathered, and the souls
that they had gotten in Haran; and they
went forth to go into the land of Canaan;”
(Genesis 12)
“And the souls that they had gotten in
Haran” refers to the proselytes:
Abraham converted the men and Sarah
the women.
(Jewish traditions from the Midrash
Rabbah )
(Traditions About the Early Life of Abraham, compiled by John
Tvedtnes, Brian Hauglid, John Gee p. 102)
“And I, Abram, dreamed a
dream during the night of my
entering the land of Egypt. I
saw in my dream one cedar
tree and one palm tree, [a
very beautifu]l one, and
huma[n] figures came and
tried to chop down and uproot
the cedar in order to leave the
palm by itself. But the palm
restrained (them) when she
said, ‘Do not chop down the
cedar, for both of us are from
o[ne r]oot!’ And the cedar was
left alone thanks to the
protection of the palm and
was not [chopped down].”
(Genesis Apocrophon)
I woke up from my dream in the night, and said to Sarai, my wife, ‘I have (just) dreamed a dream, [and
I] am afraid [on account of] this dream!’ And she said to me, ‘Tell me your dream that I might know (it),
and so I began to relate this dream to her. [And I revealed] to [her the meaning of that] dream, and I
[said, ‘… …] for they will seek to kill me, but you they will spare [… …] this, every favor [do for me] in
every where [we are, say] of me that “he is my brother,” and I will remain alive by your protection and
survive thanks to you.’ [… … ‘they will try] to remove you from me and to kill me!’
And Sarai wept over my words that night. [… … … …] and Pharaoh Z[oan … … …] Sarai to go to
Zoan [with me, for she was v]ery [careful] with her person so that no [one] would see her […]. But after
those five years, three men who were princes of Egypt [came … …] of Pharaoh Zoa[n] about my
affairs and about my wife, and they presented [me numerous gifts and aske]d m[e to teach them]
values, wisdom, and truth. So I read in their presence the the words of [En]och
https://clas-pages.uncc.edu/john-reeves/course-materials/rels-2104-hebrew-scripturesold-testament/translation-of-1q-genesis-apocryphon/
Abram’s Counsel to Sarai (watercolor circa 1896–1902 by
James Tissot)
“Three agents reported to Pharaoh
‘singing the praises of Sarah’s
beauty…mentioning that ‘with all her
beauty there is much wisdom in her’
(G.A. XX7) lauding her ‘goodness,
wisdom, and truth’ even above her
other qualities… Her beauty had
already caused a sensation at the
customs house, according to a famous
legend of the Midrash. If nothing else
her blondness would have attracted
attention among the Egyptians.
Pharaoh sought the hand of Sarah
[Sarai], the true princess, in order to
raise up a royal progeny by her. Upon
a royal bed identical in form with the
[royal] altar…, she too prayed for
deliverance and was rescued by an
angel…”
(Nibley, ERA, Apr 1970)
Divine feminine
The Lord commanded Abraham – to ask his wife for this.
But Abraham did not command Sarah. No one
commanded Sarah – the whole thing is left up to her as a
matter of choice. It is she alone that is being tested on
the lion couch. He explained the situation to her and it
was her choice to do this. And he did not like the idea at
all – “And I wept, I Abram, with grievous weeping” (GA)
According to the Midrash,”Abraham made himself of
secondary importance…he really became subordinate to
Sarah.” (Midr Rab 40:4) Everything was done for her
sake: “the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great
plagues because of Sarah”
(Nibley)
At God’s command, Abraham humbled himself to ask Sarah as a favor to
declare herself to be his sister, eligible to marry another and thus save his
life. This is only part of the deference that Abraham had to make to his wife,
and it left no place for his male pride.
Sarah, on the other hand, with equal humility, went to Abraham confessing
God’s hand in her childlessness and actually begging him to have children
by another woman. Can one imagine a greater test of her pride?”
(Nibley)
Sarah
And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from
bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by
her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
And Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had
dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to
be his wife. (Genesis 16)
“And Abraham journeyed…and sojourned in Gerar. And Abraham
said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar
sent, and took Sarah.
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him,
Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast
taken; for she is a man’s wife. But Abimelech had not come near her:
and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?”
(Genesis 20)
Everything indicates that Sarah was a princess in her own right – they
wanted to raise a royal lineage thru her. Sarai means “Princess of her
own people” according to the Midrash, and Sarah means ”princess of
all people” and before she ever married Abraham she was well-
known by the name of Jiska, “the Seeress” either because she had
the gift of prophecy or because of her shining beauty or both”
(Nibley)
“Abraham and Sarah kept the whole law … not by compulsion
but with delight” (Midrash)
Why is it we never hear of the God of Sarah Rebecca and
Rachel, but only the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?
The answer is given in Abrham 2:22-25, where Abraham
obeys a direct command from God, though he is free to reject
it if he will, while Sarah receives it as the law of her husband,
being likewise under no compulsion. It is indeed the God of
Sarah, Rebecca, and Rachel to whom they pray directly, but
they covenant with him through their husbands. – when the
man and woman are joined together and are called by one
name, then the celestial favor rests upon them…
(Nibley)
It is an example of the vassal king relationship
and protection covenant. Abraham keeps the
law of God, and Sarah chooses to keep
Abraham’s request. They both are delivered.
Sarah delivers Abraham from death by the
Pharaoh, and then Sarah is delivered from
creating a new lineage with Pharaoh when the
angel of the Lord comes to her rescue – at the
request of not only Sarah, but Abraham.
Together they save each other through their
difficult trials.
Hannah
“Hannah’s role is probably most strongly confirmed by the
deliberate manipulation of the Hebrew texts concerning her
activity.
The Hebrew text of the books of Samuel is notoriously corrupt,
with the witnesses of the Septuagint (LXX) and Dead Sea Scrolls
(4Q51=4QSamuela) providing strong evidence of such.
Some of the textual corruption is clearly accidental, but some
appears to be the result of one or more scribes taking strong issue
with the implication that Hannah exercised priestly agency.”
(Crawford)
9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in
Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the
priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple
of the Lord.
10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and
prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore.
11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O Lord of
hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction
of thine handmaid, and remember me, and
not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto
thine handmaid a man child, then I will give
him unto the Lord all the days of his life…
12 And it came to pass, as she continued
praying before the Lord, that Eli marked her
mouth.
13 Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only
her lips moved, but her voice was not heard:
therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
14 And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou
be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my
lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I
have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but
have poured out my soul before the Lord.
(1 Samuel 1)
(Walters manuscript W.106, circa 1250)
“Hannah had authoritative agency: naming, vowing, sacrificing, dedicating… Rather
than circumscribing Hannah’s power, maternity leads her to exercise authority in
reference to her existence as a woman. Her example provides a foundation for
imagining female priesthood power in a way that does not collapse gender
difference.”
(Crawford)
In the Masoretic (Hebrew)
text (MT), on which virtually
all modern translations are
based, the line in 1 Sam 1:23
that originally read,
• “Only, may the Lord
establish that which goes
out of your [Hannah’s]
mouth,” as it is in LXX and
4QSama, the text was
changed to “Only, may the
Lord establish his word.”
(Crawford)
MT has removed three
notices about Hannah
in the presence of the
Lord (1 Sam 1:9, 14,
18) and added the
clause to verse 9 that
she had been drinking.
• “In verse 18 LXX, Hannah
leaves Eli and goes to her
quarters connected to the
Temple to have a ritual meal
with Elkanah. Donald Parry
points out that these quarters
(liškâ in Hebrew) are otherwise
only connected to males,
including priests and Levites;
this was probably omitted
deliberately from MT.
• Hannah probably originally also
said in 1:8, “here am I” (so
LXX), as only males do
elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible
(including, famously, her son),
and overwhelmingly in contexts
of divine apparition.”
(Crawford)
Eliza R. Snow
But where was woman, ‘when the morning stars sang together, and
the sons of God shouted for joy?’ (Job 38)
Where was Zion? Where the bride? Where was woman?
Not yet created; taken afterwards from the rib of Adam; of the earth, not
of heaven; created for Adam’s glory, that he might rule over her.
So said not Joseph [Smith.]
Joseph was gifted with wonderful memories of the “eternities past.” He
had not forgotten woman. He knew Eve, and the he remembered Zion.
He restored woman to her place among the Gods, where her primeval
Genesis is written.
Woman was among the morning stars, when they sang together for joy,
at the laying of the foundations of the earth.
In the temple, both of heavens and the earth, woman is found. She is
there in her character of Eve, and in her character of Zion. The one is
the type of the earth, the other the type of heaven; the one the
mystical name of the mortal, the other of the celestial woman.
The Mormon prophet rectifies the divine drama. Man is nowhere where
woman is not. Mormonism has restored woman to her pinnacle.
Presently woman herself shall sing of her divine origin. A high priestess
of the faith shall interpret the themes of herself and of her Father-and-
Mother God!
(The Women of Mormondom, p. 176 -177)
Dec 16, 1857 WW wrote a letter to Miss E.
R. Snow:
– “Many an hour has Joseph spent in
gloom and sorrow because of Fals
Brethren and wicked men. Even the hearts
of the saint were so barred by fals tradition
that He could not unbosom his soul in the
House of His Friends. This caused him
pain. Then thou dist comfort him. Thy
friendly thoughts and acts and words
inspired by Gods Eternal truth was like a
flaming shaft. Thou launch by a female
hand, that hand was nerved by faith and
power that it pierced the walls of Darkness
fear and death and gave the Prophet
Joy…Thou hast been a true friend and
comforted the heart of Joseph, Hiram,
Brigham, Heber, Willard, Jedediah, Thy
Brother Lorenzo and thousands of the
saints. I need not name them. Thy words
and testimony will live and speak in flames
of Holy fire to inspire and hearts of
Prophets apostles and holy men of god to
noble deeds, …God bless thee noble
muse.”
(Waiting for World’s End, p. 209 -210)
Phoebe Woodruff
“1854 Feb 3 – As my son Wilford (age 13) was to commence this morning to begin to officiate in
the priests office by going through the ward to visit the house of each member in company with
Brother Ross in the capacity of teachers I called my family together for the purpose of Prayer
and Dedicating my son unto the Lord. His father and mother laid hands upon his head and
Dedicated him unto the Lord.
The following is a copy of the Blessing bestowed upon his head:… Wilford in the name of Jesus
Christ and by virtue of the Holy Priesthood I lay my hands upon your head and seal upon your
head a Fathers blessing and seal upon you the priesthood of Aaron which you have received
and also to dedicate you unto God…”
(From the journal of Wilford Woodruff, in Waiting for World’s End, p. 159-160)
(Image: ca1850, Wilford and Phoebe, about age 41 or 42)
The 144,000
“Among the 144,000 were
men and women. Our
powers were equal. There
was no difference. Women
were High Priestesses, and
men were High Priests, and
we worked side by side.”
(Visions of Glory)
Brene Brown, Phd. Daring Greatly
You may not have signed up for a hero’s
journey, but the second you fell down,
…suffered a disappointment, …[messed] up, or
felt your heart break, it started. It doesn’t matter
whether we are ready for an emotional
adventure— hurt happens. And it happens to
every single one of us. Without exception. The
only decision we get to make is what role we’ll
play in our own lives: Do we want to write the
story or do we want to hand that power over to
someone else? Choosing to write our own story
means getting uncomfortable; it’s choosing
courage over comfort.
“There was a beautiful consistency and a deep mystical meaning in the words of the
old Jewish prophets when personifying Zion as the woman—the woman of the Lord’s
choosing, for the earth’s joy”
(Women of Mormondom)
Revelation 12—
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the
first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of
heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of
God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people,
and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no
more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for
the former things are passed away.
“Man is about to take on the nature of God…For according to Blake’s radical reading
of the Gospel,…Man himself — not merely Jesus, but every man and woman — is
potentially endowed with divine glory and even divine power…(H. Fisch, Presence)
(Image: The Lord Answers Job from the Whirlwind, 1826 William Blake)
© Copyright 2016 Deila Taylor

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Divine feminine

  • 1. “We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time.” Brene Brown, PhD Creating Balance with the Divine Feminine
  • 3. The fact is that there has been a long history of the battle of the sexes – patriarchy and matriarchy. And often for good reasons. But in Zion, I believe that the masculine and feminine is balanced. We can create balance by integrating the divine feminine — “Make whole”
  • 4. Creating is a godly quality. The Gods create – it’s the first sentence in Genesis: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” “And then the Lord said: Let us go down. And they went down at the beginning, and they, that is the Gods, organized and formed the heavens and the earth.” “So the Gods went down to organize man in their own image, in the image of the Gods to form they him, male and female to form they them.” (Abraham 4:27)
  • 5. The divine feminine is hidden in most ancient records -- not to protect her, but through the manipulation of texts to obscure her importance. This will be reversed in Zion.
  • 6. “The closest a woman deity comes to speaking and displaying complex agency in the Bible is in Proverbs 1- 9, which presents the figure of Wisdom (hokma), remarkable for her unabashedly female voice and her disruption of roles.” (Crawford, p. 14)
  • 7. “In Proverbs 3:19-20 she is the means by which Yahweh created the world, and likewise chapter 8 speaks to the role of (“Lady”) Wisdom in creation: ‘The LORD acquired me at the beginning of his work/the first of his acts of long ago,/Ages ago I was poured out/at the first, before the beginning of the earth’ (8:22-23) And further, ‘when he marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was beside him, like a master worker’ (8:29-30 NRSV) (Crawford)
  • 8. This creative aspect of Lady Wisdom may be connected with the (grammatically feminine) spirit (rûªḥ ʾĕlōhîm) in Gen 1:2 that moves on the face of the waters. (Crawford)
  • 9. Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
  • 10. And the earth, after it was formed, was empty and desolate, because they had not formed anything but the earth; and darkness reigned upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of the Gods was brooding upon the face of the waters.” Abraham 4: 1-2
  • 11. BROOD: 1. To sit on and cover, as a fowl on her eggs for the purpose of warming them and hatching chickens, or as a hen over her chickens, to warm and protect them. 2. To sit on; to spread over, as with wings; as, to sit brooding over the vast abyss.
  • 12. swallows the God Re (the Sun) every evening, and bears him aga (Nut Chapel, Dendera, Egypt.)
  • 13. Goddess Nut "O my Mother Nut, stretch Yourself over me, that I may be placed among the imperishable stars which are in You, and that I may not die." Nut was thought to draw the dead into her star-filled sky, and refresh them with food and wine: "I am Nut, and I have come so that I may enfold and protect you from all things evil."
  • 14. Isaiah calls those who serve as proxy saviors “foster fathers” and “nursing mothers.” These minister to lower levels, acting as kings and queens first in a spiritual sense – by ministering salvation to God’s people – and second in a political sense, in the millennial age. Each gender is unique and indispensible; neither duplicates the other. People often depict a woman’s role in terms of the phases of the moon. Much of it such as nurturing and extending comfort, is hidden and unseen. A man’s role resembles the phases of the sun. In his descent he dies so that he might rise again and beget new life. Reflecting that idea, ancient Near Eastern kings were called the “sun” of their peoples. (Gileadi, Isaiah Decoded, p. 203)
  • 15. “The first embrace, the aspasmos, is that which the mother of life gave to the first man as he separated himself from her in order to come down to the earth to be tested. She wishes him luck and hopes he will be able to carry on, covers him with love, etc. as they embrace, as he separates in order to come down to the earth for testing. [When he returns] He comes to the gate finally …The first person to embrace him was the last person to embrace him as he left. It was his Heavenly Mother.” (Hugh Nibley,Lecture 4, Pearl of Great Price) Adolphe Jourdan (1825-1889) A Mother's Embrace.
  • 16. As early as 1839, Joseph Smith told Zina Diantha Huntington that she would see her recently deceased mother again on the other side of the veil, and “more than that, you will meet and become acquainted with your eternal Mother, the wife of your Father in Heaven.” When Zina in astonishment asked ‘And have I then a Mother in Heaven?’ The Prophet replied, ‘You assuredly have. How could a Father claim His title unless there were also a Mother to share that parenthood?’ (Susa Young Gates as quoted in Do We Have A Mother in Heaven? Kevin Barney)
  • 17. Eve Creates Balance as the Divine Feminine
  • 18. Adam and Eve “came on purpose to fall. They fell ‘that man might be; and man is, that he ‘might have joy’. They ate of the tree of mortal life, partook of the elements of this earth that they might again become mortal for their children’s sake. They fell that another world might have a probation, redemption and resurrection.” (The Women of Mormondom, p. 180)
  • 19. “God becomes as we are, that we may be as he is.” (William Blake, Natural Religion)
  • 20. According to the Gospel of Philip and the Apocalypse of Adam – “Adam and Eve were united in celestial union before the creation of the world, but upon descending to the earth, became separated, with death entering into the scene. Christ came to earth ‘for the express purpose of bringing them together in eternal life. Thanks to him those who are united in the Bridal Chamber will never more be separated.’” (Nibley, p. 104) And who wants to upset this balance – Satan. And so we have a continual battle of the sexes so to speak – matriarchy vs patriarchy in this telestial kingdom.
  • 21. Adam and Eve “The perfect and beautiful union of Adam and Eve excited the envy and jealousy of the Evil One, who made it his prime objective to break it up. He began by making both parties self-conscious and uncomfortable… • "Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve" — William Blake (1757-1827); William Blake's illustrations of "Paradise Lost", 1808.
  • 22. “Ho, ho,”said he, “you are naked. You had better run and hide, or at least put something on. How do you think you look to your Father?” They had reason to be ashamed, because their nakedness betrayed their disobedience. They had eaten of the forbidden fruit. But Satan wanted to shock them with his pious show of prudish alarm—he had made them ashamed of being seen together, and that was one wedge driven between them.” (Hugh Nibley, Old Testament and Related Studies,p. 88)
  • 23. “The woman thou gavest me and commanded that she should stay with me: she gave me the fruit and I did eat.” She led, he followed. Adam comes to her defence – “you commanded her to stay with me, what else could she do but take me along with her?” (Nibley, p. 92)
  • 24. Curses “God puts a curse upon both Adam and Eve (and the Serpent for that matter). Adam is cursed to toil and bring forth food by the sweat of his brow, and “Eve’s curse consists of three parts: • her birth pains will be severe, • she will desire her husband, and • he will rule over her.” (Crawford) Brigham Young and early LDS women, believed that the curse would one day be lifted.
  • 25. In the blessing that Emma wrote out for herself (because Joseph asked her to do it, as he was being taken to Carthage jail) – Emma pleads, “I ask, my Heavenly Father that through humility, I may be enabled to overcome the curse which was pronounced upon the daughters of Eve.” In 1907, Emmeline Wells said, “We believe in redemption from the curse placed upon woman. If you ask why we tell you it is a part of our religion and we are working to bring it to pass.” (Boyd Jay Petersen, p. 163, Eve in the woman’s Exponent)
  • 26. The Curse on both Adam and Eve may be removed when Zion is built – when the curse on the land will be removed: D&C 61:16-17: And it shall be said in days to come that none is able to go up to the land of Zion upon the waters, but he that is upright in heart. And, as I, the Lord, in the beginning cursed the land, even so in the last days have I blessed it, in its time, for the use of my saints, that they may partake the fatness thereof.
  • 27. No patriarchy or matriarchy in the garden or in Zion – they work together. “-archy” means always to be first in order, to be number One. (Nibley)
  • 28. Sarah Creates Balance as the Divine Feminine
  • 29. Sarai leaves Haran with the souls that she and Abram had gathered converted. “And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan;” (Genesis 12) “And the souls that they had gotten in Haran” refers to the proselytes: Abraham converted the men and Sarah the women. (Jewish traditions from the Midrash Rabbah ) (Traditions About the Early Life of Abraham, compiled by John Tvedtnes, Brian Hauglid, John Gee p. 102)
  • 30. “And I, Abram, dreamed a dream during the night of my entering the land of Egypt. I saw in my dream one cedar tree and one palm tree, [a very beautifu]l one, and huma[n] figures came and tried to chop down and uproot the cedar in order to leave the palm by itself. But the palm restrained (them) when she said, ‘Do not chop down the cedar, for both of us are from o[ne r]oot!’ And the cedar was left alone thanks to the protection of the palm and was not [chopped down].” (Genesis Apocrophon)
  • 31. I woke up from my dream in the night, and said to Sarai, my wife, ‘I have (just) dreamed a dream, [and I] am afraid [on account of] this dream!’ And she said to me, ‘Tell me your dream that I might know (it), and so I began to relate this dream to her. [And I revealed] to [her the meaning of that] dream, and I [said, ‘… …] for they will seek to kill me, but you they will spare [… …] this, every favor [do for me] in every where [we are, say] of me that “he is my brother,” and I will remain alive by your protection and survive thanks to you.’ [… … ‘they will try] to remove you from me and to kill me!’ And Sarai wept over my words that night. [… … … …] and Pharaoh Z[oan … … …] Sarai to go to Zoan [with me, for she was v]ery [careful] with her person so that no [one] would see her […]. But after those five years, three men who were princes of Egypt [came … …] of Pharaoh Zoa[n] about my affairs and about my wife, and they presented [me numerous gifts and aske]d m[e to teach them] values, wisdom, and truth. So I read in their presence the the words of [En]och https://clas-pages.uncc.edu/john-reeves/course-materials/rels-2104-hebrew-scripturesold-testament/translation-of-1q-genesis-apocryphon/ Abram’s Counsel to Sarai (watercolor circa 1896–1902 by James Tissot)
  • 32. “Three agents reported to Pharaoh ‘singing the praises of Sarah’s beauty…mentioning that ‘with all her beauty there is much wisdom in her’ (G.A. XX7) lauding her ‘goodness, wisdom, and truth’ even above her other qualities… Her beauty had already caused a sensation at the customs house, according to a famous legend of the Midrash. If nothing else her blondness would have attracted attention among the Egyptians. Pharaoh sought the hand of Sarah [Sarai], the true princess, in order to raise up a royal progeny by her. Upon a royal bed identical in form with the [royal] altar…, she too prayed for deliverance and was rescued by an angel…” (Nibley, ERA, Apr 1970)
  • 34. The Lord commanded Abraham – to ask his wife for this. But Abraham did not command Sarah. No one commanded Sarah – the whole thing is left up to her as a matter of choice. It is she alone that is being tested on the lion couch. He explained the situation to her and it was her choice to do this. And he did not like the idea at all – “And I wept, I Abram, with grievous weeping” (GA)
  • 35. According to the Midrash,”Abraham made himself of secondary importance…he really became subordinate to Sarah.” (Midr Rab 40:4) Everything was done for her sake: “the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarah” (Nibley)
  • 36. At God’s command, Abraham humbled himself to ask Sarah as a favor to declare herself to be his sister, eligible to marry another and thus save his life. This is only part of the deference that Abraham had to make to his wife, and it left no place for his male pride. Sarah, on the other hand, with equal humility, went to Abraham confessing God’s hand in her childlessness and actually begging him to have children by another woman. Can one imagine a greater test of her pride?” (Nibley)
  • 37. Sarah And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. And Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. (Genesis 16)
  • 38. “And Abraham journeyed…and sojourned in Gerar. And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife. But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?” (Genesis 20)
  • 39. Everything indicates that Sarah was a princess in her own right – they wanted to raise a royal lineage thru her. Sarai means “Princess of her own people” according to the Midrash, and Sarah means ”princess of all people” and before she ever married Abraham she was well- known by the name of Jiska, “the Seeress” either because she had the gift of prophecy or because of her shining beauty or both” (Nibley)
  • 40. “Abraham and Sarah kept the whole law … not by compulsion but with delight” (Midrash) Why is it we never hear of the God of Sarah Rebecca and Rachel, but only the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob? The answer is given in Abrham 2:22-25, where Abraham obeys a direct command from God, though he is free to reject it if he will, while Sarah receives it as the law of her husband, being likewise under no compulsion. It is indeed the God of Sarah, Rebecca, and Rachel to whom they pray directly, but they covenant with him through their husbands. – when the man and woman are joined together and are called by one name, then the celestial favor rests upon them… (Nibley)
  • 41. It is an example of the vassal king relationship and protection covenant. Abraham keeps the law of God, and Sarah chooses to keep Abraham’s request. They both are delivered. Sarah delivers Abraham from death by the Pharaoh, and then Sarah is delivered from creating a new lineage with Pharaoh when the angel of the Lord comes to her rescue – at the request of not only Sarah, but Abraham. Together they save each other through their difficult trials.
  • 42. Hannah “Hannah’s role is probably most strongly confirmed by the deliberate manipulation of the Hebrew texts concerning her activity. The Hebrew text of the books of Samuel is notoriously corrupt, with the witnesses of the Septuagint (LXX) and Dead Sea Scrolls (4Q51=4QSamuela) providing strong evidence of such. Some of the textual corruption is clearly accidental, but some appears to be the result of one or more scribes taking strong issue with the implication that Hannah exercised priestly agency.” (Crawford)
  • 43. 9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the Lord. 10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore. 11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life… 12 And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the Lord, that Eli marked her mouth. 13 Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken. 14 And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee. 15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord. (1 Samuel 1) (Walters manuscript W.106, circa 1250)
  • 44. “Hannah had authoritative agency: naming, vowing, sacrificing, dedicating… Rather than circumscribing Hannah’s power, maternity leads her to exercise authority in reference to her existence as a woman. Her example provides a foundation for imagining female priesthood power in a way that does not collapse gender difference.” (Crawford)
  • 45. In the Masoretic (Hebrew) text (MT), on which virtually all modern translations are based, the line in 1 Sam 1:23 that originally read, • “Only, may the Lord establish that which goes out of your [Hannah’s] mouth,” as it is in LXX and 4QSama, the text was changed to “Only, may the Lord establish his word.” (Crawford) MT has removed three notices about Hannah in the presence of the Lord (1 Sam 1:9, 14, 18) and added the clause to verse 9 that she had been drinking.
  • 46. • “In verse 18 LXX, Hannah leaves Eli and goes to her quarters connected to the Temple to have a ritual meal with Elkanah. Donald Parry points out that these quarters (liškâ in Hebrew) are otherwise only connected to males, including priests and Levites; this was probably omitted deliberately from MT. • Hannah probably originally also said in 1:8, “here am I” (so LXX), as only males do elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible (including, famously, her son), and overwhelmingly in contexts of divine apparition.” (Crawford)
  • 48. But where was woman, ‘when the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy?’ (Job 38) Where was Zion? Where the bride? Where was woman? Not yet created; taken afterwards from the rib of Adam; of the earth, not of heaven; created for Adam’s glory, that he might rule over her. So said not Joseph [Smith.] Joseph was gifted with wonderful memories of the “eternities past.” He had not forgotten woman. He knew Eve, and the he remembered Zion. He restored woman to her place among the Gods, where her primeval Genesis is written. Woman was among the morning stars, when they sang together for joy, at the laying of the foundations of the earth. In the temple, both of heavens and the earth, woman is found. She is there in her character of Eve, and in her character of Zion. The one is the type of the earth, the other the type of heaven; the one the mystical name of the mortal, the other of the celestial woman. The Mormon prophet rectifies the divine drama. Man is nowhere where woman is not. Mormonism has restored woman to her pinnacle. Presently woman herself shall sing of her divine origin. A high priestess of the faith shall interpret the themes of herself and of her Father-and- Mother God! (The Women of Mormondom, p. 176 -177)
  • 49. Dec 16, 1857 WW wrote a letter to Miss E. R. Snow: – “Many an hour has Joseph spent in gloom and sorrow because of Fals Brethren and wicked men. Even the hearts of the saint were so barred by fals tradition that He could not unbosom his soul in the House of His Friends. This caused him pain. Then thou dist comfort him. Thy friendly thoughts and acts and words inspired by Gods Eternal truth was like a flaming shaft. Thou launch by a female hand, that hand was nerved by faith and power that it pierced the walls of Darkness fear and death and gave the Prophet Joy…Thou hast been a true friend and comforted the heart of Joseph, Hiram, Brigham, Heber, Willard, Jedediah, Thy Brother Lorenzo and thousands of the saints. I need not name them. Thy words and testimony will live and speak in flames of Holy fire to inspire and hearts of Prophets apostles and holy men of god to noble deeds, …God bless thee noble muse.” (Waiting for World’s End, p. 209 -210)
  • 51. “1854 Feb 3 – As my son Wilford (age 13) was to commence this morning to begin to officiate in the priests office by going through the ward to visit the house of each member in company with Brother Ross in the capacity of teachers I called my family together for the purpose of Prayer and Dedicating my son unto the Lord. His father and mother laid hands upon his head and Dedicated him unto the Lord. The following is a copy of the Blessing bestowed upon his head:… Wilford in the name of Jesus Christ and by virtue of the Holy Priesthood I lay my hands upon your head and seal upon your head a Fathers blessing and seal upon you the priesthood of Aaron which you have received and also to dedicate you unto God…” (From the journal of Wilford Woodruff, in Waiting for World’s End, p. 159-160) (Image: ca1850, Wilford and Phoebe, about age 41 or 42)
  • 52. The 144,000 “Among the 144,000 were men and women. Our powers were equal. There was no difference. Women were High Priestesses, and men were High Priests, and we worked side by side.” (Visions of Glory)
  • 53. Brene Brown, Phd. Daring Greatly You may not have signed up for a hero’s journey, but the second you fell down, …suffered a disappointment, …[messed] up, or felt your heart break, it started. It doesn’t matter whether we are ready for an emotional adventure— hurt happens. And it happens to every single one of us. Without exception. The only decision we get to make is what role we’ll play in our own lives: Do we want to write the story or do we want to hand that power over to someone else? Choosing to write our own story means getting uncomfortable; it’s choosing courage over comfort.
  • 54. “There was a beautiful consistency and a deep mystical meaning in the words of the old Jewish prophets when personifying Zion as the woman—the woman of the Lord’s choosing, for the earth’s joy” (Women of Mormondom) Revelation 12— 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
  • 55. “Man is about to take on the nature of God…For according to Blake’s radical reading of the Gospel,…Man himself — not merely Jesus, but every man and woman — is potentially endowed with divine glory and even divine power…(H. Fisch, Presence) (Image: The Lord Answers Job from the Whirlwind, 1826 William Blake)
  • 56. © Copyright 2016 Deila Taylor

Hinweis der Redaktion

  1. Creating Balance is what the gods (male and female) do – the earth is held in a delicate balance, even it’s location in the universe is carefully balanced – any closer to the sun and we wouldn’t be able to live here. All of nature thrives when in balance. And that includes the masculine and feminine. When we integrate the divine feminine – we bring in the concept of “wholeness” – Integrate means to combine with another to become whole – it is the state of being whole and undivided. The opposite is to separate. (remember -- integers are whole numbers, not fractions) If integrate means “to make whole,” then its opposite is to fracture, disown, disjoin, detach, unravel, or separate. Integrity also comes from this word, and when you have integrity you have wholeness -- the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness. the state of being whole and undivided.
  2. We can create balance by integrating the divine feminine — with the divine masculine our wholeness— depends on the integration of all of our experiences, including the falls. In fact, The Fall is part of the plan.
  3. It’s not a passive thing, this creating – and we all create – we find joy in creating things. We can create good things and unfortunately We can even destroy things. Which is the opposite of creating
  4. hock-ma Cory Crawford, Assistant Professor Classics & World Religions Ohio University Assistant Professor Classics & World Religions
  5. Re was believed to travel across the sky in his solar bark and, during the night, to make his passage in another bark through the underworld, where, in order to be born again for the new day, he had to vanquish the evil serpent Apopis (Apepi). Which is our proxy savior role — for men and women. Facsimile 2 in the book of abraham has the boat scene
  6. “The Pearl” The text of The Pearl is in Syriac and is found in the Acts of Thomas Judas, the Apostle; it is dated by W. Crum to the 1st century A.D. It was first translated into English by W. Wright in 1871. (Hugh Nibley, appendix III The Pearl) The situation: Thomas is confined in prison by order of the Indian King Mazdai and his wicked minister Karish, who accuse him of sorcery. “And whilst he was praying all those who were in the prison saw that he was praying and begged him to pray for them too. And when he had prayed and sat down, Judas began to chant this hymn” “In my first primeval childhood I was nurtured in the royal house of my father with loving care in the midst of abundance and glory. My parents sent me forth from my home in the East, the source of light, supplied with all necessities.” So he come down to earth to get the pearl and bring it back with him. The pearl is the integrity which he preserves during the trials and tests of this life so he can continue hereafter to be a member of the royal family and assume his throne and crown above. “They removed from me the garment of light, which they had made for me in love. And my purple robe made exactly to fit me. And they made a Covenant with me, and wrote in my heart, lest I go astray.”
  7. Many born were gods before — Adam and Eve, Christ, probably his mother Mary, and others, chose to fall to serve.
  8. Satan gets Eve to eat the fruit – he successfully puts a wedge in between her and Adam -- she was now separated from Adam – she had become mortal and Adam was still of a higher glory. But Eve outwits the serpent when she reminds Adam that they are supposed to stay together – to multiply and replenish the earth. Adam then had a choice – to remain the lone man in the garden, or join Eve in keeping the commandment to multiply and replenish the earth. She convinces Adam to Fall too.
  9. Rachel and Brigham – One time, we had to leave my two kids at home for an emergency situation – My daughter was about 10 and my son was about 7 – I told them to stay in the house and do not go out front. I would return quickly. Upon my return, When I drove up to the house, I found them both out front – and running quickly for the front door. I asked my son, “why did you go out front? He replied that his sister told him that he had to go with her, because he was supposed to stay with her!
  10. We may not remember making the choice to fall, but obviously we did or we would not be here. What do we Fall from? When you fall, according to the laws of this earth, gravity takes over. My husband likes to show the grandkids this concept by rolling something downhill, and saying “gravity” – We fall from a higher place to a lower place – I believe there are many noble and great ones who had a higher glory before falling to earth. Adam and Eve, Jesus Christ, his mother, Mary, Abraham and Sarah, Joseph Smith and others I believe had a higher glory already. Anyone who chose to fall from this higher glory was confident that Jesus Christ would fulfill his calling so that we could return to our previous glory, and add to it. We chose to fall from that glory to bring about immortality to others. Just as Father Adam and Mother Eve chose to fall to provide for others.
  11. Genesis 12: Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran
  12. The Story of how Sarah ended up in the royal palace of Pharoah is found in the Genesis Apocryphon (one of the original seven Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in Cave 1 near Qumran)
  13. Sarai is 65 years old angel appeared with a sword to save Sarai
  14. “The prayer for deliverance closely matches that on the first lion-couch: ‘Blessed art thou, Most High God, Lord of all the worlds, because Thou art Lord and Master of all and ruler of all the kings of the earth, and of whom thou judgest. Behold now I cry before Thee, My Lord against Pharaoh-Zoan, King of Egypt, because my wife has been taken from me by force. Judge him for me and let me behold Thy mighty hand descend upon him…’ “So all that night Sarah lay upon her face calling upon God, Abraham also prayed ‘that he may not this night defile my wife.’ It was as one might by now expect, just at the moment that Pharaoh assayed to seize Sarah that an angel came to the rescue, whip in hand: ‘As Pharaoh was about to possess Sarah, she turned to the angel who stood at her side (visible only to her) and immediately Pharaoh fell to the ground; all his house was then smitten with plague, with leprosy on the wall, the pillars, and furniture…’ Whenever Pharaoh would make a move toward Sarah, the invisible angel would strike him down.
  15. The royal reaction was immediate… ‘Sarah was taken from me by force…’ without further ado, the king ‘took her to him to wife and sought to slay me.’ But as we all know, Abraham was saved when Sarah assured Pharaoh that Abraham was her brother and would not thus stand in the way of their marriage; instead of being killed, he was therefore saved. So, Abraham’s life is saved, the Pharaoh is happy and Sarah is faced with a trial. Now she is faced with the Lion couch – the royal altar and the royal bed were a lion couch. (Abraham had been saved on the Lion altar) Now it was Sarah’s turn. The Genesis Apcor says that Sarah lived two years in Pharaohs house, during which time he was unable to approach her. During that tie she was in no danger of his wrath, however, since as far as Pharaoh was concerned, it was not her reluctance buy only his illness that kept them apart.
  16. You would think that once is enough, but again, Sarah plays the role of sister instead of wife to Abraham when they meet up with King Abimilech. Many years later, Abimelech, king of Gerar, a small state lying between Canaan and Egypt took Sarah to wife and would have put Abraham to death had she not again said that she was his sister. Again Sarah prayed and again an angel appeared this time with a sword, to save her. Again, the King had to call upon Abraham to be healed, because the the king had become so ill he the doctors believed he would die. Abraham emigrating to the southern region of Gerar, whose king is named Abimelech. (Note that, by this time, God has changed Abram and Sarai's names to Abraham and Sarah, respectively, as stated at Genesis 17:5,15.) Abraham states that Sarah, his wife, is really his sister, leading Abimelech to try to take Sarah as a wife; however, God intervened before Abimelech touched Sarah. God visits Abimelech in a dream and tells him the truth, acknowledging that Abimelech made the mistake innocently, but ordering Abimelech to restore Sarah to Abraham. Abimelech complains to Abraham, who states that he did not exactly lie, since Sarah is his half-sister
  17. “And God said unto him [Abimelech] in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her. Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.”
  18. It is an example of the vassal king relationship and protection covenant. Abraham keeps the law of God, and Sarah chooses to keep Abraham’s request. They both are delivered. Sarah delivers Abraham from death by the Pharaoh, and then Sarah is delivered from creating a new lineage with Pharaoh when the angel of the Lord comes to her rescue – at the request of not only Sarah, but Abraham. Together they save each other through their difficult trials.
  19. “The Struggle for Female Authority in Biblical and Mormon Theology” Cory Crawford, Phd.,
  20. Hannah’s husband, Elkanah (el KAY nah) is concerned but not fully on board with her efforts to have a son; Hannah takes the initiative to approach the Lord in the temple at Shiloh herself. In 1 Sam 1:9 Hannah “presented herself before Yahweh” in the courtyard of the temple, observed by the priest Eli from his seat beside the doorpost, making a silent vow that she would dedicate her son to the Lord if he would lift her barrenness. Eli dismissively misunderstands her prayer as drunkenness, but upon her explanation he expresses hope that her desire will be granted. When it is, she names the child, which is a practice that likely conveyed social authority, as the position of name-giver signaled influence over the thing named. Hannah breaks company with her husband on his next journeys to Shiloh until the child is weaned, at which point the Bible says without comment that she brings the boy, a three-year-old bull, and other offerings to the temple, and they (Hannah and Elkanah) slaughter the bull and take the child to Eli.
  21. When the child is weaned, she brings the boy, a three-year-old bull, and other offerings to the temple, and they (Hannah and her husband, Elkanah) slaughter the bull and take the child to Eli.
  22. Thus MT exhibits a marked discomfort and deliberate textual manipulation specifically connected with the cultic activity of Hannah. This discomfort also explains the addition, only in MT, of the note that the sons of Eli slept with the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting (2:22): not only does it further implicate the sons of Eli, it also diminishes the status of female cultic activity exhibited in LXX and 4QSama.107