Contents Updated: Thursday, March 02, 2000
Women were always suppressed and sidelined by Christian believers in Eve as true history. The reaction of the Protestants after the Reformation was to exterminate independent women in the witch trials of the Reformation. Hundreds of thousands of suspected witches were burnt, drowned and hung. The inference to be drawn from such savagery is that goddess worship survived underground at least until then, for otherwise why were the vigorous new Protestant churches so worried?
Male witnesses cited the Queen of Elphane or Elfland who came to them and literally seduced them from the salvation of Christianity. The Queen of Elphane had many of the characteristics of the Goddess. It seems that some witches would have been priestesses of the underground religion, though doubtless many were innocent victims of scorned lovers or cowards.
Women have been liberated in many ways in the twentieth century and often they are even the principal wage earners in their families. The trouble is the patriarchs have taught women to despise themselves. Despite the feminist movement they still do. Some feminists have sought ways of liberating women by making them more masculine not by making men more feminine, the ultimate patriarchal victory.
Women think they must model themselves on men. They have adopted the authoritarian, patriarchal, vulgar, urban manners of modern industrialism and aimed to outperform men at their own game. Feminists hailed the contraceptive pill because women could now behave as young men did traditionally and sow their wild oats in the same way. Western societies are now obsessed with sex.
As a victory for women, did this set men back on their heels in amazement. Not a bit! Men hailed it even more than the feminists. Previously only a few women had made themselves into sex objects and these few fulfilled all the fantasies and supplied all the wild oats to all young men who were not simply fantasising anyway, as many always were. Now all women are sex objects and indeed all men are sex objects for women. Women have been masculinised.
Women today are coarse, vulgar, swear like mariners, smoke and smell like gasworks, vie with men for drunkenness and lose their looks before middle age unless they can pay for cosmetic surgery. They have surrendered totally to the patriarchs. Is it surprising that creative and caring men turn to homosexuality to find sympathy and love.
Perhaps it was necessary initially to allow them to achieve liberation, but now they should be looking for ways of changing the whole set up by returning to matriarchal, egalitarian, gentle, sharing and natural values. Men should be judged by the standards of the Goddess, not women by the patriarchal God’s. Chivalrous behaviour needs to be revived but not based on the patriarchal, patronising, hypocritical standard of God but on the matriarchal, respectful, honest standard of the Goddess.
Women should rediscover the mystery of the goddess—regard themselves as human representatives of the goddess whose purpose is to arouse in their menfolk love and passion for the goddess as they once did. Women should make men woo them with chivalry, honour, dignity, respect—with poems and songs, and still be unsure whether their courting has succeeded, rather than yielding to the offer of a cig and a few bacardis and pretending to be liberated. Naturally women have to worthy of it and must therefore think of themselves as goddesses rather than satyrs. What hope is their for the world if women cannot even succeed in that?
Men should again become chivalrous towards women, respect them as lovers and mothers not as pseudo men and treat Nature in the same way. Everyone must learn to love Nature, the goddess, as a lover—a perpetual object of love and devotion. It is essential that people come to think of her in this way if she is to be saved.
According to Lucius in his address to Isis in Apuleius's Golden Ass: "Her service is perfect freedom". The Protestant churches stole this and it is now in their liturgy. It is up to mankind to serve the Goddess in a proper fashion and give her gifts of their own choosing. She will react to them as appropriate. A grossly wrong gift is an insult or even a smack in the face. These are just the gifts mankind has been giving the Goddess and it is getting worse. She will have her revenge.