Womanhood and Motherhood

Do You Know a Man Cannot Do What a Woman Can Do?

Some notes to Betti on womanhood

Dear Betti,

What you and I have most in common is our innate curiosities, which we also express in reading and writing. That’s what brought us here as kindred spirits. Others embark on other exploratory adventures to see and meet the world out there. And to make their meaning out of things.

This letter is about one area of our common interest. It’s about a subject very dear to your heart and mine. And it should be for all humanity because it concerns all.

It’s about Womanhood, a bit about motherhood but not about feminism.

They all appear related. Don’t they?

Feminism as propagated today is a jungle you don’t want to get into because it has all kinds of beings living in it. Its attempt to protect and promote the rights of women falls short because it has turned into a movement against the menfolk who have misread it as an attack rather than a protest about omissions and commissions. This misconception is not the fault of the women. And it’s not the fault of the men. It’s rather the fault of men and women. Both groups are the victims and the victimized. It’s a collective guilt. If we had not lost the way, if we had forgotten we are spirits who came to experience the world as humans, we would not have run into the chaos that has continued to grow as we feed it with wrong perceptions, wrong thoughts, and words and actions that lead to the inevitable fall below the level of animals.

We were male and female spirits before we became male and female human beings. This has other implications even with our bloated sense of entitlement that pushes us to the wrong path. The men think they know almost everything much better than women. They act accordingly and everything goes spiraling. And the women don’t see where they got it wrong and lost the respect of the men.

If both men and women had not neglected to recognize and respect the lofty position of women in the scheme of things, it would have been a far more beautiful world than it is today. We have disrupted the order of things because of the confusion. Thinking men are superior to women is wrong and shows a deep level of ignorance.

Womanhood was to be a constant reminder to us of who and what we are. Genuine womanhood was to create beauty that keeps us awakened, ennobling the environment, challenging man to his best behavior, and pointing the way to where we came from and why we are.

That was a big task and responsibility but not without the enabling spiritual powers and authority, which were abandoned for that which is ephemeral and distracting. Rather than get the man to look upwards and fulfill his role, his attention was drawn to the acquisition of material things to impress the woman whose influence now continued to change to enticement, to being a chattel and a mother of children who must learn her way and that of the confused man. Generations are so misled.

In almost all animals, Motherhood is the highest expression of love, care, protection, compassion, empathy, and sacrifice as epitomized in the maternal instinct. Most of the time, these manifest as self-sacrifice so much so that the mother can give her life so her offspring can live. She’s ever prepared to take on any predator no matter how big, vicious, or dangerous to save the lives of her offspring.

But for humans, the highest duty of the female species is not motherhood. The highest duty is Womanhood. This in itself, in its natural state and when unsoiled by the wild expressions and activities of modern-day humans, is encompassing and plays a key role in attracting and retaining the pure primordial power from Above which is then transformed into spiritual power for the maintenance and balance of our being, our homes, our families, our societies and our world. The woman is our bridge to higher and lighter realms.

We do not need the tug-of-war of the sexes. It is unnecessary friction and a quest for a nonexistent superior position. It is the belief in competition rather than cooperation and collaboration. Thinking that one is standing in the other’s way. It is the wrong way of reading roles which should be complimentary and standing side by side, when they bring in their different strengths to face the same goal, though the turf of their activities may be different. Let’s not misread these positions. We mislead ourselves and breed confusion when we do. And we lose our bearing. Our gifts as men and women are not the same but are entirely different because, to put it mildly, what a woman can do a man cannot do. Women carry sacred gifts within them that guarantee and give them a stronger influence on humanity. A woman is psychically stronger than a man. Man is stronger in purely physical terms (which explains the expression used for the woman as the weaker sex, but she is much stronger in other respects). She is not weaker. Her field of activity is different. Both are two different ends of a power battery. Considering her weaker in the physical sense helped man to protect her in her delicacy which does and should not suggest weakness given the other attributes she has. She has more refined, less dense, and more delicate makeup. This delicacy is not a weakness. It allows her to provide that bridge that man cannot make available for the incarnation of souls.

She therefore can serve as a mediator to the higher realms for humanity. The role transcends that of motherhood. It is a sacred spiritual vocation far beyond motherhood and maternal bliss. Her strength is from within, giving her greater resilience and a quietly controlling influence over the environment and nudging the man on for better (or worse). She is the commanding general of the army in the background. She is therefore the guardian of the spiritual fate of humanity because she’s the custodian of special powers and abilities; she is more spiritually attuned and receptive. This makes her a transmitter of spiritual power and streams of radiation. Mighty currents stream into our world through her.

Motherhood is not the highest goal of human womanhood. Mother love is the crown of motherhood. It is also for animals. The woman has an added advantage over other species because she occupies a higher spiritual office. Yes! And when acknowledged and rightly understood it will be below her to fight with man over the coarse material roles man plays. Not being a mother does not diminish a woman Not being a wife does not diminish a woman. Wanting to do the coarse things a man does suggests she’s working hard to lower herself to that gross physical level where a man is made to function well. In a sense, it is like a manager or director of a business aspiring to displace and become a loader or an office cleaner. She could if she so wishes but chances are her other duties will suffer. Her dress may get dirtier and she may find her biceps getting bigger and bulkier and her graceful figure may lose some of its beauty. This does not suggest the shop floor work is less important but requires different qualities and abilities.

Women lose their dignity, grace, and beauty when they opt to play or operate in those physically demanding endeavors that seem to be cut out for men.

The woman can play her leading role in bringing beauty and enlightenment and help the maturity of souls in the quest for further development without stooping to those lowly coarser levels. She need not be masculine. The position is taken. When she opts out of her role, she creates a vacancy, and a vacuum man cannot fill well if at all.

Let us note, dear Betti, that the notes here may burst some bubbles, and agitate the minds of some of those who look over your shoulders at these notes but that would not stop us from stating this truth. It’s important.

Don’t hurry away! Continue to explore! With great admiration for the woman you are and can be, and for the knowledge you can help to pass on to others about Womanhood! OU