By Mercedes Kirkel

As many of you know, I am in the process of creating the new spirituality of COMMUNION^TM, which is focused on supporting people in “the ascension process,” or the transition to higher planes of reality. The guidance for this spiritual path has come through Mary Magdalene, and it has everything to do with uniting the Masculine and Feminine as our next step in the ascension process.

I have asked for feedback to my vision of COMMUNION and recently I received this from someone:

I would like to suggest names for the divine other than “God,” because for me that implies that the divine is male only and excludes the Divine Feminine.  The word “God” is fraught with such a destructive and painful history on this planet.  Wars have been fought in the name of God.  People have been excluded, oppressed, and even killed in the name of God.  I think that names such as Great Spirit, All That Is, the divine, Divine Father/Mother, etc. give us a broader image of the divine that does not assign a particular gender to it or exclude the other gender.

I appreciated this person offering their feedback, because I believe that whenever anyone has a concern, they are often representing a whole sector of people who feel similarly. I offered my response, explaining why I chose to use the word “God.” Afterward, I felt moved to share my explanation with everyone, because I believe there are others who hold this same question. Here’s what I wrote, which I share with the permission of the person I wrote it to:

I used to have the same reaction to the word “God,” and much preferred other words, including the ones you’re suggesting, for the same reasons.

When Mary started coming to me, she very specifically used the word “God,” and she used it with tremendous love and devotion, just the way you’d relate to the most beloved being you could possibly imagine, because that’s exactly what God is for her. She helped me to change my relationship to the word “God.” I came to love the term “God,” and what it referred to, the way that she does.

I absolutely know that Mary is not excluding the Feminine when she speaks of God. She could just as well say “Mother-Father God” or “Father-Mother God,” and sometimes she does. But she prefers to just say “God,” I think because it feels more personal and direct and intimate. I would say that for her, God is beyond gender and inclusive of all genders. God is absolute love and light. That definitely includes the Feminine, I have no doubt of that.

I hope that’s helpful to you. I hope that you’re able to go through the kind of healing I went through, in whatever way it happens for you, because it won’t necessarily take the form it took for me. I know now how wonderful it is to love God, unreservedly. The things that happened in the past that people connected with the term “God,” were about the people who did those things. Let the healing occur with them, so that you can become free in your relationship with God.

I was very amazed whenever Mary talked about painful things that were done by others in relation to her. She didn’t hold any anger or resentment toward them. She was clear that those things were about them and not her, and she wasn’t taking on their karma or pain. It was a profound demonstration for me.

I hope that’s helpful to you. My heart is touched by your honesty and I sense your longing of wanting to heal this. May it be so.

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