The Divine Mother Delights in humans!


By Michael Ketterhagen 

 

“Thus says the wisdom of God: When the Lord established the heavens, I was there. … I was beside him as his craftsman, … playing on the surface of his earth, and I found delight in the human race.” --The Book of Proverbs (NRSV)

This past Sunday I participated in the Eucharistic celebration of the Most Holy Trinity. It is one of the most sacred beliefs in the Christian tradition; namely, the belief that the one God is three persons. This year’s particular celebration began with the above reading from Proverbs. Wisdom was speaking to us humans, in whom “she” delights.

 

The Yoga Tradition calls the maker of life, the designer and fabricator of all that exists, the Divine Mother. Even though the translation of the Hebrew text above calls “wisdom” by the pronoun “he,” the Hebrew word for “wisdom” is “sophia,” which is feminine. In fact, one of the names for God in the Old Testament is “El-Shaddai,” “Father-Mother God.”