103. Women Must Become Clergywomen as Men
As long as the church does not allow, on an equal basis, women to become the religious leaders such a church shall be dark and keeping all its believers in captivity. In your sermons you often say that I did not abhor to associate with both publicans and women of a liberal behavior, and even one of them, Mary Magdalene, became famous among you as my follower who had not been rejected by me as the one who might be an unworthy and fallen for good woman.
Yes, that is true, I have given her the same rights even as I have given them to my any other most sincere woman follower. But I did not give any bigger rights to any man than the ones I gave to a woman. And you learnt about Mary Magdalene not because she turned into my chaste follower out of a fallen and free-behavior woman for she was not the only one of this sort. You learnt about her because I had accepted her into the corps of the twelve women evangelists that had preached my gospel together with my apostles and with more than fifty other men evangelists. At that time it was unheard that a woman would accost a man in public while I invited them to become the religious teachers. The Jews had never heard of or seen it before. It was Mary Magdalene that was appointed to keep contacts of the women evangelists with the believers once there was a need to tell them something on behalf of all this group of women. It is due to this fact that she became more known to the people rather than due to the fact that while being a woman of a free behavior she believed in the Father‘s heavenly kingdom and was saved. That was just a coincidence. These twelve women themselves did assign her that role of expressing their common opinion. And the fact that you do not know anything about the other women also testifies to that that the human religious leaders have pursued their own selfish goals for they have absolutely kept silent about that marvelous liberation of women out of the-then rigid and tightly wound clasp of the rabbis as back as two thousand years ago.
The time has arrived for you to liberate women in the religious spheres as well. You speak about equal rights for women within the society, and you defend their rights in the family, industry, politics, and science. And these are righteous steps. The community cannot develop if one part of it cannot enjoy these very same rights that the other part does. This is being applied to the discrimination on the sex grounds. Do you still desire, even in this century, to further remain as such that have been your savage ancestors rejecting one part of theirs and closing it into a spiritual and social cage? It is because of this that you must see to it that women might also lead the prayer service even the way men do.
Do you, the present day religious Pharisees, still desire to continue to look upon yourselves as wiser, superior than your inseparable part – women are? How come that you as the sons, true and loving sons, of the Father do not take into account the desires of the daughters of the Father also to preach the word of the Father from the pulpits and carry the love and light of the Father to their brethren in these very homes of the Father that now it is you who have forbidden them to do it in. Not I. Those of you, who so scrupulously protect rituals and dogmas, and who do not see that you humiliate me, who is alive and resurrected, by elevating yourselves even above the Father who loves all equally, both his sons and daughters. Therefore love them even as I loved them while in the human flesh.
I also encountered a fierce resistance on the part of Pharisees once I appointed the twelve women religious teachers. They never reconciled themselves with it. They crucified me because I divided their exclusive rights to explain about God with women as well. Thus, why those of you who are so zealously claiming to others in words to follow me but you do not follow me yourselves, why do you not want to share your self-ascribed rights to govern the church with your sisters in spirit even as I shared this very right with them.
I am teaching you what you are capable of doing yourselves. Who impedes you, even today, to announce from your high positions and pulpits: “Our sisters in spirit have exactly the very same rights and privileges to become priests even as we, men, who have already become such.“ Who impedes you to announce the following: “We desire to share the Father‘s homes with the believers of the other churches that bear my name, and even with the believers of other religions.“ Your fear? Fear for your position, for your name, for your influence on others, for your future? However, I say to you all where there is fear there is the lack of love. This is a response to you whether you believe in me, whether you believe in the Father. Each one who has faith in me, in the Father, that one already has no more fear for oneself. That child of the Father is being motivated by that very love experienced within. And then an inner enlightenment arrives that the woman cannot be lower than the man anywhere including religion. The Father has bestowed this very same free will upon all. And nobody can restrain it. Even you, the present-day Pharisees, by self-ascribing to yourselves the right to control the believers including women and do not providing them equal rights to become the priests even as you are.
You have taken away a free will from women while it has been given back to them, much earlier, by politicians who themselves do not consider to be the servants of God or my disciples the way you do. And they not being that pious the way you look upon yourselves have given the women more, returned to them what had been taken away from them – the right to vote and participate in politics on equal grounds. And now look how many women already win even the top state positions once they participate in the open election. However, those of you who consider yourselves to be the servants of the Lord of mercy and justice behave in a much more unjust and unmerciful manner than the ones who have no connections with the Lord in their direct occupation.
Moreover, politicians in their daily activity fairly often turn away from and even betray the Father himself. Thus, why do those of you who must carry the Father‘s light and spread mercy and love trample these very most essential foundations of the vitality of all the creation and at the same time self-assign to yourselves the right to violate a free will bestowed by the Father upon all the creation family and upon its each member?
By this you raise yourselves even above the Father.
My teachings are light even to those of you who now merely cling to the dead rituals and profess dogmas if only you sincerely desire to change yourselves to become the better ones. It is this very desire to become better that is that very first, even though very weak, pure desire of the Father deeply and silently uttered by voice of the soul – “Be perfect even as I am perfect.“ And this voice of the soul shall feel, ever more, that these teachings of mine start moving the soul ever stronger, it shall see an ever deeper depth of the very same truth of the Father, and the soul itself shall begin to think ever more freely. And due to this my teachings shall start penetrating it ever deeper. And the soul shall enjoy this penetration of my teachings within it. It shall experience ever less of a desire to oppose them but rather it shall desire to share them with the other brethren. And then it shall start to think in a wiser and freer manner. And it shall arrive at comprehending one more significant aspect of the restraint of a free will, even for men.