so that men in contrast could enjoy a bit of impurity and non-divinity lol.

It isn't true. So the question is out of the question.

The way i understand it is because we are given a red thread, already at our birth that keeps us connected to the Divine. In ancient times this was called the thread of Ariadne. We are the ones able to give birth to our children; this is some kind of primordial power. At least this is how I have perceived giving birth.

Women are weavers, although we only really understand this when we are able to reflect.
Reflection and looking in the mirror of our own children and grandchildren makes you realize how everything is connected. When you then also realize that most women go through that same process, you can often feel the divine connection of that carpet.

To me the Labyrinth explained it once again at a crucial moment in my life in a beautiful way: you enter it; you turn to the right, you turn to the left, close to the centre, far away from the centre, but always arriving in the middle. When you start from the middle a whole new pattern can be weaved again.

And this goes on an on in cycles, or spirals that are interwoven and sometimes make very complicated patterns but always giving the opportunity to arrive in the centre again. Your centre, your thread with the Divine.

Mieke

Not "weaved" but woven, sorry :)

Mieke

Are you so sure that "pure and divine" is legit AND

For Ladies Only?

Are we not all born into this world as equal in the eyes of God?

Of course this also means that evil is filthy,

even when dressed in white lace and silk shoes.

Oh! Show me that babe that knows how to get down-and-dirty!

Dear Ankita Sharma, may I ask- "why are women so pure and divine" compared to what?

Good question, Aurora!
I'd also like your definition of *pure*, Ankita.

In my view that painting of Michel Angelo of man and God reaching out to each other and just not able to grab each other's hand did more bad than good.

In Leonardo's Mona Lisa the union of male and female in a person is visible and in his Last Supper that union is also seen in the cloths of St. John and Jesus.

But what about Mary Magdalene? The black Madonna?
Why has she been so vigorously banned from every religious painting?

Could it be that she is Sophia, the uniting Goddess of Wisdom?

Mieke

Many men live by the philosophy that "might is right," and it is this mentality that makes them appear to be less pure and divine than women.

Truth is, both men and women are pure and divine; but both men and women also sometimes forget that they are chemically created by the energy of Love. This forgetfulness causes the mind to wander towards wicked ways while the Soul sits back and maintains its perfectly pure posture.

On the surface we may often seem sick, but underneath the mean masks that make our Love seem lost there is the Soul, who is persistently proud of its pure and divine perfection. Ultimately, we are all defined as pure and divine by the activities of the Soul, not the confused behaviors manufactured by the often misguided mind.

We are all pure and divine; we just sometimes forget that we are when ill-impressions mask Love as lost.

This is an interesting topic.

Aloha Ankita and Everyone, regardless what embodiment you reside in:)

I was listening to Robert Thurman's The Jewel Tree of Tibet and he takes the listener to viewing with appreciation and gratitude that everything comes from the mothers; the clothes we are wearing, the furniture we are sitting on or the food we are eating feeds us as a whole. It is quite beautiful.. again the universe is created as a net of diamonds when one diamond changes, the reflection is viewed through out the net.

love patty

Dear Ankita

Eh? Who says they are? They're as human as men. If woman are pure and divine, so are men; and if men aren't pure and divine, neither are women.

love, Heath

hi Heather,
perhaps
50 %
of the
time
men and women
are
pure and divine
(if not
more
:)
or less
:(

love,
~ Kate

Dear Ankita

The more the men will subscribe to wicked and animalistic ways to achieve their selfish ends, the more the women will tend to be pure and divine in order to mantain the balance of love, the very base of creation,the soul power that literally makes the world go round.

Inside every man there's a woman trying to get out. Outside every woman there's a man trying to get in!

no?

Inside every man there's a woman trying to get out. Outside every woman there's a man trying to get in!

no?

I think that it is the feminine

~Nurturing Loving~ quality that is divine.

The physical body / sex has does not guarantee pure and divine.

I would note that we are much more apt to find the ~Nurturing Loving~ quality in women.

But again it is the feminine loving nurturing quality that deserves to be cast as pure and divine.

The masculine seems more of the doing and action quality.

Then there is the ~acting loving~ divine, the hero, the knights, riding in to protect or rescue the feminine. This is pure divine and is often, not always, the men.

Of course there is no need to do all this labeling and dividing, just be.

Only from the finite perspective is anything not divine.

It is all divine from the infinite perspective.

Are you kidding?
You can't be serious!

I agree with heather 50%, #12.

When men become impure, at the same moment, women also become impure.

As for being divine, the story is different.

They're not, not anymore than anyone else and that's just the trouble. Why are we expected to be pure and divine? Why isn't just being ever enough?