In the Fifth Beatitude, Jesus referred to her:
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for she shall see God.”
And Paul, in his hymn to love, showed he knew what she’d be like:
“Now we are seeing a dim reflection in a mirror, but then she shall see face to face.”
Paul also says:
“Her body is a temple of the Holy Spirit.”
What a total surprise this young female avatar will be –
A girl from the Southern Hemisphere
Embodying God in ways no man has ever been able to achieve.
We need your disciplined wildness,
Your sober intoxication,
And a return of the Holy to our postmodern world.
We need your appearance –
Because we’ve almost forgotten what it means to be human
In spite of our ancient collection of male-centered religions
That we’ve been so carefully preserving.
Women are becoming steadily more free –
And this is a good thing –
Yet, there’s still no female world hero
To model ourselves upon.
No female avatar.
Or messiah.
Women will only become completely free
When we can see a woman act as God would act –
Talk as God would talk –
And look as God would look –
If God were a human being.
Jesus did this, so did Buddha and Mohammed –
But, now, it’s a woman’s turn.
For humanity, as a whole, to become fully human
Women have to start becoming so “like God”
That we can actually see them living this in real life.
Recently, there’s been an increasing desire for women to achieve this –
Just look at all the movies filling up with female action heroes
Reflecting this long-repressed human desire.
It’s important, though, for the first one to actually arrive –
It might be “the purest-hearted girl in the world” from the Southern Hemisphere –
Who’ll teach us everything we need to know –
Who’ll embody God so we can see
What’s been lacking that can save us
Now.
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