A Father’s Day thought

This Sunday is Father’s Day. It got me thinking about the concepts of fatherhood, motherhood, the masculine, and the feminine inspired by Neville Goddard’s Feeling is the Secret ( available in PDF).

According to Goddard, the Bible is a metaphor for human states of consciousness. Whatever is said in the Bible about man and woman, bride and groom, has nothing to do with rules of behavior or “proper” gender roles, but about the masculine and feminine characteristics within each of us. Our active side and passive side. Our conscious mind and the subconscious.

The masculine says the word, the feminine does the deed. For instance, the architect is masculine, the builder is feminine. That is, the builder does the will of the architect, but the architect trusts the builder and doesn’t control the details.

In government, the legislative branch is masculine, the executive is feminine. Meaning (in theory at least), Congress expresses the will of the people through legislation, and the President enforces the laws and administers the programs without Congress sweating the details.

An aspiring father can do very little in the formation of the child aside from actively “planting the seed.” The mother receives the seed and then the formation of the child is entirely within her. The manifestation of the child may be the will of the father, but he has no control of events that lead to birth.

Generally speaking, what the masculine thinks, the feminine manifests. Again, this has nothing…