In view of mysticism and the Hebrew alphabet, the thriller of the Virgin Mary is the thriller of the origin of the universe, of the creation of matter from what has not been defined, the infinite, the that science has not but been in a position to uncover.
In view of mysticism and the Hebrew alphabet, the thriller of the Virgin Mary is the thriller of the origin of the universe, of the creation of matter from what has not been defined, the infinite, the that science has not but been in a position to uncover. Delving into this thriller could be very delicate. It includes discovering a means between the dogmas of the Church and widespread devotion, and this, exactly, is what the philologist Lola Josa tries in La medida del tiempo. Phrase and female rules
Mary symbolizes the girl who is able to obtain and provides delivery, the delivery of what's bodily, but additionally of data, knowledge and progress, of every little thing that precedes being.
The Hebrew sources educate us that childbearing from a feminine womb locations the girl on the heart of creation. "Mary is the physique and the womb - writes Josa -, the measure of the human being". It additionally symbolizes the origin, every little thing that's infinitely doable, the delivery of matter and the spirit that precedes it.
The Church, nevertheless, subordinates it to God and Jesus, that's to say, to man. Paul VI introduced in 1974 that the Virgin was "the proper lady" because of her conventional values; the primary one, submission. The thinker Simone de Beauvoir then replied that "the Virgin kneels earlier than the son and accepts his inferiority".
The primary Mary, as Josa and Bendahan keep, was Miriam, the sister of Moses, who saves him from the wrath of Pharaoh after which helps him information the Jews of their escape from Egypt. "Míriam is of monumental significance - factors out Bendahan-. Not solely as a result of he saves Moses, but additionally as a result of he's the one who finds water within the desert after which celebrates together with his tambourine the crossing of the Crimson Sea”.
Girls, very highly effective within the Outdated Testomony, take a again seat within the New Testomony. Christianity associates energy with males, not with ladies. Sara, Míriam and Esther fade away in a patriarchal society.
We all know little about Maria. There may be hardly something about her within the scriptures. Solely the apocryphal texts worth her and examine her with God himself.
"The Virgin marks the hierarchical and political order", factors out Marina Warner, writer of Tú sola entre las mujeres, a piece on the parable and cult of Mary. "The Church makes use of it to current the social order as a divine code", he provides.
The Virgin, regardless of her theological instrumentalization in favor of the patriarchy, has a lifetime of her personal. "It is a true widespread creation," says Warner.
"The cult of the Virgin - based on the historian Miri Rubin - explains the historical past of Christianity. His determine is important for understanding European, Western and Christian civilization".
Rubin, writer of Mom of God offers the instance of how Latin America serves each the colonizers and the colonized, the way it evokes the cathedrals of Chartres and Strasbourg, the poetry of Dante, Petrarch and Yates, the portray of Giotto, Caravaggio, Raphael, Titian and Velázquez and lots of different artists.
Whereas Byzantium represents her as a hieratic queen, a picture that has prevailed within the Eastern Orthodox church buildings, in Western medieval Europe she seems as a better, extra expressive and human mom.
In some Latin cultures, such because the Spanish for Holy Week, the Virgin goes out in procession bejeweled and made up, wearing luxurious materials.
Few folks know, nevertheless, what the Spanish intellectuals of the sixteenth century, corresponding to Friar Luis de León and Saint John of the Cross, realized about her from the Hebrew sources of the Bible. Within the primitive and jap church buildings - which used the texts in Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek - they noticed Mary because the technique of the incarnation and the mom of the oneness, that's, of what's divine in what's human and of who's human in what's divine.
This uniqueness, which, based on Josa, is properly outlined in Genesis, implies that on the origin, within the house previous to the fabric revelation, that's to say, on the creation of the human physique, every being is female and male on the similar time. "Within the origin of humanity there isn't any male or feminine as a result of every little thing is one - he explains-. In the meanwhile of conception, every being has female and male potentialities", as biology has proven.
The Jewish Bible, Genesis in its unique supply, in addition to the Torah, start with two phrases: Bereshit Bará, which imply "At first (God) created". The letter b is guess within the Hebrew alphabet, and in its stroke, as Josa explains, "attracts a stomach like that of a pregnant lady" from which emerges a head, a crown, the letter reish that goes after guess . "The start of studying the Bible - says Josa - means attending a delivery, the delivery of the phrase, head and crown of humanity".
One is born, Jesus is born from the womb of Mary, and to simply accept it like this, as Josa maintains, is to confess "the femininity that's in God, the divinity in its female aspect, one thing that the Spanish mystics of the century ' or they already knew".
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