A New Image of God

Ours is a culture which has no vision. It is at present imprisoned in a dying or outworn image of God and in a secular view of reality which has cut us off from the Earth and the Cosmos and from our own soul. Despite all the talk of freedom and human rights, countless millions live their lives in bondage to patriarchal images of God which are limited in concept and rigid in their authoritarian control over the human spirit. The feminine aspect of the Divine has long been banished from the image of God we have inherited from these religions. God may be pronounced dead, redundant, irrelevant. But while the images of God we have created may die, the Divine cannot die. After an interval marked by symptoms of cultural and social disintegration, chaos and despair, a new image may appear, unheralded, from the depths of the human psyche. We are living in such a time, at the end of an old era and the birth of a new one.