A strong and vibrant story, Egg, and told so beautifully, thank you.
Hey, you guys! Why DOES this have to be a guardian, an angel or a deva?
There is a female voice in the godhead, she is called the Holy Spirit, she is called Shekinah, she has been called Mother Nature (she is NOT just 'Gaia', related to our planet only). She sometimes calls herself Maria, a mother, 'because one needs to have a name'. 'Holy Ghost' does not do it!
Orthodox religious indoctrination rules out the female aspect of God by default. We are allowed the roles
of virgin, mother and whore, and pleaes do not integrate those! And the female is allowed to appear as angels, devas, guides. A couple of years ago I heard three female theologians debate: 'When did the hatred of the feminine enter the three patriarchal religions Christianity, Judaism and Islam? (This was at the height of the discussions following the book 'The Da Vinci Code', which was a bestseller in many different countries.) The truth is: Around the time when the sacred feminine fell/was forced out of the Godhead. And why did this happen? It was as much fear and jealosy as hatred, I think. This can be seen in all three religions: An orthodox Jewish woman can never wash herself entirely clean, in Islam the woman is guilty when raped, and in Christianity a pregnant woman and a woman after childbirth had to be purified before being allowed back into the physical church! We let them take our power away, just so that we all could experience this much male dominance. Previously there were thousands of peaceful generations in gender harmony or in matriarchy, as matriarchies tend to be less violent and testesterone driven. Now it is about to revert to an equal and balanced partnership, the two qualities are both natural and spiritually needed. But this does not happen without the pains of those who sense a shift in the balance of power.
Wake up, you guys, stop letting the power pyramid of organized religion call the shots and stubbornly GET AWAY WITH the claim that All-Oneness is all male!
That she takes on the beautiful gestalt of a woman is her prerogative. The All-One God is not antropomorphic, meaning in the body of a human. But it is first and foremost up to the one having the experience to define who he/she is interacting with.
In the past, and sometimes even today, daring to state all this is immediately labelled 'demonic'. Do not let them get away with their claim of superior knowledge of these things any longer!
THEIR claim is true heresy and another aspect of divide and conquer !!!! .
