A correspondent writes: When it is said that Lux Madriana was the first organization to publish the Filianic Scriptures this is correct but a little more detail could be added here. We need to remember that we are talking about the 1970s before the internet and before desktop publishing. Publishing anything was a complex and expensive process. Only a minority of the Scriptures were actually issued in booklet form: the rest were simply circulated as hand-typed papers that were photocopied or retyped. This made them very vulnerable to alterations and redactions. We continue to see these to this day. The addition of male elements, for example, and of "clearer" wording that implies New-Age ideas. Lux Madriana actually tried to regulate this process by stamping copies circulated within its sphere of influence with the "Madrian Literature Circle" imprint, however there were several "Madrian" versions in many cases, and many others outside the Madrian ambit. Lux Madriana's published version of a part of the Scriptural body had already been circulated in this form for some time beforehand and was subject to this process. The nearest thing to a definitive version is that found in The Gospel of Our Mother God which is the product of careful research and metaphysical understanding of the texts (sadly lacking elsewhere), together with a very cautious approach that puts the emphasis on creating a spiritual resource that can be trusted.

Thank you for your recent post on Lux Madriana and the Filianic Scriptures. Anyone who is seriously interested in the Scriptures and researches them in Elektra is bound to stumble upon self-proclaimed representatives of Lux Madriana and other groups and individuals with a less than sincere, religious approach. While I understand that the Chapel might simply not have wished to be associated with them at all, not even in negating any association, I have felt that some sort of clarifying statement has been needed for a long time. I am glad that this statement has now been made. Thank you very much, Miss Charlotte

Lux Madriana Is sometimes credited with originating the Filianic Scriptures. What is the truth about this?

A critique of Julian Jaynes's Bicameral Mind theory from a metaphysical feminine pespective.

Thank you very much for your support. I have a question: "Why do you call the GREAT SHE "mother god" and not "mother goddess"? Is this the worship of the One God as Divine Mother? Than it is still patriarchal or not? In my reality she is the ALL and the seed (the man) is her offspring (a part from her, that's why the man and the woman are one) to reproduce herself. Best wishes from Germany,
Fr.Wilken

Yes, honored Father, we do worship the one God in Her original feminine form. We do not use the term "Goddess" for a number of reasons. Firstly because it implies something secondary to a (presumably masculine) "God". Secondly because the term is widely used by neo-Pagans, "witches", feminists and others who are not referring to the One Supreme Being, but to anything from a psychological concept to a metaphor for "all women" or "planet earth". Our worship is for God Herself, the one Supreme Being and Creatrix of all, not for some demigod or "goddess". "Patriarchal" is a broad concept, but in religion we generally use the term "patriarchal" to refer to the transition from the worship of God in Her original feminine form to the picturing or the Divine in a variety of masculine forms. Also to the "demotion" of Our Mother God to the inferior elements of earth and moon while the male "gods" usurp Her position as Queen of Heaven and Solar Spirit. This being the case, we appear to be one of the few sites that actually reject patriarchy, while most "goddess" cults wholeheartedly embrace the patriarchal movement to lunarize and chthonize their "goddess" (another reason we prefer to avoid the word). Not that we reject lunar and earthly functions. We see the Lunar Divine as being primarily the Daughter of Our Mother God, the savior of all beings. But we recognize that there is a hierarchy of being in which the Sun stands higher than the moon and the Heavens stand higher than the earth. The early patriarchs recognized that too. That is why we have a so-called "earth goddess" supplanting the true Queen of Heaven in patriarchal culture.