A beautiful Nativity story is being serialized on a new website in the last few days leading up to the Holy Nativity of Our Lady. It is not a religious story (although we have been told that there may be a minor religious theme) but it is a story of people who celebrate the True Nativity and a lovely Disneyesque story everyone will love. Click below to see "The Dream Key".

I have come across a few pages where a distinction between Filianism and Deanism is made. I have a few questions about it: What are the practical (meaning, devotional) differences between the two? And can a person feel more comfortable being one or another? I know that in Aristasia Pura no distinction is made, for both would be considered only Deanic Faith (or so I understood), but I feel somehow more inclined to the simpler devotion of Dea, and I felt these were very important things to ask. Thank you and Rayati All worshipers of God in Her original feminine form, as the One, Supreme Deity, are called deanists. Only those who have the specific doctrine of both Mother and Daughter (usually in Trinitarian form) are called Filianists. Practically, devotion to the Mother (which is sometimes called Pure Deanism) is, as you say, simpler. Much of the doctrinal content of our faith is associated with Filianism. However, there is not a sharp distinction between the two. The Daughter is seen as a particular way of seeing the Salvific aspect of the Mother and many Deanists who consider themselves simple Mother devotees regard the stories and teachings of the Daughter as found in The Gospel of Our Mother God to be a valuable aid to devotion without necessarily taking up a fully doctrinal Filianist position. Probably this "soft Filianism" is the most common position among Aristasian Deanists. But one needs to be aware that this is not as illogical as it might seem from the modern Western perspective, for we understand that the formulations of religion can never be more than aids to help our human understanding grasp that which is necessarily far beyond it. So whichever form of faith is right for you, please follow that. All that is truly needful is that you should love our Mother.

There is still something that bothers me (here's my Catholic background coming out). At death, will 'good' people be treated the same as murderers, rapists, and other bad people? This is where the idea of a 'just' god makes sense. Thank you,
Eve Deanists believe in the concept of werde, which means that the actions we take in this life, good or bad, have consequences in this life and beyond. There are many passages in Scripture that speak of the perils of evil. Here are two:

They that live in discord with eternal harmony; in discord shall they perish. Let her know that no creature gains good for herself by any harmful act; for every stone returns to she that throws it in the fullness of time. And the shaft that her hand releases shall fly a thousand years until it cleave her heart.

Yet we are also told that calling on the Mother or the Daughter and loving Her can save us from all ills. We must remember that all of us are fallen beings, and all need Her salvation. From a Catholic perspective, we may ask: do Filianists believe in "Purgatory"? Now in general, we would say, yes, definitely. In fact we would say that the Purgatory doctrine in Christianity is a way of bringing that religion closer to the universal beliefs of tradition - that maid does not only have one life followed by a judgment, but that she continues her journey. This is necessary because it is quite clear that most souls do not leave this life in a condition of perfection, or purged of all sinful tendencies. What we believe is that a soul may be taken into the Paradise of the Daughter, but this is not Final Union with Dea which is the true end of the journey for every being. We believe that every being must be saved in the end "even to the last blade of grass", for all things begin in Dea and all must end in Her. Nevertheless evil has terrible consequences for the soul in the meantime. Not because Dea wishes to harm us, but because in doing evil, we cause harm to ourselves. Can we escape this harm by devotion? We believe so, but only by true repentance. Why is this? Essentially because what is happening in our hearts is what determines our fate.

Does she not know that when her mortal body is passed into the earth she will have no place wherein to dwell save in that subtle body her thoughts have so misshaped, and among the forms of her creation?

In other words, if we think evil, we do evil, and so long as we have evil in our hearts, we carry that evil, and it will harm us. Even if we escape it in this life, it will pursue us and harm us as long as it is in our hearts. That is why only true repentance can free us from it.

I have been closely following this site for almost two years. I am ready to convert to the true religion -- the worship of Dea, our Mother God. I have read The Feminine Universe and recently began rereading the Holy Gospel. The Gospel is the most wonderful description of the Creation and the Tripartite Goddess. I have a problem -- I was raised Roman Catholic and deep in me there is still a belief in Jesus and in rejecting him and his teachings I will go to hell. This fear continually places raodblocks in my devotion to Dea. Is there any thing you can tell me to help me overcome this? Dea Be Praised,
Eve One question you might ask yourself is: Do you believe all Buddhists are going to hell? Or all Hindus or Taoists or Jews? It is not long since Roman Catholics taught that all Protestants were damned (and vice versa). Recently such ideas have been increasingly dropped, perhaps in a spirit of pulling together against the rising tide of godlessness. This is good, but it certainly shows the - shall we be gentle and say pragmatism? - of these anathemata. We are not saying followers of the Abrahamic religions do not worship the true God. We believe they do. But we also believe they have overlaid Her pure devotion with political expediency and patriarchal cruelty and that this goes hand in hand with depicting Her in masculine form. We believe in a God who loves Her children and would never torture them to punish them for seeing Her incorrectly. We believe that the concept of a torturer-god is very much a case of man remaking God in his image. Let us shelter beneath the Mantle of She who says: "I have turned no creature from Me" and "None shall call upon Me and be lost".

A video for devotees of Our Mother God.

The lotus flower symbol or Our Mother God is beautifully depicted in the dance shown on this video. The dance of the Feminine Holy Trinity and the lotus flower.

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.