Great souls come into
lifetimes and lives with visions and inspirations for humanities greatness.
People like Jefferson, Gandhi, and Einstein saw possibilities that most of
would not in the course of their beliefs and actions. Great souls attract
others of like mind and like spirit, but the followers don’t often see the
possibilities until the noble one's become the evidence of their power through
extraordinary creativity, selfless service to others, or the ultimate
sacrifice.
Emerson wrote about it
eloquently in his essay, The Uses of Great Men. I think if Emerson were alive
today he'd retitle his essay the uses of great men and women. Great souls take
on either gender. In my life experience, I've known personally two avatars of
noble service who inhabited a female body. Mother Teresa, and Wangari Maathai
of the Kenyan Greenbelt Movement. I would, however, add to the list many other
women whose spirit is just beginning to blossom with the feminine energy of the
Aquarian Age.
So where does leave the
masculine energy that’s predominated for the last few eons? Right where it is,
but with a reluctant appreciation of the feminine component and its
transcendence into the realms of business, politics, and the arts.
Male assertiveness and female
nurturing is a natural cosmic balance. Humankind needs balance. It is the
yin-yang of consciousness, without it, one-sided power would have destroyed the
world long before now.
It is no wonder that the women
of the Iroquois Confederacy were the only tribal members to appoint a chief,
the only ones who could depose a chief and the only ones who could declare war.
Today, we are on the cusp of a
paradigm shift to the feminine, and it’s fascinating.
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