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 January 7, 2021 THE FULL MOON DEVOTIONAL GATHERING by Brooke Talisman  In celebration of raising up the next generation of strong spiritual females, an online space has been dedicated to exploring the sacred feminine within the structure of today’s society. The aim is to move towards building an awareness of how we each contribute to the upliftment of true equality between genders, as well as embrace our differences and use our unique qualities to contribute to the betterment of mankind. Although we could not of course meet in person during the pandemic, a Zoom meeting was set up and an invitation sent on Facebook to invite friends. To our delight, almost 30 individuals participated in the first gathering! We began by reading various quotations about women from the Bahá’í writings. For example, Abdu’l-Bahá, the son of the founder of the Bahá’í Faith, Bahá’u’lláh, declared that women have “special gifts” in the following respects: superior abundance of mercy, superior abundance of sympathy, are more tender-hearted and more receptive, have more instinct with power, intuition, are more intense, and are the “stronger wing.” In fact, when ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
visited London in 1913, during one of his talks to the Theosophical
Society organized by Annie Besant, its president and well-known women’s
rights activist, he stated that “… woman is indeed of greater
importance to the race. She has the greater burden and the greater
work. Look at the vegetable and the animal worlds. The palm which
carries the fruit is the tree most prized by the date grower. The Arab
knows that for a long journey the mare has the longest wind. For her
greater strength and fierceness, the lioness is more feared by the
hunter than the lion. The mere size of the brain has been proved to be
no measure of superiority. The woman has greater moral courage than the
man; she has also special gifts which enable her to govern in moments
of danger and crisis. If necessary, she can become a warrior.” |
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