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Fortunately for the cosmos at large, Foozler Sage Obi wan Aboinker penned a poem that speaks to this:

Four Each Other

The nails
hold. Two thousand years
and still manpower is mustered for massacre
but not honest love. The way through
has not changed.

The moon looks
to die for. All around the equator the monkey girls
bay, blood calling down one mighty
flood. Since
black and white split
heaven in rainbow war-
dance, females were of one body and mind. Sisterhood
is a given.

Had we lacked female bonds, the Sky Prince
would have said so. His sword, though,
opened a fresh
vein: brotherhood. Then is bolt yanked
from cross, the Sister's teare'd veil risen, the
Dark Magdalene ripe for altar.

Mother father sister
come. No time for parables. Adam is
unborn. First Man has not
walked this earth. We are beasts in
thrall, hoods down, spurs lashed to
feet, hemmed in the cock
ring. The long night
rushes up. Love your brother
or be orphaned.

--inspiration by James Broughton

This is Obi�s way of refuting the assumption that Jesus lived and taught in a patriarchal cultural context. Jesus of Nazareth was one of the most conscious beings ever to walk this earth. He was acutely � shall we say painfully � aware of the true status of human affairs, and of what would remedy them. If sisterhood and yet more feminine power would have redeemed the human condition, Jesus would have sprinted all over the Holy Land championing it.

In fact, in Jesus� time not only was �patriarchy� an infant in concept and execution, but indeed fatherhood and masculinity itself were toddlers, fresh from the long eons of matriarchy. Fatherhood, in particular, was still a very shaky concept, even amongst the Hebrew Tribes who invented it's codification. Fatherhood is a social fiction, originally intended to protect sons from matriarchal blood rites, and secondarily to instill masculine values in sons -- honor, justice, equality -- all those little abstractions the matriarchies lacked. Later, prideful men got caught up in the �certain paternity� game � a game they are guaranteed to lose.

As in modern America, fatherhood � and masculinity itself -- is always in danger of going under. Without it, social organization regresses to gynocracy, and chaos follows promptly. Men are cast out, into gutters, prisons, cemetaries. Little boys go on shooting sprees. The infrastructure crumbles, values are personalized and relativized, and the assumption of inviolable maternal "good" rules absolutely.

Jesus understood the implications of the backward pull of the matriarchates, and he understood the ways in which gynocratic assumptions had been carried forward � unexamined � by the emerging patriarchies. To a lesser extent, many of the prophets did likewise. Conserved within cultures like Greece and Rome were both the positive (conscious) and negative (unconscious) elements of the matriarchates, which had spawned and dominated human orgainzational development.

The concept of the State as nurturer, as caregiver to its citizens, illustrates how a potentially positive element was carried from gynocracy to emerging patriarchy. (Similarly, the masculine must engage in periodic artificial elevations of the feminine, else matter would never get off the ground.)

However, like infected DNA, negative matriarchal elements were also conserved, and these Jesus sought to make conscious in the populace, and thereby eradicate. Chief among these demons were the exclusionary, anti-masculine kinship systems that persist today, including both the neo-matriarchal tribal village and the nuclear family. The latter is a kind of band-aid relational pattern hammered out between the female and male collectivities -- a temporary compromise. Consider the hypocritical "inclusion" of the modern neo-matriarchal Left. All modern relational patterns and institutions rely on exclusion -- on "keeping out" -- as their basis, including marriage and the family.

Another matriarchal habit attacked by Jesus was � and still is � talion, or blood law. �Justice� is a modern, abstract, masculine concept. It began in gynocracy as mere vengeance, pure and cold and executed with righteous glee, and how little has changed, my poor lost lambs, in our great circling back toward the future. Under classical matriarchy, as in modern America, �... to help, to protect, and to avenge the mother is seen as the highest duty, while to threaten her life is looked upon as a crime beyond all expiation, even if it is done in the service of offended fatherhood.� (Bachofen, J.J., Mother Right, p. 79.) Read the Greek playwrights. They understood talion well, for Hellenism was a newborn, only recently emerged from the matriarchal womb.