Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider t…

- Merlin Stone

The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.

- Merlin Stone

In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remembe…

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For people raised and programmed on the patriarchal religions of today, religions that affect even the most secular aspects of our society, perhaps t…

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It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at least) seven thousand years…

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The Goddess is not just the female version of God. She represents a different concept.

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In the beginning there was Isis: Oldest of the Old, She was the Goddess from whom all Becoming Arose. She was the Great Lady, Mistress of the two Lan…

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Each arc of color may be lovely to behold, but it is the full spectrum of our woman rainbow that glows with the brightest promise of better things to…

- Merlin Stone