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Imagination And Fate
Although one can find nearly all these values in males work, especially poetry, one will be searching high and low for a male who completely dedicated his life to it and openly used the word Feminine. There are exceptions such as Joseph Campbell who at the end of his life discovered the work of Marija Gimbutas and said words to the effect, ‘I wish I knew this before,’ and then published one of his best books, Goddesses, Mysteries of the Feminine Divine.
On the other hand, I can straight away think of women who dedicated their lives to and openly used the term Feminine, the already mentioned Marija Gimbutas, and her work on the Old Europe culture of the Neolithic centred in the Feminine where women held the highest status in the communities and men were not oppressed; the work of Elinor Gadon; Anne Baring; Miriam Simos and all the women of the Wicca; Marie Louise von Franz; the countless and nameless women of the middle ages burned at the stake for openly practising the Earth religions of the Feminine, and indeed Marion Woodman. Many others besides who were, and right now are working towards the upkeep of sorely needed balance in our one-eyed patriarchal institutions, the Divine Feminine and Her message, ‘Contrary to what you have been recently told by the masculine religions, all this Nature is not merely lifeless dust that can be used and abused as you like, but my Divine creation, treat it as such’.
