God Has No Gender

I signed up for this retreat to make peace with God. From my experience, soul feels masculine whilst God feels feminine, the womb of creation. I can only make peace with God if it’s a feminine quality. How does this relate to Meister Eckhart referring to God as masculine and soul as feminine? Rupert says: ‘It’s just a linguistic convention. Here, I’m quoting Meister Eckhart, so I use the language he used. God is neither masculine nor feminine. God has no gender. In Latin and Middle High German there was no neutral pronoun. He used ‘he’ for God and ‘she’ for the soul to express the quality of receptivity and openness. If he’d swapped them around, I would have quoted them the other way. The important thing is that God has no gender, no qualities. At the deepest level, in the ground of the soul, we are neither masculine nor feminine.’

From event 07 - 14 September, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mandali, 7–14 September 2025 – ‘Meister Eckhart and the Love of God’

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