For thousands of years, across most of the world’s religions, God has been spoken of as “He”. Prayers begin with “Our Father.” Scriptures repeat “He is merciful,” “He is just,” “He is Lord.” Entire cultures have built their theology on the foundation of masculine language for the Divine Universal Consciousness.

And yet, if God is everything – if God is the Alpha and Omega, the source and totality of all existence – then how could that be reduced to one gender. God cannot be only “He”.

Where did the “She” go?

Before the Last Reset 

Long before modern religion, before power and political structures cemented themselves into history, ancient civilizations recognized the feminine as sacred. They did not see God as exclusively masculine. Instead, they worshipped both masculine and feminine deities -complementary aspects of the same divine reality.

Archaeologists uncover figurines of mother goddesses dating back over 30,000 years. From the caves of Europe to the river valleys of Mesopotamia, humanity once revered the goddess as the giver of life, the nurturer, the womb of creation so to speak.

In Egypt, Isis embodied divine motherhood and creation. In Mesopotamia, Inanna (later Ishtar) represented love, fertility, and cosmic power. In India, Shakti was seen as the primal energy giving life to all things. These were not fringe beliefs – they were central to human spirituality.

The idea of God as Mother, or as both Mother and Father, was not strange to our ancestors. It was not even questioned.

How the Feminine Was Erased

So why, in most of today’s religions, is God only called “He”?

Historians and theologians point to a cultural shift that began thousands of years ago. As ‘patriarchal societies’ grew in power, so did male-dominated priesthoods. Masculinity became equated with authority, power, and leadership. Femininity was pushed aside to the private, the hidden, the secondary.

Flood stories, preserved in cultures around the world, often marks the latest reset in human civilization. After this event, new powers arose – ones that increasingly suppressed goddess worship in favor of father-gods. What was once balanced became very one sided.

By the time the Abrahamic religions – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – spread across the world, God was spoken of almost exclusively in masculine terms. The feminine had not completely disappeared, but it had been pushed into the shadows and hidden in mystical traditions.

Facts and Theories We Cannot Ignore

1. Archaeological Record: Countless artifacts, from the “Venus of Willendorf” to goddess temples across the ancient world, show that early human spirituality revolved around feminine divinity.

2. Language: Many ancient languages used feminine grammar for divine words. For example, the Hebrew word Ruach (spirit) is feminine, and Shekinah (the divine presence) was understood as feminine in Jewish mysticism.

3. Biology: Life itself is impossible without both masculine and feminine principles. The sperm and egg are equal partners in creation. To imagine God as only one half is to misunderstand the very blueprint of life.

4. Physics: In modern cosmology, creation is built on duality and balance – matter and antimatter, positive and negative charges, expansion and contraction. Both sides are necessary. The same is true in the spiritual dimensions – masculine and feminine energies sustain the universe together.

The Masculine and Feminine Aspects of God

When we reduce God to “He,” we unconsciously create imbalance in our own lives. The masculine aspect of the Divine represents order, structure, will, discipline, expansion, etc. The feminine aspect represents nurture, creativity, intuition, receptivity, compassion, etc.

One without the other is incomplete.

– Masculine without feminine becomes rigid, authoritarian, and cold.
– Feminine without masculine becomes chaotic, unstable, and directionless.

Together, they create life, balance, harmony. This is why the ancients saw God as both Father and Mother – He and She.

By erasing the feminine aspect of God, humanity has paid a heavy price:

– Patriarchy: Societies placed men above women as we know, creating millennia of systemic inequality.
– War and Domination: Masculine aggression, unbalanced without feminine compassion, led to cycles of conquest and violence.
– Disconnection from Nature: Feminine spirituality often honored the Earth as sacred. Without it, humanity began exploiting the planet instead of revering it. We must create symbiosis with the Earth.
– Broken Wholeness: People grew up with an image of God that was partial. Half the human experience – intuition, tenderness, mystery, change – was no longer seen as divine.

This wasn’t just a theological shift. It literally reshaped the entire trajectory of our world.

Today, something remarkable is happening. Across the world, people are rediscovering the feminine aspect of God. Not as a rejection of the masculine, but as a restoration of balance.

– Scholars are uncovering suppressed texts and forgotten “goddesses”.
– Women and men alike are seeking spiritual practices that honor both divine aspects.
– Even science, with its language of energy, balance, and polarity, echoes the truth: creation requires both masculine and feminine equally.

This isn’t about rewriting scripture. It’s about remembering what was forgotten, before history itself was rewritten as it repeatedly is. It’s about reclaiming the whole image of the Universal Consciousness most often referred to as God, and the Divine Algorithm.

The Living God – the Universal Consciousness that creates all reality – is not bound by human categories of gender. But when we say “He” alone, we collapse God into half of a whole.

God is He.
God is She.
God is the sacred dance between them both.

What This Means for Us

This truth is not just cosmic – it is personal.

1. In Relationships: Healthy relationships require both masculine and feminine energy. Whether between two people or within yourself, balance brings peace.

2. In Families: Children thrive when they experience both strength and tenderness, discipline and nurture. This reflects the Divine pattern of the universe.

3. In Society: A balanced view of God invites a more balanced society – where leadership includes compassion, and nurture includes strength.

4. In Spirituality: When we pray, meditate, or reflect on the Divine, allowing ourselves to see both aspects expands our awareness. Suddenly, God feels closer, more whole, more complete.

Conclusion 

For too long, humanity has addressed God as “He” alone. We’ve lived with a one-eyed perception of the Divine so to speak. But history, archaeology, language, biology, and even physics all remind us – creation itself requires both aspects to exist.

The ancients knew this. They saw wholeness where we later saw separation.

It is time to remember.
It is time to speak to God not only as Father, but as Mother.
Not only as He, but as She.

Some will resist this truth. Others will feel a deep relief – as if something inside them always knew, but could never say it out loud. And that is the sign of real truth – it unsettles initially, then it heals, then it awakens.

God is not less than masculine. God is not less than feminine. God is both. God is All.

And when we embrace this truth, we begin to see the Divine as it truly is – whole, balanced, alive. The Living God, the Divine Algorithm, the Source beyond us all.

* If this resonates with you, and you feel you would like to open your mind even more by understanding how the subconscious is programmed since birth, my book The Other 95%: Unleashing the Power You Forgot You Had, is exactly what you’ve been looking for. Check it out on Amazon or Barnes & Noble and I appreciate your support.