The following is a fourth passage from the Epilogue of my book Championing Womanhood:
We had more than fifteen thousand years of rule by women, called matriarchy. As Endo-European, patriarchic culture slowly replaced the old European, feminine culture, a thousand years or so of transition began to strip women of their power and rights. As might be expected, Hebrew women resisted giving up their belief in a fertility goddess for an all-male Deity called Yahweh, or Jehovah. After the Exile, when Jehovah emerged a masculine-feminine God like Elohim, women finally let go of their fertility goddess.
Today, with varying views or understandings of the nature of Jehovah, Elohim—still that constant Being who had made man both male and female—has emerged as the one constant for a new age, an age that rules without favoring either sex or gender. A new word for this age is epicenarchy [gender-neutral rule].
Just as women tried to hold onto a remnant of matriarchy as patriarchy subdued them, we should expect there to be some men holding onto patriarchy as it too is replaced by epicenarchy. Human nature resists giving up material power, even if it is not deserved or warranted. Just as there was friction as matriarchy transitioned into patriarchy, the repetition of history teaches us that we should not be surprised to experience friction during the transition into epicenarchy. Some men will hold to their all-male Deity just as ancient women held to Asherah. Some women, as they find new-born freedom and rights, may adopt a Captain Ahab revenge on what they see are “the murderous thinkings” in all men. But the sooner we all accept the evidence and logic of Truth and the wisdom of the divine Mind, the sooner we all will be bowing before the open arms of divine Love. Then epicenarchy will have replaced patriarchy, and both men and women will have found a new sense of Spirit’s freedom.
The light of Truth unveils the dark limitations of both matriarchy and patriarchy, pointing to epicenarchy as a higher manifestation of Elohim’s rule, as a more just and fair form of governing humanity. The curtain has risen upon the dawning of a new age, an age slowly dismissing the conclusions based on false syllogisms rendered from superstitions, ignorance, and bias, slowly accepting the logical and emotional reasoning behind a higher sense of equality.