Gender Words

In order to study the gender image that is to be found in the Bible and in Swedenborg's Writings, I searched for the occurrences involving words relating to gender such as men, women, wife, king, queen, brother, sister, etc., as indicated in the following table.

Note that man is used in English translations of Swedenborg's Latin to refer to human being (homo) as well as male man (vir). My prediction is that when this factor is removed, the ratio will still favor masculine imagery. Swedenborg's definition of the masculine is love covered over with wisdom, while the feminine is wisdom covered over with love. (See a diagram of this relationship.) In contemporary psychological terms, this translates into the following:

masculine is a mental state in which the cognitive (in the left brain) is dominant over the the affective (in the right brain). Feminine is a mental state in which the affective (in the right brain) is dominant over the cognitive (in the left brain).

For further development on the general topic of GENDER see the Doctrine of the Wife.

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As seen and understood by Leon James

Doctrine of the Wife: Part 1 || Doctrine of the Wife: Part 2  || Spiritual Genes and Marriage || Husband's Voluntary Self-Subordination to Wife in Inner Things || Psychobiology of Marriage || Conjugial Love || Gender Genes || Gender Words || Spiritual Causes of Divorce ||

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