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WC – I have also sent you a PM. Let me know if I can help. On the veiling faces, a friend of mine shared the idea that it symbolizes that women are what is holy; hence the veil, not to shield women from God but because women symbolize the divine. The temple can also symbolize the holiness of a woman’s body (veil = hymen, womb = the holiest place, where new life begins). There’s no definitive guide on this stuff, but as a B.A. in English, I have to think there is some valid symbolism there. In any case, sometimes the most obvious interpretation is the wrong one.
I do agree that patriarchy is a cultural construct.
Yeah I thought that one, thing is, I really hate the idea at times, because it has been taken so much like “Woman’s womb is so holy”, and makes it the ONLY power seemingly on earth and in heaven a woman has. I can see this, but I still can’t say it makes me feel any better. Viel women wear =birth…my thoughts “Okay yeah, makes sense, wait…huh? Wait, that can be interpreted really wrong, and result in practices still degrading to women”…It’s a thought I do think sort of came from God to me at one point, I don’t know. I mean if it makes some women happy, and I’ve been given that answer to make some woman happy,and all right for a while, while things are worked out, I am fine with that. I guess no matter what symbolism is explained, I don’t get this one.
And personally, hearing that the viel is see through, that is fine, I just…yeah heavily leaning toward just not liking this one.
I have really no other choice but wear it during the Temple I guess. I don’t have to like it, but I guess like the saying goes when in Rome, do as the romans do? (Deep breath in, deep breath out, deep breath in, deep breath out) And I guess the Temple is my Rome so to speak, the place where I am going to be tried on my faith that God is equal and just, even when the culture isn’t.
hmm…just what part of the ceremony do women viel their faces? PM me on this one.
Quote:it has been taken so much like “Woman’s womb is so holy”, and makes it the ONLY power seemingly on earth and in heaven a woman has.
Yeah, I really dislike that idea. It’s slowly going the way of all incorrect traditions of our (Victorian) fathers, but I’d like it to go faster.
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