Filianism (the "Daughter Tradition" – from filia, daughter) is a religion that is sometimes considered to have started,
or taken its current specific form, in the 1970s, since that is when it
first
Filianism (the "Daughter Tradition" – from filia, daughter) is a religion that is sometimes considered to have started,
or taken its current specific form, in the 1970s, since that is when it
first became publicly known. Its first recorded modern appearances were
in Britain, although some have postulated a Greek or Asian origin for
its Scriptures and philosophy.
The most prominent characteristics of Filianism are that it:
• Worships God in exclusively feminine form.
• Sees God as both Mother and Daughter.
• Is trinitarian (but in a manner very different from Christianity).
• Is monotheistic (but in the same sense that Hinduism is – see more here) and has a strong angelology, focusing especially (but not exclusively) on the seven "planetary" angels, who are all feminine in form.
• Has a distinct body of Scripture recognized by all Filianists (although several slightly differing versions exist).
• Has a complete thealogy, philosophy, and world-view.
• Like Déanism, to which it is related (see more later), Filianism uses the term Dea for God and does not use the word "Goddess".
What Filianism Is Not
Filianism and Déanism
Cosmology and the Trinity
Comparisons to other Faiths
Thealogy and Philosophy
Calendar and Festivals
Filianism is not an Abrahamic religion.
Filianism is not in any way based on Abrahamic faiths of Judaism,
Christianity, or Islam. It does not use any version of Abrahamic
Scripture. The threefold nature of the Mother God long predates
Christianity, and the Trinitarian aspect of Filianism is closer to the
Vedic Trimurti than to the Christian Trinity. The "Dharmic" rather than the "Abrahamic" religions are actually more typologically similar to Filianism, despite superficial appearances. Filianism is a religion of the Cosmic Harmony (Thamë). However, Filianism does not actually belong to either group.
Filianism is not an earth religion or a lunar religion.
In Filianism the Mother is clearly Solar, while the Daughter is Lunar.
Respect and gratitude toward the earth and its beauty is fundamental to Filianism and
enshrined in its Scripture, but the earth as such is not regarded as a
deity. The relegation of feminine Deity to lunar and chthonic domains is
seen as an aggressively patriarchal redaction particularly prominent in the Western Classical cultures. The embrace of this demotion by some feminists is considered ironic. Much Filianic symbolism is solar and heavenly rather than lunar and earthly.
Filianism is not "New Age". In particular, it
does not accept "Spiritual Evolution" and other hybrids of popularized
physical science projected onto the so-called "spiritual" (actually
psychic) plane. The current age is in fact the Age of Iron, or Kali Yuga and is by definition the least
spiritually enlightened era of the historical cycle. It has often been
noted that the "new spiritual revelations" of the past century and a
half can generally be dated by the pop-science current at the time of
Filianism does not use the term "Goddess"
and therefore is not regarded by its followers as a "goddess religion".
The term "Goddess" is seen as a diminutive of (implicitly masculine) "God",
and sometimes considered to imply the existence of masculine gods. Filianists
use Dea, and sometimes simply God, as the term for God the Mother.
Filianism does not see Dea in "psychological" terms. Unlike some feminist Goddess-religions, Dea is not seen as an aspect of the female psyche, a projection of women's consciousness, or anything of that order. Dea is God, pure and simple. She created, and was not created by, humanity.
Filianic belief does not include masculine gods. While Filianism respects other religions and does not claim to be "exclusively true", within its own economy there is no "father god" figure. All the Janyati (Angels) are likewise feminine in form.
Filianism and Déanism are often mentioned together. The term Déanism means belief in and worship of God (Dea) in exclusively feminine form.
The introduction to the Gospel of Our Mother God begins with a concise statement of the Déanic faith:
The Faith of Our Mother God consists in the acceptance of our Mother-Creatrix as the one Supreme Being, the Source and Origin of all that is, the One without a second, upon whom the existence of anything whatever is absolutely dependent. To know this and to love Her – or even to wish to love Her – is the whole of our religion in its essence.
The term Déanism was intended to define an absolutely thealogically minimal devotion t