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ABORTION RITES - Jesus is Savior

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holy trinity which included a feminine aspect. She called th<strong>is</strong> thirdperson of the trinity, “Heavenly Mother.” 23 According to Stanton, it<strong>is</strong> to her, as well as to God, women should pray. Women need toidentify with a female godhead, Stanton explained, for the “elevationof woman to her true position.” 24 In 1895, femin<strong>is</strong>t Lillie DevereuxBlake wrote th<strong>is</strong> of Eve: “She was Life,the eternal mother, the first representative of the more valuable andimportant half of the human race.” 25Compare Blake’s view of Eve to femin<strong>is</strong>t spirituality author,Patricia Lynn Reilly’s exaltation of Eve publ<strong>is</strong>hed a century later in23Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Comments in Genes<strong>is</strong>,” in The Woman’sBible, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Rev<strong>is</strong>ing Committee, 14­16 (NewYork: European Publ<strong>is</strong>hing Company, 1898), http://www.sacredtexts.com/wmn/wb/,also available in print (italics mine).24Ibid.25Lillie Devereux Blake, “Comments on Genes<strong>is</strong>,” in The Woman’sBible, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Rev<strong>is</strong>ing Committee, 26­27 (NewYork: European Publ<strong>is</strong>hing Company, 1898), http://www.sacredtexts.com/wmn/wb/,also available in print (italics mine).42

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