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A few years ago I delivered the Sunday sermon at my local Unitarian Universalist church. I spoke on the “Divine Paradox” which can be reconciled within Hermetic philosophy. That paradox is between the apparent separateness we perceive here in the physical world, and the underlying truth of our Oneness within Spirit. In Hindu faiths they call that illusion of separateness Maya. Other facets of this paradox ask questions related to the gender of Spirit being the full range from God to Goddess and all the variations in between. According to the ancient Hermetic texts, that range of gender possibility is also found within humans, who were made in the image of our Divine Parents. In Witchcraft we sometimes call them The Two Who Move as One, and I abbreviate them as God/dess. There was a children’s story-telling time as part of that UU service, so I re-wrote the Hermetic “Genesis” story for those children and read it aloud to them. I called it “Pymander the Rainbow Dragon.” Click the button to continue reading…