Peace be to you.

Did you ever think that there should be a feminine principle in religion?

Just suppose there was nothing about womanhood in religion.

What a rightful protest we would hear.

All religions have a feminine principle.

I have on my desk

a statue that was given to me by a former missionary in China. It is a statue of Kuan Yan.

Kuan Yan, according to the Chinese legend, was a young princess who lived about 500 years before Christ.

And she wanted to dedicate her virginity to God.

And her father killed her.

And according to the legend, a tiger dragged her into hell.

And she began pleading mercy for all of the inmates of hell.

So disrupted hell, so introduced charity, that the devil ordered her out of hell.

So she became to the Chinese Kuan Yan, the goddess of mercy.

Probably just an oriental yearning for some great woman in religion.

Take the Muslims.

Muhammad had a daughter whose name was Fatima.

She died at a very early age, and Mohammed mourned her deeply.

And he wrote concerning her, of all the women in heaven, she is the most blessed next to Mary.

Did you know that the Quran of the Muslims has over 40 verses in it

concerning our blessed mother?

They believe in the immaculate conception. They believe in the Immaculate Conception.

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