In the Judeo-Christian tradition, God is normally thought of as masculine. The designation “Father” is often used.

As women began to take an active role in religious and spiritual public life, the discussion about God as Mother emerged. It is natural for this to happen. Any interpretation of God is made from the beliefs of a human being; therefore, visions of God are almost always anthropomorphic. A woman would like to investigate her understanding of God from her own feminine perspective.

If you are able to imagine God without gender, you would be imagining the undifferentiated energy of God. Due to the duality that exists in the world (Mother-Father, man-woman), it would be almost impossible to think of God without gender.

Amma the Divine Mother is the concept of God from a feminine perspective. Abba is the masculine aspect of God and Amma the feminine.

A student of Qabalah (also spelled Kabbalah and Kabbalah) understands the energy of the Divine Mother as a differentiation from the undifferentiated energy of God. Think of it as the Creative Force of the Universe. She is representative of the soil or uterus from which physicality springs.

Just as women need man’s energy to produce life, Amma cooperates with the Divine Masculine, the Divine Father, to produce physicality. The Divine Father provides the energy that stimulates life. The Divine Mother holds within her pure potential of physicality. The Divine Father activates the potential.

The various religious traditions have representations of the energy of the feminine aspect of God. The Blessed Mother of Christianity and Quan Yin of Buddhism have similar attributes of comfort and compassion, two prominent characteristics of the Divine Feminine. Love and compassion are the fertile ground for change and therefore rebirth.