Quoting: Jolly Toddler
I've noticed that you refer to the Creator as HE (male). Is there a reason for this? Isn't it the Feminine aspect that is the creator of life (as above, so below)? After all, even here on Earth, we all start out as females in the womb. The gender change happens at a later stage.
Earth is a typical Patriarchy, i.e. it's a "men's world." However, if we go way way back in history, this was a Matriarchy. Thus, why is God/Source almost always referred to as male, even by you?
Good questions.
Neither the feminine nor masculine aspects of the Creator are specifically responsible for the creation of life. It is a synthesis.
The Masculine archetype typically creates; the Feminine typically destroys. This does not make one or the other good, bad, or better than the other. These are also merely archetypes. They are not set in stone, so to speak.
The typically-Masculine creative impulse is necessary, as there are things that are not that should be. The typically-Feminine destructive impulse is necessary, as there are things that are that should not be. Both of these synthesize to create the Ideal. Without one or the other, Nothing would be at all.
Think of a beautiful song. With only the unmoderated typical Masculine impulse, this song would not be "beautiful" as there would be no pruning or selection of what the song would consist of. Likewise, with only the unmoderated typical Feminine impulse, too much would be pruned.
I refer to the Creator as masculine for two reasons.
1) I am male. Most of my communion with the Creator has been of an archetypically Masculine nature. My soul calling is of a Masculine nature, and I have not incarnated as female for many lifetimes.
2) Many of the religious traditions common in the Western world, which is the majority of us participating in this dialogue, also refer to the Creator as "He." I do this as well for ease of communication.
Keep in mind, we are not discussing the differences between men and women. Nor are we implying any superiority, inferiority, or definitive-ness of the Masculine and Feminine archetypes and their derivatives. Men and women do indeed tend to align more closely with one archetype than another, but both men and women manifest via both the traditional Masculine and Feminine archetypes. However, the content of the Masculine and Feminine archetypes are vast and much more complicated than my short, incomplete summary above, which is intended to briefly outline one of the roles the typical Masculine and Feminine archetypes play in the Creator's process.