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Huston Smith Reminds Us Why Language Fails When It Comes to Mysticism

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Carl McColman
Feb 25, 2026
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A lot of people get worked up in a variety of ways about how we use gender to talk about God. God the Father, Divine Mother, Mother-Father God, King, Lord, Goddess… the list goes on. Almost everyone has a pretty strong opinion about all this (and almost everyone, it seems, has at least one way of gendering the Divine they can’t stand, never mind that fo…

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