THE WOVEN UNIVERSE #940 - THE ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH: BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE BUREAUCRATIC MIND

A Heavenly Appointment

In my last post, we looked at how New Zealand can bypass toxic, imported culture wars by returning to the original frequency of our ancestors. I shared how anchoring our communities in whakapapa, manaakitanga, and hauora helps us see people as part of our collective whānau rather than numbers in a state system. To understand how this works in a spiritual sense, we can look at a powerful meeting recorded in the Book of Acts. It is a story about breaking down human barriers, showing how a person who did not fit into typical societal categories was fully embraced into the family of God, in fact, the first non-Jew to be baptised.

This encounter shows us that divine inclusion does not wait for a centralised government to sign a piece of paper.

Erasing the Colonial Imprint

The Ethiopian eunuch was a high-ranking official who ran the treasury for the Queen of the Ethiopians, yet because of his physical differences, he sat outside the traditional boundaries of religious and social structures of that era. (The Jewish and Roman cultures of that time both subscribed to binary gender roles, with non-binary people being marginalised.)