This is one of the most vigorous 'Lady Liberty' images of human life's feminine principle/power. And it was created and presented by Americans. It was met with much social criticism in 1917.
The psychological/spiritual image of the feminine principle occurs in cultures and religions throughout the world from the beginning of human consciousness. But until recent history our Western countries have been dominated for millennia by the contrasting masculine principle. It includes dominating, conquering and penetrating power against a foe. In contrast the feminine principle insists on mutuality, respect, equality and cooperation among humans.
This 1917 American coin can be seen as a forecast of the evolutionary rise and increase in the expression of the feminine kind of power in America and the world. We can now historically observe just what a difficult time 'she' would have in inserting her ideals to compensate for the embedded masculine dominating ones in Western cultures.
But there is no evolutionary or spiritual reason to think her trend will be stopped. Evolution and history have named it as essential for world hope and survival. 'She' is the needed balancing change that has been so much missing.
The images of the feminine principle have arisen from the Collective Unconscious worldwide from the beginnings of human history. A most powerfully articulated pre Civil and World Wars one is from the amazing German writer Goethe. The closing line in his epic work Faust (1829) profoundly says, " And the eternal feminine shall lead us onward."
Goethe's creation also can surely to be taken as a prediction of the strong hopeful and healing rise of the feminine principle in the world. Importantly, not to dominate the essential masculine principle but to bring necessitated saving balance and equality to our fractured human world.
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