“Oh, magnify the Lord with me. Come, let us exalt his name together!” (Psalm 34:3)

This book is a travesty and heretical to its core. If I don’t begin with that, I fear you’ll question my Christian sanity.

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I read this book only because I had to. As I work among churches in Southeast Asia, I have come across inklings of the so-called “Mother God Cult” (particularly in Vietnam) and I need to be more aware of what they’re peddling.

This false belief has been infiltrating churches whose leaders remain untrained and who fail to keep their noses planted firmly in God’s Word. It’s convincing some new believers away from the faith. It flies beneath many Christians’ radar, because it uses Scripture—well, it actually abuses Scripture, but for those who lack discernment, “If it sounds right, it must be right.”

In this review, I only want to introduce the concept of Mother God and highlight of few of Sylvia Browne’s more damnable heresies. I do so in an effort to bring awareness to this cult, which otherwise gets very little press (thank God!). If you have friends or family dabbling in this scum, I hope this review makes you aware of how truly filthy this belief system is.

The Mother God Cult in a Nutshell

In essence, this cult teaches that God is not a trinity (Father, Son, Spirit) but rather a duality (male, female) who were both involved in creation. It pains me even to write these words, but she blames the Jews, afraid of losing their power, for erasing the female deity from Scripture and promoting the male deity (Yahweh). Candace Owen must love this woman!

To her credit, Browne helped me along in my research by admitting up front that she first learned about this heresy from her own demon-possession. Try to hold your vomit (and your bricks) as you read this confession:

Francine, the spirit guide who has been with me all of my 67 years, has always professed the Mother God’s (Azna’s) power. Long before this research started, Francine gave information about Azna to my ministers and our Gnostic congregation, through me, in trance sessions. Francine was naturally effusive in her praise about the Father God, but she also told us that if we were Gnostic Christians, we should share our knowledge about the Mother God and try to resurrect Her, as Christ would want us to do. (34)

Mental Gymnastics and Strained Brains

Although Browne was taught this cult by her demon, Francine, she defends its merits through apparent logic. In her attempts to justify this heresy with Scripture, she runs to Genesis 1:26 as her proof, a verse that the Jews apparently forgot to delete. She writes:

I don’t think it’s illogical to believe that both a male and a female created humankind in their likeness. So we see in Genesis that Mother God was either a part of God or co-created with God as a god or goddess unto Herself. (12)

Who is the “us”? Why, if God was only a male principle, would a female human have been created? I find it hard to comprehend why believing in a female principle would fly in the face of any religious belief, especially Christianity, since Christ above all the messengers elevated women. (26)

She doesn’t stop here, of course. She also takes King Solomon as a hero, a beaming example of a Jew unafraid to worship the mother goddess. And I genuinely cannot begin to untangle the knots she creates with these mental gymnastics:

I Kings 11:1–8 confirms Solomon’s love for many women—his 700 wives, his 300 concubines, (boy, was he kept busy!), and how he worshiped Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites. He even built an altar for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon. Considering the wives that Solomon had and his many children, his goddess worship seems to have worked…The story goes on to report that God was angry with Solomon for petitioning these other gods in the sight of Jehovah. As an aside, we have to ask ourselves, if God has this kind of pettiness or jealousy, is He as perfect as we must believe He is? (13)

Damn the language! Save the soul, but damn the heresy!

Browne makes further twists and turns to convince her readers of this cult’s validity, so it’s no surprise she resorts to this circular reasoning:

If nothing else, the fact that the Mother God keeps showing up—rising and falling, but still surfacing in almost a universal consciousness—points to the logical conclusion that She exists. (29)

With this as her foundation, she draws this even more ridiculous conclusion on the nature of mankind:

If there is a God the Father who always was, there was also a Mother God. For that matter, there were also all of us. The Father and Mother Gods are perfect, so They just didn’t decide one day to make Her or us. We all always were. (61)

Conclusion

I’m making myself ill just writing this review, so I need to quit. Damnable heresies don’t deserve press, I get that, but God commanded us through Paul to expose the darkness (Eph. 5:11), so that’s my only point here.

Never dabble in belief systems that minimize our glorious Creator, the one and only God who is Himself is Father-Son-Spirit. Instead, “Oh, magnify the Lord with me. Come, let us exalt his name together!” (Psalm 34:3)

I feel like I need a spiritual bath, so I’ll close in a way I don’t normally close a book review, with the Doxology (Rom. 16:25-27):

Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith— to the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.

©2026 E.T.