SOPHIA TODAY

           Much of Her story is about exile—Hers and our own. 

           It is not surprising that there is a renewed interest in Sophia in the world today.  The patriarchal religions of the world have failed us.  As a species, with our collective spiritual history, we are now at war with ourselves, with one another, and with the environment.  People the world over are searching for a better way, a way home, a peaceful Tao of Wisdom.  One of the first transmissions I received from Her is: “I am Sophia and it is My Time.”  Sophia is Wisdom and it is Her time.

           I have had a general sense of the Presence of Sophia all my life. When I was a child I used to see Her as very sparkling—like a brilliant white fourth of July sparkler shining through a mist of brilliant white radiance . This vision was accompanied by a sense of a “presence” and specifically female. I called her my Shiny Lady and in some way I associated her with my mother—my mother died when I was 9 and after her death I often “saw” her standing by my bed and then I would dream about seeing my “Shiny Lady”.  As I moved into adolescent misery, I moved on and forgot about Sophia until She reappeared about 30 years ago. Since then I have received several very specific ‘transmissions’ directly from Her and these came as poetic praise poems and invocations to Her.  I have also received many very specific instructions from Her—some as Guidance for students, often as Guidance for myself or information about the state of the world or the state of Creation itself, some as pieces of knowledge needed in the creation of a specific class in the Course in Alchemy I was creating. She is always Present in our Superconscious meditations. The Real Magic Course itself was inspired by Sophia.  In this instance she referred to herself as the Mother of Alchemy and you could say that she turned me on to—inspired me to study—Hermes.

            At some point I realized that the inspiration coming through in the praise poems and invocations were actually Her way of showing me and inspiring me to help people access Her in the purest possible way. As a child I never told anyone about Her and have always been very reticent about sharing my experiences. For the past couple of years I have been receiving a clear call that it is time to share my experience of Sophia with others in a more literal way—for She is the frequency that is lacking in the world.  She is Light itself.

            Now I am filled with the desire to share these inspired writings with you.  First I would like to give a general sense of Who She Is.  Most of the information I have about Her came from Her transmissions and it is difficult to find in books the particular sense of Her that comes from this direct communication. I will just give you some general facts as I know them from Her and from other people’s experience of Her.

            Sophia in the esoteric tradition—including Esoteric Christianity—is the Feminine Christ.  She is the Presence in the world of Divine Wisdom, and of Divine Inspiration. Her Esoteric symbols are the white Dove and the white Rose.  In my first experiences of “seeing” Her I would see these symbols of pure, breathtaking beauty.  She is Celestial White, the most radiant Light you can imagine and in Her Superconscious aspect She is a radiant gold—sheets of gold and gold mist. Literally breathtaking. The Beauty of God. And in some traditions Her symbol is the Rainbow—the Goddess of Wealth, Divine Intelligence, and Divine Creativity.  Pure Bliss—the ecstasy of God.

            She is The Mother of Alchemy; transformation itself, through directly realized knowledge.  She is direct knowledge, She does not work through prophets or teachers who translate Her wisdom—She directs knowledge straight to the heart of each being who calls on Her and allows them to experience knowledge as directly realized.  Self-realization is Her Province. 

            Yogananda in his experience of the Superconscious, refers to superconsciousness as the province of Divine Wisdom and he often refers to Divine Wisdom as She.  Sophia is Divine Wisdom. At one time, I had trouble distinguishing Her from the Superconscious until I realized that the Superconscious is both the infinite Christ and also the finite individual spark of Christ Consciousness within each human being and that Sophia is the feminine aspect of  the infinite Christ Consciousness—and they are all one and the same.  She is the Word itself and can speak within all hearts.

            In the Hindu and Tantric Buddhist teachings She is the Shakti—Kundalini—the Feminine God-Force. She is the White Tara and I have often experienced her in the form of Quan Yin—celestial, radiant and serene.  She is Isis—almost severe in the brilliancy of her Radiant, Divine, Intelligence. I have experienced Her in many of the feminine forms of Divinity but She is, to me, always Sophia, my Beloved Friend and Teacher.

            I was once researching Teilard de Chardin and I came across this lovely quotation. I don’t recall if he was speaking about Sophia but he was speaking about his relationship with the feminine aspects of God. It was one of those moments when a poem or a phrase speaks directly to your heart.  I have kept this with me always because to me it is a poem to Sophia. It speaks to me through a full cycle from my childhood when She was my “Shiny Lady” into my adulthood and my rediscovery of Her as Divine Sophia. 

          “For there is a cry more humble and more tender:
           Hasten my Divine Sister to comfort my age.
           Something in my breast is on fire to hear you:
           A slumbering childhood trembles in my heart. 

          This time you will come when winter is here
                     and the briars:
          The mountain has lost its array of flowers,
          But You will bring me Your Divine Tidings.”       

DIVINE SOPHIA ** WHO IS SHE? 

“She is the breath of God, the reflection of God’s glory.”  The ancient Hebrews believed that to look directly at the face of God would destroy the personality and the personality had to stay intact for the creation of life. So Sophia as God’s co-creator took God’s Light and reflected it from Herself and passed it through the Ethers and as She passed through each Vibration, form came into being and all of Creation was born.

Sophia is a Greek translation and literally means “wisdom”—in Hebrew as the breath and spirit of God She is Ruah. As the spirit of Creation She is Potentia (Latin).  Potentia; the All. 

 “Sophia is the Divine Mother, through Her all of creation is born and in Her all of creation is renewed. Sophia is the feminine image of God, not separate from but a unified Divine essence, one with the eternal Holy Source.”    I can’t remember—from a book on Alchemy. 

“She is so pure that she pervades and permeates all things.”

“She is so pure because she was of One Intention and that One is Love which is the highest transmission of Wisdom.”  Transmission from Jesus 

“God is the One Source neither male nor female; Christ is the all-inclusive All; Jesus was the male incarnate All; Mary Magdalene was the female incarnate All—Sophia—the Word made flesh.”  Transmission from Jesus

Hindu—copied and collated from different Hindu sources as I was doing research on the Tantric Dakinis: 

             "She is the Senge Dolma, the Lioness, a protector to those who love Truth, merciless to those who abuse it.

            She is the Scarlet Woman, the Fire of God, the magnetic Shakti, the seductive and alluring Creative Potential which is always, constantly, calling the Spirit onward in its’ longing for Self-Realization.

            She is spiritual homesickness, the desire to return to the Self, the Path of the Heart which requires that you always go the distance and give all of yourself with no thought of return.

            As the Divine aspect of Femininity, She brings abundance and the power of the miraculous, the evolved creative sense.”  

            Sophia provides women with an image of female Divinity that is not based solely on reproduction and mothering.  She is an aspect of the Divine that is based on the intelligence and creative power of higher consciousness.   

            She is Western – venerated by the earliest Christians and by followers of the Hermetic and Gnostic Paths—the Western Esoteric Tradition.

            There are many books written about Her by men who are priests or who are on distinct esoteric spiritual paths.  Could this be because men have more need to incorporate Her qualities of Wisdom and Mercy than do women, and those men who have intuited this, must speak in Her behalf?

            “They” say She was exiled from the patriarchial religions because Her teachings are rooted in life instead of in dogma and intellectual or theoretical doctrine.  Because She ‘hung out’ (like Jesus) with women, in the market place, in politics, in courtrooms, and in taverns, and because She speaks directly within each human soul and does not require a go-between in the form of a priest or ordained minister, Sophia became problematical and excluded from orthodox monotheism.  

            In the Hermetic approach to God, Sophia is the Radiant and All-encompassing Light of Divine Knowledge; the Intelligence of God; the Spark of Divinity within each human soul. It is this Spark of Divinity that gives each human being access to Superconsciousness, therefore, Sophia is the individual Christ Consciousness within each of us and the feminine aspect of the Superconscious All.