Saturday, May 26, 2012

Sophia Re-Emerging For Me....

New Forest, England ~ Summer Solstice ~ 1971

Sophia re-emerged for me brighter than the noon day sun.

"Now it was the darkest hour before dawn, the hour, they say when only the wise can see;
That a sense of awe did awaken and mystify me.
Descending from a throne, on a pillar of clouds, in royal splendor ~

An image of feminine divinity, I did see and I fell in love with Her beauty as I saw face to face the most magnificent symbol of the spirit of solace and grace. 

"Instantly.  Totally.  Inescapably.
Indescribable, immeasurable, unconquerable and impervious to time, was this beauty of the Love above all loves, that connected her heart and mine.

And in the silence of her reflection, of what was, and is, and forever more will be;
I felt the power of the Queen of Enchantment, Herself unchanging, fill me from within, make me new, and Love did consume and conquer me."


quotations from 'My Sister the Unicorn' @1988 by Aurora Terrenus

Friday, May 25, 2012

island lady

                                      Island Lady

After a head-on-collision that totalled my car and almost totalled me, I was resting in bed trying to read "The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation" when I opened to a page that said, "forget everything that you have ever read."  So I closed the book and began meditating during my prescribed periods of rest.
Excruciating pain kept me from resting peacefully but I continued my meditations.  During my meditations, a beautiful island lady, old and full of years, appeared walking on a solitary silver sand beach with the ocean softly lapping away her footprints in the sand.
I did not know her; I only knew that whenever she appeared, she lifted me in body and spirit.
A year and a half later, still in pain, I was walking on a deserted beach in Hawaii.  As I turned to return home, I noticed one path of footprints in the sand and they were my own.
Ancient Hawaiian legend says if you step into the footprints of another, you may get their karma.  So usually when I walked on a beach with footprints, I would dodge the footprints.
But this day, as I turned, I stepped into my footprints on the beach and in a magical moment I knew they were the footprints of the island lady that I had seen walking in my meditations.  Now I was the island lady walking on the beach ~ she and I were one ~ and I was healed. 

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Great Mother of Peace Prayer

On our altar we have a Peace Candle.
In the daily lighting of this candle, we offer this prayer:

O Great Mother of Peace,
in the names of your children
and the children of your children,
We light this candle.
In reverence, in honor,
in gratitude and in remembrance of you.

O Holy Mother, O Spiritual Mother
of the Divine Spark of Light
that you reflect and ignite in our souls,
Be here now.

We are called the Peacemakers,
Blessed are our ways.
We are known as the true children
of Divine Love and Divine Wisdom,
your spiritual children on Earth.

O Holy Mother, gather all of your children
and grace us with Peace on Earth now.

In extinguishing the candle:
O Holy Sophia,
May the sacred smoke from the fire
cover the earth like a mist,
May all people and nations
be under your influence and power
So that we might understand
the true meaning of love
and fulfill our dreams for Peace on Earth now.
Amena.*
c. 1990. Aurora Terrenus
The Holy Order of Wisdom
(Also included in John Matthew's book, "Paths to Peace")


Amen is a Hebrew word that means 'truly'.
Amena is an Arabic word that menas 'to make complete'.
Because we feel that it is the divine feminine that is lacking
to make the world complete, we use Amena at the end of our prayers.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

"Called 'Hypatia' .. a towering abstract sculpture of a nude woman is cut from slabs of steel and shows the outline of a graceful woman with full breasts.  It is named after a female mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher of ancient Alexandria.  A placard on the statue notes that Hypatia was murdered by people 'who considered her one of the defenders of paganism and the Classic era, but she was actually a victim of fanatic ideologists."
The sculpture of Hypatia is in the "Library of Alexandria, a gleaming, modern facility that opened in 2002 a short distance from the site of its Ptolemaic predecessor, the most significant library of ancient times."
National Geographic, May 2012
A footnote to "IS LOVE STRONGER THAN DEATH?"