My Sister The Unicorn
On the wings of the blue pelican, I want to fly away with you to the planet Anamorphon, where all things begin anew.
Where you will discover that which you are seeking is also seeking you.
You will find Peace and Love will set you free as soon as you enter the Charis Galaxy.
We come together, Children of Light, to the unsleeping radiance of the planet of no night.
No death, no mourning, no crying, no pain, no evil knows the way there.
It is the knowledge of indescribable goodness that all pure and innocent hearts share.
Sounds as if life on Anamorphon is quite different from the way life is on earth, wouldn't you agree?
But those on Anamorphon, in plain view we can see the day on earth this prophecy will come true:
All hearts will live and love in peace and when this is true, the pelican will turn blue!
Come fly away with me to the future and we will look back in time and see it all happen in our hearts and in our minds.
"Absurd" at first they said and then in amazement, they shouted, "It most certainly is true ~ the pelican is blue."
A momentous event, as before the earth had never seen, the radiant light of a miracle, they even noticed that I am green.
I am a green lion, a thinker and a poet, too, I might add and parts of the story I am going to tell are very very sad.
The opposite of sad is happy; that you know without a doubt ~ it's the secret of what makes you happy that this story is all about.
Now if we begin at the beginning, not necessarily in a visible, bodily gathering, but in a jubilous, magical atmosphere.
If we press our hands together in silence; say the the magic words and believe; a wonder of wonder will fill our hearts and the invisible will appear.
If I become you and you become me. Magic words, 'philo-soffi'. As you believe so let it be.
I believe, actually, I know eyes have seen and ears have heard and hearts have imagined the beauty of transformation with one word: Love!
Love the gladness of joy and unity, without and within, is, will be and has always been the elixir of life, my treasured friends.
I love the idea of two co-eternal, co-equal principles coming together instantaneously.
Two powers like Love and Wisdom synthesizing and setting all hearts free! It has happened in you. It has happened in me.
I am at this moment of connection, the embodiment of Immortality. Wholeness. Radiance. Harmony.
My first love, the love above all loves is the first time I saw Beauty! I fell in love with her.
And at that magical moment, all things came together simultaneously. I knew I was Free!
You and I know this feeling of Love that happens for the first time just like it did before and in our daily lives, we see it happen more and more.
And we begin expecting Miracles. Miracles are physical manifestations of dreams that come true.
Wondrous, magical, magnificent dreams, like the one that brought you. A starburst, a moonbeam, the whole golden sun, I got all three and only wished for one.
So remember this, my darling dears, when you wonder what dreams can do, for it is the fulfillment of a dream that I speak with you.
I thank the stars for you every nite, for like the stars in the darkness, you are light.
You and you and you and I do shine when that inner light of divine love connects your heart and mine.
Now I speak from my own experience, which is called numinous, because that is when a divine spirit encounters us.
I was ferocious, blood-sucking, the king of the jungle and great because greed and anger and jealousy made me hate.
Now there's a word with a lot of power. Have you ever noticed how many hearts hate can devour?
Mine was one. A wise philosopher, a green lion, I am today, but I have not always lived this way.
May I have another moment of your precious time to tell you one marvellous story, of the transforming power of the spirit of Love in all its glory?
For the record, this story did transpire to enlighten lives and enrich them and to inspire:
Crystal Lake glistens like a prism of crystals, dazzling and clear. An awesome feeling pervades and permeates the glowing atmosphere.
Inscribed in stone, this haunting message:
One Unforgettalbe, Unbelievable,
Most Beautiful Unicorn Spotted Here.
All creatures of the jungle did journey to this reverent hiding place not only to drink from the lake but to see face to face the most magnificent symbol of the spirit of solace and grace.
Not I. A Lion. It is not in my power to sit and wait. Remember, I am King of the Jungle, ferocious, brutal, cruel and Great!
All the little delicate creatures that arrive at Crystal Lake, I eat whole, devour. I suck their blood and chew their bones, hour after hour. But the creature I wanted to kill more than any other was this beautiful unicorn.
All the little creatures would chatter and wait to feel the incredulous aura of magic that emanates from her horn. I kept hearing things like,
"In the permeating, all-encompassing luminous light of her love, we cannot die.
Soffi, the Unicorn Queen is at once earthly and divine, simultaneously, she is all things combined. She drinks from the waters of Crystal Lake with her horn, this magical, mystical, magnificent unicorn."
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, the unicorn Queen, Soffi, I did see and I fell in love with her beauty. 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.
Incredulous, she did not stoop to fill her horn with the water from Crystal Lake, as the little creatures had surmised.
Instead, her horn filled the lake with water. I saw it all with my own disbelieving eyes.
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.
"I see the light brighter than the light of the sun. It emanates from your heart, Golden One.
I see the dawn of a new beginning in your eyes. I see the lodestar of Love, I see you are wise.
It has been written, a ferocious, brutal king, a lion, finds Peace on Earth through the transforming power of Love and lives in peace with the lamb and the dove.
And becomes known as Philo Philosophorus, the wisest of the wise, for he sees the unseen and speaks the unheard of.
Philo becomes wise, not by the standards of some passing age but by the ageless, lucid beauty of the wise sage.
Timeless, he begins to travel with the light-giving Spirit of every age.
One lion becomes wise and the world attains Peace. One heart, humble and free.
Interior insight and invincible strength begins the understanding between you and me.
The greatest power is Peace is the revelation of the inner spirit. So if powers are to reign supreme, let Love be your King and Wisdom be your Queen.
Then will be the dawning of the New World-Wide Renaissance, for manifest in the essence of your being, inside you now is the philosopher's gold.
You discover what you have always been:
The Resplendent One, of prophesies foretold."
Aurora Terrenus (C) 1988
The Re-emergence of the Goddess...
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Sophia of The Bible by Aurora Terrenus
Sophia of the Bible
(The Spirit of Wisdom)
by Aurora Terrenus
Sophia is the Greek word for Wisdom in the
original Greek of the Bible
Interpreted and Compiled
by Aurora Terrenus
copyright 1980, 1988
This book is dedicated to the
Spirit of Sophia in You.
Contents
Foreword
Book I ~ Introduction to Sophia 1
Book II ~ Search for Sophia 9
Book III ~ Blessings of Sophia 31
Book IV ~ Uniting Power of Sophia 57
Epilogue
Passages taken from these Books of the Bible
Old Testament
Genesis Psalms Exodus Proverbs Job Ecclesiastes
Old Testament Apocrypha
(Book of Wisdom) (Book of the Church)
Wisdom of Solomon Ecclesiasticus
New Testament
St. Mark I Thessalonians
St. John Hebrews
I Corinthians James
Ephesians I John
Philippians Jude
Colossians Revelation
Foreward
It seems as if in the holy books of every great religion or philosophy there is an expression of magnanimous Love for Wisdom.
In the eloquent poetic prose of The Holy Bible, from the first book of Genesis, to the last book of Revelation, including the Apocrypha (which actually means 'from the secret, hidden'), She appears.
From beginning to end, like the thread woven into a tapestry, She weaves in and out of Biblical history and yet is always there. She is the thread that connects and holds together the magnificent tapestry of Love. When the tapestry is turned and shown, She is Wisdom.
More dazzling in her brilliance than any constellation, She is the adoration of the wise. Never has one, who has seen Her, not fallen in love with Her beauty; for He who loved and loves Her foremost, is God, is Love.
Who is She, this eternal Queen of Heaven, this mirror of Love? Can She be the embodiment of Wisdom, Sophia? There are many great and scholarly interpretations of the Bible, in which She is Wisdom. This is the first interpretation of the Bible by a poet and philosopher (lover of Wisdom) in which Wisdom is Sophia. (1980)
All the passages about Sophia are not included; study your Bible for others. The passages that are included in this interpretation are included to complete the idea of Sophia, as the holy feminine spirit. This symbol of perfection is the most precious spirit the world could now know, love and honor.
Book I
Introduction to Sophia
Proverbs 4:4-9
Treasure these words in your hearts: Sophia is above all things. Seek Sophia and become wise. Know Sophia and She will keep you safe. Love Sophia and She will comfort you. Embrace Sophia and She will make you great. Sophia will give you the golden crown of beauty, grace, and glory.
Proverbs 8:1-12
Does not Sophia cry to us? And when we have understanding, do we not hear Her voice? Sophia stands at the highest pinnacle on the mountaintops. All ways and paths to the divine illumination of Wisdom lead by Her to Her heights.
Sophia weeps at the gates of the entrance to the city: "O children, to you I call. That my voice might reach you and the children of your children. You, who are unknowing, can know Sophia. You, who are fools, can become wise.
Hear me, because I speak of exalted things. From my lips come words of the greatest glory.
My word is Truth. All of my words are of the spirit, pure and noble. My words are self-evident to the wise. My words are true to those who find knowledge.
Welcome my teachings more than silver. Welcome my knowledge more than gold.
Sophia is more precious than rubies;
And of all things in the world, to be desired, there is nothing more worthy than Sophia.
I, Sophia, am Wisdom."
Proverbs 8:14
"I am a counsel of true Wisdom. I am Understanding. I have strength and power."
Proberbs 8:17-21
"I love those that love me. Those that seek me shall find me. Riches and honor are my gifts; yes, gifts that are unsurpassable. My gifts, my fruits, are of more value than lustrous silver or pure gold.
I lead the way to Truth, by the most discriminating intellect. I exalt those that love me and fill them with my treasures."
Proverbs 8:22-26
"The Lord and I, Sophia, were together, in the beginning, before time began. We were together, before His works of old. We are the everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth ever was.
When there was nothing; no hills, no mountains, no water, no earth; I, Sophia, was there."
Proverbs 8:27-35
"I, Sophia, was there when the heavens were prepared. I, Sophia, was there when the compass to the depths was placed on the face of the earth.
I, Sophia, was there when the clouds were established.
I, Sophia, was there when the fountains of the deep were strengthened. I, Sophia, was there when the foundations of the earth, were appointed.
Then I was with Him, Co-Creator, separate and one with Him. I was daily His joy, preceding and leading Him, always rejoicing.
On the earth, I rejoice with the children of our children.
Come to me, my children, that I may bless your ways. Know me and be wise. I will bless those that hear me.
Whoever finds me, finds life and shall dwell forevermore with Love and Wisdom."
Book II
Search for Sophia
Ecclesiasticus 24:34
Truly, my heart and soul search for Sophia has not been for myself alone, but for all seekers of Sophia.
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 1:16
Sophia is a divine spirit devoted to the good of all living souls.
Ecclesiastes 2:12-22
I began my contemplation of Sophia by comparing Sophia, madness and folly. I perceived that Sophia is more valuable and more beneficial than folly; As light is more valuable and more beneficial than darkness.
The fool walks in darkness and obscurity. The wise have eyes that see the light.
Yet I saw that both the wise and the fool are destined to the same death.
So I lamented and said to myself, I will also suffer the fate of the fool. For what reason, have I to be wise? What is the meaning of life?
Why should I spend my life searching for Sophia? Even this search for Sophia, I said to myself, is vanity.
The wise are remembered no longer than the fool. For as the passing days multiply, all are forgotten. At last, I observed, the wise and the fool die the same death!
What good is Sophia then? I found no answer; so I came to hate life. Everything that was to be done here on earth, under the sun, was stress and strain, a burden and a drudgery to me.
Emptiness was all around me and it seemed, as if, I was chasing the wind. I came to hate everything about my life here on earth, under the sun, since I would labor in vain and have to leave the wealth of my existence to my successors.
What sort of character will they have, those that will succeed me? Who knows whether they will be wise, one with Sophia, or a fool? Yet whatever they are, they will be the authority and heir of all the wealth of my labor in this world.
Why should they inherit all that another has acquired? This is vanity and despair.
Ecclesiastes 2:22-25
What is the reward for us? What is the reward for all of our labor, our seeking, our striving, our struggles to be wise and just, here under the sun?
All life long our mission on earth sems to be pain and anger; even at night, the mind knows no peace. This too is absurd.
There is nothing better than to eat and drink and enjoy oneself in return for all one's labors. Yet I realized that this comes as a gift from God. For without God, who can enjoy their food, or who can be anxious?
James 4:14
Otherwise you do not know what will come tomorrow. For what is your life, a bubble, that appears for awhile then disappears?
Ecclesiastes 2:26
God gives Sophia and knowledge and joy to those who please him. While to others is given only the task of gathering and amassing worldly wealth that can only be handed over to someone else who pleases God. This too is vanity and chasing the wind.
Ecclesiastes 8:1
Who is wise enough for all of this? Who really knows the meaning of life, of anything?
Job 4:21
How much longer will men die, vanish forever, without even seeking Sophia?
Job 3:20-23
Why is light given to those who live in misery? Why is life given to those who remain bitter in their souls? They actually long for a death that does not come, and seek death, as if, it were a hidden treasure.
They rejoice and are exceedingly glad when they can find their graves. Why is light given to those who are disappointed in God?
Ecclesiasticus 2:14
The heavy heart of bitterness befalls you who have given up the quest! What will you do when your Lord calls you?
Job 3:24-26
Personally, I cannot eat without sighing; and groans pour out of me like floods. The things that I have feared the most, have come upon me. I know no peace, no safety, no rest, no quiet; only troubles.
Job 11:7
So, I asked: "Can one by searching find God?"
Job 28:12
Where then can Sophia be found?
Job 28:14-20
The depth said, "Sophia is not in me." The sea said, "Sophia is not in me."
Sophia cannot be bought with gold. Sophia is worth more than silver. Neither gold nor jewels can equal the value of Sophia: the worth of Sophia is greater than these. Tell me, then, I asked: "How and where will I find Sophia?"
Job 28-22-23
Death and destruction said that they had heard with their own ears, the fame of Sophia. They said: "Only God knows the way to Sophia and how to become wise."
Proverbs 1:7, 9-10, 15:33. Psalms 111:10. Job 28:28
And God said: "Sophia? The reverence and love of God is the beginning of Sophia."
Job 11:5-6
O, if only God would speak to you. Open his lips and tell you, and show you the secrets of Sophia. That her secrets are greater than anything that is.
Job 32:7-8
I said, Days should speak, and the multitude of acquired years should teach individuals about Sophia.
There is a sacred feminine spirit in all individuals; the inspiration of the All-knowing makes them wise.
James 1:5-6
If any of you seek, desire, or lack Sophia, ask of God, that gives with open arms to all that ask, and Sophia shall be given to you, shall be known to you.
But ask with sincerity in Faith.
Hebrews 11:1
Now Faith is the promise of things hoped for, the proof of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:13
Many of God's friends and holy prophets have died in Faith. Not having actually received the promises, not having seen the proof of them, but being assured of them, and this assurance convinced and persuaded them, embraced and loved them, and helped them accept that they were pilgrims on the earth.
Ecclesiasticus 51:9
Thus, I did send a prayer up from the earth. And I begged to be saved from death.
Ecclesiasticus 51:13
Frankly, I asked specifically for Sophia in my prayers.
Ecclesiasticus 51:20
I set my heart on being endowed with Sophia.
Ecclesiasticus 51:22
With Sophia comes the advantage of being enhanced with understanding from the beginning.
Ecclesiasticus 51:27
See for yourself what small price I have paid, compared to the great wealth and noble peace, I have found.
Ecclesiasticus 24:1-2
Listen to the good words and blessings of Sophia, from her own mouth, as She speaks, worthy of praise and adoration among her people, in the presence of the Most High and in the gathering of the heavenly host:
Ecclesiasticus 24:3-4
"I am the Word which came from the mouth of the Most High. Like a fine mist, I embrace and softly cover the whole earth. The sanctum of my home was in heaven; my throne was in a culmination of clouds. Alone I did circle the sky and pass through the depths of the abyss."
Ecclesiasticus 24:6
"The waves of the sea, the whole earth, and every people and nation were in my influence and power."
Ecclesiasticus 24:19
"Come and draw near to me, you who love me; and live on my wealth."
Ecclesiasticus 24:9
"Before the beginning of time, I was; and I shall remain forevermore."
Ecclesiasticus 24:32-33
"I will fulfill my prophecy of peace and bequeath it to all future generations. Once again I will make peace shine brighter than the dawn, and not one will not see the light."
Ecclesiasticus 24:28-29
No man has ever completely known Sophia. From the first man to the modern man, not one has been able to explain or solve her mystery completely. For her thoughts are greater than the ocean and her intent is greater than any abyss.
James 3:13
Who is wise and enlightened and endowed with the knowledge of light among you? Let them express with words of Wisdom their works with the serenity of Sophia.
James 3:17
Sophia is holy, is divine, is pure, is peaceable, is gentle. Sophia is filled with compassion. Happiness comes to you when Sophia is called by prayers with sincerity and love.
Ecclesiastes 9:1
I applied my mind to all this. I understood that the wise are bound together in the love of God.
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 8:16
With Sophia in my heart, I find peace. There is no conflict with Sophia. When Sophia shares my life with me, there is no pain. With Sophia, I know only gladness and joy.
Job 4:6
Does your religion, your faith, your piety give you encouragement, comfort, confidence, guidance? Does your way of life give you hope?
Ephesians 1:16. Philippians 1:3. Colossians 1:3. I Thessalonians 1:2
Every day I make mention of you in my prayers. Because of your love, I give thanks for you, unceasingly, in my prayers.
Psalms 55:17
Evening, morning and at noon I pray, unceasingly, I pray.
Ephesians 4:3
Endeavouring to keep the oneness of the spirit in the circle of Love and Peace and Wisdom.
Jude 1:21
Keep yourselves always in the love of God.
Ephesians 5:9
You are the light.
Ephesians 6:23-24
Peace, Love, Wisdom, Faith, Grace and Immortality are yours.
Ephesians 2:17
Proclaim the good news! Peace to you!
Book III
Blessings of Sophia
Ephesians 3:7
I was made a minister by God's gift of Sophia. Bestowed, unmerited on me in the working of his power.
Proverbs 4:4
My children, let your hearts treasure these words:
Ephesians 2:22
You are being built into a spiritual dwelling for God.
Ephesians 5:18
Let the Holy Spirit fill you.
Ephesians 4:23
You will be made new in mind and spirit.
Ephesians 5:4
Be thanking God.
Ephesians 1:18
That your inward eyes may be illumined.
Colossians 2:2-3
That your hearts might be comforted and bound together with the promise of love and peace that comes with the riches that Sophia brings.
That your hearts might know and understand the secret of God; in whom all the treasure of Sophia abound.
Ecclesiasticus 6:22
Sophia is entitled to the divine right of her name, for She approaches the elect.
Proverbs 4:7
Sophia is the guiding spirit; therefore seek Sophia; and in all your seeking, you will become wise.
Ecclesiasticus 4:11-12
Sophia elevates her children to honor. Sophia has the tender passion of a mother's love for those who seek her.
All those who love Sophia love life; to begin immediately to be her disciple is to be filled with happiness and joy.
Ecclesiasticus 4:13
All those who attain Sophia will rise to majestic fame; they will walk in the light with the blessings of the Lord.
Ecclesiasticus 4:14-15
All those who become her disciples serve the Holy One. The Lord loves those who love Sophia.
Ecclesiasticus 4:16
To all those who have faith in Sophia; She will be their heritage and the inheritance of their children.
Ecclesiasticus 4:17-18
At first as She leads you on the way of transformation, through your doubts and fears; her complexity might baffle you, until you trust her with all of your heart. Then She will approach you and fill you with happiness as She reveals her secrets to you.
Ecclesiasticus 4:19
But if you alter your course and deviate from her ways, She will abandon you in the next world.
Ecclesiasticus 6:18
My children, seek the holy order of Sophia while you are young, and She will remain with you until your hair is white.
Eclesiasticus 6:19
Cultivate her like the farmer cultivates the fields, and reap her generous harvest. You will work a little while, but it will not be long before you are eating her fruits.
Ecclesiasticus 6:20
How arrogant She is to the ignorant. The fool cannot endure her; like a heavy stone She encumbers him, and quickly, he pushes her away.
Proverbs 27:3
A stone is heavy, but the bitterness of a fool is heavier still.
Proverbs 13:9
The light of the wise shines forever.
Proverbs 16:32
More power has a person of Wisdom than one who rules a city.
Ecclesiasticus 6:27-28
Invite Sophia into your life now, and She will come to you. Once you follow her, at no time, let her go. In the end, you will find the peace She gives; Sophia will become a delight and joy to you.
Proverbs 24:13-14
My children, eat the honey, that is good; and as the honeycomb sweetens your lips, so shall the knowledge of Sophia sweeten your souls.
Once you have found Sophia, you will know Immortality and Eternal Peace.
Proverbs 16:16
Better the gain of Sophia than gold!
Ecclesiastes 7:12
For Sophia is an answer, and money is an answer; but the value of the knowledge of Sophia is Sophia gives eternal life to those that know her and love her.
Ecclesiastes 7:11
Sophia is generous with her blessings; and those that see the light of the sun inherit her abundance.
Proverbs 8:35
Sophia says: "Whoever discovers me, discovers the essence of life, and shall receive all the blessings of the Lord."
Proverbs 16:7
If your ways please the Lord, he will make even your enemies to be at peace with you.
Ecclesiasticus 6:14-16
A faithful friend is a safe sanctuary; whoever finds one has found a unique treasure. A faithful friend is priceless; their worth is beyond measure.
A faithful friend is an elixir of life, and all those with a reverence and love for God find such a friend. They love others and themselves.
(The book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 5:12-14
As an arrow is shot at its destination, the parting of the air is not seen, and one does not know where the arrow has gone through.
So is our life; we are barely born and before we know it, we cease to be.
Does our life show the path of peace or destruction?
The hope of the godless is like the leaf in the storm, like the flurry of smoke that the wind scatters, like the memory of a one-day guest, soon forgotten.
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 5:15-20
But noble souls live forever; their reward and appreciation comes from the Most High.
The Most High keeps them safe in his care. They shall receive the royal crown of glory and beauty, a gift from the hand of the Lord himself.
He will keep them safe with his right hand, and protect them with his arm. He will put his love on for armour, and make creation transform his enemies.
He will wear the armour of justice on his breast, and his helmet shall be his jugdment; holiness will be his shield, and all the world will unite with him and Sophia.
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 6:1-3
Listen now, you who have the governing power of authority. Be wise and take caution. Hear these words.
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 6:9
I speak to you that you might know Sophia, and not lead your people to destruction, but live in peace and prosperity with Sophia.
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 5:21-23
There is a power greater than your authority that will strike like a bolt of lightning, upon those who do not honor Sophia.
If any of you who govern nations appreciate your positions, it is time now for you to honor Sophia.
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 7:14
Sophia is an inexhaustible treasure to all. Those who acknowlege and love her become God's friends, exalted to him through her teachings.
I John 4:1
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God; because many false prophets go out into the world. Seek Sophia, so that you can discern the spirits.
St. John 1:23
In the words of the prophet Isaiah, I said: I am a voice crying out in the wilderness, crying:
Ephesians 1:7
That God, the Father of glory, may give to you, the spirit of Sophia.
St. Mark 14:38
Truly, the spirit is ready, but the flesh is weak.
I Corinthians 1:10
Now, brothers and sisters, I beseech you, by the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all agree, and that there be no divisions among you; but that you be perfectly joined together in heart and mind.
I Corinthians 1:13
Is the symbol of Christ divided?
I Corinthians 2:7
But we speak the Wisdom of God in a mystery, even the secret of Sophia, which God has given to us for our glory.
I Corinthians 2:12
Now we are speaking of, not the spirit of this world, but the spirit which is of God.
I Corinthians 4:20
For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
I Corinthians 4:21
What is your desire? That I come to you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of Sophia?
I Corinthians 2:1-3
My brothers and sisters, I come to you with love and the truth of God. And I try to make sure that I do not think about anything, except Jesus Christ, crucified.
I Corinthians 2:8
If any of the princes of this world knew Sophia, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
I Corinthians 2:4
I stand before you weak, and trembling with fear, praying that you understand that the words, I speak to you, are not enticing words of worldly wisdom, but the words of Sophia of the Spirit of God.
I Corinthians 2:6-7
I speak words to move you. Those that are wise understand the words, for they understand we are speaking not of the wisdom of this world, of some passing age.
We are speaking of Sophia, an inexhaustible spiritual power, impervious to time, that is, will be and has always been with God.
I Corinthians 2:9
It is written: Eyes have not seen, nor have ears heard, nor have hearts imagined the wonders that God has prepared for those that love him.
I Corinthians 2:12
Now we are receiving the Spirit of God in Sophia.
I Corinthians 4:5
My judge is the Lord.
Exodus 3:14
And God said, "I am that I am."
Exodus 31:1-3
And the Lord said, "I have filled them with the Spirit of God, in Sophia."
Genesis 1:2
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Genesis 2:4
In the day that God made the earth, the heavens, and every plant of the field.
Proverbs 3:19
The Lord with Sophia by his side has founded the earth; and has established the heavens with this understanding.
Proverbs 3:17-18
All the paths of Sophia are Peace. She is a tree of life to those that find her; and happy is everyone that loves her.
Proverbs 3:16
Long life is in her right hand; and in her left hand are riches and honor.
Book IV
Uniting Power of Sophia
Proverbs 8:12
"I am Sophia."
Proverbs 3:14-15
To the wise, Sophia is more treasured than any jewel; of all the things that can be desired on earth, there is nothing worth more than Sophia.
Proverbs 7:4
Call Sophia your sister. Say to Sophia: you are my sister. My sister Sophia.
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 7:6
For all of us, there is one solitary way into life ~ one solitary way out of life.
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 7:7-8
For this reason I prayed and I was given understanding; I offered up prayers and the Spirit of Sophia came to me. I love Sophia more than sceptre and throne; and I considered riches as nothing compared to her.
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 7:10-14
I loved Sophia more than beauty or health. I loved Sophia more than the light of day, because her light is radiance that never sleeps.
In her presence all good things came to me, for in her hands are infinite riches. I loved all the gifts Sophia gave me, but at the time, I still did not know her as, the Mother of Life.
I share this with you, all of this newly acquired knowledge and understanding, so that you too can know that Sophia is an inexhaustible treasure for the world. For all those who know and love Sophia will become God's friends.
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 7:21
All of this, the secret and the obvious, I have learned because Sophia was my teacher; Sophia, the Mother of All.
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 7:22-24
Sophia is a holy Spirit. Sophia is unique, intelligent, light-giving, diverse, energy, pathos, feeling, guardian.
Sophia is comforter, kind, active, benevolent, beneficent, omnipotent, unchanging, ever-present.
Sophia is peace, all-loving, all-wise, all-knowing, entering and filling all intelligent, pure and beautiful spirits of light.
Sophia transforms. Sophia is so pure that She flows, pervading and permeating all things.
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 7:25-26
Sophia is the inspiration of the power of God, the true and pure out-pouring of his glory. Nothing that is not pure can enter her.
Sophia is the idea of eternal light. Sophia is the perfect reflection of God's image and power of goodness.
Proverbs 1:1-7
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:
To know Sophia and her teachings; to know She speaks words of understanding.
To receive the holy order of Sophia, justice and equity; to give subtlety to the simple, to give knowledge and choice to the young.
The wise will hear, and will increase their learning; the wise will attain wise counsel.
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation. To understand the words of the wise and their sayings.
The beginning, the first step to understanding Sophia is to love God.
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 7:27-28
Complete in her oneness, united in her completeness, altogether, indivisible, Sophia can do any and all things.
Herself, unchanging, She can change all things; She makes all things new.
Sophia appears to the elect. She lives in the holy souls of all ages and makes them wise: God's friends and holy prophets.
Those that live with the peace of Love and Wisdom are blessed. God loves those that live with Sophia.
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 7:29
Her radiance is more dazzling than the noonday sun, and the magnificence of her light outshines all of the constellations.
Sophia is the light above all lights. For the light of day surrenders to the darkness of night, but the light of Sophia is impenetrable and indisoluble.
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 7:30
Sophia has the power to unite the world; to pervade and permeate all hearts with the inner light of love.
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 8:1
I love Sophia. I have searched for her all the days of my life. I have longed and aspired to be one with her.
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 8:2-3
I fell in love with her beauty. There is not one who has seen her that has not fallen in love with her beauty, her radiance, her harmony.
Her nearness, her proximity to God, is in accord with the magnificance of her noble beginning:
Sophia is loved by the God of Love. Sophia is loved by the God of All. God loves Sophia.
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 8:3-4
Truly, Sophia is co-eternal, co-existing with God.
Sophia is the teacher that can resolve the mysteries of God's knowledge. For God confers with Sophia on all he is to do.
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 8:5-9
If life is to be an acquisition of wealth, who holds greater wealth than Sophia, who is co-creator of all things?
If life is to be a challenge of the intellect, who holds greater Wisdom than Sophia, herself, who is Wisdom?
If life is a love and quest for Truth, why, Truth is one of the gifts of Sophia.
Sophia teaches the way to self-knowledge. Sophia is the inspiration of genius. Sophia is harmony and peace. Sophia is courage and strength in serenity.
Of all the things needed in life, what is of more value than these?
If life is an adventure of great experience, Sophia knows the past. Sophia can predict the future. Sophia knows what has happened and what will be.
Sophia can interpret oracles and solve riddles and mysteries. Sophia has foreknowledge of omens and signs.
Sophia has foresight of miracles and wonders, of beginnings and conclusions, of this age and all ages.
Thus, it was that I resolved; that I set my heart, on having Sophia come into my life; and live my life with me.
Knowing She would counsel me in prosperity and good times. Knowing She would comfort me in grief and troubled times.
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 8:13
By the grace of Sophia, I shall know Immortality, and shall leave the sustaining and unforgotten memory of Sophia to all those who follow me.
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 8:16
With Sophia in my heart, I shall know Love; for where Sophia reigns there is no bitterness.
With Sophia in my heart, I shall know Peace; for where Sophia reigns there is no conflict or pain.
With Sophia in my heart, I shall know Happiness; for where Sophia reigns there is only gladness and joy.
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 6:12-17
Sophia is luminous light and never grows dim. Sophia appears and is easily seen by those who love her.
Sophia is found by those who seek her.
Sophia is able to foresee those who desire her so She makes herself known to them.
Seek Sophia now and you will always overcome adversity; you will find her waiting for you.
Just thinking about her brings understanding. Hope for Sophia and expect her to be with you. Just think of her and pain and fear will automatically leave you.
Sophia wanders the earth looking for you, who are deserving of her.
In soft-hearted graciousness, She will appear to you as you go; coming to meet you in your every thought.
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 8:17-18
In my inner thoughts and in the depths of my heart, I did understand and know that the loving existence with Sophia brings immortality; that pure peace comes with the friendship of her love; that inexhaustible riches come from working for her in the cultivation of her holy order of Wisdom.
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 8:19-20
I searched the world over looking for Sophia, asking and wondering, how I could unite with her. How I might become wise, and then I realized it was a paradox:
One must ask for Wisdom. But one must have Wisdom to know for what to ask.
And it was an indication of the beginning of Wisdom to understand from where Sophia comes.
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 8:20
Seeing and understanding this, I did kneel and bow my head in sacred awe and with all my heart and soul, I prayed:
(The Book of Wisdom) The Wisdom of Solomon 9:1-4
God, of our fathers, give us Wisdom who sits by thy throne.
Send her down from the holy heavens that we might understand the true meaning of Love, and fulfill our dreams of Peace on Earth.
That the old order of death, mourning, crying and pain might end.
That we may always hold bright the promise of a new beginning.
Revelation 22:17
And the Spirit and the bride (Sophia) say, "Come!" Let each who hear say, "Come!" All who wish to accept the drink of immortality, Come!
Revelation 22:12
"Behold, I come now!"
Revelation 22:13
"I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end."
Revelation 21:1
Truly, I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and earth existed no more.
Revelation 21-2
I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from heaven, coming down from God. Elaborate and beautiful, as a bride adorned for her husband.
Revelation 21:10
Here is Sophia!
Revelation 21:23
The new city has no need of the light of the sun nor the moon to shine in it; for the glory of God ~ Sophia ~ did lighten it!
Revelation 21:3
I heard a great voice out of heaven saying:
Revelation 21:3-5
"Behold, God and Sophia are with you. You are the children of Light. Every tear will be wiped from your eyes.
There shall be no more death; nor sorrow, nor crying, nor pain, for the holy order of Sophia is here. Behold, all things are made new! Behold, A New Beginning!"
Epilogue
This is one beginning of the divine validation of Sophia, the dawn of light that renews the living soul of mankind. As a holy spirit that lives within, Sophia lovingly transforms energy making known the Spirit of Love. Lovers of Wisdom know the union with Sophia to be the great calmness of mind and heart known as the philosopher's noble peace.
Glory gives the Light and the Light cannot be contained. The Father of Love and the Children of Love hold reverent the Mother of the Light of Life and the world-wide Renaissance is Peace.
Peace begins in You. It is a simple formula. It is a divine task.
It is a divine task for you to be a torch-bearer; to ignite and keep aflame, even a tiny flicker of Hope that the world might attain Peace.
It is a divine task for you, for one heart to be free, frees all other hearts with a connecting link of Love.
It is a divine task for you to aspire to walk the path of the wise, to know Love, and to Love Wisdom.
It is a divine task for you to fulfill the prophecy of Peace on Earth.
It is a divine task that will be; for it is written:
The Second Paradise Will Come In You.
Sophia of the Bible
Sophia is the Greek word for Wisdom used in the original Greek of the Bible. Out of nothingness, She appears, more radiant than the noonday sun. The beauty of her presence engulfs us and lifts us to new spiritual heights.
Individually and collectively, we will soar with the Spirit of the Wisdom figure, Sophia. Our hearts will be glad, as yes, we discover the Spirit lives within!
Sophia is all-pervading and all-encompassing; in darkness, She is Light; in chaos, She is Wisdom; in you, Sophia is a holy Spirit.
Saturday, January 18, 2014
The Goddess Appears ~ an interview with Aurora Terrenus by Lona Lyons
The Goddess Appears An Interview with Aurora Terrenus
by Lona Lyons
Part I: 1971-1991
"I am the Word which came from the mouth of the Most High. Like a fine mist, I embrace and cover the whole earth. The sanctum of my home was in heaven; my throne was in a culmination of clouds. Alone I did circle the sky and pass through the depths of the abyss. The waves of the sea, the whole earth, and every people and nation were in my influence and power. Come and draw near to me, you who love me; and live on my wealth. Before the beginning of time, I was; and I shall remain forevermore. I will fulfill my prophecy of peace and bequeath it to all future generations. Once again I will make peace shine brighter than the dawn, and not one will not see the light."
~ Sophia of the Bible
Lona: Something happened to you over twenty years ago in England. (Summer, 1971) How did it all begin?
Aurora: Through wonder. It was a time of turmoil in my life. I was wondering about the meaning of life and asking, "Is this all there is?" In the times of your greatest need, when you are in the first phases of your spirituality, something comes to you from another dimension that no one has ever defined or explained and it is a wonder. Over 20 years ago, my husband, my children and I were camping in the New Forest in England. It was very pristine. There were wild horses and a mare had just given birth to her colt nearby. At 4 o'clock in the morning I got up to check on the colt and a vision of Light appeared to me.
Lona: Can you describe it?
Aurora: It was like Light coming in the form of a female Divinity. She had wings like an Angel and defied gravity. It was the most wonderful feeling because it verified something that I knew. I knew there had to be a Divine Feminine and it was confirmed by Her. She said, "I love you. Love me. I am Sophia."
Lona: Was Her voice an audible tone, or something you heard in your head?
Aurora: I still don't know. I know that this image of Divinity is something that we project and it's something outside of us and inside of us. I know that it's the integration and coming together of all that we're striving for.
Lona: How long was She with you the first time?
Aurora: Very briefly. She left me like She found me, but the sky was all lit up. She was instantly gone.
Lona: What did you do after Sophia left?
Aurora: I woke my husband and children and told them that I had just had a vision of the most incredible being of Light that identified Herself to me as Sophia. I had great faith and peace in this being, who is Queen of Heaven, the Mother of all beings. I needed to know more about Her but I wasn't apprehensive. I just needed to have the remembrance of that vision and become one with Her.
Lona: Did you wonder, "Why me?"
Aurora: I did wonder. I grew up in a Greek Orthodox tradition. My father was a Greek immigrant and my great-grandfather was a priest and scholar who was brought over from Greece. The mother church of Christendom was in Constantinople (now called Istanbul). It was the mother church of the Orthodox and the Catholic and was called, Hagia Sophia, which means, "Holy Wisdom", or "Sacred or Divine Wisdom'' in Greek. In church, the priest would say, "Stand and attend Holy Wisdom, stand and attend" (Hagia Sophia). I used to ask my mother, "Who is She?"
After the vision, I started doing research on Her. Pythagoras, the Greek mathematician, was the first to call himself a philosopher because he was a lover of wisdom. He was the first to speak of the transmigration of the soul, which is one of the forms of renewal or rebirth or resurrection. That was astonishing to me because he lived in about 300-400 B.C. At the same time, it was one of the bloodiest times in Chinese history, and King Wen and his son, Duke Chou, were working with the I Ching, also known as the Chinese Book of Wisdom. All great spiritual teachers have understood that our rebirth is spiritual. The rebirth is with Love and Wisdom. Love is the androgynous male principle and Wisdom is the androgynous female principle.
Lona: Are you saying that, traditionally, when we think about the Supreme Being, God, that what has been left out of our awareness is the Goddess, the counterpart?
Aurora: Yes, the feminine face of God.
Lona: What has been the impact on us?
Aurora: Rather than dwell on the negative, I would like to state the positive effects of Her. She is the Healing Spirit, the Comforter. She is the mind of all yogis. She is the spirit of Christ. She is the Spiritual Motherhood of the Rebirth. Acknowledging Her and understanding the integration of Wisdom as a symbol of the Self in our path reconnects us with all the things that are of importance: vision, poetry, heart, feeling and intuition. Nothing needs to be said about the value of Wisdom. In the Eastern traditions, I found eight paths to Wisdom along with the masculine and feminine deities that seem to be lacking in Western Spirituality. In the Greek Bible, it says, "I Sophia was there when the Heavens were created." In English, it says, "Wisdom stands at the gates of the city and speaks, 'Come to me, my children'."
Lona: Please trace your experience with Sophia over the last 40 years. What happened next?
Aurora: Many synchronistic events. I started documenting the feelings and thoughts that were emerging and I found myself having a communion and dialogue with Sophia. When I finished my morning meditation, I would spend an hour or two just jotting down my thoughts. My book, The Shroud of Sophia, started as a stack of papers that were dialogue with Her. At the same time, I was looking for Her everywhere. The first book I found was Carl Jung's Memories, Dreams and Reflections, which mentioned Sophia. Through reading the Bible, I began to understand that She was in Western Spirituality, but she had been shrouded - a secret. At that time, I traced Her back to Heraclitus, about 400 B.C. Solomon wrote of Her in "The Song of Solomon", (or whoever the author of Proverbs was). The Nag Hammadi (Gnostic Gospels) which were discovered in 1945, have Sophia, Godfather/Godmother. I came upon Erich Neumann's book, The Great Mother. The last chapter is titled, "Spiritual Transformation: Sophia." Hermes' invocation was to Sophia: "Holy Wisdom, children of Wisdom, rejoice there is no death." There was a chant, "Holy Wisdom, have mercy on us."
From 1971, when I had the first vision, until 1985, I was virtually alone in my search. If I went to a priest or talked to someone, they would say it was heresy. They would say, "Divine Wisdom is not a feminine spirit. Divine Wisdom is androgynous." I would say, "I agree, but so is Love, and still you say, 'he', and I'm a 'she'. I can't identify with that." This is a treasure I've found that the world should know about. It's very important for the human psyche because without this symbol of hope and unity of the Divine Feminine, I don't see how we're going to get into our wholeness and our Oneness. When you think about the fact that the most popular books in the patriarchal world are about abuse and addiction, it's apparent that something is missing. She is the giver and the gift of Wisdom. She is the Way. She is immortality, greater than any earthly treasure. When I use the "She", that seems to offend some people. It should actually be a Revelation.
In 1985, I found out about a meeting of 350 scholars at Occidental College of Religious Studies. The door was closed for lack of space, not for lack of scholars, to come and talk about the spirit of Sophia. There is considerable documentation and verification of more than one person having this vision of Sophia, the Divine Feminine Spirit. Caitlin Matthews is the author of a book entitled Sophia, Goddess of Wisdom, The Divine Feminine, From Black Goddess to World Soul. She has traced Sophia from the scholarly approach back through history to the present day. (Look for me in there too.)
Lona: What do you know about other people seeing the vision?
Aurora: I went to San Jose, California to a bookstore and while there, I asked them if they wanted a copy of my first book about Sophia. The book buyer said, "I don't know what you mean." I said, "If you have a metaphysical or religious or insprational part of your bookstore, you will want a book about Sophia." As I said that, I looked up on the shelf and there was a book with Sophia in the title: Sophia, the Future of Feminist Spirituality. It was written by three Methodist ministers. In the book, they said that Sophia was the Holy Spirit and might be equal to Christ. In their talks and workshops, the idea of having a Feminine Divinity to identify with had helped abused women. I went home and called one of the authors. I asked him, "How did you come upon Sophia?" He said, "For 20 years, I studied Her from the scholarly approach. Then I had a vision and now I'm in communion with Her everyday." He told me that he and his co-authors were going to be teaching a class on Sophia at Claremont Theological School.
Lona: What was your experience of Sophia while you were writing The Shroud of Sophia?
Aurora: I was feeling Her presence and She continues to come to me in the form of vision. Sometimes I want to say, "Turn around right now, you can see Her." She's always been my friend in time of need.
Lona: Is She here now?
Aurora: She's here. Do you know that feeling when you get the chills because Spirit is moving you or calling you?
Lona: Do you actually see Her now?
Aurora: Yes, I see Her in you.
Lona: Describe that.
Aurora: Imagine the most beautiful woman in the world, who is Wisdom incarnate, leaving the realms of Love and coming to earth. Can you imagine the reception She would have? I cry because I know it happened. I know that She has come to earth many times and has many manifestations. She's in all of us. She's the Spiritual Mother. Solomon says, "In Her right hand are riches, in Her left hand is honor." She comes with true inheritance, the immortality of each soul. The word for psyche in Greek is "soul". In the beginning, when people were distressed and didn't know the meaning of life, they went to a psychic healer, which would have been the equivalent of what we now call a psychiatrist. The psychic healer was the priestess or priest and would treat you if you were in distress and had lost your soul. It was very common among Native American tribes and ancient traditions. In other words, it meant that you had lost contact with your empowerment. So the priestess or the priest would take you to the temple. When the Spirit appeared, you were healed. It was like a vision quest.
The Pistis Sophia, which is one of the lost books of the Bible, means Faith in Wisdom or Faith in Sophia. The story, which is thousands of years old, is that She is on earth, locked in matter and it's up to us to let Her out. Our bodies are matter, and She's the spirit locked in us. One can't say that this is just for women and children because they need Angels, fairies or goddesses. Three-fourths of my mail comes from men.
Lona: What do the letters say?
Aurora: My correspondence includes letters from royalty, priests, ministers, nuns, Jungian analysts, prisoners, artists, corporate presidents, students, scholars and many others. Here are some excerpts from letters that came from all over the world: ~"Thank you for introducing me to the spirit of Sophia. She comforts me in the homeless shelter." ~"Thank you for Sophia of the Bible. It has helped me overcome my fear of death." ~My Sister the Unicorn has given me a view of what peace could be and I am reconciled with my terminal illness." ~"The Shroud of Sophia has made me proud to be a woman in what has always seemed to be a man's world. ~"Thank you for introducing me to Sophia. I have searched for Her and couldn't find Her. Now She seems like an old, dear friend, reaching out with love for me. It seems I have known Her forever and only by Her name have I been able to acknowledge Her."
Lona: What is important for people to understand about Sophia?
Aurora: Sophia is Divine Wisdom. She is the symbol of Self, a symbol of wholeness and Oneness. She is the Divine Feminine of the androgynous unity of Love and Wisdom. Without Her there is no symbol of wholeness of the Divine Feminine in the human psyche. We need that image in order to have an integration or synthesis of opposites, the coming together of the male and female of the Divine and the earthly. We need a recognition that there is a Divine Feminine. It's not only logical and rational; it's the feeling/intuitive side of our hearts that is crying for this.
There is a myth of Antaeus, which means "besought with prayers." He was the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea, and Gaia, the earth. All his strength came from touching his mother, the earth. I think that our strength comes from touching the Mother, the earth and the Mother, the Spirit. We're withering and dying in our souls without this nourishment, comforting, and healing of the Spiritual Motherhood. In the Native American traditions, there's a legend in the Cherokee Hills of Georgia that when an Indian is buried in his mother, the earth, and his body returned to her womb, then his spirit rises. We are the spiritual children of Divine Love and Divine Wisdom and our rebirth, renewal resurrection, or transmigration of the soul, is that connection. Anytime we're down and out, that Spirit is going to come. The alchemists say, "Even in your darkest hour, rejoice, because in the darkness, and the deeper the darkness, the closer you are to the Light." That is the Light of Wisdom.
Think about the myths of heroes and heroines. They go off and find the treasure. It's not the heroes and heroines that don't find the treasure that we hear about. It's the ones that come back from the depths of the dragons. They had to fight. Not only do they seek it, they pull out the sword, the country is restored and the grass grows green again. Sophia is the heroine of the holy tradition. She keeps the secret of Wisdom.
Lona: I think about my own orientation of God as the Source of All That Is, and that everything is composed of that One Energy. Where does Sophia fit into that?
Aurora: God is the One Energy and It's the Divine Energy. It's the androgynous Energy, because God is All Things. Where Sophia fits in is that She is the complement in the composition of the androgynous unity. We have heard for thousands of years of the androgynous unity of God, the Oneness of God, but we've only heard of the andro, the male part. The gynous is the female or feminine face of God. Therefore, our whole image of God is changed. Now we have a softened image of God as Love and Forgiveness. In these 2000 years since the birth of Christ, we've dwelled on the masculine. There's a secret that's been pushed back. How much power does She have that the patriarchy is so afraid of Her being revealed to the masses? She is androgynous and masculine. The union produces the new anthropos - the new person - the spiritual rebirth.
Lona: What does Sophia continue to say to you?
Aurora: She told me to come here and talk to you.
Lona: How would you describe your relationship with Sophia and what role does She play in your life?
Aurora: She's the Guide and Protectress.
Lona: How are you aware of Her Guidance?
Aurora: Usually through manifestation or some synchronistic event or miracle, something that I can't deny. I've learned to depend on Her because She's my Higher Self, as She is anyone's Higher Self. Maybe for some people it would be instantaneous, but for me, it's taken time.
Lona: I'm sure that you've been in awe a lot of times in all these years. What are some of the things that leave you in awe?
Aurora: One of the main things is Her re-emergence through the people who are following Her, seeking Her, and coming out with works about Her. So many scholars and philosophers and mystics have come to know Her as their spiritual Mother. There is a hypnotherapist in Atlanta who uses my books in her therapy. She works with abused families and she gives The Shroud of Sophia to the men becausee they can relate to metaphor and the symbols. She does the healing with them through symbols and the idea of the Divine Feminine aspect in the women they live with.
Lona: What is the relationship of Sophia to the widespread phenomenon of self-hatred?
Aurora: She's the harmony and the balance we lack. If we could be our True Selves, we couldn't hate. We would be love and compassion and understanding. Self-hatred is lack of understanding of the powers we have, and what we are responsible for, and what is beyond our power that we have no control over. I think we have the image of the Divinity and then, all of a sudden, we're hating ourselves becausee we let something happen that we thought all along shouldn't have happened; we think we could have controlled it. And the truth is that it wouldn't have happened if we could have controlled it. I've learned to imagine, or image Wisdom's Light, because that's how She appeared to me. In your darkness, or in your self-hate or self-doubt, what is it that you're hating? You're not hating your True Self, because your True Self is beauty and compassion, Love and Wisdom. You are the wholeness, the holiness and the Oneness that you have always been. That is your True Self. In the ancient days we would have taken you to the temple if you would cry for help. But when you get in the trenches or the grips of that, sometimes you can't cry for help. That's why it's so important that we have this direct experience of the Divinity within ourselves. In the ancient days, the pain was recognized as a loss of soul. If you hate yourself, it means that you have lost communion with the Divinity. You're just a leaf on the earth, you're being trampled on and abused. You're lost, confused, and what are you lacking, like Humpty Dumpty, that would put you back together again? Your soul emanates from within and fills you, so the more you are in contact with the Spirit, the more you're becoming a being of Light. When you are radiating, nothing can cover that Light. The Light's going to shine through the darkness and that's how Wisdom relates. Where Wisdom reigns, there can be no conflict. Hate is a conflict, a separation, a lack of understanding, a lack of wholeness, a lack of holiness, as is anguish or despair. Shine the Light of Wisdom when those times come. Learn to image Her as the Light.
Imagine this: You have a Great Spirit Mother and you are Her child and She loves you when you are in need. You're down here all alone; that's how you come in and that's how you go out. You need Wisdom in life and you need Wisdom in death. You need the bridge that's going to take you over into the land of the immortal ones. You know those god and goddess stories of the mortals seeking immortality? Really, that's us, playing them out. She lives within you, this Queen of Heaven, this Great Goddess, this Spiritual Mother who knows the answers to all the questions of life. Take Her your problems She's on Her throne in all Her power and all Her glory and you can just feel the burden fall away. You have Her promise of Life, you are a reflection of Her beauty, you are seeing the Goddess face-to-face and you are the Goddess. She's your Mother. You're beginning to grow into the spiritual woman that you are and have always been. Let Wisdom shine in the darkness. Always call on Wisdom. Always call on that Light because there is no reason for you to hate yourself. We weren't put here to judge. We were put here to emanate the Light of our Divine Spiritual Parenthood.
Lona: You said you started a church with priests and priestesses.
Aurora: I've started a non-profit organization called The Holy Order of Wisdom. It's a Wisdom school and there are priests and priestesses. We have certain ceremonies that we perform, for example, a Crowning Ceremony. It is a reconsecration of your wholeness and Divinity. The crowning is the crown of Love and Wisdom, which is the crown of victory. It's always been a symbol of the complements: harmony and peace; wholeness and holiness; compassion and understanding; beauty and enlightenment; courage and grace; purity and goodness; immortality and androgyny. It's a symbol of the Divinity of your being and the Spirit in matter.
Here is the invitation that is the beginning of the Crowning Ceremony that we do in church: "This is the coming together of opposites and the highest manifestation is when Heaven and Earth meet. I would like for you to be a priestess/priest in the Holy Order of Wisdom. This requires no more than what you have always been ~ beautiful, holy and whole in Spirit and Soul. So Wisdom will give you wings and Truth will set you free, and Love will return the Kingdom-Queendom that is your true inheritance. Amena." (Amena is a derivative of an Arabic word and means, "to make complete".)
It doesn't have to be with a church, just the body and the soul, the temple of your body. Our first responsibility is to ourselves, to become holy and whole. It's so wondrous to me because Sophia is a gift in my life. She just appeared. I don't know why, but She has saved my life many times. After all these years, I still had to go through a windshield in an automobile accident to understand, but now I understand.
One of my friends said that he'd never heard me say anything about the person who hit me in the two years of my recovery from the automobile accident. I didn't want to sue and I wasn't angry. I saw that the other driver wasn't looking and she hit me head-on. I had an out-of-body experience as I went through the windshield. The sun was out and I knew that it was a beautiful day to die. When I came back, there was stillness and peace and silence, right there on the road in the shambles. I'd already made up my mind that I was going to follow this path and not worry. You know how you sort of hesitate about who you tell what you're doing? After the accident, I understood even more that is my path and I have come back to tell everybody, ready or not, willing or unwilling. The incredible thing is the number of people who love this idea and whose lives have changed.
My daughter has a friend whose father was killed in a motorcycle accident. She had just made a reconnection with her father for the first time in 17 years and a month later, he was killed instantly. She was very distressed and she wrote to tell my daughter about it. My daughter didn't know how to respond because this girl had been in a mental institution at one time because of her father's abandonment. My daughter sent her The Shroud of Sophia. The girl read the book over and over for 3 days and then called my daughter and said, "This book has healed me, this idea of the Divine Feminine. It's given me the understanding that I was lacking."
One time, I was in Atlanta at a New Age Fair. Some young men had a gorgeous, black abalone shell that I wanted. I asked them if they would be interested in trading it for some of my books and they agreed. The next day, one of them approached me with a box in his hand. He told me that they had met a Shoshone Indian in Oregon named Lone Eagle. They made friends with him and learned that he lives on a reservation nine months out of the year making jewelry, and for three months, he goes out and travels. When Lone Eagle visited them on their farm in Tennessee, he gave them the box which was now being given to me. Long Eagle told them they were going to meet a very spiritual woman who would talk to them about things that they hadn't heard about, but would know about. "I know of her," Lone Eagle said, "through my spirit guides, and when you meet her, I want you to give her this box." Inside was a pair of beautiful, white feather earrings. Wherever I go I say, "Lone Eagle, I love you."
One day, a woman was cutting through the center of the New Age Fair to get to her hotel room. She saw me standing there with the books and she said, "Sophia has been appearing in my meditations for 3 years and I didn't know who or what She was. Just the name has been appearing. What does it mean? I was told to read a book that I was supposed to find." She lived in Alabama in a spiritually desolate place. I told her about Wisdom and I said, "Take these books because I really don't know of any other books on Sophia." She said, "I don't have any money so I'll send off for them." I insisted that she take them as a gift. She cried and said that nobody had ever given her anything like that. About 4 hours later a man came up to my booth and introduced himself to me as her husband. He said, "I went back to the hotel room just now, and for the first time in 3 years, I found a new woman. I can't begin to tell you what this means. She's been living so isolated and alone and now knows the meaning of what's going on."
In Birmingham I had a display of my books. A girl came over and put her head on the table and started crying. She said, "I had an experience of a Spirit talking to me during my meditation and I said, 'You can't leave me without a name!' And the Spirit told me Her name was Sophia."
"Behold, God and Sophia are with you. You are the children of Light. Every tear will be wiped from your eyes. There shall be no more death; nor sorrow, nor crying, nor pain, for the holy order of Sophia is here. Behold, all things are made new! Behold, A New Beginning!" Sophia of the Bible
by Lona Lyons
Part I: 1971-1991
"I am the Word which came from the mouth of the Most High. Like a fine mist, I embrace and cover the whole earth. The sanctum of my home was in heaven; my throne was in a culmination of clouds. Alone I did circle the sky and pass through the depths of the abyss. The waves of the sea, the whole earth, and every people and nation were in my influence and power. Come and draw near to me, you who love me; and live on my wealth. Before the beginning of time, I was; and I shall remain forevermore. I will fulfill my prophecy of peace and bequeath it to all future generations. Once again I will make peace shine brighter than the dawn, and not one will not see the light."
~ Sophia of the Bible
Lona: Something happened to you over twenty years ago in England. (Summer, 1971) How did it all begin?
Aurora: Through wonder. It was a time of turmoil in my life. I was wondering about the meaning of life and asking, "Is this all there is?" In the times of your greatest need, when you are in the first phases of your spirituality, something comes to you from another dimension that no one has ever defined or explained and it is a wonder. Over 20 years ago, my husband, my children and I were camping in the New Forest in England. It was very pristine. There were wild horses and a mare had just given birth to her colt nearby. At 4 o'clock in the morning I got up to check on the colt and a vision of Light appeared to me.
Lona: Can you describe it?
Aurora: It was like Light coming in the form of a female Divinity. She had wings like an Angel and defied gravity. It was the most wonderful feeling because it verified something that I knew. I knew there had to be a Divine Feminine and it was confirmed by Her. She said, "I love you. Love me. I am Sophia."
Lona: Was Her voice an audible tone, or something you heard in your head?
Aurora: I still don't know. I know that this image of Divinity is something that we project and it's something outside of us and inside of us. I know that it's the integration and coming together of all that we're striving for.
Lona: How long was She with you the first time?
Aurora: Very briefly. She left me like She found me, but the sky was all lit up. She was instantly gone.
Lona: What did you do after Sophia left?
Aurora: I woke my husband and children and told them that I had just had a vision of the most incredible being of Light that identified Herself to me as Sophia. I had great faith and peace in this being, who is Queen of Heaven, the Mother of all beings. I needed to know more about Her but I wasn't apprehensive. I just needed to have the remembrance of that vision and become one with Her.
Lona: Did you wonder, "Why me?"
Aurora: I did wonder. I grew up in a Greek Orthodox tradition. My father was a Greek immigrant and my great-grandfather was a priest and scholar who was brought over from Greece. The mother church of Christendom was in Constantinople (now called Istanbul). It was the mother church of the Orthodox and the Catholic and was called, Hagia Sophia, which means, "Holy Wisdom", or "Sacred or Divine Wisdom'' in Greek. In church, the priest would say, "Stand and attend Holy Wisdom, stand and attend" (Hagia Sophia). I used to ask my mother, "Who is She?"
After the vision, I started doing research on Her. Pythagoras, the Greek mathematician, was the first to call himself a philosopher because he was a lover of wisdom. He was the first to speak of the transmigration of the soul, which is one of the forms of renewal or rebirth or resurrection. That was astonishing to me because he lived in about 300-400 B.C. At the same time, it was one of the bloodiest times in Chinese history, and King Wen and his son, Duke Chou, were working with the I Ching, also known as the Chinese Book of Wisdom. All great spiritual teachers have understood that our rebirth is spiritual. The rebirth is with Love and Wisdom. Love is the androgynous male principle and Wisdom is the androgynous female principle.
Lona: Are you saying that, traditionally, when we think about the Supreme Being, God, that what has been left out of our awareness is the Goddess, the counterpart?
Aurora: Yes, the feminine face of God.
Lona: What has been the impact on us?
Aurora: Rather than dwell on the negative, I would like to state the positive effects of Her. She is the Healing Spirit, the Comforter. She is the mind of all yogis. She is the spirit of Christ. She is the Spiritual Motherhood of the Rebirth. Acknowledging Her and understanding the integration of Wisdom as a symbol of the Self in our path reconnects us with all the things that are of importance: vision, poetry, heart, feeling and intuition. Nothing needs to be said about the value of Wisdom. In the Eastern traditions, I found eight paths to Wisdom along with the masculine and feminine deities that seem to be lacking in Western Spirituality. In the Greek Bible, it says, "I Sophia was there when the Heavens were created." In English, it says, "Wisdom stands at the gates of the city and speaks, 'Come to me, my children'."
Lona: Please trace your experience with Sophia over the last 40 years. What happened next?
Aurora: Many synchronistic events. I started documenting the feelings and thoughts that were emerging and I found myself having a communion and dialogue with Sophia. When I finished my morning meditation, I would spend an hour or two just jotting down my thoughts. My book, The Shroud of Sophia, started as a stack of papers that were dialogue with Her. At the same time, I was looking for Her everywhere. The first book I found was Carl Jung's Memories, Dreams and Reflections, which mentioned Sophia. Through reading the Bible, I began to understand that She was in Western Spirituality, but she had been shrouded - a secret. At that time, I traced Her back to Heraclitus, about 400 B.C. Solomon wrote of Her in "The Song of Solomon", (or whoever the author of Proverbs was). The Nag Hammadi (Gnostic Gospels) which were discovered in 1945, have Sophia, Godfather/Godmother. I came upon Erich Neumann's book, The Great Mother. The last chapter is titled, "Spiritual Transformation: Sophia." Hermes' invocation was to Sophia: "Holy Wisdom, children of Wisdom, rejoice there is no death." There was a chant, "Holy Wisdom, have mercy on us."
From 1971, when I had the first vision, until 1985, I was virtually alone in my search. If I went to a priest or talked to someone, they would say it was heresy. They would say, "Divine Wisdom is not a feminine spirit. Divine Wisdom is androgynous." I would say, "I agree, but so is Love, and still you say, 'he', and I'm a 'she'. I can't identify with that." This is a treasure I've found that the world should know about. It's very important for the human psyche because without this symbol of hope and unity of the Divine Feminine, I don't see how we're going to get into our wholeness and our Oneness. When you think about the fact that the most popular books in the patriarchal world are about abuse and addiction, it's apparent that something is missing. She is the giver and the gift of Wisdom. She is the Way. She is immortality, greater than any earthly treasure. When I use the "She", that seems to offend some people. It should actually be a Revelation.
In 1985, I found out about a meeting of 350 scholars at Occidental College of Religious Studies. The door was closed for lack of space, not for lack of scholars, to come and talk about the spirit of Sophia. There is considerable documentation and verification of more than one person having this vision of Sophia, the Divine Feminine Spirit. Caitlin Matthews is the author of a book entitled Sophia, Goddess of Wisdom, The Divine Feminine, From Black Goddess to World Soul. She has traced Sophia from the scholarly approach back through history to the present day. (Look for me in there too.)
Lona: What do you know about other people seeing the vision?
Aurora: I went to San Jose, California to a bookstore and while there, I asked them if they wanted a copy of my first book about Sophia. The book buyer said, "I don't know what you mean." I said, "If you have a metaphysical or religious or insprational part of your bookstore, you will want a book about Sophia." As I said that, I looked up on the shelf and there was a book with Sophia in the title: Sophia, the Future of Feminist Spirituality. It was written by three Methodist ministers. In the book, they said that Sophia was the Holy Spirit and might be equal to Christ. In their talks and workshops, the idea of having a Feminine Divinity to identify with had helped abused women. I went home and called one of the authors. I asked him, "How did you come upon Sophia?" He said, "For 20 years, I studied Her from the scholarly approach. Then I had a vision and now I'm in communion with Her everyday." He told me that he and his co-authors were going to be teaching a class on Sophia at Claremont Theological School.
Lona: What was your experience of Sophia while you were writing The Shroud of Sophia?
Aurora: I was feeling Her presence and She continues to come to me in the form of vision. Sometimes I want to say, "Turn around right now, you can see Her." She's always been my friend in time of need.
Lona: Is She here now?
Aurora: She's here. Do you know that feeling when you get the chills because Spirit is moving you or calling you?
Lona: Do you actually see Her now?
Aurora: Yes, I see Her in you.
Lona: Describe that.
Aurora: Imagine the most beautiful woman in the world, who is Wisdom incarnate, leaving the realms of Love and coming to earth. Can you imagine the reception She would have? I cry because I know it happened. I know that She has come to earth many times and has many manifestations. She's in all of us. She's the Spiritual Mother. Solomon says, "In Her right hand are riches, in Her left hand is honor." She comes with true inheritance, the immortality of each soul. The word for psyche in Greek is "soul". In the beginning, when people were distressed and didn't know the meaning of life, they went to a psychic healer, which would have been the equivalent of what we now call a psychiatrist. The psychic healer was the priestess or priest and would treat you if you were in distress and had lost your soul. It was very common among Native American tribes and ancient traditions. In other words, it meant that you had lost contact with your empowerment. So the priestess or the priest would take you to the temple. When the Spirit appeared, you were healed. It was like a vision quest.
The Pistis Sophia, which is one of the lost books of the Bible, means Faith in Wisdom or Faith in Sophia. The story, which is thousands of years old, is that She is on earth, locked in matter and it's up to us to let Her out. Our bodies are matter, and She's the spirit locked in us. One can't say that this is just for women and children because they need Angels, fairies or goddesses. Three-fourths of my mail comes from men.
Lona: What do the letters say?
Aurora: My correspondence includes letters from royalty, priests, ministers, nuns, Jungian analysts, prisoners, artists, corporate presidents, students, scholars and many others. Here are some excerpts from letters that came from all over the world: ~"Thank you for introducing me to the spirit of Sophia. She comforts me in the homeless shelter." ~"Thank you for Sophia of the Bible. It has helped me overcome my fear of death." ~My Sister the Unicorn has given me a view of what peace could be and I am reconciled with my terminal illness." ~"The Shroud of Sophia has made me proud to be a woman in what has always seemed to be a man's world. ~"Thank you for introducing me to Sophia. I have searched for Her and couldn't find Her. Now She seems like an old, dear friend, reaching out with love for me. It seems I have known Her forever and only by Her name have I been able to acknowledge Her."
Lona: What is important for people to understand about Sophia?
Aurora: Sophia is Divine Wisdom. She is the symbol of Self, a symbol of wholeness and Oneness. She is the Divine Feminine of the androgynous unity of Love and Wisdom. Without Her there is no symbol of wholeness of the Divine Feminine in the human psyche. We need that image in order to have an integration or synthesis of opposites, the coming together of the male and female of the Divine and the earthly. We need a recognition that there is a Divine Feminine. It's not only logical and rational; it's the feeling/intuitive side of our hearts that is crying for this.
There is a myth of Antaeus, which means "besought with prayers." He was the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea, and Gaia, the earth. All his strength came from touching his mother, the earth. I think that our strength comes from touching the Mother, the earth and the Mother, the Spirit. We're withering and dying in our souls without this nourishment, comforting, and healing of the Spiritual Motherhood. In the Native American traditions, there's a legend in the Cherokee Hills of Georgia that when an Indian is buried in his mother, the earth, and his body returned to her womb, then his spirit rises. We are the spiritual children of Divine Love and Divine Wisdom and our rebirth, renewal resurrection, or transmigration of the soul, is that connection. Anytime we're down and out, that Spirit is going to come. The alchemists say, "Even in your darkest hour, rejoice, because in the darkness, and the deeper the darkness, the closer you are to the Light." That is the Light of Wisdom.
Think about the myths of heroes and heroines. They go off and find the treasure. It's not the heroes and heroines that don't find the treasure that we hear about. It's the ones that come back from the depths of the dragons. They had to fight. Not only do they seek it, they pull out the sword, the country is restored and the grass grows green again. Sophia is the heroine of the holy tradition. She keeps the secret of Wisdom.
Lona: I think about my own orientation of God as the Source of All That Is, and that everything is composed of that One Energy. Where does Sophia fit into that?
Aurora: God is the One Energy and It's the Divine Energy. It's the androgynous Energy, because God is All Things. Where Sophia fits in is that She is the complement in the composition of the androgynous unity. We have heard for thousands of years of the androgynous unity of God, the Oneness of God, but we've only heard of the andro, the male part. The gynous is the female or feminine face of God. Therefore, our whole image of God is changed. Now we have a softened image of God as Love and Forgiveness. In these 2000 years since the birth of Christ, we've dwelled on the masculine. There's a secret that's been pushed back. How much power does She have that the patriarchy is so afraid of Her being revealed to the masses? She is androgynous and masculine. The union produces the new anthropos - the new person - the spiritual rebirth.
Lona: What does Sophia continue to say to you?
Aurora: She told me to come here and talk to you.
Lona: How would you describe your relationship with Sophia and what role does She play in your life?
Aurora: She's the Guide and Protectress.
Lona: How are you aware of Her Guidance?
Aurora: Usually through manifestation or some synchronistic event or miracle, something that I can't deny. I've learned to depend on Her because She's my Higher Self, as She is anyone's Higher Self. Maybe for some people it would be instantaneous, but for me, it's taken time.
Lona: I'm sure that you've been in awe a lot of times in all these years. What are some of the things that leave you in awe?
Aurora: One of the main things is Her re-emergence through the people who are following Her, seeking Her, and coming out with works about Her. So many scholars and philosophers and mystics have come to know Her as their spiritual Mother. There is a hypnotherapist in Atlanta who uses my books in her therapy. She works with abused families and she gives The Shroud of Sophia to the men becausee they can relate to metaphor and the symbols. She does the healing with them through symbols and the idea of the Divine Feminine aspect in the women they live with.
Lona: What is the relationship of Sophia to the widespread phenomenon of self-hatred?
Aurora: She's the harmony and the balance we lack. If we could be our True Selves, we couldn't hate. We would be love and compassion and understanding. Self-hatred is lack of understanding of the powers we have, and what we are responsible for, and what is beyond our power that we have no control over. I think we have the image of the Divinity and then, all of a sudden, we're hating ourselves becausee we let something happen that we thought all along shouldn't have happened; we think we could have controlled it. And the truth is that it wouldn't have happened if we could have controlled it. I've learned to imagine, or image Wisdom's Light, because that's how She appeared to me. In your darkness, or in your self-hate or self-doubt, what is it that you're hating? You're not hating your True Self, because your True Self is beauty and compassion, Love and Wisdom. You are the wholeness, the holiness and the Oneness that you have always been. That is your True Self. In the ancient days we would have taken you to the temple if you would cry for help. But when you get in the trenches or the grips of that, sometimes you can't cry for help. That's why it's so important that we have this direct experience of the Divinity within ourselves. In the ancient days, the pain was recognized as a loss of soul. If you hate yourself, it means that you have lost communion with the Divinity. You're just a leaf on the earth, you're being trampled on and abused. You're lost, confused, and what are you lacking, like Humpty Dumpty, that would put you back together again? Your soul emanates from within and fills you, so the more you are in contact with the Spirit, the more you're becoming a being of Light. When you are radiating, nothing can cover that Light. The Light's going to shine through the darkness and that's how Wisdom relates. Where Wisdom reigns, there can be no conflict. Hate is a conflict, a separation, a lack of understanding, a lack of wholeness, a lack of holiness, as is anguish or despair. Shine the Light of Wisdom when those times come. Learn to image Her as the Light.
Imagine this: You have a Great Spirit Mother and you are Her child and She loves you when you are in need. You're down here all alone; that's how you come in and that's how you go out. You need Wisdom in life and you need Wisdom in death. You need the bridge that's going to take you over into the land of the immortal ones. You know those god and goddess stories of the mortals seeking immortality? Really, that's us, playing them out. She lives within you, this Queen of Heaven, this Great Goddess, this Spiritual Mother who knows the answers to all the questions of life. Take Her your problems She's on Her throne in all Her power and all Her glory and you can just feel the burden fall away. You have Her promise of Life, you are a reflection of Her beauty, you are seeing the Goddess face-to-face and you are the Goddess. She's your Mother. You're beginning to grow into the spiritual woman that you are and have always been. Let Wisdom shine in the darkness. Always call on Wisdom. Always call on that Light because there is no reason for you to hate yourself. We weren't put here to judge. We were put here to emanate the Light of our Divine Spiritual Parenthood.
Lona: You said you started a church with priests and priestesses.
Aurora: I've started a non-profit organization called The Holy Order of Wisdom. It's a Wisdom school and there are priests and priestesses. We have certain ceremonies that we perform, for example, a Crowning Ceremony. It is a reconsecration of your wholeness and Divinity. The crowning is the crown of Love and Wisdom, which is the crown of victory. It's always been a symbol of the complements: harmony and peace; wholeness and holiness; compassion and understanding; beauty and enlightenment; courage and grace; purity and goodness; immortality and androgyny. It's a symbol of the Divinity of your being and the Spirit in matter.
Here is the invitation that is the beginning of the Crowning Ceremony that we do in church: "This is the coming together of opposites and the highest manifestation is when Heaven and Earth meet. I would like for you to be a priestess/priest in the Holy Order of Wisdom. This requires no more than what you have always been ~ beautiful, holy and whole in Spirit and Soul. So Wisdom will give you wings and Truth will set you free, and Love will return the Kingdom-Queendom that is your true inheritance. Amena." (Amena is a derivative of an Arabic word and means, "to make complete".)
It doesn't have to be with a church, just the body and the soul, the temple of your body. Our first responsibility is to ourselves, to become holy and whole. It's so wondrous to me because Sophia is a gift in my life. She just appeared. I don't know why, but She has saved my life many times. After all these years, I still had to go through a windshield in an automobile accident to understand, but now I understand.
One of my friends said that he'd never heard me say anything about the person who hit me in the two years of my recovery from the automobile accident. I didn't want to sue and I wasn't angry. I saw that the other driver wasn't looking and she hit me head-on. I had an out-of-body experience as I went through the windshield. The sun was out and I knew that it was a beautiful day to die. When I came back, there was stillness and peace and silence, right there on the road in the shambles. I'd already made up my mind that I was going to follow this path and not worry. You know how you sort of hesitate about who you tell what you're doing? After the accident, I understood even more that is my path and I have come back to tell everybody, ready or not, willing or unwilling. The incredible thing is the number of people who love this idea and whose lives have changed.
My daughter has a friend whose father was killed in a motorcycle accident. She had just made a reconnection with her father for the first time in 17 years and a month later, he was killed instantly. She was very distressed and she wrote to tell my daughter about it. My daughter didn't know how to respond because this girl had been in a mental institution at one time because of her father's abandonment. My daughter sent her The Shroud of Sophia. The girl read the book over and over for 3 days and then called my daughter and said, "This book has healed me, this idea of the Divine Feminine. It's given me the understanding that I was lacking."
One time, I was in Atlanta at a New Age Fair. Some young men had a gorgeous, black abalone shell that I wanted. I asked them if they would be interested in trading it for some of my books and they agreed. The next day, one of them approached me with a box in his hand. He told me that they had met a Shoshone Indian in Oregon named Lone Eagle. They made friends with him and learned that he lives on a reservation nine months out of the year making jewelry, and for three months, he goes out and travels. When Lone Eagle visited them on their farm in Tennessee, he gave them the box which was now being given to me. Long Eagle told them they were going to meet a very spiritual woman who would talk to them about things that they hadn't heard about, but would know about. "I know of her," Lone Eagle said, "through my spirit guides, and when you meet her, I want you to give her this box." Inside was a pair of beautiful, white feather earrings. Wherever I go I say, "Lone Eagle, I love you."
One day, a woman was cutting through the center of the New Age Fair to get to her hotel room. She saw me standing there with the books and she said, "Sophia has been appearing in my meditations for 3 years and I didn't know who or what She was. Just the name has been appearing. What does it mean? I was told to read a book that I was supposed to find." She lived in Alabama in a spiritually desolate place. I told her about Wisdom and I said, "Take these books because I really don't know of any other books on Sophia." She said, "I don't have any money so I'll send off for them." I insisted that she take them as a gift. She cried and said that nobody had ever given her anything like that. About 4 hours later a man came up to my booth and introduced himself to me as her husband. He said, "I went back to the hotel room just now, and for the first time in 3 years, I found a new woman. I can't begin to tell you what this means. She's been living so isolated and alone and now knows the meaning of what's going on."
In Birmingham I had a display of my books. A girl came over and put her head on the table and started crying. She said, "I had an experience of a Spirit talking to me during my meditation and I said, 'You can't leave me without a name!' And the Spirit told me Her name was Sophia."
"Behold, God and Sophia are with you. You are the children of Light. Every tear will be wiped from your eyes. There shall be no more death; nor sorrow, nor crying, nor pain, for the holy order of Sophia is here. Behold, all things are made new! Behold, A New Beginning!" Sophia of the Bible
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
My Sister The Unicorn
On the wings of the blue pelican, I want to fly away with you to the planet Anamorphon, where all things begin anew.
Where you will discover that which you are seeking is also seeking you.
You will find Peace and Love will set you free as soon as you enter the Charis Galaxy.
We come together, Children of Light, to the unsleeping radiance of the planet of no night.
No death, no mourning, no crying, no pain, no evil knows the way there.
It is the knowledge of indescribable goodness that all pure and innocent hearts share.
Sounds as if life on Anamorphon is quite different from the way life is on earth, wouldn't you agree?
But those on Anamorphon, in plain view we can see the day on earth this prophecy will come true:
All hearts will live and love in peace and when this is true, the pelican will turn blue!
Come fly away with me to the future and we will look back in time and see it all happen in our hearts and in our minds.
"Absurd" at first they said and then in amazement, they shouted, "It most certainly is true ~ the pelican is blue."
A momentous event, as before the earth had never seen, the radiant light of a miracle, they even noticed that I am green.
I am a green lion, a thinker and a poet, too, I might add and parts of the story I am going to tell are very very sad.
The opposite of sad is happy; that you know without a doubt ~ it's the secret of what makes you happy that this story is all about.
Now if we begin at the beginning, not necessarily in a visible, bodily gathering, but in a jubilous, magical atmosphere.
If we press our hands together in silence; say the the magic words and believe; a wonder of wonder will fill our hearts and the invisible will appear.
If I become you and you become me. Magic words, 'philo-soffi'. As you believe so let it be.
I believe, actually, I know eyes have seen and ears have heard and hearts have imagined the beauty of transformation with one word: Love!
Love the gladness of joy and unity, without and within, is, will be and has always been the elixir of life, my treasured friends.
I love the idea of two co-eternal, co-equal principles coming together instantaneously.
Two powers like Love and Wisdom synthesizing and setting all hearts free! It has happened in you. It has happened in me.
I am at this moment of connection, the embodiment of Immortality. Wholeness. Radiance. Harmony.
My first love, the love above all loves is the first time I saw Beauty! I fell in love with her.
And at that magical moment, all things came together simultaneously. I knew I was Free!
You and I know this feeling of Love that happens for the first time just like it did before and in our daily lives, we see it happen more and more.
And we begin expecting Miracles. Miracles are physical manifestations of dreams that come true.
Wondrous, magical, magnificent dreams, like the one that brought you. A starburst, a moonbeam, the whole golden sun, I got all three and only wished for one.
So remember this, my darling dears, when you wonder what dreams can do, for it is the fulfillment of a dream that I speak with you.
I thank the stars for you every nite, for like the stars in the darkness, you are light.
You and you and you and I do shine when that inner light of divine love connects your heart and mine.
Now I speak from my own experience, which is called numinous, because that is when a divine spirit encounters us.
I was ferocious, blood-sucking, the king of the jungle and great because greed and anger and jealousy made me hate.
Now there's a word with a lot of power. Have you ever noticed how many hearts hate can devour?
Mine was one. A wise philosopher, a green lion, I am today, but I have not always lived this way.
May I have another moment of your precious time to tell you one marvellous story, of the transforming power of the spirit of Love in all its glory?
For the record, this story did transpire to enlighten lives and enrich them and to inspire:
Crystal Lake glistens like a prism of crystals, dazzling and clear. An awesome feeling pervades and permeates the glowing atmosphere.
Inscribed in stone, this haunting message:
One Unforgettalbe, Unbelievable,
Most Beautiful Unicorn Spotted Here.
All creatures of the jungle did journey to this reverent hiding place not only to drink from the lake but to see face to face the most magnificent symbol of the spirit of solace and grace.
Not I. A Lion. It is not in my power to sit and wait. Remember, I am King of the Jungle, ferocious, brutal, cruel and Great!
All the little delicate creatures that arrive at Crystal Lake, I eat whole, devour. I suck their blood and chew their bones, hour after hour. But the creature I wanted to kill more than any other was this beautiful unicorn.
All the little creatures would chatter and wait to feel the incredulous aura of magic that emanates from her horn. I kept hearing things like,
"In the permeating, all-encompassing luminous light of her love, we cannot die.
Soffi, the Unicorn Queen is at once earthly and divine, simultaneously, she is all things combined. She drinks from the waters of Crystal Lake with her horn, this magical, mystical, magnificent unicorn."
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, the unicorn Queen, Soffi, I did see and I fell in love with her beauty. 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.
Incredulous, she did not stoop to fill her horn with the water from Crystal Lake, as the little creatures had surmised.
Instead, her horn filled the lake with water. I saw it all with my own disbelieving eyes.
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.
"I see the light brighter than the light of the sun. It emanates from your heart, Golden One.
I see the dawn of a new beginning in your eyes. I see the lodestar of Love, I see you are wise.
It has been written, a ferocious, brutal king, a lion, finds Peace on Earth through the transforming power of Love and lives in peace with the lamb and the dove.
And becomes known as Philo Philosophorus, the wisest of the wise, for he sees the unseen and speaks the unheard of.
Philo becomes wise, not by the standards of some passing age but by the ageless, lucid beauty of the wise sage.
Timeless, he begins to travel with the light-giving Spirit of every age.
One lion becomes wise and the world attains Peace. One heart, humble and free.
Interior insight and invincible strength begins the understanding between you and me.
The greatest power is Peace is the revelation of the inner spirit. So if powers are to reign supreme, let Love be your King and Wisdom be your Queen.
Then will be the dawning of the New World-Wide Renaissance, for manifest in the essence of your being, inside you now is the philosopher's gold.
You discover what you have always been:
The Resplendent One, of prophesies foretold."
Aurora Terrenus (C) 1988
On the wings of the blue pelican, I want to fly away with you to the planet Anamorphon, where all things begin anew.
Where you will discover that which you are seeking is also seeking you.
You will find Peace and Love will set you free as soon as you enter the Charis Galaxy.
We come together, Children of Light, to the unsleeping radiance of the planet of no night.
No death, no mourning, no crying, no pain, no evil knows the way there.
It is the knowledge of indescribable goodness that all pure and innocent hearts share.
Sounds as if life on Anamorphon is quite different from the way life is on earth, wouldn't you agree?
But those on Anamorphon, in plain view we can see the day on earth this prophecy will come true:
All hearts will live and love in peace and when this is true, the pelican will turn blue!
Come fly away with me to the future and we will look back in time and see it all happen in our hearts and in our minds.
"Absurd" at first they said and then in amazement, they shouted, "It most certainly is true ~ the pelican is blue."
A momentous event, as before the earth had never seen, the radiant light of a miracle, they even noticed that I am green.
I am a green lion, a thinker and a poet, too, I might add and parts of the story I am going to tell are very very sad.
The opposite of sad is happy; that you know without a doubt ~ it's the secret of what makes you happy that this story is all about.
Now if we begin at the beginning, not necessarily in a visible, bodily gathering, but in a jubilous, magical atmosphere.
If we press our hands together in silence; say the the magic words and believe; a wonder of wonder will fill our hearts and the invisible will appear.
If I become you and you become me. Magic words, 'philo-soffi'. As you believe so let it be.
I believe, actually, I know eyes have seen and ears have heard and hearts have imagined the beauty of transformation with one word: Love!
Love the gladness of joy and unity, without and within, is, will be and has always been the elixir of life, my treasured friends.
I love the idea of two co-eternal, co-equal principles coming together instantaneously.
Two powers like Love and Wisdom synthesizing and setting all hearts free! It has happened in you. It has happened in me.
I am at this moment of connection, the embodiment of Immortality. Wholeness. Radiance. Harmony.
My first love, the love above all loves is the first time I saw Beauty! I fell in love with her.
And at that magical moment, all things came together simultaneously. I knew I was Free!
You and I know this feeling of Love that happens for the first time just like it did before and in our daily lives, we see it happen more and more.
And we begin expecting Miracles. Miracles are physical manifestations of dreams that come true.
Wondrous, magical, magnificent dreams, like the one that brought you. A starburst, a moonbeam, the whole golden sun, I got all three and only wished for one.
So remember this, my darling dears, when you wonder what dreams can do, for it is the fulfillment of a dream that I speak with you.
I thank the stars for you every nite, for like the stars in the darkness, you are light.
You and you and you and I do shine when that inner light of divine love connects your heart and mine.
Now I speak from my own experience, which is called numinous, because that is when a divine spirit encounters us.
I was ferocious, blood-sucking, the king of the jungle and great because greed and anger and jealousy made me hate.
Now there's a word with a lot of power. Have you ever noticed how many hearts hate can devour?
Mine was one. A wise philosopher, a green lion, I am today, but I have not always lived this way.
May I have another moment of your precious time to tell you one marvellous story, of the transforming power of the spirit of Love in all its glory?
For the record, this story did transpire to enlighten lives and enrich them and to inspire:
Crystal Lake glistens like a prism of crystals, dazzling and clear. An awesome feeling pervades and permeates the glowing atmosphere.
Inscribed in stone, this haunting message:
One Unforgettalbe, Unbelievable,
Most Beautiful Unicorn Spotted Here.
All creatures of the jungle did journey to this reverent hiding place not only to drink from the lake but to see face to face the most magnificent symbol of the spirit of solace and grace.
Not I. A Lion. It is not in my power to sit and wait. Remember, I am King of the Jungle, ferocious, brutal, cruel and Great!
All the little delicate creatures that arrive at Crystal Lake, I eat whole, devour. I suck their blood and chew their bones, hour after hour. But the creature I wanted to kill more than any other was this beautiful unicorn.
All the little creatures would chatter and wait to feel the incredulous aura of magic that emanates from her horn. I kept hearing things like,
"In the permeating, all-encompassing luminous light of her love, we cannot die.
Soffi, the Unicorn Queen is at once earthly and divine, simultaneously, she is all things combined. She drinks from the waters of Crystal Lake with her horn, this magical, mystical, magnificent unicorn."
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, the unicorn Queen, Soffi, I did see and I fell in love with her beauty. 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.
Incredulous, she did not stoop to fill her horn with the water from Crystal Lake, as the little creatures had surmised.
Instead, her horn filled the lake with water. I saw it all with my own disbelieving eyes.
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.
"I see the light brighter than the light of the sun. It emanates from your heart, Golden One.
I see the dawn of a new beginning in your eyes. I see the lodestar of Love, I see you are wise.
It has been written, a ferocious, brutal king, a lion, finds Peace on Earth through the transforming power of Love and lives in peace with the lamb and the dove.
And becomes known as Philo Philosophorus, the wisest of the wise, for he sees the unseen and speaks the unheard of.
Philo becomes wise, not by the standards of some passing age but by the ageless, lucid beauty of the wise sage.
Timeless, he begins to travel with the light-giving Spirit of every age.
One lion becomes wise and the world attains Peace. One heart, humble and free.
Interior insight and invincible strength begins the understanding between you and me.
The greatest power is Peace is the revelation of the inner spirit. So if powers are to reign supreme, let Love be your King and Wisdom be your Queen.
Then will be the dawning of the New World-Wide Renaissance, for manifest in the essence of your being, inside you now is the philosopher's gold.
You discover what you have always been:
The Resplendent One, of prophesies foretold."
Aurora Terrenus (C) 1988
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Sophia as divine Wisdom has been the helper and companion of many movements but recently, in the twentieth century, She has been venerated for her own sake.
In Santa Cruz the Holy Order of Wisdom was founded by Aurora Terrenus and in its own words is dedicated to the ‘enlightenment, enrichment, peace and prosperity of all.’ Aurora is a sensitive who received a vision of Sophia in the New Forest in England. Those who have followed the growth of the Wiccan movement will recognize the place as one where the goddess energy has been present and worshiped for centuries. When the Hungarian gypsies used our field in Essex as a stop over in the very early 1930’s they were often on their way to the New Forest to meet what they called the ‘Wise Ones.’
The Order comprises a School of Holy Wisdom offering free lectures and workshops and also a nondenominational church, Hagia Sophia, Ecclesia Spiritualis that offers ordination to those interested, whatever their spiritual path. Aurora has written books. Two that I know are Sophia of the Bible and Shroud of Sophia. These are both available on AbeBooks.com. Look up her name and the name of the Church on Google.
www.gatesofhorn.com
In Santa Cruz the Holy Order of Wisdom was founded by Aurora Terrenus and in its own words is dedicated to the ‘enlightenment, enrichment, peace and prosperity of all.’ Aurora is a sensitive who received a vision of Sophia in the New Forest in England. Those who have followed the growth of the Wiccan movement will recognize the place as one where the goddess energy has been present and worshiped for centuries. When the Hungarian gypsies used our field in Essex as a stop over in the very early 1930’s they were often on their way to the New Forest to meet what they called the ‘Wise Ones.’
The Order comprises a School of Holy Wisdom offering free lectures and workshops and also a nondenominational church, Hagia Sophia, Ecclesia Spiritualis that offers ordination to those interested, whatever their spiritual path. Aurora has written books. Two that I know are Sophia of the Bible and Shroud of Sophia. These are both available on AbeBooks.com. Look up her name and the name of the Church on Google.
www.gatesofhorn.com
Upon Wings of Wisdom
Aloha and thank you,
I will tell you a little something about myself and my work with Sophia.
How did it all begin?
Through wonder. It was a time of turmoil in my life. I was wondering about the meaning of life and asking, "Is this all there is?"
In 1971 in the New Forest in England a vision of light appeared to me.
It was like Light coming in the form of a female divinity. She said, "I love you. Love me. I am Sophia."
I am of Greek descent. I read and write and speak Greek. I knew Sophia as Wisdom. As in philosophy and in theosophy, etc. etc.
After the vision, I started doing research on "Sophia".
Around 600 BC, Pythagoras, the Greek mathematician, among other things, was the first to call himself a philosopher because he was a lover of wisdom. He also spoke of the transmigration of the soul and was also the first to use the word "cosmos" and the first to deduce the earth as a sphere. I often wonder if his school (and the great library in Alexandria) had not been burned, what other ideas might have passed on to us through Pythagoras.
Lao-tse in China, was at the same time, speaking of Wisdom as the Mother of All Things. Gautama Buddha in India was writing his "Three baskets of Wisdom". Zoroaster in Persia and the Jewish prophets in Israel, Egypt and Babylon were also writing about Wisdom. (The Egyptians had circumnavigated Africa, but these were not internet days, when ideas could be spread so quickly!)
In 1985 - fourteen years after my experience in the New Forest, I picked up copy of Gnosis magazine and wrote Jay Kinney, the following which he published.
"The feminine in Western Spirituality re-emerging in this New Age is the hauntingly beautiful splendor and sacred awe of the spirit of Sophia; the gnosis and wisdom not of some passing age, but an inexhaustible spiritual power, impervious to time, that connects the elect of all ages.
"From a cloud of peace, in a mist of silence, she spans the world to create a synthesis, to unite the opposites, to pervade and permeate all hearts with the inner light of love.
"Sophia is, will be and has always been the elixir of life; the philosopher's gold; the oneness and essence of the physical world-self, the Quinta Essentia..."
Then I received a letter from Caitlin Matthews saying she was writing a book called "Sophia: Goddess of Wisdom - Black Goddess to World Soul" and that the last chapter would be called the New Gnostics and could she write about me in that chapter.
The last ten years have been more about helping people have an experience of Sophia.
Currently I am working on the alchemical aspects. Alchemy being my favorite parts of Jung's work.
I also teach yoga and tai-chi with of course the emphasis on Yin.
In loving Sophia,
Aurora
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
O Gnostic, O
Knower
of the
unity of love and wisdom,
the
androgyny of heaven and earth,
nature
and spirit.
O Knower
of the Great Goddess,
the
Great Mother
Who
calls Herself Sophia.
Holy is
Her Name.
Sophia,
co-creator of all things
earthly
and divine.
Divine
Love lives with Eternal Wisdom
together
as One,
as a
child
in its
mother's womb.
Sophia
gathers all of Her children.
O
Gnostic, to you She calls
to
fulfill the prophecy,
to
manifest the vision
of Peace
on Earth.
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