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

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

Upon Wings of Wisdom

by Aurora Terrenus


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.

Sophia Re-Emerging


"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

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.

                          In Search of The Phoenix


Ancient and modern myths tell of the magic and mystery
of the transforming powers of a magnificent, mystical,
mythological bird that could or could not exist, or be.

Spanning continents, cultures and eons of time, the phoenix
has long been a rich and complex symbol of human nature and an image of the human soul graced with extraordinary qualities and abilities that could be called divine and the phoenix alludes to degrees of perfection, vitality and power that are found inside the human heart and mind.

Inside the human heart I have seen a death come from despair.  A heat like no other come from anger.  A chill like no other come from fear.  A joy that invigorates the nerves and a comfort that comes from hope and love near.

Since I was young I have seen rape and killing and war; and friends and loved ones die and no one has been able to tell me why.  Not knowing whether to join my laughing or weeping friends, I began the journey that has no end.

I heard of this fabulous bird that has the powers to cast out disease and ease human sorrow and pain; whose feathers constitute a glorious medicine to make the old young again.

I spent a fortune, endured every hardship, travelled the world in search of a bird with qualities reflecting the human soul that could or could not exist much like the philosopher's gold.

Among other things, the phoenix is a symbol of wholeness, completion and androgyny, equal parts of male-female so it can be called he or she.  For our purposes here we will refer to the phoenix as she.  And it will be your task, to remember that 'she' includes 'he'.

The phoenix, the Queen, the Empress of all birds is said to have gifted the world with the musical scale.  Seven notes divided into two tetrachords corresponding to masculine and feminine elements by repeating the note of origin to bring the world to one again.  Her songs of heavenly proportions and propensity are of such sweetness that they bring tears to a heart of stone and anyone that hears her sing never feels alone.

On the edge of a branch, high in a tree, in the sun's full light, the phoenix builds her nest of fragrancy with aromatic twigs of cinnamon, frankincense and myrrh and it becomes her funeral pyre on the first nite that the moon disappears.

The sun sets the nest on fire and the phoenix sits and waits until it burns itself to ashes in the flames.  For three nites no one can see the moon or the nest of the phoenix burning high in the tree.  A nest built as a sacred altar becomes through purification her victory.  On the fourth nite when the moon reappears, a new phoenix emerges from the ashes.

A luxurious plummage of crimson, deep purplish red feathers gives the phoenix her name.  Her wonder working properties and her virtues give the phoenix her fame.

It is truly wondrous what the phoenix can do.  The phoenix can live for a thousand years and more.  She has the ability to always exist, to choose when to die and to recreate herself and to regenerate.  The phoenix has long been a spiritual symbol of the synthesis of the life force of human nature and fate.

It's a sacred art to know when life closes and to have a secret way to restore a new existence or so great sages say.  It's amazing to be known and loved even though you may or may not exist.  But truth without proof is the theme of the myth.

There is only one phoenix living in the world at one time.  It is unique and one-of-a-kind.  I searched the world for one feather and the question is still open.

Is there a bird named Phoenix?  Is it possible or impossible?  Is it believable or absurd?  Who in the world has ever seen such a bird?

@2003 Aurora Terrenus

Taoderf:   "Why do you think you had a vision of Sophia?
                   Do you think you would have had it if you hadn't    
                   heard the word Sophia growing up?"

Aurora:  "As I have said, I speak and write Greek and I did
               attend a Greek Orthodox Cathedral with my parents
               when I was growing up.  The priest would come out
               of the vestibule and raise both arms to the heavens
               and announce to the congregation. 
                'Aghia Sophia, orthe kai akousame.' 
                'Holy Sophia, stand and attend.'
               I would ask my mother, 'Who is She?'
               And my mother would say, 'Sophia is Wisdom.  He
               is asking us all to stand and attend 'Wisdom'.

               But at the same time, people all over the planet have
               had and are having visions of Sophia or some sort of
               manifestation of
               Sophia and never really thought about the word.  I
               do know most people do know that philosophy is 'love
               of wisdom' and theosophy is 'divine wisdom'.

               The summer of 1951 when I was nine years old, I
                went to Greece with my family.  The ship stopped in
                Pompeii and I saw the devastation of a volcano and
                then when we got to Greece, I saw the devastation
                of World War II.  It did make quite an impression on
                me.  I saw starving people and bombed buildings.

                If Love is all there is, or if Love is the answer, I
                did wonder how people would come to that realization
                without wisdom.

                When I was in Greece again in 1961, my father's
                 family told me how their house had been occupied
                 by German generals.  My father had purchased the
                 ex-mayor's mansion for his parents and the German
                 generals took it over except for one room that my
                 grand-parents stayed in and were allowed garden
                 visits for one hour a day.

                 Also, when the communists took over, the commanders
                 and troops would gather all of the men in the village,
                 and line them up.  One day they would shoot every
                 other man, the next time, maybe every seventh man,
                 and so on. 

                 There are also the stories of the women of the villages,
                  that would sing and dance off the cliffs to their deaths,
                  not to be raped by the conquerors.  (The beginning
                  of the spiral dance?)

                  When Sophia appeared to me in the New Forest
                   in 1971 something deep in my heart resonated
                   with 'I knew you had to be a beautiful feminine
                   spirit.'

Sophia Re-Emerging For Me....

New Forest, England ~ Summer Solstice ~ 1971

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

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

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

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

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


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