The Gates of Horn ;Sophia: the Goddess of the Future. It is a common complaint among various pagans, Buddhists, Hindus, Wiccans, Muslims and New Agers that whenever the U.S. media mentions religion it always refers to Christianity as though thats all there is. Even the existence of other major religions has been erased from much of the public mind unless you count Muslim extremists, as a religious group. Similarly when someone says God everybody thinks they know what is meant. But if you said Goddess, those who werent freaked out would say Which goddess? The existence of Goddess has been erased from the public mind. So when Dar Shem, for example, is described as the The Reiki of the goddess Sophia it is, to many people, a case of two unknowns in the same sentence. Today the Classical languages such as Greek, from which the name Sophia came are neglected. We cannot take it for granted that the meaning of Her Name, Sophia, is understood. Samuel Johnson is famous as being the compiler of the first great dictionary of the English language. His definition of an illiterate was as someone who didn’t know Latin and Greek. How times have changed! We have illiterates in our government at every level. Sophia is not just another goddess, like Her major divine aspects as Isis, Hathor, Ila, Shakti, Demeter, Hecate, Kali, Gaia, Cerridwen and others who have recently been re-entering public consciousness because of the 60s crowd. With the possible exception of Tara of the Tibetans and Lallita of the Hindus who may be Her with a different name, Sophia is the Goddess, not a goddess. She is the power behind all the goddesses of every age and every religion. Her name means Wisdom. Originally the word philosophy meant Lover of Wisdom. It ancient times it meant wisdom with a capital W. Now it seems to mean lover of wisdom,” with a lower case w… which means clever debate or word spinning and Wisdom has been eclipsed by the more dangerous cleverness. Witness the income of unethical American lawyers for example. The West, for centuries, has hidden the goddess, either by deliberate persecution of Her followers by the patriarchal religions, or by delegating Her to roles as minor as those played by women in the same societies. Goddess nowadays is being revealed in many aspects as the feminine aspects of the human psyche, and psychologists such as Carl Jung, and poets such as Goethe, have been in the forefront of those insisting that the survival of mankind depends on a re-evaluation of the feminine psyche and its aspects of Divinity, particularly Sophia. It is clear that if we keep going down the insane, patriarchal path of continuous competition for diminishing resources, then humanity is doomed. The patriarchal concept of controlling and manipulating Nature as merely a collection of resources for exploitation has produced pollution of our earth, air, and water and degradation of our environment, as many articles in recent publications make clear. The insanity of making things that do not biodegrade is becoming obvious to all. Everything in Natures cycles is used. There was nothing wasted on Spaceship Earth, until human chemists began making things that are useless to the Earth because they do not decay, and cannot be used even by micro-organisms. That is the way of the patriarchal control, compete, and use philosophy that entails only cleverness; no common-sense, no wisdom. It turns major human activities into forms of mining, in which nothing is returned to the Earth, except useless materials or poisons. Sophia-Wisdom entails cooperation in the cycles of Nature, of living in a way that goes with the natural flow, using Wisdom to look ahead, as the Native Americans did. Any action would be considered on its merits over seven generations, to ensure that short term benefits did not swamp long term gains. Now our politicians see no further ahead than the next election, or the next payout from a corporate lobbyist. Our clever scientists do whatever can be done, without regard for whether it should be done. Wisdom is denied, or derided by the PR specialists of those who are destroying the planet for the sake of temporary personal gain. The solution to our problems is found in the feminine Wisdom side of life. Insanity has been defined as doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results. The cleverness side has been tried for centuries and has failed because every benefit of cleverness is turned into a disadvantage or danger by the clever people who dont know when to stop what theyre at, and go beyond all sense. The commonsense of the nurturing feminine is very much needed today, and the goddess energy is popping up all over the place even as the unregulated male energy is leading everyone down the path to destruction. Westerners have become largely orphaned from the feminine energy, in the words of Caitlin Matthews, and need to learn a great deal that used to be taken for granted by all. Read her book “Sophia.” As the Womens Movement developed over the past several decades, and technology and contraception began to free women from the slave drudgery of the last century, several great advances were made. In most branches of Christianity woman were considered inferior because of the neurotic ideas of St. Augustine, and the mythology of the Fall of Man as being due to Eve. My own view of the myth is that Eve chose consciousness. Adam was dense in comparison. dess of the Future
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