A forgotten current runs beneath Scripture and early Christianity — the Wisdom tradition that shaped Jesus, illuminated Mary Magdalene, and survived centuries of erasure. This is the story of Sophia, the face of divine wisdom the Church lost but the soul never did.
Thinking of Wisdom as feminine makes me smile, it’s heartwarming. I agree that Jesus lived a much gentler Wisdom than the empire told it. 🕊️ And the Hagia Sophia was the most magically beautiful church ever! (As a mosque it still retains the shell of its glory.)
I have never heard of Sophia before your writing about her.
Not from my grandfather, Lutheran minister & missionary in China. Going to church every Sunday from birth until I left for college & stopped going. It wasn’t that i didn’t believe in God or Jesus. It was because something was missing.
Like Magdalene. Yes I knew of her but as a footnote.
Like Sophia, totally unknown to me until now.
Why am i so surprised? Because I keep wishing I had been taught the truth - not just the convenient parts, but the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help me GOD.
An interesting 'as-if' publication? In that as-if way we use words as seeds of imagination, to feed our communication-biased form of consciousness? With the written word-symbol Sofia, arguably used to 'personify' the cosmic-womb, life emerges from and is ultimately immersed within?
Hence the advice to witness the 'birth' of another period of day-light in the parable-of-resurrection?
And the historical fact of the Solar-Logos (the north to south, & back again, motion of the Sun's 'appearance' above Mother Earth's horizon, over the course of a period of time we 'label' a year?), directly caused by our planet's constant rotation in the darkness of space.
A contextual fact of existence that lends itself to imaging that life exists upon a cross of space-time, and that the Jesus story is applicable to every human being who ever lived or will live, here on Planet Heaven?
For surely we have enough information and enough images of cosmic-reality, to realise that within a cosmic environment that is overwhelmingly hostile to life's existence? Where else would heaven be?
When we use the word-symbol heaven to signify the ultimate good?
You’re stacking symbols like firewood, but let me nudge you toward the flame instead of the pile.
Sophia isn’t an “as-if.” She’s what happens when wisdom gets tired of abstraction and decides to put on a face so we’ll finally pay attention.
All the cosmic mechanics you’re describing are real enough. Rotations. Horizons. Light returning. Fine. But the ancients weren’t giving astronomy lessons. They were naming the interior experience those cycles mirror. The birth of awareness. The soft resurrection that happens every time consciousness wakes up inside itself.
Heaven isn’t a cosmic postal code. It’s the moment the mind stops intellectualizing the universe and actually inhabits it.
Sophia points to that shift. The wisdom that breaks analysis and becomes presence.
You mean the presence of watching the nighttime flow into the daytime, and feeling the roughly 1000 mph rotation of the planet, cause of that lived-experience? You mean that kind of consciousness waking up to the local reality of the universe we call our solar system? Perhaps a few days within the twin of Abu Simnel might create a visceral sense of what the ancients were up to, in an effort to transcend the perfectly natural nature of human forgetfulness? Like forgetting your first thoughts & spoken words?
VMB, once again, I am so so so so thankful for what you're putting into the atmosphere. Whoever you are, our Mother Who Art in Heaven must be so tickled pink at what you're up to. As are your many sisters, thanking you for voicing your support and love for the feminine.
Gnosticism? That’s the whole contribution? Brother, Sophia shows up with 3,000 years of wisdom, and you show up with an emoji and a theology sneeze. If you’re gonna try to shut down a conversation about divine wisdom, at least bring something heavier than a sticker pack.
Sophia isn’t the problem. The problem is folks who hear the name and immediately panic because it wasn’t in their Vacation Bible School coloring book. If a single word sends you reaching for the heresy hotline, that’s not discernment. That’s spiritual allergies.
Next time you want to critique a tradition, try reading a paragraph first. Or at least come armed with more than a sniffle.
Thinking of Wisdom as feminine makes me smile, it’s heartwarming. I agree that Jesus lived a much gentler Wisdom than the empire told it. 🕊️ And the Hagia Sophia was the most magically beautiful church ever! (As a mosque it still retains the shell of its glory.)
I have never heard of Sophia before your writing about her.
Not from my grandfather, Lutheran minister & missionary in China. Going to church every Sunday from birth until I left for college & stopped going. It wasn’t that i didn’t believe in God or Jesus. It was because something was missing.
Like Magdalene. Yes I knew of her but as a footnote.
Like Sophia, totally unknown to me until now.
Why am i so surprised? Because I keep wishing I had been taught the truth - not just the convenient parts, but the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help me GOD.
And VMB.
An interesting 'as-if' publication? In that as-if way we use words as seeds of imagination, to feed our communication-biased form of consciousness? With the written word-symbol Sofia, arguably used to 'personify' the cosmic-womb, life emerges from and is ultimately immersed within?
Hence the advice to witness the 'birth' of another period of day-light in the parable-of-resurrection?
And the historical fact of the Solar-Logos (the north to south, & back again, motion of the Sun's 'appearance' above Mother Earth's horizon, over the course of a period of time we 'label' a year?), directly caused by our planet's constant rotation in the darkness of space.
A contextual fact of existence that lends itself to imaging that life exists upon a cross of space-time, and that the Jesus story is applicable to every human being who ever lived or will live, here on Planet Heaven?
For surely we have enough information and enough images of cosmic-reality, to realise that within a cosmic environment that is overwhelmingly hostile to life's existence? Where else would heaven be?
When we use the word-symbol heaven to signify the ultimate good?
You’re stacking symbols like firewood, but let me nudge you toward the flame instead of the pile.
Sophia isn’t an “as-if.” She’s what happens when wisdom gets tired of abstraction and decides to put on a face so we’ll finally pay attention.
All the cosmic mechanics you’re describing are real enough. Rotations. Horizons. Light returning. Fine. But the ancients weren’t giving astronomy lessons. They were naming the interior experience those cycles mirror. The birth of awareness. The soft resurrection that happens every time consciousness wakes up inside itself.
Heaven isn’t a cosmic postal code. It’s the moment the mind stops intellectualizing the universe and actually inhabits it.
Sophia points to that shift. The wisdom that breaks analysis and becomes presence.
You mean the presence of watching the nighttime flow into the daytime, and feeling the roughly 1000 mph rotation of the planet, cause of that lived-experience? You mean that kind of consciousness waking up to the local reality of the universe we call our solar system? Perhaps a few days within the twin of Abu Simnel might create a visceral sense of what the ancients were up to, in an effort to transcend the perfectly natural nature of human forgetfulness? Like forgetting your first thoughts & spoken words?
VMB, once again, I am so so so so thankful for what you're putting into the atmosphere. Whoever you are, our Mother Who Art in Heaven must be so tickled pink at what you're up to. As are your many sisters, thanking you for voicing your support and love for the feminine.
Ave Sophia! 🙏🏼
Gnosticism? That’s the whole contribution? Brother, Sophia shows up with 3,000 years of wisdom, and you show up with an emoji and a theology sneeze. If you’re gonna try to shut down a conversation about divine wisdom, at least bring something heavier than a sticker pack.
Sophia isn’t the problem. The problem is folks who hear the name and immediately panic because it wasn’t in their Vacation Bible School coloring book. If a single word sends you reaching for the heresy hotline, that’s not discernment. That’s spiritual allergies.
Next time you want to critique a tradition, try reading a paragraph first. Or at least come armed with more than a sniffle.