SOPHIA

Goddesses Series

Mythology:

According to gnostic system of beliefs the shaping of the material world was the result of Sophia, who was often described as an emanation of eternal light. Through her desire to "know the Father", she was cast out of the Pleroma (the gnostic heaven) and her desire gave birth to the God who created the material world. Although she was eventually restored to the Pleroma, bits of her divinity remain in the material world.

The inferior God created by Sophia's desire, also referred to as the ''Demiurge'' is not seen as good but rather an evil, angry, violent God. The higher transcendent God, referred to as the ''Grand Architect'' is not a creator of the material world, and instead is a nurturer of the spiritual. The only hope for humankind, while locked in this material prison is to spiritually transcend this world.

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Signs and Symbols:

1. White Rose - Sophia, as spiritual whole, forms earth and heaven. Represented in visual form as a flower -- like the scent of a blossom, her spirit always remains attached to the earthly foundation of reality. Her luminous aspect overcomes darkness. In Dante's poem, she is the sacred white rose belonging to the Madonna, the ultimate flower of light revealed above the starry night sky.

2. World disc - She gathers the arts around her, teaches the philosophers, inspires the poets. She bears the world disc, the zodiac, planets, sun and moon.

3. Chalice - She represents the cup of the Last Supper, the mythical Holy Grail, baptism, the return to the Mother -- the spring of life.

Thus, she is represented as a spirit of eternal wisdom

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