The Order of Sophia
The North East Mississippi, Memphis, Corinth, Tupelo.
A virtual Monastery or Abbey of gnostic’s or mystic's who seek gnosis.
Studys may include: Gnostic, Gnosticism, Gnosis, Mystic, Mystical, Mysticism, Holy Grail, Taoism, Buddhi, Buddhism, Tantra, Hinduism, Goddess, Spiritual Awakening, Sophian Tradition, Rumi, Gnostic Gospels,...

Books may include:
The Bible, Nag Hammadi Library, The Gospel of Thomas, The Gospel According to Mary Magdalene, The Upanisads, Dead sea Scrolls, Apocrypha, Gospel of Judas, Gnostic Gospels, Rumi, The Hermetica, And much more.


Names of The Goddess
Sophia, Holy Spirit, Asherah, Ishtar, Innana, Isis, Shakti, Tara, Cybele....

The Titles of the Monastery:
1. Abbot, Abbess,
2. Priest, Priestess,
3. Brother, Sister,
Special Callings:
1: Seer, Seeress, Prophetess, Prophet, Oracle
2: Knight, Lady, Sir, Dame

A Prayer

She that leads,
and shines above,
in knowledge, wisdom, and love.
Clothe me in your lighted robes,
and lift my heart from this world.
Shine your light in this soul,
to make my earthly life of mine,
pure in deed, thought, and mind.

Elliot Sheffield
Copyright ©2008 Elliot Sheffield


Therefore I prayed, and prudence ws given me;

I pleaded, and the spirit of Wisdom came to me.

I preferred her to scepter and throne,

And deemed riches nothing in comparison with her,

nor did I liken any priceless gem to her;

Because all gold, in view of her, is a little sand,

and before her, silver is to be accounted mire.

Beyond health and comeliness I loved her,

And I chose to have her rather than the light,

because the splendor of her never yields to sleep.

Yet all good things together came to me in her company,

and countless riches at her hands;

And I rejoiced in them all, because

Wisdom is their leader,

though I had not known that she is the mother of these.

Wisdom 7:7-12

Jesus Said, "When you're celebrating a wedding, you don't skimp on the
cake and wine. You feast. Later you may need to pull in your belt, but
not now. As long as the bride and groom are with you, you have a good
time. No one throws cold water on a friendly bonfire. This is Kingdom
Come!"

Mark





Sophia, the Goddess arising: Psyche, Parvati, and Shakti: Goddess
energy and kundalini

excerpted from OM, baby! a pilgrimage to the eternal self, by Jack Haas

After our two months- of receiving vast blessings and benedictions
from India- had come to their end, my soror and I flew back to Canada
where it soon became obvious to me that although the pilgrimage was
over, the journey was not about to end.

I say this because I realized after my return to the ..western’ world,
that I had gone east so that I could then return to the west with the
inner expansion which the east provides. Without such expansion I
would have remained within the effortful confinement of the worldly
paradigm, and so I would not have been capable of attaining the next
stage of my cosmic increase. Which is to say, I would not have been
capable of receiving ...Sophia.[1]

Sophia is the cosmic Goddess, the one who contains all aspects of the
Mother Goddess, and yet is beyond all of these aspects as well. She
is of the earth and of the heavens.

Sophia is the House of God, and the bride of Christ. She is a living,
infinite, divine, archetypical spirit. She is also the consummation
of the Christ path, in that She assists in the transfiguring union of
spirit and flesh. She is our most expansive, macrocosmic, female
self. She is God.

Sophia is the Tao of heaven and earth. Sophia is the cosmic body of
Christ; Sophia is the feminine aspect, the Shakti of Issa, the
eastern Christ.

Unfortunately for the west, Sophia has all but been buried under the
festering mound of conventional religion. However, She is real, and
infinite, and waiting for humanity to embrace Her once again.

When we are united as being and non-being, spirit and flesh, Sophia
and Christ, then we are one, the om, dynamic timelessness- the all-
encompassing Tree of Life, pulsating in the living now of the Self
which is beyond personality.

This happens as the kundalini within rises upward and out of the
lotus- the crown chakra- exiting the confines of the body. Through
this opening, at the top of the head, the serpentine flesh-
consciousness is united with spirit, and Earth and Heaven commingle
into one.

Though duality merges at the third-eye, the inner soul cannot get out
through that chakra, but only through the crown chakra.

The inner sanctum lies above the crown chakra, in ..the thousand-
petalled lotus’, as it is called in the east. This is where Sophia
rises out of the individual.

It is for this reason that Shiva is often depicted with his female
aspect, Parvati, emerging out of the top of his head. It is also for
this reason that most of the female Hindu deities are represented
artistically as sitting upon a lotus- for they have risen into
consciousness and then reside above the thousand-petalled lotus,
which is the open crown chakra. [2]

This emergence of the inner, divine feminine is the alchemical stage
of purification, when the soul, grown conscious and enervated from
the overtures of the spirit, rises out of the flesh through the crown
chakra. Thus the soul of matter has been freed from limitation.

The Mother energy exists initially as a potent, writhing mix of
molten, primordial chaos- a viscous pool of ethereal, unconditioned
prima materia- which dwells in the root chakra, which is the earth.
She then rises through the individual, up the kundalini pathway, and
is transformed into Sophia- or the Goddess, or Psyche- after exiting
the physical form, through the top of the head.

The kundalini is thus the primordial snake-Mother energy, rising into
flight through the transformative human body; the serpent taking
wing. Thus the snake rises into the Christ, as the Christ descends
into the snake. And they are one.

The kundalini merges like a double helix, and the dual-snaked
caduceus is healed into one.

Immense energy is exchanged through the third-eye and crown chakra
through which we are awakened to our eternal, androgynous, limitless
true nature. [3]

Spirit becomes dense like flesh through the crown chakra. The flesh
becomes light as spirit, through the same.

The rising of the kundalini ends as the absolute union of Mother and
Father forces, in the astral inner sanctum where one is divine.

Because the spirit has descended into the flesh, the soul, housed in
the flesh, can now rise into union with the spirit.

This is the Assumption of Mary, who was considered to be an
incarnation of Sophia by the early Christians.[ 4]

Thus the human body is a factory for the alchemical transmutation of
the base ore, lead- the prima materia- into the precious metal gold,
the consciously operating anima mundi, the world soul.

Humanity is the ephemeral bridge between the eternal below, the
Mother, and the eternal above, the Father. To become both is to merge
the divided waters into a living oneness.

The Earth is now connected to Heaven through the bridge of the
transfigured individual. The mustard seed has grown into the Tree of
Life.

Ascension has occurred. The individual is immortalized. The flesh is
redeemed through the kundalini channel.

In the union of spirit and matter, via the kundalini, the body
becomes as empty and vast as space.

A reversal occurs- the male becomes matter, and the female becomes spirit.

The physical becomes the chemical, the chemical becomes electrical,
and the electrical becomes nuclear, and that is when the
transmutation of matter into energy takes place. That is when the
body becomes light. Transfiguration.

by Jack Haas


Praise for the Mother of Us All

You are the cauldron of wisdom,
From which inspiration flows.
You are the broad Earth,
which gives birth to all life.
You are the circling Moon,
ruling the tides of oceans and women.
You are the endless night sky,
filled with numberless stars.
You are a grove of birth trees,
shining in the forest deeps.
You are the Mother of us all,
and we look to you in wonder and awe.
- Ceisiwr Serith
Pagan, appropriate for many faiths
source: "A Book of Pagan Prayer" © 2002 Ceisiwr Serith. Reprinted with permission of Red Wheel/Weiser.


To the Divine Goddess who resides in all existence in the form of Confusion, we bow to Her; we bow to Her; we bow to Her, continually we bow, we bow.

Presiding over the senses of all beings and pervading all existence, to the Omnipresent Goddess who individualizes creation we bow, we bow.

In the form of Consciousness She distinguishes the individual phenomena of the perceivable universe. We bow to Her; we bow to Her; we bow to Her; we bow to Her, continually we bow, we bow.



-Chandi Patha
From "Teachings of the Hindu Mystics," © 2001 by Andrew Harvey. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Boston, www.shambhala.com.


"Come, hidden Mother, come; come, you who are made manifest in your works, and give joy and rest to those who are bound to you. Come and partake in this Eucharist which we perform in your name, and the agape for which we have assembled at your invitation."
- Acts of Thomas

The Sophia of Solomon assures us
‘Sophia shines brightly and never fades. She is readily discerned by those who love her, and by those who seek her she is found. She is quick to make herself known to all who desire her Gnosis.’




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Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of the world are true more or less. I say "more or less" because I believe that everything the human hand touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings are imperfect, becomes imperfect.

-Mahatma Gandhi