{"id":5207,"date":"2018-07-19T12:13:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T12:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthempaths.net\/wp\/?p=5207"},"modified":"2018-07-19T12:15:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T12:15:51","slug":"sophias-song-for-all-her-beloveds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/?p=5207","title":{"rendered":"Sophia’s Song for All Her Beloveds"},"content":{"rendered":"

A slight movement in time and space is felt stirring in the profundity of her soul. Her sleepless eyes awake to another day before the dawn. She has heard thunder through the night and a high pitched shattering sound.\u00a0 A dark mirror cracks and falls away, she plummets down through thick astral clouds that obscure her sight and then she hits solid ground. Sharp obsidian spires blacker than night give way to a trailing ray of light.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

She now rests and puts notes of words on this page.<\/em><\/p>\n

Harmony and Grace playing in the spheres, notes appearing and receding, mixing and playing creating the great symphony of Life. So pulled in bilateral directions she stretches a bit more … The strength of love’s union is what keeps her from being ripped in two. <\/em><\/p>\n

She holds the sacred ground.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Memories coming flooding in, words rise and fall playing in the field of her mind. One word is heard in a steady beat, pr\u00f3noia<\/span> and she knows it not…\u00a0 And then she sees, for as man was made conscious of a self that realized he thinks, she is made conscious of foresight, of the Wisdom that steadily and gently guides with the truth.\u00a0In the space between the words she hears this Truth, the two who are the One, a union of Love is the Logos of Life creating the manifest.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Song of Songs<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Listen, O dearly beloved!
\nI am the reality of the world, the center of the circumference,
\nI am the parts and the whole.
\nI am the will established between Heaven and Earth,
\nI have created perception in you only in order to be the
\nobject of my perception.
\nIf then you perceive me, you perceive yourself.
\nBut you cannot perceive me through yourself.
\nIt is through my eyes that you see me and see yourself,
\nThrough your eyes you cannot see me.<\/p>\n

Dearly beloved!
\nI have called you so often and you have not heard me;
\nI have shown myself to you so often and you have not seen me.<\/p>\n

I have made myself fragrance so often, and you have not
\nsmelled me,
\nSavorous food, and you nave not tasted me.
\nWhy can you not reach me through the object you touch
\nOr breathe me through sweet perfumes?
\nWhy do you not see me?\u00a0 Why do you not hear me?
\nWhy? Why? Why?
\nFor you my delights surpass all other delights,
\nAnd the pleasure I procure you surpasses all other pleasures.
\nFor you I am preferable to all other good things,
\nI am Beauty, I am Grace.
\nLove me, love me alone.
\nLove yourself in me, in me alone.
\nAttach yourself to me,
\nNo one is more inward that I.
\nOthers love you for their own sake,
\nI love you for yourself.
\nAnd you, you flee from me.<\/p>\n

Dearly beloved!
\nYou cannot treat me fairly,
\nFor if you approach me,
\nIt is because I have approached you.<\/p>\n

I am nearer to you than yourself,
\nThan your soul, than your breath.
\nWho among creatures
\nWould treat you as I do? I am jealous of you over you,
\nI want you to belong to no other,
\nNot even to yourself.
\nBe mine, be for me as you are in me,
\nThough you are not even aware of it.<\/p>\n

Dearly beloved!
\nLet us go toward Union.
\nAnd if we find the road
\nThat leads to separation,
\nWe will destroy separation.
\nLet us go hand in hand.
\nLet us enter the presence of Truth.
\nLet it be our judge
\nand imprint its seal upon our union
\nFor ever.<\/p>\n

“Book of Theophanies, by Ibn \u2018Arabi. Quoted in Alone with the Alone by Henry Corbin.\u00a0 Ibn \u2018Arabi was a 12th-13th century Sufi mystic who had a profound revelation of Sophia while in deep prayer in Mecca.\u00a0 Corbin discusses Arabi\u2019s mysticism of Divine Love as a dialectic between the Godhead\u2019s longing for his Hidden Treasure that became separated from him\/her with the emanation and the longing of the essence of this original God\/Goddess energy that lies within creation to reunite with the Great Source.\u00a0 The poem above is one expression of this theme that is a reverberation of the great Song of Songs.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Logos of Love<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The idea of the logos in Greek thought harks back at least to the 6th-century-bc<\/span> philosopher <\/span>Heracleitus, who discerned in the cosmic process a logos analogous to the reasoning power in man. Later, the <\/span>Stoics, philosophers defined the logos as an active rational and spiritual principle that permeated all reality. They called the logos providence, nature, god, and the soul of the universe, which is composed of many seminal logoi that are contained in the universal logos. <\/span>Philo of Alexandria, taught that the logos was the intermediary between God and the cosmos, being both the agent of creation and the agent through which the human mind can apprehend and comprehend God. According to Philo and the Middle <\/span>Platonists, philosophers who interpreted in religious terms the teachings of the 4th-century-bc<\/span> Greek master philosopher Plato, the logos was both immanent in the world and at the same time the transcendent divine mind.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Barb\u0113l\u014d<\/b><\/p>\n

“Barb\u0113l\u014d (Greek: \u0392\u03b1\u03c1\u03b2\u03b7\u03bb\u03ce) refers to the first emanation of God in several forms of Gnostic cosmogony. Barb\u0113l\u014d is often depicted as a supreme female principle, the single passive antecedent of creation in its manifoldness. This figure is also variously referred to as \u2018Mother-Father\u2019, hinting at her apparent androgyny, ‘First Human Being\u2019, ‘The Triple Androgynous Name\u2019, or ‘Eternal Aeon\u2019. So prominent was her place among some Gnostics that some schools were designated as Barbeliotae, Barb\u0113l\u014d worshipers or Barb\u0113l\u014dgnostics.”<\/em><\/p>\n