Isis Mary Sophia : Her Mission and Ours

by Steiner, Rudolf; Bamford, Christopher; Bamford, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780880104944
• ISBN10: 0880104945
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Pr

Summary

The Rebirth of the feminine surrounds us in many forms -- from the worldwide movement for women's rights to the resurgence of interest in the feminine spirituality of the Goddess and the Divine Mother. What is the spiritual meaning of this rebirth? What is the feminine divine? Who is she?

She has had many names in many cultures: Ishtar in Babylon, Inanna in Sumeria, Athena, Hera, Demeter, and Persephone in Greece, Isis in Egypt, Durga, Kali, and Lakshmi in India. She is the Shekinah of the Kabbalists and the Sophia, or Divine Wisdom of the gnostics.

For Rudolf Steiner, she is Anthroposophia, the Divine Wisdom who descended from the spiritual world and passed through humanity to become now the goal and archetype of human wisdom in the cosmos.

This book contains most of Rudolf Steiner's statements on Sophia. We see him, as it were, "midwifing" the birth of the Sophia, the new Isis, divine feminine wisdom, in human hearts on earth.

Each chapter explores the mystery of the different relationships of Sophia: Sophia and Isis, Sophia and the Holy Spirit, Sophi

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(38)
Christopher Bamford
Prologue: Living Thinking	45	(1)
Thinking Is an Organ of Perception	45	(1)
Thinking Unites Us with the Cosmos	46	(3)
The Holy Spirit and the Christ in Us	49	(1)
Sophia, the Holy Spirit, Mary, and Mary Magdalene	50	(11)
The Virgin Sophia and the Holy Spirit	50	(3)
Mary and Mary Magdalene	53	(7)
Sophia Is the Gospel Itself	60	(1)
Wisdom and Health	61	(7)
The Nature of the Virgin Sophia and of the Holy Spirit	68	(21)
Isis and Madonna	89	(15)
Wisdom and Love in Cosmic and Human Evolution	104	(12)
The Being Anthroposophia	116	(11)
The Gifts of Isis	127	(13)
From the Fifth Gospel	140	(37)
Sophia and Achamoth	177	(14)
The Legend of the New Isis	191	(12)
The Search for the New Isis (1)	203	(12)
The Search for the New Isis (2)	215	(12)
Sophia and Pistis	227	(13)
Michael, Sophia, and Marduk	240	(3)
A Christmas Study: The Mystery of the Logos	243	(10)
Sources	253