It also helps to realize that God has many names, and I think of Sophia as but one of these many names for God although I actually tend not to use it quite so widely or exclusively as many of my friends in EEWC for whom it is the one name that provides the most meaning and liber...
In “Le Morte D’Arthur”, Queen Guinevere and Elaine of Astolat are two fair ladies whose names are closely related to their love for Sir Lancelot. Elaine devotes herself to the selfless love for Lancelot without hesitation and dies heartbroken with lovingly sorrowful prayers. Guinevere sustains...
Sometimes the strange actions of the body in question are taken for a name. The Dancing Plague, for instance, in which 400 people, in the streets of Strasbourg, in 1518, danced to the point of exhaustion and sometimes to death. (It’s difficult at first to believe that a person could ...
Her survival and continuity is traced to the present day from nativist, feminist and Jungian points of view.;There is strong evidence that the Goddess was revered in pre-Christian, matrifocal Ireland as the sacred land and sovereignty, the soul of all becoming, birth, death and regeneration,...
to honour our bodies which are part of the earth. She calls us to accept the wisdom of the circle of life: its rhythms of dawn to day to dark to day; of spring to summer to autumn to winter to spring; of birth to life to death to rebirth. She calls us by our true name as sh...
1911: Schreber's reported year of death, at the age of 60. Cause of death is unknown. It is convenient to view Schreber's life according to three phases of temporal development. First, there is the time prior to the onset of his second "nervous illness," before 1893. Since the ...
When you look at the greatest men throughout history…men whose names are still remembered centuries, often millennia after their death…you will notice one common theme that ties them all together. A burning and ambitious purpose that superseded their own basic desires. ...
same time this event has placed, ironically through a death, another nail in the coffin of the waning Piscean dominant of patriarchal hierarchy and its distantly enthroned God. THE VINE OF THE LORD Many biblical passages use the word vine as a metaphor for the chosen people of God. "A ...
Whoever would to travel to “The Dwelling of No-Dwelling”, the seventh station, the meeting point, must suffer a symbolic death that presupposes the annihilation of the self [fanā] as a step toward knowledge. The Gnostic [sāalik] attains to the Lady’s subtle Presence through a tenuous ...
Two sermons Dōgen delivered on the anniversary of his father’s death, moreover, have given the scholars new information concerning his parentage. The focus on the aspect of "feminine presence” in Dōgen inadvertently (or naturally?) leads to the heart of Dōgen’s own identity. Keywords: ...