Catholicism: Shit happens because you don't do what the Pope and his priests tells you to do.How convenient to have an Arm of the Holy Roman Empire where part of the ritual is a confessional? It's such an interesting story on how Constantine pulled all that propaganda together for the sake of the unity of the empire. His Mother was in charge of tourism and she "found" all the major Christian sites and promoted them. The debate at the time was the Gnostic version that God is within vs. you can only contact God through a priest for a price. Guess who won? A very good book is "Woman with the Alabaster Jar".
I'm glad I'm a Sethian Christian Scientist!
I know a lot of WooWoos whose relatives/friends are Fundies. Polarities.

? My daughter homeschools her 5 kids because she is Fundamentalist. I'm not allow contact with my grandchildren because I am "evil".
I would LOVE to go to Beltane. Ever google images?

I've been to England once with an English friend who took me all over. Yes. It does feel like the Mothership.
I'm interested in Gnostic theology. I guess there is a wide variety and Valentine seems to be the more sane. I think there are "truths" there but has been misunderstand. It strikes me as Pre-History. Archetype stuff. I think there is more to this than the Jesus story.
Sophia and the Demi Urge??

Sophia is the lowest Aeon, or anthropic expression of the emanation of the light of God. She is considered to have fallen from grace in some way, in so doing creating or helping to create the material world. Almost all Gnostic systems of the
Syrian or Egyptian type taught that the universe began with an original, unknowable
God, referred to as the Parent or
Bythos, or as the
Monad by
Monoimus. From this initial unitary beginning, the One spontaneously
emanated further
Aeons, being pairs of progressively 'lesser' beings in sequence. It is Sophia who brings about this instability in the Pleroma, in turn bringing about the creation of materiality. The creation of the
Demiurge (also known as Yaldabaoth, "Son of Chaos") is also a mistake made during this exile. The Demiurge proceeds to create the physical world in which we live, ignorant of Sophia, who nevertheless manages to infuse some spiritual spark or
pneuma into his creation. The Sophia herself is but a reflex of the "Mother of all living" and is therefore also called "Mother." She is the formatrix of heaven and earth, for as much as mere matter can only receive form through the light which, coming down from above has interpenetrated the dark waters of the
hylē; but she is also at the same time the spiritual principle of life in creation, as the world-soul.
mētra (
womb) from whence the whole world is supposed to have issued. The pregnant
mētra therefore contains within itself all kinds of animal forms in the reflex of heaven and earth.
She generally bears the name
Ennoia, but is also called Wisdom (Sophia), Ruler, Holy Spirit, Prunikos, Barbelo. Having sunk down from the highest heavens into the lowest regions, she creates angels and archangels, and these again create and rule the material universe. Restrained and held down by the power of this lower world, she is hindered from returning to the kingdom of the Father. According to one representation she suffers all manner of insult from the angels and archangels bound and forced again and again into fresh earthly bodies, and compelled for centuries to wander in ever new corporeal forms.
Carl Jung linked the figure of Sophia to the highest archetype of the
anima in depth psychology.
[24] The archetypal fall and recovery of Sophia is additionally linked (to a varying degree) to many different myths and stories (see
damsel in distress).
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