Ascent of Holy Sophia
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The Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of the Nativity of Mary on September 8, the earliest documented evidence of which is a hymn written in the sixth century. At this time the Gnostic Church celebrates the Ascent of Sophia and the gift of Holy Wisdom to man.
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The Ascent of Holy Sophia is a celebration of the magnificence of the Wisdom of God. It is a reminder of the cosmic importance of the Divine Feminine and particularly of Her role in the redemption of all emanated things back into the Godhead. As a Sophian Service says of Her: “She is the Great Mother of Compassion, and it is she that has come out forth from the Aeons to give grace to the realm of the Father. It is she who gave us the fire of life. It is she that gives us comfort and joy. She is that beloved spoken of in the Song of Solomon, that sweet honey of closeness to the Divine when we feel the embrace of God. She is the Shekinah, the very Loving Presence of God.”
Her salvific presence in the emanated world and Her assumption back into the Pleroma teaches us as Gnostics the wisdom of compassion and self-sacrifice. It also teaches us the Gnosis of Universal Divine Mercy and the hope that no matter how distant from the Divine things may appear to be, they will be returned into the Embrace of God. May we all, through Her Divine Love and Divine Wisdom feel the embrace of Our Beloved in the Glorious Beauty of the Heavenly Bridal Chamber of the Pleroma! Amen. |
"O God of my Fathers, who hast made all things with Thy word, give me wisdom, that sitteth by Thy throne. For wisdom was with Thee, which knoweth Thy works, and was present when Thou madest the world, and knew what was acceptable in Thy sight, and right in Thy commandments. O send her out of Thy holy heavens, and from the throne of Thy glory, that being present, she may labor with me, that I may know what is pleasing unto Thee. For she knoweth and understandeth all things, and she shall lead me soberly in my doings, and preserve me in her power; so shall my works be acceptable. So the ways of them which lived on earth were reformed, and men were taught the things that are pleasing unto Thee through Wisdom." (From the Book of the Wisdom of Solomon.)
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