Our good friend author Margaret Starbird writes:<\/p>\n
A “must read twice” book I love is “In the Dark Places of Wisdom<\/a>” by\u00c2\u00a0Peter Kingsley— about the way the “Sophia” was written out of Greek\u00c2\u00a0culture by Plato and his disciples—in favor of rational thinking. I\u00c2\u00a0consider this a very important contribution to the dialog about “what\u00c2\u00a0happened?” I think Jesus came to reclaim the connection with the<\/p>\n “Sophia” (embodied in Mary Magdalene in the Christian story) but the\u00c2\u00a0early Church fathers were so “Logos” oriented, they scuttled the\u00c2\u00a0original vessel (the “hieros gamos” implied in the Gospels which\u00c2\u00a0honored the contributions of women….<\/p>\n I’t’s time to reclaim the Beloveds in the Garden and the partnership\u00c2\u00a0of heaven and earth that it implies–<\/p>\n <\/p>\n peace and well-being,<\/p>\n Margaret<\/p>\n Author of “The Woman with the Alabaster Jar”<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.margaretstarbird.net<\/a><\/p>\n Margaret also wrote:<\/p>\n While I love many books of Bible, one of my favorite passages in\u00c2\u00a0Scripture is the “Song of Songs”–(aka the Song of Solomon)–derived\u00c2\u00a0from ancient liturgical poetry honoring the “hieros gamos” union of\u00c2\u00a0Isis and Osiris, and another is Sirach 24, about “Wisdom”–“like a\u00c2\u00a0mist I covered the earth”<\/p>\n ________<\/p>\n So I just ordered myself a copy of In the Dark Places of Wisdom<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our good friend author Margaret Starbird writes: A “must read twice” book I love is “In the Dark Places of Wisdom” by\u00c2\u00a0Peter Kingsley— about the way the “Sophia” was written out of Greek\u00c2\u00a0culture by Plato and his disciples—in favor of rational thinking. I\u00c2\u00a0consider this a very important contribution to the dialog about “what\u00c2\u00a0happened?” I think … Continue reading In the Dark Places of Wisdom, Sophia Removed from Western Mysteries<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,43,2],"tags":[35,64,63,32],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gnosticism","category-sacred-feminine","category-what-sunday-school-wont-teach","tag-margaret-starbird","tag-peter-kingsley","tag-plato","tag-sophia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t