Description The feminine divine 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 Cabalists, and the Sophia of the Gnostics. To Steiner, she is Anthroposophia (or 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 Steiner’s statements on Sophia. We see him “midwifing” the birth of the Sophia, the new Isis, and divine feminine wisdom, in human hearts on earth. Each chapter explores the mystery of the various relationships of Sophia: Sophia and Isis, Sophia and the Holy Spirit, Sophia and Mary, the mother of Jesus (and Mary Magdalene), Sophia and the Gnostic Achamod, and Sophia and the New Isis. Above all, in a remarkable way, Steiner makes clear the relationship of Christ and Sophia. Contents Introduction by Christopher Bamford Prologue: Living Thinking 1. Sophia, the Holy Spirit, Mary, and Mary Magdalene 2. Wisdom and Health 3. The Nature of the Virgin Sophia and of the Holy Spirit 4. Isis and Madonna 5. Wisdom and Love in Cosmic and Human Evolution 6. The Being Anthroposophia 7. The Gifts of Isis 8. From the Fifth Gospel 9. Sophia and Achamoth 10. The Legend of the New Isis 11. The Search for the New Isis 1 12. The Search for the New Isis 2 13. Sophia and Pistis 14. Michael, Sophia, and Marduk 15. A Christmas Study: The Mystery of the Logos
