Sophia, the Wisdom of God

Sophia, the Wisdom of God

The Feminine Holy Spirit

Before the Church women shouldn’t have lead positions in thee church, and passed off the keys to a series of men in robes, there was Sophia, the personified Wisdom of God, the feminine counterpart who helped shape creation itself.

She’s not a fringe figure either only mentioned in some “heretical” texts, you can find her still in the very pages of the Hebrew Bible and echoed in early Christian texts.

Much like every other divine feminine presence that ever dared to exist beside the jealous male deity, Sophia was systematically erased, neutered, and turned into an abstract “concept” rather than a divine being.

The same tactic was used to bury Asherah, a figure that I wrote about in another piece, Lilith, and every other inconvenient symbol of female divinity that contradicted the carefully curated patriarchy of scripture.

Sophia still showed through, in the Book of Proverbs, in apocryphal texts, in the writings of Church Fathers who couldn’t quite erase her, and in the persistent undercurrent of mysticism.