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| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"religion",<br>"author":"pyrophorus",<br>"permlink":"heavens-twins",<br>"title":"Heavens 'Twins'",<br>"body":"Lucifer and Sophia\n![31697447_592069187838959_7125405053925457920_n.jpg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmaLsqM2pAddoiD9snH5BEAcec1CgRnJK3mE4dXucJTMmd\/31697447_592069187838959_7125405053925457920_n.jpg)\nLucifer is a powerful symbol for the interplay of darkness and light within the soul. In a Jungian sense,<br> Lucifer is our Shadow Self: the voice in our unconscious calling us to acknowledge the dark lagoons of our greatest fears,<br> but in the end delivering oceans of enlightenment for those who take the odyssey of self-knowledge.\n\nBut both the modern and traditional incarnations of Lucifer likely had their genesis in the heresy known as Gnosticism\u2014based on another rebellious figure also symbolizing the soul\u2019s journey across the dimensions of the cosmos.\n\nHer name is Sophia. And she has also returned as an important light-bringer for a world on the brink.\n\nThe Gnostics depicted Sophia as the personification of Divine Wisdom.\nSHE WAS ONE OF THE AEONS\u2014personifications of the Mind of God that comprised the Eternal Realm. Like Lucifer,<br> Sophia is seen as a defiant and fallen being,<br> in some narratives likewise the font of all evil and even the manipulator of mankind for her own mercurial desires. The reasons for Sophia\u2019s transgression against the Eternal Realm are varied and often murky; but the truth is that why Lucifer fell from Heaven is more legend and speculation than anything actually mentioned in the Bible. The commonality between Lucifer and Sophia\u2019s expulsion does point to hubris and curiosity (an always perilous combination for the human ego,<br> as well).\n\nBearing in mind Sophia\u2019s story is early than Lucifer\u2019s,<br> here are more of their parallels:\n\n-They are cast into Chaos,<br> becoming outcasts to their own kindred. Sophia\u2019s repentance and redemption are almost assured in Gnostic chronicles,<br> though,<br> and only the church Father Origen proposed restitution for Lucifer,<br> if he repented. In later traditions,<br> Sophia encounters other mutinous Aeons (The Pistis Sophia),<br> while Lucifer is seen as leading other fallen angels with him to Hell.\n\n--They tower above all other divine and mundane agencies in their primordial form. The Aeon Sophia presides over angels and other spirits,<br> while Lucifer,<br> as an archangel in Christian tradition,<br> does the same.\n\n--They are known to rule chthonic domains. In the Gospel of the Egyptians,<br> Sophia is the very ruler of Hades,<br> while Lucifer is given an underworld empire.\n\n--They create other godly beings that,<br> at times,<br> revolt against them in a sort of Karmic justice. Sophia is commonly said to have given birth to the disobedient Demiurge and his Archons,<br> while uprisings in Hell against Lucifer are widely depicted in legend and literature.\n\n--They are the cause of much discord in the universe,<br> yet at the same time are seen as instruments of intellect and order. Sophia,<br> as incarnate wisdom,<br> instructs humanity in many Gnostic accounts,<br> while Lucifer has been described as the godly patron of reason and science.\n\n\u201cLike Lucifer,<br> Sophia was the jewel in Heaven\u2019s crown,<br> and his banishment from Heaven reflects her fall from grace. She is also associated with the ruler of Hell by way of her ignorant son,<br> Yaldabaoth,<br> the material god who rules his own \u201chellish\u201d kingdom.\u201d\n\nThere are,<br> of course,<br> many differences between Lucifer and Sophia. However,<br> a notion of a mighty (almost supreme) being expelled from a paradise to basically control the fate of lower dimensions certainly has its foundation in Gnosticism.\n\nSource - Gnostic Warrior",<br>"json_metadata":" \"tags\":[\"religion\",<br>\"philosophy\",<br>\"gnostic\",<br>\"truth\",<br>\"art\" ,<br>\"image\":[\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmaLsqM2pAddoiD9snH5BEAcec1CgRnJK3mE4dXucJTMmd\/31697447_592069187838959_7125405053925457920_n.jpg\" ,<br>\"app\":\"steemit\/0.1\",<br>\"format\":\"markdown\" " | | comment_options | "author":"pyrophorus",
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