The Fedeli d’Amore represent Sophia — the transcendent intelligence, Madonna Intelligenza. or Divine Wisdom — under the guise of romantic poetry Continue reading
Category Archives: Sophia
Journey through the Planets
All things are in pairs, each the opposite of the other, but nothing the Lord made is incomplete. Everything completes the goodness of something else. Could anyone ever see enough of this splendor? ~ Sirach 42:24-25 Continue reading
The Age of the Feminine
The use of the term “love” to designate an intellectual reality is moreover explained by the fact that sentiment, while being inferior to reason because of its emotional subjectivity, is nevertheless symbolically comparable to what is superior to reason, namely the Intellect; it is so because sentiment, like the Intellect at whose antipodes it stands, is not discursive, but direct, simple, spontaneous, unlimited. Continue reading
Fedele d’Amore and the Tantric Path
The Fedele d’Amore was an initiatic society of Italian poets, and Dante was the most prominent among them. For these poets, the image of the beloved revealed the Divine Sophia, thereby awakening higher stages of consciousness. For Dante, it was Beatrice who served as his guide. A similar tradition existed … Continue reading
The Russian Idea
For as lightning cometh out of the east, and appeareth even into the west: so shall the coming of the Son of man be. (Matthew 24:27) Over the past two hundred years, an important spiritual and philosophical movement has been coming out of Russia. This, until recently, has been little … Continue reading