Sophia appears in 2 systems: the same name is used for more than one thing. Both are shown below.
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Sophia
Gnostic divine wisdom, feminine aspect of God. Fell from Pleroma (divine fullness) through desire to know/create independently. Her fall created material world (sometimes seen as error, sometimes as necessary). Seeks redemption and return. Parallel to Lucifer pattern—descent through desire for knowledge/creation.
Sophia is a gnostic aeon of the Pleroma, the divine Wisdom whose fall - in the Apocryphon of John, the Hypostasis of the Archons and Pistis Sophia - produces the demiurge Yaldabaoth and the material world, and who seeks return. She is a mythic being of the gnostic systems, not a goddess with a cult, and the traditions differ on whether her fall is error or necessity. The planetary, elemental and tarot values here are modern attributions, and the parallel to Lucifer is one modern reading of her rather than the tradition's own.
Correspondences
- Planetary Correspondence
- Moon
Offerings
- Offerings
- White flowersHoneyMilkActs of seeking gnosisFeminine divine honoringWisdom studyRedemption work
Sacred timing
- Sacred Timing
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- Divine WisdomThe Fallen SophiaPistis Sophia
- Gender Expression
- Feminine
- Titles
- Divine WisdomThe Fallen SophiaFeminine Face of GodShe Who Descended to CreateWisdom in Exile
- Symbols
- DoveLightStarsSerpentMirror
Practice
- Invocation Approach
- ToneReverent seeking of divine wisdomAddressHoly SophiaDivine WisdomFallen OneRelationshipTeacher through descent and returnWarningWisdom requires descent into matterResonanceGnostics wisdom seekers those in exile
- Modern Practice
Patron of gnostics, those seeking divine wisdom, feminine divine practitioners. Invoked for gnosis work, understanding creation through fall, redemption seeking. Teaches that wisdom requires descent, that exile can be creative act, that return is possible.
Nature and meaning
- Domain
- Divine wisdomCreation through fallFeminine aspect of divineWisdom through exileRedemptionGnosis
- Mythology Summary
Gnostic divine wisdom, feminine aspect of God. Fell from Pleroma (divine fullness) through desire to know/create independently. Her fall created material world (sometimes seen as error, sometimes as necessary). Seeks redemption and return. Parallel to Lucifer pattern—descent through desire for knowledge/creation. Wisdom in exile seeking return.
- Related Deities
- LuciferInannaMary Magdalene
Details
Gematria
781 = 11×71 and has no classical significance that I can find; the Sophia/Chokhmah identification is made on conceptual grounds and the gematria does not support it. This entry is included because the claim is common, and it is marked as one the arithmetic does not carry.
Practice
- Script
- Greek
- Derivation
- σ 200 + ο 70 + φ 500 + ι 10 + α 1 = 781.
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Word
- Value
- 781
- Meaning
Sophia is 'wisdom', the figure of Proverbs 8 and the term the Greek theologians use for the divine wisdom, and its 781 is used by modern writers to link her with the Kabbalistic Chokhmah. The link is real but lexical rather than numerical: the Septuagint translates chokhmah as sophia, and 781 and chokhmah's 73 are related by no cipher the tradition uses.
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