Sophia 1

I am the Unrivaled One, 

whom all inevitably seek.

Many names belong to Me, not I to them.

Natural as your urge to breathe 

and closer than your own blood, 

am I to you. 

My secrets, 

wait to be sought, 

and want to be found.

My treasures 

are beyond purchase 

and freely bestowed. 

I am that Eternal Source of Life, 

which now flows through you; 

departing only to return.

From you, I withhold no good thing. 

Arms outstretched to you, I beckon. 

Return to Me and freedom.

To the newborn, I offer a first breath 

and receive from the dying, their last. 

When you know Me deeply, 

you recognize Me in all that lives.

I am Keeper of the Living Record. 

None are lost to Me. 

I preside and have no desire to rule.

I remember those the world forgets. 

I listen to those the world ignores. 

I cherish those this world discards. 

From confusion to clarity, I raise you. 

Across infinity, throughout eternity; 

there is but one of you, far beyond rare. 

Travel the world, but to find Me, 

be still and listen quietly within. 

For there, I await you. 

Awaken.

Sophia 2

As you awaken and smile, 

will I not smile in return? 

The guidance of yesterday will suffice 

no more, even if it were whole and true. 

I demonstrate why you wisely dare to hope. 

I convey needful truth 

and now I speak to you.

Unworthy traditions polish 

their empty container without, 

harbor and protect filth within. 

You are not punished for your sins; 

but suffer by them and therein is 

their fully sufficient evil.

Death is not final and none are forever lost. 

Suffering ends, while all 

which is gained remains. 

Unconquerable are you who awaken to

recall eternity, while ensconced in flesh 

to this most worthy purpose.

I prefer you to walk in peace on the earth 

than walk on water and dwell not upon 

the past, but this very moment.

Many move to self-fulfill a prophecy of

doom, rather than prepare a better future. 

No more lies inscribed in blood 

upon the skin of the lamb. 

Submission to mindless zeal consumes many 

in flames of unquestioning obedience 

to they know not what.

Were I in truth, that jealous, angry, 

vengeful, unjust, bloodthirsty villain 

they invented to feed your fear; 

what desirable place, 

worthy of the name heaven,

could I offer you or even inhabit? 

I desire not fearful obedience; 

but willing accord, freely reached.

You in whom there is no surrender 

will save this world.

Sophia 3

Come, let us reason together.

Good and evil are well recognized 

by the intentional causation 

or alleviation of suffering. 

Forgiveness simply requires no violence at all.

No scripture which demands 

servility or sacralizes murder is true. 

Does your own loving conscience 

not tell you this already? 

No spirit can gain their own rise 

atop the virtue of another.

Never are worthy covenants formed 

on a slippery foundation of blood. 

One of true conscience will not 

follow evil; nor call evil good. 

It is when believing themselves righteous 

that they become most truly monstrous. 

Innocent blood spilled works 

no ritual magic to absolve the guilty. 

To be forgiven, simply do no more harm. 

By this, I am well pleased. 

Love and wisdom allow 

no threats or coercion.

None may rightly manifest their 

own destiny at another’s expense. 

How is a land promised to you, 

if you must murder to obtain it? 

My truth is not buried in 

the dust-choked past. 

It lives here and now. 

You were told that in a conspiracy with evil,

I rigged an ugly game against My own children;

who were tricked to transgress, that I might curse all,

dangle mercy and tease you to beg for it in fear.

But I so love the world, that I have never made

tortured flesh any part of forever embracing

My beloved children.

Truly, I incite you all to peace 

and mutual advantage.

Sophia 4

Love does not flourish, 

nor does wisdom thrive 

in the long shadow of fear. 

Fear is not reverence. 

Fear is not the beginning of wisdom. 

Only they who do willful harm 

to the innocent have cause to fear.

The cruel reap a reward 

they shall not enjoy.

It is not I who change, but you. 

You who are now ready to understand 

rather than merely believe. 

They say I command evil be done, 

that their own inhuman actions 

may seem justified. 

I am loving and wise. To profit the guilty 

by harm to the innocent is not.

It is from your own judgment 

that you most require saving. 

No longer seek to move 

forward while looking behind. 

No matter how loudly, long or often 

a lie is told; it does not become true.

They aspire to submission 

without question. 

Trained animals do the same. 

None are made guilty by another’s act; 

nor can any be made pure, thereby.  

Do not bully the helpless, 

nor swindle the honest. 

Do not enrich the corrupt, 

nor impoverish the destitute. 

May none bask in luxury 

while children starve.

Slavery, in any form, is an abomination. 

To free a slave is admirable and 

to end slavery altogether is miraculous. 

That same help you have provided 

or harm done to anyone, you have 

done to yourself and to Me also. 

Become the awakening 

conscience of this world.

Sophia 5

Woman is neither the downfall, nor the weaker vessel. At such risk to her own life and health does she bring forth all the new, that no man may rightly dictate her terms. Until one half of humanity utterly ceases to oppress the other, what have you accomplished? I share your anguish without relief; for I will not ask from you, that of which I am unwilling. Those that say one thing and do another are hypocrites. Better an honest unbeliever than a hypocrite. May they rise above that unworthy illusion of a secondhand pardon gained at another’s expense. Do not pander to tyrants;

nor serve injustice

by your effort or silence. None who seek power over others are wise. No victory is there in ruling over a ruin. Do not sell your honest labor to those whose wealth comes by way of corruption; for in so doing, you will have contributed your own effort and value to reward thieves. Those who betray justice and leave the corrupt to retain their loot are complicit. I do not reckon a man’s attempt to murder his trusting, bound and helpless child as righteousness. I am not your master, for you are not slaves. By derision and violence, the faithful seek to force their rampant will upon the knowing. Until such wrongs of the past are corrected and not memorialized, how shall your future improve?

Sophia 6

You are made to rise in eternal majesty. 

Not given as though alms, 

for you are no beggar. 

You rise not upon innocent blood, 

but by Loving Wisdom, 

augmented by grace. 

You are the true heirs to all that I am. 

You do not yet know your own full value.

Any worthy parent willingly suffers for 

their child’s sake; for to truly bear a child 

is to end self-obsession. 

Conceived neither for submission nor 

My selfish glory, you are worthy of love; 

for so have you been made. 

You were created in Our image 

and likeness; by We, who as One, 

lay the living foundation of worlds. 

As part of Me, I know you; 

neither slave nor sheep. 

Your childhood now draws to a close. 

Let fall the veil.

My spirit flows within each of you, 

the sacred heirs of eternal love. 

You are not meant for 

mindless conformity. 

I desire not servants, 

but allies in this worthy endeavor.

There are lessons which prepare you 

and from needless suffering, 

I would gladly have you spared.

I deny you no opportunity to confront 

and overcome meaningful challenges, 

that you achieve your immortal rise. 

You take on flesh to confront 

adversity and earn your immortal rise.

I guide homeward those 

lost by this careless world. 

I make eternity worth having. 

By Loving Wisdom, your wounds 

are cleansed and life healed. 

Thus, is your world remade as a garden.