Introduction
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Image: Mother of the World
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African Dark Mother – Oldest Divinity We Know
Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, PhD
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Images: African milk tree, Black Madonna of Toulouse, Female Figure, Isis nursing Horus in the Cairo Museumn, Lucia, Meroe Pyramids in Sudan, RC-12 Isis nursing Horus, , RC-1605 Standing Sekhmet, RC-1677 Tahure Coffin detail, RC-3066 Predynastic Beaker
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The Hymn of Isis
From “Thunder, Perfect Mind”
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The Oracles of Delphi
Julie Scott, SRC
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Images: Aegeus consults the Oracle, Map of ancient Greece, Michelangelo's Delphic Sibyl, Omphalos, Priestess of Delphi, Temple of Apollo faultlines
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The Ritual Path of Initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries
Mara Lynn Keller, PhD
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Images: Acropolis rendering, Conon’s Walls, Demeter and Kore, Demeter and Metanira, Eleusinian Mystery water vase, Marble votive of the Eleusenian deities, Plemochoe, Ruins of the Temple at Eleusis, The Abduction of Proserpina, The Ninnion Tablet, The Return of Persephone, Thesmophoria, Votive piglet
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Vestals
Christina d'Arcy, SRC
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Images: Ancient statue of a Vestal, Hearth in an Ainu house, House of the Vestals in the Forum, Shakti statue, Shekinah in the Grand Temple
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Mary, Great Woman Initiate
Hélène Bernard, SRC
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Images: The Visitation, Virgin and Child
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Searching for the Secret of the Black Virgin
Jean Donohue, SRC
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Images: Black Madonna of Chartres, Doorway Black Virgin in Les Baux-de-Provence, Doorway Madonna in Marseilles, Our Lady of Dublin, Our Lady of Rocamdour (detail), Our Lady of Rocamdour (full), Our Lady of Tindari
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Grandmothers of the Light
Paula Gunn Allen, PhD
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Images: Dignity of Earth and Sky, Logarithmic scale conception of the observable universe, White Buffalo Calf Woman, Wind symbol
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Clemence Isaure: The Rosicrucian Golden Isis
Julie Scott, SRC
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Images:H. Spencer Lewis, 1915, Poster for the Rosicrucian Salons, The Appearance of Clemence Isaure to the Troubadours, The First Meeting of the Jeux Floraux, The Troubadour Singing to His Love (detail)
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The Dinner Party
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Masculine and Feminine Symbolism in Kabbalah
Lloyd Abrams, PhD, FRC
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Images: Ancient of Days, Shekinah, Tiferet, TMO, Tree of the Sephiroth
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The Epiphany of Isis
Lucius Apuleius
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Image: Isis and Lucius, Isis Finial, Isis-Sothis-Demeter, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Royal Sistrum
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Hidden Harmonies: Rediscovering the Egyptian Foundations of the Rosicrucian Path
Steven Armstrong, MA, MAHum, MDiv, FRC
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Images: Akhenaten, Hatshepsut Bead, May-Banks Stacey, The Enchanted Garden
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The Veil of Isis: The Evolution of an Archetype Hidden in Plain Sight
Steven Armstrong, MA, MAHum, MDiv, FRC
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Images: Artemis of Ephesus, Genius Unveiling a Bust of Nature, Goddess Neith, Holy Protection Icon, Isis and Thuthmose III, Minerva-Athena, Statue of Isis, Virgin of Mercy, Virgin of Mercy Statue
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Just Beneath the Surface: A Report on the Transdisciplinary Fume Research at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi
Elisa Cuttjonn, SRC
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Images: Aegeus consults the Pythia, Entrance to the Sanctuary of Gaia, Fault Lines under the Temple of Apollo
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Platonic Love
Elisa Cuttjohn, SRC
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Images: Diotima of Mantinea, Socrates
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I was a Priestess at Delphi: A Historical Meditation
Defenstrix
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Image: Delphi with an Offering Procession
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Oracles of Delphi
Olga Deulofeu, Jeannine Klos, Rhonda Mitchell, Terry Orlikowski, Rebecca Richards, and Lisa Spencer
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Images: Dionysus and Panther, Delphic Oracle, The Oracle of Delphi, Underground Oracle
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Ancient Civilizations Influenced by the Feminine Principle
Valerie Dupont, SRC
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Image: Baker Djehuty and wife Ahhotep
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Hypatia of Alexandria
Valerie Dupont, SRC
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Images: Hypatia Sketch, Painting of Hypatia
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Early Christianity & the Gospel of Mary
Karen L. King, PhD
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Image: Mary of Magdala
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Translation of the Gospel of Mary
Karen L. King, PhD
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Image: Mary Magdalene Announcing the Resurrection
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Hypatia and the Power of Reasoning
Ese Magege, RPA-C, MBA, SRC
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Image: Hypatia of Alexandria
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Human Rights is a Religion
April Milbry, SRC
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Image: Karyatid from Eleusis
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"Letter" of Helena Roerich, from Great Women Initiates
Helena Roerich
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An Isis Timeline
Katherine Schaefers, MA
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Image: Altar of Isis at Philae, Cave of Pluto at Eleusis, Cleopatra VII, Island of Philae, Isis and Serapis, Isis Nursing Horus, Isis welcoming Io to Egypt, Joy of All Who Sorrow Church, Joy of All Who Sorrow Icon, Roman Isis, Virgin and Child from Priscilla Catacomb
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Demeter and Persephone
Charlene Spretnak, MA
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Images: Ceres, Ceres and Triptolemos, Demeter and Kore, Persephone
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The Feminine in the Temple
Serge Toussaint, FRC
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Image: Ishtar
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At Eleusis
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, SRC
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Images: Eleusis Museum and Mountains, Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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