How Religion Erased the Divine Feminine

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Being a witness to women in my salon chair for 20_ years…….I know first hand that for many, women feel like strangers in their own spiritual connection due to what has been taken from our true story of internal power and hierarchical systems we’re born into.

Today’s episode exposes how Sophia’s wisdom was suppressed—and why women everywhere are waking up to a new, ancient path.

I don’t take the Divine Feminine Lightly.

It is critical and a high calling to all women to unite - not compete and compare and despair.

WE MUST change this paradigm of fear.

Sophia’s Resurgence of the Divine Feminine in the Modern World

For centuries, the divine feminine presence of Sophia was hidden and suppressed within patriarchal Christianity.

References to her divine wisdom were obscured, as the Old Testament reduced her to the lowercase "wisdom."

Let me tell you a story—a story that was nearly lost to history, hidden beneath layers of dogma and rewritten narratives.

It's the story of Sophia, the divine wisdom, and her powerful partnership with Christ in the earliest days of Christianity.

You see, in the beginning, Sophia danced through creation.

She was there before the stars, before the earth, before time itself—a radiant force moving in harmony with the masculine principle, rooted in the very foundations of existence.

The ancients called her Sophia, which literally means "wisdom" in Greek. For the early Christians, especially the mystical Gnostics, she was revered as the feminine face of the divine.

Sophia wasn't just a symbolic figure; she was an active presence, a spiritual guide alongside Christ, embodying the sacred union of masculine and feminine energies that sustain the cosmos (Pagels, 1979).

In fact, the Gnostic texts found at Nag Hammadi in 1945—such as the "Sophia of Jesus Christ," the "Pistis Sophia," and the "Gospel of Philip"—paint a vivid image of her central role.

These texts describe Sophia as both cosmic mother and a figure who experiences human-like struggles, symbolizing the soul’s journey through suffering and redemption.

She descends into the lower realms, tricked by archons (malevolent beings), suffering greatly as she searches for the true divine light.

Only when she exhausts every worldly refuge and cries out sincerely does Christ, representing the Logos, come to rescue her, guiding her back to her divine origin (Robinson, 1990).

This profound narrative mirrors our own spiritual journey, reminding us that wisdom often emerges through struggle, suffering, and eventual awakening.

Interestingly, Sophia’s presence was once woven into the very fabric of early Christian rituals.

The Eucharist wasn't just about remembering Christ’s sacrifice; it was also a celebration of Sophia’s wisdom.

Wine symbolized her blood, just as bread symbolized Christ’s body, uniting participants with both the masculine and feminine aspects of the divine (King, 2003).

Even today, the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul—"Holy Wisdom Cathedral"—stands as a silent testament to her once-central significance.

But if Sophia was so important, why don't we see her honored today?

Well, as Christianity became institutionalized under Roman rule, mystical understandings were replaced by rigid dogma.

Sophia’s voice was gradually silenced, her powerful presence diminished and replaced by a patriarchal vision of divinity.

Mary, the mother of Jesus, was elevated to divine status, but even she retained only faint echoes of Sophia’s original wisdom and power (Pagels, 1979).

This suppression was not an accident; it was a deliberate rewriting of sacred narratives to maintain control and conformity.

Yet, Sophia’s wis