Know Thyself
Thousands of years ago, these words were inscribed inside of the Temple of Luxor in Khemet, what is now known as ancient Egypt. “Know thyself” was an ancient Egyptian precept that was the invitation for every initiate into the mystery schools.
As an answer to the endless seeking through the question “who am I?”, “know thyself” was the guidance to discover the sacred from within the human vessel.
Know thyself was the invitation for self realization.
These words were appropriated by Socrates in ancient Greece, and were inscribed at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, believed to have been channeled by the Pythia, the high priestess who served as a voice for Gaia, Mother Earth.
In the ancient Greek world, know thyself was the entire basis of philosophy (philosophia in Greek) which came from the Goddess of wisdom, Sophia, the feminine face of God, the feminine Christ.
In Her story, Sophia descends to the great abyss of dark matter, and through Her disconnection from the light of Heaven and Her separation from Her twin soul (Christ), She births our planet out of the blackness, and embodies this matter as Gaia, the living soul of Mother Earth.
But through patriarchy, Sophia became divided into the Heavenly Sophia and the Earthly Sophia.
Body and soul, spiritual and material, Heaven and Earth, became separate from one another. The body became a lesser than evil on the road to God.
Heaven became a place “out there” that we needed to repent in order to one day gain access to entry. Humanity discovered a void within ourselves, endlessly searching for “The One” to satisfy the ache.
Many of us have arrived to a time in our personal living mythology, when we are now standing at the doorway into the ancient mystery of our very own body and soul.
Many of us are now remembering, that “The One” and “the savior” are in fact hidden within the proverb know thyself.
In the spirit of the ancient mystery school traditions, Whole Woman Mystery School is a path for this self discovery, self gnosis, and self realization, through the many facets, expressions, and fragments of the feminine as nature within you.
Whole Woman Mystery School is a path for reunifying the separation of Gaia and Sophia, and remembering our bodies as the very temple of Goddess.
This is the secret our priestess ancestors have been guarding and protecting for thousands of years, until someone within the lineage was ready to to remember once again.