This Russian Orthodox icon hangs in our home. It is Saint Sophia with the Three Virtues, faith, hope, and charity. But as in all iconography, the truth of the images penetrates much deeper into the mythic unconscious.
To me this window reveals the Goddess Trinity. Sophia Wisdom is the Holy Spirit, feminine power of Christ - his Shakti. The three Graces are her gifts.
What are these three gifts of Grace? To know Yourself. To know an enlightened Teacher. And to know the divine Friend who dwells deeper inside you than your soul.
As the bee makes the same golden honey from three different flowers, these three forms of Grace are one. Thank you, Mother Wisdom.
Sophia Trinitas
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