We often talk about Isis and Her priestesses and priests in ancient days, but today, I’d like to go a bit more modern. It’s important because those of us who are attracted to Isis today have a modern Isis heritage, too. Exploring that heritage helps us understand why Isis continued and continues to be a […]
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The Goddess ISIS the Alchemist {M. Isidora Forrest}
Like Her fellow Magician God, Hermes Trismegistos (aka Thoth), the Goddess Isis is associated with early alchemy. In an alchemical text with the lengthy title The True Book of Sophe the Egyptian and of the God of the Hebrews, Lord of the Powers, Sabaoth, we learn of a particular alchemical method called the Tincture of Isis. […]
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The Goddess ISIS and the Winds {M. Isidora Forrest}
We have seen how Our Goddess is a Lady of Fire and of Water. Today, we take a deep, cleansing breath and honor Her as Lady of the element of Air—of Breath, of Wind, and thus of Spirit. Indeed, many cultures associate breath, air, and wind with Spirit. For while these things are invisible, they are […]
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ISIS – Lady of Crocodiles {M Isidora Forrest}
We don’t usually think of Isis in relation to crocodiles or to Sobek, the Crocodile God. Ahh, but wait. As with so much in Egyptian religion, it’s complicated. And there are more Isis-croc connections than we might at first think. Let’s start with a bit about the crocodile itself. A Nile crocodile can reach up to twenty […]
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Tarot Message – The Hierophant {Kathryn Ravenwood}
So – Halloween approaches, my computer is dead or dying, and I decided to give you a re-run from last year….. many blessings!! In the Tarot, card #5, or The Hierophant, is the high priest, the Pope, or, as Marie White of the Mary-El Tarot, says, the “revealer of the sacred.” You get the idea. […]
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ISIS and the Kore Kosmou – Part 3 {M Isidora Forrest}
We ended last time wondering whether Horus, the son and student of Isis, might be the “Pupil of the Eye of the World” rather than Isis. So let’s have a look at that. As you already know, the Kore Kosmou is one of theHermetica, spiritual teaching texts meant to illuminate the student. Like a number of […]
