Sophia Wisdom

Have you heard of Sophia Wisdom? There are sacred texts where Jesus is likened to her.  Does imagery of feminine divine inspire and encourage you? What can she teach us about what is secret and what is manifest? ...for she is a breath of the power of God. 

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Here's how she's described in the Wisdom of Solomon (accepted as Scripture within the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Church traditions, but rejected in the Protestant Scriptures)

I learned both what is secret and what is manifest,
 for wisdom, the fashioner of all things, taught me.
There is in her a spirit that is intelligent, holy,
unique, manifold, subtle,
mobile, clear, unpolluted,
distinct, invulnerable, loving the good, keen,
irresistible, beneficent, humane,
steadfast, sure, free from anxiety,
all-powerful, overseeing all,
and penetrating through all spirits
that are intelligent, pure, and altogether subtle.
 For wisdom is more mobile than any motion;
because of her pureness she pervades and penetrates all things.
 For she is a breath of the power of God,
and a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty;
therefore nothing defiled gains entrance into her.
 For she is a reflection of eternal light,
a spotless mirror of the working of God,
and an image of [God's] goodness.
 Although she is but one, she can do all things,
and while remaining in herself, she renews all things;
in every generation she passes into holy souls
and makes them friends of God, and prophets;
 for God loves nothing so much as the person who lives with wisdom.
 She is more beautiful than the sun,
and excels every constellation of the stars.
Compared with the light she is found to be superior,
 for it is succeeded by the night,
but against wisdom evil does not prevail.
She reaches mightily from one end of the earth to the other,
and she orders all things well.

Feminist theologian Sally Douglas has written a lot about Sophia Wisdom and if you want to further explore the imaging and celebration of Jesus as the female divine there are resources she created here.