The essence of the Sophia myth tells of her fall from her Father’s house and into the world. Here she loses her way, looks for love in all the wrong places, becomes abused by many false lovers, and eventually falls into prostitution. Eventually she repents and calls out for help, whereupon her Father sends down her brother, Christ, to rescue her (sometimes the story uses the model of a lover instead of a brother). Sophia represents the soul of each initiate, symbolizing the fall of the soul into incarnation in a human body. The soul becomes lost in the world, until it eventually discovers spiritual liberation through contacting the Christ within, representing the Consciousness of God in the heart of all beings.

The archetype of Sophia actually has two facets. One is symbolized as a virgin, or the divine mother that resides within each of us. In Christianity, she is known as the Virgin Mary. The second facet is symbolized as a prostitute, but a prostitute that is eventually redeemed, representing the soul (Sophia) fallen and lost in the world, as mentioned above. She is known in the Christian Tradition as Mary Magdalene. Again, Magdalene is commonly seen as the fallen facet of the soul/Sophia but the Virgin is seen as the facet of the soul/Sophia when awakened. In either case, they both bear the same name (Mary) to emphasize the fact that they are two mythological aspects of the same single figure.

Once again, although there are several ways to interpret the myth of Sophia, one of the most fundamental interpretations is that the soul (Sophia) has fallen into the material world and manifested as the prostitute (Mary Magdalene), lost in sin. When the Christ (Divine) Self redeems her, the prostitute becomes equal to the Virgin aspect of Sophia that remains pure and is revered as a Goddess. Both, however, are redeemed by a savior-one by her son, the other by her brother/lover. And, although this version of the sacred myth of the soul certainly has some validity, there is yet a deeper aspect waiting to be told.

Imagine that the two facets of Sophia are two opposite extremes of two very different types of women-the mother/wife type (but not so pristinely “pure”) and the single woman type (but not to the extreme of a prostitute). Both are entirely capable of having positive and negative aspects. Although the Virgin can be holy, she can also be too controlling or sometimes too sacrificial. And although the Prostitute can be too self abusive, she can also be vivacious and playful.

In the last several years, a large number of people felt compelled to defend the prostitute aspect of Sophia-in the form of Mary Magdalene. They justify their defense of her as though they are defending the rights of all women. Sadly, this has an opposite effect. To defend her as such, keeps her weak and in need of their defense, thus keeping her vulnerable and disempowered, the opposite of what they claimed to be doing. Sophia isn’t involved with gender disputes and is in no need of our defense; she is ultimately the symbol of our pure and powerful soul and is without gender. The reference to Sophia being female is merely symbolic of her (our soul’s) ability to be a co-creator and to give birth to the material world. Furthermore, the (male) redeemer could not have come to save the fallen aspect of Sophia, had it not been for the Mother aspect first giving him birth.

Sophia, whose name means “wisdom,” had been the goddess of the pagan philosophers for centuries. The word, “philosopher,” first used by Pythagoras, means “Lover of Sophia.” Sophia was also an important mythical figure for Jewish Gnostic philosophers, such as Philo. In the Jewish Sophia literature the Savior archetype is persecuted by his own people (similar to Jesus at the hands of the Jewish leaders) for preaching Sophia’s wisdom, the soul’s true wisdom. He is then condemned to death (crucifixion). But he is later vindicated (resurrected) and rises (ascends) to heaven, as a “Son of God,” the Christ.

When viewing the story of Sophia from an esoteric viewpoint, we gain a much deeper understanding of how and why we created our body and body’s energy-systems, which is as follows:

“And when she [Sophia or our rebellious souls] saw the consequences of her desire [to separate from God], it [her desire] changed into a form of a lion-faced serpent [kundalini]. And its two eyes [Ida & Pingala] were like lightning flashes. So she cast the lion serpent away from her, so that none of the immortal ones might see it, for she had created it in ignorance [and then feared their judgment]. Then she surrounded it with a luminous cloud [body and aura], and placed a throne [center of the head] in the middle of the cloud that no one might see it except the Holy Spirit. This creature [our ego or false self that arose from our belief in separation] took a great power from his mother [our soul]. He is impious in his arrogance. For he said, ‘I am God and there is no other God beside me,’ for he had forgotten the place from which he had come.”

Women (as well as men) are living the mythology of Sophia and can be either the fallen or risen state of either, the “nesting mother” or the “dancing daughter.” In the old traditions, this legend became the litmus test of a woman’s integrity. If she lived the life of the selfless virgin (perfect wife and/or mother), she was somehow deemed closer to God. On the other hand, if she danced and dined, she was unfit for the kingdom of God. Some cultures even passed on beliefs to women that if they were unmarried and/or without child, they were somehow incomplete. Such thinking keeps these unfortunate women hostage to a mass trance of illusion. Spiritual teachings, however, tell a different story, one that says that both are potential goddesses and deserving of all that God is, which is what god-dess means, god-is.

Women of today often struggle with their identity and fail to recognize and embrace both aspects of their inner goddess. In fact, a woman can actually gain weight, especially after she reaches her 40’s or 50’s, simply because her body is responding to her mental programs that tell her she’s no longer allowed to be a maiden, a Magdalene, thus retaining her vitality and youthfulness. Instead, she begins to take on her inner mother archetype. Conversely, when a woman only embraces her inner maiden and ignores the call of her more mature mother archetype, she then tends to want to be irresponsible, keeps partying, and usually attracts relationships with equally immature men who she can’t trust or who will not satisfy her more mature, affectionate, responsible, financial, and perhaps even spiritual needs. These potential problems and dissatisfactions in her life are nature’s way of forcing her to experience both archetypes in the literal (external) sense, simply because she has failed to do so in the metaphysical (internal) sense. The ideal goal, of course, is to embrace and embody both archetypes-the spiritual mother and co-creator in this world AND the spiritual maiden as a carefree being-full of life and sensuality. In any case, as Christ within her comes to redeem her heart and soul (consciousness), she no longer lives the extremes of either the virgin or prostitute but instead finds herself in balance, embodying both archetypes and able to access either one on an as needed basis.

As you know, everyone is talking about the future of our country and our economy. My reply is to say, “Are you doing so well with today that you should be focused on the future?” Whether we are discussing today or tomorrow, the answer is always the same . . . DO THE WORK THAT LIES BEFORE YOU! Practice love, peace, and forgiveness in your life and in all your relations and you can be certain of a better tomorrow. If you neglect today’s opportunities to rise into higher consciousness through love and forgiveness, you can be sure that you future will always be the same as the past—or worse.

Don’t expect your life to improve faster than you do. And don’t expect yourself to improve faster than your ability to love and forgive. When you refrain from a loving life, you keep yourself bound to the past and out of the moment—wherein peace is found.

Forgiveness heals us from the perception of being separate from God, which in turn accomplishes a mini version of our return Home. Of course if it’s true that your ego has no intention of letting you off the hook that easy, you can bet it will keep trying to keep you from healing and forgiving. The ego encourages a constant state of fear that screams, “Make them (people in the present) suffer for how I feel and for what was done to me (usually in the past).” But forgiveness sings, “Let it go!” Or, as A Course in Miracles puts it, say to those who have hurt you, “God is the loving with which I forgive you.”

Of course it’s always easier to forgive those whom you have deemed “deserving” of your forgiveness and have had the time to gradually choose to forgive them. But remember the real work comes from those who catch you off guard, when you’re not in the mood to forgive. These are the best people with which to practice healing. These are the folks who offer you your greatest advancements. Learn to laugh at the fact that you were caught unprepared and attempting to hide an issue. It may not be easy to see it this way at first but eventually it all comes together when you begin to see the reward of peace and joy that come from such opportunities as these. After all, when you truly forgive, you are coming closer to being as God than in any other moment, because to truly forgive means to see the light within yourself and others, as does God.

Conversely, the fear-based, ego part of your mind will always try to expose darkness in yourself or others. The mistakes that we all make are merely seen as temporary errors in God’s eyes but as unforgivable SINS in the eyes of the ego. Love forgives what fear condemns. Therefore love or forgiveness undoes whatever the ego is trying to accomplish through fear and hurt. The reason the ego needs to see it as such is to keep debts alive; Debts that will never allow us to be free. If we are released and forgiven, then the ego is released and ceases to exist, which it fights to prevent.

So be courageous enough to allow others off the hook for what you believe they did to you. Even if others have indeed hurt you by human standards, you can still let them off the hook so that you don’t remain in the hell of hurt with them. It may not happen today but once you get tired enough of the cycle of error, guilt, suffering, and payment—which usually only results in more error and the continuation of the same cycle—you will eventually choose to release all those whom you have imprisoned for their deeds. But why wait until you are exhausted from this process of condemning and pardoning? Learn to release everyone NOW! Each day, spend a moment thinking of someone new who you can release. Of course some of us say, “But I really just love everyone and hold no resentment of any kind.” To this I would have to say that if you had no unhealed hurt, you would ascend! It’s that simple! The truth is, even when you are capable of noticing the difference between the color of people’s skin or between victims and victimizers, it means your soul is still not clear of untrue, past perceptions, which originate in our unhealed judgments. God holds no such perceptions or judgments.

In the end, the only things that you actually forgive are the illusions or false perceptions you once held against yourself or others. In releasing such perceptions, your soul is restored to its original state of grace. In other words, you are released as you release others—“Forgiven are our debts, as we have forgiven others.” Furthermore, since it was your choice to release an old hurt, resentment or judgment and this resulted in forgiveness and healing, you could honestly say that you’ve healed yourself—just as you were the one who once condemned yourself. In other words, others may have hurt you but your lack of forgiveness condemned you to continue to suffer for this hurt.

A FORGIVENESS EXERCISE: Take a few minutes to think of someone who seems to have hurt you. Anyone who comes to mind is a good choice but if you feel you are not ready to forgive or heal with someone, then choose simpler examples. Prayerfully ask God to help you to see this person as He sees them. Then, imagine a spark of light beaming from this person’s heart and growing until it permeates every part of them. Then allow yourself to feel the incredible appreciation that person feels for your decision to release them and see the light in them. Now, allow yourself to recognize that the person you’ve just forgiven also represents a part of you that you’ve just forgiven. So let the light that you saw engulfing them, now begin as a spark in your own heart and let it grow until you too are engulfed in this peaceful, loving, light. Now give thanks to your new friend (a former enemy) for showing up in this exercise, now resulting in a better life for you both. Finally, give thanks to yourself for making the wise choice to practice love, peace, and forgiveness today. Forgiveness is the only way to be certain of a brighter future.

Photographed in the Vatican …not retouched

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We’ve had many, many dozens of comments and questions regarding that “publicity” photo. Due to the white luminosity around the head and the blue eyes (an eye color I don’t naturally have), people are asking if the photo was touched up and the answer is . . . NO! The story is simple: when it was decided that I would be on the cover of Evolve Magazine, it was also decided that we need a new photo with higher resolution for the glossy cover. So one afternoon, I rushed over to a friend’s house, who happens to be an artist and a photographer. We shot a half-dozen photos and the one you see was the first one we shot. It was very quick and spontaneous. Evolve Magazine chose the second one we shot as it was more suitable for them due to having less light around the head. They also touched up their chosen photo by deleting as much light as they could without harming the image. So what you see on the Evolve cover is actually a photo that has been altered to remove some of the light. Also, when we took the photos, the entire background was completely green due to these lush green trees but they were totally washed out by the white light you see around the head, neck, and chest. Lastly, if you were to look carefully at the eyes, they are blue but this was actually an unusual occurrence and not due to contact lenses or photo touch-up. So there you have it! I have explained that the photo is real and not touched up but I have not explained why these physical and metaphysical changes took place. I will leave that up to you to understand. Thanks for the curiosity and support.

Sincerely, Kit

Dear Kit: Many thanks for your email and question. As mentioned in the “You’re Not Going Crazy . . .” book, feeling as though you are going through seemingly endless cycles of healing the same old issues is actually relatively normal. I know it gets “old” having to deal with issues of the past but if the issues were healed, they would not be recurring. It’s as simple as that. If stuff comes up, then it must mean there is something there worth healing. That which seems like the “same old stuff” is NEVER exactly the same. If you’ve done any healing work on it, then it must always be a deeper version of our unhealed wounds. But the purpose of old issues entering your life is not just to give you something to work on. Instead, these moments are also great reminders that we are also supposed to be replacing the old patterns with new, positive patterns. So be sure to take advantage of these moments. Use them to heal, as well as to re-fill the past with a greater quantity of God’s Presence.

Love & Light, Michael Mirdad

I greatly appreciate your interest in our Grail Productions blog. For the first entry, I would like to offer a brief overview of our intention and purpose. First, the main focus of my teaching, and of our Grail Productions website, is that we need, above all else, to reconnect with Spirit–God–by making our relationship with Spirit our first priority. Second, we need to live this connection not in just a lofty, philosophical way, but instead, to integrate this connection into every aspect of our life–physically, emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually. If you were to interview most of our longtime students, they would agree that what they have learned is very real, very practical, and has positively affected their ENTIRE life. Rather than merely affecting their spiritual beliefs, they usually state that their health, meditation, sexuality, relationships, emotions, creativity, inspirations, prosperity and more, have all improved and continue to do so. I refer to this lifestyle as Living the Christ Life OR Living Mastery, because it so perfectly depicts living in a manner that most authentically represents our true destiny. What more could we ask for?

Love & Light, Michael Mirdad

Within the field of Holistic Health, the use of nutrition and/or supplements is used in all forms of treatment (i.e. Prevention, Maintenance, and Cure). When it comes to the importance of nutrition, the single most important goal is to alkalize the body. The body needs to be mostly alkaline (in its pH level) and not acidic. “Keep the body alkaline” is a recurrent theme in the Edgar Cayce readings. One of the ways we can achieve this is by centering the diet around alkaline-forming vegetables and fruits. This can improve metabolic function, maintain a high state of health, promote weight loss, and prevent colds, infections, and other illnesses.

Alkalizing foods are those which supply predominantly alkaline-forming minerals such as calcium, sodium, magnesium, potassium, iron, and manganese. These minerals are found in most vegetables, fruits, herbal teas, Mona Vie Juice, and green-food concentrates. Acidifying foods supply predominantly acid-forming minerals like copper, iodine, phosphorus, sulfur, and silicon. These minerals are found in meats, grains, fried foods, sugars, processed foods, and most fats and dairy products. In fact, most of these are so destructive to the body that they actually rob the body of nutrients as they are metabolized. Damaged cell respiration causes fermentation, resulting in low pH (acidity) at the cellular level. A normal, healthy cell undergoes an adverse change when it can no longer take in oxygen to convert glucose into energy. In the absence of oxygen, the cell reverts to a primal nutritional program to nourish itself by converting glucose through the process of fermentation. The lactic acid produced by fermentation lowers the cell pH (acid/alkaline balance) and destroys the ability of DNA and RNA to control cell division. Cancer cells then begin to multiply. The lactic acid simultaneously causes severe local pain as it destroys cell enzymes. Cancer thrives in anaerobic (without oxygen), or acidic, conditions. Raising the pH, or oxygen content, range of a cell creates a deadly environment for cancer.

Lifestyle factors also influence the body’s pH balance. The body also maintains a higher level of alkalinity through attitudes of love, peace, and happiness OR is made acidic through attitudes of stress, anger, and judgment. Or, as Edgar Cayce once put it, “What you think plus what you eat make who you are.” Prayer and meditation, restful sleep, deep breathing, and aerobic exercise (which pumps alkaline-forming oxygen into the body), all assist us in developing better health and a stronger immune system. Stress, noise, environmental pollution, and lack of sleep and exercise all create acid conditions and ultimately disease. Since our diet and lifestyle rarely provide all the essentials to creating an alkaline system in the body, there are a few great supplements that will assist in this process.

ASH SUPPLEMENTS
(available from our web link)
www.ASHnow.com/989767

MASTER FORMULA II: Primarily designed to raise the body’s alkalinity level, increase oxygen at the cellular level, kill existing cancer cells, and prevent new cancer cells from forming. Also, in an alkaline body there is no need for new fat cells to form. That means the fat in our body is no longer needed, and literally melts away. When we achieve pH balance, our body naturally drops to its healthy weight, our food cravings will diminish, and our energy levels will increase immensely. This is also a full-spectrum calcium that will search out and scavenge free radicals.

Scientists instruct that for calcium to be bio-available, the formulation must have the correct ratios of Calcium, and its elemental partner, Magnesium. It also must have its trigger, Vitamin D, which requires vitamin A, and then must be ionized. They must be in a liquid form when ingested. Each teaspoon of MASTER FORMULA contains scientific ratios of these suppliments. The recommended daily doses are as follows: For pH 6.5—7.4 (healthy range), take 1 teaspoon; For pH 6.0—6.5 (developing a disease), take 2 teaspoons; For pH 4.5—6.0 (you have a disease), take 3 teaspoons. You may want to start with the lesser amount to prevent diarrhea from the cleansing activity.

One serving contains:
Vitamin A 10,000 iu
Vitamin D3 800 iu
Calcium 400 mg
Magnesium 450 mg
Potassium 500 mg
Malic Acid 400 mg
Horsetail Silica 500 mg

Suggested Dosage: Take 1-3 teaspoons on an empty stomach (preferably 1 ½ hours after dinner), dissolved in 8 oz. of cool water. Remember to mix the powder in water so it can react with the molecules to ionize. Then, give it time to dissolve in the liquid before drinking.

MoRE: Primarily provides the body with the ascorbate it no longer produces naturally. Without ascorbate, the body cannot produce enough collagen to repair all of the tissues in the body. A lack of collagen is what causes skin wrinkles, backaches, stiff ligaments, and cracked blood vessels. Therefore, MoRE helps the body to rebuild itself. In addition this product is filled with digestive enzymes and antioxidants to absorb free radicals. Also daily dosages of ascorbates can prevent and/or reverse symptoms of high blood sugar, commonly referred to as diabetes.

The ascorbates, together with the aminos L-lysine and L-proline, form defense against heart disease in cleansing of debris from artery walls and seal cells against the spread of all pathogens, from the HIV virus, to colds and flu viruses, to herpes, cold sores, and shingles. It is becoming commonly accepted that human beings should add supplemental enzymes to every cooked meal. Enzymes should be taken between meals when they can clear out infecting organisms such as viruses, scar tissue, and products of inflammation—even multiple sclerosis and cancer.

One serving contains:
100 mg Sodium (from Sodium Ascorbate)
150 mg Potassium (from Potassium Ascorbate)
3000 mg Vitamin C (from Calcium Ascorbate, Magnesium Ascorbate, Potassium Ascorbate, Sodium Ascorbate)
100 mg Vitamin B6 (as Pyridoxine Hydrochloride)
120 mg Calcium (from Calcium Ascorbate)
15 mg Phosphorous (from Tricalcium Phosphate)
66 mg Magnesium (from Magnesium Ascorbate)
3000 mg L-Lysine Hydrochloride
500 mg L-Proline
300 mg Green Tea Extract—EGCG Polyphenols
400 mg Horsetail Silica
90 mg Stevia Extract
40 mg Amylase
40 mg Lipase
20 mg Protease

Suggested Dosage: One tablespoon, taken with meals, dissolved in 4 oz. of cool water. Remember to mix the powder in water so it can react with the molecules to ionize. Then, give it time to dissolve in the liquid before drinking.

NO FOOL I: Primarily for the same issues treated with MoRE but without the digestive enzymes found in MoRE. Therefore, NO FOOL can be taken without meals and is a great way to add necessary ascorbates throughout the day. NO FOOL gives the body what it needs to maintain the strength of the collagen walls and provide antioxidants to destroy invaders so the body takes care of itself.

Many definable functions of the body require ascorbates and a lack of them causes many disorders—the main disorder being heart disease. This lack causes tiny microscopic cracks in arteries. The condition is termed chronic or sub-clinical scurvy. The body has many defense mechanisms and brings one into play at this point here in the form of lipoprotein(a). This, as a paste, smears into the cracks to prevent the body from bleeding to death internally. As time elapses, the cracks become more numerous and the paste or plaque thickens. Obviously, the diameter of the arteries becomes narrower and a normally innocent little platelet clump (clot) can now cause a heart attack or stroke. Thus, the problem was defined and the solution seems obvious. First, supply the body with the missing ascorbates in a form that it can use, and second, find a way to clean out the accumulated plaque. NO FOOL heals arterial cracks and prevents their recurrence. NO FOOL also prevents the arterioclerotic build-up and even reverses it.

2 teaspoons contain:
750 mg Vitamin C as Magnesium Ascorbate
750 mg Vitamin C as Sodium Ascorbate
750 mg Vitamin C as Calcium Ascorbate
750 mg Vitamin C as Potassium Ascorbate
250 mg EGCG Polyphenols – Green Tea Extract
3000 mg L-Lysine
500 mg L-Proline
40 mg Stevia
274 mg Silica
1600 mg Citric Acid

Suggested Dosage: One teaspoon, 1-3 times per day between meals (empty stomach), dissolved in 8 oz. of cool water. Remember to mix the powder in water so it can react with the molecules to ionize. Then, give it time to dissolve in the liquid before drinking.

ELE: Primarily for providing the body with the necessary enzymes it needs to eliminate the excess waste that collects in the body which creates inflammation and an abundance of plague in the body’s tissues, organs, and arteries. Also, once you give back to the body the essential metabolic enzymes, they can eliminate wrinkles in young women and cause wrinkles to fade in older women.

Nothing happens in the human body without enzymes. They are the catalysts. We are born with only a finite amount of enzymes and when that “bank” of enzymes is exhausted, the body dies within seventy two hours. One sign of a deficiency of metabolic enzymes is high blood pressure. Its primary cause is plaque in the arteries. The secondary cause of high blood pressure is plaque in the kidneys. Plaque can also be found in the brain, as seen with Alzheimer’s and in the colon, as seen with overweight.

Amount per capsule:
Serrapeptidase 40,000 units
Papain 40,000 usp
Bromelain 300 gdu

Suggested Dosage: Take 1-3 pills, 1-3 times per day between meals (empty stomach), with 4 oz. of cool water.)

“The Angel of Miracles”	“The Angel of Peace” All from the series “The Blessing of Angels”
“The Angel of Love”	“The Archangel Michael”
“The Master Jesus”	“The Archangel Raphael” From the series “The Archangels”
Here is a sample of one of her portraits called “The Children”.

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Kathy M. Crosse

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