Definition:
This symbol has
an unusual history. Now used almost exclusively to denote membership in the
Christian
religion, it once meant something very different.
The shape of the Vesica Pisces is derived from the intersection of two circles.
In Pagan times, this glyph was associated with the Goddess Venus, and represented
female
genitalia. How it came to be associated with Christianity isn't entirely clear,
but early depictions of Christ depict him as an infant within the vesica,
which
represented the womb of Mary. The New Testament story of the loaves and fishes
secretly reveals the geometric formula for the fish shaped device.
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Sophia
Sophia, in Gnostic belief, was the wife of Christ, the soul of the world,
and the Wisdom of God.
Gnostic
scriptures, Texts
The Gnostics were early Pagans and Christians with a very unique theology.
Gnostic texts were found to be so threatening that many were destroyed or
hidden, only to be rediscovered two thousand years later. Gnostic scriptures
and source materials including the a gospel attributed to Mary Magdalen,
and Gnostic exegesis of Canonical texts.
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