June 22, 2017

Foundation Center Summer Festival

 
Report on the Summer Solstice Festival at the Foundation Center:
 
 
 
 
(photo by M. Quick, copyright reserved)


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Foundation Center Temple Events

June 21, 2017

Sun in Cancer

 
Olivia Robertson wrote:
"Cancer was held by the Sages to be the House of the Moon, as the Moon was believed to have been in Cancer at the Creation. It was respected as Horoscope of the World, as the sign nearest the Zenith. The learned Berossus declared that our earth shall be submerged when all planets are grouped in Cancer. The Chaldean Magi and the Platonists taught their disciples that souls descend from Heaven into human bodies through Cancer, the Gate of Humanity." 
 
Quote from "Sophia, Cosmic Consciousness of the Goddess"
 
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(photo of the Shrine of Cancer, Foundation Center Temple, copyright reserved.)

June 20, 2017

Solstice Blessings

 
(mp3 / :41 sec / 323 kb)

Audio transcript:
"This is the time of the Summer marriage of the Goddess and the God.  Whichever age you are, the mystical marriage of Deity is within yourself.  There are those who seek the Higher Marriage - the marriage of Spirit with Earth - and the time has come for us to regain Immortality with the harvest of our own individual Soul."
 
 
 
 
("The Above and the Below are One" by Olivia Robertson, art and audio copyright reserved. )

June 12, 2017

Audio highlight: Divine Alchemy

 
Listen to the late Olivia Robertson in this audio clip:
 
(mp3 / 1:00 min / 233 kb)
 
Audio transcript:
"There is a polluted river of grief and rage and every emotion flowing deep below our everyday awareness. Freud described this as the Unconscious.  It works through group telepathy and poisons families, races, religions.  We need bravery to allow this river to flow openly through us - not to block it, because we ourselves are creating it.  Only by facing evil can we perform the Divine Alchemy of transforming hate into love, fear into faith, violence into peace. So shall we cleanse our world from our own nightmares.  When even one of us does this, the poisonous river of death becomes the cleansing river of tears and so reaches the sky, drawn upwards to the sun, and rains upon us, the pure waters of Life."


("A Visionary of the New Aeon", by Olivia Robertson, artwork and audio copyright reserved.)

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Fellowship of Isis Audio Gallery

June 4, 2017

We invoke thy grace

 
"Holiest of the Holy, great Goddess Isis, perpetual comfort of mankind, thou whose beautiful grace nourishes the whole world. Whose heart turns towards all those in sorrow and tribulation, as a mother's to her children, we invoke thy grace. Hallow our shrines with thy protecting wings that bringeth shade to the weary of heart, jubilation to the distressed and rest to sufferers. Bring vision and healing, thou who with thy breath bringeth the dead to life: thou friend of Thoth, bring us wisdom. As thou dist restore thy husband the God Osiris, bring us also thy everlasting love and life."



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Fellowship of Isis Liturgy

(Quote from "Rites and Mysteries of the Goddess" by Olivia Robertson.  Photo copyright M. Quick.)

June 1, 2017

June Oracle: Goddess Gangur

 
"My way is to teach such pilgrims
to empty themselves of ego and accept a Guide."
 
This month's Oracle is from the Goddess Gangur. Click below to read it and also listen to audio of Olivia Robertson giving the Invocation and Oracle:
 
 
 
 
(photo copyright Dennis Murphy from "Olivia Robertson, Priestess of Isis" DVD.)