In further celebration of the FOI's 40th anniversary, please listen to Olivia Robertson as she speaks about the FOI, as she saw it in 1991:
(mp3/2:00 mins/938 kb)
Audio transcription:
“You may now want to know something about the Fellowship of Isis.
It was founded in 1976 by my brother, his wife Pamela, and myself, and this is,
this date in a way when you'll be listening, is 1991 and now we have over
10,500 members in 69 countries. And people want to know - how do we
manage this? The answer is simple. We are all in rapport in the
inner planes. There is a rainbow circulation of light and friendliness
between all our countries. So it doesn't matter what religion you belong
to. We have people who are Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists, Hindu,
every type of tradition, united. Now people, some people may say - isn't
this eclectic? The answer is yes, but we only have this blending
when there is something we all share in common. For instance, we all
share the Sun in common. We all share the sign Sagittarius, if you who
belong to that. In other words, people all over the earth, look up at the
sky and they see the Great Bear and some people say "oh it's a bear"
and other people think it's a cooking pot, or a chariot - but - they are all
influenced by looking at it. They share it. If you drew it on the
sand in any country in the world, in any time - Ancient Egypt, China, nowadays,
they'd all recognize the seven stars of the Great Bear, even if they had
different traditions about it. So our aim in our Magi Degree course is to
take Mars for instance, and find what everybody thinks about the red
planet. There is a similarity, we noticed that, and there are
differences, but getting together all these in a kaleidoscope, has been very
rewarding.”
(photo of Olivia Robertson by Minette Quick, copyright reserved.)
