"Our founders' wisdom to not tie a member of the FOI
to any one faith path is a profound underlying truth."
You can read Cressida's letter in full by clicking here:
January 30, 2019
January 20, 2019
Sun in Aquarius
Happy Sun in Aquarius and Full Moon (in Leo)! The photo shows the Shrine of Aquarius, dedicated to the Sun Goddess Amaterasu No Kami, located in the Sanctuary of the Foundation Center Temple. Listen to Olivia Robertson during a past FOI ritual, as she describes the stellar mystery of Aquarius:
(mp3 / 1:50 min / 430 kb)
"Contemplate the 2 wavy "W's" of Aquarius and we see that they resonate against each other, in a sort of polarity - two forces. Now, listen to the Priestess and we'll go dreamy: "we see a winged Goddess holding a mighty urn, from which pours a stream of life forms of which we can discern fishes, animals, plants, rocks, elementals, humans. A laughing God behind the Goddess draws power upon them with his trident. Look at this - imagine the most beautiful Goddess you can imagine with mighty wings and she has this urn, and imagine all life forms, even the oddest, you know - lizards, insects, fear viruses, crystals, giraffes, weird creatures from other planets. We could go on looking at this stream of life forever. All sorts of fabled creatures are here, which exist somewhere, or we wouldn't have thought of them. Look. And as we are, we see a God behind her drawing power, sharing it with her, with his trident. And that trident also seems to have a meaning. The positive and negative forces are held together by the central spike, as it were. And we gaze upon the stars of Aquarius, set in the Sea of Heaven. Know that the ancients wanted us to see these visions, so they attached these visions to the constellations, that we may attain Stellar Consciousness."
Archival links:
Fellowship of Isis Audio Gallery
Foundation Center Temple Photo Gallery
(Photo © Minette Quick.)
January 15, 2019
Book Highlight: Goddesses of Chaldaea, Syria and Egypt
Written by FOI co-founder Lawrence Durdin-Robertson, and printed in 1975 by Cesara Press, this book was described in the following manner:
"The Goddesses of Chaldaea, Syria and Egypt is the first of a series of books describing the Goddesses of many countries and civilisations. A separate entry is devoted to each Goddess. Among the particulars included are the variant forms and the etymology of the Goddesses' names, genealogical details, epithets, biography and characteristics. There are also descriptions of their temples, public and esoteric rituals, the regions associated with their worship, the forms in which they are represented and their correspondences to Goddesses of other Pantheons."
You may read the book here:
(Copyright reserved by the Durdin-Robertson family, with ongoing thanks for their permission to share these works.)
January 8, 2019
Shrine of Lakshmi
From "Urania", by Olivia Robertson: "We invoke the Goddess Lakshmi! Thou who art known as Mother of the World, aid us with Thy love! . . . Lakshmi, Goddess of Good Fortune and Love, is sister of Venus. She was born from an ocean of milk, bearing a lotus."
From the "Guide to Clonegal Castle" by Lawrence Durdin-Robertson: "The South angle of the temple leads into the Hindu chapel, on the N.W. wall just inside the door is a picture of Lakshmi, Goddess of wealth or prosperity (Shree), with the Elephant God Gayanana on one side of her. At the far side of her is an Indian picture of Shiva and Parvati, the Third Persons of the Hindu Trinity."
(Photo © Minette Quick.)
Archival links:
Fellowship of isis Liturgy
FOI Photo Gallery
Temple of Isis Tour
January 1, 2019
January Oracle: Goddess Alma Mater
"More and more spiritually and psychically
gifted children are coming into incarnation."
Happy New Year! The Oracle for January is from the Goddess Alma Mater and includes an audio clip of Lawrence Durdin-Robertson and Olivia Robertson together in a past rite. You may read and listen by clicking on the following link:
("Star Children" art © Olivia Robertson)
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