Revelations: Reflections by Olivia Robertson

"Friends, like all of us, you must be fascinated by 

the word "Revelations", so I will share you, some."

You may listen to Olivia Robertson's Reflections article on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/njaUkEsW_QY

Transcript:

http://www.fellowshipofisis.com/reflections/extra_tara4.html

(© quote and art by Olivia Robertson)

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The Sun at Midnight

 

"Wonderful is the Goddess."

Olivia Robertson speaks on the experiences that she had of the "Sun at Midnight" in the year 2000:

Listen on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pSXIYWBDBMc

Transcript:
http://www.fellowshipofisis.com/reflections/extra_ishtar4.html

(© art by Olivia Robertson; photo by Minette Quick; Foundation Center Temple)

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Celebrating Olivia Robertson

 

"We weave a magical web of beauty round our earth 

through these experiences, which link us with heaven."  

In fond remembrance of Olivia Robertson and her birthday (April 13, 1917), we are highlighting this Reflections article where she shared her encounters with the Goddesses Dana, Brigid, Yemaya, and Pele:

Listen here: "Revelations" YouTube

Read here:  "Revelations" Transcript

(© photo of Olivia by Logic Reality)

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Happy Anniversary Fellowship of Isis!

The Fellowship of Isis was founded on the Vernal Equinox of March 20th, 1976 by Olivia Robertson, her brother Lawrence, and his wife Pamela Durdin-Robertson. Please join us in remembrance and celebration on this 50th anniversary!

In honor of this day, we have added many new audio clips to our YouTube channel - links and more information below.

There are 12 new audio files of Olivia's "Reflections."  We will highlight each of them throughout the year, but they are all currently available on our YouTube channel. At the moment, they are the first 12 videos on this playlist:

Olivia's Playlist

 Also, Olivia Robertson speaks about her Vocation here: 

 Listen on YouTube

"It was direct Spiritual Experience, as with my brother, that I had a direct spiritual Vocation to do this from God. The Feminine aspect of God - God who is also feminine - to emphasize this, because the world is threatened by destruction, through pollution, through misuse of nature, often through stupidity and greed.  We're destroying the planet.  And the Divine Plan appears to be to emphasize the Feminine:  charity, kindness, care for Nature, nurturing, motherhood - all that side.  Not to get rid of the male aspect, but to balance male aggression and materialism, and this linear, logical, mental thought - always analysis, analysis.  We're more for healing and synthesis."

 (© Olivia photo K. McDonough)
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Lawrence Durdin-Robertson speaks on the Panathenaea in a past rite: 

Listen on YouTube

"Friends, we are here assembled to celebrate the ancient Athenian Festival of the Panathenaea. The singer Orpheus instituted the Athenaea in honour of Pallas Athena, Goddess of Power, Wisdom and the Arts. At this time of the Vernal Equinox of equal days and nights, when the sun leaves the tied fishes for the ram, Athenians and foreign visitors formed a joyful procession. They climbed the hill of the Acropolis and brought to the Parthenon the peplum of Athena."

 (© Lawrence photo Durdin-Robertson)
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There are two audio files in honor of Pamela Durdin-Robertson. The first is Olivia speaking about Pamela's message from an owl: 

 Listen on YouTube

"When you achieve Faery clairvoyance, this includes animals and birds.  And in this dimension they can talk.  My sister-in-law Pamela, came into my bedroom early one morning, went over to the window, drew the curtains and said she had just received a visit from an owl - came right through to her window.  

I said laughingly,  'Oh, I suppose he had a message, indeed?'

'Oh yes,' she replied.  'He told me what's going to happen today.'

'This was private information - it happened'!"

 The second audio is Olivia remembering Pamela during a past rite: 

 Listen on YouTube

"I will remember my dear sister-in-law, wife to my brother Lawrence, Pamela, usually known as Poppy.  Her dog Carpet has been with us all during this ceremony, a dachshund.  We welcome animals, birds, in our outdoor ceremonies - we regard all life as sacred."

(© Pamela photo Durdin-Robertson, do not reproduce)
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And finally, here are links to two historical videos by Raidió Teilifís Eireann.

The first video aired on July 11, 1973 as an episode of "Agenda":

Go to Video 1

The second video was broadcast in January of 1976, just before the founding of the Fellowship of Isis:

Go to Video 2

(© photos & videos RTE, with permission)
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 You may learn more about each of the FOI Founders here:
http://www.fellowshipofisis.com/founders.html

Happy Solstice

 

The Introduction to "Dea, Rites and Mysteries of the Goddess" by Olivia Robertson:

"Wherever any living flame burns, there is the Vestal Fire guarded by Hestia. The tradition in Ireland, and in many countries, is that the hearth fire must never die. At the time of the Winter Solstice the fire is renewed with embers from the dying fire of Yule. To create a shrine to the Goddess there needs to be this matriarchal flame. In any impersonal hotel room, in a town flat, in a small garden, the vestal flame is the same, and gives the same power as that bestowed by the Goddess in the mighty temples of antiquity. This sacred flame may be represented by a lighted candle, an incense stick, a resinous torch or small fire. The smoke represents Air, the holy breath which keeps the fire alive, as does our breath combine with our heart-beats. By the divine law of correspondences, everything material in this world is a symbol for some reality in another sphere. When a fire, candles or incense are burnt with the intention of honouring Deity, a communication centre is created, which forms a link in a golden chain that brings through the fiery power of the Deity invoked.

"Having made the centre of our shrine, we need a shell, a Matrix to protect it. This Matrix in greater form may be understood to be the darkness of Outer Space which holds galaxies in its embracing blackness. It is the blue atmosphere with fleecy clouds which protects our earthly vegetation as a robe: it is the crust of the earth, a chrysalis that conceals the mystery within. Beneath this rocky shell of earth are two lava flows of magma which, like fiery dragons rotating in contrary directions, protect the golden apples that shine in the glowing heart of our planet. And so also is the Matrix the protecting womb that enfolds the unborn child and small animal: the snake that conceals her eggs within her: the nut shell and husk that guard the living kernel and seed within. Though we respect great temples, a simple room or grove of trees form a Matrix that protects our altar fire. A shrine may be a psychic temple not made with hands. The Devotee, sitting in silent contemplation, even in a crowded room, may yet build in creative imagination a shrine that guards the privacy of the soul. For the Matrix is not only a womb or shell: it is also the individual aura. We carry our temples about us.

"In a Seasonal Rite, the invocation is connected with a special time of year, with the cyclic movements of the celestial bodies and with the climatic changes of the earth. For those living in a town, cut off from nature in her wild form, even the visualising of Stonehenge and the Polar stars at the Winter Solstice brings food for the soul, a reminder of past incarnations, a harmony with nature spirits. When a group gathers for a seasonal festival, even in a small room, affinity is realised with the cosmos.  Above is not a mere plaster ceiling with an electric light bulb suspended from it - but the starry glory of the heavens. Behind the television set is the mystery of the setting sun: beyond the radiator is the radiance of the circumpolar stars: by the door may be felt the influence of the centre of our galaxy, near Vega, the Weaver Maid. And mighty Orion is rising below the sitting-room carpet, as he chases Taurus, and in turn is followed by the Star of Isis now below the earth.

"Any Rite which invokes Deity or Deities through a Mystery Religion - that which deals with the Unknown - has effect throughout all levels and on the earth itself. Throughout the ages people of varying cultures have learnt to communicate with those from other spheres: we need all the knowledge, understanding and good feeling we can obtain, in order that we may live here in peace with each other with all creatures; and obtain happiness and wisdom in the spheres beyond death."

(© text and "The Fiery Mother" art by Olivia Robertson)

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Prophecy, Time and Space

 

In remembrance of Olivia Robertson (Apr 13, 1917-Nov. 14, 2013), here is an audio file of her speaking on prophecy, time and space:

FOI YouTube: https://youtu.be/qgVE2MPdzv0

Transcript: "Remember, prophecy is not looking into the future, it's remembering the future, because all time is one: past, present and future.  When you're going round a road and you see a car approaching, it's come round a bend and you haven't seen it before - but if you were in the sky, you would have seen its approach.  The gift of prophecy, is the gift therefore, of experiencing all time, all space. People say there's no such thing as time - there's plenty of it, but it's all there, now.  The same with space, and in some amazing, incomprehensible way, they're all existing round us.  As you sit, there is the past story of the room you're in and the people you're with, and there's the future. So try to project into eternal time and space, remembering space may represent Love, and time, Truth.  Both are one."

(© photo of Olivia Robertson by Dennis Murphy, Logic Reality)

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Honoring Olivia Robertson

 

In loving memory of Olivia Robertson's Birthday (April 13, 1917), we have uploaded more of her "Reflections" recordings on our YouTube channel.  They are the first four listed on this playlist:

Reflections of Olivia Robertson - YouTube Playlist

Leopoldine the Beautiful:
“To find the Other is to look within. Gaze in a mirror. You will see your twin.”

The Blame and Shame Game:
“Blame others and you expose your own secret failings."

The Balance:
“To Accept One’s Enemy is to face the Judge."

The Awakening:
“As said the Goddess Ishtar, seeking her dead lover Tammuz: 'I shall awaken the Dead' "

(© photo by Minette Quick)

The Life and Works of Olivia Robertson:
http://www.fellowshipofisis.com/oliviarobertson.html

Happy Anniversary & Equinox

 

Blessings of the Equinox and Happy Anniversary to the Fellowship of Isis!  The FOI was founded on the Vernal Equinox of 1976 by Olivia Robertson and Lawrence and Pamela Durdin-Robertson.  Please join us in honoring their legacy as members worldwide remember this day.

Fellowship of Isis Founders

(© photo Durdin-Robertson, copyright reserved)

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Remembering Olivia Robertson

 

Blessings Aset Shemsu!  Please join us in lighting a candle in memory of Olivia Robertson, co-founder of the Fellowship of Isis, on the anniversary of her passing to Spirit Realm eleven years ago.

In her honor, we have uploaded four more "Reflections" articles that she recorded on audio.  They are the first four listed on this playlist on our YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY9UfLbxcAuEkxjyZAzJXVNAjUjpm8qZx

Rebirth: The Coming Awakening:
"Awakening comes unpredictably, when it chooses!"

Alchemy of Lovers:
"Each spiral ring is of equal value."

Beware the Gang!:
"To me the necessity is never to lose control of one's own original eternal soul."

Even the Gods Obey the Fates:
"To pay honour to the moment, I offer three of my prophetic visions."


(© photo by Minette Quick; quotes by Olivia Robertson; copyrights reserved)

The Life and Work of Olivia Robertson:
http://www.fellowshipofisis.com/oliviarobertson.html

Remembering Olivia's Birthday

 

"She who inspired me to do all my work, 

came to me, at night in 1946 at Imbolc"

In fond remembrance of FOI co-founder, Olivia Robertson on her birthday (4/13/1917), we have uploaded audio of her speaking on the Silver Lady:

https://youtu.be/XZGDGWdbu_A

(© photo of Olivia Robertson by Zoé d'Ay, 2010)

The Life and Works of Olivia Robertson:
http://www.fellowshipofisis.com/oliviarobertson.html

Fellowship of Isis Anniversary

 

Happy 48th anniversary to the FOI! The Fellowship of Isis was founded on the Vernal Equinox of March 20th, 1976 by Olivia Robertson and Lawrence and Pamela Durdin-Robertson. Please join us in honoring their legacy as members worldwide remember and celebrate this day.

Here is a short audio clip of Olivia Robertson - "this is the Castle of the Goddess!": 

https://youtu.be/2PpRbd9iuEU

More about the FOI Founders:  
http://www.fellowshipofisis.com/founders.html

(© photo Durdin-Robertson; copyright reserved, please do not reproduce)

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Remembering Olivia

Please light a candle and join us in honoring Olivia Robertson, co-founder of the Fellowship of Isis, on the 10th anniversary of her passing to the Spirit Realm.  In remembrance, we have uploaded four more "Reflections" articles that she recorded.  You may access them on our YouTube channel, under this playlist:

Olivia Robertson Reflections:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY9UfLbxcAuEkxjyZAzJXVNAjUjpm8qZx

Roll-Over

"Practitioners of the Way of Inconsistency would bewilder their opponents."

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

"My first lunar experience was in vision at night, on the 18th of October, 1977."

Transparent Walls

"The beauties of the ancient world reveal themselves."

Reflections on Destiny

"The most friendly form of greater consciousness is omnipresence"

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(© graphic Fellowship of Isis Homepage & Archive, quotes by Olivia Robertson)

The Life and Work of Olivia Robertson:

http://www.fellowshipofisis.com/oliviarobertson.html

Remembering Olivia Robertson

Blessings Aset Shemsu!  Please join us in lighting a candle in memory of Olivia Robertson, co-founder of the Fellowship of Isis, on the anniversary of her passing to Spirit Realm nine years ago.

In her honor, we have uploaded five more "Reflections" articles that she recorded on audio:

The Democratic Grael

Fractal Woman

The Faery Clan of Melusine

The Lightning Flash of Isis

The Matter of Arthur

You may access them on our YouTube channel, under this Playlist:

Olivia Robertson Reflections Articles

(© photo by Minette Quick, copyright reserved)

Life and Work of Olivia Robertson:
http://www.fellowshipofisis.com/oliviarobertson.html

Remembering Olivia's Birthday

 

In loving remembrance of Olivia Robertson's birthday (April 13, 1917), we have uploaded audio of her speaking about updating the High Altar back in 2011:

YouTube: https://youtu.be/psnpfJEZCBk

You may find the transcript here:

http://www.fellowshipofisis.com/highaltar_audio.html

(© photo by Minette Quick)

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Remembering Olivia Robertson

 

Blessings to all Aset Shemsu.  Please join us in lighting a candle to honor Olivia Robertson, co-founder of the Fellowship of Isis, on the anniversary of her passing to Spirit Realm eight years ago.

In this Youtube video you may listen to Olivia speak of her experience of:

The White Light of Isis

"My own dedication came from sudden awareness of identity with the White Light of Isis, a shining silver-white feminine figure with wide shining lightning flashes extending from either side of her head – this encompassed the stars. So I learnt that without Truth, Love becomes dissipated. I have always received inspiration from Those outside myself. I received this teaching: 'Approach Truth with courage: Love with humility.' Divine reality pervades every being. I learnt to honour the truth in all faiths and philosophies. To accept Deity in each creature and atom, I felt the love within all are born of The Great Mother of All.  Which makes us equal with everyone, everything.  I write this to bring hope."

(© graphic Fellowship of Isis Homepage & Archive)

The Life and Work of Olivia Robertson
http://www.fellowshipofisis.com/oliviarobertson.com

The Lightness of the Sidhe

"The Lightness of the Sidhe" 

Article written by Olivia Robertson in May of 2007

Listen on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/INsXq2OkFH8

"Oh the heaviness of theologians! The pomposity of patriarchal Druids. The doctrinal dreariness of occultists. Long have I been bored stiff by harangues from 'Masters' of ? Of What? Wisdom of course. For a thousand years or more we women have provided congregations for men holding forth on our Motherhood, our marriages, our children, our destiny in the next world - either hell or heaven according to their own prescription.

"What a relief to have a faery web! Yes, you may spell it 'fairy'. Or 'Sidhe'. Or Devic. Words are the bugbear of happiness. The 19th Century Poets of the Celtic Revival used the spelling 'Faery'. Both are valid and acceptable.

"So in the Druid Clan of Dana my own hope - with my brother - was to found a happy, friendly, easy sphere for people to be their true selves, uninhibited by logic, facts, dogmas, criticisms. Facts? So-called facts. Remember, our theologians for centuries taught that the sun went round the earth, and burnt those who disagreed with them. Scientists created nuclear bombs to benefit their countries. They haven't.

"So when we describe personal encounters with Deities, Angels, Sidhe, faeries, we need to put aside prejudice, fear, dislike and "scientific" opinion. Note that when 'alive', we are at least respected by materialists as being materially there. The moment we die, we are non-persons, with no rights, privilege or respect. We are prey to being exorcised by the clergy, banished by esotericists and ignored by the majority of the educated world.

"Yes, I will be honest and tell of my own few encounters with fairies, in this my first article. I shall present an Elf, a Triton and talking Squirrel-field-mice.

"The Elf I met in full consciousness, when I was projected out of my body at night... Here I must emphasise that faery folk exist on a higher frequency than we do - there is a feeling of the speed you notice in early films. This elf was friendly and had come to help me back to my body. He was about 3 feet tall and was supernaturally thin. But what struck me most was his hair. He had a very long thin pigtail that reached to his knees, like a fine rope.

"Some years later I was describing him to a faery contactee. To my delight she also had seen an elf with hair like that. Oddly, some months later I saw a young man with his hair braided in like fashion. But who started the fashion - elf or human?

"The Triton I met looked like those green renaissance sculptured tritons, depicted with ornamental fountains. He was very large, green and looked like a kind of underseas scaly fish. I was aware of the extraordinary speed of the dimension in which he existed. He manifested in a rushing stream. I liked him.

"The most extraordinary creatures I have ever met were red squirrel-cum-field-mice animals in my bedroom, when I was out of my body at night. What was so unusual, was that they had human-like intelligence, and could therefore talk with me. They had come to help me back to my body.

"At that time I still had embarrassment at conversing with intelligent animal spirits, so I was immensely relieved at reassurance brought by my friend, and Priest of Isis. He had called in from Cork and we were having tea. He suddenly said: "A strange thing happened to me yesterday. I saw these squirrel-like creatures - spirits - and they could talk!" "Thank you, thank you!" I exclaimed.

"May this start more accounts from our Druid members and friends! By the way, animal spirits are classified as 'Sidhe.' I have yet to tell of the White Rabbit - Pasicola the Trickster, and how I met him, as did Alice in Wonderland. Yes, it's true."

(© Article and "Well Wishers of the Sidhe", Temple well cover art by Olivia Robertson, copyrights reserved)

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Book Highlight

Olivia Robertson wrote in the book "Fellowship of Isis Manuals: A Compendium":

“Ireland is one of the last bastions of true vision, and therefore a lighthouse for a new aeon.  The Goddess Tara, known in Eire and the Far East, is She who draws the stars down from the heavens to reach the mountains and hills.  Dana is She who brings light and love to the hearts of every creature.  Brighid is the sustainer of the Vestal Flame, the hearth fire that is our life, and provides the Well of Inspiration.  It is these three Goddesses that have appeared to me and communed with me while I was fully conscious:  Tara in 1946; Dana in 1952 and Brighid in 2000.

“I now realise that They came with especial intent:  for me to share what They brought to the earth.  From She who I called ‘The Silver Lady’, inspired the Noble Order of Tara, that we should fight for our environment.  Dana has brought forth the Druid Clan of Dana, for an awakening of our kindred souls in the realms of nature, through mystical vision.  Brighid has come last with an awakening awareness of sound:  sonics create the spiralling of life itself.  It was from Isis Herself, in shining White Spirit Form that gave me my vocation in 1946, and that led to my brother Lawrence, his wife Pamela, and myself to found the Fellowship of Isis in 1976."

(© quote by Olivia Robertson; Foundation Center Castle photo by Pat Booker; copyrights reserved)

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The Matralia

 

In honor of the Matralia on June 11th, here is a verse written by Olivia Robertson:

"Birds call their song of hope to Wandering Souls;

Pilgrims in search of their lost Heaven;

Within the Mothers’ Home lies hidden;

The Source of Life."

From "Juno Covella, Perpetual Calendar of the Fellowship of Isis", by Lawrence Durdin-Robertson:

"The Matralia: (Seyffert, Dict.) 'Matuta (usually Mater Matuta). An old Italian Goddess of dawn and of birth, also Goddess of harbours and of the sea, and hence identified with the Greek Leucothea. In her temple at Rome in the Forum Boarium, on the 11th of June, the Matralia, or Festival of Mothers, was celebrated in her honour by the women of Rome. . a matron who had not been married before was allowed to place a wreath on the statue of the Goddess. The women first prayed for the well-being of their nephews and nieces, and then for that of their own children. This custom was referred to the myth of Ino-Leucothea, who tended Dionysus, the son of her sister Semele.' (Lempriere, Dict.) 'Matralia, a festival at Rome, in honour of Matuta or Ino . . They make offerings of flowers and carried their relations' children in their arms, recommending them to the care and patronage of the Goddess whom they worshipped.'  (Ovid, Fasti, VI, 475) 'June 11th . . Go, good mothers (the Matralia is your festival), and offer to the Theban Goddess the yellow cakes that are her due . . on this day, it is said, Servius dedicated with his own sceptered hands a temple to Mater Matuta'."

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(© photo of the Cave of the Mothers, FOI Foundation Center Temple, by Minette Quick)

Celebrating Olivia Robertson

 

"All of us wonder what it's like to be born again in the Spirit World. We come from that world of rainbow beauty, Tir na nOg. We return to that world when we die. But some of us, like the Swans of Lir, at night, and especially at the Winter Solstice and at Samhain and the Celtic festivals, we walk between two worlds. . . we enter that mysterious world of Vision."

In fond remembrance of Olivia Robertson on what would have been her 104th birthday (4/13/1917), we have uploaded her audio of "Reflections on 'A Vision' Mystery Play" to YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/FellowshipofIsis

You may also read and listen from our website:
Reflections Article and Audio

(© photo of Olivia Robertson by Zoé d'Ay, 2010.)

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Archival Video: Huntington, a Home For Spirits

This video first aired on July 11, 1973 as an episode of "Agenda".  It was filmed three years before the Fellowship of Isis was founded.

Video Link:  "Huntington, a Home For Spirits"

From the website:  "A visit to Huntington Castle, in County Carlow, the ancestral home of the Durdin-Robertson family, a centre for meditation and study and a meeting place for druids, spiritualists, occultists and students of meditation."

The High Altar in 1973

Lawrence Durdin-Robertson

Olivia Robertson

Our thanks to the Durdin-Robertson family for forwarding this and appreciation to Raidió Teilifís Éireann for their permission as well.

(© photos courtesy RTÉ Archives, please do not reproduce.)  

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