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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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

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

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

Honoring Olivia Robertson

 

Ten years ago in April of 2013, Olivia Robertson wrote in a letter: 

"I was on radio talking on Harmony.  

Pallas Athena - my sun sign (Aries) is 

Wisdom plus Heart equals Harmony.  

Lots of Love & Joy & Laughter, Olivia."

This April 13th would have been Olivia's 106th birthday.  In honor of this, we have uploaded three more of her "Reflections" recordings to our YouTube channel:

The Real World: https://youtu.be/32Jao1dIDo8

As Above, So Below:  https://youtu.be/ejvhN0rizgE

Friend or Foe:  https://youtu.be/A61-i0r1AJw

(© photo of Olivia with a picture of her mother, Nora; copyright Dennis Murphy of Logic Reality.)

Read more about 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

Archival Article: A New Humanity is Born

"Matriarchy brings us realization of facts. All organic beings are born from the Mother, whether from egg or womb. Love nourishes and cares for us. We are all children of the Great Mother. We are, along with crystals and stars, a part of Divinity, for we were born of Divinity." 

Audio of Olivia Robertson's Reflections letter entitled "A New Humanity is Born" from May of 2005 has been uploaded to YouTube.  You may access it from this link:

Fellowship of Isis YouTube channel

Olivia Robertson's Reflections Articles:

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

(© photo of Olivia Robertson by Minette Quick)

Reflections on 'A Vision' Mystery Play

 

A new audio file has been uploaded to our website of Olivia Robertson speaking in 2005 about AE, Yeats, Daniel Fox, her visions of the Goddesses Brigid and Dana, along with the mystery drama - 'A Vision' - that she was inspired to write.  A pdf of the ritual is also included. Click on the following link to read and listen:

 

Reflections on 'A Vision' Mystery Play

(photo of Olivia Robertson, copyright Minette Quick)

A past reflection: The Fates

A past Reflections article by Olivia Robertson, Samhain 2002 - "The Fates":

"How pathetically we submit to fate! Whether we see fate as the inevitable suffering terminated by death of our brief earthly lives, or as the inexorable judge who punishes us for sundry sins, we never seek guidance from the fates themselves! We avoid them like the Athenians, who banished them from Athens to a provincial temple, hopefully designating them as the "Benevolent Ones." Men might defy the Fates and be designated heroes: women, never. The ideal women not only submitted to father, husband and son, but also Fate. From China, where the three obediences were laid down for the "lesser ones", to Ben Bolt's "Alice", who rejoiced in his smile and trembled at his frown, women were most honoured for obeying the rules laid down by men, to whom they were possessions: laws vaingloriously attributed to God. Now is the time for women to realise that within themselves are the Fates. Generously, we concede a like realisation for men! We are Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos. We are Urd, Vivandi and Skuld. We create our own Nemesis. But this hurts. It is so much easier for women to blame others: our parents, childhood abuse, lack of opportunity: and of course, men! Then there are the patriarchal establishments who have stunted our development. Yet we women are half the human race and we need to protect our children and bring them to their own potential. How may this be done? Not by creating new regulations, new laws, new mind-born customs. Not by conformity, duplication. Truly we weave our part of the tapestry of life we need to be creative, to invent our own designs, not copy other patterns from times long gone. The myths we create in this dream called life will bring us the fulfilment our souls, our only contribution to that Greater Reality from which we all emanate. But there is a warning. Let us contemplate that perfection of woman's art, the Spider's web. Its star within, its logarithmic spiral, forms a perfect pathway for the spider to glide on silken feet: but do not let us suffer the fate of her mates, and get entangled in a web of delusions. Let us weave legends, but not make them spin our shrouds. But if we are entrapped in self-created nightmares, only the fates show their compassion, and with their mysterious fingers, unravel the imprisoning threads."

(Painting of the Fates by Olivia Robertson, Foundation Center Temple)

Archival Link: Letters from Olivia Robertson

Samhain Blessings

In honor of the Samhain season in the northern hemisphere, here is an historic audio clip of Olivia Robertson and Lawrence Durdin-Robertson, during an invocation of Hecate in the ritual of the Lunar Magic of the Tides:  Hecate Invocation

(Link will open and play with the audio software you have designated for MP3 files - it is 1:08 min./269kb.  The audio clip from the Autumnal Equinox is still available as well.)

Other updates to the Homepage archive include:

The Awakening - Samhain 2010 Reflections article by Olivia Robertson

Tara of the Oracles: Rites 23 & 24

We also include an excerpt here from Lawrence Durdin Robertson's Juno Covella,  for November 1st:

Celtic: La Samhna, Samhain Day; Second of the Three Days of Samhain; Feile na Marbh, Feast of the Dead. (Dinneen, Dict.) "Samhain, All-Hallowtide, the feast of the dead in pagan and Christian times, signalising the close of harvest and the initiation of the winter season lasting till May . . the fairies (aos sidhe) were imagined as particularly active at this season, from it the half-year is reckoned; also called Mile na Marbh and Fide Moingfhinne (snow goddess); La Samhna, 1st November . . the weird fairy elfin first of November . . mi na Samhna, the month of November lucht na Samhna, the Hollantide good-things . ."

(Perp. Fest. Cal.) "November 1 'Peace Fire' of the Druids, Samhain". (The Druids Cal.) "November 1. Samhain. The dark month begins, initiating the Gloom. Unharvested fruit now belongs to the puca and faerie who roam abroad. Samhain and Beltane (May Day) are the joints of the year". (Fell. of Isis Dir.) "November 1st. Festival of the Goddess Samhain and of all the Sidhe and departed Spirits. Communion with those of other spheres. 1st - 3rd: The door is open between earth sphere and other realms. Spirits may move through the door. Souls may meet each other. Psychic vision and prophecy. Future lovers seen. Intercalary days of the Gaelic Moon Yeardays out of time".

Read the rest of this entry and others in: Juno Covella, Perpetual Calendar of the Fellowship of Isis

Blessings of the season to one and all!

(Historic photo of Olivia Robertson & Lawrence Durdin-Robertson in the Temple of Isis, Clonegal Castle Sanctuary.  Photo enhanced by the Homepage Archive.  Photo Gallery)

Recent Page Additions

We have several recent additions to the Fellowship of Isis Homepage Archive to share with you today, so will group them into one message.


Olivia Robertson's latest Reflections article, from the Lughnasad 2010 Isian News, entitled: "The Balance":

Reflections Article

Rites 21 & 22 from Liturgy of Tara of the Oracles, The Alchemical Twins Face the Fates. Portal of Capricorn: "The Fortune Tellers" & "A New Judge Has Come", written by Olivia Robertson:

Tara Rites

"The Awakening of Aengus", an unscripted ritual created by Olivia Robertson and performed on July 17, 2010 at the Foundation Center Castle, with commentary by Minette Quick:

Castle Rite

New updates to the Druid Clan of Dana and the Noble Order of Tara Manuals:

FOI Manuals

And finally, all 12 Rites of Dea have been converted from cassette to CD, and added to the list of available CDs:

FOI CDs

Blessings of the Lammas season!
(Blessed Imbolc to our friends in the southern hemisphere)


(Message uploaded from the Fellowship of Isis Homepage Archive.)

Reflections: The Blame & Shame Game

Reflections by: Olivia Robertson
Beltaine 2010 - Isian News 136

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

When I was young – about seventy years ago – the prevailing fashion was to blame everything on MOTHERS. The original sin of our ancestress Eve, who brought about the downfall of Adam, was transferred to The Mother. This was ordained by a present Prophet of the Unconscious, Professor Freud. As he was a scientist and had a beard he was regarded as infallible as the Pope. Mother was the Spider lurking in a mine-field of complexes derived when we were helpless children.

My sister Barbara was a born leader, and enthusiastically joined in this entertaining Blame & Shame Game, as guide to myself and our two younger brothers. And what a Mother we had! She became a legend in her time – thanks to us.

My mother, Nora Parsons, was the only child of a British General. He adored hunting, so when his wife presented him with a mere girl, he had to face a choice – not a hard one. Another baby – hopefully a boy – or a horse. Naturally he chose the horse.

To adjust matters, he brought his daughter Nora up as a boy. From an early age in India she did not have an Ayah but a soldier servant to empty her potty. She had a little military uniform. I have a photo of her as a tiny soldier. She worshipped her father, who when she was five put her hands round a pole with a beefsteak bait wedged on the end, to tempt a shark. The cream of her successes came when she was seventeen and shot a crocodile.

Barbara would achieve a Freudian success with student boy friends by showing the crocodile’s head on a wall, with his bared teeth, and explain “my mother shot that!”

My grandmother, despised by her daughter as feminine, was determined to get her married. So Nora was forced to dress well. She was beautiful, with a strong tanned skin. She had an eighteen-inch waist for her wedding gown for her marriage to my father, aged 21 and 4 years younger. My father, a strong character with scientific bent, had been spiritually guided to propose. He told me that they struggled for power throughout the honeymoon. He hadn’t a chance, so he decided to give in. So the Freudian view suited our family. One of my mother’s cousins, Marie Comerford, had roamed the Wicklow hills shooting British soldiers with a sawn-off shotgun. Another, the Hon Florence Gibson, had shot off a bit of Mussolini’s nose. And the rest of our neighbours followed the same pattern. Dominant women. Hen-pecked men. My brother, a clergyman and I were enthusiastic for the Cause of the Goddess. We were pioneers.

Late in the twentieth century, came a startling change against Patriarchy. It began with the words “Satanic Abuse”, and soon changed to “Clerical Abuse”. Most of us women were totally nonplussed. Apparently we were victims, and had been victims for millennia without realising it! The old Irish rhyme, “Women are evil: men are dumb: they torment them just for fun,” had to be changed. It was “Men are evil, women are dumb: men torment them just for fun.” We had to rescue fellow women in the Near and Far East – even with local wars.

So the Blame & Shame Game shifted dramatically, ably assisted by the Media. Patriarchy was to blame for all our misfortunes. To take an instance: Some Doctors had blamed mothers for killing their babies in “cot deaths.” Now it transpired it was the Doctors’ fault for recommending babies to sleep on their tummies – where they naturally tended to suffocate.

When the Blame & Shame Game gets going, the innocent and the guilty are both targeted. Paranoid fear led to the Inquisition, Witch burnings, and the Holocaust. Now the fearful minded dread “disguised alien reptilians disguised as human celebrities!” Making no exceptions, we blame Men for mistreating women, children – and animals with vivisection – inventing and using weapons of mass destruction, torture, and for creating global warming. Men are blamed for traumatising the rising generation, so that children dare not play in the streets, for fear of abusive men. The motto of the 3 Wise Monkeys has become its opposite: “think evil: see evil: hear evil.” Suicides are increasing.

There is good news! With my psychic capabilities, I have found that our parents, friends, and teachers exist in the next world and know what we say of them, and suffer accordingly. Finding this out, I hastily changed my Blame & Shame Game to the Appreciation Game. I remembered the rich treasures given to me by my mother and father and teachers. Wise were the Ancient Chinese to revere their ancestors! Friendly Spirits bestrew our paths with good fortune. Instead of blaming other cultures, other faiths for short-comings, I now appreciated the earth’s glorious history.

Marvellous are the ways of the Goddess! Our Temple of Isis, in this new century, began to change, helped by my brother and other Spirit friends. I have found myself inspired to paint Isis and Osiris as twins on our interior windows. The glorious Company of the Goddesses are beginning to acquire new friends. The Sea God Manannan has joined Brighid at our Well. Poseidon, The God of Atlantis, has joined the Goddess Derceto in our Pisces shrine.

Above all, the Great Winged Isis in the painting in our Healing Chapel, has a newcomer. Behind the brilliant Winged Isis of the Stars now appears Osiris in spiritual blue-green form, with outspread wings. And below, the bust of Tutankhamen, instead of portraying a gold mummy’s clay head is reborn as a mischievous boy, ruddy-faced, amused by our ways. The Deities laugh with joy as we humans awaken.

Archival link: Beltaine Reflections Article


(our thanks to the Most Rev. Minette Quick for forwarding this article and photo.)

Leopoldine the Beautiful

Reflections by: Olivia Robertson
Brigantia 2010

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

Deity divides itself into two in order to experience joy, passions, controversy and adventure! Tears and laughter alternate with heavenly visions of perfection won through trials, courage and compassion. Deity manifests as loving Mothers and Fathers through all that is. However the whole Company of Heaven alarms us by being Creators – presumably our own creators! We have to be reminded sometimes that Divine Love is within us all, because we are part of the very mind of the Divine Father: the substance of the Divine Mother. So we too are eternal, travelling through time and place, which exists forever. We share divine love, learning to look after all our varied companions, animal, insect, plant on our earth. For we are learning to be Creators.

How do we distinguish between Divine Love and the creative process? One of the most moving of true life stories was told to me by my friend, the artist Desmond McCarthy. For me it unravelled the enigma of Gnosticism.

To read the rest of this article: Leopoldine the Beautiful

Rebirth. The Coming Awakening

Reflections by: Olivia Robertson
Samhain 2009

Awakening comes unpredictably, when it chooses! Hours of meditation, prolonged exercises, repetitions, affirmations, may lead nowhere, save for confused breathing and muscular aches… My own experiences have always come unexpectedly, with no stimulants. I have noticed there are various levels in enhanced consciousness.

There is the happy “Summerland” adventure! I see tapestry on our walls shake and the pictures become real. I go to the garden and it is in another wider space and time – luminous – strangely coloured – and each blade of grass, every daisy – each weed is an emblem of some greater reality. Our world is a picture book of a greater sphere of being.

I have a feeling that I am out-growing such sweetness and bliss – this harmony with every person and creature. The change is a sudden influx of mind and spirit. Here I am aware of evil – but this is part of a whole web of life that has a meaning. I once saw why a boat was capsized in the ocean, with everyone on board drowned. It was not an accident. There was a connecting link between destiny and each person. In this state of mind there are no accidents. All has purpose. Evil is but the unreal shadow of the real, created for us to grow as individuals – not just obedient spirits.

Read the rest of this article: Rebirth, The Coming Awakening

Alchemy of Lovers

Olivia Robertson's Reflections Article:
Lughnasad 2009

Curious. To use the word “Love” is respectable, invoking the blessing of the clergy. They promulgate the concept of the Love of God. This in my dear land of Ireland suggests at once the Alchemy of the Phoenix. On this spiritual path, in the dying Piscean age of Buddhism, the Bible faiths, this Divine Love, all other loves excelling, involves self-purification. The Righteous had to destroy Old Adam, the sin of Eve, “The Wrathful Deities” of Buddhism, and plenty of Devils. “The devils” try to persuade the spiritual practitioner to be tempted away from the need to destroy earthly temptations.

I have in our Temple a statue of the Hindu Goddess Gandarvi in a Yogic posture. It came from the ancient ruined Temple of Angkor Vat. When Buddhist monks later moved in, they said this merry lady tempted them to Sin. Since I was a small girl the whole problem of Sin has puzzled me, because nobody would tell me exactly what Sin was: I mean the worst Sin of all, the Original Sin that drove Adam and Eve out of Paradise. I gathered they had to put on clothes and have children who all inherited Sin.

To read the rest of this article: Alchemy of Lovers

Beware the Gang!

Olivia Robertson's Reflections Article:
Beltaine 2009

I was five years old, in a small country town, Reigate, in England. I was dressed for my first day at school. My sister Barbara, my elder and mentor, gave me a serious warning.

“You are only a new girl. When you get there – a girl called Mona will come up to you and be very kind and even kiss you! Look out! She does that to all new girls. But she is Head of a Gang and you’ll be hers. You’ll be lost.”

After this fearsome warning I walked down Reigate Hill with Barbara with trepidation. And sure enough, when I arrived, a big girl – about twelve – came up to me, went on her knees and embraced me. Fortified by my sister’s superior wisdom, I pushed away and turned my back. This was my first step in self-realization…

To read the rest of Olivia's article, please see this page: Beware the Gang!

Even the Gods Obey the Fates

Olivia Robertson's Reflections Article:
Brigantia 2009

During these interesting times of Global Warming, Financial Meltdown and global violence, so many of us wonder should we be on our knees in penitence for having trashed our lovely Earth; or standing up bravely for our values – or simply enter the beautiful Many Coloured Land of our visions – with an exciting climax in 2012!

To pay honour to the moment, I offer three of my prophetic visions. The first I choose was in the New Year of 1947. At that time – I was 29 – I knew nothing of the religion of the Goddess. As a Protestant I had been brought up to avoid Catholic “Mariolatry”. So what happened came as a revelation.

To read the rest of this article, please see this page: Even the Gods Obey the Fates