The Sophia Project tracks a story of tragedy and beauty, suffering and ecstasy. It speaks of ancient times when great emanations of light and brilliant beings filled the heavens. This is also an investigation into our current transitional age where the Mythos of Sophia is like a guiding cairn that beckons us onward across rocky uncharted territory.

 

The Story of Sophia spans many eras, many cultures, many religious movements. From the Jewish mystics of Shekinah, the Taoist lovers of The Mysterious Female, to the Persian, Jewish, Ismaelian, and early Christian gnostics, this figure of struggle and light has taken on many forms. She weaves through the Old Testament books of Wisdom and Solomon, is hinted at in some New Testament books, and she makes a profound appearance in many of the recently recovered books of gnosis in the Nag Hammadi Library.

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This website is a canvas on which I, Dan, am working with the light and shadows of a mystery tale. For much of my adult life, I have been tracking the mostly forgotten story of an enigmatic figure known as Sophia where I have traversed through the swamps of my unconsciousness, periodically catching vistas of a new world of immense joy.