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Verse(s) of the Day

My children, whose souls are My sisters, I shall speak to you of the things that I have seen.

Let none say that the world is good, nor that the world is evil. For I have stood at the highest point of the world and the lowest; and from both of these can the world be seen, and from no other.

- The Secret of the World, page 40, verses 1-3

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“From without beginning I was ordained; and from eld times, before that the earth was made… I was making all these things with him.”

- Sophia, Proverbs 8:23,30

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May everyone be blessed by the Holy Daughter on this wonderful new year💗 Amadea. Please visit my instagram if you want a filianic insta feed😁

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Rayati! I was originally a Gnostic Christian for many years and came across Filianism on this site while trying to find fellow worshippers of Sophia. I became mutuals and friends with someone on this site who had converted from Christianity to Filianism. It took me a while as I tried to decide which path was for me before I fully left Christianity and focused on Sophia alone through Filianism.

Are any Filianist/Madrian/Deanists willing to share how they came to/found that religion?

The religion my sisters and I practice is far closer to that than the mostly Wicca (and Wicca based) traditions that those we share a community with follow, and I know there is a greater call for these more devotional paths in those spaces. I’m hoping to develop a better understanding of the needs of devotional Goddess religion seekers and devotees, and I know the Filianist community has a lot of valuable perspectives on that.

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Happy New Year!

Our Lady has gone down into that darkest place, has suffered and been broken, and She has triumphed! No soul shall be lost forever, no soul shall suffer in any eternal hell.

The world is fresh and new, reborn by Her Hand and flush with Divine Light and energy. And so today is the first day of spring, and also of a new year!

The Filianic Eastre is not dissimilar from its Christian (Easter) and neopagan (Ostara) counterparts, or from many springtime festivities around the world. Dancing, music, egg games & dyeing, flowers everywhere, and a big feast with plenty of dessert.

3344 (I.E.), is a year of Sai Thame, Janya of divine law and harmony. The year itself, as well as each month and week of the Filianic calendar will begin on Thamedi / Thursday, until next Eastre.

And the children of the earth cried: Lift up your voices in song and laughter, for the Princess of the World was dead and is alive again, was broken and is whole; and there is no place whereto Her joyous rule does not extend. Give praise to the Mother of All Things and praise to Her Daughter. Rejoice, for the world is renewed.

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Here’s the thing.

I believe that Déa, the Goddess, loves all her creatures. She does.

She is kind, she is compassionate. She is a loving and nurturing mother.

She’s also angry. Angry at injustice. Angry at the exploitation of the innocent. Angry at patriarchal violence.

She’s divine rage. She is Kali. She is Sai Rhave. She is the Dark Mother who protects Her children. And Déa help anyone who lays a finger on Her children.

Like the mother tiger that protects her cubs, so is Déa.

Be warned. Mom doesn’t play.

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Verse of the Day

“If your child is hungry, do you not give her good nourishment? Why, then, do you starve her soul and give her not the food of the Spirit?”

- Chapter 16, The Child, page 76 verse 5

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I find the suggestion that 'the idea that there is a mother goddess is sexist because it confines women to biological determinism and says all women must be mothers' is so ridiculous. No it doesn't. Christians worship God the Father and no one says that's confining men to fatherhood. She's the Mother Goddess because She is imminent, because She provides for us out of Her body, because She birthed all life on the planet but that doesn't mean women have to, obviously. All women have the potential to be Creatrices whether they choose to have children or not. Mother isn't the only role She performs either.

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I find the suggestion that 'the idea that there is a mother goddess is sexist because it confines women to biological determinism and says all women must be mothers' is so ridiculous. No it doesn't. Christians worship God the Father and no one says that's confining men to fatherhood. She's the Mother Goddess because She is imminent, because She provides for us out of Her body, because She birthed all life on the planet but that doesn't mean women have to, obviously. All women have the potential to be Creatrices whether they choose to have children or not. Mother isn't the only role She performs either.

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Prayer of the Day

“Silver Star of the Waters, that have laughed all the world into being, beyond all knowing is the splendor of Your Light.

Enfold my spirit in your mighty hand, that the pure stream of your force may flow within me in this world and in all the worlds to come.”

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Verse(s) of the Day

“You that are weary with the world, you that are lonely, you that have suffered hardship, that have suffered hurt, come, gather about Me and be you enfolded in My mantle. In the inner silence you shall hear Me, and in the inner darkness shall you see Me.

“And the future shall be better than the past.”

- The Clear Recital, The Teachings of God the Daughter, Chapter 13 verses 1-3, Eastminster Critical

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Hello! Is the Discord you spoke of still around?

I honestly don't know, I haven't been there in a while, nothing to do with the group itself I just haven't been active in the community for a while. I hope it's still going but don't have a link on me sorry.

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You're allowed to worship the Goddess. You don't need to justify doing so with 'historical proof' that She was ever worshipped as the chief of a pantheon or as the Prime Creator. You don't need to worship Her with a male consort/equal if you don't want to. You don't need to ascribe or fully ascribe to a particular tradition. You don't have to have a particular political alignment. You can just worship Her. In a way that makes most sense, and comes most naturally, to YOU. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

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Sai Rhave

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Sai Rhavë is the "darkest" of the Janyati, often associated with severity and austerity. She is also associated with steadfastness and foundation. All that is solid and weighty belongs to her, as does all restriction and discipline.

Thus Sai Rhavë is in one sense closely allied with Sai Thamë, as the discipline which maintains order, yet, in another sense, as the bringer of restriction, she appears to the the opposite of Sai Thamë, the "Great Benefic" who showers the world with her opulence, and of Sai Sushuri, the mother of all fecundity. Sai Thamë, Sai Sushuri and Sai Rhavë together represent a group whose complex interactions revolve about the principles of order, discipline, harmony, fecundity restriction, mercy and severity.

In Filianic thealogy, the two Luminaries, the Sun and Moon, represent the Mother and the Daughter respectively, while Sai Rhavë at her deepest level represents the Dark Mother: the unknowable Deity beyond form, beyond being and unbeing. From this perspective, the two Luminaries and Sai Rhavë represent a group of three (three being the spiritual number) and the other four represent the material group of four, corresponding, at a certain level of interpretation, to the four elements.

On more everyday levels of interpretation, Sai Rhavë governs the discipline and strictness which help to keep a life of thamë or harmony "on the straight path". She also governs the qualities of steadfastness, reliability, and responsibility. She is called upon in the foundation of buildings and in all things that must stand and endure. She is also associated with time.

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Here's your reminder that the New Year isn't until Spring Equinox, don't worry about getting your shit together and making resolutions yet, keep on hibernating and taking care of yourself and your home.

Amadéa.

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The Voice of the Janya

And the voice of the Janya was like to the rushing of a thousand waters. And she spoke, saying: Be not afraid, for a new light is dawning over the world. Be not afraid, but approach no further, for if you cannot look on me, how should you look upon my Lady, whose handmaiden I am? And her voice grew gentle, like the wind among the icicles, and sweet beyond all telling. And she spoke, saying: This night shall a Child be born that shall be the Daughter of Light and the Princess of all the world. A Child is coming that shall carry the Light of Dea into every part of creation, even to the most desolate of the places of darkness. Rejoice, poor wanderers of the earth and exiles from the house of your Mother, for to you shall come a guide and a deliverer. And when the voice of the Janya ceased, a silence fell that was the first true silence since the beginning of the world, and the last that shall be until it end.

Mythos 2:7-13