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Divine Feminine Gnosis

The Lesser and Greater Mysteries of Sophia
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Seven mysteries for an embodied experience of transcendence Draws on Gnosticism and Hermeticism to explore seven esoteric mysteries of feminine wisdom that are supported by practices. Offers a wisdom teaching on integral spirituality and pansentience, encounters with spiritual entities, dreams, and reincarnation. Explores the masculine principle... Read More
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Seven mysteries for an embodied experience of transcendence

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Seven mysteries for an embodied experience of transcendence

Draws on Gnosticism and Hermeticism to explore seven esoteric mysteries of feminine wisdom that are supported by practices.

Offers a wisdom teaching on integral spirituality and pansentience, encounters with spiritual entities, dreams, and reincarnation.

Explores the masculine principle of logos and how to integrate it with feminine eros in sacred marriage—Hieros Gamos—to achieve wholeness and mystical insight.

Since the dawn of Christianity, the Sophia tradition has been suppressed and shrouded in secrecy. Drawing on Gnosticism and Hermeticism, this book presents divine feminine principles and teachings that are at the heart of the Sophia tradition and how they can be applied to enrich spiritual knowledge and practice.

Author Lee Irwin writes from a masculine perspective that honours and celebrates feminine insights, relations, and shared attitudes toward the sacred. The mysteries he shares are grouped in two sections: the lesser mysteries of body, mind, and soul and the greater mysteries of salvation, sacred union, the world soul, and reincarnation.

The lesser mysteries encourage greater personal awareness through the healing of old wounds and empowerment through responsibility. Irwin explores sacred sexuality and incarnation as a praxis that emphasises the celebration of the body as temple. Through the greater mysteries, readers learn how to develop transpersonal awareness, raise consciousness, and become receptive to gnosis through dreams and encounters with spiritual entities. Irwin then describes the masculine principle of logos and how to integrate it with feminine eros through alchemical union—Hieros Gamos—to achieve wholeness and mystical insight.

Feminine wisdom is a process—a way and not a destination. Divine Feminine Gnosis offers readers on any spiritual path an approach to living that is aimed toward heart-centred wisdom and an embodied experience of the transcendent.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9798888502532

Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 January 2026

Country: United States

Imprint: Inner Traditions Bear and Company

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 365g

Pages: 304

About the Author

Lee Irwin is an emeritus professor of Religious Studies at the College of Charleston where he taught world religions with an emphasis on Native American traditions, Western esotericism, Hermeticism, and transpersonal religious experience as related to dreams and visions. He is a founding member of the Association for the Study of Esotericism, a member of the Sufi Inayati Order, the Ancient Mystical Order of Rosicrucians, and the Sophia Institute, and co-founder of the Hieros Institute.

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