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If you don't already know who we are, the Crossroads Lyceum is a correspondence mystery school within the Fellowship of Isis, which is an international organization dedicated to the religion of the Goddess.
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We have been offering a wide range of home-study courses in various spiritual topics and Priest/ess training since our Lyceum was founded in 1993. We hold a deep commitment to our students, and our Lyceum honors all pantheons, traditions and Goddesses equally.
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We have four enrollment periods a year for new home-study students. You are also welcome to join the Fellowship of Isis through our center at any time. (FOI membership is free.)
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Oracle: The Goddess Themis Booklet: Fortuna, Creation Through the Goddess By: Olivia Robertson
Invocation of the Goddess Themis: Goddess of Wisdom, Mother of the Fates, Bringer of Justice and Peace, help us to
create our own future!
Oracle of the Goddess Themis: Those who declare they seek Wisdom do so often for its own sake. In their hearts
they crave for love, success and happiness. But none of these gifts can be
theirs without wisdom. I cannot give you wisdom. This can only come from your
own selves, when you have the honesty to learn from your past errors. You cannot
transform your future and so acquire eternal reality, without facing your own
fallibility. Even the Fates have a Mother. There is always a greater Deity
whispering in the ear of a mighty God!
Listen. It is easier to
wait for an Oracle with stilled mind than it is to listen to those around you.
It is hardest of all to listen when you are criticised. But too often your
friends harm you by always agreeing with you: it is your enemies who can bring
you the greatest benefit by their censure.
Wisdom comes not only
from listening but through seeing. Apparitions of the Deities do not come to
those who only look at the tips of their noses, and never gaze with interest at
others outside themselves! Watch a child at play and you may see a prophet.
Every young girl can be the Sphinx. Three old women sitting knitting over a
cheap oil-stove may be the Fates.
It is not enough to receive
wisdom. It is necessary to act upon it, and this is the real test for my
book-loving students! For such philosophical souls, it is easier to meditate on
justice than to defend a neighbour: more pleasant to believe in peace, rather
than to intervene in a conflict in order to resolve it.
I whisper
in the ear of Zeus: I do not shout at him! Follow my example. You will better
bring your own perception of truth and goodness to others when you listen to
their own ideas. Arrogance, whether spiritual or intellectual, blinds you to the
concealed Goddess or God disguised in some ordinary form. I can speak to You
through a cleaning woman, a dog or even someone you dislike. If you follow my
advice you will create a transformed future without enemies, folly or
misfortune. I am Fortuna. By using symbols I create the future. Learn to make
your fortune by reading your own palm!
(c) Olivia Robertson, FOI co-founder All Rights Reserved Oracle of the Month provided by the Crossroads Lyceum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Fellowship_of_Isis_Oracles (please keep the above credit info intact when distributing to other groups - thank you!)
July 2008 Oracle: The Goddess Haumea Booklet: Psyche, Magical Journeys of the Goddess By: Olivia Robertson
Invocation of the Goddess Haumea: Beautiful Goddess Haumea, Mother of us all, come to our aid! Thine is the Eternal Tree of Changing Lives. We would partake of Thy fruit of immortality.
Oracle of the Goddess Haumea: You seek in vain to enjoy the fruits of My Tree by eating them! For, torn from the tree, both flowers and fruit lose the sacred Mana sap which flows through the tree-trunk from the roots. Thus they wither and die, and can bring you no good. The leaves of your recurring lives, when deprived of Mana, also die. Yet you do well to long for eternal life, which is the birthright of every creature.
Return to My arms! Accept Me as your Mother. My body is the trunk of the Tree, and My legs come from where Mana springs. My arms reach through the Ten Heavens and the galaxies are the flowers that are My garland. Yet the smallest bird is My beloved child.
Lean back against the Tree itself, arms intertwined with Mine. You will feel the sacred Mana, life-blood of the immortal Deities, rise up within your spine. When you are one with Me you will no longer believe yourselves to be as withering leaves. Your lives will be lovely and without blemish, for you will be rooted in reality. For flowers and fruit of the Tree of Life are within yourselves.
When you have partaken of heavenly Mana, you are spiritually reborn of My Eternal Body. This joy is known to a humming-bird and butterfly - but lost to humans. Be guided by My wise husband, the God Wakea and the Dream-Walkers, Who will show you how to create Dream-Times. It is the Deities Who create the Star Dream-Zones and these are the myriad Heavens. You, Our young children, are learning to make intricate patterns of your lives, set within the Dream-Places that are the planets. Planets, though formed in transient time and place, yet are Colleges of Learning. For those who are willing to understand, the eternal verities of love, beauty and truth are manifested through planetary Mystery Dramas. Such Mysteries form the underlying fabric of people's intertwined relationships.
Tragically a Dream Zone, a teaching planet, can become so contaminated by ugly and diseased group imagination, that the Deities call upon the Dream-Walkers, Spiritual Guardians, to rescue the prisoners thereon. So it is now with the human race. My children, do you not call people insane, who are trapped in fantasies of their own creation? When they become dangerous, you incarcerate such patients in Mad-Dream Houses. Yet this is your own plight! But because all of you in your planetary Dream-Time are in such a deluded state, you do not notice it. You share each other's unhealthy fantasies. And the most disastrous delusion of all is that you only exist through a physical body, and so die.
The time is come for you to awaken! The sonic and colour rays We are now sending forth are thinning the veil between the Zones. Thus you are beginning to experience expansion of consciousness: you see, hear and realise new realms of being. This is the time of Rebirth through the Mother Goddess. Enjoy the Great Change! Come to Us Who are the Dream Creators. Thus you shall transform your world into a Heaven of joy, love and beauty. Centered in the Tree of Eternal Reality, join with Me in the Drama of Creation!
(c) Olivia Robertson, FOI co-founder All Rights Reserved Oracle of the Month provided by the Crossroads Lyceum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Fellowship_of_Isis_Oracles (please keep the above credit info intact when distributing to other groups - thank you!)
Invocation of the Goddess Muth: Divine Muth, Mother of all beings, come to our hearts! Inspire us with wisdom and compassion, so that at the last we may dwell in Thy everlasting habitations overshadowed by thy Wings.
Oracle of the Goddess Muth: In verity the two lands of earth and after-life are One. They are only separated by the blindness of the ignorant. Day and Night are One. Sun and Moon are One, Man and Woman are One. The inner sun which shineth within the depths of the earth is One with the Sun in Heaven. Every heart is united with all hearts through the spheres with the warmth of Love, Yet every being and atom calleth to the others through unique quality that is its essence.
But discord destroys peace and joy through this very Love, when it becomes distorted into obsessive passion. It strikes through narrow devotion to family and nation, but it is at its most evil when it consumes the soul with religious fanaticism. Devotees so deluded will torture and kill those who will not accept the object of their worship.
My children of ancient Egypt saw Deity in the Many. They recognised innate divinity in cats and dogs and hippopotami, through beetles and crocodiles and rivers. As the intellect brought separation of man and nature, men found the Path of the One Light: they acknowledged the Many as emanating from the One. This satisfied mind and heart. Both ways of approaching reality have brought many to everlasting joy. Yet both have caused great evil, through abuse by overemphasis. Those who worshipped the Many in a mindless way degenerated. They became dissipated and lost strength of directed mind and purpose. After them came the followers of the One, whether the One God or Mind: these through unbalanced ideals killed millions of their fellows in the name of love and justice.
The Deities always provide an antidote to poison. And the antidote to obsessive devotion, whether to a person or to a country, to a religion or to an ideal, is to face the truth. This is not easy. If facts contradict long-held feelings and opinions, a man would rather die than accept them. Such people regard Truth as ugly and shun it. They are terrified of the unknown. For them the Goddess is shrouded in black night. Yet if they had the courage to unveil Her, they would see the beautiful countenance of Truth. Instead they pursue Love, thrusting aside all that stands in their way. Inevitably they are consumed by violence and insanity. Love must be approached with humility.
Let Love and Truth be brought into that Sacred Marriage which bringeth forth harmony.
Invocation of the Goddess Ariadne: Wise Ariadne of
the deep sea, High Fruitful Mother of the Barley, thou whose starry crown of
Thetis shines in the heavens, bring us thy guidance. Skilful weaver of the
shining thread of Life that holds all spheres in patterned beauty, inspire us
with thy wisdom! Thou who art above the Labyrinth of the mind, aid us in our
thought. For thou, daughter of Truth art wed with fiery Dionysus of the fruitful
vine, and so from Truth and Love bring all creatures into harmony.
Oracle of the Goddess Ariadne: When you are young,
you seek that which is like yourself. And you reject the non-self, and call it
your enemy. But when you grow into maturity, you seek the not-self, for in this
is your completion. And so through reconciliation with the enemy comes creation.
For the votary of high spiritual Truth needs the warm glory of the Lover, lest
she freezes into an ice maiden. And the Lover, demoniac in his passions, seeks
the Ice Maiden that will still his ardour. And between these two comes the
harmony of the spheres.
As you face the gateway into birth you
receive my shining cord. But as you penetrate deeper and still deeper into the
Labyrinth of time and space, the thread becomes thinner, more ghostly. For as
you remember my thread, it becomes strong; and when you forget it, it wanes. As
you move through the years you leave behind you a spiral pattern of the thread,
that brings you memory of your true being. Yet you look ahead and see no light:
the light is behind you.
When you reach the nadir of the
Labyrinth, and face that which you most fear, you may drop the thread. But fear
not! I am always with you, though you see me not. I am Conscience, and my Mother
is Nature and my Father is Philosophy. Call upon me and I shall aid you: so are
you saved by my grace, and not by your own will. And this must be. For who would
be saved through the separate self, rather than be aided by the Immortal
Beloved!
So you return through the mazy windings of the
Labyrinth, but now you face the cord and it gleams before you like my Silver
Snake. And when you reach the entrance of the Double Axe, you soar above the
Maze and look down upon it. And now you see the meaning of the pattern, and
enjoy its beauty. And you aid others who lose their way in it as you did, and
lead them to their goal.
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