The Theosophical Society in America. Lectures from The Gnostic Society. Welcome to Arthur Versluis.com. Esoteric Texts & Archives. Speech in the Silence podcast | Thelema, Aleister Crowley, Ordo Templi Orientis, Magick, and more. Virigin Sophia - Rosicrucian Archive. Virgin Sophia by Jack Courtis Enlargement (167 KB) We are immediately struck by the title, as well as by the form of this diagram. Naturally, we associate virginity with sexual ignorance, but this troubles us because we intuitively know that there is more to this. But what? Let us look at the figure in the diagram. How do we know the virgin bears the Christ child? In the center of the 4 streams and the 4 elements is a large circle with Latin inscriptions that mean "Divine Instrument" and "Let there be Nature".
Below this point are 3 concentric circles culminating in a central chaos. Let us begin with the Divine Instrument of Nature and all the spheres directly beneath it. What does all this mean? We looked at the 4 vertical spheres as a unit because they are all connected by the lines of relationship emanating from the 4 elemental streams above them. The outer circle of 12, is structured as 4 x 3, like this: Masculine seed of world; First matter; Ultimate matter.