His credentials have never been matched. Offered anything by God in a dream, the young king asked for “a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong,” and the request so pleased heaven that wisdom was granted with wealth and honor thrown in. Kings and queens traveled continents to test him. Three thousand proverbs, the temple itself, a golden age. The Bible builds Solomon into the tallest intellectual figure it has. ...
The Gnostic myth is crowded with unfamiliar names, and it needs only one of them to break your heart. Her name is Sophia, which is simply the Greek word for wisdom, the same word hiding inside philosophy, the love of her. Whole libraries chase what that love means. The Gnostics did something different and told her story. This site has followed that story through three separate posts, one for each act. What has been missing is the whole arc in one place, and a look at what changes when all three acts belong to one character. Here it is, the map of Sophia from first light to homecoming. ...