Have you ever wondered why Jesus didn’t write his teachings down? I have. Today, while I was contemplating this, a penny dropped. It didn’t just clink; it resounded through my very being like a forgotten church bell in a dusty belfry that someone struck for the first time in centuries.
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A Christo-Sophianic Tarot Spread
And with it came a powerful realisation: the divide between the Goddess traditions and the story of Christ was never real. There is no either/or. The deeper truth, for those who have eyes to see, has always been both/and.
At the heart of every true path is the living Earth, Gaia Sophia, and our Source—our Earthly Mother and our Heavenly Father. This is not a metaphor. This is the root system of the one original religion, the rhythm of life itself.
Why Didn’t Jesus Write His Own Gospel?
Perhaps Jesus didn’t write anything down because his teachings were never meant to become dogma. His teachings were always intended to be embodied, not entombed. His truth lived in stories, in parables, in acts of compassion and radical love—things too fluid for ink, too sacred for static dictates.
Scripture codifies—Religion institutionalises—Spirit breathes.
And maybe Jesus knew that once written down, his words would become a weapon in the hands of the state—edited, redacted, recontextualised until they no longer bore the fragrance of Truth. So he wrote nothing in stone, leaving the Living Word to echo through hearts instead.
As C.G. Jung once said:
“We are so captivated by the word, we have forgotten the image.”
And nature herself never forgets the image.
A Lineage of Dying and Rising Gods
Long before Jesus, the sacred myths of many cultures told of divine sons who died and returned to life—not as carbon copies, but as echoes of the same cosmic truth.
Osiris, dismembered and reassembled by Isis.
Attis, bleeding beneath the sacred pine.
Adonis, beloved of Aphrodite, slain and reborn with the spring.
Dionysus, torn apart by Titans and resurrected in ecstasy.
The Green Man, who rises with the sap and falls with the leaves.
Each tells the same underlying story: the Divine Masculine surrenders to the cycles of Nature, undergoes a descent, and is brought back not by his own might but through the agency of the Divine Feminine—Isis, Aphrodite, Cybele, the Mother.
In Norse myth, Odin hangs himself on the World Tree, Yggdrasil, pierced by his own spear in a self-sacrifice to receive the runes. But the runes are not merely symbols—they are living secrets drawn from Urðarbrunnr, the Well of Fate, guarded by the Norns. It is the Feminine who holds the memory of all things. It is She who reveals the hidden wisdom.
From these stories emerges a universal truth: it is only through surrender to the womb of Mystery that true wisdom can arise.
What Jesus Knew (And Why He Trusted Us to Remember)
Perhaps Jesus knew his story would live again and again—not just in liturgy but in lived experience, in bodies that tremble with grief and awaken with grace. His message didn’t need permanence in papyrus; it needed presence in people.
This is also why Christ remains with us in the Living Logos, not as an external saviour, but as the seed of divine wisdom within. And Sophia—Holy Wisdom—is not a muse to be worshipped from afar, but the voice within who says, “This is the Way. Walk in it.”
To quote the poet and priest John O’Donohue:
“The Celtic mind was not burdened by dualism. It did not separate what belongs together. The Celtic imagination articulates the inner friendship that embraces Nature, divinity, underworld, and human world as one.” ~ Anam Cara
Jesus taught in that same organic way.
Reconstructing Faith After Religious Trauma
If you’ve walked away from a toxic form of Christianity and now find yourself wondering what remains—know this:
Nothing true was ever lost.
The love of the Father hasn’t abandoned you.
Divine Mother never withheld her embrace.
The voice of the Son still whispers in your heart.
Heaven did not cast you out.
Your soul is calling you home—to something older, deeper, and infinitely more whole.
This is not “backsliding.”
You’re remembering.
The Christ and Sophia Tarot Spread
A six‑card spread that reveals how the Divine lives in and through you. Say the following prayer before you lay the cards out (or use your own words):
Beloved Mother-Father God,
Open the Eye of my Heart to see
Your will for my life.
Guide me in dying before I die,
And in sharing my gifts with the world.
Amen, and so it is.
- Father Aspect (Divine Logos) – The grounding voice of divine reason, the divine masculine force in your life.
- Mother Aspect (Divine Sophia) – Embodied wisdom, nurturance, and creativity—the divine feminine presence.
- Union (Syzygy) – Where Father and Mother energies harmonise in love, inviting sacred alchemy and balance.
- Son Path (Crucifixion) – The way you ascend through surrendering your ego (the dying before you die).
- Daughter Path (Soul Manifestation) – Your psyche emerging fully, expressing unique wisdom in the world.
- Integration (Redemption) – How the four aspects coalesce into your personal mythic journey, guiding your everyday life and how you can best share your gifts with the world.
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