The Eternal Feminine: Vladimir Solov′ev's Visions of Sophia by Kristi A. Groberg, pp. 77-95, in Alexandria 1: The Journal of Western Cosmological Traditions edited by David R. Fideler bit.ly/2GK2Ck5
(p. 77) Soloviev's first vision of Sophia was when he was nine years old during an Orthodox church service.
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(pp. 78-9) Soloviev was heavily influenced by Freemasonic Russian Orthodoxy, Jakob Boehme, and Emanuel Swedenborg.
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(pp. 79-80) Soloviev was told by Sophia what to read about Sophia including the two volume 'Kabbala denudata' of Boehmist disciple Christian Knorr von Rosenroth .
(p. 80) Soloviev considered Boehme, Swedenborg, and paracelsus as important writers. He was familiar with the works of Eliphas Levi. Soloviev considered himself a medium, practiced automatic writing, and participated in seances.
(p. 82) Soloviev went to Egypt because Sophia told him that a secret kabbalah / masonic society existed in Egypt that would teach him.
(pp. 83-4) Soloviev's Sophia beliefs were enormously popular among Russian Orthodox clerics and writers Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. The beliefs were also insane.
(p. 85) All the names Soloviev had for Sophia.
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(p. 86) Soloviev's grandfather was a Russian Orthodox priest who took Vladimir's visions of Sophia seriously. Five of Soloviev's eight siblings would become important figures in the modern occult revival and Russian religious renaissance.
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(pp. 87-8) Russian spirituality has as its foundtion a longing for a great feminine divine power that antedates Christianity.
(p. 88) Soloviev's funeral was Russian Orthodox and held at the same Moscow University chapel where he had his first visions of Sophia.
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