At the turn of the century an intimate alliance of
philosophers, poets and theologians discovered the incarnation of
their aspirations for a spiritually transformed world in the symbol
of Sophia, the Divine Wisdom of God. Under her various aliases as
the Divine Feminine, the Wisdom Clothed in the Sun and the
Beautiful Lady, this feminine archetype usurped the traditional
role of Christ as the mediator between heaven and earth. She was,
however, primarily the inspiration of the Russian philosopher-poet,
Vladimir Solov'ev (1853-1900), who created of her the cornerstone
for both his metaphysical and aesthetic systems. This spiritual
courtship of the Divine Sophia deeply patterned the literary works
and interrelationships not only of such prominent symbolist writers
as Aleksandr Blok and Andrej Belyj, but brought to light religious
eccentrics like Anna Schmidt in a scandalous fashion. Sophia's
influence ranged far beyond the narrower confines of literature and
eventually provoked one of the most fascinating debates within the
modern emigre Russian Orthodox Church through the offices of Sergej
Bulakov, an apparent student of Solovev's Sophiology.
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