 Archpriestess Olivia Robertson © Crossroads Lyceum the lone seeker may experience all that many worshippers can enjoy in a temple with others: even more, if the soul be ready. Olivia Robertson, Sophia Lady Olivia discusses being an Oracle March 2008Oracle: The Goddess Astarte Booklet: Urania, Ceremonial Magic of the Goddess By: Olivia Robertson Invocation of the Goddess Astarte: We offer incense to Thee, Astarte, Queen of Heaven. Oh Virgin of the Sea, Blessed Mother and Lady of the Waters, stay the waves of adversity! Goddess of the Moon bring us to know Thy Mysteries. Beautiful Lady, Goddess of Love, without Thee the cruelties of life, the tedious work, the harshness of changing time, bring us to despair. Who may live joyfully without hope of a spiritual life to be enjoyed beyond the confines of the severe laws of this material world? Aid us to reach Thy Heaven, now and beyond the grave. Oracle of the Goddess Astarte: You children of earth deplore the severities of Saturn, whose Golden Age sprang from justice rather than compassion: from the sciences rather than the arts: and from the riches of the material world rather than the angelic beauty of visions. You invoke me as you invoke sleep, weary from struggles and suffering - in the hope of receiving dreams more lovely than earthly life. And I welcome you to my realm! Yet to reach it you need to study and to work: to see my face behind the veil you have to learn to obey the rigorous laws of my Husband Saturn. Know that I am the Goddess Ashtoreth, the hidden Shekinah of Jehovah. Who dares gaze upon She who, guarded by Him, may neither be called by Her Inner Name, nor seen by impious men? Know that I am the Hidden Power behind the God of cause and effect: of law and time: I am His concealed joy and reward and His everlasting love. When you have learned to obey the outer laws guarded by the God, naturally you will mature and be brought to understand My Mysteries, that are only to be experienced by those ready to receive them. Beware! There are those who think that, discovering My psychic Powers they may with impunity break the outer laws that bind others. These should remember the fate of Icarus, who tried to reach My Heaven with artificial wings held together with wax - which melted as he flew too near the sun! And so he fell as have many others. For truly you cannot reach My starry Heaven without Love and the Law. Love brings you the entry to my sphere: but Wisdom gives you the ability to stay there! Ambitious seekers may find themselves in Heaven: but without love or law they cannot see, hear, think or feel in a divine sphere beyond their capacity of enjoyment. And so they say there is nothing there and are disillusioned. So they bar the way to their return to heaven, and prevent others from making the attempt. So if you would find Me, use both the imagination and the intellect: love and the law: creativity and loyal endurance. So will you be holy, and be able to accept My psychic gifts with both hands.  Join the Fellowship of Isis FOI Manuals month by email, subscribe here: Fellowship of Isis Oracles Written permission received for inclusion on this website. The FOI Oracle of the Month has been provided to the Fellowship of Isis community by the Crossroads Lyceum since 1998.  Contact Us
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