The Education of Innocence: Book I

By Sophia

Why this book? During 2012 and beyond, humanity is faced with prophecies that predict an apocalyptic end. Awakening the Souls power existing at higher levels of consciouseness can alter our collective fate and reverse the severe issues of inequality brought on by fear-based conditioning. Left unchecked, civilization cannot be sustained where power monguls control global economy and over population and diminishing resources will force unimaginable consequences already slated for our future. What are we to do?

The Education of Innocence is the Souls raison detre for existence. It is the Mystery that has existed behind the Souls journey across time. This story metaphorically addresses what caused our fall from grace and what compells our ascent into power, shattering the devastating illusions of the world, capable of bringing about a shift where anything becomes possible.

The Education of Innocence is set in the Kingdom of Oceana on the Planet of Galexia. It is an underwater world where the Temples of the Goddess of the Sea is the only place where sea creatures are safe from deadly predators of the deep.

The story begins with the birth of Little Sol, an innocent, who faces terrifying challenges in the ocean depths. Little Sol's journey becomes an awakening to higher consciousness balanced between bewildering, life-threatening situations mixed with wondrous magical encounters with sea creatures of all kinds.

One such sea creature is Jason, a giant sea turtle, who becomes his mentor and explains the nature of reality and the challenges he must overcome when confronted by evil. He introduces him to The Sacred Sea Scrolls that speak of a prophecy of the return of the Original Ancestry of the Gods, Immortals of unparalleled powers, to be known in Book II.

Little Sol faces his greatest challenge when he stumbles upon The Dance of the Sacred Spiral of Life, a prophesied event where The Sacred Sea Dragons of legend make their appearance and mark him with a destiny that must come into remembrance. [That destiny is the same every Soul must understand to become liberated from the challenges of the world of duality.] If not for the sorcery magic of the Wizard Domaine, the Gatekeeper between Worlds, Little Sol would have remained in the Underworld of Death, possessed by evil he must still face in the future.

The Final Reckoning heralds a time of total freedom or absolute destruction before the raging forces of Darkness. The Temples of the Goddess of the Sea must marshall the greatest powers of the Mysteries to overcome the threat that lies before them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Jul 24, 2012
• ISBN: 9781466943964

Sophia

Sophia (Pacific Northwest U.S.) is a spiritual teacher, psychic, and fourth-generation card reader who has led seminars in the United States and abroad for many years.  She writes a regular column for The New Times newspaper of Seattle and is also a professional photographer.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

BOOK I

Foreword

The Apprenticeship of the Soul

By Mysteia, High Priestess of The Temple of Mysteries

Author’s Note

Foreword

PART I Re-Emergence

1 The Portal of Light

2 The Kingdom of Oceana

3 The Curse

4 The Elusive Presence

5 Divine Betrayal

6 The Original Ancestry of the Gods

7 Illumination

8 Multi-Dimensions

9 Souls of Darkness

PART II THE TEMPLESOF THEGODDESSOF THE SEA

10 The Temples of the Goddess of the Sea

11 Temple Priestesses

12 Starborn

13 Encounter With The Record Keeper

14 The Dance of the Sacred Spiral of Life

15 Netherworld of Darkness

16 The Prophecy

17 The Hermit Crab

18 The Mantle of the Sacred Sea Dragons

From THE GREAT MOTHER GODDESS

to Her Children

as it was written

at the Beginning of Time

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

To God and Goddess, Masters, Family,

Friends, and Students, who have helped me along

the way with their Truth.

AUTHOR’S NOTE

You are about to walk into another world.

How you approach that world is determined

by the passion of your search for answers.

With an open mind,

your goal is to separate fact from fiction,

for no Initiation of the Soul can take place

without the use of discernment.

The Mysteries lead on… will you follow?

Without completion, there is no fulfillment!

The unfinished business and questions

of your lives will see you to the end.

Do you have what it takes to transcend beyond them?

Search and find the Key,

for it is a Key that has been with you

since the Beginning of Time.

With this Key, you will unlock every door

that has kept you a prisoner from within.

Use this Key wisely to claim your Freedom,

for it will lead beyond the Intellect of your Mind

and into the Heart of your own Soul.

Begin the Quest,

for without one, there is no adventure!

The secret places in your Heart will be revealed,

the fears of your Mind will be exposed,

and somewhere between Earth and Sky,

you will fly when you know

the Truth within your Heart.

Whether Christian, Jew, or Buddhist,

whether Hindu, Moslem, or Taoist,

the Soul seeks to be reborn

in the common ground of love.

Therefore,

Open the doors

to the Sacred Chalice of the Heart.

Drink, then, of Ambrosia,

the only food restoring

Immortality to the Gods.

Let this story speak to you of your Soul

and be delivered from this world,

so you may know your Soul,

as a living reality of

Heaven on Earth.

FOREWORD

THE APPRENTICESHIP OF THE SOUL

BY MYSTEIA, HIGH PRIESTESS OF THE MYSTERIES

[DELIVERED AT THE OPENING

CEREMONIES OF NEW INITIATES

ENTERING THE SCHOOL OF MYSTERIES

IN THE KINGDOM OF OCEANA]

I personally wish to welcome you into The Apprenticeship of the Soul as a New Initiate entering The School of Mysteries. Today, you officially begin a journey into the sacred sanctuary of your innermost being. As you embark on this journey, you will encounter other parallel worlds to your existence filled with wondrous surprises at the higher levels of consciousness and perilous challenges existing in the underworld of your mind. All you discover will provide a mirror to your self, allowing you to discern what is real and what is false about you, within the many reflections of your personal self.

Your Soul, on the other hand, shall provide you with everything you need to know about yourself on multidimensional levels of being. For instance, you will learn to make contact with your Soul by entering higher states of consciousness through meditation and prayer. Your Soul shall provide you with distant memories about all you have been across time. It shall reveal the many resources, talents, and abilities that remain dormant within you from your many lives, but nevertheless remain accessible to you. Your Soul shall return to you the power to vanquish any and all evil that challenges your life. It shall also provide Keys linking you to the power of Divine consciousness to be remembered and reclaimed during the Initiations to come.

You were born into this world for a reason. The moment you were born, the entire world shifted on its axis to make room for your presence. Your unique journey became imprinted upon the collective grid of infinite possibilities. These possibilities materialized instantly in many directions, giving you endless opportunities for choices.

Each choice you make materializes a pathway before you in a given direction. The experiences along a pathway result in your joy or sorrow, your self-empowerment or your self-destruction. It will be up to you whether you shall become imprisoned by fear, or whether you shall strive to claim the power of love even in the face of challenging and painful realities.

Whenever you find yourself moving in a direction where you feel unworthy or feel compromised in any way, you can make contact with your Soul to assist you in changing directions. Only your Soul can guide you out of the painful realities of your existence and place you onto the path of exalted spiritual guidance and awareness.

Your Soul exists for your illumination. It exists to guide you toward the recognition of your purpose and destiny. Once you discover your reason for being here, you can shift into becoming the Master of your destiny by working in alignment with your Soul. No longer will you be a slave to situations and circumstances, living as a helpless pawn, ignorant of the range of choices available to you. Under the guidance and protection of this greater power, you will observe yourself participating in full conscious awareness rather than observing yourself reeling from the effects of your unconscious actions.

The challenges you face in the world are trials presenting you with the choice to be free or the choice to be a slave. By knowing the Soul exists outside the realm of blame or judgments, fears or anxieties, regrets or punishment, you can become empowered to access the purity of your own heart, where no abandonment of the Divine is possible. By purposefully engaging in The Apprenticeship of the Soul, you can carve a path toward higher knowledge, greater wisdom, and powers beyond your present imaging. All that is required of you is your willingness.

Your first Initiation takes place the moment you admit your readiness. From then on, your Soul will guide you. It will guide you subtly at first, but then more directly over time, as you come to trust in that greater dimension of yourself and believe according to your own experiences, using your own internal Wisdom for guidance.

You have come specifically to The School of Mysteries for a very good reason. You have been chosen because you demonstrate a level of awareness uncommon to the rest of the population. For example, you have become poignantly aware of the relentless challenges of your lives. You have become increasingly restless because of the many unanswered questions that continue to plague you, especially concerning your Soul’s purpose and destiny. You have become intolerant of fighting against your fears and against predators that stalk you in the deep, leaving you with very little recourse except to hide.

The time has come to disarm yourself of such fears and the rhetorical wayward thoughts of your lives that continue to lead you astray. You are here to explore the deeper questions of your lives. You are here to search out the Mysteries leading to the reclaiming of your power, which will inevitably link you to your Soul. You are here to enter the realm of the Soul with an empty mind disarmed of its judgments. Unless there is emptiness, there is no space available for new ideas. Unless there is curiosity, you may fail to discover new worlds. Unless you have an inquiring mind, new answers may never surface.

The use of higher intuition will help you decipher the Soul’s guidance instinctively. Maintaining an open heart will help you discover the true essence of love, revealing of its power. Only the power of love shatters ideas held steadfast by mistaken beliefs forged by the logical mind. Oftenimes it takes losing your mind in the presence of love before you can enter the realm of the Soul.

The Apprenticeship of the Soul encompasses the Mysteries, which succinctly imply that all such knowledge exists outside the realm of ordinary reality. If such knowledge were easily known and revealed through the experience of everyday life, there would be no reason for a mystery school. But you have come to explore the Mysteries because you are ready to expand your consciousness from its present limitations.

When you shift into the realm of the Soul, an entirely different reality reveals itself. It becomes a reality without the need of spoken language because it is inclusive of telepathic communication where an entire book of ideas may be revealed in an instant! It is a reality where the body is recognized as a vehicle for the Soul and is expressive of the Soul, but has no independent life apart from the Soul. Nevertheless, your body is the sacred temple of your Soul.

Once you become aligned with your Soul, you can teleport in consciousness to any place in the present, past, or future and obtain information previously inaccessible to you before returning to your body. This great power will give you the opportunity to alter past events so present pain can be lifted, disarming the unhealed maladies anchored within your body because of the unresolved issues of the past.

When you get in touch with your Soul, you will become aware of higher operating Laws of the Universe that when exercised, can supersede physical laws of the third dimension as if they had no reality whatsoever. The endless paradoxes of physical reality will be exposed and the timeless realities of the Soul will be revealed. The first time you shape-shift or become invisible because you have moved into a parallel world, you will realize nothing is what it seems!

The Mysteries impart Keys to powers that lie dormant within you. For instance, every Initiation brings you closer to the Divine. In that utter, breathless communion with the Divine—the all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-present force of consciousness—your Immortal Self is revealed. Keys to manifestation and co-creation will be given to you in that moment of communion and illumination. Other Keys will enable you to disarm predators with a look alone, calm raging storms with a shout, and level mountains with the right tone. All this you will reclaim when you reach the very source of your existence and become one with the Divine.

Esoteric knowledge is kept secret for a reason. It is not for the reason of withholding knowledge; it is because the Mysteries are incompatible with public knowledge and awareness. Only when you find someone asking, are you given the authority to share your knowledge. By using discernment during those times, you can avoid risking exposure to the uninitiated of ideas, which may ordinarily be considered blasphemous. It is for you to discover that the only blasphemy that exists is denying you are a child born of Divine essence. Remember, all life is born from the Womb of the Mother Goddess and given the breath of life by the lightning bolt union of the Seed of the Father God within living flesh! If you were