... was the teaching, too, of Socrates’ teacher, Diotima, the priestess of Mantinea, who, as recounted in the Symposium, initiated ... hierarchy. Women became, in a sense, a new kind of priestess with a special minstry for the dead. “Spiritual circles” read more...

... is the “flowingwaterfall dress” of the hermetic High Priestess tarot card, symbol of the subconscious mind.7 Next, we read more...

... to him. I once had a dream—I told him that I was a temple priestess in training, very, very young, and the temple priestesses ... with certain rituals. This was in Egypt and the head priestess was actually one of the Pharaoh’s concubines but the read more...

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