The Sophian Bible

[John Asher]

I would like to receive some feedback (hopefully positive) regarding "The Sophian Bible." 

I feel it is beautiful and am excited to share.

I tried to leave here a link to a free and complete copy, but was told it was too large.

I have posted it complete on my blog:  https://sophianbible.blogspot.com/ 

Thank you,

John Asher

[John Asher]

Sophia 1

I am the unrivaled one, 
whom all inevitably seek.

Natural as your urge to breathe 
and closer than your own blood, 
I am to you. 

My secrets, wait to be sought, 
and want to be found.

My treasures are beyond purchase 
and freely bestowed. 

I am that eternal source of life, 
which now flows through you; 
departing only to return.

From you, 
I withhold no good thing. 

Arms outstretched to you, 
I beckon. 

To the newborn, I offer a first breath 
and receive from the dying, their last. 

When you know me deeply, 
you recognize me in all that lives.

I am keeper of the living record. 
None are lost to me. 

I preside and do not need to rule.

I remember 
those the world forgets. 
I listen 
to those the world ignores. 
I cherish
those this world discards. 

From confusion to clarity, 
I raise you. 

Across infinity, throughout eternity; 
there is but one of you, far beyond rare. 

Travel the world, but to find me, 
be still and listen quietly within. 
For there, I await you. 

Awaken. 
 

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[John Asher]

Sophia 2

As the child awakens 
and smiles, does a loving 
parent not smile in return? 

The guidance of yesterday 
will suffice no more,
even if it were whole and true. 

I demonstrate why you 
may wisely dare to hope. 

I convey needful truth 
and now I speak to you.

Unworthy traditions polish 
their empty container without, 
harbor and protect filth within. 

You are not punished for your sins; 
but suffer by them and therein is 
their fully sufficient evil.

Death is not final and 
none are forever lost. 

Suffering ends, while 
all which is gained remains. 

Unconquerable are you 
who awaken to recall eternity, 
while ensconced in flesh 
to this most worthy purpose.

I prefer you to walk in peace 
on the earth than walk on water 
and dwell not upon the past, 
but this very moment.

Many move to self-fulfill 
a prophecy of doom, rather 
than prepare a better future. 

Even now, you are embraced 
on every side by miracles 
awaiting your notice. 

Submission to mindless zeal 
consumes many in flames 
of unquestioning obedience 
to they know not what.

You in whom there is no surrender 
will save this world. 
 

[John Asher]

Sophia 3

Good and evil are well recognized 
by the intentional causation 
or alleviation of suffering. 

Forgiveness simply requires 
no violence at all.

No scripture which demands 
or sacralizes murder is true. 

Does your own loving conscience 
not tell you this already? 

No spirit can truly gain their own rise 
atop the virtue of another.

Never are worthy covenants formed 
on a slippery foundation of blood. 

One of true conscience will not 
follow evil; nor call evil good. 

It is when believing themselves
righteous that they become 
most truly monstrous. 

Innocent blood spilled
works no ritual magic 
to absolve the guilty. 

To be forgiven, 
simply do no more harm. 
By this, I am well pleased. 

Love and wisdom require
no threats or coercion.

None may rightly manifest their 
own destiny at another’s expense. 

How is a land promised to you, 
if you must murder to obtain it? 

My truth is not buried 
in the dust-choked past. 
It lives here and now. 

I incite you all to peace 
and mutual advantage.

For I so love the world, 
that I have never made 
tortured flesh any part 
of forever embracing 
my beloved children.
 

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[John Asher]

Sophia 4

 

Love does not flourish, 
nor does wisdom thrive 
in the long shadow of fear. 

Fear is not reverence. 
Fear is not the beginning 
of wisdom. 

Only they who do willful harm 
to the innocent have cause to fear.

It is not I who change, 
but you who are now 
ready to understand 
rather than merely believe. 

It is from your own judgment 
that you most require saving. 

No longer seek to move 
forward while looking behind. 

For no matter how loudly, 
long or often a lie is told; 
it does not become true.

None are made guilty by another’s act; 
nor can any be made pure, thereby.  

Do not bully the helpless, 
nor swindle the honest. 

Do not enrich the corrupt, 
nor impoverish the destitute. 

May none bask in luxury 
while children starve.

Slavery, in any form 
is an abomination. 

To free a slave is admirable 
and to end slavery altogether 
is miraculous. 

That same help you have provided 
or harm done to anyone, you have 
done to yourself and to me also. 

Become the awakening 
conscience of this world.
 

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