Why are Janites different? in 3 parts. Guest posts by ArchMadria Candra Sophia.
https://deanic.com/2018/02/26/why-are-janites-different-part-1-our-history/ Why are Janites different? Part 1: Our History
Just recently, I have been asked to address a series of questions concerning why Janites are different from the rest of the Déanic (Day an ic) meaning of the Mother God community. While I have written posts on some of these subjects in the past, I understand that there are a lot of new members of the greater Déanic community (yay!) who are not familiar with how the Janites came about and why we are different from other Traditions within the community.
https://deanic.com/2018/02/26/why-are-janites-different-part-2-our-thealogy-mythos/ Why are Janites different? Part 2: Our Thealogy & Mythos
The Madrians clearly referred, in their edition of the Scriptures, to the Holy Daughter as Inanna. Others knew Her as Jana. The Aristasians/Chelouranyans came to know Her as Anna. But for the Order of Kore Di-Jana (Janites), She is Sophia or Kore Sophia, as we know Her.
Where Sophia is the Janite Form /Image of the Holy Daughter, we follow the Mythos of the Divine Shattering of Shekina/Sophia rather than the myth of Inanna as depicted in the Passion of the Holy Daughter in our Scriptures. But this Shattering was not Her death, but rather was an intimate and life-giving sharing of Her Soul with all of us.
Kore Sophia descends down through the realms to be imminent with us… to the point where She becomes the very World Soul. She is the True Lady of All Nature and She is intimately with us, always. We are truly One with Her. The Holy Anima Mundi.
We differ from the later separatist Lux Madrians and certain other Déanic / Filianic communities in that we believe that males are spiritually equal to females and that their souls remain male after death. We believe that males are spiritually eternal just as are females. In this way, we are not feminine essentialists. It is my understanding that some early Madrians believed the same.
Orthodox Filianism is a term that I actually coined a few years back.
https://deanic.com/2018/02/26/why-are-janites-different-part-3-the-janae-janati-and-the-great-mother/ Why are Janites different? Part 3: the Janae (Janati) and the Great Mother
Janites ask one or two of the Janae to be their personal Patroness.
Both the Lady of Light Chantry and the Janites celebrate the Janaic (of the Janae) feast days according to Their Seasons and have rosary mantras dedicated to Them.
Janites know Her as the Monas, the One, the Source of All Being. In Gnosticism, the Mother of Sophia was named Sige. (Also Barbelo, Higher Sophia). The Name of Sige, more rightly belongs to the Great Mother as it means Silence. She is that Sure Silence Who Dwells within the Sacred Stillness of the Centre. She is Life, Itself …it’s very Breath.
In many ways, it is true, She is Unknowable, but in other ways She is knowable through the Mother and the Daughter because She is Their Source and They are All One.
Déa is One in Three Forms. The Great Mother is Life-Source. The Celestial Mother is the Celestial Light Form or Manifestation of the Great Mother. The Heavenly-Earthly Daughter is the Immanent Love-Soul Form of the Transcendent Celestial Mother.
Déa is One and She is Three and She is Seven, a thealogical formula which was coined by ArchMatrona Ghrain and myself.
Like the Madrians before us, we are liturgical. Our validly ordained deaconesses and priestesses serve the liturgy on one of the three Trinity days according to the Season.
We have our own feast days, names for the Janae, etc. according to Janite religious culture. Additionally, Janites have a central authority, a priestesshood and the goal of becoming family orientated.
