Overview
• Draws on Gnosticism and Hermeticism to explore seven esoteric mysteries of feminine wisdom that are supported by practices • Offers a wisdom teaching on integral spirituality and pansentience, encounters with spiritual entities, dreams, and reincarnation • Explores the masculine principle of logos and how to integrate it with feminine eros in sacred marriage—Hieros Gamos—to achieve wholeness and mystical insight Since the dawn of Christianity, the Sophia tradition has been suppressed and shrouded in secrecy. Drawing on Gnosticism and Hermeticism, this book presents divine feminine principles and teachings that are at the heart of the Sophia tradition and how they can be applied to enrich spiritual knowledge and practice. Author Lee Irwin writes from a masculine perspective that honors and celebrates feminine insights, relations, and shared attitudes toward the sacred. The mysteries he shares are grouped in two sections: the lesser mysteries of body, mind, and soul and the greater mysteries of salvation, sacred union, the world soul, and reincarnation. The lesser mysteries encourage greater personal awareness through the healing of old wounds and empowerment through responsibility. Irwin explores sacred sexuality and incarnation as a praxis that emphasizes the celebration of the body as temple. Through the greater mysteries readers learn how to develop transpersonal awareness, raise consciousness, and become receptive to gnosis through dreams and encounters with spiritual entities. Irwin then describes the masculine principle of logos and how to integrate it with feminine eros through alchemical union—Hieros Gamos—to achieve wholeness and mystical insight. Feminine wisdom is a process—a way and not a destination. Divine Feminine Gnosis offers readers on any spiritual path an approach to living that is aimed toward heart-centered wisdom and an embodied experience of the transcendent.
Full Product Details
Author: Lee Irwin ,
Michael Moynihan
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/ Inner Traditions
Imprint: Simon & Schuster/ Inner Traditions
Edition: Unabridged
ISBN: 9781668145715
ISBN 10: 1668145715
Publication Date: 03 February 2026
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Format: Downloadable audio file
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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Reviews
“This gift of the spirit to the reader by a devotee of Sophia is a loving presentation of ancient Hermetic knowledge as found dynamically in holy feminine gnosis—and it is by an apostle of wisdom who also happens to be a particularly receptive man.” * Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince, authors of When God Had a Wife * “With breathtaking scope and insight, Lee Irwin takes us deep into a powerful spiritual promise within humanity and the world, providing an inspirational roadmap into a positive future.” * David Spangler, author of Apprenticed to Spirit * “In this sensitive, inspiring, and well-informed exploration of divine feminine gnosis, Lee Irwin weaves masculine logos with feminine eros and wisdom to offer us seven pathways to engage in a more Sophianic spirituality: embodied, relational, and relevant to today’s changing world, where old paradigms, particularly around the patriarchal masculine, are crumbling. This book is a profound, illuminating, and soulful response to the call of our times. I wholeheartedly recommend it.” * Anna Howard, author of Quest for the Enlightened Feminine * “Lee Irwin’s brilliant book, Divine Feminine Gnosis, unveils a new understanding of Sophia—her wisdom and love—that guides us in our evolution through our lived experiences and intuitions and points the way to a transformed world where all of life is honored and partnerships in relationships of every kind are valued, whether between individuals, the Earth, or our sentient Cosmos and World Soul. His book is both timeless and timely, wisdom so needed now, as we make the journey of transformation.” * Carolyn Rivers, founder and director of The Sophia Institute * “How are we to understand the mysterious figure of Sophia in terms of the present age? What is meant today by divine feminine gnosis? In this book, Lee Irwin provides very contemporary answers to these and related questions and reveals an emerging paradigm. Explore new terrains and perspectives—read Divine Feminine Gnosis!” * Arthur Versluis, author of Alchemical Lightwork and The Secret History of Western Sexual Mysticism *
Author Information
Lee Irwin is an emeritus professor of Religious Studies at the College of Charleston where he taught world religions with an emphasis on Native American traditions, Western esotericism, Hermeticism, and transpersonal religious experience as related to dreams and visions. He is a founding member of the Association for the Study of Esotericism, a member of the Sufi Inayati Order, the Ancient Mystical Order of Rosicrucians, and the Sophia Institute, and co-founder of the Hieros Institute.
