Fellowship of Isis in Our Basement – the Winged Goddess

“Hey bro, let’s put an altar in our basement.”

The Fellowship of Isis was founded by Olivia Durdin Robertson, her brother Lawrence “Derry” Durdin-Robertson, a former Anglican clergyman, and his wife Pamela at Huntington Castle in Ireland.

After a series of visions, which started when she was 29, Robertson became convinced that God was a woman.

These visions brought her great happiness. She said, “Those visions made me realise that patriarchy had taken over religion, once the domain of matriarchs… and patriarchy had led to wars, greed, and exploitation of the earth.”

By 2018, the Fellowship of Isis, honouring the “Divine Feminine”, was said to have had 20,000 and 30,000 members in 90 countries, including 46 Muslim nations. Olivia Durdin Robertson was the arch-priestess and hierophant of the fellowship.

According to Robertson herself “At the end of an Aeon and the beginning of the space age, the Goddess Isis is manifesting as the feminine expression of divinity.”

The siblings performed elaborate rituals. Lawrence would wear blue robes, with a crook and a tall blue hat. She wore a pink, glittering golden or multicoloured gowns, with her mane of hair dyed black, topped with a brass coronet. She would also carry a sacred “sistrum” (a rattle made of small cymbals set in a wooden frame).

The Telegraph recalled that at first the tiny village in Carlow was horrified. Robertson said “They thought we were all witches. It absolutely freaked them,” Olivia recalled.

“But we left the outside door of the castle open at every ceremony so they could come round and participate. We never had any secrets.”

Olivia passed away at the age of 94 in 2019 but the castle and its basement is still occasionally open to the public and still attracts ‘ordinary Irish psychics”. Source is from Irish Central article here.

“Wondering in the deep of the night
A Thousand Birds take flight
And our dreams are born
on the Wings of Change
We Are Weaving the World Tonight” – Libana

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