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Uh, spoilers for Shazam! #6 under the read more.
So, the implications of Solomon’s words here seem to be that we’re going to move closer to how the transformation used to work, when Billy and Captain Marvel were two distinct people/personalities/what have you. That’s honestly pretty exciting.
#tuesday spoilers#dc#dc comics#shazam!#shazam 2023#shazam#dc captain marvel#captain marvel#captain marvel dc#billy batson#solom#wisdom of solomon#dc the captain#🐍
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I was present at the beginning of creation…
participating at the side of the Lord in the work of creation.
—Sophia in the Book of Proverbs
Sophia is thought to have been a divine feminine force who was present at the time of creation and took an active role in it. This turns our patriarchal understanding of a sole male God who was responsible for all of creation on its head.
Many scholars and art historians believe that the female figure beside God in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling is a representation of Sophia.
The Italian writer Dante (Inferno) had a deep connection with her and received a vision of Sophia in the form of ‘a snow-white rose.’ Artistic depictions of Dante’s vision resemble images of the Milky Way, and some believe that when we look at images of our galaxy, we are really looking at Sophia, the divine wisdom or ‘plan’ of creation, who forms the very structure of our galaxy.
In the Book of Revelations, Sophia is described as the ‘woman clothed with the Sun, with the Moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars’ (Revelations 12:1). Some say that these twelve stars represent the zodiac. Many believe that Sophia is a real spiritual being, and there have been reports of her appearing as a radiant divine feminine being wrapped in azure light.
Sophia is referenced throughout the Bible, and especially in the Wisdom Books of the Old Testament, in which she speaks in the first person as an actual being, rather than an aspect of God. But despite these many references to her, Sophia is rarely spoken about in Christianity today.
As Christianity became more and more patriarchal, the divine feminine aspect receded further into the background and she was forgotten.
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The Wisdom of Solomon 19:18-22
[18] For the elements changed places with one another,
as on a harp the notes vary the nature of the rhythm,
while each note remains the same.
This may be clearly inferred from the sight of what took place.
[19] For land animals were transformed into water creatures,
and creatures that swim moved over to the land.
[20] Fire even in water retained its normal power,
and water forgot its fire-quenching nature.
[21] Flames, on the contrary, failed to consume
the flesh of perishable creatures that walked among them,
nor did they melt the crystalline, easily melted
kind of heavenly food.
[22] For in everything, O Lord, you have exalted
and glorified your people;
and you have not neglected to help them at
all times and in all places.
IMAGE: Emanuel Kratky, God Creating the Elements (c. 1880)
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Better impaled on a sword than slave to animals, and that's Biblical, ba'al.
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The Sapiential Rosary
Prayers of the Sapiential Rosary:
O Virtus Sapientiae Prayer:
O Wisdom!
Whirling about, you encircle
and embrace all
in one lifegiving path,
Three wings you have:
one soars above into the heights,
one from the earth exudes,
and the third everywhere flies
Praise be to you, as befits you,
O Wisdom Most High!
The Antiphon:
O Wisdom, coming forth from the mouth of the
Most High, reaching from one end to the other mightily,
and sweetly ordering all things:
Come and teach us the way of peace. Amen!
The Order of The Sapiential Rosary:
Opening reading:
“I, Sophia, am returning to the earth.
Deity without Sophia is deficient; the earth without wisdom tends to destruction and great suffering.
Melt the mists that hide my presence; I demand that the name of Sophia be respected on all continents.
Wisdom must infuse the planet with preaching of sermons on Sophia, singing of hymns to Sophiae, uttering of prayers to Sophia, Institutionalizing of celebrations for Sophia.
Those who faint at conflict--turn away now. Those who desire easy victories-forget my name.
Those who thrive on acceptance-return my mantle. How do you respond?”
Opening Prayer:
Radiant and Unfading Wisdom, your deep love calls to me. I seek you with all my heart.
Hasten to make yourself known. Sit at the gate of my heart. Teach me your ways.
Meet me in my every thought. Attune my mind to your perceptions. Open all that is closed within me. I desire your instruction. I long to receive and to share your love Dance on the path of my life. Free me from all that hinders. Deepen all that attracts me to you. As the mystery of my life unfolds through the quickly passing years, draw my love ever nearer to you. I promise to be awake and vigilant, attentive to your voice, receptive to your guidance.
I will hide no secrets from you. Come, reveal yourself to me!
For peace in the world… 1 Our Father
For an increase in the grace of faith, hope and love… 3 O Virtus Sapientiaes, 1 Glory Be, 1 Antiphon
The First Reading: Proverbs 8: 1-11
Does not wisdom cry out, And understanding lift up her voice? She takes her stand on the top of the high hill, Beside the way, where the paths meet. She cries out by the gates, at the entry of the city, At the entrance of the doors: “To you, O men, I call, And my voice is to the sons of men. O you [b]simple ones, understand prudence, And you fools, be of an understanding heart. Listen, for I will speak of excellent things, And from the opening of my lips will come right things; For my mouth will speak truth; Wickedness is an abomination to my lips. All the words of my mouth are with righteousness; Nothing crooked or perverse is in them. They are all plain to him who understands, And right to those who find knowledge. Receive my instruction, and not silver, And knowledge rather than choice gold; For wisdom is better than rubies, And all the things one may desire cannot be compared with her.
1 Our Father, 10 O Virtus Sapientiaes, 1 Glory Be, 1 Antiphon
The Second Reading: Proverbs 8: 12-31
“I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, And find out knowledge and discretion. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; Pride and arrogance and the evil way And the perverse mouth I hate. Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom; I am understanding, I have strength. By me kings reign, And rulers decree justice. By me princes rule, and nobles, l the judges of [c]the earth. I love those who love me, And those who seek me diligently will find me.
“The Lord possessed me at the beginning of His way, Before His works of old. I have been established from everlasting, From the beginning, before there was ever an earth... When there were no depths I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills, I was brought forth; hile as yet He had not made the earth or the [e]fields, Or the [f]primal dust of the world. When He prepared the heavens, I was there, When He drew a circle on the face of the deep, When He established the clouds above, When He strengthened the fountains of the deep, When He assigned to the sea its limit, So that the waters would not transgress His command, When He marked out the foundations of the earth, Then I was beside Him as a master craftsman; And I was daily His delight, Rejoicing always before Him, Rejoicing in His inhabited world, And my delight was with the sons of men.
1 Our Father, 10 O Virtus Sapientiaes, 1 Glory Be, 1 Antiphon
The Third Reading: Proverbs 9: 1-6
Wisdom has built her house, She has hewn out her seven pillars; She has slaughtered her meat, She has mixed her wine, She has also [a]furnished her table. She has sent out her maidens, She cries out from the highest places of the city, “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here! As for him who lacks understanding, she says to him, “Come, eat of my bread And drink of the wine I have mixed. Forsake foolishness and live, And walk in the way of understanding.
1 Our Father, 10 O Virtus Sapientiaes, 1 Glory Be, 1 Antiphon
The Fourth Reading: The Wisdom of Solomon 10: 1-21
Wisdom took care of the first-formed father of the world When he alone was created; And she delivered him from his transgression† And gave him strength to rule all things. But when an unrighteous man departed from her in his wrath, He perished in anger for murdering his brother. When the earth was flooded because of him, Again wisdom saved it And piloted the righteous man by a cheap piece of wood. Also when the nations in evil concord were confused Wisdom knew the righteous man And preserved him blameless before God, And kept him strong in the time of his affection for his child. Wisdom rescued a righteous man When the ungodly were perishing, For he escaped the fire that descended on the five cities, Concerning which a testimony still remains: A barren land continually blackened with smoke, Trees bearing fruit which does not ripen in season, And a pillar of salt standing as a monument To an unbelieving soul.† For since they passed by wisdom, They not only were injured by not knowing good things, But also left behind for the living a memorial of their folly, So they could not forget their fall. Wisdom rescued from troubles those who served her. She guided a righteous man on straight paths When he fled from his brother's wrath. She showed him the kingdom of God And gave him knowledge of holy things. She prospered him in hardships And increased the fruit of his labors.† When they dishonored him in their covetousness, She stood by him and made him rich. She protected him from his enemies, Kept him safe from those who plotted against him, And arbitrated a strong contest for him, So he might know that godliness is more powerful than anything. When a righteous man was sold, Wisdom did not abandon him, But delivered him from sin.† She went down with him into a pit, And she did not leave him in chains Until she brought him the scepter of a kingdom And authority over those who tyrannized him. She showed those who blamed him to be lying And gave him everlasting glory. She delivered a holy people and a blameless seed From a nation of oppressors. She entered the soul of a servant of the Lord And opposed fearful kings with signs and wonders. She gave to holy men the reward of their labors. She guided them in a marvelous way And became for them a shelter by day And a flame of stars by night.† She carried them across the Red Sea And led them through deep water; But she drowned their enemies And cast them up from the depth of the abyss. Therefore the righteous stripped the ungodly, And they sang, O Lord, to Your holy name And praised with one accord Your defending hand; Because wisdom opened the mouth of the dumb And made the tongues of infants speak clearly.†
1 Our Father, 10 O Virtus Sapientiaes, 1 Glory Be, 1 Antiphon
The Fifth Reading: The Wisdom of Sirach 24: 1-29
Wisdom will praise herself, And in the midst of her people she will boast.† In the assembly of the Most High, she will open her mouth And boast in the presence of His host. “I came forth from the mouth of the Most High And covered the earth like a mist.† I pitched my tent in the high places And my throne on the pillar of cloud. I alone encircle the ring of heaven, And I walk in the depth of the abyss. In the waves of the sea, in all the earth, And in every people and nation I have gained a possession. With all these, I have sought a place to rest; In what inheritance will I lodge? “Then the Creator of all things commanded me, And He who created me gave me a place to live. He said, ‘Pitch your tent in Jacob And receive an inheritance in Israel.’† Before the age, He created me from the beginning, And in the age to come I will not cease...
I am the mother of fair love, and fear, and knowledge, and holy hope: I therefore, being eternal, am given to all my children who are named by Him. “Come to me, you who desire me, And take your fill of my fruits. For the remembrance of me is sweeter than honey. And my inheritance is sweeter than the honeycomb. Those who eat me will hunger for more. And those who drink me will thirst for more.† He who obeys me will not be put to shame, And those who work with me will not sin.”...
As the first man did not know wisdom perfectly, So the last man has not searched out her depths. For her thoughts are deeper than the sea And her counsel than the great abyss.
1 Our Father, 10 O Virtus Sapientiaes, 1 Glory Be, 1 Antiphon
The Reading From The Holy Gospel: Luke 7: 31-35
And the Lord said, “To what then shall I liken the men of this generation, and what are they like?They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, saying:
‘We played the flute for you, And you did not dance; We mourned to you, And you did not weep.’
For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a [k]winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by all her children.”
Closing Prayer:
Let us sing to Wisdom, Who delivered our mothers and fathers out of a land of oppression.
She led them by a marvelous road, A path through the sea, Dry land, waves piled up on either side.
Lead us now as you did before.
The waters threaten to engulf us; The waves are breaking over our heads.
Make us a path through the water; Be our shelter by day, And our starlight by night.
Bring us safely to dry land, headed toward freedom.
Amen! Amen! Amen!
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For the ungodly said, reasoning with themselves, but not aright, Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a man there is no remedy: neither was there any man known to have returned from the grave.
For we are born at all adventure: and we shall be hereafter as though we had never been: for the breath in our nostrils is as smoke, and a little spark in the moving of our heart:
Which being extinguished, our body shall be turned into ashes, and our spirit shall vanish as the soft air,
And our name shall be forgotten in time, and no man shall have our works in remembrance, and our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, that is driven away with the beams of the sun, and overcome with the heat thereof.
For our time is a very shadow that passeth away; and after our end there is no returning: for it is fast sealed, so that no man cometh again.
Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present: and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth.
Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments: and let no flower of the spring pass by us:
Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered:
Let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness: let us leave tokens of our joyfulness in every place: for this is our portion, and our lot is this.
Wisdom of Solomon 2:1-9 (KJV).
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The Book of Wisdom is not a book recognized as canonical by all Christians and within some branches of Christianity such as the Orthodox and Catholic Churches it is included among the sapiential books attributed to King Solomon. And like all the sapiential books, such as the Book of Proverbs or Ecclesiastes, the Book of Wisdom speaks of two paths, and exhorts men to love justice and wisdom, and to avoid the path of sin, which is the path of the wicked.
And in a very interesting way, the holy book teaches that the spiritual paths that are before human reason, by the ethical laws of the universe, lead men in this physical life to different destinations; happiness and blessedness for those who have followed the right path, but ruin and unhappiness for those who have chosen the path of error.
But the book also speaks of a retribution beyond this physical life, that is, a retribution in the life after death; and on this topic the Bible is very discreet, it only makes a few mentions about the issue. The Book of Wisdom does not talk about the death of the righteous but about their end, because true death is the death of the soul: "The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment shall touch them" Wisdom 3:1.
That is why, continuing with this idea of the end of the just, the Bible gives us a beautiful spiritual quote: "But the righteous one, though he die early, shall be at rest" Wisdom 4:7. The rest in God awaits the righteous after leaving this physical life, and sinners are deprived of this rest in God: "So I declared on oath in my anger, ´They shall never enter my rest.´" Psalm 95:11. Rest in God could be said to be the communion of pure souls with God. On the other hand, what awaits sinners after this physical life is the abyss according to the Book of Revelation (Revelation 20:2-3). According to the Bible, rest in God and the abyss are the definitive spiritual rewards.
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#29 Discussion of 'Lady Wisdom'
That Solomon was so wise and yet fell from grace is a cautionary tale. King Solomon asked God to give him wisdom rather than wealth. Solomon received this gift from God, as well as becoming fabulously rich.
In his writings, Solomon personifies wisdom as ‘she’ and compares her to ‘Lady Foolishness’ (Proverbs 9:13) inviting the reader to choose wisdom over foolishness.
Solomon himself was led…
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When a sexy woman is sitting conveniently anywhere, question it.
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hey guys why does your superhero coworker have the sour tolerance of a 10 year old ?
#dc comics#dc#shazam#dc captain marvel#billy batson#captain marvel#booster gold#michael jon carter#justice league international#jli#jla#wisdom of solomon: WE ARE BEING POISONED#those videos of babies tasting lemons for the first time.........#billy batson my baby boy#justice league
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King Solomon asks for wisdom (1 Kings 3:1-15)
King Solomon asks for wisdom (1 Kings 3:1-15)
Solomon was the son of King David, the musical monarch of Israel. When his father died, he succeeded him as king. At the beginning of his reign, Solomon was a man of great faith. Naturally, therefore, he turned to God for guidance as to how he should rule.
As Pope Benedict XVI observed: “Solomon inherited a very demanding task and the responsibility that lay heavily on his shoulders was great…
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#Arthur Wybo#Coronation of the Virgin#Gothic Revival#King Solomon#Old Testament#Stained glass#Wisdom of Solomon
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Billy Batson who can understand a lot of old languages thanks to the divine twitch chat so one day he's hanging out when Solomon starts translating and
Damian: *cursing someone in Arabic*
Billy: Dude don’t bring his mother into this
Damian: How do you know Arabic?!
Billy: I don’t know Arabic.
Damian:
Billy:
Billy: WAIT-
#billy batson#damian wayne#damian al ghul#captain marvel dc#dc captain marvel#robin damian#dc robin#divine twitch chat#good ol wisdom of solomon#dc universe#shazam
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He is actually SO normal!!
#not even the wisdom of Solomon can save him from getting into shenanigans#billy is a character tailor made for situations and tomfoolery#what else is he to do??#billy batson#captain marvel#shazam#dc#dc comics
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The Wisdom of Solomon 19:1-5
[1] But the ungodly were assailed to the end by pitiless anger,
for God knew in advance even their future actions,
[2] that, though they themselves had permitted your people to depart
and hastily sent them forth,
they would change their minds and pursue them.
[3] For while they were still busy at mourning,
and were lamenting at the graves of their dead,
they reached another foolish decision,
and pursued as fugitives those whom they had
begged and compelled to depart.
[4] For the fate they deserved drew them on to this end,
and made them forget what had happened,
in order that they might fill up the punishment
which their torments still lacked,
[5] and that your people might experience an incredible journey,
but they themselves might meet a strange death.
IMAGE: Richard Dadd, The Flight out of Egypt (c. 1849)
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Jesus The Christ,
In Partnership with Ma Mary
And baby James
Go With God.
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There's a villain that takes 1 special ability from each league member. And it's completely random. So like for superman he can no longer fly, for wonder woman her super healing, for martian manhunter his ability to transparent and then when it comes to Shazam nothing seems to happen.
And then after the fight a reporter goes up to him and asks him for a quote and he says
"Eat the rich."
And in his head Billy is like, wait why would i say that? I mean i meant it but i would normally never say that as Shazam.
and then he accidentally says "Fuck!" out loud and realizes "Fuck, I lost my magic filter."
The crowd is obviously uh, shocked that Shazam, such a family friendly hero would say such things.
#billy batson#captain marvel#shazam!#shazam#i think the wisdom of solomon is filtering what billy says#let billy say fuck
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