History: The Temple of Ancient Wisdom began as a simple act of kindness, in 1998. I opened the doors of my home to some friends in need of conversation at Fort Hood Texas. This small group of army wives was steadily gathering to have fellowship, sharing their lives and helping each other with the daily problems and obstacles they faced, while their husbands were deployed. The main topics of interest covered over many cups of tea or coffee were on finances, marriage, sex, religion, adultery, domestic violence, exclusion, divorce, child care and parenting. Many of the soldiers upon their re-deployment home saw and liked the positive changes of their spouses, and soon men and women were gathering and exploring their spirituality within the group, questioning their values as Army wives and soldiers and how to enhance the quality of the life they chose.
The core of the group challenged their faith and their love of God and their understanding of what they had been taught, which was definitely apparent in their choices and personal behavior. I began to prescribe research and study. Soon we studied together, religions, philosophy, psychology, spirituality miracles and magic, then, inadvertently I found myself teaching personal Transformation. Some of the students, unhappy with Christianity, were looking for information on Wicca and Pagan beliefs. They ended up at my door because of my reputation in the village of being honest and spiritually intuitive.
In the course of our studies we found that God is the same God to all of us. That our spiritual and religious beliefs could be personal to us, that it truly did not interfere in the way we loved and assisted one another. Another reality was that we had erroneous understanding of our own religions and with studying, many misconceptions were clarified, so many Christians remained Christian gaining a better understanding of their childhood religion. At the same time there were those who had studied the Wiccan religion and were afraid to venture into the community as such. They marveled at my courage to openly wear a silver pentacle. Soon a group of 5 women became 40, in a year it doubled. It then became a Support group called The Women’s Faith and Spiritual Support Group, (WFSSG). A Womens group because women were the foundation and the administration of its support system.
By the end of 1999, there was a split within members of the group into the two faiths; an established group of Wiccan women and a Christian Catholic group. The two groups worshiped together in my home despite the difference of traditions. I was able to keep the unity because I was born into a devout Roman Catholic family and as an adult, it felt natural to add Wicca to enhance my personal spiritual path. This perfect syncretism has been apparent for centuries as a cultural understanding of diversity in many Latin American cultures. For example, from the blend of Catholicism and an African religion known as Yoruba, the tradition of Santeria was created. In the realization that all religions come from the same source, the concept of The Temple of Ancient Wisdom was born. By the year 2000 the group had developed into a nondiscriminatory community support system that reached out socially and spiritually to Fort Hood, Texas and its surrounding communities.
By 2001 we had the need to incorporate. I was assisting over 700 individuals on file on my own. The high demand that my skills as a teacher and an intuitive spiritual counselor generated, catapulted the organization to need others, like myself, to help with the demands. I moved to Copperas Cove in 2003 and opened The Whispering Star Clan to the public as the school of mysticism, to transform and train the priest and priestesses, the future clergy of The Temple of Ancient Wisdom.
In 2004 the emphasis shifted from community support to simultaneously training students to meet the high demands of our spiritual brand of community service. The future of the Temple has to continue in the hands of individuals, whom will become students, case providers and teachers. Transformation, being a life time endeavor, brings remarkable change in the Temple students who achieve the 4 year curriculum of studies outlined at the spiritual learning center. The students that have become conscious of world responsibility are those that fought the ego and withstood the harshness of self-transformation, preserved their third year of training, and captured the understanding of selflessness. The students desiring The Clergy must be willing to come into full understanding of the self. This is no easy task as one must look deeply into themselves and work that which he or she fears the most, that which has brought unhappiness and discord to their lives. It is the people that are most broken in their lives that become the best priests or priestesses, for he or she have struggled to see the reality of their existence and its pitfalls.
Tradition:We are a spiritual organization that promotes mysticism and personal transformation for the unification of the spirit in man. The Wisterian tradition draws the teachings of wisdom from all Holy religious texts world wide; The Tanach, The Zohar, Torah, Kabbalah, Quran, Bhagavad-Gita, The Tao, The Sufi Way, The Bible, Islam, Shamanic, Christian, Pagan, Buddhist and many other esoteric emanations of the teachings. The paths to God are many; they all reach the source of His divine Love. We are all Gods children, able to interpret the omnipresence of God in our own ways of expression and diversity. Come and share your beliefs and your love of the Divine...
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