…Sophia is a beautiful woman, naked and containing within her own body the secrets of the work. She personifies not only wisdom but also all the ingredients needed in alchemy, for she is nature herself. She is clearly a living being and most decidedly a personification of the feminine divine. …She is the guide who helps us redeem nature and the divinity itself, as well as our individual souls. She is therefore both Redeemer and that which must be redeemed. She is a living…being with whom we can form a relationship of the deepest love that can lead to union and, through this union, elevation to a higher state of being. She is the means by which spirit becomes matter and matter becomes spirit, and even God incarnates in her body.[i]