In the Book of Wisdom in the Apocrypha, hagia Sophia—the true princess, the wise old woman—is described thus: “For within her is a spirit intelligent, holy, unique, manifold, subtle, active, incisive, unsullied, lucid, invulnerable, benevolent, sharp, irresistible, beneficent, loving to humankind, steadfast, dependable, unperturbed….”
