Saturday 5 October 2013

Mary Magdaline

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"The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets", by Barbara G. Walker.

Mary Magdalene

The Gospels say Jesus cast seven devils out of the sacred harlot Mary Magdalene, and appeared first to her after his resurrection (Mark 16:9).  Books later eliminated from the cannon by Christian censors gave further curious details about the relationship:  Jesus loved Mary Magdalene more than all other apostles, called Apostle to the Apostles and "the Woman Who Knew the All," and often kissed her.  He said she would excel every other disciple in the coming Kingdom of light, where she would rule.

Before Gnostic Gospels were cut out of the canon, they were accepted as the Word of God, as much as the synoptic Gospels and other New Testament writings.  Therefore medieval traditions concerning Mary Magdalene hark back to her early mystical supremacy.  She was called Mary Lucifer, "Mary the Light-giver."  It was said Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead solely for love of her.  "There was no grace that He refused her, nor any mark of affection that He withheld from her."

The Pistis Sophia made Mary Magdalene the questioner of Jesus, in the Oriental manner of the catechism applied to the god by his Shakti or Devi (Goddess).  The female questioner then was addressed as "Dearly Beloved."  Jesus used the same form of address, though later editors eliminated all traces of the identity of his questioner; but it was apparent that his "dearly beloved" was Mary Magdalene.

Origen showed a mystic devotion to Mary Magdalene, confusing her with the Goddess by calling her "the mother of all of us," and sometimes Jerusalem, and sometimes The Church (Ecclesia, another title of the Virgin).  Origen claimed Mary Magdalene was immortal, having lived from the beginning of time.

Thus it seems Mary the Whore was only another form of Mary the Virgin, otherwise the Triple Goddess Mari-Anna-Ishtar, the Great Whore of Babylon who was worshipped along with her savior-son in the Jerusalem temple.  The Gospel of Mary said all three Marys of the canonical books were one and the same.

Indeed, the Virgin and Whore were still confused with one another in the 7th century A.D. when, on the day of the Nativity, of the Blessed Virgin, Pope Sergius instituted an annual procession to the old temple of the prostitute-goddess Libera, changing the temple's name to Santa Maria Maggiore:  Most-Great Holy Mary.  It was not made clear which Holy Mary was meant.  A Gnostic poem merged the two of them as a primal feminine power:  "I am the first and the last.  I am the honored one and the scorned one.  I am the whore, and the holy one."

Magdalene means "she of the temple-tower."  The Jerusalem temple had a triple tower representing the triple deity, one tower bearing the name of the queen, Mariamne, an earthy incarnation of the Goddess Mari.  This was the same Mariamne, Miriam or Mary who took Joseph for her lover.  Priestesses of this temple apparently subsidized Jesus and his companions, according to Luke 8:1-3, which says Jesus and "the twelve" were financially supported by Mary Magdalene and a group of women.  Latin text say the women provided for "him" (Jesus), but Greek texts made it "them."

The seven "devils" exorcised from Mary Magdalene seem to have been the seven Maskim, or Anunnaki, Sumero-Akkadian spirits of the seven nether spheres, born of the Goddess Mari.  Their multiple birth was represented in her sacred dramas, which may account for their alleged emergence from Mary Magdalene.  An Akkadian tablet said of them:  "They are seven! In the depths of the ocean, they are seven! In the brilliancy of the heavens, they are seven! They proceed from the ocean depths (Maria), from the hidden retreat."

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The Gospel says no men attended Jesus's tomb, but only Mary Magdalene and her women.  Only women announced Jesus's resurrection.  This was because men were barred from the central mysteries of the Goddess.  Priestesses announced the successful conclusion of the rites, and the Savior's resurrection.  The Bible says the male apostles knew nothing of Jesus's resurrection, and had to take the women's word for it (Luke24:10-11).  The apostles were ignorant of the sacred tradition and didn't even realize a resurrection was expected: "they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead" (John 20:9).

Mari-Ishtar the Great Whore anointed-or Christ-end-her doomed god when he went into the underworld, whence he would rise again at her bidding.  That is, she made him Christ.  Her priestess raised the lament for him when he died in the flesh, as a sacrificial victim.  In the Epic of Gilgamesh, victims were told: "The harlot who anointed by with fragrant oil laments for you now."  Temple-women of Jerusalem raised the same lament for Tammus (Ezekiel 8:14), with whom Jesus was identified.  Jesus himself said Mary Magdalene anointed him for his burial, pouring a precious unguent on his head in the time-honored manner of the sacred king's crowning (Matthew 26:7-12).  The christening-vase of holy oil was the ubiquitous symbol of Mary Magdalene in Christian art-through the virgin Mary also bore the harlot's title of Holy Vase.

Virgin and Whore constantly exchanged attributes through the Middle Ages; the virgin Mary was consistently a special patron of prostitutes.  A Christian magic ring, now in the London museum, bears the legend, "Holy Mary Magdalene pray for me."

Pope Julius II by a papal bull established a "sacred" brothel in Rome, which flourished under his successors Leo X and Clement VII.  The earning of this brothel supported the Holy Sisters and magdalenes (whores) were one of the same.  Pope Innocent III also favored Rome's collegia of prostitutes, called virgines, "unmarried women."  He publicly announced that any man who married one of them would be specially praised in heaven.

Much Christian myth-making went into the later history of Mary Magdalene.  She was said to have lived for a while with the virgin Mary at Ephesus.  This story probably was invented to account for the name Maria associated with the Ephesian Goddess.  Afterward, Mary Magdalene went to Marseilles, another town named after the ancient sea-mother Mari.  Her cult centred there. Bones found at Vezelay and declared to hers.  Her dwelling was a cave formerly sacred to the pagans, at St. Baume (Holy Tree).  For thirty years she lived there without eating or drinking, her only nourishment the sweet songs of angels, "delightful repast" she daily took in through her ears.  A church was built over her grotto.  Local winegrowers still offer votive candles to her for a good vintage, as if the ancient-fertility-mother still occupied the site.

St. Martha accompanied Mary to Provence and worked a number of miracles there.  Meeting a dragon named Tarasque (i.e. the Celtic deity Taranis), Martha destroyed him by tying him up with her girdle and pouring holy water on his head.  Old images of the Twofold Goddess with her Great Serpent seem to have been renamed Mary and Martha.  More often, Mary appeared as the typical feminine trinity ruling birth, love and death.  As Holy Mary at the Cradle, she was the midwife (or birth-goddess) who delivered Jesus.  As harlot and funerary priestess she was linked with sex and death.  Finally there was the Gnostic suggestion that she was the original "pope," foundress of Christian church, according to the Oriental idea that spiritual authority must pass from male to female and vice versa.

Some said she married St. John the Evangelist.  In 12th century Milan they were worshipped together in a dual cathedral built and administered by the monks of St. John jointly with the virgines of St. Maria Maggiore, also entitled Sancta Dei Genetrix (Holy Mother of God).  The androgynous cathedral was excavated in 1943-44, but its discovery was kept secret.

During the 13th century a Dianic Temple was rededicated to Mary Magdalene.  At Easter, the story of her conversion of the rulers of Marseilles was chanted at the altar.  Later the sacred song was suppressed.  Mary's devotees were forbidden to hold mass.  In 1781, the Magdalene temple was demolished.

Rasa Von Werder, photographer, is building a Mega-Website to house her work; an education / spiritual vehicle that will put God back into Sex & Sex back into Religion.  It is a fall-back to our Original Source:  Mother God - When She was worshiped, women were venerated & Sex was Sacred.  We will revive Goddess Religion, Shaktiism, & Tantra Sex.  We will teach men how to worship God through the woman's body & how to make love to Her in a pleasing manner.
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Postscript

Pistis Sophia (Faith-Wisdom)
A Gnostic scripture of the 3rd century A.D., translated from the Greek to Coptic, setting forth the teachings of Jesus upon his return to earth, 12 years after his resurrection.

Gospel of Mary
One of the early Gnostic Gospels, once included with the books of the New Testament but later eliminated form the canon.  A copy was rediscovered in the 1940s at Nag Hammadi.

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