The Gospels are simply disinterested in biography. Other than the fact that
we know Jesus had brothers (Mk.6: 3) we know little of his biographical details.
The Gospels are simply not that type of literature. They are proclamations,
sermon fragments, testimonies of his lordship. There is so little material about
his life that we simply cannot know. There is not any solid historical evidence
that
Jesus was sexually involved with Mary Magdalene and had children with her. It
lacks any historical source. That is not to say that the Jesus family has no
offspring today, since we do have evidence that James and the other brothers,
and we might assume Jesus' sisters as well, were married and had children, the
descendants of whom are surely on the planet today. It has also been
demonstrated that the entire notion of the Priory of Sion, made famous by
Baigent's Holy Blood, Holy Grail, is a fictitious creation based on a hoax.
Constantine'
Christianity. However, much more was done than mere ratification; there
were whole scale omissions and that is tantamount to censorship.Constantine'
It is true that the priory mentioned in the book is a fraud and was used by
artistic license to make a fictional story. But where there is rumor there is
certainly a kernel of some fact. If, indeed, the Holy Grail (whatever or
whomever it may be) has been concealed for two thousand years then it begs the
question: who has been concealing it and how have they kept such a secret?
What we have in traditional spiritual
writing is well recognized today as sentimental conjecture with no historical
basis. Is it possible he was married? Yes…and without any compromise of the
church's historic faith in him as truly God and truly, truly human." That the RC
Church had a vested interest in proclaiming his single celibate status is beyond
question. Infected by the Gnostic pessimism and the denigration of the body, the
early Church fathers (and most especially the giant Augustine) elevated celibacy
over the married state."
A Jewish priest was required to marry. If Jesus fulfilled all the law as the
Bible says, he must have married. It is more probable that Jesus was married
then not; and that this information was not recorded in the Gentile church, for
if Jesus was not married, this information would most likely have been used to
uphold monastisism and patriarchy. As it was, the information was either removed
or ignored, by monasticism and patriarchy. In the Talmud it states a man of
sexual maturity could not speak in the synogogue (and we know He did) unless he
was properly married--so most likely Joseph and Mary would have arranged a
marriage for Him early on. If Jesus had not complied with this huge requirement
of the law, the Pharisees would have certainly jumped on that and mentioned it
when they sought to discredit Him. So there is a goodly amount of evidence that
He complied with this issue in obedience to both the Law and in regards to
respect of His parents--the Bible says Jesus was obedient to both the Law and
His parents on all points. And sex within the framework of marriage is NOT a
sin--as a matter of fact, the first commandment God ever gave human beings is to
"Go and be fruitful and multiply"--He clearly told them to go and use what He
had given them. It is our abuse of the sexual drive that brings it into the
realm of sin--used properly between a man and wife, in mutual consent, love and
respect, it is a beautiful and sacred thing.
In the unfolding of the Lord's sacred name which is YHWH, Yod-He-Vau-He, the
First Yod was masculine meaning God the Father, . The second He was the Holy
Spirit and female which is the point of this post..... While the third letter
Vau represents the Son and of course is Jesus the Messiah which makes the
Trinity, yet all are one, the three are one. But the Lord is not complete
without the Bride , the people that love the Lord with all their heart and soul,
and mind. These comprise the last /He, and she becomes ONE with the Trinity
(John 16, Revealtions, Isaiah, etc. etc.) and the Holy Family and Holy Name is
complete. This is called the unspeakable and holy TETRAGRAMMATON, which could
only be spoken out loud by the High Priest once a year inside the Holy of Holies
on the Day of Atonement, for the hoped for remssion of all sins of the people
for the whole year.
The Sabbath Queen
This psalm is an obvious reference to Jesus, so who is the woman?
PSALMS 45 ;
1 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made
touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
2 Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips:
therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and
righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people
fall under thee.
6 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right
sceptre.
7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath
anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
8 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory
palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
9 Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did
stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine
own people, and thy father's house;
11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship
thou him.
12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the
people shall intreat thy favour.
13 The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her
companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the
king's palace.
16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes
in all the earth.
17 I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the
people praise thee for ever and ever.
he is Christ's helper! She is the one who sought to comfort Jesus before his
tribulations; without being concern with her own glory as the other apostles
were. She is the one who loved most; She is the one who chose wisdom, She is the
one who remained in the garden searching for Her beloved Jesus, She is the one
to which our risen Lord first said, "Go tell...". this truth needs to be
maintained!
In the ancient world of the Middle East it was the Goddess who descended through
the seven nether spheres to revieve God. This was common to myths describing
what is known as the mystical year or the death and rebirth of nature annually.
From earliest times, people have been fascinated by the moon. They realized the
vital connection between a woman's monthly menstrual (from mensis, Latin for
"moon") cycle, and the waxing and waning of the moon. They also recognized that
the moon controls the tides, whose ebb and flow parallels the organic rhythms of
female fluids. Because of these connections, the moon has been universally
associated with femininity and women's procreative power. In popular ancient
Israelite belief, too, the moon was thought to influence fertility; the women
wore moon-shaped pendants, as discovered in archaeological finds and as
mentioned by Isaiah in his admonition: "On that day, my Lord will strip off the
finery of the anklets, the fillets, and the crescents."
Jewish woman have long celebrated the special female symbolism of the moon. From
the talmudic period to our day, Rosh Hodesh, the minor festival of the New Moon,
has been especially sacred to Jewish women. According to legend, the women in
the wilderness refused to contribute their jewelry to make the Golden Calf, and
were rewarded for their faithfulness by being granted the New Moon as a day off
from work. For many centuries, Jewish women refrained from doing heavy work on
this day.
Among the Kabbalists, the moon has traditionally represented the Shekhinah,
God's feminine aspect, whose exile is symbolized by the moon's monthly waning.
Thus, for them, the blessing of the new moon and the anticipation of Rosh Hodesh,
marking the moon's return, came to symbolize the renewal of hope in the
restoration of Divine Unity. In a contemporary reading of this midrash, Jewish
women will acquire full equality within the tradition. "In this orientation,"
"Rosh Hodesh becomes a renewal both of God's presence in the world — the
Shekhinah, a female aspect of God — and of the female side of the human race and
the human soul."
The moon is exactly the same size as the sun in appearance in the heavens; It is
400 times smaller in its diameter and 400 times closer in proximity to the earth
than the sun is. In an eclipse they are perfectly matched, there is no
scientific explanation for this. It is the moon goddess that descends through
the seven orbits in the heavens; the triple goddess of the ancients. It is the
moon that weds the sun in the mythologies, nature and God! She is the Pearl!
Jesus and Mary are this myth embodied and this dream come true!
<> The genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1:1-17 established his legal lineage and
right to the throne of David. It is Joseph's ancestry which constituted this
Jewish requirement. The genealogy of Jesus which is found in Luke 3:23-38 is the
physical linage of Jesus - the ancestry of Joseph. (Read Luke 3:23 carefully:
Jesus was "assumed" to be the son of Joseph, ..." Therefore, Heli was Joseph's
father, Jesus' grandfather. Heli was a Levite priest, descended through the line
of David through Nathan. Please note that these two lineages meet in King David:
the legal descent of Jesus coming through King Solomon, David's son (Matt.
1:6-7), while the physical lineage of Christ came through Nathan, another son of
David (Lk.3:31). So the promise made by God to David is kept in every way
through the birth of Yashua Bar Joseph of the House of David! (The Aramaic name
of Jesus) Again, the genealogy found in Matthew's gospel is the lineage of
Jesus' mother, while the genealogy found in Luke's gospel is the lineage of
Jesus' father. However, once you have established that the line is indeed Mary's
you must deal with a second difficulty. The rights of the line are not passed
through the mother, only the father. Even though Mary, through her lineage, was
of the Davidic bloodline, she should be excluded from being able to pass those
rights of the bloodline because of being a female (Deut 21:16). So it is not
enough to prove that Mary was an unblemished descendant of David, she had to be
a male to transfer the rights. Therefore she would be disqualified to transfer
the rights to her son Jesus, except for a little known exception to the rule. In
Numbers 26 we read about Zelophehad. Zelophehad, we are told, had no sons, only
daughters. In Numbers 27, following the death of Zelophehad, the daughters of
Zelophehad came before Moses and argued their plight. Because their father had
died with no sons, all of their rights of inheritance were to be lost and they
felt this was unfair. And it was--by anyone's standards. So Moses prayed to God
and God gave Moses an exception to the rule. The Lord told Moses that the
inheritance CAN flow through a female, IF they fulfill two requirements. There
must be no male offspring in the family (Num 27:8) and if the female offspring
should marry, they must marry within their own tribe (Num 36:6). Now we come
back to Mary. On the surface she should be unable to transfer the rights to her
Son. But when you research you find that Mary had NO brothers, AND Mary did
indeed marry within her own tribe --to Joseph, thus fulfilling the Law of Moses
for inheritance and lineage in such cases.
According to all New Testament accounts, Jesus was of the line of David, and
thus also a member of the Tribe of Judah. In Benjamite eyes this might have
rendered him, at least in some sense, a usurper. Any such objection might have
been surmounted, however, if he were married to a Benjamite woman! Such a
marriage would have constituted an important dynastic alliance and one filled
with political consequence. It would not only have provided Israel with a
powerful priest-king, it would also have performed the symbolic function of
returning Jerusalem to its original and rightful owners. Thus it would have
served to encourage popular unity and support and consolidate whatever claim to
the throne Jesus might have possessed. In the New Testament there is no
indication of the Magdalen's tribal affiliation. In subsequent legends, however,
she is said to have been of royal lineage. And there are other traditions that
state specifically that she was of the Tribe of Benjamin. Recall, for example,
that the Magdalen was from the city of Magdala, the "city of doves", where
sacrificial doves were raised for the worship of the Goddess. The Benjamites,
the "sons of Belial", of course, had been worshipers of the Goddess, and their
dispute with the other Tribes of Israel may have been, in large part, an Goddess
versus God war. Thus Jesus would have been a priest-king of the line of David,
who possessed a legitimate claim to the throne. He would have consolidated his
position by a symbolically important dynastic marriage to a member of the royal
line of the Tribe of Benjamin. Jesus would then have been in a position to unify
his country!
The Shekinah is the title for the female aspect of the Divine and its literal
translation is "the indwelling of God." It is not really a personal name; it is
more of a title for the consort of God. However, to many she was Asherah.
Gnostic Sophia, The Holy Spirit (who has somewhat become the "catch-all" for the
feminine aspect of The Divine), and the female aspect of Elohim (the Male-Female
Deity) can be summed up in the doctrines by noted author and theologian Robert
M. Grant. His work concentrated on Early Christian writings especially of the
second century, when he compares the androgynous nature of the Gnostic Creator
God to the mystical Judaism of the Zohar, the classical work of the Kabbalah:
"Yahweh is called the Father and Elohim the Mother". So you see Dion Fortune's
theory of The Great Law applies to the Christian Goddesses as well: "All Gods
are the Same God and All Goddesses are the Same Goddess." Many Christians
refused to consider Mary Magdalene a possible aspect of the Goddess, yet she was
Jesus' most beloved disciple, and she is the woman who followed Him all the days
of her life. Mary Magdalene did as Jesus instructed and set about to tell the
world of the Good News of the Saviour. Reportedly, Mary reached further from the
Holy Lands than any of the other disciples spreading the gospel of Jesus. Often
known as The Magdala, Mary made major impressions on the area now known as
France. There are more statues and monuments indicating her service and ministry
of Jesus found in the pre-Gaul area than in any other country in the world. The
Gnostic Gospels repeatedly speak of the disciples being jealous when Jesus would
kiss her on the mouth! Perhaps it is this reason that she has been called the
Goddess of the Gospels for two thousand years. The Gospel of Philip says, "As
for Wisdom [Sophia] who is called "the barren," She is the Mother of the Angels.
And the companion of the Savior is Mary Magdalene. But Christ loved her more
than all the disciples and used to kiss her often on the mouth. The rest of the
disciples were offended by it and expressed disapproval. They said to Him, 'Why
do you love her more than all of us?' The Savior said why do I not love you like
her? When a blind man and one who sees are both together in darkness, they are
no different from one another. When the light comes, then he who sees will see
the light, and he who is blind will remain in darkness." The Christian Goddess
is not just about the possible deification of Mary, Mother of Christ, or Mary
Magdalene or the assigning of them as avatars. The concept of the Christian
Goddess is about the greater Female Aspect of God, and the many shapes and forms
that She can take, just as God the Father takes many forms in our lives, or even
more commonly, the angels. Just because the medieval translators of the Old
Testament made our Trinity wholly male, it does not mean that you can not
re-educate yourself to see the sexual biases and the politics of the times that
rested in the hands of the very powerful few. This is not about feminine
equality but cosmic balance in the Godhead. When we read that God made "Man in
his own image", many Christians find it easy to think of God creating Adam in
his own image and Eve as an afterthought; this is not what the scriptures teach.
Genesis 1:27 says, "God created man in his own image, in the image of God he
created him; Male and female he created them." The image of God, then, is not
created only male, but both male and female. Thus, we may know that men and
women are equally the image of God. Perhaps humankind is the correct term we
should use, suggesting that men and women together make up the image of The
Divine.
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