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he Sabbath, to which we now turn our attention, is an exceptional figure among the female divinities of Judaism. All the numerous images (Asherah, Astarte, Anath, Lilith, Naamah) were originally either foreign goddesses and demons or had their beginnings in Jewish divine attributes which were conceptualized and personified (Shekhina, Matronit). As against them, the Sabbath is a unique example of a day of the week-or more precisely, the name and idea of such a day-having been developed into a female numen and endowed with the character of virgin, bride, queen, and goddess.

The Biblical name Sabbath (Shabbar), designating the seventh dav of the week, seems to have had some connection with the Akkadian shabattu or shapartu, the name for the feast of the full moon. Yet neither in Akkadian nor in any other ancient Near Eastern religion was there a weekly feast and day of rest in any manner comparable to the Sabbath.

Following the end of the evening prayers, the men would return home to be received by their wives-the wife in this instance became for the husband the earthly representative of the Shekhlna, with whom he was about to perform that night the sacred act of cohabitation in imitation of, and in mystical sympathy with, the union between God the King and His wife, the Matronit-Shekhlna-Sabbath.

Now the husband would approach the table and pick up two bunches of myrtle, each consisting of three twigs, prepared for the bride and the groom, and then circle the table-all rites imitative and symbolic of observances performed at actual weddings-and sing welcomling songs to the two angels of peace who were believed to accompany him home from the synagogue.

The chanting of Chapter 31 (Verses 10-31) of the Book of Proverbs, which followed, had a double significance. It was meant as a paean to the "woman of valor," the good wife and mother whose very presence in the house, quite apart from all the care she lavished on her family, made it possible for the husband to live a complete Jewish life, in accordance with the teachings of the Kabbala about the blessed state of male-female togetherness.

Beyond that, however, there was a deeper meaning: the "woman of valor" whose excellence is described in the twenty-two alphabetically arranged verses was interpreted as being none other than the Shekhlna herself, the divine Matronit, whose image thus was mystically merged with that of the man's own wife.

Next came the recitation of an Aramaic poem containing an invitation addressed to God the King to take part in the festive Sabbath meal. At some time during that meal or following it, the husband chanted another mystical Aramaic poem written by Isaac Luria and describing the union of God the King and his bride, the Sabbath-Shekhina.',' The first six stanzas read as follows:

Let me sing the praises of Him who enters the gates Of the orchard of apple trees, holy are they.

Let us invite her now, with a freshly set table, With a goodly lamp which sheds light on tfie heads.

Right and left, and the bride in between Comes forth in her jewels and sumptuous raiments.

hus, for the Jew reared in the great mystical tradition of his faith, the Sabbath was a day whose pleasures, both physical and spiritual, amplv compensated him for the drabness, narrowness, and frequent sorrowfulness of the weekdays.

With the Sabbath, a queenly visitor entered even the humblest abode, which, due to her presence, was transformed into a royal palace, with the table set, the candles burning, and the wine waiting. The mistress of the house became mysteriously identified with the Queen Sabbath, who was also identical with the Shekhlna, the divine Matronit, God's own consort.

As for the master of the house, he felt his chest swell and his consciousness expand due to the "additional soul" which came down from on high to inhabit his body for the duration of the Sabbath. All these supernal presences made man and wife feel part of the great spiritual world order in which every act and word was fraught with cosmic significance, and in which the supreme command of the day was "Rejoice!" When midnight came, and the fulfilhnent of the commandment to rejoice on the Sabbath found its most intense expression in the consummation of the marital act, this was done with the fiill awareness not only, of obeying a divine injunction, but also of aiding therebv the divinity himself in achieving a state of male-female togetherness which God is just as much in need of as man.

The mystically oriented and privately observed celebration of marital sex in honor of the Sabbath, the divine queen and consort of God... is certainly very far removed from the ancient Canaanite mass orgiastic festivals performed in honor of Astarte, the goddess of sexual love and fertility.



After nearly two thousand years, it is time to set the record straight, to revise and complete the Gospel story of Jesus to include his wife.

We believe in our King; let us also believe in our Queen!

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 monastisism and patriarchy.

Some deny that Jesus was married based upon the supposed silence of the Scriptures and doctrinal problems which were inconsistent with the Church's dogma (e.g. a celibate priesthood, the ritual defilement of seminal emissions, etc.). Yet, it much more reasonable to assume that Jesus, like the overwhelming majority of other males that have ever lived, had female companionship and children. To assume otherwise is to assume the exceptional without any correspondingly exceptional evidence. One might as well assume, with an equal absence of evidence, that Jesus was lactose intolerant. There was a 2nd Century tradition among various heretical sects which taught that Jesus was married. In their dispute with Augustine, the Celtic Pelagians argued that the Atonement of Christ cancelled Original Sin. If Original Sin was, as Augustine argued, a sexually transmitted disease of the soul, then Christ has reversed the process and made it a transmitter of healing, health, and virtue. Jewish customs of Jesus' day required married Rabbis. Unmarried men were considered a curse to Jewish society. Jesus would not have had much credibility as a leader had He not been married. Although Jesus was a non-conformist and had many conflicts with Jewish tradition, His parents, Joseph and Mary, were not. The Bible says that they were careful to perfectly obey the laws of their people. It also says that Jesus was "subject unto them". Since Jewish culture practiced arranged marriages and early marriage, as well (a Jewish boy was marriageable at age 16), it is reasonable to assume that Jesus' parents would have performed their parental duties faithfully and arranged a bride for the young Jesus. There are 18 silent years in His life (12 - 30). The Gospel of John tells us that there were many other things which Jesus did which have not been recorded. Given the cultural milieu in which Jesus lived and the supporting Biblical evidence, the burden of proof lies with those who do not believe Jesus was married. They must show why Jesus and His parents would have been derelict in their civic responsibilities and not contracted a marriage. According to Josephus, descendants of the House of David felt a moral obligation to perpetuate their line, never knowing which one among their descendants would be the chosen Messiah. Jesus may or may not have known who He was, but regardless, He lived as a normal person until called by the ministry of John the Baptist. Hippolytus, a Christian leader from the late 2nd Century, was followed by Origen in the 3rd Century in saying that the Song of Solomon was a prophecy of a marital union between Christ and Mary Magdalene. Although they believed Mary was symbolic of the Church, nevertheless, the notion presupposed a real, marriage between Mary and Jesus. There are hints scattered in the Gospels of a special relationship between Jesus and Mary. If she is the same Mary of Bethany in John 11, then we can explain why Martha arose to greet Jesus and not Mary. Some scholars say she was sitting sheva according to Jewish custom. "Sheva" was when a woman was in mourning. Married women were not allowed to break-off from their mourning unless called by their husbands. In this story, Mary does not come to Jesus, until He calls her. At the Resurrection, when Mary meets Jesus in the Garden, there is a degree of intimacy (see the Aramaic here) which one would expect between lovers, not friends. The Greek word for "woman" and "wife" is the same. Translators must rely upon the context in deciding how to translate it. Sometimes, the translation is arbitrary. When Mary is referred to as a "woman" who followed Jesus, it can just as easily be translated as "wife". The story of Mary with the alabaster jar anointing the feet of Jesus is cited by some scholars as the most direct witness to their marriage. It is in all four Gospels and was a story in which Jesus gave express command that it be preserved. This ceremony was an ancient one among many royal houses in the ancient world, which sealed the marital union between the king and his priestess spouse. We find it mentioned briefly in the Song of Solomon. Although we may not understand its significance, Jesus and Mary knew exactly what they were doing. To be the valid Messiah, He had to be anointed first by the Bride. They were by-passing the corrupt Jewish establishment. It was the custom among the Jews for their young men to marry at an early age, generally between the years of sixteen and eighteen. "Men married at sixteen or seventeen years of age, almost never later than twenty: and women at a somewhat younger age, often when not older than fourteen. The Bible teaches that the enemies of Christ spent their time: "Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him" (Luke 11:54). It is almost universally agreed among all scholars and denominations that Jesus Christ did not begin his ministry until his early 30's. If Christ were unmarried at this age, then his enemies could have proven that he did not obey the laws and customs of his day.

It is written that Mary went to the tomb to anoint Jesus with aloes and spices, this very act was a traditional custom assigned only to mothers, or wives, it was never allowed in those days, indeed, even today in that same part of the world, it is still not allowed, and women today die from honour killing, for talking with a man who is not a relative, so in those days, she would not have been allowed to be part of Jesus' entourage, only wives, and relatives or the wives and relatives of the other apostles.

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.

Y - God the Father (Supreme YHWH:Creator Gen 1:1, Ex 13:21)
H - Goddess the Mother (Supreme Shekinah-Sophia:Creatrix Pro 8:30-31)
W - Lord the Son (The Christ:Savior/Messiah/Jesus Jn 1:34)
H - Lady the Daughter (The Holy Spirit:Lover/Spouse/Counselor-Pro 5:17,8:1, Jn 14:26)


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!

Her very body commits her to the drama of existence and links her with the rhytm of the Cosmos. In relation to Mary's receptive aspect, the Church was viewed as the "bride of Christ," to be united in Sacred Marriage with Christ when humanity would receive the full divine influx at the end of the age.

Here is a mystery; an ancient Hebrew legend speaks of pearls as being the tears Eve wept upon being banished from the Garden; a Medieval Christian tradition saw the pearl as a sign of hidden wisdom; what color are the pearls the sea has given to princess Anima?" How is it that we seem to have forgotten these things only to replace them with the destructive dualism of Babylon.

And why is it that thousands of years later, Helen's story still has the power to haunt us? Is it not that we long to believe that beauty could really do that; That there really might be someone worth launching a thousand ships to regain and someone willing, out of passionate love, to launch those ships?

The reason we identify with fairy tales in some deep part of us is that they rest on the true that the hero or heroine really does have a heart of gold and the beloved really does possess hidden beauty.

Jesus' Feminine Complement As the first human to witness the resurrection of Christ, Mary Magdalene clearly occupies the pivotal position at the very origin of Christianity. Just as Jesus was the Bridegroom, Magdalene is the true bride of the Church - the feminine physical principle which complements the transcendental Christ. It is to her if anyone that the chruch should turn as a physical embodiment of the Shekina in history. Her time of penitence is ended.

The name Mary wether it is Mary the mother, or Mary the wife, or Mary Jerusalem; whensoever it is employed in the Bible is the name of those who bore the image of our (Female Holy Spirit) 'Goddess' expressing Herself through humanity.

She magnifieth Her nobility: yea, the Lord of all things himself loved Her. Wisdom of Solomon 8:3

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In many societies a man is not considered to be fully adult until he is married. He would be excluded from full participation in "adult" institutions such as tribal or village councils. This has caused many problems for Catholic missionary priests both past and present. In fact, the Catholic Church in Canada has several times unsuccessfully petitioned the Pope for an exemption from the rule of priestly celibacy for those priests serving in the far North. The Jewish attitude at the time of Jesus was similar and is dramatically summarized by the first century rabbi, Eliezar Ben-Asai, who wrote "Whoever renounces marriage violates the commandment to increase and multiply; he is to be looked upon as a murderer who lessens the number of beings created in the image of God." These are strong words indeed! Of the several hundred rabbis known to us from that time only one is known to have been unmarried. More correctly this rabbi had been married, lost his wife and refused to remarry. He was severely criticized for this by his fellow rabbis. It is also worth noting that the anti-sex, anti-female pro virginity attitude that quickly developed in the Gentile branch of the early church was the product of the strong influence of Greek philosophy and not the result of any authentic teaching of Jesus himself. The Jewish tradition, then and now, is strongly family centered and has even been described as somewhat "earthy". Of course the traditional presumption has been that Jesus was unmarried. This really is a presumption since, of course, the Bible says nothing definite whatsoever one way or the other on the issue. However, considering the very strong views the Jews held on marriage, it is strange indeed that there is no record that he was ever criticized or questioned on this account. He was accused of being a glutton and a wine biber and of associating with low life. Why not an accusation regarding his unmarried state. The very silence of the Bible on this point is, in my view, highly suggestive that perhaps he was married. We also know that there were a number of female disciples of Jesus - Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, the sisters Mary and Martha, Joanna, Susanna and Salome are all named. Whenever the female disciples are mentioned in the Bible, Mary Magdalene is always the first named. In the literary tradition of the time the first named is always the most important. Mary Magdalene is even named ahead of Mary his mother. Even the name Mary Magdalene may be informative. Mary "of Magdala" seems not to be correct since there is no solid historical or archaeological evidence that there ever was such a town. Another possible interpretation of the word "Magdalene" is that it is derived from an Aramaic word meaning roughly "the most important". Early Christian writers have sometimes referred to her as "Mary the Great". Why should such importance be attached to this woman? Christian, particularly Catholic tradition, has been very unkind to Mary Magdalene. She has been variously identified as the woman taken in adultery or the woman who washed Jesus' feet with her tears and dried them with her hair or possibly both. She is portrayed as a great sinner who became a great saint. The Gospel of John says that Jesus cast seven demons from her. Some might jump to the conclusion that demonic possession is indicated here. However, we must examine this in the context of the times. Scripture does indicate that she should be ranked on a level with the apostles among the disciples of Jesus. She was the first to the tomb to do what a wife was expected to do for a deceased husband. When she encountered the risen Jesus and finally recognized him, she called him "Rabboni" and "Lord". "Rabboni" is the familiar or affectionate form of "Rabbi", and "Lord" or "Master" is how a Jewish wife would have addressed her husband in that very patriarchal age. Many people believe that the Bible says Jesus also warned her "do not embrace me". However, this is totally inaccurate and in fact, the original Bible text quotes Jesus as saying" "do not continue embracing me." All this is certainly suggestive of a close relationship between the two but stops short of anything definitive.

There are other sources we can turn to for further light on the subject. Almost everyone is aware of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947. However, very few are aware of a second major find. Just two years earlier in the Sinai Desert at a place called Nag Hamadi an entire library of about fifty ancient manuscripts was found sealed in a jar in a cave. The Nag Hamadi Library includes the only known copies of the Gospels of Thomas, of James, of Philip and of Mary as well as many other documents. A passage in the Gospel of Philip states that the three most important women in Jesus' life were all named Mary. They were Mary his mother, Mary his sister and Mary Magdalene his companion. I find, as I am sure you do too, the use of the word companion to be most interesting since it suggests something more personal and more equal than a rabbi/student or a master/ disciple relationship. The Gospel of Mary is a gospel about Mary Magdalene rather than a gospel authored by her. It opens with the apostles bewildered and grieving after the final departure of the resurrected Jesus. Mary assumes a leadership role by comforting and encouraging them. They in turn ask her to reveal to them any teachings that Jesus had imparted to her in private and not to the whole group. The question seems significant in and of itself. She does answer their question but encounters disbelief on the part of Peter. He as much as accuses her of lying saying "Has the Savior spoken secretly to a woman and not openly so that we would all hear? Surely he did not wish to indicate that she is more worthy than we are?" Mary, quite naturally, is very upset by Peter's attack but is defended by Levi (probably Matthew) who says "Peter, you have a constant inclination to anger and you are always ready to give way to it. And even now you are doing exactly that by questioning the woman as if you were her adversary. If the Savior considered her to be worthy, who are you to disregard her? For he knew her completely and loved her devotedly." Once again we are teased but the record stops just short of being unequivocal. We don't quite get a glimpse of the wedding ring! Returning to the Gospel of Mary, we are told that Jesus often preferred to walk and talk with her to the exclusion of the other disciples and that he frequently kissed her on her …?… Here there is a word missing in the manuscript. We could guess and fill in words like cheek or lips. Missing words are not all that unusual in ancient manuscripts. They naturally tend to deteriorate along the edges with an effect quite similar to tearing a strip from the edge of the page of a book. In addition to these ancient records, we can also turn to some not so ancient traditions. There is a strong tradition in the south of France that Mary Magdalene was the first Christian missionary to that region. This is attested to in a stained glass window in the Cathedral of Marseilles that depicts Mary consecrating a bishop! From the fifth through to the eighth centuries this same region of southern France was ruled by the Merovignian dynasty of kings. This unique and most interesting family claimed an incredible family tree. To begin with, they claimed descent from the Tribe of Benjamin which was driven out of Israel by the other Jewish tribes. But, more to the point of this investigation, they also claimed lineal blood descent from Jesus through the children of Mary Magdalene. This claim was never disputed by the Church at the time. The descendants of the Merovignian family still reside in France and continue their claim. While we are talking family here, let me interject another aside. The first fifteen bishops of Jerusalem were all circumcised Jews and most, if not all, claimed a blood relationship to Jesus through his brothers and sisters. The Acts of the Apostles makes it quite clear that the first bishop of Jerusalem and the first head of the early church was James the brother of Jesus and not Peter as we are frequently encouraged to believe. Why then has the possibility of a married Jesus never been given serious consideration in the mainline Christian tradition? I can only reply with the old adage that "history is written is written by the winners." Christianity is not now nor has it ever been monolithic in belief or practice. If the Jerusalem Church, the earliest Christians, had survived the setback of the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, the face of Christianity today would be vastly different. Instead, rejected by their Jewish brothers and persecuted as heretics by the Gentile Church, they disappeared from history after about 400 years. Modern Christians, for the most part, are the spiritual heirs of Paul who brought a strong flavour of the Greek philosophy of dualism to what was originally a small Jewish cult. This philosophical influence has infected Christianity with a strong anti-sex, anti-woman, pro-virginity emphasis which persists in most churches right to the present day. Admitting even the mere possibility of a married Jesus flies in the face of this patriarchal agenda. Is it any wonder then that it is not just given no consideration but is actively denied? I'd like to leave you with one last question. What, if any, would be the ramifications of a married Jesus to the Christian Churches today? As a former Catholic, I can see one major upset - the long overdue demise of the celibate male clergy. Ask yourself in all seriousness, "What would be the impact of a married Jesus in my faith?" To answer for myself, I would have to say that it would place a renewed emphasis on the humanity of Jesus. He was not an other-worldly paragon of sanctity and virtue - he was one of us in every aspect of his life. It would also have the effect of raising the status of both women and marriage within the Christian community, particular those communities presently of more traditional or fundamentalist bent. By and large, it would tend to cancel out some of the more negative aspects of Paul.

It is obvious that Peter recognizes the fact that the disciple Jesus loved is closer to Jesus than he himself (13,23-24 and 21,7.20-23). In the Synoptics there is no disciple closer to Jesus than Peter. In the later non-canonical sources, such as the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary and Pistis Sophia, Peter and Mary Magdalene appear together, Peter denying rather than recognizing Mary Magdalene’s closeness to Jesus. [59] In these writings Mary Magdalene indeed has a special position. In the Gospel of Philip and the Gospel of Mary she is the only person to whom the other disciples refer to as the one loved by Jesus more than the others and as the one who has a greater insight. [60] In the Gospel of John the two are held in balance, Peter receiving the authority to care for Jesus’ followers in a pastoral way (21,15-19), [61] whereas Mary Magdalene receives and understands the crucial message of the Gospel (20,17; cf. 1,12). At the ressurection Mary and Jesus are reunited lovers. This is the best of all love stories; a story of love reaching beyond death.

It has always been thought to be a high distinction when God has called a man by his name. When he spoke and said, “Moses, Moses;” then it was a sign that he had found favor in his sight. When Jesus said “Mary,” I can imagine that the word brought up all her history before her mind; her demoniac days, when her distracted mind was tossed on fiery billows; her happy days, when she sat at her Master’s feet and caught his blessed words; the times when she had seen his miracles amid wondered; when she had given him of her substance, and been too glad to minister unto him. If we love Jesus much, and cannot be content without him, we too may expect to hear him in the secret of our soul, calling us by our name. He will say, “I have called thee by thy name: thou art mine.” Then Mary Magdalene had such a manifestation of Christ’s glory us no other woman ever had.

Mary Magdalene, then, is the beloved disciple and the prototype of the perfected soul because, through her favored and unique relationship with Christ, she has entered into the perfect of Adam/Eve, then by becoming a perfected human being, Mary becomes, like Christ, androgynous, a true spiritual being. The Magdalene myth recapitulates the fall of both Sophia and Helen; and in rediscovering her divinity, she becomes a model for the soul who seeks to do the same. It is Mary who performed the opening rites of Heiros Gamos by publicly annointing Jesus before His followers. Mary Magdalene is the true founder and hero of what has come to be known as the Johannine Community (i.e., Mary Magdalene was one of the original apostolic founders and leaders of the early Christian church).The Fourth Gospel (the Gospel of John) in the New Testament was composed in the Mother Church in Jerusalem and written in Ephesus. This gospel was penned by the disciples of Mary Magdalene and Mother Mary with the Co-authorship of John and the other Apostles.

The State Church renamed the Gospel of Mary to the Gospel of John. So the exploits of John was in fact the exploits of Mary Magdelene. Another Gnostic Gospel called Pistis Sophia (Sophia was the Goddess of wisdom) is about a dialogue between Jesus and Mary Magdelene whom he calls, "dearly beloved. In one dialogue Peter complained to Jesus that Mary Magdelene dominated the conversation with Jesus but Jesus rebukes him. In another Gnostics text called "Dialogue of the Saviour" she is portrayed as a very wise Woman who understood Jesus completely unlike the rest of Jesus's disciples. So it seems that Mary Magdelene was a very important member of early Christianity. To the degree that some modern scholars have suggested that She and Jesus were married. It is assumed by most Christians that Jesus was a follower of the Jewish faith at the time. But if one of his closest and important followers was a priestess who were hated so much by the priests of Israel. To the degree she could of been murdered if she was discovered.

Liberty of consciousness brings human liberty. In the great drama of Calvary, there is one fact that stands out very clearly; the men failed, the women did not.

A civilization that does not kneel before God in reverence is also a civilization that has denounced the dignity of woman; she struggles as the most beautiful of unfinished symphonies, contending for spiritual understanding and human recognition.

It is a terrible thing for individuals, either male or female not to know their own image as made in the image of God. We pay lip service to being above the limitations of words when it comes to speaking of the sex of God; but are we? Do we not rather continue our prejudes by enslaving people with words? This is tyranny and ungodly blasphemy. It is a historical fact, that whenever the world has been in danger of collapse, there has been re-emphasis of devotion to the Woman. Calvary was the greatest crisis the world has ever known, and women did not fail. May not She also be the strength of heart we need so desperatly today? VeriIy,I tell you She is!

Christian are fond of telling unbelievers that, "there are no atheists in a fox hole." Will we also admit that the last word's on nealy every soldiers lips is love and devotion to wife or mother? In the sanctuary of her arms life takes its first breath, and in her arms is the sanctuary where life wants to flee in death. In the arms of our angel.

Equity goes beyond equality by claiming superiority in certian aspects of life. Equity is the perfection of equality and should be the basis of feminine claims. She is also the protector and defender of all life. Our lady of Equity. The choice before women today is whether to equate themselves with men in rigid exactness or to rally to equity, to mercy and love; giving light, life, and grace in a cruel and lawless world. This liberty is something that a sterile equality can never truely achieve.

Is the feminine element lacking in our perception of the Divine because we fear so great a beauty? A beauty which so exasperates, as to be overwhelming (Song of So)? Solomon is renowned for the splendour of his reign, his wisdom, the power of the magic of the Key of Solomon, and his appreciation for and understanding of nature. "And Solomon's wisdom excelled all the wisdom of all the children of the east country and all the children of Egypt. For he was wiser than all men ... Solomon's beautiful black bride the Shulamite, ( Song 1:5 ) reflects the Goddess of the mystic darkness at, the fertile garden-paradise of the Oriental kings. "Now when the Queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to test him with hard questions. She came to Jerusalem with a very great retinue, with camels bearing spices, and very much gold, and precious stones; and when she came in to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind. And Solomon answered all her questions; there was nothing hidden from the king which he did not explain to her. (1 Kings 10:8) "And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that she desired, whatever she asked besides what was given her by the bounty of King Solomon. So she turned and went back to her own land, with her servants" (I Kings 10: 1 3).

The song of songs, which is Solomon's. ( So 1:1-7 )

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee. Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee. I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept. Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?

The Samaritans are unique among the many religious groups described in the Bible apart from traditional Judaism and Christianity: the others have long passed into oblivion, but the Samaritans still survive in our own day, as a community preserving its ancient rites on its holy site, Mount Gerizim, near the ancient site of Shechem and the modern city of Nablus. Samaria occupies the geographical center of the Holy Land. On the west, the mountains of Samaria descend to the Plain of Sharon, "I am the rose of Sharon, the lily of the valleys." (Song of Songs 2;1 )

Shechem, which has been called "the uncrowned queen of Palestine," lies in almost the exact center of the land. A broad valley here separates the twin limestone massifs of Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal One day, while camped at Shechem, Abraham, the ancestor of the people of Israel, knew that he was in the presence of the Lord. During this transcendent experience he heard the divine promise, never to be forgotten, "To your descendants I will give this land" (Genesis 12:7).

Jewish pilgrims from Galilee on their way to Jerusalem for the annual festivals usually avoided the direct route through Samaria and detoured by way of the far side of the Jordan. Jesus, however, used the road through Samaria at least three times (Luke 9:52; 17:11; John 4:4). As has already been mentioned, on one occasion he conversed at length with a Samaritan woman and dealt with the chief problem dividing Jews from Samaritans. This conversation took place at Jacob's well at Sychar not far from the site of ancient Shechem. According to the Fourth Gospel, "many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman's testimony" (John 4:39).

Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well, and It was about the sixth hour. There cometh a woman of Sama'ri-a to draw water. Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. 8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat) 9 Then saith the woman of Samalri-a unto him, How is It that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samalria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Sa-marl-tans. 10 Jesus answered and said unto her. It thou knewest the gift of God, and who ft Is that saith to thee, Give me to drink thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou bast nothing to draw with, and the well Is deep: from whence then bast thou that living water? 12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? 13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thrist again But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall nev er thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water sp up Into everlasting life. 15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. 16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. 17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: 18 For thou bast had five husbands; and he whom thou now bast Is not thy husband, In that saidst thou truly. 19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet 20 Our fathers worshipped In this mountain; and ye say, that In Jerusalem Is the place where men ought to worship. 21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither In this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour cometh, and now Is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father In spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship hhn in spirit and In truth. 25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Mes-silas cometh, which is called Christ: when he Is come, he will tell us all things. 26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he. 27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the wonmw yet no man said, VVhat seekest thou? or. Why talkest thou with her? 28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, 29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did. Is not this the Christ? 30 'Men they went out of the city, and came unto him 31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat. 32 But he said unto them. I have meat to eat that ye lmow not of. 33 'Iberefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat? 34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat Is to do the will of him that sent me. and to finish his work. 35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest 36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. 37 And herein Is that saying true. One soweth, and another reapeth. 38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour- other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. 39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did. 40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them and he abode there two days. 41 And many more believed because of his own word; 42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this Is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.

In chapter three of the gospel of John, just prior to this report about Jesus and the woman at the well, John is speaking of himself as the friend of the Bridegroom (John 3:29)Jesus then has a conversation with a Samaritian woman and their conversation turns to her marital status.

Point blank; Jesus tells this woman what he has not confessed openly to anyone else! That he is the Messiah. This is similar to Mary later having the wisdom to anniont his head with oil before his crucifiction; a knowledge that none of the male apostles knew.

Further; this is the longest discourse by Jesus to another person in the Gospels. She immediately proceeds to enter in to the Lord's labour of harvesting souls; And many believed her (John 4:29-42), while the male apostles are still asking about bread. This is similar to Mary remaining in the garden seeking the Lord while the others did not and then being the first to say she found the risen saviour.

The woman speaks of "our father Jacob"; the Samaritians claimed that they were descended from Joseph, the son of Jacob, by way of Ephraim and Manasseh. The Jews of course have strenuously denied that Jacob was the father of the Samaritans. Samaritan women were the only other ethnic group of people a Jewish priest could choose a wife from. This is a suprising fact due to what it says about the relation of the Samaritains to the Jews.The well was a gathering place for women.;the symbol of marriage and woman in the Bible. Abraham, Issac, Jacob, recieved the first covenant as well as their wives at a well. Moses found his wife at a well. All these women were distant relatives to the men, very similar to the relationship between the Jews and The Samaritians. The well and water is Archetype of woman. Further, this is not only the longest discourse by Jesus in the Bible; it is also the giving of the second covenant.

The Jews had another way of using the word water. They often spoke of the thirst of the soul for God. The Rabbis identified this living water with Wisdom and the Holy Spirit, both female. All Jewish pictorial religious language was full of the idea of the thirst of the soul which could be quenched only with this living water which was the gift of God. The promise is that the chosen people would draw water with joy from the wells of salvation. (Isaiah 12:3) The summons was that every one who was thirsty should come tho the waters and freely drink. (Isaiah 55:1) It is the Lord who is the fountian of living water. (Jeremiah 17:13) When Jesus spoke about bringing the water which quenches thirst forever, he was doing no less than stating that he was the Anointed One of God who was to bring in the new age. To worship God in spirit and in truth is the heart of the Gospel; hence, the New Testament, and is the Second Covenant. We all feel the longing for eternity that God has put in every persons soul. There is a thirst which only the Holy Spirit can satisfy. This is God speaking to His Church. The five husbands mentioned make this story not only an incident but also an allegory. The original people of Samaria were exiled and transported to Media, people from five other places were brought in. These five different people brought in their own gods. ( 2 kings 17:29 ) The womans five husbands are like the five false gods to whom the samaritans, as it were, married themselves. The sixth husband stands for the true God, but, they worship him not truly, but in ignorance; and therefore they are not married to him at all. Being married to God in truth, is the seventh husband; and is Jesus!

The chief city of Samaria was noted for its towers. Magdalene means tower of the flock. If Jesus married a Samaritan princess priestess, many prophicies of the uniting of the north and south kingdoms of Judah and Israel ascribed to the coming Messiah would be fulfilled. Also in this manner, Jesus not only fulfills the Hebrew prophicies, but also fulfills the Archetype of the ancient myths of the mystical years king and queen. Jubilee is seven years and pagan religions had a annual marraige of priestesses to celebrate the mystical year.

Jesus, then, was not just a man, nor even a great prophet, but was the Messiah himself, the Son of God, ( Psalms 45 ) the long awaited divine savior whose passion and death had inaugurated the world's redemption and the birth of a new aeon. The Judaic biblical prophecies could now be properly understood: The Messiah was not a mundane king but a spiritual one, and God's Kingdom not a political victory for Israel but a divine redemption for humanity, bringing a new life suffused with God's Spirit. Thus the bitterly disappointing event of their leader's crucifixion was mysteriously transformed in the minds of his disciples into the basis for a seemingly unlimited faith in the ultimate salvation of mankind, and an extraordinarily dynamic impulse to propagate that faith. Jesus had challenged his fellow Jews to accept God's saving activity in history, an activity visible in his own person and ministry.

Father, Mother and Child (often a Savior-Son) is an ancient trinity, naturally reflected in the world around us. Just as Mary is strongly linked to Isis, so the Holy Family, Joseph, Mary and Jesus, is linked to the trinity of Osiris, Isis and Horus. In Christianizing the pagan world, this family trinity was familiar and, therefore, effective in encouraging conversion to a religion that seemed so similar to native worship In the process of the Hellenistic world's adoption of Christianity, many essential features of the pagan mystery religions now found successful expression in the Christian religion: the belief in a savior deity whose death and rebirth brought immortality to man, the themes of illumination and regeneration, the ritual initiation with a community of worshipers into the salvational knowledge of cosmic truths, while some of the mystery religions emphasized the evil imprisonment of matter, which only initiates could transcend, early Christianity heralded Christ as inaugurating the redemption of even the material world. Jesus Christ was not a mythical figure but an actual historical person who fulfilled the Judaic messianic prophecies and brought the new revelation to a universal audience, with potentially all of mankind as the new initiates rather than a select few. What was to the pagan mysteries an esoteric mythological process-the death-rebirth mystery-had in Christ become concrete historical reality, enacted for all humanity to witness and openly participate in, with a consequent transformation of the entire movement of history.

From this viewpoint, the pagan mysteries were not so much an impediment to the growth of Christianity as they were the soil from which it could more readily spring. But unlike the mystery religions, Christianity was proclaimed and recognized as the exclusively authentic source of salvation, superseding all previous mysteries and religions, alone bestowing the true knowledge of the universe and a true basis for ethics. Such a claim was decisive in the triumph of Christianity in the late classical world.

The gardener metaphorically is God's son, Adam. Just as Inanna's descent and the resurrection of Attis took three days, so did that of Jesus, following on from Jonah: Matt 12:40 "For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." "St Paul says that Christ'descended into the lower parts of the earth' (Eph. 4:9). St Peter writes that Christ'preached unto the spirits in prison (1 Pet. 3:19) and also that'the gospel was preached to them that are dead' (1 Pet. 4:6). The Apostles'Creed states explicitly that Christ'descended into hell"'

"There is still the question of why it was to her Christ appeared after his resurrection, and why, if a fundamental part of the Christian kerygma (preaching) is based on the witness of Mary Magdalene and other women, its importance and meaning has been played down in the Christian tradition"

Although other information about her is more fantastic, she is repeatedly portrayed as a visionary and leader of the early movement.( Mark 16:1-9; Matthew 28:1-10; Luke24:1-10; John 20:1, 11-18; Gospel of Peter ). In the Gospel of John, the risen Jesus gives her special teaching and commissions her as an apostle to the apostles to bring them the good news. She obeys and is thus the first to announce the resurrection and to play the role of an apostle, although the term is not specifically used of her. Later tradition, however, will herald her as "the apostle to the apostles." The strength of this literary tradition makes it possible to suggest that historically Mary was a prophetic visionary and leader within one sector of the early Christian movement after the death of Jesus. The newly discovered Egyptian writings elaborate this portrait of Mary as a favored disciple. Her role as "apostle to the apostles" is frequently explored, especially in considering her faith in contrast to that of the male disciples who refuse to believe her testimony. She is most often portrayed in texts that claim to record dialogues of Jesus with his disciples, both before and after the resurrection. In the Dialogue of the Savior, for example, Mary is named along with Judas (Thomas) and Matthew in the course of an extended dialogue with Jesus. During the discussion, Mary addresses several questions to the Savior as a representative of the disciples as a group. She thus appears as a prominent member of the disciple group and is the only woman named. Moreover, in response to a particularly insightful question, the Lord says of her, "´You make clear the abundance of the revealer!'" (140.17-19). At another point, after Mary has spoken, the narrator states, "She uttered this as a woman who had understood completely"(139.11-13). These affirmations make it clear that Mary is to be counted among the disciples who fully comprehended the Lord's teaching (142.11-13). In another text, the Sophia of Jesus Christ, Mary also plays a clear role among those whom Jesus teaches. She is one of the seven women and twelve men gathered to hear the Savior after the resurrection, but before his ascension. Of these only five are named and speak, including Mary. At the end of his discourse, he tells them, "I have given you authority over all things as children of light," and they go forth in joy to preach the gospel. Here again Mary is included among those special disciples to whom Jesus entrusted his most elevated teaching, and she takes a role in the preaching of the gospel. In the Gospel of Philip, Mary Magdalene is mentioned as one of three Marys " who always walked with the Lord" and as his companion (59.6-11). The work also says that Lord loved her more than all the disciples, and used to kiss her often (63.34-36). The importance of this portrayal is that yet again the work affirms the special relationship of Mary Magdalene to Jesus based on her spiritual perfection. In the Pistis Sophia, Mary again is preeminent among them.

It was Mary Magdalene who anointed Jesus as the Messiah, an action whose symbolism was lost on the men of the group but that moved our Lord to say, "Wherever the good news is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in remembrance of her." This sacred anointing was directed by God; and beware if you as a Christian preach that it was not! It places Mary on a greater or equal basis with the most noteworthy of Old Testament Prophets.

Mary the apostle, prophet, and teacher had become Mary the repentant whore. This fiction was invented at least in part to undermine her influence and with it the appeal to her apostolic authority to support women in roles of leadership Mari is associated with seven nether spirits of the ocean. The person who anoints Jesus' feet is a 'sinner' reminiscent of the'seven devils'of Magdalene associated the descent of Inanna: Also the Seven Bridal Orbits and the Seven deadly sins.

evens abound in the Bible and throughout Jewish life. The world was created in seven days, and marriage is a seven days a week act of creation. There are also seven wedding blessings. The seven wedding blessings or 'sheva b'rachot' mention the beginning of time in Eden, when life was wholeness, and the end of days when that wholeness will be restored. Since Eden the world has been in exile from the experience of unfragmented existence, an exile that extends from earth to heaven. The Garden was lost, the Temple destroyed, even God was not whole. Shekhinah, God's feminine self, wanders the earth, cut off, bereaved. God and Shekinah are reunited on Sabbath, the day that offers a taste of paradise, as bridegroom and bride. Both heaven and earth long for redemption from this exile, a restoration to Edenic harmony to the whole of creation. Since Judaism has no concept of individual redemption, the wedding provides the whole community with a glimpse into the blessing of the wholeness that was once and is to come again.

The ancients counted seven planets, thus arranged; the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. There were seven heavens and seven spheres of these planets; these corrospond to the seven lamps of the golden candelabrum in the temple. To return to its source in the Infinite, the human soul, the ancients held, had to ascend as it had descended, through the seven spheres. From Egypt and Persia the new Platonists borrowed the idea, and the Gnostics recieved it from them, that man, in his terrestrial career, is successively under the influence of the Moon, of Mercury, of Venus, of the Sun, of Mars, of Jupiter, and of Saturn, until he finally reaches the Elysian Feilds; an idea again symbolized in the Seven Seals. And circling is thought of as the way the bride enters the groom's s'ferot; the mystical spheres of his soul that correspond to the seven lower attributes of God. In the ancient world these orbits correspond to the seven spheres in the heavens and likewise are reflected in the seven nether spheres of the sea. The two most famous divisions of the Heavens, by seven, which is that of the planets, and bv twelve, which is that of the signs, are found on the religious monuments of all the people of the ancient world. There is no more striking proof of the universal adoration paid the stars and constellations,than the arrangement of the Hebrew camp in the Desert, and the allegory in regard to the twelve Tribes of Israel, Joseph in a dream associated twelve stars to the patriarchs; and the twelve tribes bore the twelve signs of the Hebrew zodiac on their standards. Heavenly Hosts" includes not only the counsellors and emissaries of Jehovah, but also the celestial. luminaries; and the stars. Seven Heavens, in the East to be animated intelligences, presiding over human weal and woe, were identified with the more distinctly impersonated messengers or angels, who execute the Divine Justice and in each of which were certain Powers that opposed the souls return to Heaven, and often drove them back to earth, when not sufficiently purified. ( Luke 11:26 ) The last of these Powers, nearest the luminous abode of souls, was a serpent or dragon.

Christmas was set in the winter solstice as a way of seeing God as the Light of the World. Hanukkah was set in the winter solstice as a way of celebrating the return of the light of true worship to the Temple in the 2nd century BCE at the time of Judas Maccabeas. Prior to that every ancient worship tradition in the northern hemisphere celebrated the day on which the sun stopped its relentless retreat into darkness and began its return to the world it appeared to be leaving. Similarly spring rites marking the return of life from the soil was the substratum on which Passover for the Jews and Easter for the Christians celebrate the transition from the death of slavery into the life of liberty for the Jews and the transition from the death of sin to the resurrected Christ for the Christians. Baptism is a rite celebrating birth and thus the continuity of the human race. It pre-dated Christianity. Its content has changed over the years. Not many people think of it today as washing the stain of Adam's sin from the newborn baby, but that was a major theme earlier in Christian history. That is why Catholics were taught to baptize the child quickly lest the child die unbaptized and thus still in the original sin of Adam and thus precluded from God's presence through all eternity. When we recognize that all life has emerged out of water, that birth occurs with the breaking of the maternal waters then it seems to me that water will always be used to celebrate birth. The content will change; the form will endure. The experience found in the symbol is always more profound that the explanations imposed on the symbol.

The Triple Goddess symbol represents three stages of life.. symbolized by the phases of the moon.. birth, marriage, and death. All three of these events are foundational to or psyhcological make-up. To remove the 2nd symbol, by denying Jesus was married, is contrary to human wholeness. Many symbols were removed when culture abandoned metaphor in exchange for rationalization and philosophy; and also introduced monasticism into religion. For example, Christmas and Easter are not only holidays but are also tuned to our organic selves and our biological biorhythms. All life has internal clocks and we are moved by them.. we lost awareness of this with schedules and hours marked by clocks. It is neccessary for our central religious symbols to contian the wholeness of marriage.. otherwise we are a dysfunctional family.

Mary is linked to ancient Triple Goddesses through much of the symbolism associated with her. The Protoevangelium of James, which describes Mary's girlhood, portrays Mary as spinning in the Temple. This links her with the triple Fates, the three Goddesses known as the Moerae or "Marys" who spun out the destinies of those on earth. Cyril of Jerusalem, in his Coptic Discourse, linked the three Marys at the foot of the Cross (Mother Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Mary Salome) with these same triple Fates. A striking similarity occurs in Nordic mythology where the three Fates stand at the foot of Odin's tree of sacrifice. Welsh mythology links Mary with their triple White Goddess, Brigit. Even today, Mary is called The White Mary

The concept of the Triple Goddess is found in many cultures and belief systems. In fact, this triple-goddess has appeared in the history of virtually every known culture around the globe.

This triple aspect represents the three great events of life, birth, marriage and death. As a Maiden (whole unto herself-symbolized by the moon), (The Seventh Sphere)Saturn appears in our astrological chart for the first time. Saturn returns to our natal chart when we are around thirty-two years old to signal the commencement of the second season, Mother (creatix-full moon). And like the waning of the moon, the third Saturn return occurs around the age of fifty-five, ushering in the time of the Crone (knower of mysteries). (SEE REV 12;1-9)



how a soul was formed according to Kabbalistic tradition. Again it brings to mind the tradtion of sacred sexuality between the Messiah but this time with the "Revealed Word." "Just as the supernal lights of the partzufim of Atzilut develop through conjunctions and "couplings" (zivvugim) of the parztufim, so are the souls born through a corresponding process. Within the Sefirah Malkut (Kingdom located at the base of the spine) of each parztuf are...souls in a potential state that ascend...and are actualised as a result of the "unions" of the (higher) Sefirot (the 10 aspects as you climb the Tree of Life). At the outset these souls exist only in the state of "female waters" (mayyim nukbin); that is, they are passive potencies that...lack harmony and form....Only through additional "couplings" of...Ze'er Anpin ("The Smaller Face/Holy King Messiah")with its female counterpart or Nukvah ("the world of speech" or, in general, "the revealed world")do they receieve the actual structure of souls. With each new arousal of the "female waters" in these parztufim, new opportunities arise for the creation of souls. Such a process occurs in all four worlds...., the possible variation in modes of souls being practically infinite. Each of these souls recapitualtes...the structure of the worlds through which it passed (when)...being created, so that when it descends to enter a body in this world it will be able to work towards the latter's tikkun...and, to some extent,...the uplifting of the higher worlds as well."[Kabbalah, pp.161-2] Thus we come into context with the concept of Sacred Sex in the act of creation. Male and female he made them so that humans and all creatures of the earth that come together as one can work for God as a creative force. This means that in fixing the world, Jesus, the Messiah would have to create souls with one who represents the revealed word to fullfill Hebrew tradition. That one was the Magdalene. She is the Sophia of the first century church and was the "one that Christ loved best" according to all Gnostic scriptures.

The Jews of Syria and Judea were the direct precursors of Gnosticism; and in their doctrines were ample oriental elements. These Jews had had with the Orient, at two different periods, close relations, familiarezing them with the doctrines of Asia, and especially of Chaldea and Persia. The prophet Daniel was Chief of the college of the Magi at Babylon.

"Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne. (Rev 1:4 ) can also be translated ' the sevenfold spirit'.

In Revelations 1:12-15; we see Jesus standing in the midst of seven golden candlesticks holding seven stars in his hand. Scripture makes it very clear that these seven candlesticks represent seven church's which Jesus walks among, and the seven stars the angels of the seven church's which Jesus holds in his hand. Scripture always refers to the Church in the feminine gender. The number seven is associated with Christ's Bride!

the alchemical symbols of Venus, the goddess of Love. The seven circles of seven petals each symbolize the number of squares (7 squared = 49) of the magic circle of Venus, of the "intelligence" (as opposed to the Spirits) of the goddess. Seven in the Hebrew alphabet/number system represents Dagh, the Fish, symbol of Christ. Seven is also the number of the Babylonian God of good Fortune. Seven is of course the number of the Liberal Arts and also of the Deadly Sins. Without doubt, this rose engraving has over time become the consummate emblem of the order of the Rosy Cross, or the Rosicrucians

The earliest documents associated with Kabbalah come from the period ~100 to ~1000 A.D. and describe the attempts of "Merkabah" mystics to penetrate the seven halls (Hekaloth) of creation in order to reach the Merkabah (throne-chariot) of God. These mystics appear to have used what would now be recognised as familiar methods of shamanism (fasting, repetitious chanting, prayer, posture) to induce trance states in which they literally fought their way past terrible seals and guards to reach an ecstatic state in which they "saw God". An early and highly influential document, the Sepher Yetzirah, or "Book of Formation", originated during the earlier part of this period. By the early Middle Ages further, more theosophical developments had taken place, chiefly a description of "processes" within God, and the development of an esoteric view of creation as a process in which God manifests in a series of emanations, or sephiroth. This doctrine of the sephiroth can be found in a rudimentary form in the "Sepher Yetzirah", but by the time of the publication of the book "Bahir" in the 12th. century it had reached a form not too different from the form it takes today. A motive behind the development of the doctrine of emanation can be found in the questions: "If God made the world, then what is the world if it is not God?" "If the world is God, then why is it imperfect?" It was necessary to bridge the gap between a pure and perfect being, and a manifestly impure and imperfect world, by a series of "steps" in which the divine light was successively diluted. The result has much in common with Neoplatonism, which also tried to resolve the same difficulty by postulating a "chain of being" which bridged the gap between the perfection of God, and the evident imperfection of the world of daily life.

In modern language the Stone is a symbol of incorruptible wisdom achieved by uniting both rational, intellectual thinking (masculine, rational, right brain activity) with our intuitive knowing of the heart (feminine, intuitive left brain activity) The basis of all the alchemical transformations required to obtain the Stone (called the Great Work) is seven-stepped formula described by the Emerald Tablet of Hermes.

These ideas are presented more fully today in the theosophical philosophy where the earth is regarded as a chain of seven globes, which are enumerated for convenience by letters: A, B, C, D (our earth), E, F, and G, each one being complete and self-contained. All but the lowest globe -- D -- are invisible to us because they exist on subplanes of the cosmos where the vibrational frequencies are so different that we are unable to perceive them by ordinary senses and instrumentation. Through the seven globes great life-waves or kingdoms of evolving beings circulate, making their home on each in turn for extended periods of time during seven "rounds" or journeys of the earth-chain. Beginning on globe A the life-waves unfold ever more material potentials as they travel through globes A, B, and C. After reaching the nadir of the long evolutionary cycle on globe D, their spiritual qualities gradually begin to manifest, enabling them to ascend through the increasingly ethereal and luminous globes E, F, and G. This last world-globe is the one referred to in various religious writings as the Source, the prodigal's Home, the City of God, the Seventh Heaven, and Satya-loka (the world of truth and reality). Seven such rounds are required for souls to rise one rung or level in the order of beings. Souls of the plant kingdom, for example, will during this period develop their full vegetative qualities and be ready to enter, in the ensuing cycle, the animal kingdom. Those of the beasts will progress toward the human kingdom; and human beings may so expand their consciousness and become so perfect in virtue and wisdom that they will be born into the lowest grade of angels. The kingdoms were variously enumerated by renaissance scholars as: the world of the elements, consisting of beings that make up fire, air, water, and earth; also worlds of minerals, plants, and animals; and above the humans, the "celestial world," that includes the seven planets; the "intellectual world," comprising nine orders of angels, with the Divine presiding over all. (3) In past ages the globes were sometimes named after the planets. This was to indicate the characteristic planetary influence that predominated on that particular globe. Such was the case in the Vision of Hermes, a teaching-story recited to disciples within the pylons of the ancient temples of Thebes. It recounts how once when Hermes was contemplating the nature of the universe, his thoughts soared into space, and while enveloped in a joyous light, he saw, as in a vision, how worlds had been formed in the beginning, amid darkness and light, and of fire, air, water, and earth, and of motion and sound. He saw also the seven spheres of the planets whose circling orbits encompass the world perceived by man's senses and, above, the pure body of the heavens stretching upwards in a glory of light. Although dazed by this beauty, a question arose in his mind about the nature of man. Poimandres, the teacher, explained that man is a marvel most marvelous, the commingling of nature (matter) and God (spirit), he is the sum total of the universe, having "got from the structure of the heavens the character of the seven Administrators (planetary spheres) . . ." and thus combines in one, seven men, and it will "remain so until the end of a period." That part of him which is of matter is mortal and dies, but that which is of spirit dies not for it is of Life and Light. Hermes asked his teacher what happens at death when the body dissolves. Poimandres explained that at that time the material body, and that of the senses and desires, "go back to their own sources, becoming parts of the universe, . . . And thereupon the man mounts upward through the structure of the heavens," leaving at each of the planetary zones those energic characteristics that had been part of the sevenfold earthly man. And thus he ascends from sphere to sphere, from the zones of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, until "having been stripped of all that was wrought upon him by the structure of the heavens," he ascends to "the highest or outermost of the spheres of heaven." Being now possessed of his true nature, he is, for a time, at one with the Divine. When Hermes awakened from this marvelous vision he rejoiced, knowing that he had attained the "abode of Truth," and he vowed that henceforth he would endeavor with all his soul, and with all his strength, to enlighten his brothers so that they also might come into Light and Life. (4) A similar description was given by the Roman statesman Cicero in his Dream of Scipio (De re publica, bk. VI.). Macrobius (c. 400 A.D.) commenting on this Dream, which he believed is based on Pythagorean and Platonic tradition, reported that human souls returning to earth descend through a sevenfold series of planetary spheres, developing at each its characteristic "motion and powers." In one region, for instance, they develop the faculty of sensing and imagining, in another, reasoning and reflection. As this river of souls continues it grows increasingly more material. Matter, flowing into them, precipitates their descent and causes forgetfulness in all but the few who know that in time the soul shall rise, restored and whole, to the divine realm.(5) Students of the Qabbalah will find reference to a series of world-spheres in the Zohar, the Book of Splendor. Therein it tells how the "Holy, Blessed be He!" created seven heavens Above, one above the other like the layers of an onion, each with stars, planets, and suns. He created seven earths Below which "are like the firmament Above, that upon that and this upon this," and upon them are "creatures who look different one from the other like the Above." The text then asks: "And the Lower earths where do they come from? They are from the chain of the earth and from the Heaven Above."

7 Heavens appears in The Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs and other Jewish apocrypha, and was familiar to the ancient Persians and Babylonians.
The Persians pictured the Almighty in the highest of the 7 Heavens, seated on a great white throne, surrounded by winged cherubim.
The Koran also speaks of 7 Heavens Seven skies are mentioned in the Qur’an in many places. It is interesting that the word “sab’ samawat” also occurs seven times in the Qur’an. (See al-Baqarah 2:29; al-Isra’ 17:44; al-Mu’minun 23:86; Fussilat 41:12; al-Talaq 65:12; al-Mulk 67:3; Nuh 71:15). For the prophet, the ascension was more of the ascension of knowledge of God. We can say that this experience was of the literal sense since the prophet has described various depictions (via Hadith) of heaven and hell and his experience in both. But what we can also do is take away is the ascension of knowledge of the heavens Muhammad ascended to and fro in reaching God at the end. To understand the ascension is to try to understand the seven heavens. Hadith states that Muhammad the prophet (peace be upon him) travelled through the seven heavens but, what does that really mean? Philosophically speaking according to Muslim philosophers God is everywhere and not in one place. As for the seven heavens when Muhammad reached the empyrean and in the presence of God there, he found God to be there.

The ancient Hebrews aligned their calendar reckonings with the phases of the moon, attributing to each month and its phases with the powers and teachings of animals, plants, and spirits. But the moon herself was Mari.

The concept of the Triple Goddess associated with the Seventh Spheres found in the Virgin Mother can be seen in our Lady of Sorrows

Mary has been worshiped as Our Lady of Sorrows since or before the 3rd Century although the Catholic Church did not formalize this as one of Mary's titles until the 14th Century. The Church has formally recognized The Seven Sorrows of Mary as: 1. The prophecy of Simeon that her heart would be pierced with swords (Luke 2:34-35); 2. The Flight into Egypt when her infant son's life was threatened by Herod (Matthew 2:13-21); 3. The Loss of Jesus for Three Days when he was a twelve-year-old boy (Luke 2:41-50); 4. Jesus' Ascent to Calvary bearing the cross (John 19:17); 5. The Crucifixion and Death of Jesus (John 19:18-30); 6. Jesus Taken Down from the Cross (John 19:39-40); 7. Jesus Laid in the Tomb (John 19:39-42). However, people (especially women) around the world throughout the ages have been happy to share their sorrow with Mary and to identify their sorrow with hers.

Seven in reference to Mary Magdalene means that rather then being just a lost nobody once riddled with demons; She is at once both the historically fallen and now redeemed Church (Bride), without spot or blemish and in fact complete in perfection and full of grace, she is Apostle to the Apostles and the true Bride! She is Queen!

Wisdom hath builded Her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars. PROV 9:1

She was worshipped by the Semites as Mari-Anath; in consort as an Elohim, Mari-El. "Is the Moon named Miriam among you?" "The moon has many names among our poets."

Her blue robe and pearly necklace were classic symbols of Maria "the Seas", edged with pearly foam.. She appears prophetically as the "water of life" in Revelation 22:1.

the Latin word for ocean ("mar") is nearly identical to "Mary". In English we might miss the connection, but in the romance languages of Spanish, French, or Italian, the connection is obvious. Coincidence?

In Catholicism there is a tradition that Mary is the Mediatrix, who takes prayers before Yeshua and El. This continues an ancient tradition,

In the first century Church, the idea of Mary and the Saints as mediators expressed a Christian concept of the solidarity of the Church as community. Salvation was mediated by relation of Christ to God, and by Christians' relationship to one another. The community created a 'cloud of witnesses,' not only among the living, but also with those of past generations, who are in solidarity with one another and us in communicating grace. In this manner the Church extends from the Saints in Heaven down to the faithful here on earth. As the representative of humanity in its original goodness, Mary becomes the anticipation of its restoration and fulfillment at the end of history.

Theologically, Mary is the personification of the Church, the New Israel, the hope of mankind. Her true essence as the Church cannot be found in its earthly institution but must be sought in the spiritual life. This takes place in the heart; for it is within the Heart that Christ reveals Himself. Thus, it is within Her, the Holy Church, { that is in truth and spirit } that heaven and earth meet and communion with God begins.


She is the Gift.
THE SABBATH


he Sabbath, to which we now turn our attention, is an exceptional figure among the female divinities of Judaism. All the numerous images (Asherah, Astarte, Anath, Lilith, Naamah) were originally either foreign goddesses and demons or had their beginnings in Jewish divine attributes which were conceptualized and personified (Shekhina, Matronit). As against them, the Sabbath is a unique example of a day of the week-or more precisely, the name and idea of such a day-having been developed into a female numen and endowed with the character of virgin, bride, queen, and goddess.

The Biblical name Sabbath (Shabbar), designating the seventh dav of the week, seems to have had some connection with the Akkadian shabattu or shapartu, the name for the feast of the full moon. Yet neither in Akkadian nor in any other ancient Near Eastern religion was there a weekly feast and dav of rest in any manner comparable to the Sabbath.

Following the end of the evening prayers, the men would return home to be received by their wives-the wife in this instance became for the husband the earthly representative of the Shekhlna, with whom he was about to perform that night the sacred act of cohabitation in imitation of, and in mystical sympathy with, the union between God the King and His wife, the Matronit-Shekhlna-Sabbath.

Now the husband would approach the table and pick up two bunches of myrtle, each consisting of three twigs, prepared for the bride and the groom, and then circle the table-all rites imitative and symbolic of observances performed at actual weddings-and sing welcomling songs to the two angels of peace who were believed to accompany him home from the synagogue.

The chanting of Chapter 31 (Verses 10-31) of the Book of Proverbs, which followed, had a double significance. It was meant as a paean to the "woman of valor," the good wife and mother whose very presence in the house, quite apart from all the care she lavished on her family, made it possible for the husband to live a complete Jewish life, in accordance with the teachings of the Kabbala about the blessed state of male-female togetherness.

Beyond that, however, there was a deeper meaning: the "woman of valor" whose excellence is described in the twenty-two alphabetically arranged verses was interpreted as being none other than the Shekhlna herself, the divine Matronit, whose image thus was mystically merged with that of the man's own wife.

Next came the recitation of an Aramaic poem containing an invitation addressed to God the King to take part in the festive Sabbath meal. At some time during that meal or following it, the husband chanted another mystical Aramaic poem written by Isaac Luria and describing the union of God the King and his bride, the Sabbath-Shekhina.',' The first six stanzas read as follows:

Let me sing the praises of Him who enters the gates Of the orchard of apple trees, holy are they.

Let us invite her now, with a freshly set table, With a goodly lamp which sheds light on tfie heads.

Right and left, and the bride in between Comes forth in her jewels and sumptuous raiments.

Thus, for the Jew reared in the great mystical tradition of his faith, the Sabbath was a day whose pleasures, both physical and spiritual, amplv compensated him for the drabness, narrowness, and frequent sorrowfulness of the weekdays.

With the Sabbath, a queenly visitor entered even the humblest abode, which, due to her presence, was transformed into a royal palace, with the table set, the candles burning, and the wine waiting. The mistress of the house became mysteriously identified with the Queen Sabbath, who was also identical with the Shekhlna, the divine Matronit, God's own consort.

As for the master of the house, he felt his chest swell and his consciousness expand due to the "additional soul" which came down from on high to inhabit his body for the duration of the Sabbath. All these supernal presences made man and wife feel part of the great spiritual world order in which every act and word was fraught with cosmic significance, and in which the supreme command of the day was "Rejoice!" When midnight came, and the fulfilhnent of the commandment to rejoice on the Sabbath found its most intense expression in the consummation of the marital act, this was done with the fiill awareness not only, of obeying a divine injunction, but also of aiding therebv the divinity himself in achieving a state of male-female togetherness which God is just as much in need of as man.

The mystically oriented and privately observed celebration of marital sex in honor of the Sabbath, the divine queen and consort of God... is certainly very far removed from the ancient Canaanite mass orgiastic festivals performed in honor of Astarte, the goddess of sexual love and fertility.



After nearly two thousand years, it is time to set the record straight, to revise and complete the Gospel story of Jesus to include his wife.

We believe in our King; let us also believe in our Queen!

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 monastisism and patriarchy.

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, sooo 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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