(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org, please feel free to visit the school website)
Over
the course of twenty-two years, I have found a very limited amount of
channeled information to help me discern truth from fiction about Mary
Magdalene. The surprise will be a new source of channeled material
about Mary Magdalene, which will be available this spring in book form
(see bibliography). For this metaphysically open-minded course, I did
find four channeled information sources worthy of recognizing. I will
quote from two books and one website that contain channeled information
that support the theory that Mary Magdalene was not married to Jesus in
a traditional way, and yet they were lovers.
In Book 1 The Crystal Stair, A Guide To The Ascension (1990) by Eric Klein, Jesus himself states that he was not married formally in that life.
In Book 2 The Council of Nine suggests that
Mary Magdalene and Jesus were unmarried lovers and they belonged
together, spiritually. The quote to support this is from the book The Only Planet Of Choice (1993) by transceiver Phyllis V. Schlemmer: The question is raised to The Council of Nine as to whether Jesus had offspring, and the answer was, (see question 4 in the findings section for this quote)
that he did. However, the question was asked again to The Council of
Nine about the offspring and the answer was no, Jesus had no offspring.
Sorry Bloodline Theory Lovers! Jesus had no children, but he did have
sex with Mary Magdalene.
Source 3 is a channeled message of Mary Magdalene through the Messenger, Elizabeth Claire Prophet. (See question 13, web address of the channeling in bibliography).
This channeled message has not gained much popularity among the writers
of today who are married to the idea that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had
children to carry on a physical Bloodline of Christ. In this channeled
Mary Magdalene message, Mary Magdalene states that she bore a certain
“karma,” but she really doesn’t go into what that “karma” was about. It
was not about being a prostitute, or she would have said something to
that effect. I believe that she was not ready at that time to reveal
her full story. I have been graced to receive a sneak preview into a
seventy-six page channeling session between Mary Magdalene and a
channel named Sarah Heartsong. I have drawn much of this discussion
section on the knowledge I gained from the new channeled information
that is currently making its way to the printing presses.
The strangest New Age channeling book I found about Mary Magdalene was I Remember Union: The Story Of Mary Magdalena (1992) by Flo Calhaun.
This book created the illusion that Mary Magdalene was a lesbian. This
demonstrates well how the mirror and the mask principle works. The book
created an angry reaction from a woman reviewing it on amazon.com. She
called it a phony book of garbage! Although the book may not be a clear
channeling of Mary Magdalene, certain parts of the book are simply
beautiful. This deserves quoting; the Spiritual Hierarchy is giving
Mary Magdalene & Jesus both a gift, and Mary Magdalene tells the
tale… “My gift was a headdress of crystal starlight, woven into the
strands of my hair, overlaying my third eye in the center of my
forehead, giving me continued vision, bathed in rainbows of light. They
called it Hope as they placed it gently on my head. The gift they gave
to Jesus was a matrix of pure gold, a scepter which they placed within
his heart, the symbol of Christ. They called it Love.”
The many reflections of Mary Magdalene have been explored in
this course. How these reflections mirror the human psyche, says a lot
about people. When an individual holds a certain belief about an
archetypal being, that reflection usually fits their image of
themselves. Perhaps the guilty would believe Mary Magdalene was a
reformed prostitute, because they have given over a lot of their power
to their church to decide whether they are worthy of salvation. Sin
(error) has much less of a hold on someone whom does not feel guilty
about making an error. The emphasis on “sin” by
The Catholic Church goes hand in hand with the metaphor of the
repentant prostitute theory of Mary Magdalene. Perhaps this metaphor is
really the myth. The Catholic Church exemplifies suffering and
repentance as a way of life. If you study early Christianity, you may
learn that the actual proof that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute does
not exist. So the intent to manipulate the truth worked hand in hand
with their Female Saint of Repentance, i.e. obedience. Get the drift
here? The intention to build Mary Magdalene into their role model for
repentance is quite repulsive to some feminists. However, the
unconditional love of Mary Magdalene would advocate forgiveness, not
dissension. The Brotherhood and Sisterhood of man depends on our unity.
The falling away of petty judgments about each other takes effort, but
the reward for that is peace on Earth.
The whole world is searching for new answers to fill in the
blanks. The youth of today are like mystery masters, far out into the
next era of Matrix-Magdalene-Mania! In addition, they are re-mixing
Mary Magdalene. Perhaps our youth are the ones likely to embrace the
radical Jesus, who once warned us about the pitfalls of too many laws,
or artifices. The Radical Warrior of Light Savior figure takes us to
the integration of reality and fantasy. In the movie The Matrix, Neo’s
life theme of sacrifice, death, resurrection and his divine calling as
being “The One” proves to be parallel to the role of Jesus as the
Messiah. In relation to The Magdalene in the Christ Story, you have
Trinity in Neo’s story being the strong female companion and equal,
standing behind her man. The Magdalene with the same qualities worked
with her man to conquer evil. This is a common theme in almost every
movie, to some extent or another. How does the Holy Land compare with
the mind control of Neo’s Matrix world that he must overthrow for
goodness to prevail?
Could there have been an “underground Zion” so to speak, full of an
entire entourage of ancient mystics that were fulfilling a mission
planned by the Spiritual Hierarchy? It is certainly true that behind
every conspiracy theory, there lies truths untold, ready to be
revealed. The new “Da Vinci Enigmatic Tarot,” by Caitlin Matthews,
states that we are living our individual microcosmic world, and our
personal world uses the same set of archetypal beings of the Major
Arcane, to interact with. This also relates to the workings of the
world scene, our macrocosmic world. We are all looking for heroes to
identify with and The Magdalene of the future reveals a woman whom we
would aspire to be. She is strong, determined and focused on saving us
all as she works with a much larger team of enlightened beings. This
premise works for the youth of today. The youth of today are the
leaders of tomorrow. That really proves that Mary Magdalene will live
into the future as a hero rather than a shamed sinner, pleading for
forgiveness.
These are important questions that should be asked, about the
mission that Mary Magdalene was involved in. Whether or not she was
married to Jesus or not, many scholars and feminists believe that her
role was significantly important. She was the one who first spoke of
seeing Christ after the resurrection. The political implication here is
that she probably was Jesus’ closest companion and confidant. The trite
label that religion assigned her no longer works for the new generation
born into a scary techno-world that teeters on the brink of
destruction. We seem to need Mary Magdalene today more than ever before.
The provocative novel, The Da Vinci Code (1997) by Dan Brown
reflects a new breed of “closet mystics” that still go to church on
Sunday. After they dose off during the Sunday sermon, it’s off to the
bookstore to check if Dan Brown's latest book came out yet! The
intrigues of the “Holy Grail” are drawing people in like moths to a
flame.
The solving of the mysteries surrounding The Holy Grail and The
Magdalene takes a person through his or her own personal journey and
the amazing world of Archetypes. Jung spoke of this in relation to the
collective unconscious. The Major Arcane of the Tarot Deck contains the
entire group of universal archetypes. Mary Magdalene is the archetype
of the Divine Feminine, and of The Sophia, (a female wisdom deity)
which is a very powerful Archetype of Enigma. The Mona Lisa is smiling
for the same reason as The Magdalene does, she is the holder of hidden
truths. The same type of smile reflects the “Good News” of our coming
salvation/redemption from this world gone mad. Mary Magdalene as the
underdog seeks to rise above the illusion of suffering. She seeks to
set us free with her inner knowing and unshakeable faith. We prepare
for our own ascension by her example. The Holy Spirit lives in the
Faith Wisdom, which we hold onto in our hearts. The literal translation
of the Greek words “pistis sophia” is “faith-wisdom.”