By Margaret George. But if you are only focusing on the body, on the egoic garment I am wearing as a soul, you will not recognize me. If you are interested in feminist religious philosophy and Christianity, this book might be for you. A gospel, as ancient and authentic as any of the gospels that the Christian bible contains, was buried deep in the Egyptian desert after an edict was sent out in the 4th century to have all copies of it destroyed. She is a real and serious scholar. The Gospel of Mary Magdalene reveals a very different love story from the one we've come to refer to as Christianity. What this means to me happens, actually, every day. If you have the courage to imitate Mary Magdalene in her sins, have the courage to imitate her penance! She may even be considered the first apostle . 2 So she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken away . The scope of determining 'the . you will always have the poor, but you will not always have me, that she was involved in prostitution or had an immoral past. Mary Magdalene has long been a controversial figure within the Catholic church. book club. It's none of your business how other people spend their money. In the story of the. All because of gratitude. Her gospel says that we are not sinful; we are not to feel ashamed or unworthy for being human. We believe it so much that we make our life about that encounter., Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as your friend. And in that moment of recognition, this is when we save ourselves, from the self that was never real to begin with., we shouldnt feel shame for how human we are, or how often we break, lose faith, and make wildly misguided mistakes., True love is the natural energy of our settled mind., True love is when I see all those judgments and barriers that have kept my heart barricaded for what they really areopportunities for my love to reach where it never has before. It takes audacity and courage. She was battered and bruised, injured and in agony from the suffering demon possession entailed. We both valued family above all else. "Mary Magdalene Revealed brings together the exquisite balance of personal experience and the uncovering of spiritual texts that quite simply rock and lovingly challenge the Christianity of the world today. The soul rises up from within the heart and we have the chance, again and again, if we can get still and present enough to just listen., The Gospel of Mary wants us to see that we are not just this body. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them." And the twelve were with him, and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's household manager . It's a wild ride. That is not the case., Gom can also be translated as familiarity. It is the notion that through the simple practice of being with the breath and watching your thoughts float across the landscape of your mind you are becoming more familiar with them., Basic goodness is the experience that you are primordially whole. For example, in the films version of the Last Supper, Mary Magdalene is seated on Jesus right-hand side. And this human body, whether male or female, or anything in the spectrum between, does not delimit or determine whats possible for us. And the earth does not rescue us from the cunning of the gods; for it too is full of things that confound the senses. . There are some who claim she married the apostle John, and others that she accompanied him to Ephesus. The veil that lifts is this: there will never be a voice outside of you that is wiser than your soul-voice or holds more authority over what is best for you. Within the Church she does have tremendous power, and there are lots of women who look to Mary Magdalene as a foundation for womens leadership within the Church, says Taylor. And the sky is like a blue bell. Soon afterward he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. She was one of His friends and a faithful follower. Mary Magdalene Revealed The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet Meggan Watterson Write a review Paperback $16.99 Audio Download $29.99 eBook $15.99 Hardcover $5.00 List Price $16.99 HayHouse.com $10.00 (save 41%) In Stock Qty Add to Cart Add to Wish List Skip to the end of the images gallery prev next True enough! She is the graceful lady of the Orient. This is when we see with the eye of the heart., If this is all you read, if you put down this book at the end of this sentence, know that this is the most important message of Marys gospel: we are inherently good. I loved it. All my soul all my spirit everything. Was she really a. This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers. Fools that you are! It's none of your business how other people spend their money., Judas. You need guidance and support not to follow someone elses truth but to remain loyal to your own., On a certain level theres actually no difference between self-love and love of another. Words are how the ego breathes and fuels the flames of thoughts that start replaying inside us from the second we wake up. She was one of many Marys that followed Jesus, being that it was the most common name for a Jewish female. It ended up being more of a self-help book for feminist Christians. Mary Magdalene was one of those who went out bearing precious seed; she went out weeping, but she returned to the disciples rejoicing, bringing her sheaves with her, for she had a joyful message for them. I like to say I'm not a Christian, but I'm a big fan of Jesus. She is a feminist theologian with a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University. Driven by passion, by a calling higher than she can see or know. I could FEEL the truth in it. - Mark 16:1. 2023 TIME USA, LLC. Viewers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries would have read the painting quite differently.. He was smart, funny, and handsome. You're better off reading books by Margaret Starbird, Gloria Amendola and Katherine McGowan. Some weeks . Many of the disciples and Apostles lived lives of evangelism, many becoming martyrs for the early establishment of Christianity. The soul lives in the silence, the stillness we have to meet with inside us. Maybe it's meAnyway I stopped reading halfway when she said she could never remember which way to cross herself. Harvard-trained theologian Meggan Watterson leads us verse by verse through Mary's gospel to illuminate the powerful teachings it contains.. A gospel, as ancient and authentic as any of the gospels that the Christian bible contains, was buried deep in the Egyptian desert. --WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER-- The Gospel of Mary Magdalene reveals a very different love story from the one we've come to refer to as Christianity. The heart is the ultimate spiritual access point for you to tap into your inner wisdom. The first form is darkness; the second is desire; the third is ignorance; the fourth is zeal for death; the fifth is the realm of the flesh; the sixth is the foolish wisdom of the flesh; and the seventh is the wisdom of the wrathful person. Her gospel, as ancient and authentic as any of the gospels that the Christian bible contains, reveals a radical love that sits at the . In the end, disappointing. Judgement free. Yet, in stripping away the myths, this film portrayal of Mary Magdalene underlines what some scholars see as the real and unexpected reason why shes so controversial. Western art and modern media have falsely depicted Mary Magdalene as a prostitute and even as the wife of Jesus. I said to myself if Christianity is dead, I will sit at its tomb and will weep until it arises again, just as Mary Magdalene sat at the tomb of Jesus and wept until Jesus showed Himself. It felt like total bliss because they were totally aligned and their spirits and energies were in the same vibrations, in resonance. Not everyone is going to love this book, because not everyone agrees that orthodoxy was made by elite dudes on top of the political and socio-economic food chain. Although the account is recorded in all the Gospel books, Mary Magdalene is never specified. On June 3, 2016, the Holy See raised the liturgical rank of the Memorial of Saint Mary Magdalene to a Feast, with the date remaining on July 22.A new Preface before the Eucharistic Prayer for the Feast was also promulgated in Latin.. Its referring to those moments when we get so caught up in what we want, we cant see the bigger picture. For more verses about the resurrection of Jesus Christ, click here. The body then, the human body, isnt innately sinful. But legends aside, one thing is certain. 630 pages. Does that make sense? There was something so incendiary in these first six pages that her gospel starts on page seven. Matthew 27:55-56 Mary Magdalene, Mary, mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. Movies. And her tears give another clue as to why medieval writers were invested in the idea of Mary as a reformed sinner. In the gospel of Mary Magdalene, she refers to heart intelligence as the nous - which translates in Greek to "the eye of the heart." She urges us to go within to find the truth. And I descend inward to meet it. The story goes that renovations of the basilica at that time uncovered a series . Mary Magdalene was the church on earth, for only to her had been revealed the full Paschal Mystery. Quotes By Meggan Watterson. Jesus' bloodline includes King Solomon and King David. Mary Magdalene Revealed - Part 1. I love you and never want to do that., There was so much that was right about my friends Mr. Every energy is of equal value., do share my knowledge with some of the healers. . [In the film] shes really close to Jesus, not because of some kind of love affair, but just because shegets Jesus in a way that the other disciples dont, Bond says. We go around and around blind as a bat, missing out on the present moment because were so clenched to this idea of what we think we want. Within three months, we knew that what we had was good, but it wasnt what either of us really desired., A theologian, I found, is much like an archeologist. The movie, which came out in the U.K. on March 16, tells the story of Mary Magdalene (Rooney Mara), detailing her fraught existence in Magdala as a single woman determined not to marry, before she meets Jesus (Joaquin Phoenix) and follows him to Galilee and then Jerusalem, where hes crucified. "This book is a masterpiece. translations of words ("anthropos" has literally nothing to do with God or Divinity, it just means "man" or "mankind"). And that our humanity is not intrinsically sinful, or shameful. Its also proposed that by confusing the two, an inaccurate version of a promiscuous Mary Magdalene circulated. Her name is mentioned 12 times in the Gospels, more than most of the apostles. Mary bought this expensive nard as an expression of her love. She was one of the few female disciples of Jesus and played an important role in the early Christian church. The legend of Mary Magdalene's skeleton being in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume emerged in the late 13th Century. She was was present at the two most important moments in the story of Jesus: the crucifixion and the resurrection. The NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible states, Although womenin generalhad fewer resources than men, some were wealthy, and some scholars estimate that a tenth of all patrons in antiquity were women., Some women were watching from a distance. Am I describing Mary Magdalene? Love was the truth, whether it came from a whale, a human, or God in heaven., The goddess Kuan Yin is perhaps the most famous bodhisattva in East Asia. Before you can hear, much less follow, the voice of your soul, you have to win back your body. And if we can recognize that weve never been separate from it, and bring it forth outside of us, this is what saves us., Be on your guard so that no one deceives you by saying, Look over here! or Look over there! For the child of true Humanity exists within you. In the 2,000 years since Mary Magdalene is said to have watched Jesus Christ die on the cross, shes been labeled many things. Its about really waking up to the fact that our system of understanding the world is no longer serving us., And once I stopped questioning everything that happened in the vision, once I trusted that what I heard and felt and experienced was real in the sense that it was really the wisdom I needed, then it all came effortlessly to me. About 30% into this book I realized this was not what I expected. Now, if youre still with me, that goodness can never be lost. Our capacity to see the truth that we are sinless, that we are good, has nothing to do with the eyes. But both Bond and Taylor point to the Bible itself for further evidence of Mary Magdalenes intimate understanding of Jesus. Mary told the disciples that she had indeed "seen the Lord." This is the last we read of Mary Magdalene from Scripture. Then when I came out of prison I saw Christianity is not dead. I thought her job was to translate them for us? Meggan Watterson, Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet 1 likes Like "No one ever loses anyone." We all just keep meeting those unique souls who can instigate growth in our lives and evolve the soul." ( John 20:17, 18 ESV ) She was obedient to the command of the Lord. All this is very confusing. So, why four angels, and why seven times a day?, If how we see, truly see, is not with eyesight, but with a vision, a form of spiritual perception that allows us to know whats real, whats lasting, whats actually true, if this comes from within us; then no one has power over us., what Ive come to understand is that its the soul that rises, not me, not my ego, not anything human that I am. To say only Mary Magdalene understood Jesus Christ and everyone since has been mistaken would be heresy, Berglund says. And the human soul won't yield up its riddles. I get snippets of language I understand but am lost for most of this book. He revealed that his inspiration for the role comes from Alan Rickman's portrayal of Professor Snape in Harry Potter. Haag believes that Mary Magdalenes alternative ideas proved too dangerous for the Church to allow them to spread. And what Marys gospel is saying in this passage is that the key is to become unattached, to try not to touch and cling. There were plenty of things that opened my eyes. Now, if youre still with me, that goodness can never be lost. He found her in her darkest place and healed her miraculously. And you did not recognize me. The soul is saying here to the egos desire, I am not this body, not essentially. What about Mary Magdalene? Complete biography of Mary Magdalene .