There is a certain stream of thought in the ancient texts that Mary Magdalene was a priestess in the temple of Isis where sacred sexuality was the profound centerpiece. Where Sacred Sex implied one with the Divine in the most profound and ecstatic way, a union of the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine that we can only glimpse through shadowed eyes, as these teachings have been lost to us.
Or have they?
Actually they have not been lost at all, but they are hidden from purview until the initiate is ready.
I believe that the early church that stripped Jesus of his sexuality and noted Mary Magdalene as a prostitute instead of his spouse, knew this.
Isis worship, the central significance of the Great Mother, Sacred Sexuality, was still practiced when Jesus was alive. There is no doubt that he was aware of its power and significance.
What the church did instead, in its fear of the Sacred Feminine and in fear of Sacred Sexuality, was to render all women as subordinate and sex as anathema. Although their priests married at first (within the Eastern Orthodox tradition that separated from the Roman Church they still do), a dictate went out from the highest levels of the pontifical office that because Jesus was celibate (was he??) their priests must be so as well.
It may be that this curtailing of Sacred Sexuality and the fear and hatred of women that the church feels as a result, will ultimately bring it down.
Fear and hatred of women is not confined to Catholicism or to Christianity. Those who still believe that the tenets of their religion must espouse this are on the wrong side of history.
Or have they?
Actually they have not been lost at all, but they are hidden from purview until the initiate is ready.
I believe that the early church that stripped Jesus of his sexuality and noted Mary Magdalene as a prostitute instead of his spouse, knew this.
Isis worship, the central significance of the Great Mother, Sacred Sexuality, was still practiced when Jesus was alive. There is no doubt that he was aware of its power and significance.
What the church did instead, in its fear of the Sacred Feminine and in fear of Sacred Sexuality, was to render all women as subordinate and sex as anathema. Although their priests married at first (within the Eastern Orthodox tradition that separated from the Roman Church they still do), a dictate went out from the highest levels of the pontifical office that because Jesus was celibate (was he??) their priests must be so as well.
It may be that this curtailing of Sacred Sexuality and the fear and hatred of women that the church feels as a result, will ultimately bring it down.
Fear and hatred of women is not confined to Catholicism or to Christianity. Those who still believe that the tenets of their religion must espouse this are on the wrong side of history.