I just finished reading this book. It talks about a newly discovered Gospel that links Jesus to Mary the Magdalene in a sacred marriage, yet another document that persists in its acclamation that Mary was the spouse of Jesus and the keeper of his teachings, the one that was to carry on his message of Divine Humanity and inner redemption, gnostic in its implications.
I wrote to Dr. Barrie Wilson and told him how erudite and brave I thought their book to be, and how it sent electric shocks through me as I knew viscerally that their messaging was true.
It is messaging that is also conveyed in my novel A Song of Songs: Mary Magdalene Awakes.
As a result of reading this book, I have decided to re-write my novel. In reflection, I produced a good first draft, and the book’s publication was hastened by the fact that my mother was ill and I wanted to dedicate the book to her before she died. I have gone through a great metamorphosis in my thinking since the book came out in 2008, and this will be reflected in the new/revised book. Certain vital insights have been gained, while other data is now irrelevant.
Dr. Wilson wrote back and encouraged me to do the re-write saying that it would be a really good thing to highlight the crusade against the Cathars or Albigensians, which I allude to in my novel and which took place in the 1100’s and 1200’s in the Languedoc area of what is now south-western France. I spent some time researching the novel there in 2004.
As is mentioned in The Lost Gospel, when Constantine triumphed and made Christianity the state religion and the “Pauline gospels” (he who did not walk with Christ) held sway, the other gospels that were written closer to the ministry of Jesus, and which were more esoteric in nature, were banned. These became known as the Gnostic gospels, and they named Mary the Magdalene as his “companion” or wife, and the one to carry his teachings forward. As a result of the political agenda of Constantine and the church, the gospels had to go underground.
Gnosticism was practiced by the Cathars, which is why the Catholic Church destroyed them (or tried to, actually they are still alive in many forms today). As I mention in my novel, and this is also written about in The Lost Gospel, the town of Bezier in the Languedoc, whose townspeople believed that Mary the Magdalene and Jesus were lovers, was destroyed by the Catholic crusade on the Magdalene’s feast day (July 22) and all souls were put to the sword.
The Catholic Church has tried to eradicate the Magdalene’s voice consistently throughout history, but to no avail. Truth cannot be supressed forever. The church tried, erroneously, to supplant Jesus’ mother by elevating her to the status of the Great Mother or Goddess, but this doesn't wash, and certainly does not stand up to the serious scholarship of the Jacobovici/Wilson book.
I think it is time to achieve balance once again. I think it is time to bring Mary Magdalene back and accord her the true role that was intended for her as the Sacred Spouse. I think that she plays a significant role in the times that are now upon us.
I wrote to Dr. Barrie Wilson and told him how erudite and brave I thought their book to be, and how it sent electric shocks through me as I knew viscerally that their messaging was true.
It is messaging that is also conveyed in my novel A Song of Songs: Mary Magdalene Awakes.
As a result of reading this book, I have decided to re-write my novel. In reflection, I produced a good first draft, and the book’s publication was hastened by the fact that my mother was ill and I wanted to dedicate the book to her before she died. I have gone through a great metamorphosis in my thinking since the book came out in 2008, and this will be reflected in the new/revised book. Certain vital insights have been gained, while other data is now irrelevant.
Dr. Wilson wrote back and encouraged me to do the re-write saying that it would be a really good thing to highlight the crusade against the Cathars or Albigensians, which I allude to in my novel and which took place in the 1100’s and 1200’s in the Languedoc area of what is now south-western France. I spent some time researching the novel there in 2004.
As is mentioned in The Lost Gospel, when Constantine triumphed and made Christianity the state religion and the “Pauline gospels” (he who did not walk with Christ) held sway, the other gospels that were written closer to the ministry of Jesus, and which were more esoteric in nature, were banned. These became known as the Gnostic gospels, and they named Mary the Magdalene as his “companion” or wife, and the one to carry his teachings forward. As a result of the political agenda of Constantine and the church, the gospels had to go underground.
Gnosticism was practiced by the Cathars, which is why the Catholic Church destroyed them (or tried to, actually they are still alive in many forms today). As I mention in my novel, and this is also written about in The Lost Gospel, the town of Bezier in the Languedoc, whose townspeople believed that Mary the Magdalene and Jesus were lovers, was destroyed by the Catholic crusade on the Magdalene’s feast day (July 22) and all souls were put to the sword.
The Catholic Church has tried to eradicate the Magdalene’s voice consistently throughout history, but to no avail. Truth cannot be supressed forever. The church tried, erroneously, to supplant Jesus’ mother by elevating her to the status of the Great Mother or Goddess, but this doesn't wash, and certainly does not stand up to the serious scholarship of the Jacobovici/Wilson book.
I think it is time to achieve balance once again. I think it is time to bring Mary Magdalene back and accord her the true role that was intended for her as the Sacred Spouse. I think that she plays a significant role in the times that are now upon us.