The more I read about Mary Magdalene the more I realize just to what lengths the Roman Catholic Church went out of its way to subdue her, to make her voice irrelevant. Many have speculated that she was a priestess in the House of Isis, and that she revered the Goddess. This would not come as a surprise as Isis worship was prevalent at the time of Jesus and he would certainly have been influenced by this.
Ironically, as part of the prologue to my novel I initially had a section where the Magdalene was making oblations to Isis before her altar, asking her for her wisdom and her love. For some reason I deleted that section, but I have decided to incorporate it once again.
We need the Great Mother now, we need Isis to return to us. We need her to remind us how to nurture the Earth and each other, and what it means to have balance in the world, among all peoples, all religions, between men and women. The world that we selected, while brilliant in so many ways, is out of balance and unless corrected, will destroy us.
We are in desperate need of her love and her healing. Patriarchy, greed, "power over", an arrogant and destructive corporatism that is self-serving and based on entitlement, governments who bow to vested interests at the expense of the weak and the infirm, at the expense of the earth, are no longer required here...they are rapidly becoming irrelevant. As is religion with its tired, worn dogma and its male hierarchy who teach that God is fear....and male.
The light that is back and circulating within and around us does not need a religious edifice to make itself known. If religions cannot adapt to our rapidly changing spirituality, then they will slowly fade away, as they do not have the answers to the overwhelming evolutionary change that we are currently in the midst of...all of us, there are no favorites, we are all Light.
Ironically, as part of the prologue to my novel I initially had a section where the Magdalene was making oblations to Isis before her altar, asking her for her wisdom and her love. For some reason I deleted that section, but I have decided to incorporate it once again.
We need the Great Mother now, we need Isis to return to us. We need her to remind us how to nurture the Earth and each other, and what it means to have balance in the world, among all peoples, all religions, between men and women. The world that we selected, while brilliant in so many ways, is out of balance and unless corrected, will destroy us.
We are in desperate need of her love and her healing. Patriarchy, greed, "power over", an arrogant and destructive corporatism that is self-serving and based on entitlement, governments who bow to vested interests at the expense of the weak and the infirm, at the expense of the earth, are no longer required here...they are rapidly becoming irrelevant. As is religion with its tired, worn dogma and its male hierarchy who teach that God is fear....and male.
The light that is back and circulating within and around us does not need a religious edifice to make itself known. If religions cannot adapt to our rapidly changing spirituality, then they will slowly fade away, as they do not have the answers to the overwhelming evolutionary change that we are currently in the midst of...all of us, there are no favorites, we are all Light.