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The gospel of Mary Magdalene discovered in Egypt in 1896 is a Gnostic gospel like the gospel of Thomas, which was as well constitute in Egypt at Nag Hammadi in 1949. The Gnostic gospels of Nag Hammadi include; the secret book of James, the gospel of Thomas, the book of Thomas and secret book of John. They teach on acquiring noesis and spiritual development to attain salvation. This is contrary to the message of canonical gospels and Ne
Gospel of Mary Magdalene from the perspectives of a female discipleThe gospel of Mary Magdalene discovered in Egypt in 1896 is a Gnostic gospel like the gospel of Thomas, which was also constitute in Egypt at Nag Hammadi in 1949. The Gnostic gospels of Nag Hammadi include; the secret book of James, the gospel of Thomas, the book of Thomas and clandestine book of John. They teach on acquiring knowledge and spiritual development to reach salvation. This is reverse to the message of approved gospels and New Testament. The path of Christianism taught in this gospel is one of gnosis or divine knowledge that alone would pave the manner for salvation. Mary Magdalene does non state that Jesus is a savior or he died for the sins of others. Information technology does not say Jesus is the son of God. She presents him equally a preceptor who teaches his followers to seek knowledge necessary to detect unification with the Lord, the creator, the Source Principle. Jesus calls "my Father, your Father," and "my God, your God" as he tells Mary Magdalene in John 20:17. This is the principle teaching of Vedanta philosophy constitute in Upanishads, the sacred scriptures of Hinduism. The Upanishads were widely known throughout the ancient India since 500 B.C. The philosophy of Gnosticism brings ancient Christianism closer to Hinduism in the spiritual and metaphysical aspects. This is farther exemplified by the following: The soul answered: "Why exercise you judge me, since I accept made no judgment? I have been dominated, only I myself accept not dominated. I have not been recognized, but I myself have recognized, all things which are equanimous shall exist decomposed, on earth and sky" (Gospel of Mary Magdalene Page 15, lines xix-25). The essence of this is that root of all evil is ignorance. Information technology is the ignorance that makes us indifferent, and indifference is wretched climate surrounding all comfortably numbed consciousness.
The post-obit passage from the gospel makes an interesting reading: Peter said to Mary: "Sister, nosotros know that the teacher loved you differently from other women. Tell us whatever you lot retrieve of whatsoever words he told you, which nosotros have not still heard. Mary said to them: "I will now speak to y'all of that which has non been given to you to hear. I had a vision of the Teacher, and I said to him: "Lord I meet yous now in this vision." And he answered: "you are blest, for the sight of me does not disturb you. There where the nous; lies the treasure." Then I said to him: "Lord, when someone meets you lot in a moment of vision, is it through the soul (psyche) that they see or through their spirit (pneuma)? The Teacher answered: "It is neither through the soul nor the spirit, but the nous betwixt the 2 which sees the vision [...] (Gospel of Mary Magdalene Page 10, poetry lines 1-25.)
Mary Magdalene and Jesus' mother Mary are the just two Mary's mentioned in the approved gospels. Mark sixteen:9 and Luke 8:2 refers to Jesus freeing Mary Magdalene from seven demons. She is one of the three who were at foot of the cross of Christ's crucifixion, besides campaigner John and female parent Mary (John xix:25). Mary Magdalene is the offset to see Jesus resurrected from the tomb (John 20:11-18, Mark sixteen:nine, and Matthew 28:nine-x), hence some saints similar St. Augustine consider her as the "apostle of apostles." For this reason, Apostle John and many scholars consider her equally the founder of Christianity, although it is generally perceived that Christianism was born during Paul'south journey to Damascus and the divine vision he experienced.
Scholars have debated why there were seven demons. Some have speculated this refers to the vii "chakras or wheels of energy" of Hinduism. Information technology merely means that those visions of demons or the energy that deject these chakras retard the spirit of the person, and Jesus, by his spiritual powers helped in cleansing her body.
The authors of this volume present the Coptic text of the gospel of Mary Magdalene and its English language translation. Information technology also identifies the pages missing (either it is lost or the papyrus is likewise fragile to handle and letters and words is unreadable). The papyrus of this gospel was written in Sahidic Coptic language (with a number of dialectical borrowings) that was a translated from the early on Greek text. But it is uncertain when the originals were written. Some scholars suggest that the earliest engagement for this gospel is the beginning of the second century. Several faulty transcriptions and other errors have been discerned in the writing of this gospel. The Nag Hammadi texts were also in Coptic language translated from early on Greek manuscripts. The book is a great read for all with an insight into the early Christianity. Undergraduate students of aboriginal history of Israel and New Attestation studies will besides benefit tremendously by this scholarly work.
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- Information technology directly takes on a woman's role in the culture and the challenges the disciples had with Mary and Jesus. It was interesting to contemplate her as spiritual equal to the disciples and even a leader. JYL brought her to life for me in a way that made it quite real what her challenges were. Peter and Andrew in particular detect information technology difficult I was surprised past this volume. The Gospel is very short, only included some very interesting things to contemplate. In a crude style, my take-aways include:
- Information technology directly takes on a woman'south role in the culture and the challenges the disciples had with Mary and Jesus. It was interesting to contemplate her as spiritual equal to the disciples and even a leader. JYL brought her to life for me in a way that made information technology quite real what her challenges were. Peter and Andrew in particular find information technology difficult to listen to what she has to share.
- It also was much more focused on spirit, body and soul. For me the reading connects Mary'southward relationship to Jesus, which (whatever happened btwn them) is role of what makes him human.
- It likewise is much closer to eastern thought.
- Information technology also happens right after Jesus' death. Information technology explores the disciples atheism of his ascent from death.
These things came as a pleasant surprise to me. JYL is very philosophical and makes comparisons to many writers and philosophical traditions.
While short - it definitely was packed. I could meet myself re-reading this.
The known text of the Gospel of Mary is missing many pages correct in the centre of the gospel, so I (as well every bit many scholars, I am certain) am left wishing and wondering I knew what the missing text was. Hopefully some day someone will find another copy of this somewhere, and the missing test tin become known.
The text avail
Uniquely fascinating. This volume not merely presents the known text of the Gospel of Mary, but and then the book follows with a discussion of the text, offer commentary line by line.The known text of the Gospel of Mary is missing many pages right in the center of the gospel, so I (as well as many scholars, I am sure) am left wishing and wondering I knew what the missing text was. Hopefully some day someone will notice another copy of this somewhere, and the missing test tin become known.
The text available is very unique, and different from anything that the current Gospels present. I constitute the commentary very interesting too, though I am still trying to completely wrap my head around the anthropology of it all, the body (soma), the soul (psyche), the heed (nous) and the Spirit (Pneuma).
I might have to re-visit this one again at a future engagement.
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Nosotros'll never know who did write it, but it paints an astonishing picture of the early on apostles sitting together and talking almost Jesus' teachings. As (probably) the only adult female nowadays, it seems that Mary had a struggle to make her voice heard. This exchange between her and Peter was fabricated famous by The Da Vinci Code: "Did he really speak privately with a woman and not openly to us? Are nosotros to turn nigh and all listen to her? Did he prefer her to u.s.?" Levi defends her, calling Peter "hot tempered" and arguing, "If the Savior made her worthy, who are you indeed to reject her?" If you believe Dan Chocolate-brown, that moment sparked a war betwixt the Church building and women that continues to the present day.
One of the first surviving passages reads: "The Savior said, All nature, all formations, all creatures exist in and with ane another, and they will exist resolved again into their own roots." This sounds very similar the behavior of the Native Americans who lived in a careful balance with nature. Cypher like this is in the Bible. It's interesting to think that before the Church went completely insane with its purgatory and its witch trials and its indulgences and its saints and its transubstantiation and its consubstantiation and its celibacy and its cathedrals and its crusades and its ballgame dispensary bombings and its exorcisms and its Westboro Baptists that Jesus and Mary spoke together about Philosophy 101 stuff. Paints a totally different picture.
We atheists wait at a world that predominantly believes in god and angels and we become frustrated. Only I think it's a mistake that some of u.s.a. make to blame Jesus for the things his followers do.
Jesus looked at the world and saw many of the same bug nosotros nonetheless have today: he saw the people in ability abusing and exploiting that ability and crushing the lower classes. He saw religious abuse ("The cost of redeeming your sin is sacrificing a dove. Here, let me sell you a pigeon."). He just wanted the kind of world we have all imagined: one where in that location is peace and equality and justice. All the madness of Christianity only grew from at that place similar an infestation on a good for you establish, perpetuated by idiots with too much fourth dimension on their hands ("Is it a sin to pull a fallen donkey out of a ditch on the Sabbath?" "Oooh, good question. Let's get the wisest elders together and spend decades debating that.").
He was no Thomas Paine, trying to create a secular gild. He was a Jew who wanted his one, truthful god venerated every bit ruler of the world, equally all monotheistic people believe their god is real and their dogma is the best. He and I might disagree on the existence of god, simply he had good ideas and I respect his bravery. Going upwardly against Rome was non something peasants typically did if they valued their lives. Unfortunately, because of the World's Most Disastrous Game of Telephone--that is the preaching of the skillful news subsequently Jesus' decease--his peaceful bulletin of love and standing upwardly for what yous believe to be right resulted in frenzied convert-or-be-killed violence and a divisive superiority complex.
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What if Mary Magdalene--wrongfully dubbed the whore by a pope--was actually the true leader of Christianity, and, in fact, the get-go real Christian? Forget Paul on the road to Damascus. It is Mary who is the campaigner of the apostles for she was the only disciple pure enough to receive Christ's message of the Resurrection.
Much patriarchal meaning is made out of Christ'south cleansing of Mary's "7 demons" only Leloup asks
A pretty trippy read that was fascinating to me from a historical standpoint.What if Mary Magdalene--wrongfully dubbed the whore by a pope--was actually the true leader of Christianity, and, in fact, the start existent Christian? Forget Paul on the road to Damascus. It is Mary who is the apostle of the apostles for she was the only disciple pure enough to receive Christ's message of the Resurrection.
Much patriarchal pregnant is made out of Christ'southward cleansing of Mary's "7 demons" but Leloup asks you to reconsider what this cleansing means--the purification of her 7 demons (possibly also chakras) tells us she is the only apostle who has become "Anthropos" or fully human being, every bit Christ was. It is she, and she alone of the apostles, who was able to converse with Christ subsequently his death in a realm called the "artistic imaginal."
The Gospel of Mary Magdalene is not a canonical gospel like Luke, Matthew, Mark, and John. Found in 1896 in Arab republic of egypt, it is part of the early Christian writings* rejected past the quango of Nicaea, put together by the Roman Emperor Constantine.**
Much of the outset part of the text reads surprisingly new-agey: God is within. God is self-noesis. There is no sin, only what nosotros make as sin. We find God with the nous (higher mind) and inside a space/time concept chosen the artistic imaginal. And so much of the commencement reads like a feel-adept message that it would be like shooting fish in a barrel to forget that Leloup is, and his interpretations are, in fact, Orthodox Christian. But the text will remind you soon enough. His belief in the feminine vs. masculine mind, his quick antiphon on bisexuality, and fifty-fifty the diagrams re-created and discussed exit no dubiety. [Seriously: Those diagrams! Fantasy writers have cipher on Christian scholars. Connections to plants and animals and angels and Seraphim (in that location'due south a deviation between angels and Seraphim, who knew?) with a human bridge to divine lite. At present, that'south a diagram.]
Merely, even so, I couldn't aid merely think two things as I read this: Of course Mary's gospel would be rejected by aboriginal Romans. Women were treated like dogs. And ii: Mary's teachings offer a better form of Christianity than nosotros accept now. The text actually values women as leaders and people of intellect--something nevertheless deeply lacking in many churches to this day.
*I had no idea that early gnostics considered Deuteronomy the work of a demiurge. So awesomely weird.
**In that location are Christian groups claiming that this is not true. That even before this council, the "true" books of the Bible were already decided, but, uh, yeah. You can judge for yourself why that might be a convenient manner of thinking. And regardless of when exactly it happened, at some point, the Roman church decided MM's gospel wasn't their cup o' tea (cuppa claret?).
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FACTS:
The writer of this gospel cannot exist Mary Magdalene because most academics place it in the center to tardily 2nd century. Likewise, the Mary mentioned in this text is nowh
The text was a very intereasting reading. I wanted to read only the gospel without anyone's commentary or analysis (I didn't want to read someone'southward philosophical musing and attempts to necktie the content to other traditions and pop behavior). Withal that is not possible considering all publications come up with its ain interpretation.FACTS:
The author of this gospel cannot be Mary Magdalene because most academics place it in the middle to late second century. Also, the Mary mentioned in this text is nowhere specified as Mary Magdalene.
Opposite to popular belief, the Gospel of Mary is NOT role of the Nag Hammadi library. This was discovered in Cairo, Egypt in the tardily 19th century. Scholars' thoughts vary as to whether the writing belongs to the Gnostic school of thought.
The gospel itself is very brusk and incomplete. About ten unabridged pages are missing from what must take been 20-30 page text. This includes the outset six pages. As a result, information technology is difficult to make it at a coherent overall message.
The Gospel of Mary addresses to New Testament figures (Peter, Mary, Andrew and Levi) and an caption of sin (adultry). " 'What is the sin of the earth?' The Teacher answered: There is no sin. It is you lot who make sin exist, when yous act according to the habits of your corrupted nature; this is where sin lies"
"Attachment to affair gives rise to passion confronting nature. Thus trouble arises in the whole trunk; this is why I tell y'all: 'Exist in harmony'." This does sound like Gonestic philosophy.
If you are to appreciate the text as information technology is, you must leave all the conspiracy theories at the door and read the text lonely.
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Some of the book was hard going for me because Leloup uses philosophical terms that are new to me - "nous," "Pneuma" - and as well uses terms that I'k used to but that he gives a different significant to - "psyche," "soul." He does non use "soul," for case, to describe what I would telephone call the essence of a person's spirit. He places it between the "trunk" and the "spirit."
2 important themes come through: 1) There is no evidence that Mary Magdalene was ever a prostitute but there is instead evidence that she was the foremost apostle (the "apostle of apostles" and not, as some would say, an "apostle to the apostles"). 2) What went on at the Resurrection. This is the first estimation of what happened that I tin consume.
I have not walked away from this volume yet. I'll be re-reading it, and I'm already seeking out other books by Leloup.
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If I take away anything from this text, it will exist a markedly different perspective of Christ'south teachings. Information technology introduced to me a new style of looking at both the "constabulary" and t
After reading the Gnostic Gospels, which referred to this text, I capeesh getting a immediate await at the Gospel of Mary. I as well found the commentary past Leloup to be very interesting and helpful in interpreting and analyzing the teachings mentioned both in this gospel and in the traditional, institutionally-accustomed gospels.If I take away anything from this text, it will be a markedly different perspective of Christ'southward teachings. It introduced to me a new way of looking at both the "law" and the "grace" involved in Christian philosophies...and a remarkably more positive one at that.
It pointed out that ane may look at the laws/commandments every bit instruments of freedom that provide us with both structure for living a happy life (equally blessings and a model for happiness) and the freedom to find happiness in ourselves and in others. It also addressed (and complemented the accepted gospels) in the pursuit of spiritual happiness instead of material happiness.
I found it interesting how the commentary interpreted the text to encourage respect of other people's individuality, and loving others and learning to respect their own freedom...learning to dearest them and give them freedom instead of objectifying them and loving them as "possesions."
Overall, a very good read!
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readers' hands.
my fascination with Mary Magdalene began of
a Catholic upbringing. then when i began listening
to Tori Amos i was sucked into much of her music
Because she dealt with subject matter i hold close
and miss Mary Magdalene was no different. but through
her songs i started hearing the story.. the possibility
that she & Jesus were a thing
(something i had seen hinted at in the play JESUS
CHRIST SUPERSTAR & THE LA well before The DaVince Code pandamonium
there was this book making its mode through
readers' hands.
my fascination with Mary Magdalene began of
a Catholic upbringing. then when i began listening
to Tori Amos i was sucked into much of her music
Considering she dealt with field of study matter i hold close
and miss Mary Magdalene was no dissimilar. but through
her songs i started hearing the story.. the possibility
that she & Jesus were a affair
(something i had seen hinted at in the play JESUS
CHRIST SUPERSTAR & THE Final TEMPTATION OF CHRIST) and
that they may have had a baby.
this blew my heed of course and i was hooked on it.
then, and so years agone i caught a Tori interview where she
mentioned this gospel.. i had no idea Mary Magdalene
had her own gospel and i made a special trip to the
bookstore.
i wasnt sorry. the gospel itself is just vii pages but
the interpretation fabricated tears stream down my face and
i wonder if i've ever read something and so lovely.
this volume gives me Hope. and it'southward no secret i promise
everything within it is truuuuuuuue.
read alot of books on this subject.. may or may not
list them, merely this one has remained my favorite.
How is it that I'd never read about this sensual and mystical woman?
I am non a Christian, merely take long been fatigued to the true Christ teachings ~ not-duality, the natural world, inner knowing, divine cognition, transfiguration ~ spoken through 1 who could "see" in deeper and clearer ways the connection between the earthly and the divine.
I found myself having to stop to breathe. Give thanks you Jean-Yves LeLoup, for giving me the gift of your portrayal
My first introduction to the gnostic gospels.How is it that I'd never read about this sensual and mystical woman?
I am not a Christian, but have long been drawn to the truthful Christ teachings ~ not-duality, the natural world, inner knowing, divine knowledge, transfiguration ~ spoken through 1 who could "see" in deeper and clearer ways the connexion betwixt the earthly and the divine.
I establish myself having to finish to breathe. Thanks Jean-Yves LeLoup, for giving me the souvenir of your portrayal of this magnificent woman.
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"So Andrew began to speak, and said to his brothers:
"Tell me, what practice you recall of these things she has been telling us?
As for me, I exercise non believe
that the Teacher would speak similar this.
These ideas are too different from those we have known."
And Peter added:
"How is it possible that the Teacher talked
in this manner, with a woman,
about secrets of which we ourselves are ignorant?
Must nosotros change our customs,
and mind to this woman? "
"Then Andrew began to speak, and said to his brothers:
"Tell me, what do you think of these things she has been telling us?
As for me, I do not believe
that the Teacher would speak like this.
These ideas are too different from those we accept known."
And Peter added:
"How is it possible that the Instructor talked
in this manner, with a woman,
about secrets of which we ourselves are ignorant?
Must we change our customs,
and listen to this woman? "
I wish that I could tell you what frame Jean-Yves LeLoup was using to interperet the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, simply he never deigns to say. At that place were comparisons to the canonical gospels, which made sense, every bit did the comparisons to the gospels of Thomas and of Truth. But about of it was freewheeling nonsense, unrelated to whatsoever theology or apologetics I have always encountered, and often with simply tangential relation to the text ostensibly
The gospel itself is fascinating. The commentary is unhinged.I wish that I could tell you lot what frame Jean-Yves LeLoup was using to interperet the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, but he never deigns to say. There were comparisons to the canonical gospels, which fabricated sense, as did the comparisons to the gospels of Thomas and of Truth. Only most of it was freewheeling nonsense, unrelated to whatsoever theology or apologetics I have ever encountered, and often with only tangential relation to the text ostensibly under discussion.
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"We see the apostles taking the work of Jesus into the earth--but Magdalene was non present at Pentecost." There is no (Biblical) evidence to say that Mary Magadalene was non nowadays among the 120 in the upper room on the day of Pentecost. That is a statement that I have never heard made earlier, and every bit an "apostle of apostles" why would he retrieve she would not be among that group?!?! I simply e'er assumed she was among the other apostles, as westward I don't understand why Needleman states on page xxii:
"Nosotros see the apostles taking the work of Jesus into the world--just Magdalene was non present at Pentecost." There is no (Biblical) prove to say that Mary Magadalene was not nowadays among the 120 in the upper room on the twenty-four hour period of Pentecost. That is a argument that I take never heard fabricated before, and as an "campaigner of apostles" why would he think she would not be among that group?!?! I just always assumed she was among the other apostles, too every bit Miriam, Yeshua'due south female parent and the "other women" who had served and followed him. Where else would she take been on that solar day except with her new 'family', the people who loved and took care of her and took her in, her adopted family members who went through those years together? ~Quite and absurd statement if you lot ask me.~
"In the legends and stories told about Mary Magdalene there tin be constitute some hint of what she may represent to us today: Every bit one who was cleansed from sin; who remains with Christ throughout his expiry on the cross; and who first witnesses, understands, and believes Christ's resurrection, she represents a human being who is open up and available to true "inner knowing," who tin "meet" in deeper, clearer ways through a unique spiritual connexion to both earthly decease and the Divine." xxiii (Introduction).
"Yeshua did not love John or Peter more (italics) than he loved Judas, but rather he loved each differently. He loved them all with a universal and unconditional love and each of them in a unique and item fashion. With regard to the unique and particular nature of his relationship with Mary Magdalene, the Gospel of Philip insists, for example, that Mary is the special companion of Jesus (koinonos, Italics).
Yeshua invites us to experience our capacity for a divine love that includes all beings, even our enemies. But human love includes preferences--in other words, affinities, resonances, and intimacies that are non possible with everyone." pg. ten
"The interesting question is this: Was Yeshua fully human, with a normal human sexuality that was capable of intimacy and preference? As the ancient maxim says: "That which is not lived is non redeemed." If Yeshua, considered equally the Messiah and Christ, did not alive his sexuality, then sexuality would be unredeemed....
Jesus Christ did non live his sexuality;
therefore sexuality is unredeemed;
therefore sexuality is essentially a bad matter;
therefore living your sexuality can exist degrading
and can make you guilty (italics).
This kind of guilt-ridden sexuality can make the states truly ill." pp. 11-12
"The divine lover is spirit without trunk;
The physical lover is body without spirit;
The spiritual lover possesses both spirit and body." pg. 18
"If the conscious subject has no ears
there will exist nothing to hear;
if the eyes are non open,
there will be zippo to see;
if the heart or the nous is not awake,
there will be goose egg to understand...
Peter said to him: "Since y'all have become the interpreter of the elements and the events of the world, tell usa: What is the sin of the world?". The Teacher answered: "In that location is no sin. Information technology is you who makes sin exist, when y'all human activity according to the habits of your corrupted nature; this is where sin lies." pg. 48
"When one sees sin and evil everywhere, the consequences are especially serious when they are seen as being in an "other," for this other must then be destroyed or killed. Those who have committed such crimes in the name of the Good see themselves non as murderers, just as saviors, ridding the world of sin and evil to make it pure again.
All such persecutions, bans, burnings at the pale, and death camps are founded upon the same logic: The rotten apples must exist removed from the barrel to rid the whole contents of contamination. All the "rotten" humans who would trouble the corridors of power of the "prince of this world" must be liquidated in gild to take an uncontaminated society. This is easily extended to whole groups or races of people who embody evil--otherwise they will destroy us first." pp. 48-49
This was fascinating, and at the same time, infuriating. Infuriating because they were still running the "Mary Magdalene was a whore" smear entrada against women as I was growing up, and like, of grade men in positions of power chose to silence femme testimony so as to better keep women oppressed. I had never even heard of the Gnostic gospels/codices or the Nag Hammadi discoveries. Honestly, why would I? Changing the narrative and including women in positions of discipleship and "power" is extremely threatening to the Church building, what with their witch hunts, lack of femme held positions of power (not a single femme Priest, permit alone Cardinal, Bishop, or [heaven assist usa] Pope). Constantine'south version of what a Christian empire should look like had zero want or desire to include the gospel from Mary, so it was substantially lost to the ether for millennia. I'k so mad that I wasn't exposed to the idea, let lone an actual written account, a gospel from a woman, from Mary Magdalene - who, even in canonical readings, is a big power thespian in the Bible. Would it have changed my feelings and fervent want to leave Catholicism backside the minute I was able? Maybe not. Merely, honestly, who knows.
Whether or not Mary Magdalene/Miriam was married to Jesus is really beside the indicate and wasn't the focus of this book, which truly is just a translation of the gospels attributed to Mary and contextual assay of what they mean. Some really powerful insight almost personhood and chakra energy (Jesus is said to have cleansed vii demons from Mary, ofttimes explained every bit balancing the 7 chakras in the body, so she accomplished perfect residual and was able to be the about "homo" out of all the disciples and therefore was able to communicate with Jesus on a higher plane than say, Paul or Thomas). It likewise makes the bespeak that both this gospel and the sanctioned "canonical" gospels concord that Mary Magdalene was the beginning person that Jesus appeared to after his resurrection and through her testimony, the nativity of Christianity as we know information technology occurred (and not from Peter, the rock upon which His church was built) and that very notion is dangerous for the Church. In the Gospels of Mary, Mary Magdalene is framed as the but disciple who truly understands Jesus' spiritual message, which puts her in direct conflict with the apostle Peter. Mary describes to the other apostles a vision she has had of Jesus following his expiry. Peter grows hostile, request why Jesus would especially grant Mary — a woman — a vision.
Of course now I've ordered as many books nearly Mary Magdalene as I can get my hands on, and having read this testimony only furthers my frustration and disillusionment with the Church itself. Growing up I found it very hard to reconcile my feminism with the subservient roles forced upon women/femme presenting people, and found that whatever small (similar, microscopic) steps the Church took to "include" women in rituals (I was in the first wave of altar girls allowed to participate in Catholic Mass) were more to relieve face than to actually engage and encourage women to cleave out infinite for themselves in Catholicism. Between this and the farcical "purgatory" teachings, I don't empathise how anyone really could deny that the Church is non absolute, is in fact fallible, and directs the gospels as all-time benefits their bottom line. Four stars, although mayhap information technology should be five, since information technology clearly got me deep in some feels.
...more Fifty-fifty as a child, I had a deep intuition that Christianity was about radical love reflected from within and was deeply personal, not the multi-level marketing scheme of salvation that my church building emphasized. The Gospel of Mary just makes sense. Information technology compliments the radical bulletin in the New Testament of transformational love and radically changes the idea of "sin." Women are welcome and fifty-fifty central to this version of Christianity; we are not just here to delight our husbands and submit to them but to be leaders, teachers, and love by Christ as spiritual equals. Honestly, parts of this book were clunky, complicated, and likely went over my caput (charts, divine feminine versus masculine, etc.) However, this gospel felt like manna from heaven. If we could all observe our "nous" I tin can only imagine what this world would be similar. By chance, I recently read "The Alchemist" and "Siddhartha" which really echoed the ideas in the Gospel of Mary for anyone looking for extra reading.
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Well, information technology is in a footnote later all. And these are cardinal sins of the subsequent Church building of Rome. Pride goes to humility, animalism goes to brotherly/sisterly love, envy to beloved of knowledge, anger to cocky-controlled directed will, covetousness to poverty or independence, gluttony to both steadfastness and silence in the inner search [and this is interesting, because it is by no means intuitively obvious] and sloth to love of all of life. Well, these are non the Church of Rome'due south SOLUTIONS. Just yous tin can see that obviously Mary was a very special person, and that I am quite justified in recognizing her equally a Saint. ...more
When I started reading it I was a bit disappointed to larn that my younger cocky had purchased not only a translation of a translation merely also that the original translator was himself a very religious person. I figured this would upshot in all fashion of bias, which I'thousand certain is nowadays, bu
This is an incredibly interesting text, i which offers a lot of food for thought. Of grade the gospel itself is short and incomplete, but the commentary on it does a wonderful job of examining what is at that place.When I started reading it I was a flake disappointed to learn that my younger self had purchased non merely a translation of a translation simply besides that the original translator was himself a very religious person. I figured this would issue in all style of bias, which I'k sure is present, but I was pleasantly surprised to encounter that the bias wasn't glaring or obvious. In fact, though budgeted the interpretation from a conspicuously religious stand point, Leloup also brings a wonderful dose of intellectualism to the tabular array. His commentary includes comparisons with canonical and other gnostic gospels, highlighting where they are similar as a point of reference for estimation of sure passages.
It is a really interesting read, one that depicts a Christianity I could really get behind.
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Conspicuously, this idea of the What I found most intriguing in this gospel was the spiritual goal of existence "fully human" (anthropos). LeLoup argues in his commentary that humans are the span between sky and earth, and the nous, or college mind/spirit, is what allows humans to receive and reflect the Spirit of God. This nous is itself a bridge between soul and spirit, and LeLoup connects this to the realm of imagination (non in the sense of fantasy, but in the sense of forming images of the Real).
Conspicuously, this idea of the human and the nous is part of a larger tradition, which extends from the classical menstruum to the Renaissance and to today, although I would say about of current idea is impoverished by comparison.
Between the encouragement to become "fully human being" and the description of the spiritual climates that must exist passed through, I found this to be a refreshingly applied text. ...more
It feels more proto psychology/proto self aid, than standard texts. Though, today it seems basic, its interesting to see Mary looking inwards instead of outwards. If only misogyny wasn't appropriated inside Christianity, this gospel would proceed the faith electric current instead of archaic.
I was expecting more storytelling, unfortunately this lacks whatsoever. A gospel that seems more plumbing fixtures for today's society that other texts. Focusing on inner enlightenment than forces given unto us.
It feels more proto psychology/proto self help, than standard texts. Though, today it seems bones, its interesting to see Mary looking inwards instead of outwards. If only misogyny wasn't appropriated within Christianity, this gospel would proceed the faith current instead of archaic.
I was expecting more than storytelling, unfortunately this lacks any. ...more than
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