A Song of Songs: Mary Magdalene Awakes

A Song of Songs: Mary Magdalene Awakes

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  • Author: Jennifer Chapin
  • Publisher: Author House
  • ISBN: 1468569759
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 261

This is anovel about the return of Mary Magdalene at the end of time. It tells of her final incarnationasa young woman named Jenna who is born with a birthmark over her forehead shaped like the continent of Africa. Jennaisirreligious and tough, andunhappily immersed in the corporate world. Unbidden, she starts to have dreams and visions of a time with Christ, andthey become soreal that she crosses through time tofind herself weeping at hisfeetduringthecrucifixion. This is also a story about the Cathars in the Languedoc area of France. The Cathars embraced the idea of reincarnation. For this, andfor theirbelief indirect revelation and a dualistic universe of good and evil, theywere destroyedby the Catholic Church in the 13th century. In the process, their society was destroyed too as town after town was mercilessly razed by the crusaders andthousands put to death: men, women and children, none were spared. This became known as the first western genocide of Christian against Christian. Because of theCathars, the Church gave birth to the Inquisition. The Cathars loved Mary Magdalene, andbelievedthat she was the beloved of Christ and the keeper of his teachings. Their story is interwoven with the Knights Templar who were embedded in the Languedoc, and with Jenna's ongoing odyssey as she comes to full awareness ofwho she is. Ultimately, this is a story about love that does not depend on time. It is also a warning about the end of time.


Patterns of Creation

Patterns of Creation

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  • Author: Stephen Pope
  • Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
  • ISBN: 1780991185
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 291

This book is a radical exploration of the mystical teachings in the Gospel of John. It helps the reader to experience these spiritual truths for themselves, and go beyond the everyday mind, which is dominated by the ego and realize their eternal Being, which Johns Gospel calls Logos. By approaching the teachings in a meditative state, the symbolism contained within the Greek text opens out and comes alive in the present moment. The Gospel is not a historical document; it speaks directly to each person now and the states of consciousness represented in the stories are accessible now. The book contains guided meditations to help bring this to life for the reader. This awakening concerns our relationship with the whole of life. Spiritual consciousness means that we are aware of the sacredness of our connections to each other as fellow human beings, and to the creatures of the natural world. Christ and the Logos contain both masculine and feminine in balance; at this critical time, our well-being and that of our fellow creatures is dependent on this realization. ,


A Commentary on the Song of Songs

A Commentary on the Song of Songs

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  • Author: Richard Frederick Littledale
  • Publisher:
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  • Category : Bible
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 480


The Song of Songs in the Early Middle Ages

The Song of Songs in the Early Middle Ages

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  • Author: Hannah W. Matis
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004389253
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 263

In The Song of Songs in the Early Middle Ages, Hannah W. Matis examines how the Song of Songs, the collection of Hebrew love poetry, was understood in the Latin West as an allegory of Christ and the church. This reading of the biblical text was passed down via the patristic tradition, established by the Venerable Bede, and promoted by the chief architects of the Carolingian reform. Throughout the ninth century, the Song of Songs became a text that Carolingian churchmen used to think about the nature of Christ and to conceptualize their own roles and duties within the church. This study examines the many different ways that the Song of Songs was read within its early medieval historical context.


The Song of Songs of Solomon

The Song of Songs of Solomon

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  • Author: Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon
  • Publisher:
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  • Category : Bible
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 146


The Fly in the Ointment: The Mysteries of Mary Magdalene

The Fly in the Ointment: The Mysteries of Mary Magdalene

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  • Author: Jennifer Smith
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • ISBN: 1304873811
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 376

Mary Magdalene was the principle witness of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus as told in the Christian gospels: the grief-stricken scarlet woman at the foot of the cross, clutching her jar of ointment, her hair loose like that of the maenads. Yet by the sixth century, Mary, once called the Tower, had fallen into disrepute as a sinner and prostitute. Mary was never a martyr, but tradition has her exiled to a solitary cave, where she was not a threat to the established church until she emerged after the rediscovery of the heretical Gnostic texts. In these, Mary Magdalene is the beloved companion of Jesus, the disciple who "knew the all." As with her predecessor Eve, she bears the sin of desiring knowledge and is condemned for it. The question of whether Mary Magdalene can be identified with Mary of Bethany has become merely another means of reducing her authority. In the gospels, Jesus said that his anointer should be remembered for all generations, yet she remains maligned and undefended-until now.


On the Song of Songs and Selected Writings

On the Song of Songs and Selected Writings

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  • Author: Saint Bede (the Venerable)
  • Publisher: Paulist Press
  • ISBN: 0809147009
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 385

In one series, the original writings of the universally acknowledged teachers of the Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish, and Islamic traditions have been critically selected, translated, and introduced by internationally recognized scholars and spiritual leaders. Book jacket.


The Song of Songs of the King and His Bride

The Song of Songs of the King and His Bride

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  • Author: Charles Walker Ray
  • Publisher:
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  • Category : Bible
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 560


Mary Magdalene

Mary Magdalene

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  • Author: Bruce Chilton
  • Publisher: Image
  • ISBN: 0385513186
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 242

After two thousand years of flawed history, here at last is a magnificent new biography of Mary Magdalene that draws her out of the shadows of history and restores her to her rightful place of importance in Christianity.Throughout history, Mary Magdalene has been both revered and reviled, a woman who has taken on many forms—witch, whore, the incarnation of the eternal feminine, the devoted companion (and perhaps even the wife) of Jesus. In this brilliant new biography, Bruce Chilton, a renowned biblical scholar, offers the first complete and authoritative portrait of this fascinating woman. Through groundbreaking interpretations of ancient texts, Chilton shows that Mary played a central role in Jesus’ ministry and was a seminal figure in the creation of Christianity. Chilton’s descriptions of who Mary Magdalene was and what she did challenge the male-dominated history of Christianity familiar to most readers. Placing Mary within the traditions of Jewish female savants, Chilton presents a visionary figure who was fully immersed in the mystical practices that shaped Jesus’ own teachings and a woman who was a religious master in her own right.


The Secret Teachings of Mary Magdalene

The Secret Teachings of Mary Magdalene

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  • Author: Claire Nahmad
  • Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
  • ISBN: 1780284764
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 498

This in-depth commentary on the lost material of The Gospel of Mary Magdalene presents Jesus’ most important—and misunderstood—disciple as you’ve never seen her before Discovered in fragments in Egypt in 1945, The Gospel of Mary remains one of the most controversial texts of early Christianity. This translation of Mary’s teachings, from the original Greek and Coptic, offers a unique new perspective: authors Claire Nahmad and Margaret Bailey utilized “inner listening” to uncover lost material, and they present Mary’s ideas in the form of a dialogue between the (risen) Savior and His disciples. Most importantly, The Secret Teachings of Mary Magdalene includes a description by Mary of special revelations given to her by Jesus. Nahmad and Bailey argues that Mary was not just the consort of Christ but the feminine Christ herself, and in their view, the partnership between Jesus and Mary exemplifies the crucial balance of male and female in spiritual and corporeal life. It’s an interpretation that uncovers a rich subtext in Mary's words, offering wisdom on an extraordinary range of concerns—from the origins of the human race to the pathway to Christlike consciousness.