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BBarton
7/24/2002 2:30 PM
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Is anyone familiar with this Gospel? Much of it is missing, but there is much insight on the relationship of Peter to Mary. He held her in contempt and the broader message of what Jesus had relayed to her was discounted by Peter and the part of the church that put subjugation of people for political and monetary gain above serving the people and living the one law of love. If you want to read up and discuss, it may be found at two sites I know of:
www.reluctant.messenger.com/gospel-magdalene.htm. and...
www.sol.com.au/kor/7_03.htm
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Jim1
7/24/2002 10:49 PM
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This Gospel is title after the Magdelene not the Virgin. The acrimony between Peter and Mary M. is an interesting one. But not in your face in this Gospel. Peter was the first Pope of Rome and charged with administering the Pauline church in Rome whereas the Jerusalem Church was headed by James the Brother of Jesus who was the Pope to the Jews in the Holy Land. Some recent interpretations of the dead sea scrolls reveal that the Jerusalem church was entrusted with presering the traditions of Jesus through familial connections and the Peterine Church was entrusted with the succession rights to the first Pope (Bishop) of Rome. Over time, the Petrine church inherited the assets of the empire while the Jersulsam church struggled with the Romanization of Palestine.
What does all this mean ? According to recent research Mary Magdelene was the mother of Jesus' children whose bloodline was presented through the Jerusalem church in an effort to preserve the familial inheritance while Rome organized it's assets against heresy and launched numerous inquisitions or campaigns against the Cathars, the Albigensians, Gnostics, Essenes and all sorts of threats to its organization
The Gospel is an allegory of the conflict bewteen apostolic succussion (Peter) and the rights of the bloodline (Mary). This gospel was written much later on in the centuries ahead of Jesus' inheritance of the new covenant that originates with Herod the Great.
Anyway the acrimony between Peter and Mary is symbolic of the first few centuries of Christianity. We all knwo who won the conflict
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BBarton
7/25/2002 8:44 AM
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Thank you Jim.
I have come across the speculations of Mary and Jesus having a child, but nothing was ever evidenced. Is there anything beyond maginings in this regard that you know of?
Even without a bloodline entered into the equation, there is much offered in the short text about freedom of thought to be; rather than behave. It also demonstrates the dewomanizing of God by Peter and his ilk...er, successors. If God is to be omnipotent, he would not be stuck up in heaven away from his creation, but even in the mother earth and each of us, no?
What they kept us from, is free thinking and tricked us into damning ourselves and eachother by convincing us, love is a weakness, and permitted the many forms of defilement to womanhood from earth to all her emanations by not valuing the diviness of her. The law of love is the one true law of the universe. None of their rules, laws, and traditions are of worth if they to ignore the one law.
I think our reality is the manifestation of our reverence or lack thereof.
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Jim1
7/25/2002 6:14 PM
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Totally agree with you BBarton. The feminine elements of life have been completley suppressed in exchange for technical scientific mastery over the physical elements of the universe.
I don't think any conspiracy is organized around that although I do believe that many scared works were detroyed in the inquisitions in order to erase the histories of alternate christianities that are hinted at in movies like Lord of the Rings and Star Wars.
The female principle (the princess) is overall ruler of her kingdom which is suppressed and oppressed by the evil empire - or the technical wizardry of science and silicon. Darth Vader being the ultimate arbitar of the system - phsycially represented by the shiney mettalic uniform of purity in mathematics and conformity to the system.
Lord of the Rings is a fascinating "turn-about" movie
Regards
Jim
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