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February 24th, 2010 
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- ISBN13: 9780892819119
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Restores to the forefront of the Christian tradition the importance of the divine feminine.
* The first complete English-language translation of the original Coptic Gospel of Mary, with line-by-line commentary.
* Reveals the eminence of the divine feminine in Christian thought.
* Offers a new perspective on the life of one of the most controversial figures in the Western spiritual tradition. Perhaps no figure in biblical scholarship has been the … More >>
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Just another blatant attempt to corrupt the sacred scriptures. Elitest gnostic prattle that gives hope to those who would rewrite the Bible in order to create God in man’s image instead of the reverse.
Rating: 1 / 5
If these weren’t spiritual matters it would blow me away that the authors of these Mary Magdalene books can so easily create doctrines and write off the Gospel of the New Testament based on obscure and questionable documents that only recently “surfaced.” While writing off the faith of the historical and majority of Christiandom which is based on the Bible, they set forth a gospel of their own, decrying Biblical Christianity as ignorance while projecting their own views as “educated” and “scholarly”. Their Gospel is definately different than that declared by Jesus, Paul, Peter, James, and other in the New Testament. The Gospel of the New Testament has the power to save. Jesus came to earth to die in the place sinful humanity so that whoever would put his only hope of being made right before God (justification) can have eternal life through Christ taking our punishment on himself. Paul has something to say about this sort of thing in his letter to the Galatians: “I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel-not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed (Galatians 1:6-9)”
Rating: 1 / 5
I give this work two stars for existing at all – I had not seen this early pre-gnostic treasure and am pleased indeed to read it.
The cover indicates the ideals of the commentator – in what appears to be a medieval shampoo ad featuring an anorexic waif with improbable hair for one so undernourished. One would imagine that if Our Lord wished to sanctify the flesh he’d chose a mate with rather more of it. A similar over-intellectual diagram-rich and flesh-fearing commentary is attatched – with very little power to illumune us on the probable real Magdalena figure – just more fans for Ally McBeal in a wig.
It seems to be a good idea to revisit her most famous scene – it pops in and out of the canon and two different gospels but reads like an eye-witness account – here let me translate it for you and add a few questions.
Magdalena
And all went to their homes,
Jesus to the Olive Mount,
At dawn to be seen once more in the Temple,
The people all around Him,
He seated and teaching them,
She dragged in
By the writers and nit-pickers.
Rabbi – we took her red-handed,
By Moses Law she must be stoned!
What say you to that? Teacher?
Jesus bent to the earth and with his finger Wrote
She before him.
They hard hassling for his answer.
That man among you who has no error:
He will now be first to stone her?
He again to the ground inscribing dirt.
First the eldest – shamed – went
Then the rest of them.
Only Jesus remained
The woman standing.
He then with straight back, softly:
Where are they? Is there no soul left to Damn you?
Not one sir?
Nor I woman. Go now be free of fault.
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What sign, phrase or Signature of All Things did He write?
Who was she? Some whore, a girl as you or me, Pallas Athene?
Later, did she softly touch him, promise to be there for him:
At the eventual opening of Death?s Oven?
In that garden.
Was she very beautiful indeed?
Download the web version and skip the Gnostic spin.
Rating: 2 / 5
If you want a good book to read this pick this one up, you won’t be dissapointed.
Rating: 5 / 5
in a sense, magdalene was the first “christian”…
but now that mission [started by the misleading Petra Vati Canine(!)and “paul/saul”…AND carried to an extreme by the extremist doctrine and bigotry of Fundamentalism} has FAILED.
in that light, isn’t it time we reclaim the hour, the era?
make the semantic switch:
yeshua was a “magdelinian”…
so….
hail set and the bloodline of sarah! the goddess returns to reset the ba’alance! hail
Rating: 5 / 5