“So, Mary is on fire with both love and awareness, for these two together increase each other into sacred passion. She defies all custom, seizes the moment, rushes in, and, full of reverence, washes His feet with her tears and anoints His head with precious spikenard oil.”
Source: Rethinking Redemption
“Sexuality is a multidimensional gift and act. It is a gifting through the act. It is a deep, spiritual connection with the partner and it’s also a pledge – to the Beings that we consciously call down when we conceive.”
Source: The Magdalene Lineage: Past Life Journeys Into the Sacred Feminine Mysteries
“How things appear is only the thin, papery outer skin of the onion. Of course, when you cut open the onion, your eyes will sting and water, and then you can't see at all. You're lucky if you don't slice your finger.”
“In medieval India, the Hindu Vaishnava system of bhakti-yoga (devotional yoga) developed highly sophisticated categories of relation (rasa) to God, including santa (awe and reverence), vatsalya (parental attitude toward God), dasya (servant of God), sakhya (being friends and playmates with God), and madburya (passionate, romantic love).”
Source: Invoking Mary Magdalene: Accessing the Wisdom of the Divine Feminine
“The common perception is that when a woman is pregnant, she is most beautiful and radiates the perfection of her beauty and power.”
Source: The Magdalene Lineage: Past Life Journeys Into the Sacred Feminine Mysteries
“It is evident that while she was a devoted mother, she was always conducting her responsibilities as a mother with a sense of higher consciousness. It is almost like she is weaving the threads of her existence and those closest to her into the Web of Consciousness by her actions.”
Source: The Magdalene Lineage: Past Life Journeys Into the Sacred Feminine Mysteries
“It is interesting to see that Mary Magdalene is in line with these Gnostic principles, where she focuses on the Divine Consciousness and the internal Divine Spark, in everyone, as well as in nature.”
Source: The Magdalene Lineage: Past Life Journeys Into the Sacred Feminine Mysteries
“We teach her about developing a relationship with her own Divine Being. We say that eventually she will learn that the Divine Being and [she] are One.”
Source: The Magdalene Lineage: Past Life Journeys Into the Sacred Feminine Mysteries
“There were icons of the Magdalen on the walls and paintings in the Western manner, all kitsch, trash. Mary M., Lucas thought, half hypnotized by the chanting in the room beside him; Mary Moe, Jane Doe, the girl from Migdal in Galilee turned hooker in the big city. The original whore with the heart of gold. Used to be a nice Jewish girl, and the next thing you know, she's fucking the buckos of the Tenth Legion Fratensis, fucking the pilgrims who'd made their sacrifice at the Temple and were ready to party, the odd priest and Levite on the sly.
"Maybe she was smart and funny. Certainly always on the lookout for the right guy to take her out of the life. Like a lot of whores, she tended towards religion. So along comes Jesus Christ, Mr. Right with a Vengeance, Mr. All Right Now! Fixes on her his hot, crazy eyes and she's all, Anything, I'll do anything. I'll wash your feet with my hair. You don't even have to fuck me.”
Source: Damascus Gate
“And sometimes men fail, I answered silently. Sometimes they don't forgive. Sometimes what you see is only the bright surface of something cold and deep.”
Source: The Passion of Mary Magdalen