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 volume 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.
Thank you for being a vessel through which you, and then the world, shall know that even in the human experience, there is Only Love.
The significance of the divine feminine nature is brought back to the fore in this book within the Christian tradition: - The first comprehensive translation into English of the Coptic Gospel of Mary, replete with line-by-line commentary - ...
This book upholds Mary Magdalene as the supreme initiate of Jesus, and the 'mother' of the Desposyni, ... the seven heads of the wise naga serpent of the underworld, the seven branches of the shaman's cosmic and sacrificial tree.
The Law of Light is the result of his many years spent studying Aramaic and the techniques of Yeshua (Jesus). Yeshua spoke Aramaic.
In the parched soil of Provence, a fifth gospel has been discovered.
Dean Inge observes that Augustine repeats this verbatim. Basilides, quoted in Mead, G. R. S. (1906), 267. Augustine, who in his youth was 'fired by the works of Plotinus', writes of a vision in the very words of Plotinus: 'My mind ...
In addition, the book explores the many myths of Jesus and the Goddess and unlocks the lost secret teachings of Christian mysticism, which promise happiness and immortality to those who attain the state of Gnosis, or enlightenment.
In this volume, Marvin W. Meyer has produced a new English translation for general readers of four of the most important and revealing of these early Christian texts -- the Secret Book of James, the Gospel of Thomas, the Book of Thomas, and ...
In this volume, Marvin W. Meyer has produced a new English translation for general readers of four of the most important and revealing of these early Christian texts -- the Secret Book of James, the Gospel of Thomas, the Book of Thomas, and ...
These became known as the Nag Hammadi library, a collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts, written in Greek and dating back to the 1st century AD. Dismissed as heresy by the Orthodox Church, in many of these gnostic texts, Mary ...