The Big Dipper is also known as the Shepherd, Meru, the Casket of Osiris, the Plough, and the Great Bear. The word bear has additional meaning when interpreted as a verb. To bear means to bring forth, support, sustain and affirms the idea of a sustaining vibration ringing from the Great Bear. It puts us in a better position to understand what was really meant when Jesus appears in the book of Revelation holding seven stars in his hand. I propose these seven stars are cosmic rays from the Big Dipper. They interface with the seven chakras or energy centers of the body.
Gregg Rigby, author of On Earth As It Is In Heaven, has discovered that a ground pattern, which is a duplication of the seven stars of Ursa Major, exists in Northern France. The ancient peoples were aware that the earth acts a mirror to the energies of the cosmos. Ursa Major has been associated with wisdom and those who come to teach it. The seven points that make up the pattern are marked by Gothic cathedrals, suggesting that the Templars understood “the mystery of the seven stars” and marked the locations where their energy was concentrated.
As the cosmic vibrations or Waters of Life from Ursa Major, also known as the Dove, pour over the Earth this is the descent of the Holy Spirit, symbolized in Christian art by a dove. As the data provided by Gnostic accounts reveals, Jesus and Mary Magdalene knew the secret of the ‘en-Christed’ pineal and its ability to refine the oil and release secretions that contain the secrets of life. Christos! It is this oil that causes the flash of light, the raising of illumination of consciousness – or – glow-ray-fi-cation - of the individual.
The essential human dilemma, however, is that our (pineal) candles are not lit. None of our elevators goes to the top. This is because our pineal glands are encrusted or calcified. De-calcifying the pineal is the same as enjoying it, en-Christing it.
THE DESPOSYNI
The transformation caused by en-Christing oneself has genetic, biological and chromosomal consequences. It also has ethnic attributes. A new strain of humans may have arisen in the blink of an eye as a result of Jesus and Mary Magdalene’s use of such a transmutational Force. The account in the book of Genesis of the ‘Sons of God and Daughters of Men’ is another example of the genetic infusion I am describing. This mating of the worlds also represented an infusion of fields of consciousness, one human, one nonhuman, ‘extra’ or ‘ultraterrestrial’. There are many documented cases of electromagnetic effects in conjunction with paranormal phenomena.
This implantation or blossoming of genes with cosmic rays and interlacing of human and nonhuman fields of consciousness adds a new dimension to the hunting of the Desposyni, a Greek word dusted off and brought to light in the early 1960s by Father Malachi Martin that literally meant “belonging to the Lord.” It was a sacred name reserved only for Jesus’ blood relatives, especially James the Just, as the legitimate apostolic successors of Jesus, rather than Peter. Some claim the Desposyni also included the blood relatives of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. After the Crucifixion, the Desposyni were murdered by the Romans and despised by the Church. Many fled to France with Mary Magdalene.
The family of Jesus and Mary Magdalene was persecuted for many reasons, but none would be more epic than if it was because they were a higher, hybrid form of ‘enchristed’ human who threatened the Church’s authority. Alchemy historian Jay Weidner has called this higher form of human Homo Luminous, the illumined human. Set to unleash the secrets of the ages, and possibly create a planet full of spiritually actualized Christ-like beings, Jesus was executed as a revolutionary by the Roman world order.
What happened to these lost teachings? It is claimed the Templars benefited from documents passed down from the Desposyni in their excavations at Solomon’s Temple.
This book upholds Mary Magdalene as the supreme initiate of Jesus, and the ‘mother’ of the Desposyni, who was conversant in the secrets of the Kingdom of Light and the Secret of the Temple (the brain, the dome). She was a light bearer, most certainly. In addition, she was conversant in the secrets of the Cross, also called the Stairway to Heaven and the key to the means by which it was scaled, bliss, the state of mind created by Christos and the key required to enter the Kingdom.
The noun bliss has only one meaning: a state of extreme happiness. It is freedom from attachment, freedom from unconditioned responses. It is freedom from fear. It is pure love. It was this knowledge that transformed Jesus from a wise man into his godlike status. Its synonyms are beatitude, blessedness, cheer, and joy. These come very close.
Bliss is sometimes referred to as ‘the seventh heaven’. This is straight out of cabalistic doctrine. Seven corresponds to the seven devils of which Mary Magdalene was cured, the seven days of creation, the seven rungs of perfection, seven chakras, seven celestial stairs, the seven heads of the wise naga serpent of the underworld, the seven branches of the shaman’s cosmic and sacrificial tree.
All the different aspects of seven symbolism returns us to the single problem focused on by Jesus and Mary Magdalene: the secret of bliss, ecstasy or merry ness. This pure unadulterated faith and practice of Jesus and MM is what we seek.
THE PURE ONES
In the Nazarene tradition, the title given to those who achieved this exalted and blissful state was “the Poor Ones” (Galatians 2:10, James 2:3-5) or ebyon in Hebrew. The Ebyonites or Ebionites are considered heretics. They recognized Jesus as Messiah, but not as God. Importantly, the Ebionites revered the Desposyni.
In Journey of the Magi Paul William Roberts notes that the word translated as ‘poor’ - drigu - is the origin of the Persian ‘Darvish’ or ‘Dervish’ - a name still used for certain (whirling) sects of Muslim Sufi mystics - and it had a specific and special sense, meaning a pure, devout, and humble person, a true follower of Zoroastrian doctrine: a believer. A dervish was also known as ‘one at the door to enlightenment’. (For more on the dervishes please see my book Egypt: The Greatest Show On Earth).
The Poor originally was applied to Christians because they came from lower social groups and tended to be poor (Gal. 2:10, Acts 11:28-30, 24:17, Rom. 15:25-31, 1 Cor. 1:26-29, 16:1-2, 2 Cor. 8-9). This term refers not only to their humble ways, but also to their “low” or “poor” opinion of Jesus, so it is said, and to their demotion of him from Son of God to ordinary man who became the Cosmic Christ through an anointing oil or perfume provided by Mary Magdalene. Remember, Jesus said: “Blessed are the poor, for the kingdom of Heaven is theirs.”Mat. 5:3 In light of this, it is reasonable to propose that poor is a play on pure. It refers to a blissful state of mind, a way of being created by Christos. The Poor were also known as “the Children of the Light.” Let us remember that the Templars called themselves Poor Knights and Jacobus was known as a ‘poor man’, as well as the Peacemaker. In a moment, we will meet another group of ‘poor’ people who mightily influenced the re-imaging of Mary Magdalene.
Obviously, Jacobus’ tale of the illumined Magdalene, whose story prompts us to look inward to the functioning of our mystic anatomy, is far different from the image of a fallen and redeemed ‘Madge’ from Magdala presented by the Church. As powerful and inspirational as this image is – if a person as low as she can be redeemed, anyone can – it is a false image. As we will see, it arose from a wild misinterpretation in the sixth century.
When Jacobus dove into the story of the Magdalene seven centuries later he emerged with a shining new Magdalene. His ‘enlightening’ of Mary Magdalene is radical, controversial and contrary to the Christian folk images of her. However, we will be exploring biblical and other literary evidence that supports the re-enlightening of the woman the Gospels call the Apostle of the Apostles. She was a hard core esoteric researcher and practitioner.
For the record, this sort of re-imaging, rediscovery or accentuation of the positive attributes of historic figures happens. Jesus, himself, has gone through several historical re-visions or makeovers.
The ‘historical preservation’ activities at Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington are a prime current-era example of the way in which, by simply sh
ifting the light, new facets or new dimensions of a figure’s personality are revealed. Through computer imaging and forensics scientists have determined that Washington was once a buff stud. Before Washington was middle-aged and the father of America, he was a tall, strapping 19-year-old surveyor who still had all his teeth. At Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens a new, life-size image of Washington with auburn hair and gray-blue eyes has appeared. The folks at Mount Vernon are hoping the new George will help Americans see him as he was before he was famous, before Gilbert Stuart painted him in the portrait that appeared on the dollar bill, back when he was an “adventurous, athletic, risk-taking, courageous kind of action hero,” Jim Rees, the estate’s executive director, told the Washington Post. Reading between the lines, we are witnessing the remaking Washington for marketing purposes. Fortunately, they’re rebuilding his distillery too.
The focus at Mount Vernon is on the physical image and persuading teens to look up to Washington.
If you want to look up to Washington forget about his teen years. Try visiting the U.S. Capitol. There one can see the father of the country deified. In 1865 Constantino Brumidi painted “The Apotheosis of George Washington” in the eye of the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. It shows Washington raised from a man into a god-man. He was deified and now is in the company of Zeus, Athena, Osiris and other great civilizers. The transformation of Washington into divus Washington and his ascension to the stars is an important example of how the story of ‘messianic’ figures is conveyed orally and visually. But that story is for another book. Our interest is in the apotheosis of Mary Magdalene.
My proposal is that Jacobus was responsible for turning the crystal and revealing a hidden facet to Mary Magdalene – the Illuminator. This is an apotheosized Magdalene we can look up to. While other authors dropped ‘the Illuminator bomb’ in their books, none have attempted to present evidence for why Mary Magdalene earned this distinction. This is the aim of this book.
In the ‘Good Book’ Mary Magdalene first appears in the Gospel of Luke8:2-3 as one of several apparently wealthy women Jesus cures of possession, who join him and the Apostles and provided for them.
Says Luke: “The Twelve accompanied Him, and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and maladies: Mary called the Magdalene, from whom seven devils had gone out, Joanna, the wife of Herod’s steward Chuza, Susanna, and many others who were assisting them out of their means”. Lk 8:1-3
Mary Magdalene is next found embalming Jesus with oil. Next, standing at the foot of the cross (Mark 15:40; Matthew 27:56; John 19:25; Luke 23:49). She assisted in the entombment of Jesus, and she was the first recorded witness of the Resurrection.
The oil.
The cross.
The tomb.
The gate.
These are among the greatest mysteries ever. At the center of all of them is MM, the Illuminator.
To aid us in our quest to illuminate the mysteries of the oil, cross, tomb and gate we will be using symbols of a mystic religion that circulated in France shortly after the time of Jacobus. The Cathars of Southern France, who called themselves ‘the Pure Ones’ and whose lineage is traced to the Essenes and the Gnostics, constructed a symbol system that symbolist Harold Bayley says became the repository for their secret tradition or gospel of Jesus. These symbols are among the most remarkable to be found anywhere. They were created by a group who claimed to be descendents of the Desposyni who fled into the Alpine valleys to escape the persecutions of Nero and Diocletian. Their aim was to destroy the Catholic Church and teach their purer gospel.
These mystics called themselves the Albigenses. They were known as the “Good people,” Bon (French for ‘good’). Their Italian name “Cathari” is from a Greek root signifying “the Pure Ones”. The Bon are obviously the Ebyon (e-bon-ites or ebionites), the poor ones.
The Cathars enjoyed immense popularity during the 12-13th centuries, coincident with the rise of the Templars and the ascension of Mary Magdalene in literary and mystic circles. This was probably not a coincidence.
The Pure Ones claimed to possess a direct revelation from Jesus. They believed that he was an angel who had come to awaken the souls asleep in matter. They considered all humans to be angels in a “dormant” divine state, angels imprisoned with a physical being. Human beings are descendents of fallen angels and are thus angels themselves, either by heredity or by the transmigration of souls. There exists only one sin: a rupture with God. Thus the human being – lives on this earth to pay penitence, to expiate its rupture from God, and to win back its angelic status.
These Good Christians called their church AMOR (‘love’). These innocents were slaughtered en masse by what we today would call a terrorist organization – the Church of ROMA, the Catholic Church – in the first European genocide in order to prevent their competing religious beliefs – the revived religion of Jesus – from spreading.
The keynote of the Cathar character was industry, and it is said that the axiom “Work is Prayer” had its origin among them. It is noteworthy that their primary industry was paper manufacturing.
The Cathars created a language of symbols and emblems that, beginning in 1280, were used as trademarks, decorative devices and watermarks to covertly convey the teachings of their religion after the genocide. Fashioning these symbols out of wire, they pressed them between pages of paper leaving them embedded for posterity. When the paper was held to the light, voila, the symbol appeared between the pages.
In the early 20th century Harold Bayley collected many of these symbols. He proposed that these emblems are actually thought-fossils or thought-crystals in which lie enshrined the original mystic religion of Christianity.
One of the first emblems Bayley presents in his book The Lost Language of the Symbolism is a pair of holy spectacles shown on the next page. These spectacles, says Bayley, possessed a fairy-like faculty to reveal surprising wonders. Among other purposes this symbol enabled the Cathars to recognize one another.
The emblem shown below combines the heart, the three rays and the word ‘le bon’, the Good. The three rays appear repeatedly in mystic teachings. They symbolize the three lights of enlightenment. Interestingly, Akhenaton’s daughter points to a 3-rayed symbol that could be a match for the three rays.
The Cathars were the Bon or Good People.
The Bible states that God is Light and also that God is Love. John tells us that when the Love-Light is developed from within us, when we can see, we shall love our fellow travelers as God has loved us. It is then that we shall know the first and last wonders of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth: we are all One.
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THE TOWER OF LIGHT
The bible provides no personal details of Mary Magdalene’s age, appearance, status or family. According to Jacobus’ legendary account, she was of noble (“blue blood”) lineage. Her father was called Syrus, and her mother Eucharia. Together with her ‘brother’ Lazarus and her ‘sister’ Martha, she was the possessor of the fortified town of Magdala, often identified as a hamlet 120 miles north of Jerusalem on the Sea of Galilee. Magdala was a wealthy town known for its opulence. The Romans destroyed it because of the moral depravity of its inhabitants. As Rome was a state organized around inflicting terror this ‘moral depravity’ must have really been something if it even offended Rome.
Like other women of high birth, including Isis in Egypt, Mari-Inanna and Ishtar of Mesopotamia, and Asherah in Canaan, Mary Magdalene was associated with a pillar or tower. Her name ‘Magdalene’, it is widely claimed, means ‘Watch tower’ or simply ‘Tower’ and refers to the ‘tower’ at Magdala.
Magdala is one of those multi-faceted jewels or kaleidoscopic literary catchwords (like ‘rosebud’ and ‘illuminati’) whose meaning depends entirely upon the perspective of the viewer. The sound alike name Magada is suggested as an alternate. The common root is mag (to move in Sanskrit), which gives us so many words indicating authority, wisdom and superiority: Magnum (‘great’), magnificent, magnanimous, magic, mogul, ma
jesty, majestic. The Magi, the occult masters of Iran, were widely known for their Christ-seeking skills.
Interestingly, it is thought that May is derived from mag. It was around the phallic May-pole (majka or maj), a vertical post or tower that symbolically connects heaven and earth, that the ancients danced the ringdance to celebrate Beltane, when, in a mist, the ancient Shining Ones came through the air to teach skill, knowledge and perfect wisdom in the form of Four Grail Treasures. This dance is still performed today. I will use • to symbolize the tower from the top down perspective and as a symbol for the tower with a ring around it. Importantly, this symbol is also the Egyptian glyph for ‘sun’ and ‘light’.
The suffix dala of Mag-dala offers some interesting and helpful associations of its own, appearing in the curiously resonant amgydala, and also in mandala (Sanskrit for circular or round, ), ritualistic geometric designs or energy patterns symbolic of the universe, used in Hinduism and Buddhism as an aid to meditation. Another dala word is Dalai Lama, the title of the spiritual and political leader of Tibet who is believed to be the incarnation of Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion, whose soul jumps like a fish into the body of an infant upon the Dalai Lama’s death.
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