Mary Magdalene The Illuminator (v5.0)

by William Henry

  In the past few years the scientifically rooted concept of wormholes and star gates, also called the Einstein-Rosen bridge, have become popular topics of such television shows as Star Trek: The Next Generation and Sliders and movies such as Stargate and Contact which feature ancient stargate technology for opening wormholes in space/time.

  The Age of Aquarius – symbolized by a human pouring water from a jar – is that of our ascension to the stars. It is the Stargate Age.

  THE DIVINE PASSAGE AND SOLOMON’S KEY

  This idea of the Divine Passage or gateway is central to Gnostic belief. In the second century AD, the Gnostics picked up on Plato’s idea and described the sphere of Earth being surrounded by a 12-angled pyramid. These 12 angles are described as “eyes”, “pipes,” and even more fascinating to our story, as “holes” in the Earth. In the human brain what do we find? Twelve Cranial Nerves.

  Plato had good company in his belief about the 12-angled Earth. According to one account, Hippasus, a follower of Pythagoras, was drowned at sea for revealing the secret of the 12-angled Earth. This secret was alluded to by the logo of the Pythagoreans, the pentagram or pentagon, which composes the . Harold Bayley says this is the famous Seal with which King Solomon (c. 1100 B.C.) is said to have worked his amazing marvels. In Egypt, the five-pointed star in circle was the symbol for the Duat, which has literally been interpreted as a “stargate,” the entrance to the Underworld. Venus is the morning star which precedes the sun out of the Underworld. Among Solomon’s mythical feats with this key was the manufacture of the gold used to line the cube-shaped Holy of Holies (the Oracle) of his Temple by alchemical means.

  Intriguingly, in Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt Rundle Clarke noted the concept of the Duat as both a place in the “otherworld” and an earthly location, which was also located in Sumer, specifically at Enki’s temple site at Eridu. He interpreted it as a midway station for souls.

  The Duat, , or Hidden Place, was sometimes conceived as a completely enclosed Circle of the Gods, formed by the body of Osiris. At the head-point there was an opening to the skies symbolized by the goddess Nut, through which the imperishable star (symbolized by the celestial disk) could be reached (see below).

  The gods ride upon their ship. Turning the image upside down, one can see Nut (the sky) who receives the ring of the Sun. She is standing on the head of Osiris who, with his body, encircles the Duat.

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  MYSTICAL MAGDALA AND FISH CODE CLUES

  “…and a threefold cord is not easily broken”

  Ecclisiastes 4:12

  Jane Schaberg, Professor of Religious Studies and Women’s Studies at the University of Detroit Mercy provided a most intriguing link between Mary and Magdala in her book The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene. She notes that Migdal or Magdala has a very high place in women’s mystical and literary traditions for its connection to the daughters of Job, who died there. Rabbinical tradition claims they lived there, too.

  This tradition, recorded in the Testament of Job, a first century document that may have circulated with the Hermas is highly important and incredibly exciting. As we will see, the story of Job’s daughters reveals ancient Magdala had an otherworldly connection. In fact, as a literary reference ‘Magdala’ may have meant something like ‘Wonderland’ or ‘Oz’ means today. That is, a magical place associated with knowledge of extraordinary beings that dwell in an otherworldly locale accessed via a (worm) hole in space-time or via whirlwinds. Here’s the story.

  Job is the son of Jacob’s brother, Esau. He had a lot of family history to work through. His father, the eldest son of Isaac and Rebecca, was tricked into selling his birthright (ruler ship of Israel) to his twin brother, Jacob, for a mess of pottage. He tried in vain to regain his blessing. Jacob went on to experience the Ladder to Heaven, during which he traveled into the heavenly realms and returned to earth declaring the site of his experience a terrible place and the “gate to God.” Jacob then set-up a pillar to mark the spot (called Luz) and poured oil upon it. Afterwards, he founded the 12-tribe nation of Israel.

  According to all midrash, Esau also became a very significant character in world history. It is Esau who is regarded as the forefather of Rome and the Roman Empire. The fierce enmity between the Romans and the Jews is traced to the struggle between Jacob and Esau.

  Job was mixed-up in the early conflicts and most likely suffered from having to bear the cross of the family name of Esau, which came to metaphorically stand for anyone who was tricked into a worthless bargain.

  In the opening of the Testament of Job the patriarch is feeling ill. Perceiving that his stewardship was nearly over Job gathered his ten children, whom he considered the ‘chosen ones’. “In all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job’s daughters,” says the Book of Job.42:14-15 Dove, Cinnamon and Horn of Kohl were the meanings of their names. In the Testament of Job the sisters were called Day, Kasia and Amaltheia’s Horn.

  He called his daughter and said to her, “take the signet ring, go to the chamber and bring me the three golden boxes so that I may give you an inheritance.” And she went away and brought them. And he opened them and brought forth “Three bands, shimmering, so that no man could describe their form since they are not from earth but from heaven, flashing with bright sparks like rays of the sun.”

  One of Job’s daughters complains that this isn’t much by way of inheritance. “We won’t be able to sustain our life from them, will we?” She asks.

  The three Mary’s of the New Testament ring of Job’s three daughters and the three golden boxes.

  And Job replied to them, “not only will you sustain life from these, but these bands will also lead you into the better world, to live in the heavens.

  In fact, according to Job, the Lord gave him these cords.

  The name of each sash corresponds to the wisdom or magic it acts as a conduit for when the person wears the sash: the “Spirit,” the “Creation of the Heavens,” and “The Paternal Splendor” (Testament of Job 46:1 – 51:4).

  When Day put on the cord she went out of her body, put on a new heart and never again cared for earthly things. Then, she sang angelic hymns in the language of the angels.

  Her sister’s heart was also transformed the moment she put on this sash. She too no longer wished for worldly things. And when she opened her mouth she suddenly spoke the language of the rulers (archons). And when she sang her hymns, the Testament of Job tells us they were loaded with insight into the workings of the heavens.

  The same singing and speaking the language of the angels happened when Job’s third daughter, Amalthea, put on the shimmering sash. These sashes and their oddities caught my attention as they reminded me the three rays of the Bon and of the fluer-de-lis. Significantly, the Knights Templar wore three-fold cords or sashes around the waist by that connected them to a strange idol (a head), which, among other charges, led to their persecution. It is claimed the Templars possessed the secrets of Jesus and may have protected the descendents of Jesus and Mary Magdalene (more later).

  THE ARCHONS

  The primary key to perceiving the mystical knowledge enfolded in The Testament of Job is the Archons. These provocative beings are featured in one of the most astonishing books in the Nag Hammadi collection the Hypostasis of the Archons. It reveals that the Gnostics, including Mary Magdalene, studied the existence of an immaterial world inhabited by demigods called archons and eons, beings that were half human and half divine. According to John Lash’s interpretation of Gnostic literature, these beings came from the galactic center.

  The Hypostasis of the Archons says the evil archons clothed man in a material body, a casket or tomb (of flesh and bone). They contrived to keep Adam and Eve, along with their Divine Particles trapped in matter, enslaved forever in the wheel of reincarnation as tillers of the Garden of Eden. In this way humans serve food for the rulers (more on this subject momentarily).

  Although the various Gnostic cosmogonies differ slightly in details, they share the
core concept of the duality of worlds. In all Gnostic systems, the “true God” resides in the “realm of Light,” while the soul, or “divine spark”, is imprisoned in a body on Earth in the evil “realm of Darkness.” The soul is enclosed in seven “vestments” or “soul-garments”. The only escape is to acquire self-knowledge and to ignite the divine spark.

  Are these ‘malachim’ from the Baghdad Museum the archons?

  Our divine spark or “solar drop,” perceived by some as a drop of molten gold or as a tapering flame (in ceremony illuminati were given a lighted taper, notes Webster’s), is called the “indestructible drop” in Tibetan yoga. As beings of light our soul drop is both a wave or ray and a particle • or a drop. I believe it is referred to in the popular children’s song, “Doe, a deer a female deer, ray a drop of golden sun…”

  The Seven chakras or energy centers dot the spine. These seven notes correspond to the seven vestments of the soul. These are considered to be the seven energy bodies that animate the flesh in yoga philosophy.

  In Tower of Alchemy, alchemical teacher David Goddard notes theosophical writings compiled from the masters of the Far East in which the soul drop is considered a “Seed atom” or a “nucleus” that resides within the center of the subtle energy bodies. It is the essence of our soul, possibly ejected from the center of the Milky Way galaxy, and washed ashore like a fish out of water here on Earth, a bright blue apple dangling from the Orion arm of the galaxy, and looking for the wormhole that will return it to the Source. It popped in. In a flash it can pop out. From incarnation to incarnation the soul drop grows a physical body. While incarnate it attempts to grow (through breath) a body of light to ride the ship of the gods. Think of the cocoon transforming into a butterfly. This is the goal of the Magnum Opus, the Great Work, alchemy (more later).

  Along with the archons the Hypostasis also describes a veil that exists between the world above and the realms below. “And the shadow came into being beneath the veil; and that shadow became matter; and that shadow was projected apart.” With the application of the veil thus began a program of mind-body control-- or soul enslavement which involved keeping humankind distracted by material problems and concerns, imprisoned by its own fear of death, of mortality, and ignorant of its true, divine nature.

  Hence the soul became “entangled in the darkness of matter,” confined to bodily identification, ruled by a Church and condemned to endless, repeated reincarnation (or reincarceration), without possibility of parole, of graduation to goldhood or godliness.

  The ‘soul drop’ in its ‘Mustard Seed’. Image by Dana Augustine.

  In Dante’s Divine Comedy (1307-1321), the soul on its passage rises from the realm of Hell, which projects spherically onto the earth, via the mountain of Purgatory and nine spheres. At the top is Paradise, where the soul finds its home in the white rose of heaven, illuminated by the divine light.

  The writing of the Neoplatonists on the celestial hierarchies influenced renderings of the Christian cosmos.

  Primarily the illumination Jesus provided Mary Magdalene concerns the secrets of the divine particle’s origin, the nature of the matrix in which it is trapped, and the means by which it can ‘ascend’ to its destination, the Merkaba. Its destination is union with the Deity in the Empire of Light.

  The only way to acquire this knowledge is through divine revelation. A messenger from the Empire of Light brought this gnosis to humanity. The Gnostic texts make clear that this messenger is Jesus, usually called “The Savior.”

  The knowledge delivered by this messenger is comprised of “mysteries” which enable the spirit of the illumined to pass through the astral barriers that impede its path to the Empire of Divine Light. Once the spirit has received gnosis, it is prepared after leaving the body to shed its soul-garments in its quantum journey through the halls and holes of the universe and to return home to unite with the intelligent and Divine consciousness substance from which it originated.

  As we will explore further, the spirit’s shedding its soul-garments is similar to Mary Magdalene’s having seven demons ejected from her by Jesus in Luke 8:2. In the Gnostic texts the Gospel of Mary and the Pistis Sophia Mary Magdalene is presented as one of the few people in Jesus’ life to receive the flash of gnosis he delivered from the Empire of Light. Hence, she is one of the few people to receive the secret of the alchemical transformation of the human into an angel.

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  MARY MAGDALENE AND THE MERKABA MYTHS

  The Gnostic gospels well document that Mary Magdalene certainly behaved like the other famous women of Magdala, the three enlightened daughters of Job. She traveled (or tripped) the astral plane. She negotiated the realm of the archons (and possibly knew their language). She revealed knowledge of the workings of the heavens.

  Not only could Job’s daughters astral travel, speak the language of angels (or archons) and describe the workings of the heavens, what is more they could see and celebrate the whirlwind or heavenly chariot that came for the soul of Job. His three wise daughters became authors of Merkaba myths, or mystics of the Merkaba. In Hebrew mysticism the Merkaba is the vehicle of light in which the divine spark travels the heavens.

  THE FISH GATE – ELIJAH = 153

  Importantly, gilgal, the root of Gulgotha, is the name of the place where Elijah crossed into heaven in a whirlwindII Kings 2:1 (with 50, the number of the Anunnaki, sons of the prophets watching).

  With the 50 watching Elijah took his mantle, his miracle cloak, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters. Suddenly, they divided. Next, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.II Kings 2:11

  After watching Elijah disappear, Elisha took up the mantle of Elijah and he too parted the waters and ‘went over’! Seeing that he possessed the power or spirit of Elijah the 50 accepted him. II Kings 2:14-15

  A literal reading of this episode tells us that through the power of Elijah’s cloak or garment a hole in space opened. The power of this garment is transmittable.

  Visionary prophets such as Elijah, Ezekiel and Enoch had experienced this Merkaba ‘chariot’ or ship of light. The Merkaba is an interdimensional vehicle described in Buddhist texts. This craft, said to be made of counter rotating fields of light, is capable of carrying the consciousness directly to higher dimensions. The Merkaba is a product of breathing “prana“ (or energy, the source, akasha, God, Buddah, Allah, Mother Nature) and careful meditation. Jesus had trained Mary Magdalene in its mysteries, secrets and the means to attune her soul to it. This is a theme that we will encounter through this work. It will require that we familiarize our selves with the influence of Babylonian and Egyptian spiritual beliefs and concepts on Early Christians. For instance, in the Sumerian seal of the two priests clad in fish suits Enki, lord of wisdom, hovers above a radiant tower in a ring or a disk, i.e. a Merkaba.

  The Testament of Job’s account of these three wise women and their remarkable abilities implants in the literary tradition the idea of the language of the angels and Merkaba mysticism at Magdala. By following the symbolism of these accounts some astonishing speculations to the possible knowledge Mary of Magdala would have acquired can be proposed

  The probability that MM knew the secrets of Jesus’ chariot of spirit, the whirlwind or Merkaba seems as likely as it is revolutionary in its implications.

  SHE TALKS LIKE THE ANGELS TALK

  Magdala’s connection to the Merkaba myths and the Language of the Angels and Mary Magdalene’s connection to its secrets demands that we investigate this further. Much is known about this language in alchemical circles. In his Mysteries of the Cathedrals the highly revered French master alchemist, Fulcanelli, calls it the language of the gods and the Language of the Birds. He claims it was knowledge of this language that Jesus revealed to his Apostles, by sending them his spirit, the Holy Ghost.

  Remember, a dove symbolizes the Holy Spirit. The language of the angels is also called the Language of the Bir
ds, likely because the Latin aves, or bird, is phonetically the same as avi, angel, ava, apple (the symbol of forbidden knowledge), and ova, life.

  As I noted in my book The Language of the Birds, the Gnostics taught that in the Garden of Eden stands the holy Tree of Life. One tenet of the Bird Language is that names and place names are intentionally placed in stories to point to specific knowledge. This code equates words that sound alike in different languages, connecting word concepts by sound in English.

  Though it sounds bizarre, the phonetic resonance of ancient words in English reveal astonishing literary and historical synchronicities or meaningful coincidences between seemingly unrelated subjects that point to the interconnectedness of all creation.

  For instance, without the vowels the mystical word ‘tree’ is ‘tr’, which is pronounced ter, the primary sound in words such as terrific, terrible, enter, terra, terror, tear, tara, tyre, tire, tar, tour, taur, tor and tower. High in this tree’s branches sings a bird – a dove or a heron. Listen for the voice of the bird, for when you are properly aligned with Heaven and Earth, she will tell you all things. Her name is Sophia. When ‘in tune’ or resonating with Sophia we bring magic into our lives, and an effortless flow of synchronicity. We flip from the outer world to the inner world. It begins with a search for the inner meanings of words, as opposed to strictly focusing on the outer meaning.