Mary Magdalene The Illuminator (v5.0)

by William Henry

  The English language is a living, breathing entity created in the early 14th century. It has been growing and expanding ever since, flowing from culture to culture constantly absorbing words from other languages. That is why English today has a vocabulary of over one million words. Other languages have far fewer words because they wish to keep their language pure.

  Made official with the publication of the King James Version of the Bible by Sir Francis Bacon, English as a code language has facilitated the technological and spiritual explosion that has placed us, at this moment, on the brink of building not just rockets, but stargates to the stars. English is the official language of the Internet, the web that is unifying humanity and preparing us for our elevation.

  Of course, ‘scholars’ label such talk babbling, nonsense. Funny, nonsense is what the word babble and ‘babel’ means today. Originally, it meant ‘gate’ or ‘ladder’. After the destruction of the tower of Babel the Hebrew scribes changed the meaning of the word to confusion, nonsense. A ‘babbler’ would thus be an apropos description of a person who refers to the gate. Funnier yet, “a babbler” is a term used in Acts 17:18 to describe the Apostle Paul in Athens. Strong’s says it came to be used as noun signifying a crow, or some other bird.

  A crow! Did the Apostle Paul – the babbler – also speak the Bird Language?

  Acts tells us Paul went to Athens where he debated in the synagogues with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily. Then certain philosophers, Epicureans and Stoics, encountered him. They wondered what this babbler would say. They listened to his tale about this strange god named Jesus and his resurrection.

  I can empathize with Paul. A ‘scholar’ of ancient languages once called me a ‘babbler’ during a written debate in which I noted my use of the Language of the Birds as a research tool. Instead of taking 1.53 seconds to do a Google search to see that the Language of the Birds has been around a very long time and is connected to Jesus, Elijah and others, this scholar assumed I invented this language and inferred I had a mental problem because I got my information from birds! Later, in my paper, I outlined the principles of this language system. He advised his readers not to read these paragraphs!

  I live in Nashville, Tennessee, which for over one hundred years has been known as ‘the Athens of the South’. It’s the ‘the buckle of the babble, excuse me, bible, belt.’ “Three cords and the truth” is a common Nashville songwriter’s expression for the craft of the songwriter. Ironically, like its ancient namesake Nashville is filled with ‘false idols’ today, and I don’t’ mean the country music stars that work and live in Nashville’s beautiful green hills. Just like Athens in Paul’s time the Athens of the South has a scale replica of Athena’s Parthenon complete with a 42-foot tall gilded statue of Athena. Nashville also has a 2,200-foot long magician’s rod and a Temple of Mars. Actually, these are my favorite places in town. They are magnificent working temples.

  THE BIRD LANGUAGE AND THE TOWER

  In The Language of the Birds I detail the ancient belief in an original pre-Flood language spoken by the angels and taught to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. It was the language spoken before the Tower of Babel episode during which Nimrod built a tower or gate that reached into the heavens. Deciding against company, Yahweh, the Old Testament slave master, destroyed the Tower and separated humanity by language. As noted, after the Babel episode the Hebrew scribes changed the meaning of the word babel to mean ‘confusion’ or ‘nonsense’.

  As the book of Genesis recalls:

  And the lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men had builded. And the lord said, behold, the people is one, and they have all one language and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

  Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

  This episode marks a terrifying turning point in the bible. It tells of an extraterrestrial force, the Lord (probably a lord), and his squad of ladder to heaven demolition specialists, who descend from the sky, dismantle humankind’s stairway (or stargate) to the stars, scramble our communications and withhold profound knowledge from humanity. With the Stairway to Heaven in place nothing is impossible for humanity. What’s earth life like without it? Well …

  All of human endeavor centers on re-acquisition of the knowledge that makes all our wildest dreams possible for us and enables the rebuilding of this Tower gate of Babel. This includes the Language of the Angels. With this gate in place humans are able to talk with the angels, and also to walk the stars with the celestials.

  This knowledge, I believe, was characterized as the knowledge of the workings of the heavens referenced in the book of Job. Others consider it forbidden knowledge. An apple symbolized it in the Garden of Eden story.

  MAGDALA = WONDERLAND?

  Saying Mary is from Magdala clearly meant something profound to the scribes who penned the New Testament. It linked her with the metaphysics present in Magdala. Today, ‘wonderland’ is a catch phrase for a parallel dimension in the literary mind. Back then it appears to me that Magdala meant the same thing in magical Jewish literature.

  If the mystical Magdala literary connection holds, we may link Mary Magdalene as a master of this metaphysics. In my opinion, this means that Mary’s role in Gnostic literature is well defined. She was an Early Christian Alice in Wonderland.

  I believe the meaning of her name, Magdala=Tower, was a literary reference to the Round Tower that led to the land of the angels. It is also known as the Stairway to Heaven.

  NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S TOWER

  One biblical round tower well worth taking a momentary diversion to discuss here is the image of gold constructed by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar.

  The image is a massive three score (60) cubits high and six cubits wide. This means it is a tall tower.

  A cubit is 18 inches, making the image 540 inches high (three score or thirty times 18 inches high). 540 inches is 45 feet high, about the size of a four and a half story building!

  Nebuchadnezzar could not make this gleaming image or tower work. This was a major failure. Like the tribal leader David, who ruled Jerusalem five hundred years before him, the king had planned to unify his kingdom, and the golden image was the unifying force. He tried using music to get it to work. He demanded that when the people heard the music play they were to fall down and worship the golden image (as if this act would impress the lifeless heap). If they didn’t they would be tossed into a burning fiery furnace.

  Nebuchadnezzar acknowledged that Daniel had immense prophetic gifts, including the ability to interpret dreams. In chapter four of Daniel, he is asked to interpret a dream in which Nebuchadnezzar saw:

  ‘a tree in the midst of the Earth, and the height thereof was great. The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached into heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of the Earth’.

  There was great fruit in this tree and the birds of Heaven lived in its branches. From this tree the king saw a “watcher” and a “holy one” from Heaven emerge. They told him to destroy the tree, and leave its ‘stump’ in the Earth.

  This was a confusing dream to the king, but not to us. The “watchers” is another name for the Shining Ones. It is also the Egyptian name for “divine being” or “god” NTR, or neter, which means “one who watches”. Neter-neter land is the name of the place in the stars where these beings dwell. Sumeria, another earthly land of the Shining Ones, was known as the land of ‘ones who watch’.

  Ultimately, as Nebuchadnezzar’s story continues, the king captured three wise Jews from Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem. Unfortunately for Nebuchadnezzar, they refuse to worship the hulking image or the god of the Babylonian king. What is more, the three insult Nebuchadnezzar by betting the king that their god will save them from the fiery furnace.

  Clearly, the three wise men from the Temple of Solomon possess crucial knowledge that N
ebuchadnezzar needs to make this golden gadget work. He was successful in firing up the fiery furnace component of the ‘image’. But beyond that he was stuck. He needed the ‘open sesame’.

  What is this tower, this golden image of which I speak? This holy object is likely the Axis Mundi, the Pillar of God.

  In the story from Daniel the three wise men refuse to spill the beans to Nebuchadnezzar, what is undoubtedly the ‘open sesame’. Furious, the king orders that the three be cast into the ‘fiery furnace’.

  Before entering the furnace “The three men put on their coats, their hats and their other garments, and were cast in the midst of the burning fiery furnace” says Daniel 3:21.

  “Their coats, their hats, and their other garments,” you say? This is an immensely meaningful statement.

  Why put on any clothes at all if your body is about to be translated into a toasted marshmallow by the fiery furnace?

  These garments turn out to be more than just standard-issue loungewear at the Temple of Solomon or the garb of hostages in Babylon. That is, if they turn out to be anything like the coat, the hat and the other garments the goddess Mari is wearing in The Goddess with a Vase discovered at her temple at Mari in 1934, which we will discuss in the next chapter.

  Mari is shown wearing her Shugurra helmet (‘a hat’). Literally translated Shugurra means ‘that which makes go go far into the universe’. It is possible this is also the “helmet of salvation” described in Ephesians 6:17.

  What happens to those who don the “armor of God” get-up and walk through the fiery furnace? Where do they go? Through the black hole?

  This detail is omitted. However, after the three wise men from Solomon’s Temple entered the fiery furnace, Nebuchadnezzar and all the king’s men cautiously approached the lethal furnace. He asks that the three men appear to him. When they do, the king (and I’m certain all the assembled) stands utterly astonished. He’s expecting nasty flame-broiled corpses. Instead, he sees the three wise men are in perfect condition!

  “Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?” asks the baffled king.

  He certainly did. To add to the high strangeness of this event, a fourth person now accompanies them!

  However, this is not just any man. Nebuchadnezzar believes this fourth man is an angel. Not just any angel either. The fourth man is like the Son of God!

  Is this Jesus, the Son of God? Is Nebuchadnezzar telling us the three wise men returned from their stargate travels with Jesus in tow six hundred years before his appearance in the New Testament?

  It is quite conceivable because, understandably, at this point Nebuchadnezzar was convinced: the god of the three wise Jews is the God. He proclaims that if anyone speaks against this God, he will cut them to pieces, and their houses will be made into dunghills. Next, he promoted the three wise men.

  The Bible does not say what happened after this Son of God arrived. I believe, however, that tremendous knowledge must have been gained from his appearance.

  ORIGINAL LANGUAGE = 153

  Back to the Bird Language. A primary lesson of the Language of the Birds is that Nature is connected. It is the fear-based logical, religio-scientific mind of humankind that separates. By learning this language we become more fully reconnected and resonant with the matrix of Earth life. The Language of the Birds is a way of life. It teaches us to work with nature’s forces and to explore the relationships between all the wonders of her creation.

  With this language, promise mystics, we can heal our world and ourselves, transforming it from wasteland into a garden or a paradise.

  In this study we will focus on the repetition of one particular word of power: Magdala or Magdalene. We will hunt the world’s literary traditions for names and place names that resonate with Magdala.

  In fact, I believe Jesus implored us to pay attention to this name. Prior to his crucifixion experience, Mary Magdalene embalmed Jesus. After, Jesus declares: “I say to you, wherever the message is proclaimed in the whole world, what she did will also be spoken of in memory of her.”

  What, exactly, are we to remember about Her? Her actions? How about her name: Magdalene = Tower = Babel. Is this Tower what is important to remember?

  LORDS GATE CODING = 153

  Following this pun, it is highly strange, and incredibly significant here, that when Nimrod gathered the people of Babel to build the Tower or Stairway to Heaven they did so to make a Name for themselves. Hence, the building of the Tower to Heaven and the building of a Name are linked. I believe what Jesus is asking us to remember is that the name and place name Magdala or Magdalene refer to knowledge of the ‘Stairway to Heaven’. Further, I believe he wishes for us to recall that, long ago, a nasty being destroyed our Tower and our connection to the stars. Jesus had come to fix this. Unfortunately, he encountered blockage from know it all priests.

  There is, I propose, a very important and overlooked connection between Mary Magdalene’s anointing oil, the Tower or Stairway of Babel, Mer-ka-ba mysticism and the crucifixion of Jesus.

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  MARY MAGDALENE AND MARI

  Let us return to the proposal that MM came from Syria. While we cannot definitively say that the Illuminator came from this land, no more than we can say for certain that Jesus came from Galilee, there are many correlations between MM (and Jesus) and the gods and goddesses of Syria. Mystery and intrigue awaits us as we explore these correlations and discover their striking similarity.

  Ancient Syria was the home of the goddess Mari, also known as Mari-Ishtar or Istara who was worshipped at Mari 150 miles upriver from Babylon. Mari-Ishtar, from whom we derive Easter is the Akkadian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the Semitic goddess Astarte, the goddess most commonly known simply as a goddess associated with the planet Venus. Noble by birth. Wise by choice. Dressed to kill. Coiled and battle ready for both peace and war. This goddess commands respect.

  As early as 3,500 B.C. Inanna was worshipped as the great goddess. Her many titles resonate with figures who came after her, including the Virgin Mary and Jesus: ‘Queen of Heaven and Earth’, ‘Morning and Evening Star’, ‘Light of the World’, ‘Righteous Judge’, ‘Forgiver of Sins’, ‘Holy Shepherdess’. She gave birth to a son who was named ‘the Shepherd’, ‘Lord of the Sheepfold’, ‘Lord of the Net’, and ‘Lord of Life’.

  Numerous authors have noted and marveled at the astonishing reoccurrence of ancient Sumerian images in the Old and New Testaments. Especially interesting is the powerful resemblance between Mari and Mary Magdalene. Mythologist Barbara Walker even says MM imitated Mari. Others claim neither goddess existed. They are beings from the literary twilight zone, part of a category of ‘things that never happened, but always are’. Never here, but ever near. Like Never Land and Wonderland Magdala, MM’s home, is purely mythical.

  The holy temple of Mari was discovered in 1933 on the eastern flank of Syria, near the Iraqi border. A Bedouin tribe was digging through a mound for a gravestone that would be used for a recently deceased tribesman, when they came across a headless statue. After the news reached the French authorities currently in control of Syria, the report was investigated and digging on the site was started on December 14, 1933 by archaeologists from the Louvre in Paris. Discoveries came quickly, with the temple of Ishtar being discovered in the next month. The excavation by the French archaeologist Parrot of this rare example of a Mesopotamian palace found with its costumes and archives virtually intact has been one of the keys to the unraveling of the history of the Syria/Mesopotamia region from the mid-third millennium to the eighteenth century BCE.

  In 1936 a French archaeological expedition to Mari uncovered a vast archive of some 25,000 cuneiform tablets. They reveal that Mari was the center of a vast network of trade routes ranging from Crete to Elam, from Cappadocia to Megiddo.

  Importantly, the Jewish, Christian and Muslim patriarch Abraham once lived at Mari. Born in Ur around 1900 B.C. Abraham lived first at Haran where he spent his time gathering a mysterious sub
stance and souls. After God commanded Abraham to leave Haran, the Bible says Abraham took Sara, his nephew Lot, and “all their substance that they had gathered, and all the souls that they had gotten at Haran,” and they went forth into the land of Canaan. He followed the Euphrates through the land of Sichem to the kingdom of Mari and its fabulous capital city.7

  Abraham found Mari inhabited by a Semitic tribe called Amorites. Coincidentally, their name Amorites rings of Moreh or Meru, the key tone of this investigation. Amor derives from the Akkadian amurru and Sumerian martu (“westerners”). Amurru’s symbol was a spade or hoe called a marru (or meru?). It is represented as a tall pillar (or tower?). It is spotted in the scene on the next page that shows ancient gods hovering in a craft. Mounted to a dragon it may be thought of as a beast. I believe it matches the ‘image of the Beast’ of Babylon constructed by Nebuchadnezzar c. 600 B.C. A ‘fiery furnace’ is featured in the book of Daniel along with this Tower of the Beast. Three wise men from the Temple of Solomon put on coats, hats and other garments, entered this furnace and returned with the son of God in tow. I believe this is a record of a stargate event. The three wise men traveled to the home of god in the stars and brought him to earth. The image on the bottom of the next page is highly instructive of this event, portraying a ‘fiery furnace’ and gods hovering above in a whirling craft.

  The Pillar or Tower of Amurru (or Meru?).

  Detail of a Sumerian cylinder seal showing Amurru pillar on left-hand side. Is this the ‘beast’ of the book of Daniel?

  Is-Tara lifting the healing serpent/kundalini. The serpent resembles a sine wave or a vibration. This ‘Tower’ resembles the Amurru pillar. One wonders if this could be a model for the Tower of Siloam. Before Mary Magdalene was initiated by Jesus she was likely an initiate of Ishtar’s school.