Mary Magdalene The Illuminator (v5.0)
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In legend, Joseph is a quite remarkable figure - his exploits (in various literary traditions) include:
Founder of the first Christian Church in England.
Keeper of the Holy Grail, the transformed (‘illumined’) blood and water that spurt from Jesus’ body.
Uncle of Mary, Mother of Jesus
Merchant involved in the tin trade between the West coast of England, and the Mediterranean - took the boy Jesus to Cornwall and/or Somerset in England sometime between the ages of 12 and 30.
Ancestor of Sir Lancelot and Sir Galahad of Arthurian fame.
Most importantly, as far as we are concerned, he accompanied Mary Magdalene to Provence. This brings up an interesting speculation as to the identity of the ‘angel’ mentioned earlier who fed Mary Magdalene the ‘bread’ of the angels. It was Joseph of Arimathea.
It is easy to see that these two worked together. The manufacture of this substance would have been the final training event designed to pull together all the knowledge the Jesus studio had accumulated. It culminated in the making of the bread of the angels. Now, they were ready for the next step... acquiring the vibration or Ring of Cosmic Sovereignty.
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THE ALABASTRON
My insertion of the word ‘crucible’ in relation to the tomb of Jesus in the last chapter was inspired by Mircea Eliade’s book The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structures of Alchemy in which he documents the rise of alchemy in the ancient world and the impact it had on human consciousness. A crucible is a cup-shaped piece of laboratory equipment used to contain chemical compounds when heating them to very high temperatures.
That cup-shaped crucible sounds like the Holy Grail many an author has quested for. What is important to us is the substance it contained: the Holy Blood, apparently produced from imbibing the holy bread of the angels.
In Grail lore, either Joseph of Arimathea or Mary Magdalene captured the transformed blood and water spurting from the side of Jesus’ body as it hung on the pillar. In the Appendix we’ll explore the mysterious Templar graffiti at Domme, France that shows a pregnant woman holding a rod or wand.
Another container is mentioned in the story of Mary Magdalene, the alabastron - the box with anointing oil.
This mysterious alabastron appears to have some form of miraculous qualities. In this box, or “vessel of light or life,” was kept the anointing oil – a balm made out of an appropriate flower, supposedly spikenard (that originally grew in India).
An astounding fact is that the alabaster for this box came from the ‘lost’ city of Alabastron, the Roman name for Akhenaton’s holy city, Akhetaton.
Nefertiti with ointment jar receiving the key of life. MM and jar (right).
The anointing (or “embalmment”) of Jesus ranks as one of the most important events in the Gospels. The event happened when Jesus and his disciples were in Bethany. The time was two days before the Passover, the day before Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem on an ass, which was followed later that week by the Last Supper and the Crucifixion. Jesus and the disciples visited the house of ‘Simon the Leper’, a mysterious figure who has never been identified. While they were feasting, a woman having an alabastron, meaning an Egyptian crystal unguent jar, vase or box – containing “exceedingly precious ointment’ came up to Jesus and poured its contents on his head.Matt. 26:7 The disciples were outraged, protesting that this was a waste of ointment and money. In response, Jesus makes an astonishing statement: ‘For in that she poured this ointment upon my body, she did it to prepare me for burial. Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that also which this woman hath done shall be spoke of in memory of her.”
THE HOLY HARLOT
We are asked to believe that Mary Magdalene’s embalming of Jesus was a spontaneous act. This is utterly ridiculous. She was likely a highly trained spiritual practitioner. The nature of her training is even recorded in history and lore that says she was a harlot.
This word harlot originally referred to the patronesses of the goddess Ishtar, who appears in the Bible as Ashtoreth, Asherah, or Esther, the Queen of Heaven. Jeremiah 44:19 This goddess is Isis. A related word is harine. Moses’ brother Aaron was called Harun or Haroon in the Qur’an. The place of herons, I have proposed, is the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
Babylonian scriptures called Ishtar the Light of the World. The crucifixion and resurrection, and escape from the underworld of this Sumerian goddess (also known as Ishtar), is told in cuneiform tablets inscribed c. 1500 B.C.E., attesting to a very old tradition. We’ll discuss Ishtar further in a later chapter.
Above all, we are told, the anointing oil was used for the installation rites of all Hebrew kings and priests. This raises the provocative theory that Mary Magdalene’s anointing of Jesus was the performing of an ancient Israelite ceremony of anointing kingly candidates in order to enhance their physical powers, protect them from danger and increase their connection to God. This ceremony took place in the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, a site that we will investigate momentarily. In this ceremony the spirit of God would enter the new king enabling him to become the ‘Anointed of Yahweh’.
Anointing set sacred things apart from secular. The anointment of sacred objects was an ancient tradition in Israel: Exodus 30:22-33, where Moses was instructed by God to anoint the meeting tent and all its furnishings with specially prepared oil. At the beginning of his shamanic career, Moses discovered the angel of the Lord in flames of fire from within a bush atop Mount Sinai. As I noted in The Healing Sun Code, ‘Sinai’ is a metaphor for Meru, the spinal cord.
NARD
Mary Magdalene’s box (skull) contained a sacred substance commonly referred to as ‘spikenard’ or ‘nard’. Spikenard lengthens the time that the brain chemical GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid), a natural relaxant, circulates through your system. When applied topically, spikenard’s relaxing components are absorbed through the skin. It’s used today as a seduction cream and to enhance sensual experience.
In my opinion, the spikenard component of Mary’s oil is a carrier for another substance. It is also a clever literary ruse by the editors of the New Testament to conceal a far more profound substance. Calling it nard settles it for many. It takes them off of the trail of the real anointing oil.
The basis for this speculation is the discovery of an ancient practice revealed by Franz Koecher, whose translation of pharmacological texts left by ancient Babylonian physicians was reported in The Chicago Tribune (July 23, 2005, Section 1, p. 15).
To the consternation of scholars, many of these recipes called for the excrement of animals – dog poop, pig droppings and other barnyard excrement – as key ingredients. Modern pharmacologists snubbed their ancient predecessors, chalking the inclusion of the ingredients to the ignorance of the ancients.
But Koecher found that the dung in the ointment – so to speak – actually was a diversion by the ancients.
He discovered the physicians listed use of animal excrement simply as codes for actual secret plant ingredients that they didn’t want their patients (or competitors perhaps) to know, so that the patients couldn’t make their own medicine. He discovered the equivalence lists, about 100 coded plant names.
EMBALMING THE SAVIOR
The story of Mary “embalming” Jesus with oil is akin to Isis embalming Osiris, the Egyptian savior. Isis, the companion of Osiris (the Egyptians did not have a word for ‘wife’), along with the god of alchemy, Thoth, resurrected Osiris after his rival and brother, Set, broke, cut, divided, immolated his body into fourteen fragments (similar to the body of Christ symbolized by the bread broken in the Christian sacrament). Isis sought these pieces and found them (all except for his phallus which was eaten by a fish, so the story says), and bound them together with a woven purple cloth that magically reconstituted his body. All depictions from the time of the Osirian religion show him tightly wrapped in this shroud.
Isis sending rays to the embalmed Osiris.
KARAST
There are too many similarities in the story of Osiris and Jesus and Isis and Mary Magdalene. As the early 20th century Egyptologist E.A. Wallis Budge writes in the preface to Osiris & The Egyptian Resurrection, “The central figure of the ancient Egyptian Religion was Osiris, and the chief fundamentals of his cult were the belief in his divinity, death, resurrection and absolute control of the destines of the bodies and souls of men.” That’s the role Christianity assigns to Jesus.
Gerald Massey was an early 20th century poet and Egyptologist who stirred great controversy over his interpretation of Egyptian words and his criticism of scholars. “It is unfortunate and humiliating to us as a nation,” wrote Massey, “that Egyptology and Assyriology in England should have first fallen into the hands of devout believers in biblical ‘history’. Such statements of truth put him in the line of fire of bible-believing scholars.
In Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World Massey brings a key piece of poetry to this quest. He notes that the name of Osiris’ shroud, and therefore the name of the perfume/balm was KRST, Karast. He further states that the Egyptian word for mummy is ges, which signifies to wrap up in bandages. This word, ges, or kes, to embalm the corpse, is a reduced or abraded form of an earlier word, karas. The word krs denotes the embalmment of the mummy, and the krst, as the mummy, was made in the process of preparation by purifying, anointing, and embalming.
“The resurrection of the human soul in the after-life was the central fact of the Egyptian religion,” writes Massey, “and the transfigured, re-erected mummy, otherwise called the Karast, was a supreme symbol.”
Scholars have difficulty following and documenting some of Massey’s poetic interpretations of Egyptian hieroglyphs, including as noted, that of krst. Still, this idea resonates.
For instance, “Karast” is how Christ is pronounced with a thick Tennessee accent. Some people here in Nashville pronounce the name of the NFL team, the Titans, so that the ‘i’ sounds like ‘Tot-ans’ (rhymes with ‘hot-ans’). The ‘i’ in Christ is pronounced the same way, so Christ is pronounced ‘Ka-Rost’ or ‘Krosst’, but it is understood that they mean Christ.
If, in fact, the Greek word Christ (‘anointed’), Christos, Krstos, or the Latin Chrestus comes from the Egyptian Karast (‘oil’) this would further fuse Christianity with the religion of Osiris and date the origins of this ceremony enacted by Jesus and Mary Magdalene to at least 10,000 B.C.
During the process of anointing, writes E.A. Wallis Budge in The Mummy, it was said, “O Asar (Osiris) the thick oil which is poured upon thee furnishes thy mouth with life”. It is also said that the anointing is done to give sight to the eyes, hearing to the ears, sense of smell to the nostrils and utterance to the mount.”
To embalm the body thus was to caress (k-r-s) it lovingly and the embalmment was a mode of enlightening or making the Christ (karast) the Anointed.
Esoteric Christianity is dedicated to the revelation of the secrets that enable one to ‘put on the new clothes’. Drawing upon the sacred traditions of India, Iran, Egypt, Greece, and mystical Jewish teachings the first Christians, the Nazarenes, led by Mary Magdalene, formulated a teaching whereby the average (“fallen”) individual ignites his divine self and is transformed into a cosmic being. This was symbolized by the putting on of a new cloak or mantle, the Christ body.
The Hermit Zosimus Giving a Cloak to Magdalene 1320s Fresco, Magdalene Chapel, Lower Church, San Francesco, Assisi
In the book of Genesis a special configuration of clothing called the “robes of skin’ (Gen. 3:21) is mentioned. This refers to the ‘lost” body or garment of Light. Philip says “There is no other way for a person to acquire this quality except by putting on the perfect Light.” (76:25)
Restoration of the body of light in Philip, therefore, comes about through clothing oneself in the garments of “water and fire” (baptism and chrism), which, unlike the earthly garments, prepare the soul for ascent.
In Cloak of the Illuminati I linked this power garment with ascent via a ladder or stairway to heaven.
This restoration of the Christ body can most clearly be seen in the Gnostic text Hymn of the PearlCol. 3:10 where the prince sees in the angel of light, which comes to meet him the reflection of his own true Self, or alter ego, which had been preserved in the upper world. Perhaps a somewhat gnostic Paul spoke of “putting on the new man, who is renewed…after the image of his creator.”
IN THE TOMB
It is important to note the description of what transpired after the crucifixion. It is said that Nicodemus came and brought “a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pound,” and “they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spcies as the custom of the Jews is to bury”.John 19: 39-40 This again, says Massey, denotes the making of the Karast-mummy = the Christ body.
Dr. Charles Muses, a mathematician, philosopher and computer scientist, who died in 2000, claims in his 1985 book The Lion Path, that the Egyptians had developed a technology in which tones, lights, and an as-yet unidentified plant are used, to “open a rusty valve”, or trigger the production of large pulses of hormones similar to the ecdysone (ecdydsterone), produced by larval forms of insects, which allows the adult form to emerge. In this way, they would allow the gestation or mutation of a non-molecular body - a new skin -- that would allow the survival of consciousness beyond physical death. Just as every chrysalis has embossed wings on it, wrote Muses, so too, does every mummy case have folded wings on it (see Abydos symbol). Larva means ‘a ghost’ or ‘specter’. It is the earliest stage of insect development, after it is hatched and before it is changed into a chrysalis or pupa, the stage in between the larval and adult forms.
These sacred tones (the Holy Grail) are used to allow us to shift through the veil of creation into the realm of pure unity of matter and energy. THE TONES OF GOD = 153. Traditional shamanic peoples around the world say the Blue Stone or Apple is actually how our soul travels to the inner realm and it is inside of a quantum egg or in an “interphasic state of existence” (able to jump through time and cross great distances or even to use this skill locally).
A preliminary stage between the human body and this non-molecular body was what I term the Cloak of the Illuminati, which is the Garment of the Oracle found in the example of the Pallium conferred upon or transmitted to Elisha by Elijah just before he rose into the heavens in a “whirlwind”, c. 800 B.C. This is the Pala garment of Mari.
In Egypt, Akhenaton’s Disk worshippers of ATON (or ATEN) symbolized the ideogram for the word ‘rise’ is three rays or beams of light falling from a disk .
As Muses points out, in this drawing from the tomb of Tutankhamun (Akhenaton’s successor) we see the three rays or beams of Star-Power energy entering the forehead of the pupal Osiris. The word sba, “star” (which resembles a star fish) also means “door” and, with the determinative for “walking,” it meant “passing through a star-door,” said Muses. The ba or winged soul shown under this glyph in the figure indicates that it was the soul’s passage through these doors that effected the Osirian transformation or metamorphosis into the immortal state and its glorified body.”
Osiris receiving rays. From the Second Shrine of Tutankhamun.
We know that a sound can cause a human to enter a state of bliss or stupidity. Those who donned the Cloak knew the secret of the pitch or frequency of God = Solomon’s Key that transmuted an ordinary human into a star walker.
The process of preparing, embalming and Christifying the mummy obviously survives in the Chrisome or krisum of the Roman Catholic Church. Also called the Chrismal, Chrismatory, The Catholic Encyclopedia defines Chrisome as a term “Formerly used to designate the sheath, or cloth-covering (theca) in which relics were wrapped up.” The Latin chrismale was also applied:
to the pall or corporal
to the vessel for the Blessed Eucharist
to the cere-cloth covering the table of the altar
sometimes to the long white-hooded robes in which the newly-baptized were clothed (cf. Roman Ritual, II, cap. ii, n. 24), and which they wore from Holy Saturday evening till Low Sunday – called consequently Dominica in Albis. This garment, however, was more commonly known as the chrisome, and resembled in shape the modern alb, except that it had a kind of hood for the head. Its representative is now the vestis Candida still used at baptism.
In present-day usage the words chrismal and chrismatory are taken indiscriminately and almost universally to refer to the vessels that are employed to hold the oils that are solemnly consecrated by the bishop.
While the terms of this oil and the Christ garment have survived lost is technique for manufacturing them. This belonged to Mary Magdalene.
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THE MYSTERY OF PERFUME
I’d like to return to Moses’ meeting in the flames with God on Sinai. Where there’s flames of fire there’s smoke. The French word perfume or parfume means “through the smoke.” Here is another connection to Mary Magdalene, the perfumer.
In an article on the schism between ancient perfumery and its modern counterparts Raed Rady observes that what most people do not realize is that, from the very beginning, the whole issue of perfumery was enveloped in secrecy. The art began in Egypt several thousand years ago and was mastered by about 2500 BC (although it started much earlier). It was practiced by a certain type or a certain order of priesthood who were alchemists. In fact, one of the modern Arabic terms for Egypt is “Al Khem”, the source of our word alchemy.