What Easter and Christianity Mean When Mary Magdalene is Exalted as First Disciple

Did not have Pete Hegseth being schooled by Pope Leo on my Easter bingo card!

The synchronicity between the Iran war, Easter, the American Pope Leo, and the Christian nationalist wing of America sets the modern stage for a reformation like no other.

It is NOT the reformation evangelicals and other traditional Christians are expecting.

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We start with a quote. Let every round find its mark against the enemies of righteousness and our great nation. Give them wisdom in every decision, endurance for the trial ahead, unbreakable unity, and overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy. That was Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Enter Pope Leo in his Palm Sunday sermon, who directly took aim at American warmongers led by Hegseth. Brothers and sisters, this is our God, Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them. The Pope also quoted Isaiah, saying, Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood. As is the Old Testament, let me add. I'm Taylor Marsh. Welcome to Blue My Mind. Humans are geared for spiritual connection to explain life. We search for this connection. Organized religion in all its forms is how humans understand our existing our existence. I am still moved by the rituals of my church, but experience shifted life beyond my Episcopalian teachings. The stars, planets, and universe are not for pleasure or research alone. Experience taught me there is a mysterious synchronicity between human life and the universe, and God energy plays a primary role. There is synchronicity in the Iran War, Easter, the American Pope, Leo, and the Christian nationalist wing of America setting the stage for a modern reformation like no other. The energies we are facing foreshadow how religion is evolving. The next thirty to forty years, we will see a contagion of changes in organized religion, spirituality, and the esoteric value of experience through the mind. There will always be the orthodox religious believers, which include all who take the holy books as history. Anyone attempting to extrapolate modernity through ancient holy books of mythology will have a head on collision with evolution. Gnostics include esoteric knowledge, even the metaphysical, and experience beyond the words of ancient men interpreting the era of Christ. Gnostics led by the memory and the words, yeah, I said it, the words of Mary Magdalene. Nothing was published from these so-called heretics, the Gnostics, until the 19th century, which is the most successful smothering of alternative stories of Christ's life and time in the history of humanity. Mary Magdalene's power came through Jesus Christ, but at the expense of Peter and the other disciples. From the great religious historian, in my eyes, Elaine Pagles. Even today, the Pope traces his and the primary he claims over the rest to Peter himself, who said, quote, first of the apostles, end quote, since he was, quote, first witness of the resurrection, end quote, according to the Pope at the time. Gnosticism believes the resurrection the resurrection was no history, but quote, symbolized how Christ's presence could be experienced in the present. To me, Jesus was a revolutionary. The terror of the Romans was real for early man, especially Christians. The relationship Jesus had with God was spiritual, and Christ chose to confront the evil present in the middle of ancient turmoil. As far as I'm concerned, Christ had to know what his face would his fate would be. So when he asked God to intervene, I have to wonder what he really expect? So many questions, but for me, this was a desperate moment for Christ, a human man. Did ego seduce Christ for that moment? That at the end he would be spared the torture and spectacle of crucifixion, which sent an earthquake through the early Christian world. Before Mary Magdalene met Christ, she must have been desperate to have more of life than what women were allowed at the time. It was just marriage, children, and faith only through men. When I think of Mary Magdalene, and I think of the dark nights, think of ancient times. Put away your phone, put away the refrigerator, even the lights, running water, anything you can imagine that you use every day. Ancient times it was black at night. All the stars, she was in her mind. Is it possible she heard of Jesus Christ through her village and wanted to meet him? Was compelled. He was a famous revolutionary, as I see him. So when they met, what was it like? They are humans at the time. They were humans. We must look at our religious life in that way. I think Mary Magdalene knew who he was the minute they met, and he sensed the woman she was too. Christ knew she wanted nothing but to serve him, unlike the disciples around him, the men, who were vying to be Christ's heir to the yet unnamed Christian world. Peter's temper and jealousy was obvious and written about by the Gnostics. The Gospel of Mary is one of the Gnostic Gospels. In it, the recollection of Mark and John is that Mary Magdalene was the first to see the risen Christ. Scholarship from Pagel's that is footnoted here. Quote. According to the Gospel of Mary, Mary Magdalene, seeing the Lord in a vision, asked him, quote, Mary speaking, how does he who sees the vision see it? Through the soul or through the spirit? End quote. Pegles recounts the Gospel of Mary opening with the disciples mourning Jesus' death and being terrified for their own lives. Quote. But to Peter's surprise, Mary does not tell anecdotes from the past. Instead, she explains that she has just seen the Lord in a vision received through the mind, and she goes on to tell what he revealed to her. One disciple, Andrew, does not believe Mary, with Peter agreeing with him. Peggles quotes the gospel of Mary here. Mary wept and said to Peter, My brother Peter, what do you think? Do you think that I thought this up myself in my heart? Do you think I am lying about the Savior? Levi answered and said to Peter, Peter, you have always been hot tempered. If the Savior made her worthy, who are you to reject her? The Bible is filled with testimonies of men, self-serving in many ways by omitting horrible truths about powerful figures in ancient times. After Christ died, handed down stories traded among a class of humans running for their lives after Christ's torture and death. Men trying to unite fighting factions, Christians in exile, it took time to unite the Christian world. The politics in Christ's time included ancient man's fear of death itself. According to scholars, one element is quote virtually certain. One element. Jesus of Nazareth was crucified in thirty-three Common Era, during the reign of Imperial Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was Judea's chief Roman officer. At the time, this terrified people. Many Christians left the movement because if Jesus can be crucified, what awaits them at God's hand? Again, this was ancient times. You have to read these texts and interpret them through the darkness of ancient world. Even when Christ cried out, God ignored him. This is the theme. I can imagine a conversation with a Christian nationalist hearing that Mary Magdalene was Christ's first disciple. I have accepted this through all the reading, studying, and meditation I have done. Gnostic Mary Magdalene, as the first person to see the resurrection, infuriated the Orthodox over centuries. And when I say Orthodox, I mean traditionalists and everybody who believed one set of gospels. They could not allow Mary Magdalene power to be embraced, her influence to be felt. Seeing Jesus kiss Mary on the mouth has been interpreted as a sexual action. This was a way of passing the spirit to her, which has been written about by experts and scholars. Or maybe you do not believe in God, so Jesus Christ is not even a figure to you. Contrary to Protestations, even atheists have beliefs. That's because it is human to want to know about where we came and where we're going in life once we cross over. Some say die. Our spirit, our soul does not die. While 20th century why 21st century scientists confront the mysterious in new ways. From James L. Brooks in The Atlantic. An alternative proposition advanced by three Harvard cognitive science research researchers is that God is perceptible only to human intuition, a sixth sense in effect. Another article from The Atlantic, this one from Elizabeth Brunick. Quote One hundred essential citations from leading scientists across multiple disciplines who have either allowed for the existence of God or asserted it outright. This includes Robert Wilson, an astronomer and a Nobel Prize winner in physics, who is quoted, observing that the Big Bang Theory makes the question of creation unavoidable. Luke Yeager, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC Santa Barbara, likewise states that quote, science practice in a sincere quest for truth brings man closer to God. On Easter, however, the importance of Mary Magdalene comes into focus, and with her the Gnostics in the time of Jesus, while the Orthodox continue the favorite thread from the men talking of the third century. The place of women in the church has been political since the days of Christ. Everything was political in the days of Christ. So you can imagine afterward the fighting, vying for his legacy decades after, sometimes four decades after, even longer. And then you have all the hidden gospels, the lost gospels, as they're called, that no one wanted to put in the Bible. After his death in the second century, after Christ's death, that is, the writer Tertullian set said of women, quote, it is not permitted for a woman to speak in the church, nor is it permitted for her to teach, nor to baptize, nor to offer the Eucharist, nor to claim for herself a share in any masculine function, least of all in priestly office. This was in the second century. A writer posits this. Women had no role in the church. We weren't even allowed to talk about it. In 1977, uh Pope Paul IV said, a woman cannot be a priest, quote, because our Lord is a man, then end quote. Our Lord is a man. A quote from the book The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagel. This is all a lot to take in. I realize that. Easter is supposed to be about the resurrection, resurrection, and not all these lingering questions. But to me, Easter every year is about these questions and about turning away from the orthodoxy of women not being part of any of this story. It is impossible to believe. Clement of Alexandria, cited in Egypt in one hundred and eighty AD, embraced the notion of God as having both feminine and masculine characteristics. This from Elaine Pagles The Word is everything to the child, both father and mother, teacher and nurse. The nutriment is the milk of the father, and the word alone supplies us children with the milk of love, and only those who suck at the breast are truly happy. For this reason, seeking is called sucking. To those infants who seek the word, the father's loving breasts supply milk. This does not compute with people like Pete Hegeseth, the Christian nationalists, evangelicals, Mormonism, Baptism, Baptists. All of our organized religions have discounted the feminine. Pagles continues to quote Clement Men and women share equally in perfection. Men and women share equally in perfection and are to receive the same instruction and same discipline. For the humanity is common to both men and women, and for us, quote, in Christ there is neither male or female. Now, along came in all this, going back and forth between the centuries, Pope Gregory in 591, the sixth century, is the most famous and regularly quoted man as the one who turned Jesus' first disciple into a prostitute, confusing her with another woman because in the sixth century, the proper identity of a woman was immaterial to the Catholic Church. And Catholic once meant everyone, and it was the Catholic Church who decided this. Medieval tradition demoted Mary Magdalene with the help of all the men. The Gnostics persevered through history because of the lost gospels that were not chosen as scholars like Pagel, but also Caronel King and others have argued in their books. Lost Gospels hidden away in jars and held in secret, so they would not be destroyed. There's a long story about this, and there is the Gospel of Judas. Uh, I won't even go into that story. Um talk about Blew My Mind. Long time ago, it blew my mind. As these authors have written, people were characterized as heretics if the Orthodox religious views were not followed. Now, this is what Heg Seth and Christian nationalists are trying to do. They're trying to make their religion, whatever that whatever you want to call Christian nationalists, they are going to make that, they're trying to make that exalted over Christianity or spirituality. The quote Pagles, this is wonderful. The view of the winners is how Pagles uh frames it, took Mary Magdalene from her vaunted place of first witness to the resurrection, to barely even being acknowledged, and for many, she was a prostitute. Now, this the Catholic Church didn't make her a prostitute, they deemed her the first uh uh disciple. Now, they don't they don't raise women up because of the history of the Catholic Church. Look at look at all they would have to undo. They would have to apologize for so much more. Is it any wonder what happened to uh the Catholic Church? That the men and all the all the the abuse that happened in these organized religions that raise men to holy. We're not meant to do that. When we are raised beyond what we can support, evil's the next thing. We are constantly struggling between spirit and ego. Spirit in it when ego wins, you get what's happening in the Iran war. You get people talking about God helping us because we it's a crusade. Not against necessarily one person, but it's a crusade for all people to be Christians. All these Christian nationalists, that that's what they want to do. And they want to come at you through these groups who believe in this orthodoxy that women are less than men. Entrenched Orthodox views follows the religious worshiper into church in the 21st century as the Orthodox try to hold on to a story from the ancient world constructed from fear and out of a need to control. Early society was terrifying. It's understandable that Catholics uh grouped together in after the Romans that they would try to find order. In three 325 common era in what is known now as Turkey, Constantine worked with the bishops he gathered there to unify the Christian world by establishing an agreed-upon doctrine, Nicene Creed. In the centuries that followed, anyone bucking the standard set at this time faced the label of heretic, which could mean losing everything, having your business torn asunder, your house burned. They were taking no prisoners. I have talked about all the scientists, whether it's no matter who it is, Galileo, whoever you want to name, uh, the church went to war against these scientists, against these great thinkers and astrologers. Yes, these scientists from ancient time, whether you're talking about Copernicus or somebody else, they were also astrologers. The Imperial Church was born with Catholic bishops and the Orthodox, the only heirs seen to Christ's legacy. Surely Mary Magdalene wouldn't be included, even though she was. They had to admit to little fanfare, but imagine, just imagine if she had been accepted and exalted as Jesus' first disciple from the beginning. Imagine what our lives would be like. The Christian nationalism version practiced by Hegseth and so many others, MAGA, and men who want to control women are the heirs of ancient Orthodoxy. The reason women of all ages are picking other ways to worship God is because we have experienced a close and real relationship with Christ and God that Christian nationalists believe is meant only for men. Take the Mormon church and the priestholders and who are not the priesthood. We still don't we still don't have priests in the Catholic Church. This is because of ancient orthodoxy and ignoring what happened, what Mary Magdalene witnessed. The witness of Mary Magdalene is the forgotten history of Christianity and the Christian church and of women's power. Gnostics today choose spiritual communion, the type of worship prayer and sustained guidance Mary Magdalene accepted from Christ when he picked her above all others. But why did Jesus pick Mary Magdalene? In my heart, I believe it is because she came to him as a humble servant, traveling miles to meet him. She was ready, she knew who he was in her heart, a kind of psychic communion between humans, someone who wanted nothing from him but to serve him and his word and spread his word. Unlike Peter and others, who were besotted by ego and spirit, but wanted Christ's legacy for themselves and were go was gonna and were going to do anything they could to solidify this. But real power waits for the time is ripe. The time is ripe in the 21st century for Mary Magdalene to be exalted as the first disciple of Jesus Christ, meaning she saw him in her mind, in her spirit. We don't know, it doesn't matter, but we all can see the living Christ in our lives when we pray and when we live if we take the path of Pope Leo and not the path of war. I'm Taylor Marsh. I want to thank you so much for listening. This is uh a lot in one podcast, and I really appreciate it. You can find more about me at www.taylormarsh.com. I've written a lot of books. They're um on Amazon. They trace the spirit. My latest Darker Than Blood is all about the battle of good and evil. It's a terrific book. I'd love for you to read it. Um let me know what you think about the podcast, too. You can uh catch me on Instagram, all the socials. Thanks so much for listening. Until next time.