Once upon a time, about 2000 years ago in the village of Magdala, Palestine, a girl was born who would captivate the world. She was Mary Magdalene. We will explore her life and her soul in this metaphysical course of study to gain a deeper understanding of the woman who has been known to be everything from a common prostitute to a venerated saint…

…The many faces of Mary Magdalene represent the journey of the soul. It is through the process of falling from grace, and then climbing back up, that we master the traps of the third dimensional reality. The Magdalene represents the repressed, degraded, once spiritual woman, driven into exile from a cruel, murderous world. Through centuries of sacrificial acts of lambs and brutal war, we have come to the end of the fight, and we must finally surrender, to the Mother, to the Father, to our divine callings. We long to go home and live in peace…

…I am an individual who looks for truth through metaphysical resources, as well as resources that are more traditional. Just being a feminist or a biblical scholar alone, would cause a biased outlook. I have always known that beyond bias lives Truth. In the discussion section, I will give my hypothesis as to what I believe is true about Mary Magdalene. For now I will stick to a well-rounded informational viewpoint.

In the beginning of writing this course I set out to find out what single archetype Mary Magdalene represents. I could not narrow it down to just one or two. Mary Magdalene’s archetypes in my understanding include The Enigma, The Divine Feminine, The Sophia, (Wisdom Deity), The Embodied Mother Goddess, The Black Madonna, The Bride of Christ, The Scorned One, The Repentant One, The Envied Companion of the Savior, The Co-redemptrix (a female redeemer), The Tower and yet the human woman fallen ill from the ways of the world. Is there anything that this woman doesn’t embody? Well yes, she was never an evil woman, a slut or a prostitute. Those labels have been given to her by those who had motives to discredit her. She has survived the judgment, and she is now more loved and accepted than ever. The emotional reaction she provokes in people amazes me.

Today she is in the limelight and I think Magdalene-Mania is here to stay and why not? We could use a strong female superhero, one that might have been married to Christ! Meet Mary Magdalene, an intrinsically simple yet complicated female legend and the most popular Major Arcane Tarot figure of our current times. This is probably because we are thought to be in the last years of “the end times.” She was the one who 2000 years ago announced that Christ had Risen. Now it is our turn to Rise and Ascension is for every human! Wouldn’t it be fitting that Mary Magdalene would enter our consciousness now…. Mary Magdalene I feel, holds our hopes, fears, dreams and imagination in the palm of her hands. How do you feel about her?

Through this metaphysical course, I hope to explore the life and soul of Mary Magdalene in such a way, as to give you a clear metaphysical understanding of who she really was, beyond bias. What you will learn is that our fascination with her is based on profound spiritual significance, Gnostic wisdom, and most of all, the desire for Truth! She is an enigma because we do not know who she really was, or is (remember life is a continuance). She has mirrored all of us, but who is she beyond our mirrors of her? To quote the book by Susan Haskins, Mary Magdalene: Myth and Metaphor (1993), “I realized that her image embodied the perceptions of every era, being refashioned again and again to suit the needs and aspirations of the times.”

Course Continues…