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Teachings from the Western Mystery Traditions:
The Esoteric "Paths of Return"
The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
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by Jacquelyn Small
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The Gospel of Mary Magdalene was discovered in 1896 by the German academic, Dr. Carl Reinhardt, in Cairo. He found it on sale in an Egyptian relic antique shop. It has always been rumored that this gospel existed. But except for the four gospels approved by decree in the fourth century by the Emperor Constantine, other gospels pertaining to the life of Jesus were destroyed or conveniently lost. This Berlin Codex which included the Gospel of Mary Magdalene was not published until 1955, when it was believed humanity was more ready for it. The well-known Nag Hammadi Gnostic Gospels were discovered in 1945 and perfectly complement the Berlin Codex, as do the Dead Sea Scrolls of the Essenes. Mary’s gospel was only 20 pages in length, and 10 of the pages were lost, hopefully to still be discovered someday.
According to authors Claire Nahmad and Margaret Bailey, in The Secret Teachings of Mary Magdalene, Mary’s gospel was written after the crucifixion and reflect the teachings of Jesus and Mary as the perfected recepticle of the Christ consciousness, the hieros gamos of Egyptian sacred rites. They express with radiant clarity and grace of her divine feminine qualities of mystical beauty, strength, and the simplicity of the heart. These teachings enable our minds to descend into our hearts with a gentle understanding and support of the heart’s wisdom.
These teachings give meaning to a soulful life, lived in communion with one’s inner self, and explain in detail what is considered the true inner teachings of Jesus to his disciples. His teachings, when learned through these texts, are not dogma; they are a process of our transformational spiritual awakening – the soul’s descent into matter and ascension back to Spirit through the chakra clearings -- which Jesus claimed we must all go through to become who we came here to be, supernal sons and daughters of our Creator.
Here is a summary of Mary’s gospel, taken from Nahmad’s and Bailey’s The Secret Teachings of Mary Magdalene:
“And the Lord said,
The eye of the vision is within the soul.
Let those who have the vision see.
Those that would listen, let them hear.
For those that listen will hear
the breath of Silence.
And then the Lord said:
Let us return to our true nature.”
“And I say unto you:
You can open your heart to Love.
Love has no bounds.
Love must be unfettered on all levels.
Love does not cry: murder,
as this darkens our very soul.
How can we kill that which we love?
Love does not cry: hate,
for how can we hate,
when to do so we would hate ourselves
in the same process?”
And Peter asked Jesus:
“Tell us what is the sin of the world,
that it should die.” And Jesus said:
“Matter has no sin.
Sin has no real existence.
It is you yourselves who create it when,
as in adultery, you are unfaithful to your true nature
and act within the habit of your corrupt nature.
That is why the gift of the Christ light
was put into your heart,
and why I came into your midst
to restore every soul to its Source.”
“Matter gave forth to a passion
that has no equal, a passion for itself,
which is contrary to Divine nature.
Matter caused powerful passions to enter into you,
forces which arise from the polarity of opposites.
Thus you are pulled apart, and a disharmony arises
to disturb unity throughout its whole body.
This is why I tell you, be at one,
be in harmony, one with another.”
“Allow no one to lead you astray by saying,
Lo, he is here! Or lo, he is there!
For my truth is within you;
it is within your heart that the Son of God dwells.”
And Mary said:
“Lord, when someone sees you in a vision,
is it through the soul that we are able to see you,
or is it through our spirit?”
And the Lord answered,
“Mary, it is neither, but it is the nous
between the two which sees the vision,
and it is this which makes us fully human.
When we become fully human,
we become one whole body of light.
The ‘One’ breath…
The breath conjoins life-death-life
at the midpoint which is the heart,
called the noon of our being.
This is where the nous lies.
We are all aspects of life,
of ‘One’ being, of ‘One’ whole.
All aspects of life have to be overcome.
It is true that everything
in our physical structure
is composed and will decompose.
But we can overcome this process.”
Mary’s gospel tells us that it is through the nous that we see through the eyes of the soul. Through this vision we overcome the outer through the inner. It teaches us not to be afraid of death, that this is merely our attachment to matter. This gospel tells of the seven powers of wrath which we must overcome: Darkness, Desire, Ignorance, Fear of Death, Power of the Flesh, Foolish Wisdom, and Self-righteous Materialism. When it is stated that Mary Magdalene had “seven devils” removed from her by Jesus, this is referring to the seven charkas or levels of human consciousness we must all clear before we are whole. The charkas work like valves that open and transmit subtle energies that move into our physical being with the qualities each level of consciousness represents.
When we accomplish the labors of the seven levels of consciousness, we can say as did Mary:
“My emotional attachment to matter which determined my limitations, was erased by virtue of a higher design.”
Only when the charkas are clear can the inner marriage of the divine masculine and feminine principle occur. Dr. Carl Gustav Jung taught that this inner marriage of our two major polarities is the final stage of our individuation (being our matured unique self) process. Mary, as the archetype of the divine feminine, is symbolic of the tender and beautiful soul who helps override the harsh tendencies of a patriarchal masculine-dominated world. When we are true to our souls, we cannot be diverted into materialism of any sort; we live in the light of the soul.
These teachings remind us to go within, that this is where we will meet the Christ. Once we are centered in the Silence of our hearts, we are able to hear Jesus’ teachings about Love. And we will know that all our earthly disturbances will be resolved in Love – that the choice between Love and fear have to be made daily with each breath we take. In this Gospel of Mary, Jesus taught that the human ways of hurting themselves and one another are all caused by the wrath of pain, confusion, and weariness. He reminds us that when these hurtful emotions arise in us, there is always a split second before they come forth when we can supplant them with Love. We all have the right to choose Love, says Jesus, and he tells us that Love overcomes our lower nature.
When studying the Gospel of Mary, as well as the Gospels of Philip, Thomas, and others in the Gnostic gospels, the Nag Hammadi Library discovered in 1945, we find that Jesus teachings were all about our inner process of transformation we must all undergo to be fully human and complete this fourth kingdom in nature, the Human Kingdom. It was never about worshipping him, but instead, of following his example of how to live in the earthly world as a spiritual son or daughter of God. He was here to remind us of our true nature.
In the Gospel of Mary, Jesus does not bark at us about rigid commands to follow, as Orthodoxy often does. Instead, he gives us a beautiful path to follow, showing us ‘the Way’ as a process of transmutation of human frailties into divine Love, which he says is a return to our true nature and our purpose here on earth.
Sources:
The Secret Teachings of Mary Magdalene, Claire Nahmad & Margaret Bailey
Jesus and the Lost Goddess, Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy
Mary Magdalene, Bruce Chilton
Jung and the Lost Gospels, Stephan A. Hoeller
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Jacquelin Small,
Spiritualist, Clairvoyant Psychologist
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JACQUELYN SMALL, LMSW, is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with degrees in human psychology and clinical social work. She is a licensed non-denominational minister and a licensed psychotherapist who works with both spiritual and psychological concerns.
Jacquelyn is a popular presenter and consultant in academic settings, new-thought churches and new paradigm conferences and mental health settings, known for her easy-going, self-disclosing, humorous style of intimate relating with her audiences.
She has a long history in addiction counselor training, consulting and counseling, and trains all kinds of health professionals in the emerging field of spiritual psychology. She is one of the teachers who has been selected by Unity Church for their national TV ministry. She served as the Director of Training for the Texas Commission on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse for nine years, and served on the adjunct faculty of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Stanford, California for four years.
Jacquelyn has authored eight books about soul-based psychology and the process of personal transformation, some of which have become classics in the counseling and consciousness fields. She is represented by the Tom Grady Agency. She has many audio tapes as well through Eupsychia's publishing company, Eupsychian Press.
Her published books are:
* Becoming Naturally
Therapeutic (Bantam)
* Transformers, the
Artists of Self-Creation
(DeVorss & Co.)
* Awakening in Time
(Eupsychian Press)
* Embodying Spirit (HarperSanFrancisco
/Eupsychian)
* Rising to the Call with
co-author Mary Yovino (DeVorss & Co.)
* Becoming a Practical Mystic (Quest Books)
* Psyche's Seeds-The 12 Sacred Principles of Soul-Based Psychology (Tarcher/Putnam
/Penguin)
Jacquelyn is a regular columnist for Science of Mind Magazine and is featured often in other magazines. Among the many conferences and programs for which Jacquelyn has keynoted or presented programs, include:
* The Association for Humanistic Psychology
* Association for Transpersonal Psychology
* Omega Institute
including their Body &
Soul Conferences
* Tracor and Texaco, Inc.
* Church of Religious Science Annual
Conference
* Great Lakes Addiction Conference
* Whole Life Expo
* The College of William & Mary's Annual Addictions Conference
* Most major universities
in the United States
* U.S. Department of Heath, Education and Welfare
* Omega Institute's
Body & Soul Conferences
* New Age Magazine's Bahama Teaching Cruise
The ConferenceWorks!
She has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, America's Talking, Wisdom Television and Radio, New Dimensions Radio, NPR's People's Pharmacy and a CNN's series on Alternative Healing and continues to make regular guest appearances for radio and television.
Jacquelyn Small serves on the Advisory Board of the International Psychosynthesis Association, the National Council on Codependence, and The Holistic Alliance of Professional Practitioners, Entrepreneurs and Networkers, Inc.
She is the Founding Director of Eupsychia (pronounced u-si'-ki-a) Institute which means "good psyche" or "well being" in Greek, a not-for-profit professional training and healing program in Soul-Based Psychology and Integrative Breathwork. With her staff of dedicated, experienced spiritual therapists, she conducts workshop intensives throughout North America on a regular basis.
Eupsychia Institute
PO Box 151960
Austin, TX 78715-1960
(800) 546-2795
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New Event!
Healing Into Wholeness:10 Day Wellness retreat For Emotional Healing and Spiritual Awakening with Jacquelyn Small
June 16- 26
Central Texas Hill Country (near Austin)
Contact:
Eupsychia 800-546-2795
eupsychia.com/well.html
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