Image: “Pentecost Icon,” by unknown author, date unknown, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pentecost_icon.jpg … public domain …

Description: “An icon depicting the Theotokos with the apostles filled with the Holy Spirit, indicated by “cloven tongues like as of fire” (Acts 2:3) above their heads.” – Wikimedia Commons

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Dear Ones,

Here is a great word: Theotokos. It means ‘the Mother of God’. The above image shows Mother Mary in an honored, central place as the apostles are filled with the Holy Spirit, which might also be termed God’s grace.

This reminds me of how the American Sikh Yogi Bhajan, who brought the science of kundalini yoga to America, thought of women as ‘the grace of God’. I recall in particular a meditation he once taught women. You can learn about it here …

Video: “Grace of God Meditation” by 13 Moons, 19 March 2023 …   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp798w_u7JA ..

It seems to me the role of Mother Mary and her honored position as the Mother of God are often overlooked in Christian churches today.

Quite the opposite, on the astral plane I have experienced a barbaric practice termed ‘excoriation’ by gatherings of spiritual men. It seems to me that this took place because of my role as conveyor of the grace of God to humankind.

Excoriation is a way of excising a person from the company of holy people. In other words it is a form of shunning. The excoriated person is eschewed. He or she becomes pariah

This is done through denunciation spoken in the foulest terms. The cause of this practice is pent-up anger. In other words, excoriation is a way of blaming that anger on a sacrificial victim.

I suggest as a healthy alternative the primal scream as a way of releasing pent-up anger. Through personal experience I have found the best place to practice the primal scream is somewhere no one else can hear us. Otherwise, what will they think of us?! Heaven only knows.

Or else get together with a group of friends for an anger release primal scream, as in this video where a group of mothers gathered on a field during COVID for a primal scream …

Video: “Moms gather on field for a ‘primal scream’ to let out pandemic emotions,”  by Good Morning America, 24 January 2022 … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcJjj1t8hUA ..

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And now, on to the topic of religions demeaning women as sinful temptresses of men. When this thought-form is prevalent in a faith, then women are treated quite shamefully. A case in point is the story of Mary Magdalene in the New Testament.

Image: “Christ and the Sinner,” by Andrey Mironov, 2011, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christ_and_the_sinner.jpg … CC BY-SA 4.0 International …

COMMENTS: This I feel to be a false representation of the role the Betrothed in relation to the Christ. — Alice B. Clagett

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In the Christian faith this story is sometimes taken as supporting evidence that women are evil and must be castigated and humiliated before men … before their spouses, before Christian groups of men before pastors, and even before hate-filled men unrelated to these Christian churches. This is a terrible evil of the current day; it represents a deeply Dark samskara or instance of Soul wounding that afflicts many, many people of the current day.

Image: “Christ and His Spouse Saint Mary Magdalene,” adapted from Image by Juergen Striewski from Pixabay, Pixabay Content License

Amongst the Lightworkers, on the other hand, there is an uplifting story about Mary Magdalene. Some of us feel that Christ met her at the well, knew that she had been abused by many men, yet fell in love with her and asked to stay in her home that night.

Some of us feel Christ was betrothed to her that night, that he became her husband, and that she bore him five children. Four of these, we feel, were boy children who met their deaths before or at the time of Christ’s crucifixion.

One of Christ’s children was a girl. This child was named ‘Jeshua’ after her father. Along with Mother Mary and five of Christ’s Apostles Christ’s daughter Jeshua followed her Mary Magdalene as she fled to a far land to escape certain death at the hands of the Pharisees.

Image: “Christ and His Daughter Jeshua,” adapted from Image by Chil Vera from Pixabay, Pixabay Content License …

COMMENTS: Here Christ’s daughter is 6 or 7 years old; she was 15 when her mother fled with her from Jerusalem. –Alice B. Clagett, on the advice of others who remember those days.

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In that foreign place, for five decades we feel Mary Magdalene taught Christ’s truths to those whose hearts were open to His teachings.

In love, light and joy,
Alice B. Clagett
I Am of the Stars

This channeling is, in part, on the advice of others who remember those days.

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Link: “Maryam and Yeshua,” A Short Story by Kate Osterloh, in The Sun, May 2020, pp 40-45 … https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/533/maryam-and-yeshua ..

Written and published on 21 April 2024

Image: “Church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem,” adapted from Image by krystianwin from Pixabay, Pixabay Content License

 

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