Mary Magdalene and the Divine Feminine

by Elizabeth Clare Prophet

What was Jesus' relationship with Mary Magdalene? What did he teach about the role of women? Is God only male?

Mary Magdalene and the Divine Feminine explores these questions and much more as it unfolds Jesus' liberating teaching on Woman and on the true nature and destiny of the soul―teaching that has been lost for thousands of years.

With detailed research and penetrating insight, Elizabeth Clare Prophet shows that Jesus actually broke with the tradition of his time and brought a revolutionary and freeing message for women that was later suppressed. She talks about why early Christian leaders denied Jesus' message on reverence for Woman and on the inner feminine potential of both man and woman. She also reveals the true relationship of Jesus and Mary Magdalene and why the concept of original sin, which was not part of Jesus' original teachings, was invented.

In these pages, you will also explore the principle and role of the Mother and the Divine Feminine in East and West from ancient times through the teachings of the Hindus, Hebrews, Christians, Gnostics and others. And you will come to see how the story of Mary Magdalene is representative of our own soul's journey and holds valuable keys for your personal spiritual growth and awakening.

Genres: Spirituality, History

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Elizabeth Clare Prophet (1939-2009) was an author, teacher, messenger of the ascended masters and leader of The Summit Lighthouse—an internationally recognized spiritual center for the advancement of inner awakening and soul liberation. For decades Elizabeth's books have been front runners in the movement for individual union with God. Millions of copies have been sold worldwide and published in more than 30 languages.
Throughout her lifetime, Elizabeth Clare Prophet walked the path of spiritual adeptship, advancing through the universal initiations common to mystics of both East and West. She taught about this path and described her own experiences for the benefit of all who desire to make spiritual progress. She lectured across North and South America, United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, the Philippines, Ghana, Liberia and India. With Her husband, Mark L. Prophet, she led pilgrimages to the Holy Land, Egypt and India.
Thousands of people from across the globe attended her four yearly conferences and hundreds of students learned spiritual teachings from her Summit University retreats. Her great desire was to share a spiritual path that would take true seekers, in the tradition of the mystical paths of the world's religions, as far as they could go and needed to go to meet their true teachers, the ascended masters, the archangels and their own Higher Self, face-to-face.
Her unpublished writings, lectures and dictations from the ascended masters continue to be released by Summit University Press.

Reviews

[Francine Apollo · Rating 4 out of 5]

The author covers a lot of ground in exploring controversial topics as subscribed to by Clare Prophet. I don't subscribe to all of her beliefs but she does a good job of explaining her thinking. I do love the last name...so appropriate for a seeker of the Eternal.

Jesus valued women; it's in the New Testament for all to see, it just gets overlooked a lot. I think women have to step forward more with the information that we have in the Canon and use that as our rock and our shield.

As for Mary Magdalene, she usually gets treated badly by men in power. It is clear, again from the Bible, that Jesus valued her. We'll never know much more about their relationship as it is most probably lost to history. I am more than comfortable with the notion that Jesus was very close to Magdalene and that she, as well as the male apostles, received the gift of His teaching and went out after the Resurrection to teach.

This is worth reading if you are doing a study of Magdalene and/or Feminine Spirituality.

[Jess Wilson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another take on why the church suppressed women
We know from Gnostic manuscripts the Gospel of Mary [Magdalene], the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Truth, the Gospel of Philip and the Gospel of Judas, are all missing from the Bible. We now that the church founder suppressed these texts in an attempt to control the people and limit or eliminate women's roles in the church. The Gnostics believed the reunion with God began with gnosis, or knowledge. The author attempts to show this in one way and it follows suit with her husband. It’s a good read for those interested.

[Megan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a wild ride…

Don’t expect Prophet to explain literally anything she’s talking about. I had to Google so many things that she referenced because she doesn’t explain them at all. It was not very beginner-friendly if you haven’t researched this topic before (and I haven’t).

There are a lot of good takeaways here, particularly about the Father-Mother duality of God and the way that Jesus respected and upheld women as equals, but then she mixes in tangents about the city of Atlantis and loses me.

I also felt like there was a lot of extra content that didn’t revolve around Mary Magdalene that could have been left out or put into a different book.

Overall, while many of the teachings here were a little too woo-woo for me, there is a lot I’ll be taking away as well. My perspective on the Christian God has certainly shifted a bit, and I’ll consider that worth it.

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was written from a more spiritual angle using personal revelations to enlighten the discussion, which is not my preference. I prefer a more purely academic read. This book was not really aimed at me, but I picked it up since it look interesting. There was some useful and interesting facts and thoughts in there, none-the-less.

Perhaps someone else who was the primary audience can give a more accurate review.