It is a great pity that some of them used their imagination to degrade this beautiful image of the feminine, thereby degrading women in general. This has resulted in a Christianity without real women; there are only virgins, mothers, or
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“Among the many texts of early Christianity, we might also consider the Pseudo-Clementine Homelies, Theodotus and Asclepius, which identify the Kingdom with the presence of the anthropos in a human individual, whether male or female.22 These texts also speak of the “inner Man” or “essential Man” (ontos Anthropos). For Jacques Ménard, the most relevant example seems to be the passage in the Pistis Sophia in which it is said that Miriam of Magdala feels this inner human in herself, and by identifying with it, understands everything.”
― The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary: The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition
― The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary: The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition
“The Logos is that which links all phenomena with one another as parts of the one Universe, and which links discourse with phenomena. The Logos is a link.”
― The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary: The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition
― The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary: The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition
“Jesus must have been a normal, male human being who was at least capable of having a relationship with Miriam of Magdala as a prerequisite for becoming the archetype of synthesis, the Anthropos.”
― The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary: The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition
― The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary: The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition
“The Christ is at once whole (totus) in his divinity and whole (totus) in his humanity, of one substance in union with the Father concerning his divinity,”
― The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary: The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition
― The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary: The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition
“St. Jerome (347–420), the renowned translator of the Bible into Latin (the Vulgate) went so far as to say: “You say that Mary did not remain a virgin? Well, I say that Joseph himself was a virgin, and that the virgin Christ was born from a marriage of virgins.9”
― The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary: The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition
― The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary: The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition
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