Channellings for public dialog
As we move into the Sacred Season, here’s one of my more esoteric – & provocative – posts, in time for the Feasts of the Immaculate Conception (12/8) & Guadalupe (12/12)…
It’s 1999 and I’m draped in a blue satin cloak. “I am Mary, the one they call Virgin,” I solemnly declare before an audience. I drop the cloak to reveal a red satin dress. “I am Mary, the one they call Harlot.” I continue with my monologue: “I bore god from within. I nursed Him at my breast. I taught Him the Secrets. I chose him as my Beloved….I annointed him with sacred oils in preparation for the sacrifice. I wept at the foot of the Cross & watched…”
In this dramatic portrayal that I’ve written & performed for a grad school project at the California Institute of Integral Studies, I embody Magdalene the “whore” & Mary the “holy one,” entwined. I don’t know where this has come from. But my soul is somehow remembering union.
Fast forward to last Thursday. I’m receiving a profound energy healing from the powerful healer Robert (Shamrock) Holtz & I’m in an expanded state of consciousness. I flash: The two Marys are ONE. I explore the contours of this thought, then delve into its luminous interior and let it fill me. It seems a truth, one that’s been nibbling at the edges of my consciousness. A truth I realize I already knew – 15 years ago when I wrote & performed that monologue – before I knew anything.
As I’ve shared with groups, my revelations over the years have included the idea that there were two priestesshoods: the virgins who gave birth to the Avatars/Masters, and the sacred “prostitutes” – let’s call them tantrikas – who sexually united with the Avatars & generated their lineages on earth. (For more on my work on divine birth, see my books The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece & Virgin Mother Goddesses of Antiquity.) Perhaps it was Claire Heartsong, channeler of the books Anna, Grandmother of Jesus & The Magdalenes, who seeded me with the idea that these priestesshoods initially were not divided. Or it may have been someone else. From somewhere, that idea has been gestating. Now here I am with the revelation that the two Marys are ONE.
What does this mean?
• Does it mean these seemingly two women – Mother Mary & the Magdalene – were really the same individual, one who was both mother & lover of the Avatar Jeshua?
• Or does it mean they were part of the same holy order of female sex rite priestesses who were intially virgins, who reserved their erotic activity for the temple, and who knew how to work their tantric & kundalini energies in profound ways?
• Or does it mean a woman can be virgin in the sense of sexually or emotionally sovereign while being a tantrika at the same time? Does it require a fundamental reconception of the Goddess as BOTH Virgin & Sexual Generative force who engages with the Divine Masculine?
• Or does it mean a tantrika can restore her virgin status, as I’ve written may well have been ritually accomplished in antiquity as well as in certain contemporary cultures, such as among the Kerala of India?
• Or does it mean it’s time to heal & fuse the virgin/whore split within & come to a more profound possession & understanding of our vital power than ever before?
• Or is it some or all of the above? Can you feel it? There’s a Mystery here, profound & deep. An esoteric mystery having to do with women’s powers of sexuality & conception that go far beyond our current understanding. A mystery we haven’t fully fathomed in hundreds, if not thousands, of years. The two Marys are ONE. Close your eyes. Ponder it. Feel into it. Dream into it. Journey on it.
Whatever the case, let’s remember that December is traditionally the month of the birth of the light, the birth of the Divine Child, and that behind all of that is the BIRTHER. Some of us call her Mary. However we conceive her, in the hustle and bustle of gifting, consumption, celebration & family triggering, let’s not forget the Sacred Feminine, the Goddess, who is at the foundation of all that is holy.
With love,
Marguerite