Healing the Strife Between Magdalene & Peter

And How That Heals Our Personal & Planetary Gender Wars

 

Did you know that the apostle Peter, upon whose name the Catholic church was built, was in a power struggle with Mary Magdalene 2000 years ago… and that the ripples of that struggle have deeply affected us ALL?

IMAGE: The Denial of St. Peter, c. 1623 by Gerrit van Honthorst

Yes, the “gnostic” sources reveal that Peter was jealous of Magdalene. How do we know that? Because while he acknowledged her as the favored disciple, he said the special teachings she received from Jesus sounded weird… he thought she talked too much… and he generally was rude to her. Yup, made her cry.

Even the other male disciples tried to call him on it. Yes, they understood that Peter had issues. Magdalene knew, with compassion, that Peter wasn’t really getting the teachings, either.

Peter may have been known as the “rock,” but Magdalene was, true to the meaning of her priestess name, the “tower” that watched above all of the early flock, along with Mother Mary. She was the smartest, wisest, and most esoteric of all of the disciples who walked with Jesus and the Blessed Mother.

Peter’s treatment of Magdalene was misogynistic, anti-female, and anti-Goddess, for Magdalene was an acknowledged emanation of the great Goddess Sophia.

In my understanding, this rift in the early Jesus community served as the place where what the disciples called the negative “Archons” were able to get their hooks in. By Archons, I mean the unfriendly interdimensional forces that were already alive and well all over the planet at the time that these great Masters walked the earth ~ and especially in the Roman empire. These forces were understood to be nothing less than demonic.

By penetrating onto the well-meaning community that had formed around Jesus and Mother Mary through this strife drama, the Archons were able to bring in yet another great wave of patriarchy into the earth plane. For it was through this infiltration that they were able to create the “church” using the fractured and wounded masculine energy body of Peter.

Had the patriarchal Archons not succeeded, the church would have been formed in the likeness of Mother Mary and the Magdalene, who were the leaders of the entire early Jesus community and the women’s cohort of it, respectively. But things went down to serve the agendas of the Archons, and a trail of abuse and trauma has ensued all over the world, with the church of Peter as the central node from which it has emanated.

This strife between Magdalene and Peter is, therefore, part of a great planetary wound. It is a gash that is not just personal to these two people, but one that exists between the Masculine and Feminine, all men and all women.

This wound, this rift, this conflict is thus part of what is in need of healing, reconciliation, and forgiveness.

In Class 4 of the Seven Sisters of Magdalene course, we will be looking at this wound and its relationship to Archonic and demonic forces, and we will draw on the great healing energies of the Sophia-Christ to bring reconciliation to it. In doing so, we will be bringing reconciliation to all gender wars, and to our own lives, each of which has been deeply affected by this great dynamic.