Jesus and Mary Magdalene,
their bodies twined
Posted by: Sugar Shaker in Book Reviews, Religion, Sacred Sexuality
by Joan Norton
“When our bodies twined as one he said he knew how the rivers loved the earth, how the oceans felt about the shores. I gave him knowing of love of the body as love of the Earth. He loved my body as a teacher of the rhythms of the Earth. Men are without knowledge of the rhythms which are the ebb and flow of all Creation, without knowledge of a woman’s bodylife and her experience as an Earth.”
If we knew how the rivers loved the earth and how the oceans felt about the shores, would we dare pollute them or force them apart? We do both, along with all other manner of destruction to the sacred, innocent purity of nature. We do the same destruction to ourselves when we reject that which is divinely given.
Norton, a Jungian psychologist and founder of The Mary Magdalene Circle, recorded her channeled visions of Mary Magdalene in this delightful volume. Told from Mary Magdalene’s perspective, this book reveals a respect between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, a treasuring of her feminine wisdom, reverence for the feminine divine and a celebration of sacred sexuality.
“This he knew of me, that my ways in the world belong to another time and place and not merely to the time we lived in. He knew this, in his way of being a ’seer.’ He saw the older temple life of women living separate from men, he knew these ways of life to be sacred to women.”
What a powerful statement for recognition of the feminine divine.
Mary Magdalene speaks frankly, but not explicitly, about their sexual union, their sharing of thoughts and teaching each other while teaching others together as a team. It also speaks of the hardships of being accepted for who they are and in gaining acceptance of their vision of the Divine and Divine Love:
“What would the rib be? Protector of the heart. This he knew and thus he treated me as his protector, as his way of knowing the heart on Earth. He had seen the truth of all, had seen his own Godself in the other world through the veil. He knew he, and we, were all this, were all connected extensions of our own Godself and our own ‘Father.’”
Sacred sexuality should be part of all our lives. Our sexuality is a divine creation, so why would it be hated by the divine? For what reason did we come to this earth if not to experience it in its fullest? Did we come to reject that which our creator loved? If something is divinely created, how can it be profane? Why should we hate it? This book provides a rich alternative with the gentle, graceful language of their love:
“When night came we could meld ourselves together and experience the vastness of our mind’s reach far beyond the physical world. We made love like all are capable of doing. With all giving, with all acceptance, with all wonder. To make love as we did is the mind’s way of loosening its hold on Earth consciousness, of disappearing itself. We did it thusly, as a way to disappear our lives into their origins for a short while.”
We can divorce ourselves from the divine nature of sexuality, but we cannot do that without warping our spiritual selves and our natural place in this world. This is true if we separate the sexual experience from the divine via indulging without spiritual connection and is also true when we despise it, thus avoiding our sexuality completely.
Women enjoy a special connection with nature via their creative and nurturing abilities. The recognition of our natural feminine essence is as refreshing as the flow of warm water or the radiance of moonlight.
“He told men to watch the tenderness of women towards their world and they would see the true nature of God. For God so loved His world that he sent his begotten son, is how you came to know this idea. The idea was a shock then, that there was a force, a God, who loved Creation. Would a Mother hate the child she bore? It is the same idea, he would say to the crowds. A mother loves her creation and God is a mother as he is a guiding father.”
A read well worth the time.
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For so long, women have been forcebly removed from there place in the sacred spiritual teachings of Christ and sexuality has been defiled to a sin in order to create shame for the purpose of manipulation. It is inspiring and refreshing to see women like Joan Norton taking on the “false teachings” that have been passed on throughout history and restoring women to there proper place in the sacred spiritual.
Hi Sugar Shaker, Hi Starr…
Thanks for highlighting the love story in my book, Sugar Shaker.
I’ve always been amazed at the very particular way Jesus and Magdalene’s sexual relationship was “revealed” to me as I was channeling the book. It was so matter-of-fact and so few sentences. I was just acting as a secretary and writing what came to me in that altered state….and personally I was feeling all the feelings “she” had. Jesus’ feelings of love for her, love for her body, love for her mind, love for her capabilities….and did I mention love for her body?…..were really incredible to feel. People have told me they feel these things when they read it too. I can see now, many years later, that feeling the feelings of Jesus’ love for Magdalene is an important healing for us all.
When the book first came out someone called it “Jesus porn”.
Thanks for starting this blog, Sugar Shaker, you’re helping us all to grow and expand into more Love and more Life.