The Sacred Dance
The Sophian tradition is a fluid, living one that is only fully
understood on the inner level. The legends that surround
any material or mystical union of Yeshua Messiah and Mary
Magdalene carry meaning on many levels, depending on the
spiritual maturity of the hearer, the initiate, the seeker, the
knower. What is important to realize is that the story of
Yeshua and Mary is transpiring on an inner level within our
very own consciousness every day and at this very moment --
something that's not so easy to recognize as long as we
remain tied to name and form.
According to the Kabbalah, the Human One of Light or Adam
Kadmon is the divine potential for which creation came into
being and we are all a part of this Mystical Body coming into
being or "potential being actualized." The Human One is
androgynous. However, in the act of creation with Adam
Ha-Rishon, who represents the Human One coming into being
here on earth, the male and female energies were divided.
The Kabbalah holds that this split between the male (Logos)
and female (Sophia) represents the division of soul mates,
but when these aspects of ourselves can be rejoined our Soul
of Light can be united to Adam Kadmon, or the mystical body
of the Christos. The major significance of Yeshua and Mary is
that of soul mates being rejoined, the bride and bridegroom
coming together as one Holy Soul, or our very own souls on
an individual level unifying our own male and female energies.
Naturally, when this occurs we are able to receive something
of Christ-consciousness.
According to Sophian oral tradition, Yeshua and Mary's lives
paralleled one another in very interesting ways. As young
children, both were aware of the Light Presence, but Mary
didn't have a family to cultivate her own and she soon
became distracted by the world. Then, while on her way to
Babylon to take her place in an arranged marriage, her
caravan was overturned and she was captured and sold into
slavery and prostitution. That led to years of bitterness and
anger, so much so that after she became wealthy through her
association with men of means, it is said that she dreamed of
killing the man who bought her and made her into a prostitute.
Mary represents our own souls here on earth, caught up in
the world, the play of karma and the endless cycles of
transmigration. We have forgotten our link to God Most High
and the Human One of Light, thinking we are truly separate
and lost.
But, at Mary's lowest point, she began to have luminous
dreams like she had dreamed as a young girl. Then she was
visited by a holy man who told her to return to the Holy Land
and seek out the Anointed One.
At the same time she was being visited by a holy man it is
believed that Yeshua was being baptized in the River Jordan
where the Holy Spirit, in the form of a dove, descended upon
him. At that moment he went from being a Christ-bearer to
being Christed.
It is also believed that while Yeshua Messiah was in the
wilderness, undergoing the ordeal that follows initiation and
baptism, or the Dark Night of the Soul, that she was traveling
to Jerusalem to meet him. According to legend, Mary arrived
in Jerusalem at the same time he was turning water into wine,
his first miracle or magical act following forty nights in the
wilderness.
Later, when she first heard him speak and his eyes met her's,
legend holds that she received the light transmission at that
very moment, after which he taught her the most secret and
inner mysteries for five days in the wilderness. Then they
were married.
Mary was present when he taught the other disciples and at
the Last Supper. Sophians don't believe it's any coincidence
that Mary Magdalene was present at the crucifixion or the first
one to see the Risen Christ. In fact, we believe she expected
to find him there that day. According to Sophian tradition,
Mary was also present at the Transfiguration where she was
the only disciple to not pass out during the Light
Transmission. In every way, she was Yeshua Messiah's
inmost disciple and in the act of anointing his body with a
costly perfume oil she made him a talisman for the karma of
the world's soul. Mary had experienced the world fully and
with the oil she mystically transferred that link to Yeshua
Messiah. Mary had early on experienced her own ordeal in
the wilderness and crucifixion by being sold into prostitution
and slavery.
Mary became the apostle to the apostles. It is told that after
Yeshua Messiah's transfiguration on the mountain she went
into a cave and transfigured before her closest women
disciples. Here on the phallic mountain and in the womb-like
cave Yeshua Messiah and Mary were both transfigured as
both are Christed -- and it is believed that the Light
Transmission continued through Mary here on earth. It is
also told that in the Upper Room, when the other disciples
began to argue over the secret teachings given to her by the
Risen Messiah, that the Fire of Pentecost descended upon
her and then expanded out to the other disciples who went
out to spread the Word. She and the women disciples
remained in the Upper Room praying and meditating.
The gospels of the New Testament are meant to strengthen
faith and Sophians do read them with faith but also with an
even deeper respect for the parables and inner mysteries
revealed by Yeshua Messiah as our central focus remains
gnosis. The oral traditions, the Old Testament, the Kabbalah,
and the Gnostic texts all form the body of our beliefs -- not as
something set in stone, but as a background context from
which gnosis or inner knowledge arises. The Gnostic path is
the spiritual practice through which unification with the Divine
Presence is actualized. We are all invited to the Wedding
Feast.
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