TRINITY SUNDAY

Sometimes the world feels very small. Like right now when I am talking to a friend in Australia and returning messages from readers in England. I am listening to BBC4 and suddenly hear a singer who is married to a friend of someone I grew up with, whose band I know is in Chicago. Sometimes you experience yourself as part of a great community, and sometimes, if you give yourself to it, that sense is sacred.

The Divine as community, as multiplicitous is a high concept in many religions, the Divine experiencing the I in you and you in me, its own modality, its several personalities resolving in one nature is not new at all, but in Christianity it is known as the Trinity.

                             

This is the second Sunday of the small season of Pentecost.  The story of Jesus finished as he has ascended into heaven, the Church reveres three ways in which we experience the ascended God who is still with us. Pentecost is our continual renewal and vivification by the Spirit of God and next week is our continual feeding and communion with Him through Body and Blood, but this Sunday concentrates on the high relationship of the trinity which makes relationship with us possible. This is the celebration of the high multiplicity of the Divine

MARY MAGDALENE LADY OF THE HOLY CHURCH

 

Of course it would be Mary Magdalene who calls me back from retirement. She is the third feast in the week of Pentecost. We began with a day from Pope Francis, Mary Mother of Church. Two days later I added the Feast of Toci, Saint Anne as Grandmother of the World and Heart of the Earth, the Wise Old Woman we are all in need of. It seemed right that Friday we would conclude this trinity with Mary Magdalene, the Bride herself. If Mary is Mother of Church, Mary can never be the Church. If she is mother of the Groom, she can never be his Bride. This is Mary Magdalene. Anne is seen in Toci and the Grandmothers of myth, Mary in the virgins and virgin mothers. The Magdalene is Babalon and Aphrodite herself, the love and desire principal. The very Holy Spirit we celebrate this week made it so that a virgin could in the flesh bring forth a child, Jesus. Joseph as husband and protector. 

When I say the Holy Church, I mean the Secret Church, for the two are one and the same.

The image of the Holy Family is doubled in Jesus, Mary and their child, but in a reversal. They are spiritual man and wife, and the holy child they bear is the Church. Or rather we become the Magdalene in our life with the Diving Groom. The Church and the Groom in the sacred wedding produce the Child of the Spirit, the Child in the Spirit. Jesus is the Second Adam, but he is the First Fruits. What he and the Beloved produce are the next fruits, The Holy Child, the union of Chalice and Blade, is both Christ and the child born from the union with Christ. This is the mystery, or one of them.

A Possible Goodbye

 Things like this always go out with a whimper, and a whimper is actually an ignorant word for a transformation. My thoughts, the business going through my head and in my life, no longer fit on this page and must move to other places. So, this looks like it may be the end of Sickle and Axe of Young Tradition. There have been other times when I thought it was over or almost over, but it kept going, but in the last few months it definitely seems as if Young Tradition and the path I am on had moved beyond this page. 203 articles in over two years is not bad

So, until we meet again, so long and goodnight....

And love.