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.
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