Joan Norton is founder of The Magdalene Circle in Los Angeles, author of The Mary Magdalene Within, and 14 Steps To Awaken the Divine Feminine, Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene
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5/21/2008 12:38 PMWencke Braathen wrote:
Thanks for the update on the film, Joan.Now I really look forward to see it when it comes to Chicago.
It sounds like the message got to them. The team set out to "prove" something, and during the investigation towards a tangible proof, they found that the message behind it all is the thing that really matters. And the only important thing we actually really lost in the process of time. Since we now know that "the process of time" for losing the message was largely organized by the Catholic Church, I think the next question is; Why did the Church find it so threatening? Believing in the holy union between man and woman is hardly threatening to the core of an intricate organization. In 1244AD the church was considered a country owning most of Italy, and the pope was in constant communication with the kings of Europe. The extinction of the Cathars and other "heretics" in the Languedoc area, a section which had once been its own country of Aquitania between France and Spain, was a very political campaign over land and influence. But it was also over knowledge. And the Cathars took their secret with them to their torturous graves.
They claimed to have the Gospel written by Jesus himself. They knew alchemy. They knew how to use the human body as a communication device over distance. They knew invisible techniques that could be used under the nose of the inquisitors, techniques which required self discipline, intuition and love. And once you had found the balance you were very powerful. Unfortunately, the inquisitors didn't understand. They were looking for a physical thing that would account for the Cathars powers, a magical word, a secret stash of gold, or a device of some sort.
Are we still looking for a physical "thing", or are we getting ready to embrace that there are powerful techniques that require nothing but knowledge of ourselves and the inherent abilities in our human bodies.
Thanks for the update on the film, Joan.Now I really look forward to see it when it comes to Chicago.
It sounds like the message got to them. The team set out to "prove" something, and during the investigation towards a tangible proof, they found that the message behind it all is the thing that really matters. And the only important thing we actually really lost in the process of time.
Since we now know that "the process of time" for losing the message was largely organized by the Catholic Church, I think the next question is; Why did the Church find it so threatening? Believing in the holy union between man and woman is hardly threatening to the core of an intricate organization. In 1244AD the church was considered a country owning most of Italy, and the pope was in constant communication with the kings of Europe. The extinction of the Cathars and other "heretics" in the Languedoc area, a section which had once been its own country of Aquitania between France and Spain, was a very political campaign over land and influence. But it was also over knowledge. And the Cathars took their secret with them to their torturous graves.
They claimed to have the Gospel written by Jesus himself. They knew alchemy. They knew how to use the human body as a communication device over distance. They knew invisible techniques that could be used under the nose of the inquisitors, techniques which required self discipline, intuition and love. And once you had found the balance you were very powerful. Unfortunately, the inquisitors didn't understand. They were looking for a physical thing that would account for the Cathars powers, a magical word, a secret stash of gold, or a device of some sort.
Are we still looking for a physical "thing", or are we getting ready to embrace that there are powerful techniques that require nothing but knowledge of ourselves and the inherent abilities in our human bodies.
Wencke.
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