Mary Magdalene The Illuminator (v5.0)

by William Henry

  ‘Mary’ is symbolic of the mother of the sun, the Milky Way galaxy. What is located at the center of the Milky Way? Suns.

  The fantastic collection of exotic objects found at the center of our Galaxy have been feeding the interests of astronomers for many decades. The Galactic Center harbors a variety of intriguing puzzles, including a strangely quiescent supermassive black hole, a collection of wispy magnetic filaments, a few dense stellar superclusters which host mysterious and massive stars, a star with a tail, and a family of gas streamers spiraling toward a central dark mass. Just to name a few.

  The complex radio source Sagittarius A appears to be located almost exactly at the Galactic Center, and contains an intense compact radio source, Sagittarius A*, which many astronomers believe correspond with the supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy. They predict that in approximately 200 million years there will be an episode of starburst in the galactic center, with many stars forming rapidly and undergoing supernovas at a hundred times the current rate. The starburst may also be accompanied by the formation of galactic jets as matter falls into the central black hole.

  A starburst galaxy. It is thought that the Milky Way undergoes a starburst of this sort every 500 million years.

  Galactic jets are powerful jets of plasma which spray from the centers of active galaxies and quasars. A jet is created from subatomic particles and magnetic fields in the accretion disk of the supermassive black hole in the nucleus of an active galaxy. Similar jets, though on a much smaller scale, can develop around the accretion disks of neutron stars and stellar black holes.

  Does the Cathar glyph on the left symbolize a galaxy spraying cosmic material represented by the figure 8 and the star?

  One of the conclusions drawn in this work is that MM possessed a means to harvest a transformative substance spit from the center of our galaxy. This theory suggests that this material was originally ejected during a starburst event. One objection to this theory arises from the fact that the Milky Way has not gone starburst for over 200 million years.

  This does not diminish my enthusiasm for this proposal. One well-known starburst galaxies is M82, located in Ursa Major, the Great Bear. M82 is a tremendous star factory, observations show. Holy Grail legends are precise in locating Ursa Major as the source of high frequency cosmic rays that bathe Earth. This gusher of cosmic energy may be the source.

  Two more Cathar glyphs that may show the galaxy spraying cosmic material.

  The ‘spray’ that comes from this oasis, likely through the star nursery at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, is a mist of subatomic particles, and possibly even souls.

  And so, we are confronted with an incredible story. When Mary washed Jesus’ feet with her tears, I propose, it referred to this celestial substance. She knew how to draw from this medicinal fountain of the living water and the oil of joy. I find myself opining that this substance may have originated in Ursa Major, likely from the collision of two galaxies. While I cannot prove it at this time, new lines of research will soon offer such proof. After all, science now understands that tiny particles can communicate with each other over tremendous distances. It seems likely that the ancients also knew that a particle on earth is capable of interaction with a particle in Ursa Major.

  Interestingly, natural resins are found often as globules or tears on the bark of various trees (mostly pines and firs) or other living plants. Some natural resins, called oleoresins, contain both a resin and an essential oil; they are often viscid, sticky, gummy, or plastic.

  This whole business about spray, mist and celestial tears (or rays) that are found in resins is made even more relevant when we acknowledge that in the Languedoc tradition of Southern France, notes Laurence Gardner, The Magdalene Legacy, MM is remembered as la Dompna del Aquae: MISTRESS OF THE WATERS. This title is a reference to the ‘fountain of living waters’ of the Old Testament’s Song of Solomon (4:15), with which MM had become associated. It is thought that this title, Mistress of the Waters, is a reference to MM’s sea voyage to France. However, it could equally refer to the ‘heavenly waters’ the Egyptians called the Waters of Nun.

  Interestingly, according to the alchemist Fulcanelli, alabastrum refers to ‘Pure Water’ or ‘Pure Matter’. Pure Water refers to the Heavenly Waters of Life.

  The Greeks called the fundamental element arche, water.

  Barbara Walker, in her Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, points out that the Vedic (early Sanskrit) root word puta, “pure” or “holy,” is also found in the Avestan putika, a mystical lake of the waters of birth.

  Puta became the Spanish word for whore = putti. Puta, derives from the Latin term for a well, but the Latin term for grave, literally “a hole in the earth,” is puticuli, meaning womb of rebirth. The Hebrew word hor means a cave, pit, or dark hole. These terms for whore were not derogatory.

  As an alche-mist Joseph would have worked with the arche, the primary substance of creation, the primeval matter, the ultimate stuff of reality, which the alchemists symbolized with this symbol , the balance symbol.

  MIST

  The description of manna/Christ as rain is key. A synonym for rain is mist, defined as fine drops of a liquid, such as water, perfume, or medication, sprayed into the air. One of Mary Magdalene’s specialties, according to Christian belief, is the manufacture of anointing oils and perfumes or mists.

  Significantly, the Hebrew word messeh (‘messiah’), which means ‘anointed’, is traced to the Egyptian word messah (‘ crocodile’). However, tracing this root mes into Egyptian hieroglyphs we find it derives from mst (mist). It means “celestial tears” or “dew,” and portrays three drops or rays , of water (mist?) falling, radiating or misting from Heaven. The same hieroglyphic also means “instruction” or “teaching.”

  Mes or ms also means ‘to bear’, ‘create’, ‘give birth’ or ‘birth’. This is an important pun on baru and the Great Bear, Ursa Major.

  If one quietly contemplates these associations we see that right below the surface of the Egyptian and Christian teaching (or parallel to it), virtually intact, is an allusion to a galaxy-scale metaphysics and a spray of particles from another galaxy that instruct.

  Clearly such a proposal, which unites spirit and the sciences of perfumery, astronomy, anatomy and alchemy, cannot be entirely proven through ordinary means.

  Together, Isis, Osiris and Anubis are linked to the three stars of the blue-white Dog Star Sirius. Star light. Star bright. During the dog days of summer, Sirius disappears and the Nile floods. The Egyptians believed that Sirius was the tear of Isis, shed for the dead Osiris (who was torn to bits by Set), and that it would fall into the water, causing the yearly flood, a death and rebirth event. This lead to the Nile festival of the “Night of the Tear-Drop” (of Isis). Her name, Isis, means ‘wisdom’. These drops of water/wisdom, the tears of Isis, were probably used to re-member or resurrect Osiris.

  As Laird Scranton first pointed out in Hidden Meanings, the hieroglyph for ‘tear’ is remarkably similar in shape to the way modern science portrays the ‘tearing’ of space time and the birth of a wormhole.

  This wormhole = tear symbolism, when applied to the tear of Isis raises a question. Beyond the dimensions of length, width, and breadth (one, two, and three) and beyond the dimension of space-time (four) into the fifth dimension and beyond is there a tear, a wormhole or portal, through which energy enter our region of the Milky Way? Were certain adepts able to capture this energy?

  It would bring a radical new understanding if it turned out Mary Magdalene’s ‘tears’ referred to the celestial tears, the rain (water), mist or dew of M82 (via Sirius or Venus). Particularly since shortly before the crucifixion MM also embalmed Jesus, just like Isis embalmed Osiris, preparing him for his journey to the Otherworld, when poetically speaking, he crossed the mist of the borderland between Earth and Heaven.

  Interpreted in this light, Mary Magdalene’s anointing of Jesus would bear a striking resemblance to the Archangel Michael’s
anointing of Enoch upon the prophet’s arrival at the Seventh Heaven in The Book of Enoch. When the prophet arrived at a ‘great house’ of the Lord he was terrified. The Lord said to Michael: ‘Go and strip Enoch of his own clothes; anoint him with fine oil, and dress him like ourselves’,and Michael did as he was told. He stripped me of my clothes, and rubbed me over with a wonderful oil like dew – with the scent of myrrh – which shone like a sunbeam. And I looked at myself, and I was like one of the others; there was no difference and all my fear and trembling let me.” He had crossed the borderland into the world of the gods.

  Strong religious connotations are associated with mist. Irish literary sources associate mist with the music of the Otherworld or with the Otherworld itself. The Druids, for example, were imputed with the power to create a magical mist, the “Cleo Trom” in which to cloak themselves or make themselves invisible. In fact, according to one source, ability to raise the Druid Mist was a test of anyone claiming to be a Wizard.

  Mist(s) are regarded as preludes to important revelations, prologues to manifestations. ‘And the Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud.Exodus 19:9 Clouds are formed when air containing water vapor or mist is cooled below a critical temperature called the dew point and the resulting moisture condenses into droplets on microscopic dust particles (condensation nuclei) in the atmosphere. The puns on mist and dew are evident and informative.

  If this version of the anointing is the correct one, it confirms the use of perfume and reveals that Mary Magdalene was responsible for the transformation of Jesus from a man into Christos, the ‘annointed’, that would proclaim God’s chosen Messiah. Henceforth, he would be portrayed in a cloud or a mist.

  So let’s follow the mist symbol further.

  As Egyptologist Stephen Mehler writes in From Light Into Darkness, according to indigenous Egyptian (or properly ‘Khemetian’) teaching this glyph, the mes or mesu, means rebirth and refers to a protective body that insures the deceased’s body will not be consumed by negative entities (called jackals) nor reincarnate.

  Mehler also notes that the Mesu (mist) glyph is the root of Moses or Mosis. This term should be correctly understood as that which insures rebirth, he says. Rebirth into the Otherworld, that is.

  ‘Moses’ is likely the title of the instructor who could produce this substance and the mystical awakening it caused. The Jews also call this instructor, the mist, ‘the Messiah’. This makes clear that the terms ‘Moses’ and ‘Mesu’ or ‘Messiah’ are not names of people they are descriptions of a substance they can produce.

  Like the Druid Mist it apparently makes one invisible to the jackals, in other words cloaked. The three rays are therefore not water, they’re ‘jackal skins’ or ‘jackal cloaks’ (my term). Many described a tunnel of light that opens at the moment of death. Obviously, the jackal skin is a metaphor for a protective cloak that assists us when, at death, we tear open a hole in space and pass through the mist into the Other World, the shimmering sphere of space-time.

  Following this trail, the jackal is usually associated with Anubis, the sun/son of Isis and Osiris, the Egyptian god of resurrection. This jackal-headed god was the conductor of souls to the underworld. This chain of Egyptian ideas suggests the mist glyph symbolizes the actual instructions or wisdom for making this journey.

  All of these symbols represent this instruction: , , , , , .

  CONCLUSION

  MARY, THE MAYA AND MANNA

  In the wilderness of mystique that surrounds the manna/Christ substance and Mary Magdalene’s important connection to it the Mayans, the indigenous people of Mexico and Central America, have vital knowledge to contribute. They describe a well of living water like Miriam’s and Jacob’s and a heavenly substance they too called dew. Before we explore the means by which MM might have made the Milky Way tear open and cry tears of golden rain we’ll take a moment here to draw from the wisdom of the Maya concerning dew, which interestingly enough, they called itz (pronounced ‘eats’, as in the place name Chichen Itza).

  What is itz According to Maya Cosmos author Linda Schele, itz is a blessed, magical, liquid (watery) substance of heaven. As Martin Brennan notes in The Hidden Maya this precious substance was universally sought after by shamans through portals opened in the sky. They described it as ‘cosmic sap’. Sound familiar?

  It sounds exactly like manna to me, right down to the sap. Some modern critics of the Israelite story of manna believe this may simply have been an edible sap of a variety of cactus found in the Sinai Peninsula. However, the Mayans didn’t find itz in the desert. They found it in the rainforest of Central America.

  Adding to the Israelite-Maya connection is the Maya term Itza, which means both “saint and wise man” and “water of the dew.” This fact is one which I’d like to go into here as pertinent to the hypothesis that wise Mary Magdalene fulfilled the role of the Miriam, i.e. the prophetess who produced the water or mist of life.

  In The Mysteries of Chichen Itza, Mayan religious interpreter Adalberto Rivera quotes Antonio Mendiz Bolio’s translation of the Mayan book of prophecies, the Chilam Balam de Chumayel. He says the Itza were the race of mystical initiates that founded Mayan civilization. Their philosophy was embodied in a Solar Cult at Chichen Itza whose emblems were the Sun, a phallas, a serpent and the eagle. “Chitzen Itza’s name means something like “mouth of the well of the dew.” It was ruled by high-ranking wise men who earned their posts and came to Chichen Itza from all over America. Those who emerged triumphant from the initiations of the Solar Cult became channels of divine energy. They were called “Quetzalcoatl,” the feathered serpent (more momentarily).

  An Itzam was an elite ‘water wizard’ who received itz from their encounters with the Otherworld. Notably, they accepted responsibility to wield this power wisely. Rivera reckons Chichen Itza means “the sacred well of the Itza, the sorcerers of the water.”

  The definition of Itzam as ‘water wizard’ is most intriguing in light of the myth of Miriam’s miraculous well and the possibility that MM took on the attributes of Miriam. Also, for the fact that Jesus appears to know the secret of a special living water that brings salvation (ala the Tower of Siloam story). As we have seen, Mary Magdalene was portrayed in the Gnostic gospels as thoroughly knowledgeable of the Otherworld. In France she was called Mistress of the Waters, supposedly because she traveled by water from Palestine to France. In addition, in Holy Grail myth, MM collected the transformed blood and waters that spurted from Jesus’ body as he hung upon the cross, the mechanism that connected him with the Otherworld.

  The definitions of itz and itza power my contention that the Mayans, Israelites and Jesus and Mary Magdalene experienced the same substance = manna = Christos. It was for information concerning this substance that the rabbis cornered Jesus in Capernaum. They expected Jesus to produce it. Based upon this I wonder. Is it a coincidence that it was at Capernaum that the ‘Mistress of the Waters’ entered Jesus’ life? Based upon the Mayan model the sorcerers required super knowledge of dew (manna, bread) and water. Perhaps Jesus knew the secret of bread (manna) and MM knew the secrets of water or mist (oil, perfume). Put them together, and…

  Let’s resume our discussion on Itz. The scientifically minded Mayans said Itz ran from the Otherworld through the center of the Milky Way through a duct or canal they called a ‘serpent rope’. Itzamna, the Lord of the Milky Way, controlled the portal from which it flowed at the other end. Itzamna (Itz-a-mna) coincidentally rings of ‘Its manna!’ the exact declaration of excitement made by the Israelites in Numbers 11 when they found this magical substance laying on the ground one morning.

  Itzamna’s spouse was Ix Chel. She was also known as the “Lady Rainbow” and was usually shown in Mayan art as an older woman dressed in a skirt with crossed bones on it. Ix Chel is frequently depicted with a great jug that is filled with water. As well, she was depicted with a serpent in her hand.

  Somehow the Maya gleaned amazing knowledge of the Milky Way, which they accurate
ly ascertained, was the giant celestial oasis in which we dwell. This knowledge is revealed by their symbolism. As noted, it is shared by the Good people of France.

  How did two cultures separated by time and distance come to use the exact same obscure symbol? Did they draw from the same symbol bank? Or did some one give it to them?

  In Mayan Genesis Maya scholar Graeme R. Kearsley connects the Maya iconography with that of India, as well as West Asia and China. Scholars have long connected the Israelites with India. Some even claim Jesus lived there. It is quite possible that India is the connecting link, although the myths of the respective peoples indicate they originated in the stars.

  The connection between Mayan and Cathar symbolism returns us to Quetzalcoatl.

  The Quetzalcoatl story hangs somewhat like an urban legend throughout American esoteric circles. Most people believe Quetzalcoatl was a white god figure who came mysteriously among the Aztecs, gave them direction for living, and then left them with a promise to someday return.

  The belief among the Aztecs that their white god would someday return is told as the reason why the Aztecs submitted without a fight to a small band of Spanish conquerors, led by Hernando Cortez, in 1518.

  Numerous traditions have made the connection between Jesus and Quetzalcoatl.

  Quetzalcoatl ‘earth dances’ atop a Mayan pyramid with a staff in his hand. Note the crosses on his cloak. A Cathar glyph portrays a similar figure atop a Jacob’s Ladder.

  I am very curious about the connection between the Mayan stairway to the Milky Way glyph and its correspondence to the Cathar glyph from Southern France, very near where MM lived after the crucifixion, and these two glyphs of the figures atop Jacob’s Ladders or stairways to heaven.

  Is it possible the cross of Christ, called the ladder to god (Scala Dei in Latin), has been misinterpreted? Might it have been a device that certain initiates, namely Mary Magdalene, who stood at the foot of cross, and Jesus, used to connect with the galaxy in order to produce a cosmic substance? What, exactly, was this substance?