Klaus Mailahn posted:<\/p>\n
Last night at BibleTV I saw an interesting sermon of famous US-preacher Bayless Conley. At the beginning he spoke of the Holy Spirit (we call Mother Ruah \/ Ruach). One of Her most important symbols has been oil, especially oil of anointing and oil for lamps! This special assignment seems to be an indication for the connection between Mother Ruah and Mary Magdalene. For oil of anointing brings to mind Mary Magdalene appearing as Sulamith in Song of Solomon \/ Song of Songs. Oil for lamps of course has to do with light – and Mary Magdalene is the Pure of Light in the Pistis Sophia and the Illuminated in the Gnosis. William Henry in one of his books calls Her in his subtitle “Illuminator. The woman who enlighted Christ”. In the Revelation 12, Mary Magdalene appears as The Woman clothed with the Sun.
\nWe now can understand better why Hippolyte of Rome (170-236) in his Commentary on the Song of Songs associates Mary Magdalene with Ruah, particularly here:
\nOn Song of Songs 4:1f.: “Look, my friend, my lovely, your are beautiful, your eyes are like doves.” The bridegroom calls this out to Sulamith, in Hippolyte’s opinion, because he has seen the Holy Spirit (Mother Ruah). So Sulamith is associated with Ruah. Writing about the Song of Songs 3:1-4 Hippolyte identifies Sulamith with Mary Magdalene, calls Her “Apostle” and “New Eve”. Commenting on the women going to the tomb of Christ he writes: “Oh, the new instruction, Eve becomes Apostle!”<\/p>\n
On Song of Songs 2:5: “Anoint me with oil and gather apples”. Here Hippolyte defines the oil of anointing as “the force teaching us all, fortifying Christ to the inner human”. So this means Mary Magdalene’s oil of anointing strengthens our connection to Christ. And the apple of Eve is the old symbol of the goddess of love, Aphrodite, identified with Mary Magdalene. \u00c2\u00a0For more on Aphrodite and Mary Magdalene see Ariadne Green: “The mythology of Jesus and Mary Magdalene” http:\/\/www.newageinfo.com\/myth-Jesus-Magdalene.htm<\/p>\n
Thank you for posting this, Klaus. The connection between Mary Magdalene as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ointment bearer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Myrrhophore<\/em>) and the Bride in the Songs of Songs [Solomon] is of immense importance! In the Song of Songs \/ Solomon, the fragrance of the bride wafts around the king at the banqueting table. In John 12, her fragrance \u00e2\u20ac\u0153filled the house.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In both case the fragrance is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nard.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The only passages in all of the Judeo-Christian scriptures where \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nard\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is mentioned are the Song of Songs and the anointing of Jesus in all four Gospels by \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the woman with the alabaster jar.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n Here are several quotes referencing the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153oils\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fragrance\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of the bride:<\/p>\n While the king was on his couch, my nard gave Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of How sweet is your love, my sister, my bride. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume… The only anointing of Jesus during his ministry was by the woman whom Luke calls a sinner, but John names: She is Mary, the sister of Lazarus. As I pointed out recently on this list, the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Vesica Pisces\u00e2\u20ac\u009d associated by gematria (153) with Mary Magdalene\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s title is used as a symbol for the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153anointing by the Holy Spirit\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Christian art\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I posted a week or two ago: “Often when you see a medieval sculpture of Christ seated in glory, he is surrounded by the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153vesica piscis\u00e2\u20ac\u009d () symbol (the yoni) which is universally associated with the goddesses of love and fertility. In Christianity, the meaning of the () is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153anointed by the Holy Spirit\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201dacknowledging that She is feminine\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.<\/p>\n In the Gospels themselves, Jesus is anointed by a woman named twice in John\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Gospel (11:2 and 12:3). She is Mary, the sister of Lazarus, associated in Christian art and tradition (until recently!) with the Mary whose title is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Magdalene,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the one who cries at Jesus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 tomb and meets him resurrected in the Garden on Easter morning.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n This association of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153anointing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bride\u00e2\u20ac\u009d derives from the rituals of fertility cults of the ancient Near East where the bridegroom was anointed by his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bride\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as a prefiguring symbolic of the anointing of the male by the female during coitus. The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153vesica piscis\u00e2\u20ac\u009d symbol is equated universally with the yoni. Greeks called the symbol the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Matrix,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153womb,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153doorway to life\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Holy of Holies\u00e2\u20ac\u009d – literally the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bridal chamber.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d So the use of the vesica piscis in Christian art is a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153carry-over\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from the ancient rites of heiros gamos\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe marriage of the Sacred King and his Holy Bride, who is the representative of the Goddess of the land and people.<\/p>\n Mary Magdalene is clearly cast in the role of the Bride in the Gospels\u00e2\u20ac\u201dclearly the instrument of the Holy Spirit anointing the King in advance for his death and burial.<\/p>\n In memory of her, Klaus Mailahn posted: Oils as symbol of Divine Mother Ruah \/ Ruach Last night at BibleTV I saw an interesting sermon of famous US-preacher Bayless Conley. At the beginning he spoke of the Holy Spirit (we call Mother Ruah \/ Ruach). One of Her most important symbols has been oil, especially oil of anointing and … Continue reading Margaret Starbird on Oils & Magdalene, Mother Ruah, Song of Solomon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,43,2],"tags":[293,292,59,35,291,290,223],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jesus-family","category-mary-magdalene","category-sacred-feminine","category-what-sunday-school-wont-teach","tag-bride","tag-heiros-gamos","tag-magdalene","tag-margaret-starbird","tag-nard","tag-ruach","tag-sacred-marriage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nforth its fragrance. (Song of Solomon 1:12)<\/p>\n
\npure nard and anointed Jesus’ feet and wiped
\nthem with her hair. (John 12:3a)<\/p>\n
\nHow much better…is the fragrance of your oils
\nthan any spice! (Song of Solomon 4:10)<\/p>\n
\nand Jesus said, “Leave her alone so that she might
\nkeep it for the day of my burial. (John 12 3b, 7)<\/p>\n
\nMargaret
\nwww.margaretstarbird.net
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Woman with the Alabaster Jar”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"