Жените, Мудроста & “Словото”

I began writing this on January 11th, 2012 and set it aside.  Here we are, four months later.  When I set it aside the intent was to return (shortly) and continue writing.

Денес, as I re-read what I wrote, I decided not to add anything more.  There is plenty in this article already that raises questions and provides food for thought.

In a previous post (Јануари 11, 2012)  I shared the video on Исус & Божествена Женски.  It was that post that caused me to sit down and write this article later the same day.

My desire was and is to share some historical facts that have come across my path through the reading of several books.  The primary book that has given rise to my purchase of several others is a book by Laurence Gardner се нарекува На Магдалена Наследството – The Jesus and Mary Conspiracy.  To-date I’ve only read 173 of the approximate 500 pages of this book, and it is more marked up, underline & highlighted than any of my plethora of versions of the Bible and/or Torah and/or Tanakh in my possession.

I smiled as I wrote those last words thinking of how when my mother and father would come to visit me in Toronto one of the first things my mother would do would be to ask to see the latest version на Библијата that I was reading.  As I gave it to mom I smiled because I knew full well that she would go through it to see what I’d written in the sidelines or highlighted so that she would then know the state of my mind, my well-being. I miss her dearly, so in a way, I think perhaps this article is a tribute to my divine mother, my human mother whose name happens to be Mary!

Where do I begin with this article?  Perhaps with my latest topics expressing concern on how we have dissed Mary Magdalene.  You see, I include me in the dissing because I accepted what the church told and taught me.

The church painted her as a harlot.  Why?  Better still, why did I believe she was exactly that, без прашања праша?  I suppose the easy answer is that it was because the црква told me so, and who was I, a mere child, to question that Pope.  I supposed that is acceptable to a child of 7, 8, 9 and even perhaps to someone in her teen years.  Can I blame the црква once I came of the возраст од причина, when all I knew was what I’d been fed up to that point in time? And if I could, what good would it do; this business of blame?  I do know that from a very early age – and I think I can indeed trace it back to being as young as 7 или 8 години, I questioned what I was being taught – yet never spoke up or spoke aloud those questions.  I just pondered within me, never saying anything and continued one year into the next.

In order to understand why we may have accepted these teachings, I think that it is important to take a look at the books that form the Bible.

Who selected the books to be included and those to excluded and some even destroyed? Who are the people who have been included?  I’ve gone along all these years thinking they were all disciples of Yahshua, but guess what,

they were not all disciples and the writings of some of the disciples were deliberately left out with instructions to burn/destroy those writings, handed down by the church.

Повторно, back to the question of why?

The simple and sad conclusion that I have come to is that the church of Rome wanted to promulgate the all-male dominance of its rule based upon the teachings and reworded writings of Paul and Peter. I do recall being taught that the words spoken “Upon this rock I will build my church,” have been attributed to being meant upon “Петар” (which apparently means ‘rock’).  But that is not was intended or meant by those words.  Even I, without any knowledge of history or languages, recalled that we are told that Yahshua is the “rock” of our “спасение”; could there be 2 rocks?  I choose to stay with Yahshua as being the one.

Who were the 12 disciples?  Were Matthew, Означи, Лука, Јован, Петар, Paul, Џејмс, Phillip, Timothy all disciples.  There answer is some were disciples, some were not and that some who were, were not included in the writings chosen to form the Bible.  Below is a list of the books in the New Testament:

What I have garnered from reading several sources, which have also been referenced in Laurence’s book, is that

any books that gave any authority to women and in particular any books/writings that gave any authority or special mention to Mary Magdalene were deliberately left out,

and where possible, books that were included and made mention of Mary M were delibertately twisted to make her look like that picture which ultimately got painted.

Without concrete proof I still have no hesitation in saying I believe that Mary and Yahshua were espoused and there are descendants of their union -

Mary Magdala Speaking to the Apostles

to this day!

I would imagine this last statement of mine will paint me as a heretic.  Oh well.

Books of the apostles were left out and and some ordered to be destroyed.  Many have resurrected in the publication of the Nag Hammadi Scriptures, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the singular version of the Gospel of Mary Magdalene (referred to by one of Yahshua’s disciples as being the “апостол на апостолите”).  We know that Matthew and John were apostles of Yahshua, but hey, погоди што, Mark and Luke were not, yet they are included (знаете, Матеј, Означи, Luke and John).

Mark and Luke are presented in The Acts as being “later colleagues of St. Paul”!  On the other hand, Thomas, Philip and Peter were all listed among the original 12 apostles, и gospels in their names were excluded and were, “sentenced to be destroyed and, throughout the Mediterranean world, people buried and otherwise secreted their copies of these works, along with the Gospel of Mary and numerous other texts which had, quite suddenly, been declared heretical“.

The New Testament as we have it today, began to take on its form in 367 AD.  The initial works began with Bishop Athanasius of Alexandria who invented the term “can0n” (approved law).  From his list certain works were approved by the Council of Hippo во 393 AD and the Council of Carthage во 397 AD.  Once the books were finalized for inclusion, there then began a number of “edits and amendments” until we have what we currently used, approved by the Council of Trento in Northern Italy (surprise, изненадување) околу 1547.

During my journey through different religions/churches, the bible to be used for the supposed most accurate translation with less distortion was the King James Bible.  This translation was undertaken by King James in 1604 and finalized in 1611.  One must now take into account that the KJV bible is a translation of only those books approved by the final Council of Trento – thus a translation that would include its edits and amendments.

The Church of Rome is the Apostolic Church of St. Петар, and Peter’s views are made clear in the left out Gospel of Thomas, wherein we are told that:

Peter objected strongly to Mary Magdalene’s presence in Jesus’ entourage.  The text states that, addressing the othr apostles, “Simon Peter said unto them, Let Mary leave us, за women are not worthy of life.”

In the Gospel of Mary we get another view of Peter’s opinion towards Mary M and any involvement she had with the disciples and/or Yahshua.  Peter challenges Mary’s relationship with Yahshua saying:

“Would he really have spoken privately to a woman, and not freely to us?  Why should we change our minds and listen to her?”

In the Coptic tractate of Pistis Sophia Peter complains about Mary’s involvement and asks Yahshua to “restrain her from undermining неговите supremacy.” 

Many of us place the time of change of the church and today’s foundation for most religions to the time of Pope Constantine.  However, long before Constantine (circa 320 АД) when the books of the Bible were being considered for inclusion, movements already existed to be rid of women in the church.  Around 195 AD the Precepts of Ecclesiastical Discipline were put together by Quintus Tertullian, which stated:

It is not permitted for a woman to speak in church, nor is it permitted for her to baptise, nor to offer the Eucharist, nor to claim for herself a share in any masculine function, least of all in priestly office.

As I read that, I am reminded of what we find in 1 Timothy 2:11-15.  Paul is speaking and says:

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.  But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

Hopefully, this little bit of information shared with you will cause you to ask,

“Why has the church tried so hard to usurp the wisdom of women and their rightful place as apostles of Yahshua?”

There is so much more, I’d have to re-write a book here and this is really only a blog site and meant to perhaps, and hopefully, wet your appetite to seek for yourself what is that true and acceptable Word and then to rise up, head high and share it as the light brightens from within, shedding it abroad.

Кога самосомневање обидува да се движи назад во

There have been a lot of changes in my life over the past several years and they continue.  I packed in a profession that pretty well defined who (Мислев) I was and began to develop, study and obtain certification in areas totally foreign (to whom I thought I was) за мене; areas that were the opposite end of the spectrum insofar as my working life had been.

Тоа чувствува right.  You know how something just settles in our soul as though it had always been there, but you just woke up to it.  I am an avid reader and time and again I’ve read that if you have a passion about something then chances (don’t believe in chances) are it is your повик in this journey as a human.

I have a deep and abiding passion for seniors (ooops…my peers), for all things holistic and for writing; и, not to leave out, photography of everything and anything.  I am blessed with a seeing eye, that is I see things that I don’t see until after the photograph has been taken.  I have a gift of words that my dear father had to point out to me; I’ve written about that and what he had to say.  These two abilities are gifts given to me by the Creator; no man or institution can claim credit for having educated me in the how to’s.

As for my passion for seniors that has been there since I don’t remember when and I believe it just got enhanced with the passing of my own father in 2007.  My mother went home in 1996.  I was left the matriarch, така да се каже, being the eldest living.  My oldest brother also went home in 1996.

Значи, what does any of this have to do with this blog?  Everything.  I need to remind myself of the words I so casually utter to others as encouragement; need to be reminded of my passions and that I had nothing to do with making me страсна about these things or anything.  Passion comes from погоре; comes from some place or person таму.  I firmly believe that no person can, by self-will, stir up passion and become passionate about anything.  To me passion speaks of a love that is so unconditional, it cannot be human.

Sorry folks, but I do not believe there is a human alive now, or ever, who is love unconditional.  We are too baggaged with the things of the world while we walk the path of the world.

Значи, with my latest changes in my life that have totally removed me from a community where I could “just reach out and touch” to get an assignment that would provide income…my old acquaintance самосомневање has been trying to move his whole household back in and take up residence.

Мој someone out there reminded me of this in meditation this morning.  How (you ask or not)?  I was given an assignment that went something like this:

Ова, потоа, is your assignment.  Should you choose to accept it, it is to “Choose to love somebody – your some body.  Love the one you’re with – сте!”

Rather strange, don’t you think.  It was like I wasn’t me and I, outside of me, was being told – love your “self” as though they are not your “self”.  It somehow made it an easier assignment for objectively speaking I have absolutely no problem or issues when it comes to another person:  you, the mail person, the nasty boss, the road rage driver, etc.  I can objectively look at the situation I do not like and with compassion think that there’s something going on in their life that is making them behave like this, but it is not who they are; not at all.

Значи, my antidote to self-doubt is to stand aside and look at me and look at all of the wonderful things that this “лице” has done in her life, the people whose lives have been touched by her either in person or through a writing or photograph.  When I can stand aside, like that, and look at me as if I am not me, I have absolutely no difficulty in choosing to love this somebody and saying (pardon the swearing but it is how I feel):

Bloody hell – she’s marvellous, absolutely marvellous.

This reminder of my passion and how throughout my human journey to-date it has touched a person or who, is encouragement to keep on keeping on and thus tell “самосомневање” to find itself another residence because it sure as heck isn’t welcome in my residence!

If self-doubt tries to move back into the rooms of your heart, step aside of you and look upon you as if you are a stranger, не можете, and you will be amazed at how re-enthusiastic you become about how bloody marvellous you are – и, that is not egoistical or narcissistic.  It is giving the Creator thanks for all of the many blessings bestowed upon you by the Creator!

Go ahead,

Love the One You Are With – Можете!

Хармонија на целоста

I was looking at a series of photographs recently taken, all within the same “space”.  Within the photographs you find dogs, cats, birds and insects, all living harmoniously together.  If you take the time to dissect that panoramic scene you will find (животински свет) a cat who shouldn’t get along with a dog and a bird who shouldn’t be near a cat and a dog who (according to us humans) would scare off cat and bird.  Then there is the tiniest of all, the wasp or hornet that sits unceremoniously doing its own thing amidst all of these other rather large critters.

The majestic bluebird sits quietly perched upon a twig, high above all, gazing downwards as if to say, “Yes.  All is well indeed.  Carry on.”

An harmonious scene where all are a part of the whole.  No longer harmonious when you start dissecting and pulling apart and attributing characteristics and qualities of behaviour to each of the players that makes them hostile towards one another.

Perhaps the human can take a lesson and leave out the dissecting, space instrusion and territorial attitudes – speaking for self of course.

Исцелување Мајката Земја – Дојди Заедно јуни 9, 2012

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Пиеш своето Рамен

I had occasion to make the most unusual juice this afternoon.

I didn’t feel like trotting off to the store and I had a few carrots (можеби 8 or so), two beets, some celery, јагоди, hot peppers and lemons.  I was given a bunch of rhubarb earlier in the day and as I gathered my ingredients to juice, glancing at the rhubarb, Мислев, “Зошто да не?”

Па, it is a marvellous concoction, however I should have left out the hot peppers.  It really is quite smooth and refreshing and when you think of it, why wouldn’t it be.  I love strawberry/rhubarb pie mixtures, so why not drink it?

I’ve previously written on my other juice concoctions that include carrots and beets and provided you with a listing of the benefits.

Караница is a great source of calcium, Vitamin K (good for your blood and clotting), Lutein (good for your skin, очи) и (на ‘нешто’ of the day) antioxidants.  Apparently it is the compound in the rhubarb that gives it the red colour that are your antioxidant ingredients.  They help promote good health in the heart, eyes and immune system and assist in the prevention of cancer.

The ingredients I juiced filled the container you see in this picture and provided an additionl 6 ounches or so.

Значи, there you have it.  If you have unwanted rhubarb and don’t know what to do with it, well drink it!  Mix to taste, and as I said, leave out the hot peppers.