More About Mary...

As a follow-up to yesterday's post about John Hiatt's "Gnostic rock" song about Mary Magdalene . . .

When I first read The Gospel of Mary of Magdela, I was struck by how parts of it sounded, well, Buddhist. Especially the "secret teachings" Jesus gave Mary about the journey of the soul after death. Now I've come across a webpage that points out the similarity between that passage and the Tibetan Book of the Dead. It also draws a parallel between one of Jesus' sayings in this gospel and a verse from the Tao Teh Ching. The page is part of the Reluctant Messenger website: Syncretic View of the Gospel of Mary Magdalene.

And here's a fascinating website devoted to Mary: magdalene.org.

{The painting pictured here is El Greco's St. Mary Madgalene, painted in 1580.}

Darrell
www.WildFaith.com