16 little known facts about Mary Magdalene, Jesus, and the 12 Apostles

So I am still so interested in "The Shroud of Turin" as I posted last! I suggest watching the "discovery channel" special on it, it was highly entertaining and I loved it! (Ye can find it on Youtube) So I wanted to do a fluffy post this time. (To my previous blog readers: I will re-state some things from previous posts for the new viewers. I will, though, of course include new facts too.)

• Mary Magdalene hated religion until she met Jesus.  It's true -- her abusive father was a rabbi, and she hated religion of any kind because of him. (In her early teens she practiced Shamanism though.) 
• Jesus' teachers hated Him. You know, everyone expected Him to be a straight A's, but His teachers hated Him, and He was expelled from two schools alone. He was not allowed to go back until he was 11. Reason? When His teacher was teaching Him about the alphabet, (He was 6 years old at the time) He already knew everything. He told him that He was getting bored and wanted to "move on"! He was expelled from two schools for talking back. 
• Apostle John the Beloved was extremely fem. He is the one sitting next to Jesus in the Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci! He always also preferred to hang out with the female apostles of Jesus. One night, all the men stayed at Jesus' house and prayed, while the woman went into the woods, lit a bonfire and did chanting and dancing. You can only guess who John went with -- the girls of course! Assuming John, often called "The Virgin John" is homosexual, he has been a huge gay inspiration! (He is only Jesus' favorite {or second, putting Peter first} male apostle!) 
• If Jesus was a true rabbi, He would of been required to be married. Actually, this is true. He would of been required to be married by 20... and His ministry started when He was 30. Unless Jesus broke the law, He would've been married.   
• The Virgin Mary traveled with Jesus all of His life. She was actually a disciple of His.
• Both Mary Magdalene's and Jesus' father died when they were 12. But, it was not the same year -- Mary was 3 years younger than Jesus -- pretty ironic though. 
• Jesus wore nice clothes (fabulous, darling!). As JOHN states:   "They said therefore among themselves, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says: “They divided My garments among them, And for My clothing they cast lots.” Therefore the soldiers did these things." (John 19:24) 
• Mary Magdalene had apostles of her own, after Jesus died. She began to have a following while in France and England. Fun fact: her "favorite" was a girl named Ruth. 
• Jesus appeared privately to Mary Magdalene later on. Not only as it states in the Bible, but also in her older years. He only ever reviled Himself again to John the Beloved and Mary Magdalene after His resurrection. 
• Jesus was fond of Mary Magdalene's wedlock daughter, Tamar. (Note: She was impregnated by rape, but I couldn't think of another word for that besides "wedlock".)
• Mary x Jesus' son was a hermaphrodite. (For those who don't know, that is a person who is neither/of both genders.) Reason is? People only generally back in the 1st century lived to an average of 44 years old. Mary was 30 at time, she was probably (AT THE TIME) too *old* to get pregnant. (30 years old?!?! Just beginning life! Not old at all! *Ladylike eyeroll*) 
• Apostle Peter Simon was married, and had a daughter. His wife was named "Feberonia", and his daughter was "Petronella", a female version of the name Peter. Here is something interesting (sorta off subject): The Bible states that all of Jesus' apostles went celibate when they started following Him, as Jesus supposedly had instructed them to. But, Petronella is a female form of Peter, and as most of us know, "Peter" was Jesus' nickname for him, his original name being Simon. So, you really think that Peter Simon just randomly named his daughter a female form of a male's name? Hmm? No. Yet more evidence that Jesus was indeed married, and most likely not celibate.  
•   Nazareth was the backwater town to Galilee. Seriously, it was where all the poor people lived. 
• Mary Magdalene funded all of the 12 apostles, and Jesus on their travels. No wonder He had nice clothes! 
• Mary also loved to dance, as well as sing. 
• Jesus could fore-tell His crucifixion as soon as He learned to talk. Also, as a child, He preformed many other miracles, not included in the Bible. He saved His half-brother James' life, by healing his venomous snake bite, and killing the snake, He turned dirty water into clean water, and one of His "friends" (I guess more like ex-friend) pushed Him off of the top of a two-story building, and He glided down, thus, surviving the fall. Etc. (This is in The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, only my favoritest gospel ever!) 

Well, that is it. I searched "facts about mary magdalene" on the internet, to see who I'm competing with, and no one offers any substantial facts about our lady. I should do this more often. (Easy too!)
  Thanks for reading,
  ~~Clarabelle    

The Shroud of Turin... how crazy is THIS?

Hi everyone,

I'm going to skip off topic from Mary just a little bit for today's post, umh-kay? Great.
   Jesus, is pretty much the basis of this blog. And now, I am going to blog about something called "The Shroud of Turin". It is a 6-foot long piece of linen cloth, bearing the image of a man, who appears to have suffered physical trauma -- I mean, the whole thing is stained in blood. (Anyone already nauseous with me?) It is believed by most to be burial cloth of Jesus Christ -- now before we analyze it anymore you have to see a picture of it.

This is the original sepia cloth -- look closely. 

And here is the front-and-back pictures in black and white. 

 

The two blood splatters near the face and then again to the knees are said to be the heavy bleeding from Christ's hands and feet, after he was crucified. As former Nature editor Philip Ball said, "it's fair to say that, despite the seemingly definitive tests in 1988, the status of the Shroud of Turin is murkier than ever. Not least, the nature of the image and how it was fixed on the cloth remain deeply puzzling", and he is true. This piece of cloth has undergone many, many tests, each leaving the physiologists and historians much more puzzled than ever. For example, in 1978, a detailed examination carried out by a team of American scientists, called the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP), found no reliable evidence of how the image was produced. 

Here are some interesting facts (copied from the Wikipedia) about the interpretation of the "blood" markings on the cloth:

• one wrist bears a large, round wound, apparently from piercing (the second wrist is hidden by the folding of the hands)
• upward gouge in the side penetrating into the thoracic cavity. Proponents say this was a post-mortem event and there are separate components of red blood cells and serum draining from the lesion
• small punctures around the forehead and scalp
• scores of linear wounds on the torso and legs. Proponents aver that the wounds are consistent with the distinctive dumbbell wounds of a Roman flagrum.
• swelling of the face from severe beatings
• streams of blood down both arms. Proponents state that the blood drippings from the main flow occurred in response to gravity at an angle that would occur during crucifixion.
• large puncture wounds in the feet as if pierced by a single spike

 ...what do you think? Nauseous yet?
No one can seem to figure out just what it is made of, and how it was made! Just like I was saying in my previous post (Entitled: "And He said, 'wife' ")   pretty much everyone hates each other in this field. It's either wood powder or it's the Son of God's blood, no one can quite formally agree on anything! But, hey, let's look at the evidence, before I decipher just what I think it is.
  In the 1970s, they did a test for DNA (How exciting would THAT be!?!) but only found submicrometre pigment particles... gosh I have no idea what the heck those are. I looked it up but found NOTHING (Hey, if any of y'all are doctors who read my blog... mind shooting me a email or comment describing these things?). All I know -- they were not very happy about the results. Mark Anderson, a scientist working for the program, was so dis-pleased with the results, he admitted to pretending it was painted on, with something called Hematite, a form of iron. Joseph Kohlbeck, from the Hercules Aerospace Company in Utah, and Richard Levi-Setti, did a study on the dirt particles found on the cloth. Surprisingly, they found they were small substances of limestone! Limestone is a rock, of course "native" to the middle east - heck, limestone is what the great pyramids of Giza are made of!  Back on the blood subject, (don't you just love me?) working independently, forensic pathologist Pier Luigi Baima Bollone concurred with Heller and Adler's findings and identified the blood as the AB blood group! Quite a find indeed. Blood comes in "+"s and "-"s, so it is not specified which of these it was.
  Now, like everything, there is always equally true facts against it. Nickell, in 1983, and Gregory S. Paul in 2010, separately state that the proportions of the image are not realistic. Paul stated that the face and proportions of the shroud image are impossible, that the figure cannot represent that of an actual person and that the posture was inconsistent. They argued that the forehead on the shroud is too small; and that the arms are too long and of different lengths and that the distance from the eyebrows to the top of the head is non-representative. Like I said! Something new to ponder.

Sorry for not writing about Mary Magdalene this time around... I got so excited when I found out about this thing! I thought, "I will have to post this on my blog! Oh - wait. Oh well, I'm publishing anyway!" So yeah, sorry faithful followers of mine. :)
   ~~Clarabelle

 

And He said, 'My wife'

Hello everyone,
I feel like writing. And though I have things a really should be doing, I don't care -- I want to write! (I'm sure you know that feeling, don't you?)
Today let's discuss The Gospel of Jesus' wife. The title says it all. This is what the eggheads at Harvard called it... remember when you were younger and thought this was an ideal collage? Yeah.
 In this "gospel" (which is about the side of a credit card), Jesus calls Mary, (not by name) "wife". As it reads:

1] not [to] me. My mother gave to me li[fe] ...
2] the disciples said to Jesus, "...
3] Mary is worthy of it ...
4] ....." Jesus said to them, "My wife ...
5] ...... she will be able to be my disciple .....
6] let wicked people swell up .....
7] As for me, I dwell with her in order to .....
8] an image 

So isn't that crazy? 
It is written in Coptic, the form in which the Egyptian language was written and used by Christians in Egypt beginning in the Roman imperial period (second to fifth centuries CE), when Egypt was increasingly becoming a vital center of early Christian activity. It was most likely found in the early 1980s, but kept a secret, only now is it coming to the surface.  And although the newly found material fragment of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife dates to the fourth century, it is a copy of an earlier copy which had probably been translated from a Greek copy. This means that the date of the material fragment is unlikely to be the date when the gospel was first composed; rather, it indicates that the gospel could not have been composed later than the fourth century. How much earlier might the Gospel of Jesus' Wife have been composed? Since it refers to Jesus and Mary, it had to have been written after the first century CE. This gospel likely dates to the second half of the second century, because it shows close connections to other gospels which were written during that time, in particular the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary, and the Gospel of Philip.
    It is a shame, I'm sure it had an entire *real* gospel attached to it, but the harsh hot weather in Egypt, not to mention the ants, disposed of it. Man, if only THAT was included into the New testament... even Him standing up to her would be amazing! Not to mention WIFE!
 
ALTHOUGH... It only begs the question, is it fake? Andrew Brown made a point that it could be copied from the Gospel of Thomas, and it would be pretty easy to make a fade gospel at this point... I mean, anyone at this day in age can learn the Coptic language, here is a picture from google: (easy as that)

See? I could make one. 

 So the whole thing really is up in the air. Some historians argue, "It's real! Because of, *points out true fact*!" but then some, "It's fake! Reasons are, *points out equally true point*!" So it's up to you. What do you think? Real or fake? Hmm? (Hit it up in the comments if you feel like it!) 

Well, that's it for today! Thanks for reading, but how am I EVER going to sleep tonight? My mind right now: "Real. Fake. Real. Fake. Real. Fake. REAL. FAKE. REAL!! FAKE!!!" And so forth. It's blowing up.

Thank ya, 

  ~~Clarabelle  

(PS: I attached some pictures of it below:) 

parts above may have been referenced from "Harvard Divinity School"

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Conflict between Mary, and her rivals.

Hi everyone! 

First off, let's start with Peter - In the New Testament, Peter is the favorite apostle (maybe besides John), and he later receives the keys to heaven, Peter becomes the first pope, so forth and so forth. He is portrayed in the Bible completely wrong, it is horrible! (Similar to someone I'M WRITING AN ENTIRE BLOG ABOUT) But not in a good way. Peter, to start with, is the only one of the 11 Apostles (excluding Judas obviously) to "deny" or "fail" Jesus in some way. Peter is the one who denies he knows Jesus, three times. Jesus, beforehand, had already "warned" him, but...

Peter replied, "Even if all fall away on account of you, I never will." "I tell you the truth," Jesus answered, "This very night, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times." But Peter declared, "Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you." And all the other disciples said the same. 

Later that night, Jesus was arrested. The first denial to a servant girl in Luke 22:54-57 is as follows: 

Then they seized him and led him away, bringing him into the high priest's house. Peter followed at a distance and when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together, Peter sat down with them. A servant girl saw him seated there in the firelight. She looked closely at him and said, "This man was with him." But he denied it. "Woman, I don't know him," he said. 

 
The second denial to the same girl in Mark 14:69-70 is: 

When the servant girl saw him there, she said again to those standing around, "This fellow is one of them." Again he denied it. 

The third denial to a number of people, is emphatic as he curses according to Matthew 26:73-75:

After a little while, those standing there went up to Peter and said, "Surely you are one of them, for your accent gives you away." Then he began to call down curses on himself and he swore to them, "I don't know the man!" Immediately a rooster crowed. Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken: "Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times." And he went outside and wept bitterly.

See? OK, going back a little, Peter is always the one to pick on Magdalene, picking her apart for being a woman, or for simply being married to Our Lord. I was watching documentary once, and the man speaking (about this subject)  said the truest thing:  
"It's like, anything that makes Peter Simon sound good, at all, makes Mary Magdalene sound bad... and, vist versa. Say something in defense for Magdalene, it makes Peter look bad!"  
Gosh is that true. But, I will now pick him apart, because this is a blog all about Mary, right?

  Mary Magdalene and Saint Peter

In the Gospel of Pistis Sophia, I actually found Peter had legit reasons to be mad at Mary, for once. Just to start off, let's say Jesus, channeling Pistis Sophia, only speaks 26 times. Peter only speaks 5. Now, Mary, blabbers up the entire Gospels with her questions. Mostly they go like this, 

  *Jesus: Great question, Mary, beloved. 

  *Mary: Yes, but, ... 

And then gos off into yet another question. About halfway through the Gospel, no one has ever had the slightest chance to ever speak a darn word, Peter bursts out, yelling, "My Lord, we will not endure this woman, for she has taketh the opportunity from us, and hath let none of us speak, but she discoursed many times." 

Let alone, Mary spoke 83 times total. No one (Besides maybe JESUS) even got into the double digits, the closest being John, with a total of 9 times. 

   What is this? I seem to be making fun of Mary Magdalene? Nonsense! 

 Even though Peter was portrayed as the favorite apostle in Jesus' mind, Jesus actually said quite a few things against him. : (example)
    "And the companion of the saviour was Mary Magdalene. Christ loved Mary more than all the disciples, and used to kiss her often. The rest of the disciples were offended by it and expressed disapproval. They said to him, "Why do you love her more than all of us?" The Saviour answered and said to them, "Why do I not love you like her?"

One time, when Peter was "annoying" Jesus, He shouted: 

   "Satan! Get behind me!" 

Was He referring to Peter as "satan"? *Ladylike gasp* 

Peter, in fact, is one of the reasons Mary and the others ("the others" referring to Sara-la-kali (Tamar), Martha of Bethany, and Lazarus) had to flee to France -- he was the first pope, and by any means necessary did he not want Mary to be in charge -- some people think that indeed Mary was the one Jesus instructed to be the head of the catholic church, but instead Peter stole it and sent her out of the country to cover-up. Actually, a pretty convincing theory. Why wouldn't He want His wife to be the head, and if not her, why not John the virgin or someone a little... nicer?  It would only make sense that Peter stole it from whoever it was in the first place. Right? 

Thanks for reading, that's it for today! 

  ~~Clarabelle

    

 

     

Mary's church, along with what is called the "Bride's Mound"

Hi everyone!
Gosh, I couldn't think about anything to post today. I went through all of my bookmarked pages, "blog ideas" and found something useful. Kinda random, I know.
When Mary arrived in southern France, after freeing from Israel, she quickly set forth to England. Somerset, Glastonbury, is very south England -- I've provided a map... view below:

It was here, Mary started up a church. It is called, "The Brides Mound" now, what remains of it anyway-- but the church had it's day. It is said King Aurthur traveled there, and had a vision of The Virgin Mary and Jesus, also it is said to once home Saint Brigid of Kildare (my favorite saint, besides MM). More on this below.
In one corner of the almost-fallen church, is an inscription translating to: "Jesus Maria" (Picture below):

    

This church is claimed the first "above ground" Christian church -- before this, the Christians were forced underground by the  Romans.

Bride's Mound takes its name from Bride (pronounced Breed), Brigit and Brighde (pronounced Bree-dah), the Triple Goddess of the Celts. Bride was one of the most widely worshipped Goddesses in Celtic Britain and is known as the Guardian of Wells and Springs. Furthermore, She has an affinity with Fire and is entitled Keeper of the Flame and Goddess of Fire. The Grail is associated with Her through its link to the Cauldron of Inspiration which was given to the Dagda, father of Bride. Unable to remove such a powerful Deity from the Celtic people, Bride was adapted by the Roman Catholic Church into the cult of St Brigid, who founded a religious community at Kildare in Ireland.

According to legend, King Arthur was told in a dream to visit the Mary Magdalene Chapel at Beckery. Whilst doing so, he received a vision of the Virgin Mary, holding the Infant Jesus. She presented Arthur with a crystal cross which he gave to the Abbot of Glastonbury who placed it above the High Altar. This crystal cross is now said to be one of the lost treasures of Glastonbury. The experience led Arthur to adopt a new coat-of-arms, replacing the Pagan Red Dragon with a crystal cross on a green background and an image of the Virgin and Child in the top left hand corner and is said to have contributed to Arthur's conversion to Christianity.

It is also very possible that indeed Tamar, Mary's daughter, used this church to start up her secret society. It had to start somewhere, right? Indeed, all of southern France and Somerset is very rich, historic land  -- I hope to one day tour all of it, so I can get a feel for what this amazing land is like -- in fact, my family is very French, dark hair, dark eyes... typical southern French-looking people :)

Here is the link to the official "Brides Mound" website, so hit it up! It has a description on it's history, copied here (It was too long to copy the entire thing. For those of you who want to read the full thing, I suggest you go to the real website) : http://www.friendsofbridesmound.com/

"Beckery is known locally as Little Ireland; derived from the Gaelic beag Eiriu, although the true derivation of the name may be from bheach na hAorai meaning Mound of the Bees from bheachaire ay meaning Beekeeper's Island.

Medieval writings by William of Malmsbury (c.1135) and John of Glastonbury (c.1400) state that Bridget visited Glastonbury in 488 AD., which was quite usual for Celtic missionaries at that time. Both writers state that Bridget spent time at Bride's Mound where there was an oratory dedicated to Mary Magdalene. It is an established fact that early Christian shrines and chapels were named after their founders so it may be that Mary Magdalene also visited Bride's Mound." 

So there we have it! Can you imagine how fun it would be to visit Bride's Mound? To those of you in England, Wales, or any surrounding areas, please do mwah a favor and go visit! Kidding, though I'd appreciate if you did!

Thank you, thank you for viewing! 

 ~~Clarabelle

Parts above may have been referenced from: glastonbury-pilgrim.co.uk 

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The Young Bride's Childhood

Hey, everyone!
The bride's childhood.
   Mary Magdalene was born in  to a rich family in Magdalena, Israel (For further debate on that, check out my last blog post: http://magdalene-beyond-the-da-vinci-code.blogspot.com/ ) on sun rise.
The family had hoped for a boy, since they had just born a older girl. Mary's father had great displeasure.
As early as six years old, Mary would have vivid dreams, where she was in love with a boy. Ohh la la! As she expressed, she thought she had two bodies and two lives, one in the dream realm, and the other in the physical. She would tell her mother all about her dreams, which of her mother despise of. Mary's mother thought it was un-normal, and disgusting. She told her daughter to shush. Now, if Mary ever told her father about her dreams, he would beat her -- obviously, that was out of the question.
Mary was an un-usual looking child, she had green eyes, appose to the dark brown israeli ones. She enjoyed art, and was sometimes spoiled by her mother -- Though her mother was strict, Mary was an obvious favorite child. Mary, though, was a troublemaker. She used to steal candy from her school, and give them to the other children in her class, when she was only nine. Every trip her mother went on, Mary would come, but often not her older sister -- which Mary had not took into account, she loved her own beauty, and loved herself.
When Mary was eleven, she inherited part of her family's mansion, and all of her maids adored her. She hated it though, and could careless about her house, she played outside and did not return until night. Her family's house was on a river, and it had a rose garden Mary played in. Also, it was a half-hour away from town, and Mary would travel there often.
  Eventually, when Mary was about 11-12, her father became a rabbi, which Mary hated. She did not like religion, and wanted nothing to do with it. When she became older, she became Shamanistic, for her love of nature and the animals.
 With even more wealth, her father moved them further south, (Mary may have acquired her name "Magdalene" from this, moving out of Magdalena) where she eventually actually meet the royal family. Technically meeting Jesus, right? Maybe not meeting him face-to-face, but that is pretty cool.

As I have posted about before, things of course went downhill. She was sold into prostitution, raped, had a child out of wedlock, then met Jesus. So things turned out GREAT for her. (I mean, she did marry the Son of God after all.)    

Mary and her sister, by Caravaggio 

Magdalene reading, by Rodiger Van der Weyden 

 

Well, I guess I never realized she was sorta a brat until I had to research it :) I guess that ended pretty quickly once she became a prostitute.   [156.] Mary said, “When new life comes to you do not cling to the old.” 

Thank ya' so much for reading! I hope you enjoyed :) 

  ~~Clarabelle 

 

 

   

Mary's nickname

   Hi everyone!
I am in good spirits today. A friend of mine just got a new car, to replace her 11 year old one, so her, I, and my best guy friend took it out for a spin -- it was wonderful. I hope y'all had a good day also -- if not, ignore me.
   Last post, I touched up on Mary Magdalene's daughter, Tamar -- today I will touch up on something interesting I read -- not telling! 
  First thing: I want to apologize for the lame-as-heck "About my blog" tab, which has NO INTENTION OF WORKING WHAT-SO-EVER. Ugh. I've tried about e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g to make that dang thing work... oh well, I should probably delete it. 
  Nicknames -- I can admit I don't think I have many nicknames. Even my best of friends always just call me Clarabelle. So, let's skip to the point -(who cares about me, I'm writing a blog) A few days ago I read an interesting article relating to M Magdalene... the blog writer pointed out that in LUKE 8:2 the scripture reads (copied from King James Version (1611) ) :   "And certaine women which had bene healed of euill spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene out of whom went seuen deuils," ... he pointed out, that woman back in the first century did not have surnames, if she were married to Jesus, her name would be: "Mary of Jesus" . Yet, called "Magdalene" might not be referring to her hometown "Magdalena". "Magdalene" might be a nickname -- Jesus gave nicknames to his closest apostles. Noting the most famous one, Simon called Peter, "Peter" meaning "Rock", maybe referring to his strong or harsh attitude. James the "less" because of his short of stature or young age. The two fisherman brothers, James and John, sons of Zebedee, were nicknamed Boanerges, meaning “sons of Thunder,” ... Maybe they were loud (like thunder?)? Simon, another of the Twelve apostles was called “Simon the Zealot,” either referring to his militant bent or to his zeal for a cause. So then, "Magdalene" might come from the Hebrew or Aramaic word migdal—meaning tower. Maybe given to her because of her strong personality? I cannot think of another way you would describe your friend, if not wife as a "tower". 
   Another possibility, is that Mary self-choose it for herself, and that Mary and Jesus were instead not married, but lovers? In JOHN 19:30, we learn about a secret disciple of Jesus, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a "secret" disciple of Jesus “because of his fear of the Jews.” (John 19:38) Could Mary have also been hiding from the Jews, and her name being "Mary of Jesus" a dead giveaway? She may have not married in order to protect herself.

Joseph of Arimathea 

Maria of Magdalena

Thanks for reading, once again! 

   ~~~Clarabelle 

Parts above may have been referenced from TaborBlog & B. D. B. Moses 

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The Talpiot Tombs... and why historians are questioning it.

Let's see: I started this blog a month ago now, and I've already hit up on so many topics. Mary, my dear, gosh I love her. From the Gospel of Mary:  [216.] Mary said, “Wisdom seeks true lovers and goes to those who seek her. No one will lack Wisdom if in their heart they yearn for her.” 

... Now, let's get to what I want to talk about: The Talpiot Tombs.
   So, it's just an average day in Israel, in 1980. A group of construction men wish to build an apartment complex, but instead discover a tomb of Jesus. Like I said: Just your average day in Israel.
 On the entrance, the stone is craved with the words: "Yeshua bar Yehosef", translating to: "Jesus son of Joseph" ... I guess these people do not believe in the virgin birth... only kidding.   The Talpiot find was first published in 1994 in "Catalogue of Jewish Ossuaries in the Collections of the State of Israel", and from then on it had much attention brought to it.  A controversial 2007 documentary film produced by Canadian film director James Cameron and investigative journalist Simcha Jacobovici titled The Lost Tomb of Jesus and a book written by Jacobovici, together with Charles Pellegrino, The Jesus Family Tomb present findings that the authors believe prove that the Talpiot Tomb was the burial place of Jesus of Nazareth, as well as several other figures from the New Testament. 
   Well, I do not believe it is the Jesus family tomb. Here's why:

• If this was the Jesus family tomb, would we not include His wife? I mean, she would be the most important figure in His life, right? Well, maybe besides Yahweh (God I guess) and Elohim (The Mother in Gnostic beliefs... being Gnostic myself I felt it was only right to include Her...) That being said, Mary's body has already been found. It was found in a cave atop a mountain (damn hillbillys) somewhere around where it sits now, Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, France. (This proves right, because for the last years of her life she "served" as a nun and prayed in a cave for all of it...) 
• So, if you think that Jesus did not rise, why would the idiot who stole Him go an hour down the road, only to bury him again? You'd think, they'd smuggle Him to Africa, Europe, or somewhere not within the Arabs or Palestine. Right? 
• If this was really the "Family Tomb", Mother Mary would of also of been buried there. The Tomb of Virgin Mary, resting at the foot of Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, sorta maybe proves that theory wrong -- and for Joseph, he died when Jesus was 12, but the tomb dates back to 50 AD -- Meaning they'd have to move his long-dead body there. Seems unlikely to me.  

• James, Jose, Judas, Simon, Mary, and Salome -- Children from Joseph's former marrige.  Salome, for certain, is not buried here. She escaped with Mary Magdalene on a boat to France. For the rest? Most likely, they might be buried here. Maybe the inscription read, instead of "Jesus son of Joseph" it read, "Judas son of Joseph", "James son of Joseph", "Jose son of Joseph" ? Any of these "J" names (which would be "Y") might work better. As far as I'm concerned, they all died in Israel -- at least one of them had to.    

Well, that is what I could muster up. If this does turn out to be the tomb of Jesus' family -- heck -- experts have  A LOT of explaining to do! :) 

Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed! 
   I will be driving a lot tomorrow, so I probably won't get another blog post out until Wednesday or so...  Oh well. I guess it will have a lot of thought into it! 
   ~~Clarabelle

The (somewhat secret) life of Tamar, a.k.a. Sara-La-Kali

*yawns* My gosh, when did the night sneak up on me? It's 8:30 already! But I feel like writing about Tamar, MM's daughter, so I shall.

For those of you who have not read my older posts, if you're new to my blog, welcome! So those of you who have, bear with me while I explain what I *briefly* covered in previous blog posts.
  Generally, whether on blogs, documentaries, classes, etc., about Mary Magdalene's daughter, people tend to call her, consistently, "Sara".  But, the truth is that her name is *actually* Tamar.
   Back in the 1st century, (and before that) it was traditional for girls, when they reach 12-15 years of age, for them to be married-off. (this generally went around the time of their first period... first period, get your husband!) Mary Magdalene's family was rich. They decided to send their daughter off, from their home in Magdalena (Obviously, Mary "self-choose" her "surname".) to marry a rich man in Bethany. Now, Magdalena is a northern Israeli (yes, I said "is". It still stands!) town, a huge one for fishing, because it is on the Jordon river -- but Bethany, is right next to Jerusalem, which is (obviously for us geography geeks) very south Israel. Mary was sent off with one donkey, tons of money, and her spikenard perfume. Along the way, Mary was raped by a southern-African band of bandits, they stole her donkey, and all her money. And, this resulted in a pregnancy. She was at least more than half way, she made it just to Jericho, a town slightly more northern than Bethany, but by the time she made it she was too sick (and by that, I meant too pregnant) to make it to Bethany. Oh what am I doing, this post is about TAMAR. OK- just to rap things up, she then went into prostitution, then met Jesus, wa-laa!
   Well, about a month before the crucifixion, Mary got pregnant with Jesus' child. After the crucifixion, Mary, Tamar (who was now... I think 15-16 years old) Salome (a female apostle of Jesus), Mary of Bethany and Lazarus escaped Israel in a rowboat -- with Peter Simon now the first Pope, and more than enough people wanting to slit her throat, she had to leave. Under disguise, Tamar changed her name to "Sara", and pretended to be Mary's slave, (Gosh that's horrible) noting her "father" was of southern-African origins. During this time, Mary gave birth to a boy who she named Joseph. Tamar was bypassed in favor of Joseph, him being a boy, but there were those that believe Tamar was the real heiress and as such a secret society sprung up around her and her beliefs.  
  It is called The Tamar Secret Society. And it is the most secretive society on Earth. It started in Glastonbury, a small town in England, but it's base can also be traced to France as well as England.   It had strong connections with the Celtic church where many of its members came, later it developed strong connections with the Cathars in France. Tamar even has it's own language, with has almost 5,000 spells connected to it. The Tamar holds virginity very important, to both men and women.  The Tamar where well connected to the Knights Templar and the Prieuré de Sion. It is thought by some that when the Templar where being persecuted by the catholic church that the Templar passed on to Tamar the secrets of the Arc, which they had discovered some years earlier. 

Tamar, or Sara-la-kali 

 

*Looks at blog so far* Wow, I think I've been writing for a while now. Gosh, I poured myself into that post! Let's see, it's 9:30 now, 2nd quarter in the WAS - DAL game, (American football) I'm tired and my laptop is burning my leg. Time to stop, it seems.  

 

Thanks for reading! Let's see, what do I have next... I have no idea. I'll muster something up tomorrow. 

Thanks! 

~~Clarabelle 

 

 

parts above may have been referenced from Ray Alex Web @ Blogspot.com 

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I've got to get this off my chest (AJ Miller)

Dear followers,

I know I promised a post about Mary M's daughter, last time, but it seems I have something first I REALLY need to get out there.

So, I guess a few years ago this guy named "Allen John Miller" was on ABC Today, (or some news broadcasting company like that) claiming that he was a reincarnation of Jesus. Let's keep in mind here: This guy was born, raised, and lives in Queensland, Australia. And, also, he gos by: "AJ" as his name. (Allen = John) WWJD, folks?
 If that isn't hilarious enough, he pretends to (or maybe does) remember his Crucifixion. He said, "Yeah, like, it started when I was like 2. I remember my feet being nailed to the cross!" And, yeah, it sounded convincing, but as he describes his "memories" of being Jesus Christ (Or, thanks to AJ, I will now refer to Jesus as "JC"), it would take anyone with any Biblical knowledge to know fishy things are up.  He said, "As Jesus, my mother and father followed me around, telling people I was the Son of God." There are two MAJOR "plot-holes" here: 1. Jesus never referred to His (one) blood parent[s] as "Father" or "Mother". Whom He called "Father" was Yahweh. Example: When Jesus was 12 years old, His mother and father completely forgot Him, on their "road trip" to Jerusalem. They finally remembered after one day of travel, "Oh, wait, we have a son. Where is He?". They traveled back to Nazareth, to find Him in the temple or church. His mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you." And His reply was: [49] "Why were you searching for me?" he asked. "Didn't you know I had to be in my Father's house?" [50] But they did not understand what he was saying to them.
     2. This account, as I just described, is the last time we ever see Joseph. Biblical historians, and multiple gospels (Such as the Gospel of James) refer to Joseph as a old man. Thus, we believe that Joseph died shortly after this event, or sometime shortly later. 

Back to AJ, one of the worst parts is he (no, I am NOT capitalizing that) strongly believes that his two best man friends are reincarnations of, apostles John and Peter Simon, and that his wife is Mary Magdalene. Once everyone had thought up that idea, they pretended to remember. His wife Suzanne, and both friends were being interviewed -- On screen, the 3 people worked themselves up into a froth, crying about how hideous the Crucifixion was to watch. As all of us whose ever read the New Testament know, the Crucifixion is the most disturbing thing you might ever read about. Of course, reading about such disgust left me feeling horrible. I had an ache in my cheast for a while afterwords, and a lump in my throat, also. All of this rambling to prove that you can work yourself up about the Crucifixion -- if you think about how sick it must of been, I guess I could see where Suzanne and friends were coming from -- just like about anything sick and unfair. But that doesn't mean you were there, or that you were closer to our Lord than anyone else.

And, ignoring ALL of that, just look at him. I'm sorry, but honestly, I think the Son of God would have more style sense than this mid-30's man sure does.  

Dat. Train. Tee.

         

(God I went crazy searching his name and being like, "Oh. God. Who wears that?") This man needs "What Not to Wear" more than anyone else. I'm honest.  

Alright, time to stop. Bottom line: This guy is a total tool. Sorry. 

Thank you so much for reading! I'll focus on Tamar next time :) 

 ~~Clarabelle

The holy Island of Iona

The Virginia air is sweet, and I'm enjoying it here. My seclude is extremely packed, but I've got an hour or so of down-time. I've got to be done by 6:00, for a skype meeting, but let's see how much I can get done. ahhh... 

As some of us know, after the crucifixion, Mary and her daughter Tamar fled to France, along with Salome, Nazarus, and Mary of Bethany. Mary M was also pregnant with Judas, Jesus' child. They arrived in Aix-en-Provence, a town in southern France -- They traveled to Glastonbury, England, where Mary started a church and raised her "son". According to religion, Judas was actually a hermaphrodite, (someone who is neither male nor female, or in some cases both) but was bi-passed as a boy. (More on this later.)

Iona, is a small island off of Scotland. Why do I bring this up? ...
In the "Iona Abbey", lays a church. A gorgeous, gorgeous church. (Gosh I wish I could include a picture of it, but my laptop is freezing up. Search it on Google ;).)
Once I read a awesome article, which suggested that Mary Magdalene may have in fact been to Iona, struggling with the possibility that Jesus could of also been with her.

(OH, SO NOW I CAN UPLOAD PICTURES?!?) 

*rolls eyes at stupid computer*, anyway... 

After watching a few documentaries around this subject, I watched some woman whose name I cannot recall, say, about this stained-glass picture or what not, "She (Mary) looks pregnant, doesn't she?" And I guess I never noticed it, but she really does. So, this begs the question: Around this time, Mary Magdalene would of been on a boat, hugging the coast of Africa. Thus, Jesus would have been dead. What? To point out, Mary couldn't of been prego with her first child, Tamar, because Tamar was a child she had out of wedlock, due to her prostitution. (Plus, Tamar was already 12 years old when Mary met Jesus.)

Some people believe that, in fact, Jesus did not die on the cross, but instead slowed his heartbeat down? This seems very unlikely -- but as some point out, "If He could raise, and if not bring the dead back to life, why couldn't he do that to Himself?"  As unlikely as it seems, they may be onto something. Of course, to suggest something that radical off of a stained-glass window, in a church off Scotland, might be crazy. But then again, go back to 2010, when we thought it was CRAZYY for Dan Brown to suggest Jesus did in fact have a wife. And had multiple gospels to back it. (Well, Dan Brown didn't -- but Bibical Historians sure did.) UUGGHH. So. Confusing. 

Oh well, let's wait and see how things turn out. What do you think? It seems reasonable, and yet... so far-fetched.  

Well, looks like the time as come -- I have to get ready for my skype meeting. Put lipstick on, brush my teeth... 

Thank you for reading! I'll chat further on Mary's daughter, Tamar, next time. 

~~Clarabelle