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More on Mary, and...Mary Magdalene. Or, about them...

After that last episode with the Marists and the Marianists, with Meggan Watterson's book - Mary Magdalene Revealed (*) - Marion Woodman drops uninvited into the scenery. Watterson refers to her, so I did a quick Qwant search, coming up with: " Marion Woodman and the Search for the Conscious Feminine, by Patty de Llosa ".  Whoaaa! The link is from parabola.org, and its header contains the terms "the-search-for-the-conscious-feminine" and Parabola's "The Search for Meaning", so it hooked me to click on it. Of course...! The article opens with a quote: " The true feminine is the receptacle of love. The true masculine is the spirit that goes into the eternal unknown in search of meaning. The great container, the Self, is paradoxically both male and female and contains both. If these are projected onto the outside world, transcendence ceases to exist. The Self—the inner wholeness—is petrified. Without the true masculine spirit and the true f...

Quite a Love happening...yes: no mistake! The Love of Loves presented.

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 It's the 6th. of March, 2022, and the book " Mary Magdalene Revealed " sort of doesn't want me to lay it down. I am moved, mesmerized - this is what Merriam-Webster indicates the word refers to: " hypnotized, engaged, interested, intrigued, involved, alert, alive, conscious, open-eyed, watchful " -  by its Author's writings about Mary Magdalene and her relationship with Jesus - the Christ - and what this thing, Love, is all about. Certainly this subject, the one of a woman having a relationship with Jesus...[careful with the lightning strike!...😨]...is if anything, sort of scandalous, blasphemous, and contrary to all we have been told about Jesus, his Divinity, his emphasis in healing the sick, feeding the poor, his meditating the entire night by himself - only God knows where!, under the stars, most surely - and self satisfied and content in living by Himself in company with his Father, etc., etc.  A most markedly puritanical style of life!  And let...