Fatima Lady Was Magdalen?

(Conspiracy Nation, 07/19/07) – A mysterious Lady appeared to three children, in Portugal, in 1917. The mysterious Lady is said to have been Mary, mother of Jesus. But might not she have been Mary Magdalen?

The Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine is one of the central texts of the Middle Ages. It is filled with Catholic folklore of those times. The description of the after-life relationship between Jesus and Mother Mary may not be true, per se; however it does indicate religious perceptions. One of the tales included in the St. Dominic section describes an other-worldly interaction between Mother Mary and Jesus: Jesus is in an angry mood. His Mother is pleading with him, but Jesus refuses to listen. Mary persists. Exasperated, Jesus finally replies, “Mother, what more can I do, or ought I to do for them?” (Jesus is referring to the human race.) He complains he has done this and that, to little avail. But Mother Mary keeps begging for “one more chance.” Finally, Jesus gives in, but adds, “If they do not mend their ways, I shall visit them myself, in wrath!”

If Jesus was so pissed off then, just imagine how he must feel now! Various aspects of the preceding Catholic lore would appeal to analytical types. There is the theme of “Just you wait until your father gets home,” often used by mothers to discipline their children. There is also an anthrpomorphizing of the Deity apparent, demeaning Jesus by projecting one's own rage upon him.

Catholic folklore regarding Mary Magdalen is also intriguing. In the St. Mary Magdalen section of The Golden Legend, it is said, “She was born of most noble parents who were indeed of royal descent. Her father's name was Syrus, and her mother was called Eucharia. Together with her brother Lazarus and sister Martha she owned Magdalum, a fortified town two miles from Genezareth, Bethany, near Jerusalem, and a large part of Jerusalem itself... Mary Magdalene gave herself up entirely to the pleasures of the flesh, while Lazarus devoted much of his time to soldiering, and the prudent Martha was active in managing her sister's and her brother's estates, and attending to the needs of her men-at-arms, her servants and the poor.”

Margaret Starbird argues convincingly that Mary Magdalen was a royal daughter of the Tribe of Benjamin. (The Woman With The Alabaster Jar). This tallies with the Golden Legend's claim of Mary Magdalen being “born of most noble parents.” According to Starbird (op. cit.), the Gospels nowhere claim that Mary Magdalen was a prostitute. So later Catholic folklore, contending Mary Magdalen “gave herself up entirely to the pleasures of the flesh,” originates where? In the minds of the Church hierarchy, perhaps??

In Heaven, according to Catholic folklore, Jesus spends his time not with his wife, but with his mother. This becomes the ideal: a platonic relationship with one's mother together with priestly celibacy. Lesser Catholics do marry, but the main purpose of their union is to produce more Catholics. Only quite recently has sexual pleasure between husband and wife been officially allowed by the Catholic Church.

But why was Mary Magdalen demeaned by the Catholic hierarchy? Starbird argues this was done to suppress a “heresy,” i.e., that Jesus, of the royal House of David, had entered into a strategic marriage with Mary Magdalen, of the royal House of Benjamin. This union created a daughter, Sarah, born in Alexandria, Egypt, after Jesus had been crucified. Later, according to Starbird, Mary Magdalen, her daughter Sarah (age 12), and Joseph of Arimathea traveled by boat to Marseilles, France (then called Gaul). The Golden Legend tells a somewhat different story. Mary Magdalen and her siblings Lazarus and Martha, and some close associates (no mention of Sarah), fourteen years after the death of Jesus, “were put on board ship by unbelievers and set adrift on the sea without a pilot so that they should all be drowned. But by God's will they reached Marseilles.”

It appears that Mary Magdalen was demeaned by the Catholic hierarchy in order to smear any claimed child of hers. In other words, the Catholic Church may have anticipated a power struggle regarding who in fact were the true heirs to the royal succession.

In “Three Apostolic Successions” (http://www.shout.net/~bigred/ThreePopes.html), three royal lines were traced: (1) from Jesus, through Peter, and on to the Popes; (2) from Simon Magus, to Meander, and eventually to the Gnostics; and (3) from John the Baptist, to the Nazarene or Johanite sect, and finally to the Knights Templar. A fourth possibility was considered in “Harry Potter, The Fourth Pope” (http://www.shout.net/~bigred/HarryPotter.html): that a fake “Pope Potter” was being insinuated gradually into the consciousness of young people. In this regard, hostility toward Harry Potter by Pope Benedict XVI is noteworthy. He has called the Harry Potter books “hogwash” which “distort Christianity in the soul.” (“Pope Leads Critics Of Harry Potter,” Lancashire Evening Post, July 15, 2007). And now, with the possibility of a fifth royal line, via Jesus and Mary Magdalen, to Sarah, and perhaps to the Merovingian kings and beyond, the field of Popes is getting crowded. Also consider so-called “Anti-Popes” and the situation becomes even more confusing.

In “Third Fatima Secret: Cold War Returns” (http://www.shout.net/~bigred/FatimaColdWar.html), Conspiracy Nation pondered the circumstance of the suppression of the Third Fatima Secret in 1960, the Moscow-Vatican Pact (Metz Pact) of 1962, and the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) of 1962-1965. Subsequent to publication, it was discovered that one Atila Sinke Guimarães had previously made a similar connection between the Metz Pact and Vatican II. Guimarães however did not notice the tie-in between the Fatima event of 1917 and the earlier (1916) assassination of Grigori Rasputin. (“Fatima: The Vatican Moscow Agreement,” http://www.catholictradition.org/Mary/fatima5.htm) Russia became increasingly threatened by Communism following Rasputin's death on December 29, 1916. Five months later, a mysterious Lady began appearing in Portugal, and she worried about Russia. “If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Fatima#The_first_two_secrets)

The mysterious Lady of Fatima is assumed to have been the Virgin Mary. However, “[i]n 1992 details relating to the apparitions, which had previously been unreleased, were finally revealed. A priest who had interviewed the children at the time of the apparitions reported their description of the Lady wearing a short skirt, earrings and a necklace with a medallion.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Fatima). In 1917, it would have been rather risque for any woman to have been so attired. For the Virgin Mary to have appeared wearing a short skirt and earrings makes one wonder: Perhaps it was someone else? Someone who had once “given herself up entirely to the pleasures of the flesh”?

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