Mary Magdalene’s Lost Gospel Reveals: You Were Never Dirty to Begin With
How Mary Magdalene Exposed the Great Spiritual Scam and Showed Us Our Original Radiance
You know that feeling when you realize the toothpaste you’ve been buying for decades is mostly baking soda and shame?
That's basically the spiritualed out — two thousand years ago.
While the early Church was busy selling the idea that you were a cosmic felon from birth, Mary was already torching the "sin of the world" narrative like it was last year's indulgence scroll.
In the Gospel of Mary — yes, that banned book you were never supposed to know about — Mary drops a flaming heresy (a.k.a. divine common sense):
"There is no such thing as sin."
Sin, she says, isn't some permanent stain on your soul. It's forgetting who you are.
It's mistaking fear for reality.
It's buying into the idea that you're broken, guilty, or unworthy — and then acting like it’s true.
Meanwhile, modern spiritual marketing (and about half the internet) still slaps neon signs on your forehead that say "Flawed!" "Fallen!" "Unworthy!" — just so they can sell you 12 easy payments of “healing.”
Mary saw through the scam.
You weren’t born in sin. You were born luminous.
You weren’t thrown out of Eden. You are Eden, temporarily wrapped in amnesia and a funny little meat-suit.
Bruce Chilton, in his surprisingly honest Mary Magdalene: A Biography[1], highlights how Mary wasn’t just a sidekick or a reformed “bad girl.” She was the carrier of Jesus’ real teachings — especially the ones the later Church found too hot to handle. Teachings like inner resurrection. Direct communion. The reality that healing doesn't come from fear of punishment, but from waking up to your own sacred nature.
Healing starts — and I mean truly starts — not with shame, not with self-flagellation, not with endless striving to impress some sky committee of angry bearded men...
but with remembering:
✨ You were never dirty to begin with.
You don't have to earn your way back to some mythical state of "purity."
You are the purity.
You are the radiance.
You are the breath of Spirit laughing through time itself.
And every system that says otherwise?
Well, Mary already warned us: they're just peddling a story that only exists if you agree to forget.
May you rebel against amnesia.
May you remember who you were before they taught you to apologize for existing.
May you walk today like someone who knows they are made of stardust and stubborn grace.
Go ahead — shock the system.
Smile without guilt.
Heal without permission.
The Magdalene is still whispering:
You were never dirty.
You just forgot how much you shine.
A Short Meditation: Remembering Your Radiance
Find a quiet place. Sit comfortably. Breathe.
As you inhale, imagine a soft golden light filling your body from the inside out. Not entering from above, but rising from within — as if remembering a light that's always been there.
With every breath, silently repeat:
Inhale: I am not broken.
Exhale: I was never dirty.
Inhale: This breath is grace.
Exhale: This moment is home.
Let your shoulders drop. Let the shame melt. Let the light of your own being shine without needing approval.
Stay for as long as it feels like truth.
And if the old voices try to return — the ones that whisper “not enough” — smile gently and say:
You’ve mistaken me for someone else.
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References:
[1] Bruce Chilton, Mary Magdalene: A Biography
[2] The Gospel of Mary, translated by Karen King
None of us were born of sin…no matter the circumstances of birth. We are truly nothing short of a miracle. Hope in the face of adversity. Mary knew this to be truth.
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