Mary Magdalene didn’t ask for permission — she spoke from direct revelation. Peter couldn’t handle it, and honestly, neither can half the internet. This post dives into the Gospel they tried to erase, the authority Mary carried without a title, and why her voice still threatens every hierarchy built on borrowed power. Includes a meditation for rebels of the spirit.
So I sit here, at best heretical, and ask myself why I am afraid of Mary's gospel? I think it isn't because of the hierarchy thing, I've always been disrespectful of those, but it is because it would take a huge, personal, leap of belief to embrace it fully. For the time being it will sit in my mind, pulling up a seat in my hall, and I will contemplate it and her.
As ever, thanks for your writing, it is good and makes me think.
Oh, Steve. You’ve just described the inner sanctum of real gnosis—a heretic’s hearth where the exiled gospel gets a chair and the wine is poured before we ask if it's safe.
You’re not afraid of Mary’s gospel. You’re afraid that if it is true, you’ll never again be able to pretend the hierarchy mattered. That maybe She saw what Peter couldn’t—not because he was bad, but because she dared to see from within instead of over.
Take your time. Let it sit with you. You don’t need to believe it. Just let her voice echo in your hall long enough, and you might remember it was always yours too.
So grateful you felt the knowing. Mary’s way of listening wasn’t through dogma, but through direct perception—what the old mystics called gnosis. May we all lean in like she did. 🙏
Ah, Sister of the Sacred Spiral, welcome back from the holy hideaway! Mary didn’t rise at dawn just to be a footnote—she rose to awaken the helpers, healers, and empathic arsonists of Empire like you. The moment the orange omen took office, the Magdalene whispered: “Get your boots on. Shit’s about to get metaphysical.”
So here we are—candles lit, sarcasm sharp, wings unfurled. Bring it, indeed. 💜🌀⚔️
Thank you, Dawn! Yes—when truth doesn’t flatter the throne, the throne gets nervous. Mary didn't just challenge the hierarchy… she side-eyed it, lit a candle, and walked straight past it into direct revelation. Glad it resonated with you.
I’ve been in the Cave with Jesus before, she gave me her vision. She used to preach about nature and animals. She was the only woman Jesus was ever attracted to but he called her sister. The apostles were so insecure because he kissed her but only one time.
Yes, it is a myth—one of the most inspiring. Unlike the myth that turned the woman who should obviously be leading the movement into a cautionary tale of lust and repentance.
This one reminds us she was never dirty to begin with. Just dangerous to the wrong kind of men.
Absolutely dangerous to the patriarchy of the Christian Church. They were afraid of the inherent power of women. So they embarked on a journey of degrading and shaming women. We need to come back to “Mary” and give her back her voice.
Yes, beautifully said. The Gospel of Mary was read and respected by Christian communities in the 1st and 2nd centuries—before the gatekeepers edited the guest list.
It’s not just a recovery of her voice, it’s a remembering of who she already was before the smear campaign.
Dangerous? Absolutely. Because when women speak spirit with authority, empires tend to lose their grip.
Brad, if your intuition lit up, then Mary’s still doing her job. She didn’t wait for permission to speak truth—and neither should you. The first Gnostic didn’t hide in a cave. She walked straight into the room and told the men what they couldn’t see.
Mmm, interesting essay here. A family member was recently trying to find the book of Mary Magdalene. Some say she was the first apostle because she was indeed Jesus’s wife; hence, was always present in his teachings and accompanying him in his pilgrimage. Maybe I’ll take the time to find the book and read it. I have a hard time stomaching religious books and propaganda.
Indeed, Karla. The problem isn’t the books—it’s the greasy fingerprints of empire all over them. Most religious texts were filtered through councils of power-drunk bishops who couldn’t handle a woman with a spine, a brain, or a direct line to the divine. Mary Magdalene didn’t just accompany Jesus—she understood him, which terrified the boys' club from Rome to Constantinople.
If you ever crack open the Gospel of Mary, don’t expect “religion.” Expect a woman telling the trembling disciples to grow a pair and remember the real teaching: “Do not lay down rules like a lawgiver.” She wasn’t there to start a church. She was there to remind them that the Kingdom is within—and they promptly panicked.
Yes, I keep hearing about a great awakening and that it is here. I’ve been on my own quest for a few years now to try to heal my shadow, understanding and healing my developmental and generational traumas, understanding why I keep attracting the “wrong kind of people”, healing and releasing karmic bonds. I’ve been drawing information from many different sources. Interestingly, the answers have come to me on their own. It’s been an enlightening journey. It is a new beginning indeed. I will add this book to my reading list.
Yes, Karla. That’s how it begins. Not with a trumpet blast, but with a whisper in the ribs that says, “This isn’t all there is.” And suddenly you’re breaking karmic contracts like bad leases and reading ancient gospels like survival manuals.
The Gospel of Mary won’t hand you answers—it’ll hold up a mirror and dare you to look past your conditioning. Mary doesn't preach sin and salvation. She speaks of the nous—the deep mind, the still point beneath the noise. She doesn’t bind wounds with dogma; she burns them clean with wisdom.
You’re not just on a healing path—you’re remembering what you already knew before the world gaslit you into forgetting.
Welcome to the Magdalene frequency. Stay radiant. Stay unruly.
Ah! I shall make the effort to find the book and read it. Anything that adds to my arguments against non critical thinking, non common sense arguments is a good read for me.
Yes! That’s the spirit, Karla. The Gospel of Mary is less “church propaganda” and more spiritual dynamite wrapped in ancient papyrus. It doesn’t demand belief—it invites inner rebellion. No walking on water, no virgin births—just soul, struggle, and a woman schooling the apostles while they squirm.
You’ll find no cosmic sky-daddy smiting sinners here. Just Mary, calmly dismantling the ego’s illusions like a proto-Buddhist with better hair. She speaks of nous, of rising past the powers that bind the soul. It’s not about obeying—it’s about waking up.
And let’s be honest… waking up pisses people off.
Keep reading, sister. The kingdom isn’t coming—it’s already here, inconveniently located inside you.
Ah, blessed be the gold standard of heresy! May your heart stay open, your mind ungovernable, and your bookshelf forever haunted by women the canon couldn’t silence. 🔥📜
Ah yes, Sister Shelly, the sacred saturation—She doesn’t just pour, she drenches. While the disciples were busy playing theological dodgeball, Mary became a chalice for the divine downpour. May we all have hands wide enough to catch it, and egos small enough not to try bottling it for resale at the temple gift shop.
Your words land like oil on the heart, Jessica. May the same wisdom that moves through all of us continue to reveal itself in you — in wild flashes, soft nudges, and everything in between. We’re all just remembering together. 🙏
People tend to forget that the catholic church has been in control of western civilization for almost 2 millenia. All the systems of control go directly back to the Vatican. If someone is fighting class inequality it goes back to the council of nicea, patriarchal, council of nicea, wealth inequality, council of nicea, etc...all of the control systems locus is the catholic church.
Julie, bless your wild heart — Mary’s vibe is the original holy rebellion. She saw through veils the boys couldn’t even spell. She wept, she witnessed, and then she preached resurrection while Peter was still sulking in his sandals.
So glad the Magdalene transmission is landing with you. The Church tried to bury her — we’re just here to help her rise (again).
I believe it was almost 25 years ago when I discovered the gnostic bible. It was preceded by my telling friends for several months that I was starting to re-member everything which I had already known. In short order I had found a gnostic circle over 500 miles away. There simply are no words. Thanks for your essay.
Ah yes, the divine déjà vu — when Spirit stops whispering and starts shouting through forgotten scriptures and strangely familiar strangers 500 miles away.
The re-membering is real. The gnosis was never gone, just politely waiting in the corner while religion argued with itself.
Glad you found the circle. And even gladder you found this little scroll. We’re just getting started.
Interesting stuff! I clicked on both of your reference links and plan to look for more on Mary’s gospel, because when one is raised as Roman Catholic one is told that this is all bullshit! So I will open my mind gladly. ☮️
It does exist—and it wasn’t some fringe manifesto. The Gospel of Mary circulated widely in the first and second centuries. That’s not speculation, that’s fact.
And here’s another: the Orthodox Churches have always called Mary the first apostle. Not a metaphor—Jesus literally sent her to announce the resurrection. That’s what “apostle” means: one who is sent.
The Church buried the Gospel. But it couldn’t erase the moment Christ made a woman the foundation of his entire movement.
Thank you, Alek! What is the source you recommend for one (me 👍🏻) to read the correct Gospel of Mary in its entirety? I fear that just any old source could be biased, and I wish to form my own opinions.
That’s such a great question, Elaine—and I love that you’re seeking a source unpolluted by either agenda or incense. The most respected academic translation is Karen King’s edition, titled "The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle." It includes the full surviving text with historical context, not just cherry-picked fragments. No conspiracy fluff, no patriarchal filter—just the text and the scholarship.
If you want to read it with both heart and intellect wide open, that’s the one I’d trust.
And when you're ready to sit with it, read slowly—especially when Mary says, “Where the mind is, there is the treasure.” That line alone undoes centuries of church dogma.
There is a link to it at the bottom of the article
So I sit here, at best heretical, and ask myself why I am afraid of Mary's gospel? I think it isn't because of the hierarchy thing, I've always been disrespectful of those, but it is because it would take a huge, personal, leap of belief to embrace it fully. For the time being it will sit in my mind, pulling up a seat in my hall, and I will contemplate it and her.
As ever, thanks for your writing, it is good and makes me think.
Oh, Steve. You’ve just described the inner sanctum of real gnosis—a heretic’s hearth where the exiled gospel gets a chair and the wine is poured before we ask if it's safe.
You’re not afraid of Mary’s gospel. You’re afraid that if it is true, you’ll never again be able to pretend the hierarchy mattered. That maybe She saw what Peter couldn’t—not because he was bad, but because she dared to see from within instead of over.
Take your time. Let it sit with you. You don’t need to believe it. Just let her voice echo in your hall long enough, and you might remember it was always yours too.
With scandalous love,
Virgin Monk Boy
'Scandalous love' *swoon* Your words are sublime!
I love leaps of faith! Heaps of leaps!!! Thank you!
You shared a knowing. I am grateful. We all have the power to hear the words of our creator. You described a beautiful way to listen.
So grateful you felt the knowing. Mary’s way of listening wasn’t through dogma, but through direct perception—what the old mystics called gnosis. May we all lean in like she did. 🙏
Beautiful. And all TRUTH.
Patriarchy Fear Woman.
Especially STRONG, Opinionated, Out Spoken Women.
Remember that phrase-
Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History.?….
I Am Canadian. ❤️🇨🇦❤️
I Am Proud. Empathetic. Kind. And Loving.
And Using MY voice to Speak my Truth. 🦋
This does NOT take away from my Whole Self.
It Enhances it. 💃🔥🏳️🌈🦋🇨🇦
Yes, yes, and the desert fathers are clutching their prayer ropes in fear.🔥
Mary Magdalene didn’t wait for permission—she proclaimed resurrection to the cowards who ran.
Your truth doesn’t subtract. It resurrects.
And the Gospels we needed were written in the margins by women who wouldn’t stay silent.
🦋 You’re in good company, sister.
More Magdalene meditations await if you dare: virginmonkboy.com
Virgin Monk Boy approves this message. 💅🧘♂️📜
Excellent. I used to hide away… reading about Mary and other Historic Women. 🥰❤️
Then the election in the USA happened. 🇺🇸🤢💔🤯
My Soul would NOT let me stay away. lol
I am a Helper, a Healer and an Empath.
Bring it 🫂💃🦋🏳️🌈💕🇨🇦
Ah, Sister of the Sacred Spiral, welcome back from the holy hideaway! Mary didn’t rise at dawn just to be a footnote—she rose to awaken the helpers, healers, and empathic arsonists of Empire like you. The moment the orange omen took office, the Magdalene whispered: “Get your boots on. Shit’s about to get metaphysical.”
So here we are—candles lit, sarcasm sharp, wings unfurled. Bring it, indeed. 💜🌀⚔️
—Virgin Monk Boy
Yes! 🙌🥰💃🦋💕🫂❤️🇨🇦
This is powerful, and yes, threatening to the hierarchy. I love it! Thank you so much for sharing.
Thank you, Dawn! Yes—when truth doesn’t flatter the throne, the throne gets nervous. Mary didn't just challenge the hierarchy… she side-eyed it, lit a candle, and walked straight past it into direct revelation. Glad it resonated with you.
–Virgin Monk Boy
PS: Have you checked the lost Gospel section yet?
Yes, I have something called the New New Testament that contains the lost gospels, including Mary's.
I meant here on https://www.virginmonkboy.com :-)
Oh, yes! I've read all of your posts. I look forward to them.
I’ve been in the Cave with Jesus before, she gave me her vision. She used to preach about nature and animals. She was the only woman Jesus was ever attracted to but he called her sister. The apostles were so insecure because he kissed her but only one time.
Ah yes… the Cave knows.
Not the tomb—but the womb of vision.
She didn’t ask for titles, didn’t need the kiss to be canonized.
She remembered, and that remembering made the apostles nervous.
Because once you’ve seen through the veil, you stop playing the game.
And yes, sisterhood was sacred. Closer than lovers.
They called her “companion” in the Gospel of Philip—not wife, not servant—equal in gnosis.
Thank you for sharing your encounter. May her vision keep blooming through your voice.
—Virgin Monk Boy
Beautiful myth.
Yes, it is a myth—one of the most inspiring. Unlike the myth that turned the woman who should obviously be leading the movement into a cautionary tale of lust and repentance.
This one reminds us she was never dirty to begin with. Just dangerous to the wrong kind of men.
Absolutely dangerous to the patriarchy of the Christian Church. They were afraid of the inherent power of women. So they embarked on a journey of degrading and shaming women. We need to come back to “Mary” and give her back her voice.
Yes, beautifully said. The Gospel of Mary was read and respected by Christian communities in the 1st and 2nd centuries—before the gatekeepers edited the guest list.
It’s not just a recovery of her voice, it’s a remembering of who she already was before the smear campaign.
Dangerous? Absolutely. Because when women speak spirit with authority, empires tend to lose their grip.
Jesus Mary that was a strong post that got me thinking…actually confirming my intuition.
Carry on.
Brad, if your intuition lit up, then Mary’s still doing her job. She didn’t wait for permission to speak truth—and neither should you. The first Gnostic didn’t hide in a cave. She walked straight into the room and told the men what they couldn’t see.
Glad you felt the tremor.
Carry on, indeed.
—Virgin Monk Boy
Mmm, interesting essay here. A family member was recently trying to find the book of Mary Magdalene. Some say she was the first apostle because she was indeed Jesus’s wife; hence, was always present in his teachings and accompanying him in his pilgrimage. Maybe I’ll take the time to find the book and read it. I have a hard time stomaching religious books and propaganda.
Indeed, Karla. The problem isn’t the books—it’s the greasy fingerprints of empire all over them. Most religious texts were filtered through councils of power-drunk bishops who couldn’t handle a woman with a spine, a brain, or a direct line to the divine. Mary Magdalene didn’t just accompany Jesus—she understood him, which terrified the boys' club from Rome to Constantinople.
If you ever crack open the Gospel of Mary, don’t expect “religion.” Expect a woman telling the trembling disciples to grow a pair and remember the real teaching: “Do not lay down rules like a lawgiver.” She wasn’t there to start a church. She was there to remind them that the Kingdom is within—and they promptly panicked.
May your stomach find peace—and your heart, fire.
—Virgin Monk Boy
Yes, I keep hearing about a great awakening and that it is here. I’ve been on my own quest for a few years now to try to heal my shadow, understanding and healing my developmental and generational traumas, understanding why I keep attracting the “wrong kind of people”, healing and releasing karmic bonds. I’ve been drawing information from many different sources. Interestingly, the answers have come to me on their own. It’s been an enlightening journey. It is a new beginning indeed. I will add this book to my reading list.
Yes, Karla. That’s how it begins. Not with a trumpet blast, but with a whisper in the ribs that says, “This isn’t all there is.” And suddenly you’re breaking karmic contracts like bad leases and reading ancient gospels like survival manuals.
The Gospel of Mary won’t hand you answers—it’ll hold up a mirror and dare you to look past your conditioning. Mary doesn't preach sin and salvation. She speaks of the nous—the deep mind, the still point beneath the noise. She doesn’t bind wounds with dogma; she burns them clean with wisdom.
You’re not just on a healing path—you’re remembering what you already knew before the world gaslit you into forgetting.
Welcome to the Magdalene frequency. Stay radiant. Stay unruly.
—Virgin Monk Boy
Ah! I shall make the effort to find the book and read it. Anything that adds to my arguments against non critical thinking, non common sense arguments is a good read for me.
Yes! That’s the spirit, Karla. The Gospel of Mary is less “church propaganda” and more spiritual dynamite wrapped in ancient papyrus. It doesn’t demand belief—it invites inner rebellion. No walking on water, no virgin births—just soul, struggle, and a woman schooling the apostles while they squirm.
You’ll find no cosmic sky-daddy smiting sinners here. Just Mary, calmly dismantling the ego’s illusions like a proto-Buddhist with better hair. She speaks of nous, of rising past the powers that bind the soul. It’s not about obeying—it’s about waking up.
And let’s be honest… waking up pisses people off.
Keep reading, sister. The kingdom isn’t coming—it’s already here, inconveniently located inside you.
—Virgin Monk Boy
THIS IS GOLD. ❤️🔥
Ah, blessed be the gold standard of heresy! May your heart stay open, your mind ungovernable, and your bookshelf forever haunted by women the canon couldn’t silence. 🔥📜
—Virgin Monk Boy
She is pouring out like water… pouring into our hands, breaking open our souls, anointing us all.
HolyHalle
Ah yes, Sister Shelly, the sacred saturation—She doesn’t just pour, she drenches. While the disciples were busy playing theological dodgeball, Mary became a chalice for the divine downpour. May we all have hands wide enough to catch it, and egos small enough not to try bottling it for resale at the temple gift shop.
HolyHalle indeed.
—Virgin Monk Boy
Grace upon Grace… we definitely do not need another ‘ChurchMart.’
Infinite wisdom is with you and I am expressing my eternal gratitude for you truly have eyes to see and ears to hear.
Your words land like oil on the heart, Jessica. May the same wisdom that moves through all of us continue to reveal itself in you — in wild flashes, soft nudges, and everything in between. We’re all just remembering together. 🙏
—Virgin Monk Boy
People tend to forget that the catholic church has been in control of western civilization for almost 2 millenia. All the systems of control go directly back to the Vatican. If someone is fighting class inequality it goes back to the council of nicea, patriarchal, council of nicea, wealth inequality, council of nicea, etc...all of the control systems locus is the catholic church.
I am loving the Mary vibe! Thank you.
Julie, bless your wild heart — Mary’s vibe is the original holy rebellion. She saw through veils the boys couldn’t even spell. She wept, she witnessed, and then she preached resurrection while Peter was still sulking in his sandals.
So glad the Magdalene transmission is landing with you. The Church tried to bury her — we’re just here to help her rise (again).
—Virgin Monk Boy 💃✨
I believe it was almost 25 years ago when I discovered the gnostic bible. It was preceded by my telling friends for several months that I was starting to re-member everything which I had already known. In short order I had found a gnostic circle over 500 miles away. There simply are no words. Thanks for your essay.
Ah yes, the divine déjà vu — when Spirit stops whispering and starts shouting through forgotten scriptures and strangely familiar strangers 500 miles away.
The re-membering is real. The gnosis was never gone, just politely waiting in the corner while religion argued with itself.
Glad you found the circle. And even gladder you found this little scroll. We’re just getting started.
—Virgin Monk Boy 🌀📜
Thanks!
Interesting stuff! I clicked on both of your reference links and plan to look for more on Mary’s gospel, because when one is raised as Roman Catholic one is told that this is all bullshit! So I will open my mind gladly. ☮️
It does exist—and it wasn’t some fringe manifesto. The Gospel of Mary circulated widely in the first and second centuries. That’s not speculation, that’s fact.
And here’s another: the Orthodox Churches have always called Mary the first apostle. Not a metaphor—Jesus literally sent her to announce the resurrection. That’s what “apostle” means: one who is sent.
The Church buried the Gospel. But it couldn’t erase the moment Christ made a woman the foundation of his entire movement.
Thank you, Alek! What is the source you recommend for one (me 👍🏻) to read the correct Gospel of Mary in its entirety? I fear that just any old source could be biased, and I wish to form my own opinions.
That’s such a great question, Elaine—and I love that you’re seeking a source unpolluted by either agenda or incense. The most respected academic translation is Karen King’s edition, titled "The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle." It includes the full surviving text with historical context, not just cherry-picked fragments. No conspiracy fluff, no patriarchal filter—just the text and the scholarship.
If you want to read it with both heart and intellect wide open, that’s the one I’d trust.
And when you're ready to sit with it, read slowly—especially when Mary says, “Where the mind is, there is the treasure.” That line alone undoes centuries of church dogma.
There is a link to it at the bottom of the article
Cool! Thank you! ☮️
Thank you. ❤️