St. Mary Magdalene: The Gnostic Tradition of the Holy Bride

by Tau Malachi

Book Overview

In the Gospels of the Bible there are a few comments about Mary Magdalene here and there. But in the Gnostic scriptures that have been discovered, there are tantalizing hints that both her relationship to Jesus and her role among Jesus' disciples may have been profoundly important. Among several schools of Gnostic Christianity, Mary plays an essential role in the revelation of the gospel.

Here, for the first time in print, is a Sophian Gospel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073870783X
• ISBN13: 9780738707839
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

An oral tradition finally revealed . . .

Tau Malachi brings St. Mary Magdalene to vivid life in this book, which contains teachings of his Sophian Gnostic lineage that have previously only been transmitted orally. Although I've read quite a bit on the Magdalene, this book makes me feel as though I've been brought into her presence in a way few others have. Highly recommended.

This is It.

I've read a lot on Magdalene, but this book goes where I hoped all the others would. Finally, a vision of Magdalene that presents her as co-equal in every way to Jesus! The stories are breathtaking, the 250 sayings are profound and take the gospels to a whole new level. It's about time we started re-thinking our spirituality through the lens of our twentieth century minds! This book not only re-envisions Jesus' message, it re-envisions our current world paradigms and asks us some serious questions about where we are going to go next with our spirituality. I think it has become crystal clear to most of us that going back into the patriarchal mindset isn't the right answer, nor is going forward by cutting our roots out from under us. This book re-envisions by being well-rooted in the tradition of Jesus and his message, but at the same time re-envisions and calls us to question our current paradygms. This book is what I was waiting for.

Extrodinary!

What an extrodinary work! I can safely say that this book changed my life. I have read books before that speak of Mary Magdalene as a deciple of Jesus, his wife and even sometimes as the apostle to the apostles, but never before have I read a book who speaks of her as fully co-equal with him, fully and equaly an example of enlightened womanhood in all its fullness and glory, this book speaks of St. Mary Magdalene as messiah as much as Jesus was Messiah. It is more than that as well, it is a story of enlightenend humanhood. This book, with its playful legends from an oral tradition of Sophian Gnosticism, delights the heart and enriches the spirit, it paints a perfect picture of the mysterious dance of the Bride, St. Mary Magdalene.

Here comes the Bride!!!

Here for first time in print, is a Wisdom Treasuy of sacred teachings and oral tradition of St. Mary Magdalene. This wonderful text offers the reader a vehicle for a creative journey into the Gnostic experience of the Holy Bride, very similiar to guided meditations. As a reader you are invited into the life story/cycle of the Holy Bride and into Her journey and sacred quest, which ultimately is one's own. The value it speaks to the coequality of women and the need for the Divine Feminine is unequivocal in our present times. I highly recommend this book.

A wisdom treasury

Gnostic tradition has acquired a whole devotional dimension thanks to Tau Malachi's groundbreaking English (and forthcoming Spanish!) works. "St. Mary Magdalene: Gnostic Tradition of the Holy Bride" will likely be his most provocative work yet. Cheers for daring to publish these radical legends! Drawing from the wealth of his Sophian Gnostic spiritual upbringing from boyhood, the oral legends recorded here for the first time ever will draw out passionate discussion; orthodox Christians who find the "Da Vinci Code" novel (and film) mania frustrating will be pushed over the edge by these detailed legends of her Christhood while the more progressive--especially women---will find here a wisdom treasury of lore somehow familiar and long-intuited. However controversial this little book will get, I'm completely thrilled by any discussion of St. Mary Magdalene. Reading these legends, I cannot help but be reminded of her enlightened "colleague" of Tibet--Lady Yeshe Tsogyal! His voice of the Sophian Tradition I deeply appreciate: with each work, it gets that much more rich, complex and above all healing for Western people. Those open to a mature Christianity of God the Son and God the Daughter will find here jewels beyond pricing.