Mary Magdalene: The First Pope

By Michael Hearns

This is the untold story of Mary Magdalene and it is possible to tell it now because new evidence has been uncovered, which sheds a completely different light on the role she played at the resurrection of Jesus from the tomb on that first Easter morning. There was always a major conflict between the gospels in reporting the events at the tomb but the ambiguity could be summed up into one question and it related to John’s gospel as follows:
How could Mary Magdalene see two angels sitting in the tomb on the morning of the resurrection while Peter could only see the folded linen clothes?
The answer is equally intriguing because the new evidence shows that the gospel writers had applied an image of the holy tabernacle of Moses as a motif to explain the mystical transition of Jesus between heaven and earth with the resurrection. Those writers wrote the gospels some thirty to seventy years after the resurrection and they had a purpose for using the holy tabernacle as an image for the tomb. It enabled the writers to secretly convey that Mary Magdalene was a High Priestess and therefore stood in rank above Peter. Mary Magdalene was the chosen successor of Jesus.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Hearns
• Release date: Jun 23, 2016
• ISBN: 9780993331350

Michael Hearns

Rather than give a generic description of my profile I will integrate it into my research activities in looking for evidence that a higher form of intelligence influenced the biblical prophets.I was born and reared in rural Ireland and our lives were ruled by religious fervour in which only the hierarchical clergy had a say. We were led to believe that there was a heaven above to ascend too for living in piety and doing what we were told but the burning fires of hell below awaited those who did not obey. The notion of a heaven in the afterlife seemed to have originated with the biblical prophets and they were considered to have been divinely inspired when they made their predictions. They had alluded to Jacob’s ladder reaching up to God and the building of the beguiling tower of Babel together with a fiery chariot ascending out of sight so the aspiration from the prophets was to soar up to the heavens. But words alone were never going to be sufficient to convince the universal audience that there was a paradise awaiting us.Years went by and I studied telecommunications in college and worked in the national Telecom Company but eventually moved to work in one of the main national newspapers. During that time Ireland underwent major changes with wide scale economic and social transformations. Along the way I drifted from the archaic world of boring Sunday sermons but I retained an interest in biblical history and am fascinated with the archaeology of the Levant. I was also interested in several of the building projects such as with the tabernacle in the Book of Exodus and other numerical data configurations in the Bible.A door opened for me when I learned that scholars have established that the first five books of the Old Testament had been covertly re-edited around 500 – 700 BCE and the various stories had been dramatized out of all proportions. So preoccupied were investigators with analysing the text to try and identify the re-editors that they seemed to have overlooked that large volumes of numbers had been also inserted including practically the whole Book of Numbers. Many of those numbers were incredible with men living to be over nine hundred years of age or with exaggerated population sizes in two censuses.It seemed to me that those numbers had to have been of tremendous importance for the re-editors to insert them in scripture. I therefore conducted an analysis and found evidence that some of those numbers equated to the heavenly orbits. Those observations began a quest that resulted with many significant discoveries over the years. Piece by piece a giant cosmic archive was assembled and it comprised of a solar calendar and recordings of the orbits of the planets around the sun. It was evident that some of the data was beyond the capabilities of mortals to acquire at that stage of engineering development.Gradually the cosmic data fell into place and it showed what the prophets were up to. They had predicted the coming of a Messiah at the time of a bright star over Bethlehem. However, nobody knew that they had plotted out his arrival on the solar calendar and listed the coordinates to identify that star over Bethlehem.While investigating the numerical data in scripture I came across the copper scroll which was found in a cave by the Dead Sea in 1952. Unlike the other scrolls with their religious contents, the copper scroll listed 64 sites where vast quantities of gold and silver treasures were buried back in antiquity. All efforts by archaeologists to find the treasures ended in failure as the descriptions of where to locate the various sites were too vague or absurd. There was a litany of numbers on the copper scroll which were listed as the number of cubits to dig to find numerical weights of gold and silver treasures. My subsequent investigation proved that the numbers were the real gems because they proved to be the indices of a long lost biblical calendar that was used to map out the future.That was what I found in my research work and the findings raise many fundamental questions. Where and how did the prophets acquire this complex archive of astronomy? Why did the re-package the data on astronomy and insert it covertly as the domestic related numbers in the Old and New Testaments? Why did they not pass on the knowledge to the Vatican and other religious institutions?Not since Samson flexed the full span of his mighty arms to bring the temple crashing down, have the pillars of conventional belief been so sorely tested. But this endeavor is not about sacking the temple, though it will certainly annul some of the myths and practices that religious establishments have rested on for thousands of years. The revelation that some of the most beautiful lyrical parables of the Bible as well as some of its most disturbing texts carried a watermark that can only be seen when held up to the light of physics and science may seem controversial at first. But the findings do unveil the format of a magnificent archive of celestial knowledge in all its multi-layered ingeniousness. This would appear to be the sign that people in every century had awaited, a compelling sign that the prophets were in contact with a higher form of intelligence when they acquired this divine like knowledge of the heavens.Michael Hearns (Author)

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Mary Magdalene

The First Pope

Mary Magdalene, Copyright © Michael Hearns 2016

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Stars overlaid on the Tabernacle Dimensions

Chapter 2 The Purification Ritual at the tabernacle

Chapter 3 The Biblical Calendar Reed Formula pf 777 Days

Chapter 4 The Tabernacle as an Image for the Tomb

Chapter 5 Through the Lens of the Tabernacle

Chapter 6 Mary Magdalene and the Events of the Resurrection of Jesus

Conclusion

Bibliography

Notes

Introduction

The realms of literature that has been written about the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus could wallpaper the heavens, yet there were still fundamental unexplained events of the gospel accounts because the writers seemed to have couched the text in a cryptic style of language. The cryptic presentation began where it stated in the gospel of Matthew that the veil of the temple was torn in two when Jesus died on the cross. It was a statement that hung in thin air and it may have left people wondering if it related to the biblical tabernacle because it had a veil, which divided its tent into two rooms.

When Jesus was taken down from the cross, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Jesus watched while Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus prepared the body for burial in an unused sepulchre. (John 19:39) It seemed that Nicodemus was deliberately brought into the picture because of a strange reference in his gospel, which read as follows: "We knew that in five thousand years and a half years that Jesus Christ was to come in the ark or tabernacle of a body." (Nicodemus 12:13) The statement was very mysterious because it indicated that the tabernacle had been prepared thousands of years beforehand for the body of Jesus to go into.

Nicodemus brought one hundred Roman pounds of Myrrh and Aloes (seventy five pounds in today’s terms) to anoint the body of Jesus. Such an enormous weight of spices was abnormal to anoint a body. However, it was exactly twice the weight of thirty seven and a half pounds that was used to anoint the tabernacle. (Exodus 30:23, 24) The gospel script went on to outline that on the morning of the resurrection, Mary Magdalene and other women brought sweet spices to the tomb that they might anoint him. (Mark 16:1) This possible second anointing was superfluous by the gospel writers especially as Mary Magdalene had previously watched Nicodemus wrap the body of Jesus in linen and spices. But the weights of spices did point to the tabernacle because of being twice as much.

It outlined in John’s gospel that Mary Magdalene went to the tomb when it was dark and saw the stone was removed. She obviously looked into the tomb because she ran to Peter and another disciple to tell them that the body of the lord had been taken away. Peter and the other disciple then ran to the tomb. Peter went inside and saw linen clothes and also a head napkin that was wrapped separately. He and the other disciple then went home. The gospel continued as follows: "Mary Magdalene stayed outside the tomb weeping. She stooped down and looked in and saw two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain." The details were contradictory and it seemed that Peter and Mary Magdalene had looked into two different rooms.

There were several hints of the tabernacle so far and they introduced a novel possibility. Had the gospel writers used the tabernacle with its two rooms to relate the story of the events on the morning of the resurrection? It would resolve the confusion between what Peter and Mary Magdalene saw. The inner room of the tabernacle was God’s heavenly chamber and it housed the Ark of the Covenant on top of which was the divine throne. There was a Cherubim sitting at either side of the seat. The outer room was where the regular priests officiated. By using the tabernacle in place of the tomb, it indicated that Peter had entered the outer holy room before the resurrection took place. Because the dividing veil was closed, Peter only saw the clothes and head napkin in the outer room. In contrast, after the resurrection took place, the dividing veil was withdrawn and Mary Magdalene was able to look into the inner room and see the two angelic cherubim with one sitting with one at the head and the other at the feet of where the body of Jesus had lain. We know it was after the resurrection because Mary Magdalene then turned back and saw Jesus but did not recognise him. He called Mary by her