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The Magdalen
The Magdalen
The Magdalen
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The Magdalen

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For too long, Christians have drunk the blood, eaten the flesh, and gazed with perverted pleasure upon a gory "death" that supposedly relieves them of any need to accept responsibility for their own deeds.
THE MAGDALEN is a story whose time has come. Truth's time has come. Meet your friend Jesus, who you can truly love, even adore, for the first time in your life. Laugh with him, love with him, dance with him! Sit beside him and learn of the true god All That Is. Understand his joyous message. Then witness the confusion that gave rise to the two-thousand-year-old debacle that we call "Christianity." Understand that the message was supposed to be joy. And allow Jesus to come down off of that cross.
Then meet The Magdalen, Merovee, his Beloved Disciple -- and wife.
Listen to this beautiful woman as she sat at dinner one evening with Jesus and their friends Pontius Pilatus and his wife Procula.
"Merovee, you speak of giving purpose to others. How does one do that?" asked Pilatus.
"One gives purpose to others by being the very best that one can possibly be. One works only within oneself, never presuming to force one's belief onto others, but, instead, endeavoring to be a worthy example of all that one believes. If you work unstintingly for what is right, true, good, beautiful, and if you work to make yourself a model of all of this, understanding yourself and your fellows better each day ... if your love of beauty in all matters shines like the sun, warming others ... if it is obvious at all times that you are searching for the best, the most fair, the most loving conduct ... if what you do is of consistent encouragement and benefit to others ... if you make them smile and laugh and feel good about themselves, utterly forgiven and accepted by yourself ... if your example makes people glad that they got up that morning, and certain that there is no end to the wonderful things to be learned, the amazing skills to be mastered, the worlds to be explored ... if the things that you do with your own life make them feel that there has just got to be a definite reason for all being ... then you are helping them toward their own purposes, opening doors in their minds to those rooms where their purposes are locked away.
"Yet there is a hook catch to it all, Pilatus. Because, to accomplish it finally and thoroughly, you have got to believe implicitly in others ... in their own needs and desires to be all that you, yourself, are trying to learn to be, in their abilities to recognize your example and, ultimately, in their own good times, put it to work in their own ways, in their own lives, with no force or coercion of any sort from you or from anyone else.
"That trust, that confidence in others to eventually be as wise as yourself all by themselves ... is one of the very hardest things."
She smiled over at Jesus.
"How did I do?"
"Very well."
"Very well indeed," said Pilatus thoughtfully. "That is what it is about you two. You both shine. One feels such trust. Such hope. You exude a certainty, a solidity ... a serenity that can only come from a knowing far beyond my own.
"Yet you do not make me feel lessened for being just an ordinary, confused man, neither to you make me feel threatened or coerced. Instead, you make me feel that secretly, down deep, I am more than my own self ... or that I can be ... will be, if only I study you two.
"It is really rather ... exciting."

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The Magdalen
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Bonnie Jones Reynolds

Bonnie Jones Reynolds was raised at Spring Farm, near Clinton, New York, and is the bestselling author of The Truth About Unicorns, The Confetti Man, and Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class. Her cofounder Dawn E. Hayman is one of the world's foremost Interspecies Communicators, and helped establish Spring Farm CARES in 1991.

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