The Sweetheart’s Stone

Did you know that a Jo is a Scottish term for Sweetheart. So where am I going with this? Well this morning, I started to write something about Jo seph of Arimathea.

In the process of doing a bit of mythology research, I found some interesting information about the Blarney Stone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blarney_Stone

You see, I was thinking about the Legend of the mythical story of Joseph of Arimathea and Mary Magdalene. I was thinking Mary was Cephas’ sweetheart. Cephas, is the Greek rendering of the Aramaic word for Rock. Cephas is pronounced sea fuss. The English name for Cephas is Peter. So some of you may have a hunch where I’m going with this. Remember how Jesus said to Peter…on this rock I’ll build my church. Jesus had just renamed Simon bar Jonah (the child of the legendary person swallowed by the sea monster, the MEGA FISH), Petros. Yet the rock on which Jesus builds the church is female…it’s petra. (See Matthew 16:17-19 the Zondervan’s Parallel New Testament in Greek and English).

Jesus gives Cephas the keys to the kingdom of heaven in verse 19, saying whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven!!!

And then in verse 23…Jesus calls Cephas Satan…a Blarney Stone!

The Vesica Piscis is a great Fish and a key element, a miraculous sign! http://www.crystalinks.com/vesicapiscis.html The disciples ask Jesus for a miraculous sign, a sign from heaven at the start of the chapter. Jesus replies. “A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a miraculous sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.”

And then…when someone truly listening and fully aware, recognizes Jesus as the Christ…Jesus calls that person Simon bar Jonah and then says…to that person….I will call you Peter…and on this petra…rock…the Vesica Piscis..I will build my church. Or In other words in Magdala, the city or the heart of the Mega Fish, I will build my church.

So I say to my readers. Listen if you have ears! And don’t be fooled by the Blarney Stone and the yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. Cephas is a smooth one! Don’t be fooled by patriarchal language. It is blarney. And don’t be fooled by the patriarchal yeast of the Adulterous “good” Teacher who looks at “her” and loves “her” and lusts after all she possesses. The stone the builders reject is Cephas’ Jo. She is the Sweetheart of the Gospel. She is the one who loves much and she is the big fish that Peter catches and scoops up into his arms. She possesses the body of Jesus that Joseph of Arimathea craves (Mark 15:43 American King James Version).

Mathematics of the New Jerusalem

Abstract

“The holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. . . .” [1]is a prophecy from the Book of Revelation. When I was a very young woman with no education beyond high school, I discovered something so incredible contained within the scripture describing this city. I felt like an archeologist who had just discovered a fine alabaster jar still intact and fragrant.  Inside this piece of scripture, cleverly and artfully woven into the vision was the exact circumference of the planet earth.  I turned to the book of Genesis.  There too, encoded into the Creation and Noah’s Ark myths were the mathematics of ancient prophets and storytellers who had never circumnavigated the globe, revealing the exact circumference of our home—the planet Earth.  This knowledge fills me with the desire to go and tell that God is with us and has promised to sing and rejoice with us as parents do when a loving couple gets married.

My presentation looks at the mathematics encoded in the Bible with the faith that the ancient people had in God who creates them. The myths and prophecies encoded in the Bible have the power to unite scientists, theologians, mathematicians, musicians, storytellers and artisans all over the world…to go and tell the World, our Creator has faith in us.  We are destined to create a New Jerusalem where God’s Love sustains us, our home and creation.

 

Keywords: The New Jerusalem, God’s Promise, Creation, Mathematics, Faith

[1] Revelation 21: 2 NRSV.

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Who Was Mary Magdalene? 

Who Mary Magdalene was matters especially in the context of how Jesus related to her. Many people want to know: Who was she? Was she merely one of many female disciples accompanying Jesus? Have traditional roles and sexual morality defined her and kept her from being recognized as Jesus’s counterpart, his equal? What is the historical reality within the stories told about her? Can that even be determined? What evidence is there?

Has her story been covered up? Is Margaret Starbird correct in her assumption that Tintoretto’s painting depicts Mary Magdalene as the wife of Jesus? In my opinion, Martha looks more like the wife of Jesus, the Lady of the House than Mary.  Why was Martha pointing her finger at Mary? What do you think?

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Christ in the home of Martha and Mary

Download and read my Master of Arts Liberal Studies Thesis project Mary Magdalene: Her Image and Relationship to Jesus