posted November 24, 2007 01:19 AM         

A GOD VICTORIOUS JOURNEY Part 1 of 2
by Patricia Diane Cota-Robles http://eraofpeace.org

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Every time I am blessed with the awesome gift of participating in a facet of the unfolding Divine Plan involving the Company of Heaven and dedicated Lightworkers from around the world, I know without question that this blessed planet and ALL her Life are going to succeed in our Ascension in the Light. Our Pilgrimage to the sacred sites along the Mediterranean Sea and the South of France confirmed this Truth for me.

The reality is that the miracles that took place during our Pilgrimage transcend what can be expressed in words, but I will do my best to share with you the events of our journey. There were 103 pilgrims who physically joined us on this trip. We were all very aware that there were also thousands of Lightworkers joining with us in consciousness. We held each and every one of you securely in the Divinity of our hearts, and we reveled in the loving support that we received from around the world.

To understand the importance of this mission, I would like to briefly share with you why our Father-Mother God sent forth the Clarion Call for assistance from embodied Lightworkers in this endeavor.

We are at a critical turning point in the evolution of this sweet Earth. In order for us to accomplish the next step in our evolutionary process, we must reverse the adverse effects of Humanity's fall from Grace. This process involves bringing into balance the Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine Polarities of God within every person's Heart Flame. It also involves preparing every Heart Flame and the physical, etheric, mental and emotional bodies of each soul, to withstand the 5th-Dimensional frequencies of our I AM Presence, our true God reality.

Prior to the fall, the Masculine and Feminine Polarities of our Father-Mother God were balanced within every person on Earth. The Masculine Polarity of our Father God activated our left-brain hemispheres and radiated into the physical plane through the power center of our Throat Chakras. This frequency of Divine Light radiated as a sapphire blue Flame of Power within the Immortal Victorious Threefold Flame in our hearts. The Feminine Polarity of our Mother God activated our right-brain hemispheres and radiated into the physical plane through the love center of our Heart Chakras. This frequency of Divine Light radiated as a crystalline pink Flame of Love within the Threefold Flame in our hearts.

These two perfectly balanced polarities of our Father-Mother God then merged into one powerful Violet Flame. This Sacred Fire blazed through our brains and awakened our spiritual brain centers to their full Divine Potential. These centers consist of our pituitary, pineal, hypothalamus glands and the ganglionic centers at the base of our brains.

With the Masculine and Feminine Polarities of God balanced within our brains and our spiritual centers activated to their full potential, our Crown Chakras of Enlightenment opened to full breadth birthing the Son or Daughter of God, The Christ or Christ Consciousness, within every person. This frequency of Divine Light radiated as a golden-yellow Flame of Enlightenment within the Threefold Flame in our hearts.

The Immortal Victorious Threefold Flame pulsating in every heart is the physical expression of the Holy Trinity in the world of form. In order for a Son or Daughter of God to exist, this blue, pink and gold Flame, representing the Power, Love and Wisdom of our God Parents and Their Beloved Child, must be present within the heart. In order for a Son or Daughter of God to reach his or her full Divine Potential, however, the Threefold Flame must not only exist it must be balanced. This means the perfect balance of our Father God's Power and our Mother God's Love, which is better known as the Holy Spirit. Through this balance, the Beloved Child of God ”The Christ”is birthed within every person.

In our evolutionary process, there came a point in time when the Sons and Daughters of God evolving on Earth made the free-will choice to use our gift of Life in ways that conflicted with God's Will. Through our thoughts, words, actions and feelings, we created gross mutations of the patterns of perfection pulsating within the Causal Body of God. These human miscreations began manifesting on Earth as aging, decay, disease, lack and limitation, fear, war, violence, corruption, inclement weather conditions, cataclysmic Earth changes and every other malady existing on Earth today.

In a futile attempt to keep ourselves from feeling so much pain, we closed our Heart Chakras to try to block our ability to feel. This fateful decision closed the portal through which our Mother God radiated Her Love into the physical plane. This forced our Mother God to withdraw to a mere trickle of Her original Divine Potential. Without the balance of our Mother God's Divine Love, our right-brain hemispheres became almost dormant. This caused our spiritual brain centers to atrophy and our Crown Chakras of Enlightenment to close. We lost contact with The Christ within. We forgot that we are Beloved Children of God, and we lost awareness of the fact that all our Father-Mother God has is ours.

For aeons of time, we have been buried in the effluvia of our human miscreations. Age after Age enlightened Beings, Avatars, Buddhas and Adepts have embodied to try to awaken Humanity to the Truth of who we are and why we are in this Earthly school of learning. Progress has been painfully slow, often nonexistent.

Finally, a little over 2,000 years ago, during the inception of the Piscean Age, a plan was set into motion to anchor the archetypes for Humanity's pathway back to Christ Consciousness. This plan, much like what is occurring now at the dawn of the Aquarian Age, involved embodied Lightworkers working in unison with the entire Company of Heaven.

The plan was for two willing representatives of our Father-Mother God to embody on Earth to cocreate the matrix of Divine Balance for the Masculine and Feminine Polarities of our Father-Mother God. This matrix was to be created by these two soul's modeling the path of Divine Love that would open the Heart Chakra and allow the return of our Mother God through the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.

The souls chosen to accomplish this monumental feat were Beloved Jesus and his Divine Complement or Twin Flame, Beloved Mary Magdalene. Jesus in his full capacity as a Son of God volunteered to anchor the matrix for the Divine Masculine, and Mary Magdalene in her full capacity as a Daughter of God volunteered to anchor the matrix for the Divine Feminine.

To herald the coming of the these two resplendent Beings, and to bring the Divine Ceremony that would initiate their mission, the Being we know as John the Baptist volunteered to embody on Earth.

Jesus and Mary Magdalene descended to Earth together and began the preparation for their sacred mission. This was not an easy task. The fragmented, fear-based human ego, which developed when Humanity closed our Heart Chakras, thus preventing our power from being balanced with love and reverence for Life, has been fighting tooth and nail for millennia to try to block the return of our Mother God. This manipulative faction of our fallen personality was not going to give up its control of our lives easily.

Jesus and Mary Magdalene knew that the fallen consciousness of Humanity was not going to allow people to immediately grasp the opportunity to balance the Masculine and Feminine Polarities of God within their hearts. In fact, they knew that it would be centuries before we really understood what they were trying to teach us. That is why in Revelations Jesus says to John the Beloved ,“In the Day of the Seventh Angel, when he begins to sound, the mystery of God will be fulfilled and time will be no more.”

During the Piscean Age, the 6th Solar Aspect of Deity was the predominant influence. Now, during the Aquarian Age, the 7th Solar Aspect of Deity is the predominant influence. This is the Day of the Seventh Angel, and he is beginning to sound.

Jesus said that the voice of the 7th Angel would proclaim the time of the Second Coming of The Christ. This heralds the return of Christ Consciousness within every man, woman and child. This will occur through the return of our Mother God and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, the Baptism by Sacred Fire.

In spite of the overwhelming resistance, Jesus and Mary Magdalene accomplished their mission and anchored the matrix for the balance of the Divine Feminine and Masculine Polarities of God within every evolving soul's Heart Flame. This occurred whether a person was in or out of embodiment or if the soul was from the past, present or future.

After Jesus' crucifixion, Resurrection and Ascension plans were set into motion to protect Mary Magdalene from the wrath of the people who were still resisting the return of our Mother God. The Essene Brotherhood and Sisterhood, along with Mother Mary, Joseph of Arimathea, John the Beloved and some of the other disciples, guarded Mary Magdalene and the daughter she and Jesus had conceived.

Mary Magdalene was over-Lighted by the Company of Heaven and safely guided to various locations on the planet where she was able to anchor the matrix for the Divine Balance of our Mother God into the body of Mother Earth. This prepared the way for the coming of the Seventh Angel and the day when he would begin to sound, when our Mother God would at last reclaim Her rightful place within the hearts of the Children of God. This would be a time when Christ Consciousness would once again be birthed into the hearts and minds of Humanity.

The Truth about Mary Magdalene's mission and the fact that she was anchoring the matrix for the return of our Mother God was cloaked in secrecy to conceal the plan from the masses and to prevent the plan from being blocked through the abuse of power being wielded by Humanity's patriarchal human egos.

Her protectors were well aware of her mission, and after her Ascension they steadfastly held the Immaculate Concept for the return of our Mother God. These selfless exponents of God's Will formed mystery schools and passed the information on in veiled and mysterious symbols that could not be deciphered by the common man or woman.

The newly formed Christian churches had difficulty blocking the groundswell of information that kept surfacing in mysterious ways about Mary Magdalene and her relationship with Jesus, her Beloved Twin Flame. Various Gospels were being circulated, which gave conflicting accounts of what really occurred during the pageantry and the founding of the Christian Dispensation.

In 325 AD, the Roman Emperor Constantine I decided that the confusion in the Christian doctrine needed to be stopped and that the various factions needed a unified belief system. He called a meeting of over 300 bishops and organized what has been noted as the first Ecumenical Council. This was the Council of Nicaea.

During this gathering he denounced Arianism, which was founded by the theologian Arius. These teachings taught that Jesus was a Son of God, as are all the Children of Earth. He reiterated that God is within every person, and that people do not need to depend on Human Beings outside of themselves in order to communicate with God or to receive God's Forgiveness.

This belief system interfered greatly with the power and control of the priesthood and the Church, so Constantine ordered Arius to cease and desist in teaching such heresy. At the end of the gathering Constantine ordered a vote, and all but three bishops signed the Nicaean Creed forbidding Arianism.

Constantine felt this vote of support gave him the right to proceed with his mission. He gathered the 48 gospels that were being circulated amongst the various factions of the Church. He went through all of them carefully and selected only the four gospels that indicated that Jesus was Divine' above all other Human Beings. These four gospels were unnamed, as were many of the 48 gospels. Constantine made the executive decision to name the gospels he chose to be included in the Bible: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

He then proceeded to go through the rest of the teachings in the Bible. In order to maintain the supreme power of the Church and the patriarchal priesthood, he removed any reference to the relationship between Mary Magdalene and Jesus, as well as any reference he could identify regarding reincarnation. Constantine's actions redefined the status of Christianity, and formed the basis for the Bible used today throughout the Christian world.

Even with this obvious betrayal of the Truth, the mission of Jesus and Mary Magdalene could not be suppressed. To the total consternation of the Church, the reality of their spiritual and intimate relationship kept surfacing. One by one, the seekers of Truth were guided to the mystery schools and secret societies. Little by little, they learned about the sacred mission of Jesus and Mary Magdalene.

In 590 AD, Pope Gregory I had had enough and was determined to once and for all put an end to this threat to the patriarchal supremacy of the Church. With the stroke of the pen, Pope Gregory I declared Mary Magdalene to be a prostitute and asserted that she was seething with seven evil spirits. This was the very first time that Mary Magdalene was said to be a prostitute. That unconscionable lie was written nearly 600 years after her embodiment. As far as the Church was concerned, this concocted story squelched the rumors about Jesus and Mary Magdalene's marriage.

In order to maintain a semblance of damage control, the Church leaders tried to transfer the attention from Mary Magdalene to Jesus' Mother, the Virgin Mary. This was a futile effort in their attempt to block the return of our Mother God, because Beloved Mother Mary was an important Aspect of the Divine Feminine herself.

As the forerunners of the Divine Feminine progressed through those tumultuous times, Mother Mary protected the Truth about Mary Magdalene by holding the exoteric focus of the Divine Mother. At the same time, Mary Magdalene continued her mission of preparing the way for the return of our Mother God through esoteric circles and her teachings within the sacred mystery schools and secret societies.

For centuries, the Immaculate Concept of Mary Magdalene's Divine Mission with Beloved Jesus was guarded from the outer world by her valiant protectors. With unfailing tenacity, these selfless souls prepared for the Day of the Seventh Angel when the return of our Mother God would be brought to fruition.

Throughout history there are bits and pieces of information regarding the souls fulfilling the service of protecting the mission of Mary Magdalene and Jesus, but most of them are terribly distorted and contaminated with misinformation from the patriarchal Church. The groups most noteworthy in this mission were the Essenes, the Druids, the Cathars and the Knights Templar.

Within the historic documentations of England, Spain, France and places throughout the Mediterranean, the mystical stories of the Essenes, Druids, Cathars and the Knights Templar can still be found. The most blatant proof of the Church's attempt to suppress the secret knowledge of the Divine Feminine is revealed in the accounts of the horrific persecution and the brutal demise of these dedicated Lightworkers during the Crusades and the Inquisition.

Since the dawning of the Aquarian Age, which took place a few decades ago, Lightworkers have been making Pilgrimages to the areas where these atrocities took place. The intent of these Pilgrimages was to transmute the Etheric Records of the pain and suffering involved in protecting the Truth of the return of our Mother God. This purification was an important facet of the Divine Plan that had to be completed before the blocked Heart Meridian within the body of Mother Earth could be reopened. This Heart Meridian is the portal through which the completion of Mary Magdalene and Jesus' Divine Mission will be fulfilled. It is the portal through which the Divine Balance of the Masculine and Feminine Polarities of God will be reactivated in the body of Mother Earth.

That brings us to our recent Pilgrimage. To signal to the world that the purification of the past had been completed and that all was in readiness for the next phase of the Divine Plan, an amazing outer-world event took place. On October 13, 1307, the Knights Templar throughout France were arrested and placed in prisons where they were tortured and eventually died. This was a massive endeavor orchestrated by the Inquisition to prevent the Knights from revealing the secret of Mary Magdalene and the Divine Feminine.

On October 13, 2007, exactly 700 years later, the Vatican revealed that it had found some 800-year-old documents from the Knights Templar, which had mysteriously been misplaced. The Vatican said that the documents would be released to the world, and they apologized for their transgressions.

In this monumental year of completion, this veiled message from the Church asking for forgiveness for its past transgressions involving the Knights Templar was broadcast on CNN via satellite throughout the world. As Humanity focused our attention on this message, the transmutation of the atrocities of the past was brought to completion. This event occurred the day before our glorious Pilgrimage began.

We had been told by our Father-Mother God that the time for the opening of the blocked Heart Meridian in the body of Mother Earth had come. This is the meridian that the Essenes, Druids, Cathars and Knights Templar and been protecting over centuries of time in preparation for the return of our Mother God. This was the same meridian along which Mary Magdalene anchored the matrix for the Divine Balance of the Masculine and Feminine Polarities of God in the years following Jesus' Ascension.

Our God Parents said that those of us who were motivated by our Heart's Call to make the sacrifice of our time, energy and money to accomplish this mission, had made this Pilgrimage again and again over centuries of time. They told us that the ancient footsteps we would be walking in were our own.

On October 14, 103 pilgrims from 15 countries began the journey to Barcelona, Spain. We arrived on October 15, and after settling into our hotel we gathered for a group dinner. During that time, Archangel Raphael Consecrated each of our Earthly Bodies and lifted us into a frequency that would allow us to be the most effective conductors of Light possible. We were each given a sacred necklace with a symbol of the open Heart of the Divine Feminine to wear during our holy adventure.

On October 16, we had breakfast together and loaded the busses for a tour of Barcelona. Barcelona has over 2,000 years of history. It became a Roman colony in 133 BC. Many of the churches and cathedrals in Barcelona are dedicated to various female Saints, but the grandest of them all is dedicated to the Holy Family: Mary, Joseph and Jesus. These are the Beings in the Christian Dispensation who represent the Divine Father, the Divine Mother and the Holy Child of God, The Christ. They are the representatives of the Sacred Fire, the Holy Trinity, blazing in every person's heart.

This magnificent edifice is called the Temple of the Sagrada Familia. One facet of the structure is called the Central Portal of Birth. Two colossal domes are dedicated to the Virgin Mary and Jesus, The Christ, respectively. This is an example of the outer-world service of Mother Mary in which she is standing in for the esoteric mission of Mary Magdalene.

In the sacred endeavor of building this Temple, the architect, Antoni Gaudi, created a staggering sense of verticality, a meeting point between Heaven and Earth, God and Humanity.

After our tour of Barcelona, we progressed to the dock to board our beautiful cruise ship to begin our Pilgrimage through the Mediterranean. In Ages past, the Pilgrimage we were embarking on to the various positions along the Heart Meridian of Mother Earth was an arduous and dangerous feat. In this day and age, the trip is made by millions of travelers every year on luxurious cruise ships. This is not by chance. Divine Intervention has played an important part in this phenomenon.

The Beings of Light from the Realms of Truth set the tone for our adventure. They revealed to us that the collective body of Lightworkers present on this Pilgrimage represented the microcosm of the macrocosm of Humanity. They said that our collective life experiences through all of our Earthly sojourns contained a fragment of the Earthly experience of every evolving soul on Earth. We were told that the Etheric Records of the painful experiences of the past were now transmuted, and our mission was to serve as surrogates on behalf of all Humanity as we anchored the archetypes for the New Earth. We were also asked by our Father-Mother God to serve as acupuncture needles along the Heart Meridian of Mother Earth.

Our guidance from On High was to focus on the Immaculate Concept of Heaven on Earth, as we opened the Heart Meridian and cleared the way for the Divine Balance of the Masculine and Feminine Polarities of God within Humanity and the body of Mother Earth.

The Company of Heaven perceived our sense of awe and assured us that we already had everything we needed within our Beings to accomplish our individual facets of this Divine Plan. We were told that each of us had been preparing for lifetimes for this Cosmic Moment, so as one unified Heart Flame we released any feelings of doubt or inadequacy and invoked our I AM Presence to take full dominion of our thoughts, words, actions and feelings.

The Company of Heaven asked that during our trek through the Mediterranean, we not organize any group tours involving all of the 103 people on this mission. Instead, we were each instructed to listen to our inner guidance and to participate individually in the available tours and opportunities that resonated in our heart of hearts. The end result of this plan was that our group traversed each location north, south, east and west. This enabled us to cover the gamut of each acupuncture point along the Heart Meridian of Mother Earth.

On October 17, we reached the Isle of Mallorca in the Bay of Palma. The first settlers came to this island around the 5th century BC. Most of them came from the South of France. In the year 123 BC, Mallorca came under Roman rule.

One of the most important and emblematic monuments on this island is the Cathedral of Mallorca. It was the custom in medieval times to dedicate the first churches built in towns reconquered from "the pagans"ť to Jesus or Mother Mary. In Mallorca, which is an important point along the Heart Meridian of Mother Earth and thus a facet of the portal for the return of our Mother God, the cathedral was dedicated to Mother Mary.

August 15, the day celebrated as Mother Mary's Ascension Day, is the local Feast Day. The devotion to Mother Mary, the Divine Mother, is reflected throughout the history of the cathedral and the works of art contained within it. The cathedral adopted as its seal the Throne of Mary on the waves. The water element represents the Emotional Body and the feeling nature of our Mother God.

CONTINUED ON PART 2 of 2

Patricia Diane Cota-Robles
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The information in this monthly sharing is being given to Humanity by the Beings of Light in the Realms of Illumined Truth. The Divine Intent of this information is to encourage, empower, uplift and inspire all of us by allowing us to see the bigger picture during these wondrous but extremely challenging times.

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posted November 24, 2007 01:21 AM         

A GOD VICTORIOUS JOURNEY Part 2 of 2
by Patricia Diane Cota-Robles http://eraofpeace.org

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The next morning, on October 18, we all gathered for a meditation on the cruise ship. The Beings of Light revealed that an unprecedented influx of Divine Light has bathed the Earth throughout 2007. This is due to the powerful activities of Lightworkers all over the world. The Company of Heaven said that this intensified gift of God's Light had prepared the body of Mother Earth for the reactivation of her Elemental Vortices.

These vortices are spinning forcefields of Light within the earth-physical, air-etheric, fire-mental and water-emotional strata of Earth. The original intent of these spheres of Light was to sustain the verdant splendor of the Garden of Eden on Earth. With the fall, these vortices became dormant. This tragic event resulted in decay and degeneration in the bodies of Mother Earth.

The abuse Humanity has inflicted on the body of Mother Earth through our greed and pollution has exacerbated the problem greatly. Now it is time for us to reverse the adverse effects from both the fall and Humanity's abuse of power. It is time for us to regenerate the perfection of Heaven on Earth.

Through an activity of Light orchestrated by the Company of Heaven, the Lightworkers on the cruise ship served as the Open Door for the reactivation of the Earth's Elemental Vortices. Following that activity of Light we disembarked in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, which is located in north Africa.

In the 2nd millennium BC, Tunis was founded by the Berbers. In 146 BC, the Romans destroyed Tunis, but it was later rebuilt by Augustus and became an important town under Roman control.

The Beings of Light said that as we walked the holy ground in that region, we would be connecting with the ancestors of Humanity back to the fall. Africa is considered the beginning of Humankind by much of the scientific world, since most academic circles deny the existence of Lemuria and Atlantis. It is the location on the planet where the extreme effects of Humanity's fall from grace are being modeled and acted out at this time. It is the location where Humanity's inhumanity is surfacing to be purified and transmuted into Light. Africa is destined to be a powerful continent of Light, and the patterns for that Transfiguration are being activated now.

As the pilgrims projected the Light from the newly activated Elemental Vortices into the body of Mother Earth, new archetypes for Heaven on Earth were released through our Heart Flames and imprinted onto a fluid field of unmanifest Divine Potential. This was victoriously accomplished through the unified efforts of our I AM Presence and the Mighty Elohim, the Builders of Form. This activity of Light established the Divine Blueprint for the physical manifestation of the New Earth. These patterns of perfection have been pulsating in the Causal Body of God for aeons of time, awaiting this moment when they will at long last become a tangible reality on Earth.

All Life is interrelated, interconnected and interdependent. There is no separation. Consequently, whenever the Light of God increases on Earth, everything that conflicts with that Light is pushed to the surface at an accelerated pace to be purified and transmuted. Since the activation of the Elemental Vortices, the patterns of the New Earth have been flowing through the hearts and minds of Lightworkers all over the planet. This has caused the purification of the Earth to be intensified. We have seen what seems to be a dramatic increase in wildfires, droughts, floods, earthquakes, volcanos and various other extreme weather conditions.

These events are being orchestrated by the Elohim, the Directors of the Elemental Kingdom, the Legions of Light throughout Infinity and the I AM Presence of all Humanity. The desire of everyone involved is to complete this vital and imperative purification of our Earthly home with the least amount of loss of life and the least amount of destruction.

On October 19, we arrived in Malta, which is located in the center of the Mediterranean Sea. Malta has long been a focus for the Divine Feminine and our Mother God. It has served as a bridge between Europe and Africa along Mother Earth's Heart Meridian. The islands of Malta are only 90 kilometers from Sicily and 290 kilometers from the African coast. Malta has the highest density of population per square kilometer of any European country.

In prehistoric times, large megalithic temples were built on Malta in honor of the Goddess. It is estimated that the first of these stone temples existed prior to 3600 BC. During excavation, stone statues of Goddesses over nine feet tall were found in and around these temples. There is also an underground temple called the Hypogeum. This temple dates as far back as 5000 BC. It is known as the home of the Sleeping Goddess of Malta.

In 1530 Emperor Charles V gave the Maltese Islands to the Knights of the Order of Saint John, a derivative of the Knights Templar. These Knights were protectors of the Divine Feminine and the keepers of sacred teachings of the true meaning of the Divine Ceremony of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. This is the ceremony which John the Baptist initiated as a critical step in the return of our Mother God, the first step in Humanity's return to Christhood.

It is noted that the 250-year rule of the Knights of the Order of Saint John is the most illustrious in the history of the archipelago. One of the most important heritages left to Malta by the Knights is the eight-pointed cross, now known as the Maltese Cross. Our trip to Malta was a key factor in our sacred Pilgrimage and one of the highlights for all of the Lightworkers in our group.

On October 20, we arrived on the shores of Palermo in Sicily. The Lightworkers went their various ways and covered the holy ground. There are two outstanding foci of Light that radiate from opposing mountain tops on either side of Palermo. One is the village of Monreale that abides on the top of Monte Caputo. Monreale is known for its beautiful cathedral, which was commissioned in 1166 by the Norman king, William II. When we arrived, there was a wedding ceremony taking place. It was a perfect symbol of the marriage of the Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine.

The second foci of Light is the Saint Rosalia Sanctuary. This sanctuary is in a cave perched at the top of Monte Pellegrino. In the mid-12th century a young woman named Rosalia took refuge in the cave. It is traditionally believed that she belonged to the ruling Norman family and was perhaps the niece of William II. She dedicated herself to a life of prayer and penance. After her death in 1166, a widespread cult of enthusiastic and popular devotion developed, leading to her beatification and her adoption as the patron saint of the city.

The energy within the cave is vibrating with powerful frequencies of our Mother God. The atmosphere is almost identical to the energies within Mary Magdalene's cave-sanctuary in Sante Baume in France. When Lightworkers arrived at this sanctuary, another wedding ceremony was taking place. Now that is Divine synchronicity. The water that drips from the walls within this cave sanctuary is believed to be miraculous.

On October 21, we traveled to Civitavecchia where we disembarked and boarded busses for various tours in Rome. The Lightworkers on our Pilgrimage were very aware that we were being given a rare opportunity to anchor the archetypes for a new paradigm within the heart of Christianity and all world religions. This paradigm that involves the return of the full Divine Momentum of our Mother God's Love, and the restoration of the Divine Balance of our Father-Mother God within every Heart Flame and every facet of Life on Earth.

On October 22, we traveled to Savona. This Italian city is well known for its connection to Christopher Columbus and his childhood upbringing. Christopher Columbus was one of the embodiments of Saint Germain, and he was very aligned with the Divine Feminine through his adoration to Mother Mary. Savona has several churches dedicated to the Divine Mother.

On October 23, our ship returned to Barcelona where our tour of the Mediterranean was brought to completion. Early that morning, we gathered for a final meditation aboard the cruise ship and sealed our activities of Light in the unfathomable embrace of our Mother God's Divine Love. The Legions of Light said that the first phase of the Divine Plan for our Pilgrimage had been God Victoriously accomplished. The Heart Meridian in the body of Mother Earth was now opened to full breadth, and it was time for us to embark on the second phase of our mission.

We left the ship and boarded the busses for a two-hour trip to Montserrat in the Spanish Pyrenees. This village is situated high in the stone monoliths that form the mountains of this mystical place. The human presence on Montserrat dates back to the Neolithic period around 3000 BC. Montserrat is known for its rare beauty and the basilica that houses an exquisite statue of the Black Madonna and Child. Parts of this beautiful edifice date back to the 1300s.

Statues of the Black Madonna are found in many locations along the Heart Meridian of Mother Earth and several other key places around the world. The official explanation that is usually given by the Church for this phenomenon is that the wood has changed color due to oxidation and the smoke from the candles. This would seem logical if this same “discoloration” occurred with the myriad other statues in the churches around the world, but it does not.

The dark coloration of the statues representing the Divine Mother through the image of Mother Mary, are outer-world signs being given to Humanity of the mystery and the cloak of darkness that has suppressed the Truth of Mary Magdalene, the reality of the Divine Feminine and our Mother God.

Montserrat is also famous for the magnificent boy's choir that sings every evening at the Basilica. There is documentary evidence that the Montserrat choir has existed since the end of the thirteenth century. It is considered the oldest conservatory in Europe.

We were blessed to be able to listen to this wonderful choir and to walk the hallowed grounds of Montserrat. This special place was the perfect location for us to begin the second phase of our mission, which was to integrate the patterns for the New Earth into the physical substance of the planet at an atomic cellular level. The Company of Heaven rejoiced in the reality that after aeons of time, this process could now be accomplished through Mother Earth's newly opened Heart Meridian.

After listening to the beautiful music of the Montserrat choir, we gathered for dinner and a special time of sharing before retiring in the embrace of the wonders of Montserrat.

The next morning, October 24, we loaded the busses and began our journey to Carcassonne in the south of France where we would spend the next four nights. This is a famous location of the Cathars and the Knights Templar. Upon leaving Spain, we traveled through the charming mountain country of Andorra where we stopped for lunch. Afterwards we entered France and traveled through many beautiful 13th century villages. We passed by Montsegur, which is the remains of the mountain-top castle that is known for being the place of the last stand of the Cathars.

We arrived in Carcassonne in the late afternoon. Carcassonne is a magnificent castle and within its ramparts is a medieval village directly out of the Dark Ages. It has retained all of the magic and charm of its original time frame, and as we crossed over the moat into the Cite it felt like we were walking into the past. We stayed at hotels within the castle walls, where we were blessed with the opportunity to really experience this seeming time warp.

Each day we took trips to the various locations in the south of France that enabled us to fulfill our mission. On October 25, we traveled to a mystical sanctuary that is dedicated to the Angels and their perpetual service to Humanity. This incredibly holy place is located in Alet-les-Bains, Aude. This is the village where Nostradamus was raised by his grandparents. The water here is believed to be magical, healing water.

Nostradamus was Jewish, and he eventually changed his Hebrew name to avoid persecution. The name he chose, Nostradamus, means Our Lady.

When we arrived at the Angel Sanctuary we were greeted by Eugene and Lorrie, the father and mother of a wonderful Irish family whose members are the stewards of this portal of Light. Lorrie has communicated with Angels all her life. She and Eugene were guided a little over a year ago to bring their family from Ireland to this sacred place in France. The Angels asked them to open the Angel Sanctuary and Art Gallery which would magnetize people from all over the world.

Lorrie does Divinely inspired watercolor paintings of the Angels with her fingers. She is then given a beautiful message that is posted with each Angel. As we walked in silence through the Art Gallery-Sanctuary we were transported into a sacred meditation that transcended time and space.

In this exalted state of consciousness, our Father-Mother God, All That Is, revealed that this location is the portal through which the Permanent Seed Atom for the 5th-Dimensional Immortal Victorious Threefold Flame enters the Heart of Mother Earth.

In order to grasp the magnitude of what that truly means, it is important to understand just what the Permanent Seed Atom is. The first thing that occurs when a soul is given permission to embody, is that the I AM Presence selects the highest frequency of electronic Light substance the soul has earned since it was first breathed forth from the core of Creation. This pure Light is then placed in the mother's womb and forms the Permanent Seed Atom in the heart for the incoming soul.

This Seed Atom creates the magnetic force that draws the unformed primal Light substance from the Heart of our Father-Mother God that will form the Immortal Victorious Threefold Flame in the incoming soul's heart. Then the primal Light substance that will form the rest of the physical, etheric, mental and emotional bodies for the soul is magnetized around the Threefold Flame.

Our Father-Mother God revealed to us that while we were in the Angel Sanctuary, the Permanent Seed Atom for the 5th-Dimensional Threefold Flame in the Heart of Mother Earth was secured in the Sun of Even Pressure in the Center of the Earth. This powerful forcefield of Light is now in place to magnetize the 5th-Dimensional primal Light substance that will be used to create the Threefold Flame and the Immaculate Concept of the physical, etheric, mental and emotional strata for the New Earth.

This means that the patterns of perfection that have just been imprinted on the fluid field of unmanifest Divine Potential will now be birthed into the physical plane of Earth. The significance of this miracle and what it will mean in accelerating the Transfiguration of this blessed planet is truly beyond the comprehension of our finite minds.

There is a website for the Angel Art Gallery, and I would like to share it with you. The address is: www.angelart-sanctuary.com

On October 26, there was a powerful Full Moon. On that day we divided into two groups and went in separate directions. This was necessary because the sacred sites we were guided to were too small to handle 103 people at one time. One group went to the historic Knights Templar and Cathar town of Minerve, named after the Goddess of Truth. The second group went to Rennes le Chateau, the church that has held the mystery of Mary Magdalene and the Holy Grail since ancient times.

Minerva is the Roman name for the Greek Goddess, Pallas Athena, the Goddess of Truth. Within the radiant Light of the Goddess of Truth, the secret of Mary Magdalene and the Truth of the Divine Feminine was protected from the outer world by dedicated Cathars and the Knights Templar.

In Minerve there is a huge cave within which the Cathars conducted Divine ceremonies to prepare the portal through which the Divine Feminine would once again enter the physical plane. They knew that this preparation was for a future time when our Mother God would return, and the New Earth would be birthed as a physical reality. This was that time.

The day seemed mystical. There was a gentle mist and a purifying rain that paved our way. The cave is difficult to get to, but we invoked the Angels of the Ascension Flame and asked them to escort us to the cave. We felt the Angels on either side of us, and many of the pilgrims said they felt as if they were floating over the rocks to the cave. When we arrived, there was a powerful wind blowing through the cave from the opening at one end through the opening at the other end.

As we entered the cave and took our positions in preparation for our meditation, we were escorted by a scruffy black dog. One of the Lightworkers began playing his flute, and the dog playfully wandered in and out of the group. When the meditation began, the howling wind just stopped, and the dog took a regal stance as the guardian of the group. She did not move throughout the entire meditation.
The Legions of Light revealed that this cave was prepared by the Cathars to be the portal of Light through which the return of our Mother God would be birthed into the physical plane. It is the birth canal for the influx of the 5th-Dimensional frequencies of the Divine Feminine along the Heart Meridian of Mother Earth. The Truth of this complex information can only be comprehended in the deepest recesses of our hearts. The Beings of Light said for us to Be still and Know.

At the conclusion of our meditation, we chanted Om three times. On the third Om our guardian dog joined with us and howled her version of the Om. When we were ready to leave the cave, members of our group saw the dog leaving the rear of the cave with a person on either side of her. Some of our group followed the trio out of the cave to take a picture, but suddenly the dog and both Beings were nowhere to be found.

The second group went to Rennes le Chateau, a well-known location that has been protecting the mysteries of Mary Magdalene and the Divine Feminine since medieval times. The original Church of Mary Magdalene dates back to the 800s. The present Church of Mary Magdalene was built on top of the ruins of the old church in the early 1800s. This church is an amazing conglomeration of symbols and mysteries involving the Holy Grail and the Divine Feminine, all of them pointing to this moment in time.

The hope has always been that Humanity would be able to reverse the adverse effects of the fall, and that one day even the most recalcitrant souls would reclaim their natural Birthright as Beloved Children of God. The inner knowing of Lightworkers throughout the Ages has been that this could only occur if the Love of our Mother God returned to Earth, and the Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine were once again balanced within every Heart Flame.

Positioned at the entrance of the Church of Mary Magdalene in Rennes le Chateau is an amazing statue representing this desired transformation within the hearts of fallen souls. The statue is a depiction of the devil, a symbol of the most recalcitrant soul of all, kneeling in total surrender while holding aloft a shell containing Holy Water to bless the people who are entering the church to worship God.

This act of selfless service to the Children of God demonstrates even the darkest fallen soul's desire to become a worthy Child of God. The fact that he is holding Holy Water, which is the element of the emotional body and the conductor of the Love Nature of our Mother God, represents his willingness to allow the return of both our Mother God and the full momentum of the Divine Feminine.

Within the Church of Mary Magdalene there is a beautiful painting of John the Baptist on the wall. He is Baptizing Jesus in the Jordan River, thus initiating Jesus' ascent into Christhood. The Dove of the Holy Spirit, which is the symbol of our Mother God, is projecting rays of Light into Jesus' Crown Chakra. This universally known picture clearly demonstrates the Truth that the path to Christ Consciousness is through the return of our Mother God.

In the front of the church there are two statues, one on either side of the altar. One statue is of Saint Joseph holding an infant, and the other statue is of Mother Mary holding an infant. Mother Mary and Joseph symbolize the members of the Holy Family who represent the Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine. The infants they are holding symbolize the Twin Flames of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, who represent the Divine Son and Daughter of God, The Christ.

Throughout the rest of the church there are depictions of Jesus and Mary Magdalene in her exalted role as the Feminine Presence of The Christ. Some of the symbols are slightly veiled, but most of them are obvious.

As our pilgrims traversed this holy ground, the veil was lifted and the esoteric Truth of the Feminine Aspect of The Christ was released and reactivated within the mental and emotional strata of Earth. This sacred knowledge is now easily available for everyone and will filter into the conscious hearts and minds of Humanity.

After both groups completed our facets of the Divine Plan for the day, we joined together at a small church named Notra Dame, Our Lady. This church is famous for its Black Madonna. After spending some quiet time assimilating the wonders of the day within the embrace of Notra Dame, we returned to Carcassonne.

The next day, October 27, our group paths were reversed, and the groups traced each other's steps to complete the mission and add the final touches to this miraculous facet of the Divine Plan.

October 27 and 28, we experienced the final of three Pluto alignments with the Galactic Core. This rare cluster of alignments occurs only once every 248 years. The first alignment took place in December 2006, the second was July 17, 2007, the time of the Fire the Grid activation. Now it was time for the third and final alignment.

On October 27 and 28, as our Pilgrimage was coming to completion, Pluto aligned with the Galactic Core for the last time. This alignment opened a portal that allowed an unprecedented influx of Light from Suns beyond Suns and Galaxies beyond Galaxies. The frequency of this Light was charged with the full Divine Momentum of our Mother God, which allowed our Planet Earth to shift into the matrix of the New Earth at an atomic, cellular level. This was the perfect preparation for the final day of our Pilgrimage.

On October 28, we met for breakfast early and bid adieu to beautiful Carcassonne. During the morning, we traveled through the beautiful countryside in France to Lourdes and the Shrine of Bernadette. When we arrived at our destination, we settled into our hotel. We then took in the wonders of Lourdes. We walked to the Grotto where the statue of Mother Mary stands. There we drank the Healing Water and collected it in various vessels. The inscription under the statue of Mother Mary is, "Que Soy Era Immaculate Conception."ť The translation is, That I AM, the Immaculate Conception.

The energy of hope and expectation is palpable in Lourdes. The day we arrived was the culmination of a three-day gathering that had drawn thousands of the faithful to Lourdes. As the Sun was beginning to set, there was a massive procession through the streets of Lourdes. The chanting was mystical, as the procession wove through the town. There were people coming to the Grotto in various states of illness for as far as the eye could see. They were joined by their families and people praying to Mother Mary for her Divine Intervention.

Lourdes is a powerful forcefield of Light representing the Divine Mother holding the Immaculate Concept of Infinite Perfection for Humanity and all Life evolving on this sweet Earth. What a perfect place for the final phase of our mission and Earth's shift into the matrix of the New Earth.

That evening we had our final gathering and our celebration dinner. We completed our Pilgrimage with a meditation to assist the I AM Presence of every man, woman and child on Earth to lift each soul into the infinite physical perfection of his or her Solar Light Bodies.

The next morning we all began our journeys home. I believe every one of us was overwhelmed with gratitude and a feeling of wonder and awe at the miracles taking place on Earth at this time. Thank you, God!

Patricia Diane Cota-Robles
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The information in this monthly sharing is being given to Humanity by the Beings of Light in the Realms of Illumined Truth. The Divine Intent of this information is to encourage, empower, uplift and inspire all of us by allowing us to see the bigger picture during these wondrous but extremely challenging times.

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posted December 04, 2007 02:06 AM         

here's the contact info: www.MayanCalendar.com

Book: Mayan Calendar Code -- Core Training Evoluntion of Consciiouness (DVD companion workbook). Authored by: Andi Mac & Jag Steward.

posted January 25, 2008 11:44 PM         

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posted March 05, 2008 06:40 PM         

Well, my friends, it's been a good run over the three years that this
forum has been open, but I wanted to give you all a few days notice
that I will be shutting it down by the end of the week.
Those of you who want to stay in touch have a few days to exchange
email addresses or even start forums of your own.

There is a lot that you don't see that goes on here, and this week has
been the greatest example. So if you think you know what happened
here based on what you've read this week... you don't. There is no
need, really, to get into all of the drama other than to say that
often people who hide behind anonymity on the internet are not what
they claim to be or seem. It's like being attacked by an invisible
enemy, when you yourself are fully visible and exposed at all times.
And often, there are agent provacateurs who come to forums like this -
wolves in sheep's clothing - who exist to sow the seeds of dissension.
As you have seen, they're quite good at it. It's been happening for
years, as some of you who have been here since the beginning can
attest. It's the nature of this beast: the death threats, the
slander, the smear campaigns are, sadly, part of the territory. They
never stop.

The funny thing is that when people interview me they always ask who
has been behind the threats, and the assumption is always that my
enemies are Fundamentalist Christians or the Catholic Church. But do
you want to know the sad truth? The greatest negativity - and I mean
truly vile vitriol - comes from the "new age" crowd. It comes from
those who wear the "mask" of light and love, while serving something
far darker, something that scurries like a cockroach when the light is
shone upon it and the mask falls off. Perhaps some of you witnessed an
example of that recently. I did, and not for the first time. When
someone says that my work has never held any truth for them, well, it
becomes somewhat transparent that they were here for another reason,
doesn't it?

For three years I resisted them and didn't allow them to win.
However, the threat to me personally and professionally in allowing
myself to be so exposed to the public has become too great. As I
said, there is a lot going on behind the scenes here that the rest of
you have been shielded from. That's all I can say.

Over the course of three years, everyone who advises me told me not to
continue with this discussion group, and I have been proud in the past
to say that I am the only NYT bestselling author who interacted almost
daily with her readers. My readers, not incidentally, who became my
friends. Some of you will be my friends for the rest of my life, and
I treasure that beyond measure. YOU made it worth it, every minute of
it. And for those of you who have sent me personal emails of support
offline, I will reply to each of you individually to express my
gratitude for your generosity of spirit. You inspire me so much, and
have kept me going through some very hard times.

But there has been a dark side to all of this, and the dark side is
too disruptive for me at this stage, particularly with the magnitude
of the information that I have to bring to the public soon. I can't
let anything distract from that mission, and that mission is to tell
the truth about who Jesus and Mary Magdalene were, and what they were
teaching. My mission is to tell that truth regardless of who opposes
it, and that's what I will do. And for me, that truth is not
subjective. It just... is. But from this day forward, I will let my
work speak for itself and allow the discussions to happen elsewhere.

I'm not a saint, I just write about them, and I allow them to inspire
me and I try to emulate the good ones. But I'm also not
self-righteous or condescending or false, and I try to own up to my
flaws, which are many and large. And so in that regard I must
apologize for those I have legitimately offended (as opposed to those
who came here with the sole intent to cause dissension) and ask that
they forgive me my trespasses as I forgive those who have trespassed
against me.

Most of you are already on my mailing list, and I will keep you
updated on the new book and the various charity projects who will be
benefiting from it all. Also, I will shift my focus from this forum
on to my public blog, which will open this discussion up to the world
on a new scale. I hope you will stop by the blog. You can subscribe
to it, too, should you choose to care about what I have to say quite
that much. And many thanks to those who do. I hope you will
continue to post your comments and add your own perspective to the
conversation in this new way.

Thank you, again, to all of you who have been such a joyous part of
this process for me. I think of many of you as such a regular part of
my day, that I will miss you all terribly going forward.

Much love on your paths. Enjoy the journey to its fullest!

posted March 06, 2008 05:31 AM         

Please do~

posted March 17, 2008 03:58 PM         

hope this url works!
I'll forward you the email... maybe you can get the link up for everyone thanks

The journal titled "Kathleen McGowan's Blog" has a new post....

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sorry the url click didn't set, therefore I'm cutting and pasting the info -- sorry!

Kathleen McGowan's Blog

Where is the LOVE, people??

Welcome to my blog, where I ramble on about the joys and heartaches of trying to live with more LOVE in our increasingly challenging 21st century environment - where I ask myself, and all of you: What would Jesus - and his beautiful wife - do in this situation..?

I will also discuss various aspects of my novel, The Expected One, and address some of the questions that are asked of me by readers- issues of history, art and spirituality.

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July 22, 2007
12:17 PM
Today, on the feast day of Mary Magdalene...

Dear Mary,

How do I thank you for all that you have given us? For all that you endured so that we might have the purest example of love and faith and courage that this world has ever seen?

There are no words that will ever do justice to what you have done for all of us. The only thing that I, as your student and faithful
follower, can do is to renew my annual pledge to share your story and your love with as many people in the world who will open their hearts and listen to it.

Last year on this date, I traveled through your own steps in France with my family and closest friends. I prayed in the locations where you lived and taught the beauty of The Way of Love, and later that day we prayed in locations where your children and descendents were murdered and tortured for carrying on those same teachings. There
are times when the history of your children is too much to bear. But we must bear it, for in doing so we will continue the teachings and
work with all our hearts to ensure that such intolerance never occurs
in our world again.

And so, beautiful Magdalena, I give you all that I know how to give - my love, my loyalty, my dedication and my best efforts as a flawed human being to carry on your story and your teachings to the world. I won't always get it right, and I will hope to learn and grow from those moments when I stumble. I invite everyone who reads this to
join me as my brother and sister in absolute equality to move forward in the teachings of The Way, and to take these vows along with me:

Today, I will celebrate you and Easa and how your unconditional love for each other is the greatest inspiration of union that humans have ever been given. I will celebrate my own love for God, and I will endeavor to love my neighbor as myself, even when it is very
difficult, while recognizing that everyone is my neighbor. I will work to both love and forgive, myself and others, and to live as an expression of that love and forgiveness as often as my imperfect humanity will allow. I will become a force for good in the world by
finding appropriate outlets to be of service to humankind, the animal kingdom, and the Planet. I will always be aware of the needs of
children and vow to protect them and nurture them so that they may become the beautiful future that is still in our power to create.

Most of all, I will live in the gratitude that I am alive in this place and this time, to do whatever it is that you need of me.

I am, have always been and will always be, your servant.

- Kathleen

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June 1, 2007
2:00 AM
Lessons from Sainte Baume, or how Mary Magdalene continues to teach me about the power of love and forgiveness

This is a long post, but I think an important one, so I hope you will bear with me and read on…

There is a place of extraordinary beauty in Provence that Mary Magdalene fans have known about for centuries. It’s called the Grotto of Sainte Baume, and local tradition indicates that our Mary lived their following the crucifixion. There are many versions of this legend, and is often the case with someone who was forced into hiding, many of them are contradictory or otherwise obscured in mystery. Some say she came there immediately following her exile from the Holy Land before moving on to preach throughout Provence and the Languedoc (this is my preferred version), some say she lived here a short time, some say for 40 years, others say she died here. There is even a legend that she was born aloft daily by angels from the top pf the mountain where she was kept alive solely by divine love and the periodic communion wafer.

Whichever version of the legend works for you, there is one constant factor that is absolutely undeniable: Mary Magdalene was here, in this place, and her grace and beauty and faith and strength infuse every inch of the area. Many of you know that I am outspoken in my opinions about the biblical “authorities” who love to claim that there is no “proof” that Mary Magdalene was ever in France. As I have said many times before, there is plenty of proof for those who choose to leave the comforting shelter of their academic libraries and go in search of it - but this sometimes means climbing a few mountains and getting dirt on your loafers. Heaven forbid. What would the Dean say?

The climb to the cave system at Sainte Baume is either rigorous or excruciating, depending on your level of fitness. As we near the summit, I always tell those who are climbing with me “you may hate me at this moment, but you will love me when we reach the top.” And it is always true. For the reward at the top is an extraordinary and unique place where the love of Notre Dame is there for all to feel and understand. I have seen many a self-proclaimed “stable and rational” human turn to jelly in this place. It is difficult to describe the potential emotional responses to it as it affects everyone differently, depending on their own spiritual frame of reference.

Yet as powerful as this pilgrimage is, I know a number of devoted Magdalene fans who will not go to this place at all, despite the fact that they are very clear that she lived here and that the entire region is suffused with her energy and spirit. Why? Because since 1296 it has been run by the Dominicans.

Dominicans, you say? The so-called “Dogs of God” who led the Inquisition(s)? The same order that called our people heretics and subsequently tortured and massacred the Cathars by the hundreds of thousands in a tragically successful attempt at ethnic cleansing? Yes, the same.

For some of my friends, it is unbearable to think that a place which is so sacred to Our Lady can be in the hands of those who destroyed her children. They simply cannot endure the Dominican presence, both here in Sainte Baume, but also in the neighboring town of Saint Maximin, where Mary’s relics are housed in “their” basilica. It feels like a hostile occupation, and indeed it may have been exactly that in the earlier stages of Christianity. I don’t think it is an accident that the Dominicans “claimed” this place as their own within 50 years of the final Cathar persecutions.

Like many of my friends in France and elsewhere, I have always had a strong reaction to Dominican presence in what I feel is one of her most sacred places. While I did not allow it to stop me from going there, it has always been a shadow on a place that was otherwise full of light. Further, while I would love to stay in those mountains for a prolonged period of meditation and prayer, I have refused to do so when the opportunity presented itself because the hostel there is run by the Dominican nuns. These women were an imposing presence in their full habits, and also a sharp reminder to me of where I felt the church had misrepresented the true teachings of Jesus - and of his wife and successor, Mary Magdalene.

But last week, my friend Isobel changed all of that on a beach in Southern France.

Let me digress to tell you about Isobel. She is a remarkable, inspirational woman, someone I consider a great friend, sister and extremely wise teacher. She lives part of the year in Southern France, where she teaches travelers about the true nature of the Cathars and their desire to create a Church of Love. She lives part of the year in Bosnia, where she works with the women who survived the horrific, nearly unimaginable, genocide of Srebinca in July of 1995 where 8,000 men were slaughtered in the worst act of mass murder since the Holocaust. One of the many things that Isobel has taught me is that these circumstances are not different - the campaign against the Cathars and the campaign against the Bosniaks. Genocide in all of its forms is the greatest of horrors, and caused by hate. We look at the torture of the Middle Ages and we like to think that we have progressed as human beings over 800 years. But the events in Bosnia in 1995 and in Darfur today show us that we are still capable of unspeakable crimes against our human brothers and sisters, and we will be until we can conquer the hate with forgiveness.

I once asked Isobel what the women in Bosnia wanted in terms of assistance. Financial aid? Political support? What would help? And her answer floored me then as it does now. The response, when asked, was simply this: “We want people to live their lives with more tolerance and more forgiveness. That is the only thing that will change the world. The rest is useless without those two things first.” And this from women who often live in the same neighborhoods with the men who murdered their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers. But I shall quote these women again: “We know what hate can do. Now let’s see what love can do.”

And so it was that I was sitting on the shores of the Mediterranean with Isobel, where we meet annually to celebrate the arrival of Mary Magdalene here 2000 years ago. She had just returned from the Dominican convent at Sainte Baume. “How can you stay in that place?” I asked with disdain, nearly spitting out my sangria. “How can you not stay there?” was her reply. In her gentle but firm way, she then went on to explain that resisting the Dominican presence in Sainte Baume was not only useless, but counter-productive. She told me that she looks forward to it, that she speaks with the nuns and learns from them and that they are really quite lovely and didn’t I need to get myself back there asap and try to approach all of this differently? What would happen if I went into this place with a feeling of love and forgiveness, rather than one of anger and bitterness? After all, the nuns who are running the hostel today didn’t burn anyone at the stake. It isn’t exactly fair to blame them for the sins of their forefathers, is it? And what was it that I always tried to ask myself? What would Mary Magdalene do?

And so I agreed to give it a try and went to Sainte Baume the next day. I fortified myself by making the climb first, before venturing into the chapel and hostel that is run by the nuns. The chapel itself is very special, covered with marvelous murals of our Magdalene’s life, my favorite of which is one that shows her standing tall and firm on a rock, preaching to the fishermen of Marseille. Wait a minute, if the Dominicans commissioned a mural of Mary Magdalene preaching in Marseille, didn’t that indicate that they were respectful of her as an apostle in her own right? The murals in this chapel, painted in the early 1900s, depict none of the negative stereotypes that have haunted Our Lady for 2000 years. Instead, they show her in her power and grace! Hmmm… it was already starting to make me think…

There were several nuns in meditation in the chapel and I didn’t want to disturb them, so I went into the lobby where there is a small gift shop. In the window was the most exquisite little statue of Magdalene I have ever seen (and I’ve seen quite a few). She is beautiful, wearing a crown and carrying her jar, with one foot placed lightly on a book. I wanted to see it closer, but this meant actually having to address one of the fearsome Dominican nuns whom I have spent so many years avoiding. Well, here was the test. I asked her in my broken French if I could see it, and… she smiled at me. Then she went to retrieve the statue, and as she brought it down she looked at it with the most beautiful reverence. “She is magnificent,” she said, as she handed the statue to me. And in that moment, the two of us from entirely different worlds came crashing together. For a few seconds we were holding Mary Magdalene between us, and we both welled up with tears. It hit me then that this woman loved Magdalene every bit as much as I did, and perhaps more. She had devoted an entire life to the memory of her legacy here at Sainte Baume. And I had no right - no one does - to judge how she chose to express that love in her lifetime. But most of all, I realized that there was no separation between us, there was only love - the love for this extraordinary, inspirational heroine who has inspired so many of us for so long.

The wonderful post-script to this story is that in finding my forgiveness and operating through love, I also discovered that these Dominicans have more information on the history of Magdalene in France than arguably anyone in the world! And, they’re happy to share it with anyone who asks. In fact, the lobby of the hostel itself is full of historical information that is displayed openly on the walls in a celebration of her presence here. Some of it is borderline heretical, yet I think there is more value on the walls of Sainte Baume then in all of the history books I have ever waded through. It was subsequently in this convent at Sainte Baume that I found crucial, nearly priceless evidence to back up something I am writing about in my next book. While the feeling of love and well-being that I now experience at Sainte Baume is reward enough, I am most grateful for the additional blessings that were bestowed upon me in my research.

Viva Magdalena!

With LOVE,

- Kathleen

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posted March 18, 2008 05:21 AM         

nite nite

posted March 20, 2008 02:43 PM         

Kathleen,

I am right there with you, this Saturday, will make three weeks,
of being sick, I am fighting it with all my will. ...
I'm getting better, but am weak...
I'm Sending YOU,
ALL THE LOVE AND LIGHT OF HEAVEN AND EARTH...

We ALL need to Heal...

I'm glad this will all continue, it's important
we are all connected...

LOve and Magic!

To ALL. ...

sherdhana22 wrote:

So, I have been meditating and praying on this, and have been getting
the message loud and clear that: A) I should NOT take this group down,
but B) I can also not be the one to run it for obvious reasons. And
so, I am putting this out there: if there is someone who wants to
take over as moderator, someone who can take the good and the bad with
keeping a community like this going, I am open to hearing that. I
would absolutely prefer someone who lives in the Los Angeles area who
I can interact with more personally, but will consider another.

It's strictly voluntary, and sometimes difficult, yet often rewarding.

I have been off of Yahoo completely for almost a month now and have
just noticed my mail - some of you have sent me lovely notes
privately, and I will reply to all of you as soon as I can.

Now, let me tell you something that is important about this very holy
week.

I have been sick for two weeks - and I am a very healthy person. Last
night, I went to the hospital with intense chest pains and all of the
symptoms of a heart attack. Turns out I have an infection around my
heart, very treatable, but is exacerbated by stress (of which I have
my share).

But the timing of this illness strikes me. Most of you are probably
already aware that there will be a full moon on Friday, just as there
was on the original Good Friday. Also, Friday falls within the orb of
the vernal equinox. So my observation is this: the astrological
connotations of this week are closer to those that occurred on Good
Friday than at any other time in history, with maybe one or two
exceptions. Could it be that we are experiencing energetically all of
the chaos and fear of that time, right here and now? The veil is so
close and so thin, I feel like I could walk right through it, walk
right into the Last Supper tonight, and stay for the terrible events
of the following day.

I wonder if my "heart pain" is somehow connected to what is happening
all around us energetically?

Do any of you feel more pressure, sadness or chaos in your lives this
week? Or perhaps for some of you, there is an opposite effect?

Curious. But my heart hurts.

Much love to you all.

- Kathleen
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The top response, is mine to Kathleen's, which is below mine...

Does anyOne's Heart Hurt?

Mine does, do any of you feel the Pain of MOther Earth, and ALL who inhabit?

ALL the Signs are here
Linda Goodman warned us
Mary Summer Rain warned us...
and so many Other's

We are the Co-Creator's with God, Our OverSoul in Heaven, Know ThyS-elf...

Our Promise for Tomorrow
bringing

Heaven on Earth

we can change and alter
the probabilities...

We Can Do, IT!