Theos-Talk Archives (November 2003 Message tt00025)

A while back I quoted:<<"Behold, I have put 
on my garment and all authority is given to 
me through the First Mystery.>>

Seems Jesus might've said something like 
that after his passing, and might've said, in 
effect: <<don't touch me>> to, possibly, Mary 
Magdalen in particular, as well as to others ...

Just tonight I found out from a TV 
documentary about "THE DA VINCI CODE" that 
"don't touch me" is a translation from the 
Greek "do not cling to me." That was 
interpreted as throwing light on the notion 
that (maybe?) Jesus might've been married to 
Mary Magdalen, contrary to church dictates. 
That is, apparently it just wasn't kosher 
those days for unmarried people to "cling" to 
each other. Not that ... And the documentary 
discussed another theory about the "Da Vinci 
Code" re "THE LAST SUPPER" (by Da Vinci) and 
the controversy over whether the person on 
Jesus's right is a woman or not. Seems like 
a woman to me, for the most part, apparently 
... Any opinions out there?

As we all here know, I suspect, the early 
church people were all kind of male oriented 
dictators, among other things, who might not 
have taken kindly to allowing much in the way 
of a church-related role for Mary Magdalen 
(so Da Vinci was thought to have made her 
seem as if she might've been male, so as not 
to get in trouble). And then there were all 
the documents/books that were destroyed on 
instructions from the early church, 
apparently, so, according to that 
documentary, there's no proof that Jesus 
might've fathered children who went on to 
establish communities in France or elsewhere.

So a question might be: was the "holy grail" 
really Mary Magdalen and/or a child ...

Speculatively,
Mauri