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Subject Mary Magdalene, the Beloved of Jesus.
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Original Message In Gnostic mythology, the union of Christ and Sophia in the heavenly Pleroma is reflected in the intimate relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene in the earthly realm. Many Gnostic texts portray Mary Magdalene as the Beloved of Jesus. For example, the Gospel of Philip states that Jesus "used to kiss her often"(10) and in the Gospel of Mary, the disciple Levi states, "Surely the Savior knows her very well. That is why he loved her more than us." Mary Magdalene as the human consort of Jesus is a symbolic image of Sophia as the spiritual consort of Christ. Mary Magdalene's most prominent role in the tradition of the Christian Church has been that of the penitent whore. Although there is no evidence in the Scriptures to support this image of her, the archetypal symbolism of this role also connects her to Sophia.

For, just as Christ redeems Sophia who has fallen from the Pleroma to the earthly realm, so Jesus redeems Mary Magdalene, the "fallen woman," from her sin of prostitution. After this redemption, the Divine Feminine - in the form of Sophia and Mary Magdalene - unites with the Divine Masculine in the form of the heavenly Christ or earthly Jesus. The archetypal significance of this union for the Gnostic Christian was its representation of the "inner marriage" of the dualities of masculine and feminine within the soul. Mary Magdalene through her relationship with Jesus becomes a model for the Gnostic Christian of the human being who has overcome the dualism of Adam and Eve.

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