Marguerite Mary Rigoglioso - The Mystery Tradition of Miraculous Conception: Mary and the Lineage of Virgin Births

To Mother Mary, Star of the Infinite Sea

THE Mystery Tradition OF Miraculous Conception

Marguerite Rigoglioso is a holy conduit who proclaims a message so timely, so graceful, and so filled with truth that my hands tremble as I pick up this book. It is about time the prestige and wisdom of Mother Mary are seen and acknowledged in the devastation of an institution that gave her nothing more than the appearance of a passive spectator. These pages are soaked with Her presence, offering us a generosity that comes freely and touches deeply. The Mystery Tradition of Miraculous Conception is a body of work that reveals the real Mary, one who lived before the church and sure as heaven shall live on after the church.

ANAIYA SOPHIA, AUTHOR OF FIERCE FEMININE RISING

With exquisite clarity and impeccable scholarship, Rigoglioso details the ancient, historical tradition from which Mary sprang, which culminated in Her conscious decision to bring forth into the world an elevated being. Fascinating insights into the many priestess traditions that were widely practiced throughout the ancient Mediterranean infuse every page. Rigoglioso illuminates for modern audiences the essence of the esoteric teachings of and about Mary and other holy women, and what they mean for us today.

NATALIE GALLI, AUTHOR OF THE GIRL WHO SAID NO

An opus for our times based on the re-birthing of who Mother Mary really was. Through scholarly research, together with deep spiritual wisdom, Rigoglioso shares with us the power and intentionality behind the divine conception of Jesus. This book is ablaze with a rising revolution of Mother Mary and the tribe of women who supported her over generations. It gives a fresh look at who she really was, her amazing spiritual prowess, and how she serves as a beacon to all humankind, giving us a deeper view of what it means to embody the Divine Feminine.

MELISSA SOPHIA JOY, ND, FOUNDER OF SOMATIC AWAKENING AND SOPHIA HEALING ACADEMY

Teacher, priestess, and scholar Marguerite Rigoglioso has produced another compelling study of the history of miraculous conception. The focus of her carefully researched, eloquent new book shifts from her earlier work on classical antiquity to the Judeo-Christian tradition and invites us to perceive the Virgin Mary as an embodiment of the Divine Feminine accessible to us today in our own spiritual lives. Reading this powerful book is an inspiring and transformative experience.

BETH DARLINGTON, PH.D., PROFESSOR EMERITA OF ENGLISH AT VASSAR COLLEGE AND CERTIFIED JUNGIAN PSYCHOANALYST

Mary has been reduced to a mere passive vessel by the limitations imposed by patriarchal insecurity. Marguerite Rigoglioso performs a divine resurrection of Mary in this book, and that has profound implications for all women and our floundering culture. In an era of extreme misogyny superimposed against movements like #metoo and women taking to the streets all over the world, you will find this book an empowering, enlightening read.

MAURA MCCARLEY TORKILDSON, ARTIST AND AUTHOR OF THE INNER TREE

As with her previous scholarly works, Marguerite Rigoglioso displays a rare combination of erudition, courage, creativity, and skillful writing which leads to a fascinating result that has wide implications.

BYRON BELITSOS, PUBLISHER, JOURNALIST, EDUCATOR, AND AUTHOR OF YOUR EVOLVING SOUL

The sacred potential of divine conception is the mystery of mysteries. Marguerites sensitive and thorough treatment, found within The Mystery Tradition of Miraculous Conception, offers a bold new step in her pioneering work on this topic. It is nothing less than a radical reclamation of the true potential available to women! At a time when much is being revealed about humanitys true divine nature, and as the Divine Feminine rises to return to her rightful place within our human awareness, this book comes as an essential piece of insight about our collective feminine past.

DAWN DELVECCHIO, AUTHOR OF SPIRIT, MIND AND MONEY AND FOUNDER OF RETURN OF THE PRIESTESS

The Mystery Tradition of Miraculous Conception expands Marguerite Rigogliosos ground-breaking theory of holy parthenogenesis into more recent times by addressing Mary, Anne, and Elizabeth. While some have tried to dismiss the concept of virgin birth, Marguerites research restores and contextualizes it. Marguerite puts the Virgin back into Virgin Mary. A must-read for Marian scholars.

MARY BETH MOSER, PH.D., AUTHOR OF HONORING DARKNESS

Acknowledgments

I offer my gratitude to the many beautiful souls who have responded with such enthusiasm to my online courses through Seven Sisters Mystery School, particularly Mary, Conscious Priestess of Divine Birth, which was the seed for this book, and the Mother Mary Mystery Teachings: Your Pathway to Love, Healing, and Inner Divinity. Thanks also to those who have been supporters from the beginning through your participation in my Divine Birth Mystery Teachings and related workshops and lectures, as well as to the women in my Priestess of the Dove Oracle Trainings. Your validation and reflections have given me encouragement and have helped me amplify and deepen my work.

I also thank the following people who have provided further inspiration, validation, or support for my work on Mary: Laurie, Maura McCarley Torkildson, Charlene Spretnak, Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, Mary Beth Moser, Robert Owings, Maureen Walton, Karen Holmes, Cindy Lindsay, Swami Sri Kaleshwar, Den Poitras, Christy Michaels, Diana Melchizedek, Angela de la Agua, Colette De Gagnier-Rettner, Carmen Nash, Bob Crimi, Ava Park, Graell Corsini, Vajra Ma, Amejo Amyot, Connie Viveros, Andre Morgana, Joy Reichard, Elizabeth Barton, Shannon Werner, Catherine Ann Clemett, Claire Heartsong, Patricia Anderson, Byron Belitsos, and Bill Gladstone. I thank Jeremy Hultin as well, for his generous and cheerful assistance with some of the ancient Greek.

And of course, my gratitude goes out to the one known as Isis/Mary/Sophia/Mother Divine, for the teachings on the path.

CHAPTER 1

Let It Be Revealed

The Hour of a New Mary

The Virgin Marys time has come. In fact, we are long overdue for a revolutionary understanding of her that frees her from dogmatic baggage and restores her to her rightful place as a great holy woman. In recent decades, thousands of readers worldwide of books such as Meggan Wattersons Mary Magdalene Revealed, Cynthia Borgeaults The Meaning of Mary Magdalene, and Margaret Starbirds The Woman with the Alabaster Jar have awoken to another Mary, Mary Magdalene, who is not a prostitute, but rather a consort of Jesus. Now is the moment for us to recognize the Divine Feminine figure of Mother Mary, not as a passive bystander to her own pregnancy, but rather as a specialized priestess who deliberately planned and carried out the miraculous conception of her son.

To uncover a Magdalene who was a powerful sacred woman, nothing less than the chief of the apostles, we have had to look to suppressed gospels about her, some of which have only reemerged from the sands of time in the twentieth century. The remarkable discoveries about her have been a thrilling development for many around the planet who are seeking role models of female empowerment and who may have intuited that there was far more to the Magdalene than what the New Testament says about her.