Claire Nahmad - The Secret Teachings of Mary Magdalene: Including the Lost Verses of The Gospel of Mary, Revealed and Published for the First Time

Claire Nahmad has published a number of books on esoteric subjects. She lives in South Yorkshire, England.

Margaret Bailey is a visionary and a practising Buddhist. She has worked in the field of mental health for many years before recently becoming a full-time artist.

The Secret Teachings
of Mary Magdalene

I NCLUDING THE L OST G OSPEL OF M ARY ,
REVEALED AND PUBLISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME

CLAIRE NAHMAD & MARGARET BAILEY

Acknowledgements

Our thanks are due to Michael Mann, for supporting this project throughout; to Penny Stopa, for her hard work and forbearance; to Ann Napier, for her inspired editing; to Shelagh Boyd, our copy editor, for her helpful comments and suggestions; to the White Eagle Lodge, for their generosity in allowing me to quote copyright material from a selection of their titles; to David Wright, for inspiration and enlightenment; to Pete Bailey (Wayland), for his unfailing encouragement and faith in us and our book; to Chris Bailey for helping us out, and to Nick Bailey for his vital input; to my parents, for providing a postal service; to my sister Lindy Nahmad, for her practical help; to Claire Fitzgerald, for her kind interest and support, and for cheering us on; to Maria and Guiletta Zawadzki (the Princesses) for their kind interest and for helping us to clear the well shaft of our intuitive perception; and last, but by no means least, to Mik Revill, our overseeing knight, for his unobtrusive support and protection.

Every reasonable care has been taken to trace ownership of copyright material. Information will be welcome which will enable the publisher to correct any reference or credit.

This book is dedicated to my father, Ivor Nahmad, who helped me to appreciate the vision of the east.

Preface

Following a series of remarkable events in our lives, Margaret Bailey and I were led to discover all we could about the history of Mary Magdalene.

We found ourselves in a maelstrom of conflicting evidence and theory. There were the old diehards who insisted that all was as it ever had been, and that Mary was a reformed prostitute who, although desperately penitent, was spurned by Jesus when she met him after his resurrection in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus saying harshly to her as she reached out to him, Do not touch me.

It was posited that Jesus and Mary were not actual people at all, but were instead tutelary myths arising from the philosophical concepts of a mystery tradition. The authors who introduced this idea argued in support of it that there was a Jesus for everybody, perhaps not noting that, as they themselves are philosophers, they had created their own Jesus Jesus the philosophical concept!

There were those who suggested that Mary was a wealthy pagan priestess who administered the rites of Osiris to Jesus, and who was persuaded by him to bribe the necessary authorities to crucify him, so that she herself could revive him from his near-death coma in order that he might convince his followers of his claims (claims he egotistically sought to substantiate by also murdering John the Baptist as an expedient career move). Later, regretting her part in this stage-management, she fled from Jesus and settled in France, where she proclaimed her own mystery-religion of Isis from the steps of the Temple of Diana in Paris (formerly Para Isidos, Greek for close to [the heart of] Isis), winning hearts and minds to the point where many heretical Gnostic sects arose and flourished in worship of her and the Great Goddess whom she represented. Indeed, Paris itself is said originally to have been dedicated to the Magdalene.

Others suggested that Mary had very possibly been involved in a Goddessworshipping cult, but had been converted by Jesus, who made her his wife or sexual companion. Mary bore a child or children, who initiated (or extended, as Jesus himself was said to have been born of Davids line) a holy bloodline which exists to this day.

Another theory espouses the idea that Jesus led a radical faction of Essene priests. This Jesus was not of virgin birth, was no miracle-worker, did not die on the cross and was not resurrected. He married Mary Magdalene, who was previously a divorced woman, produced a family with her, and then divorced her himself.

A further theory, to which we feel (to a certain extent) generally more attuned, cites that Mary, although a human being as was Jesus, had mystical origins and elements within her that made her truly the royal consort of the Anointed One who was of the line of David, and whose kingly bloodline, although reaching down to us today, has been denied and obscured by certain powerful, self-interested political and religious factions.

We felt that whilst all these recent discoveries, revelations and conclusions regarding the controversial figure of Mary Magdalene told a fascinating story, somehow, overall, their tantalizing components seemed to lack an intuitive integrity, an uplifting of the veil which would set ablaze the heart and its faculty of higher vision, that organ of spiritual perception through which we see truth, so that the obscured wonder and mystery of the Magdalene might at last step into the light of day. We seemed to begin to catch sight of a complete image within the glimmering and scattered mosaic pieces that surrounded us.

They revealed a story so compelling, so miraculous, so astonishing in its revelations and so staggering in its implications, that we felt we must offer it as our contribution to the cracking of the enigma surrounding Mary Magdalene an enigma believed to have been purposely constructed by a patriarchal culture determined to draw a veil of invisibility and misunderstanding over all that comprises the Sacred Feminine, and which, it seems, quaked in its boots when confronted with the enormity of her true significance.

The significance of Mary Magdalene is revealed within the mysteries of her story and within the profound and mystical teachings given in her gospel. Half of it is missing. It did not reach the public domain until 1955, having been discovered almost 60 years earlier by a German academic in Cairo. We believe that this lost gospel, so recently recovered, holds an important key, a magical key which can be divined only with the wisdom of the heart.

We have another source. In the summer of 2004, Mary Magdalene actually made herself known to Margaret Bailey through means of spiritual communication. A long period of spiritual training and discipline in meditation and inner seeing had preceded this event. Margaret enters the Silence, so beloved and revered by Mary, as her gospel reveals. This Silence takes the form of a ring of inconceivably beautiful light, through which Margaret passes in order to commune with Mary and to receive her teachings for today.

It was Mary herself who had instructed us to research her story according to the new theories and revelations of our time, although when we were initially led to do so, we were following the guidance of one who, although undoubtedly an exalted being, we could never have guessed had a deep personal association with her. The fact that the two are connected at the deepest and most significant level is just one of the many astonishing discoveries we have made on this endlessly fascinating journey of what we trust is true enlightenment. The story of how Margaret and I were brought together, and the identity of the mysterious being who united us, will be told elsewhere.

These teachings, given by Mary, seem to us to be bright and clear, starlit in their economy and simplicity. They bear a lightness of touch that never veils their profundity. They are the words of Mary, coming to us today through Margaret Bailey, who has been specially prepared for this work, and, to a lesser degree, through me. I receive Marys inspiration through a simple mediumistic technique, whereas Margaret truly enters the Silence and is in direct visionary communion with her. I therefore regard Margaret as the most important source.