Mary Magdalene and Lilith

Today’s drawing of Mary Magdalene

“Magdalene rises not as the sinner … but as the revealer of the inner light. She wasn’t’t simply the woman with the jar, she was the one who understood the unspeakable…”

The Forbidden Union of Lilith and Mary Magdalene is a YouTube video my friend sent me. At first I thought it was just an AI video, but decided to listen just because my friend is a very smart woman, and I trust her judgement.

As I listened, I was surprised at the interesting connections between Lilith and Mary Magdalene, and how their stories can be read as coming together in the Gnostic story of Sophia, Wisdom.

Lilith, turned into demon, and Magdalene, turned into prostitute, can be seen as falling and rising not in exile, but in initiation. They are two faces of the Divine Feminine.

Lilith, as the first woman created who decided she did not belong to man but to herself, and Magdalene, who became one with the Christ through her love and wisdom, create together a continuum that provides a different template of woman.

This story, or we can call it an echo that we hear faintly and from far away, is what many of us perceive in the story of Mary Magdalene even if we are not always able to put it into words. She redeems because she inherits and transcends the doctrines that sought to place woman below man.

We all benefit from equality in all its manifestations.