The Secret Magdalene - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0975925539 ISBN 13: 9780975925539

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Detailed, poetic, and fully human, this is a thrilling novel, a powerful evocation of a Mary Magdalene who was in her own right a philosopher, a traveler, a teacher, and a prophet. This Mary Magdalene was much more than a wife, much more than a favored follower, more even than the Beloved Disciple. Mariamne Magdal-eder "knew the All."

And while the popular view of the Magdalene has lately begun to change its shape from repentant sinner to Beloved Disciple, few speak of what "knowing the All" actually means.

KNOWING THE ALL is the heart of the Christ's original Gnostic teaching. It was the Apostle Paul's message, his "revelation of the Lord" that blinded him on the road to "Damascus." It was the very heart of early Christianity.

Still beating, Gnosis, or "knowing," was cut out of the body of the Church more than sixteen hundred years ago—and was then buried so deeply and for so long, all involved lived and died in the belief it could never come again. But it has. With the discovery in 1945 of the Nag Hammadi codices, perhaps the last of their kind, Mary Magdalene has returned to us in the full splendor of her original form.

The Secret Magdalene is not only a painstakingly researched portrait of a great woman who was wise beyond her time and her place, it is a portrait of the search for GNOSIS—the individual's direct experience of God.

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Under the name Pamela Longfellow, Ki Longfellow has published two novels, one of which - CHINA BLUES (HarperCollins/Doubleday) - went into auction. China Blues was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection in Canada and a best seller in Sweden. Her second novel, CHASING WOMEN (HarperCollins), has been made into a Hollywood screenplay - twice. Her third novel, WALKS AWAY WOMAN (Eio Books) is scheduled for publication in the summer of 2005. By now, her work is available in six languages: Spanish, Swedish, Hebrew, English, German, and Czech. Last year, the celebratory script of her "comic opera" was published by Sea Urchin Press in Holland. Called STINKFOOT, she co-wrote it with her husband, the late Vivian Stanshall, lead singer and songwriter of England's very beloved Bonzo Dog Band. STINKFOOT was produced twice: once for Ki's showboat in Bristol's Floating Harbour, England, and once for London's West End. The show garnered glowing national reviews in the Times, the Guardian, and the Inpendent. She's also written for Cream Magazine, Ms Magazine, and Rolling Stone.

Ki is half French and half Iroquois Indian, and has never stopped traveling, learning...writing. The Secret Magdalene took seven years to research and two to write.

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• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0975925539
• ISBN 13: 9780975925539
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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