The woman with the alabaster jar : Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail by Starbird Margaret 1942-

Author:Starbird, Margaret, 1942-
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Mary Magdalene, Saint, Jesus Christ, Grail
Publisher: Santa Fe, N.M. : Bear & Co. Pub.
Published: 1993-07-25T16:00:00+00:00

usual one. The smaller bar on top represents the scroll with the in-scription INRI, which stands for "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews." This, the Gospels say, was posted at Pilate's command above the head of Jesus as he suffered on the cross (Mark 15:26, John 19:19), testimony to the fundamental tenet of the hidden church that Jesus was the legitimate king of David s lineage.

For centuries, the Cross of Lorraine has been used as a rallying cry for freedom in France. One of Bayley s watermarks shows an orb representing the Earth, surmounted by the double-barred cross (figure 8a). Interestingly enough, the same cross was used by the French Resistance to rally its compatriots to acts of sabotage during the Nazi occupation of France during World War II. It is also used on the membership cards of modern Freemasons, although in this case the sign is tipped on its side forming two Xs in tandem. This emblem attests to a long-standing connection between modern Freemasonry and the tenets of the Grail heresy, a connection affirmed repeatedly by the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail The tilted emblem seems to be a coded statement: u True enlightenment rests with the House of Lorraine in the tenets of the Grail heresy."

The Blade and the Chalice

Bayley believes that the AVM glyph A bears the meaning of "Ave Millennium" or 'Thy Kingdom Come" (figure 8). The internal M can also be understood to stand for "Maria." The orthodox view this as a sign of "Ave Maria" and believe it to refer to the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus. The implicit meaning of the symbol is that the millennial promises can be realized only when the A and the V are joined in harmony. The A is the archetypal masculine symbol, the "blade," and the V, its "equal opposite," is the archetype of the feminine, the u chal-ice." The harmony thus restored in heaven will be reflected in relationships on Earth.

At present, we have the paradigm ol a perpetually bachelor .son and a virgin mother as our ideal of holiness. A possible result of this combination is devaluation of the conjugal relationship of flesh-and-

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