My first reaction when I downloaded this ebook was to
give a sigh of relief that I could breeze through the reading of the book, when I saw it was only
36 pages. I settled in and open the first page then blinked. I was startled at my first experience of
reading somebody talking to me through layers. No strike that, I had
experienced that when I wrote my second novel Numen Yeye.
My eyebrows were raised when the first pages seemed to be
questions from a Western outlook. I excused my disappointment as I recognized
that I must have missed the first two books that Johanna was referring to. I am
African, Nigerian, actually and specifically from that part of the country where being a woman had both
its limitations and strengths. I am a Yoruba woman.
As I grew up, I quickly learnt what it means being a
woman and the first things were the limitations, so I tended to be impatient
with the first few questions, which had very little to do with my world
concept, until we got to a few questions and Mary started talking about
womanhood, now she got my full attention and happily held it to the end. The
beauty of Johanna’s writing was she handed over the story to Mary Magdalene and
stayed severely in the background to the very end.
Mary Magdalene has held the attention of every spiri-t
striving woman through the ages. I always asked this question when I was young.
How could love be a sin? What annoyed the writers of the Holy Book so much that
they defiled her so unremittingly?
Mary of Magda sums it all up for me this way: That I loved a man so powerful and yet
maintained my own identity even in the face of no acceptance. That was the
toughest love you could hand over and the toughest role that you could be asked
to fill in.
She remained a beacon for women the world over who have
faced such tough choices by a male dominated society. We still raise our brows
at the sound or mention of her name and have a smirk, a self- complacent smile
and I always wondered that even fellow women have not done any better in giving
such a painful role to Mary of Magda.
I guess the seeking soul can only find the answers
within. Like Mary says, Your role as a
soul is to remember
Further on she urges, Honor
your intuition, it is the voice of your soul.
The only offence Mary of Magda ever committed was she
loved a powerful, great man whose divinity was clear, we also denied Him to
right to love one personally for Himself and punished Mary to the forgotten
pages of historical slumber.
Welcome to my blog and I would be happy to have, Mary
give answers to these questions. Some of them will be regular and some will be
as intuition guides me.
1. Why
should women be interested in politics at all, they are the guardians of the
soul of the Earth?
Women
are earthbound souls who chose to live a human experience. It is the systems of the Earth that often
dictate destiny. Politics is part of a
larger world system that should not be ignored.
Unfortunately, our voice as women is often small and unheard yet we
should not ignore what is laid before us in the rules of any system. Wisdom is an innate gift women birth at
various moments in their evolution. They
feel truth in the heart of their soul and find it a challenge to put words into
motion of their divine truths. Political history has silenced many voices
through their archaic systems.
The
women of the earth as in all cultures and systems must never forget that the
voice of a small kitten can turn into the roar of a lioness. In this age, the lioness comes out of her
cage and joins others. This is not only heard but seen as a force that can
change political opinions and hence consciousness. It is a cause worth the
effort.
2. Woman
carries the finer energies because she is expected to serve as the transition
of the realms along the path of spirituality even unto divinity, how can she
achieve that in today’s world of crass materiality?
Women
were birthed into the Divine Feminine energy to remind the world of all that is
receptive, emotional and in movement. The
evolved feminine soul has realization that she is a magnet of light who holds
the beam of direction to understanding the material world that serves the
higher aspect of all souls. She realizes
the blessings along the journey in the material world without being manipulated
or held back. She is unattached to this
aspect of life and understands the desires of the soul and the needs of the
physical world.
