Resurrection, Divine Union, & the Path of Living Portals
The story of resurrection is ancient and mystical.
It is not merely about death being overcome—it is a sacred technology, an ancient mystical journey encoded in feminine wisdom.
Long before it was framed solely within Christian doctrine, it pulsed through the sacred myths of the Divine Feminine—Isis resurrecting Osiris, Inanna descending into the underworld, and the cyclical rites of death and rebirth carried by priestesses across the ancient world.
In the oldest initiations, resurrection occurred through sacred rites of grief, love, and union. In Egypt, Isis gathered the scattered parts of Osiris and brought him back to life. In Egypt, Isis gathered the scattered parts of Osiris and brought him back to life. In the Sumerian myth of Inanna's descent, the goddess descends into the underworld and is stripped of her power and then sentenced to death. She is then hung on a hook, symbolizing her death. After three days, she is revived and returns to the world of the living.
Magdalene’s witness to Yeshua’s crucifixion mirrors these sacred myths.
These sacred tales speak to the eternal dance between death and rebirth, divine masculine and feminine, and the hieros gamos—the sacred marriage that restores cosmic balance.
And at the centre of this sacred mystery stands Mary Magdalene—not as a fallen women, but as a priestess, a healer, a tower of initiation. She is the Feminine Christ. The Anointer. The Magdalene. Magdalene was a title. And her invitation is eternal: to become a living portal of love, sovereignty and divine union.
Within these mythologies, we find deep roots of the Christ story and, perhaps most profoundly, the hidden role of Mary Magdalene as not just a witness, but the spiritual catalyst.
These were not just stories. They were initiation paths—taught in mystery schools,
guarded by priestesses, and etched into the Earth’s memory.
In ancient tradition, to anoint was to consecrate. To prepare someone for death, kingship, or divine embodiment.
The Anointed and the Anointer
In mystical tradition, Magdalene did not merely witness Yeshua’s transformation—she revealed it.
Christ" means "Anointed One," and it was she—High Priestess and Queen—who poured the chrism of kingship and death-into-resurrection upon him.
Their union was holy embodiment: the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine, the Christos and Sophia, merging as one.
According to the Gospel of Philip, "The chrism is superior to baptism… he who has been anointed possesses everything." That sacred oil was the key—and Magdalene was its keeper.
In ancient mysteries, resurrection always begins in descent. Inanna descended to the underworld. Isis grieved over Osiris’ body. Magdalene descended into the tomb of grief, death, and loss..
The Feminine Christ is the descending Christ. The path of death, rebirth. She walks into shadow, embraces the dark, surrenders control, and reclaims the lost fragments of the soul.
The feminine Christ as descending represents the immanent, earthly, embodied aspect of the Divine—Christ coming down into the world, into matter, into relationship, into suffering and compassion. This mirrors the archetypal Divine Feminine, which is often associated with presence, nurturing, receptivity, and the holding of sacred space within creation.
The Masculine Christ is the ascending Christ—rising in radiant light. Together, they complete the spiral of transformation and sacred union.
The masculine Christ as ascending symbolizes the transcendent, rising energy—Christ returning to the Father, representing light, consciousness, vision, and spiritual awakening. This reflects the Divine Masculine archetype of direction, clarity, action, and transcendence.
Together, they form a complete cycle: descent into the human condition and matter (feminine), followed by ascension into spirit and union with the divine (masculine).
The symbolism of the hieros gamos, the sacred marriage, which aims to unify those very polarities within ourselves and the world.
Magda: The Great Living Portal
Magdalene, was an oracle, a dragon priestess of Sophia. She held the wisdom of plant medicine, sacred oils, and divine embodiment of love.
The name Magdalene itself holds keys. It was a title.
“Magda” means great or magical. “Dala,” from daleth, means doorway or portal.
She was the Great Portal, and her very being was a threshold between the worlds—and we are each invited to become the same. This is the Magdalene invitation: to become living, magical doorways. Portals of divine love. Vessels of fierce compassion and creative power. Carriers of the Divine Feminine in a world that is aching for remembrance. A magical, embodied doorway between spirit and matter. A vessel of the sacred. A womb of creation.
The ancient priestesses lived this path. They awakened their wombs as energetic centres of consciousness. They gave birth not just to children, but to visions, wisdom, and new realities. They were lovers, healers, seers, and sovereign queens.
The Anointing: Spikenard and Soul Preparation
One of the most profound moments in Magdalene’s story is her anointing of Yeshua with a full alabaster jar pure spikenard—a sacred oil used for kings, high initiates, and the dying.
She entered with her alabaster jar, knelt, unbound her hair, and poured everything she had— her essence—upon him. It was initiation, it was Priestess work.
"Then Mary took a pound of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment."
—John 12:3 KJV
Spikenard was no ordinary perfume. Harvested from the Himalayan mountains, it was one of the most valuable substances of the ancient world—used in rites of kingship, burial, and divine anointing. Its fragrance grounded the spirit, calmed the nervous system, and opened the gateways between worlds. It soothed transitions. It anchored the spirit. It was the oil of surrender, peace, and divine remembrance.
Spiritually, spikenard is the custodian of the heart.
Where rose opens the heart, spikenard anchors it—instilling a sense of surrender, courage, and deep inner stillness.
Its fragrance calms the nervous system, modulates GABA receptors in the brain, and induces a liminal state between waking and dreaming—between this world and the next. It is a shamanic temple oil—used to induce altered states and deep prayer.
A pound of it was worth a year’s wages. Its earthy, grounding scent carried deep spiritual symbolism.
Throughout history, spikenard has been revered:
Dioscorides wrote of its many forms—Syrian, Indian, Celtic—each sacred and aromatic.
Roman nobles bathed in its scent; even their cookbooks called for a drop to uplift a tired broth.
In the temples of Egypt it was used for rites of passage and resurrection.
In temple traditions, spikenard bridged worlds: life and death, grief and devotion, descent and resurrection. It was soul medicine.
For the Myrrhophores—“myrrh bearers,” women trained in sacred oils—it was more. These priestesses used oils not just for healing the body, but realigning the soul.
Mary Magdalene was one of these. A Mistress of the Oils. A Scent Priestess. A Myrrhophore.
What was seen as waste, Magdalene knew as initiation. She gave everything in an act of radical devotion. And Yeshua recognized it: “Leave her alone… she has kept this for my burial.” (John 12:7)
The oil, her hair, her tears—these were not mere gestures. They were temple rites. Resurrection rites. She anointed for rebirth.
Other famous Myrrhophores through history include:
The Three Marys at the Tomb: Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome, who brought spices and oils to anoint Jesus’ body after the crucifixion (Mark 16:1). Their devotion earned them the name “Myrrh Bearers” in early Christian tradition.
The Priestesses of Isis: In ancient Egypt, temple priestesses served as anointers in the rites of Osiris, using sacred oils to guide souls through the death/rebirth mysteries. Magdalene is said to have been trained in this tradition, bridging Egypt and early Christian mysticism.
The Women of the Therapeutae: A mystical Jewish-Egyptian sect described by Philo of Alexandria, whose women were versed in sacred healing arts and rituals involving oils, prayer, and purification.
The Daughters of Asclepius: In Greco-Roman healing temples, women trained in energy medicine and aromatics helped usher the soul into states of deep healing and divine communion—akin to the work of Myrrhophores.
The Garden and the Gardener
After the crucifixion, Magdalene was the first to see the risen Christ. She mistook him for the gardener—a title full of mystery. A term rich with ancient symbolism, in ancient lore, the gardener was a sacred king, initiated through the womb rites in the garden—the fertile space of rebirth.
The Womb Cross and the Triple Marys
Golgotha, the “place of the skull,” where Yeshua was crucified, was once a site of Aphrodite. Even the womb cross was older than Christianity—long a symbol of the Womb Gateway, the axis of life and death and rebirth in one sacred intersection.
To die upon the cross was to descend into the Womb of the Great Mother. To rise was to be reborn from her.
At the foot of the cross stood only the Marys—Mary Magdalene, Mary Salome, and Mother Mary. The Triple Goddess. Priestesses enacting the sacred rites.
In Aramaic, Mary means Radiance or Light. They were light-bearers. It was a title. They held the space as Yeshua passed through the portal of death.
Resurrection: A Living Alchemy
The crucifixion was a rite of transformation, echoing the rituals of Inanna and Osiris: a descent, a death, a return. And Yeshua’s last words—Tetelestai, "It is accomplished"—signaled that the sacred work was fulfilled.
This story is not just his. It is ours. We each walk the spiral. We each descend. We each rise.
The Magdalene Within
Mary Magdalene is more than a woman. She is an archetype. A frequency. A lineage.
She lives within every one of us who is called to the path and Way of Love.
She is the one who teaches us to walk through fire, to pour out our essence, to surrender everything we think we know—for love. She is the inner priestess who knows how to anoint pain into power, shadow into sovereignty, and death into resurrection. She is the path of divine embodiment.
Magdalene’s path rises again—not as religion, but as remembrance. A call to reclaim the sacred feminine. To rise from within. To die to old identities and live as love, embodied.
It is time to remember:
That we are divine beings, meant to embody both spirit and flesh. To birth heaven on Earth through our sacred body vessels.
That our bodies are altars, and our love is a sacred offering.
That death is not the end—it is initiation.
To remember that we are holy.
That we are creative.
That we are sacred vessels of love.
We are not here to be saved.
We are here to re-member.
To walk the way of love is to become a living flame of love,
a sacred portal of soul medicine,
a vessel of Divine Union.
