Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene: The Dark Night of the Soul
An Excerpt from
Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love by Mercedes Kirkel
Message from Mary Magdalene:
Beloved ~
Yes, I want to talk to you about the dark night of the soul. This is a very mysterious concept to many of you. Most of you have a place within you that you’re afraid of going, something that brings up too much pain. The dark night of the soul is about facing your fear and pain and going into it rather than avoiding it.
What happens when you do that? It is not what you fear. There is an initial period in which you feel your fear, feel your pain, whatever it is. There is often a feeling of expansion with this, since you usually have shrunk back or contracted away from the pain or fear. There is a sense of relaxing and opening as your feeling nature expands into your whole experience. At some point, often sooner than you would expect, a shift happens. At that point, your experience changes to one of trust and peace, perhaps a sense of being carried—as in carried by a river rather than fighting against the current.
What has happened is that you have connected with the beings of light that are there to support you, to carry you. The pain may or may not go away, but your experience of it is different because you are in the light. The light is stronger—and you are more attracted to it—than your pain. You have entered the River of Light, and it is now cleansing and guiding you.
Your job as humans is to stay in this River of Light. That is your true heart’s refuge and calling. It doesn’t take you away from life. It takes you into true life. This is the river that truly quenches our thirst.
All people eventually, sooner or later, come to the dark night of the soul. There may be more than one dark night, depending on the person’s design for their lifetime, the depth to which they let themselves go into their pain or fear, and the depth with which they connect with the River of Light. All connections with the River of Light are divine gifts that move us further in our path of growing in love and light.
With all my blessings,
I AM Mary Magdalene
Commentary from Mercedes Kirkel:
Mary’s discussion of the dark night of the soul continues her instructions from the previous transmission about turning to God when we’re in pain and asking for God’s help. Now, she gives us an actual step-by-step practice for how to connect with God through fully experiencing our fear and pain.
Mary acknowledges that the dark night of the soul is a mysterious concept for many people. She explains that most of us have a place within our being—some part of ourselves—that we don’t want to experience because it brings up too much pain. The dark night of the soul is about facing our fear and pain, about going into it rather than avoiding it. Most of us are afraid to open to our pain because we imagine doing so will invite in too much suffering. We may picture ourselves sinking in a quicksand of agony, possibly becoming so overwhelmed that we die of pain. These deep-seated fears activate our instinct for survival. But in reality, when we go into our pain, something very different occurs.
Mary tells us there’s an initial period of simply feeling the pain, which includes feeling the fear associated with it. And so we feel both our fear and our pain. As we continue opening to our feelings, we’ll experience a sense of expansion, a sense of relaxing and opening. Where before, out of fear, we contracted or shrank away from the pain, now the contraction begins to unwind and release as it is replaced by expansion, relaxation, and openness. We experience our feeling nature as it extends again into our whole being.
At some point in this process, we undergo a shift as we feel lifted out of our distress. Mary points out that this release often occurs sooner than we expect, countering our tendency to assume that we’re going to be stuck in misery without end. Even if the conviction that we will never get beyond the pain does arise, we can boost our faith by remembering that this state is temporary and absolutely will change. I have consistently found that the process works exactly as Mary describes. Even so, during the early stage of opening, I still notice my deep-seated belief that I’ll get lost in my anguish and be overwhelmed by suffering. This is why I find it invaluable to be aware that an integral part of the dark night of the soul is my initial assumption that my pain will last forever. Now, when that thought arises, I see it as a sign that the process is under way, and I continue to open, knowing that a shift will occur.
What is this shift? Mary describes it perfectly as a shift to trust and peace, perhaps a sense of being carried—as by a river—rather than fighting against the current. I find this description affects me viscerally. I can tangibly feel the transition from a somatic state of fear and contraction to one of trust and peace. I notice that my belly relaxes and my breathing drops lower in my body. My state of growing relaxation is deepened by the image of relaxing my fight against the current and allowing myself to be carried by the river. I feel a sense of lightness and ease, along with the experience of trust and peace.
Mary explains what has occurred: we have connected with beings of light who are literally supporting and carrying us. She calls this entering the River of Light, an experience that cleanses us of our fear and guides us. While the pain may or may not go away, we are changed because we are in the light, and the light is stronger than the darkness of our pain. As we are drawn to experience the light, our pain will inevitably recede, if not go away altogether.
I picture the original pain and accompanying fear as a pitch-black cave. The cave represents the dark night of the soul. When we choose to open to pain, we choose to enter into the shadows of the cavity. Stepping inside, we allow our consciousness to expand to the cavern’s full dimensions. We feel its cool, moist surfaces. We may still fear that the darkness and the unknown will overwhelm us, yet another part of us whispers that opening to the cave is the best option and urges us to trust the process. We begin to have a sense of letting go and relaxation as we release our resistance to experiencing whatever exists here. At a certain point, we’re drawn to the other side of the cave, which opens into a River of Light. We give ourselves to the river, experiencing a great depth of trust and peace. As we let ourselves be carried by the beings of light that form this river, we’re cleansed and guided to where we need to be. Our pain becomes more distant as the light of the river replaces the darkness of our fear.
The process Mary describes reminds me of Elisabeth Kübler- Ross’s model of the stages of grief that people experience in coming to terms with death. These stages—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance—seem similar to Mary’s description of the first part of the dark night of the soul, where we expand into the cave of our fears and eventually come to acceptance. Mary’s elucidation of opening to the light reminds me of accounts of people at the edge of death who have seen angels or various manifestations of light and experienced great bliss and peace. Mary suggests that we can have these experiences not only at death, but during life as well.
In fact, Mary tells us that the River of Light takes us into “true life” and that our job as humans is to stay in the river. She’s not just talking about an isolated, one-time event. The River of Light is a state we can continue to experience. In so doing, she tells us, we realize our true heart’s refuge and calling, which “truly quenches our thirst.”
Just hearing Mary’s description stokes my longing for union with this river and for the place in my heart to which it connects me. I feel the trust and peace the river carries us to. It’s a place I know in my soul, and yet the path there still surprises me: that surrendering into pain leads to such beauty. I’m heartened by the awareness that each time I engage this process of letting go into pain, I’m strengthened in my ability to stay connected to the River of Light. Residing in this river has become my spiritual path.
I believe that opening fully into any moment will take us to the River of Light and the heart’s refuge. And yet, pain is a particular gift for supporting us to merge with our experience. It’s like an alarm that keeps going off to remind us that something’s not right. If we heed the warning, pain provides a unique form of help, guiding us all the way through to our very depths and beyond. However, our painful places are also the ones that most of us tend to avoid. Mary points to our avoidance of pain as the biggest stumbling block to uniting with God. I think that’s why she’s so insistent about focusing on pain in her communications. She sees we need it. Merging fully with our experience, to the point of total unity or oneness, is the way through to our next step in spiritual evolution. And because it’s a process of surrender, it’s a particularly Feminine path she’s bringing forth—for both men and women.
Mary makes it clear that, sooner or later, everyone will experience at least one dark night of the soul. She urges us to recognize it as a doorway and make good use of it. As her final words affirm, “All connections with the River of Light are divine gifts that move us further in our path of growing in love and light.”
OPENING TO PAIN
1. Notice you’re in pain.
2. Choose to fully experience and open to the pain.
3. Merge with the pain by relaxing and expanding into it.
4. Allow the pain to take you to Source (inner divine qualities).
5. Experience the shift into peace as you begin to flow with the River of Light.
6. Rest in connection to God.
7. Let God direct your actions.
What Will Happen on December 21, 2012?
by Mercedes Kirkel
When we crossed over into the month of December, I felt a sudden realization that 12-12-12 and 12-21-12 are almost here. Two questions played through my mind: How did we get here so quickly, almost without me noticing? And what is going to happen?
I’ve heard these same questions voiced from many others. And so I’d like to offer my thoughts in response.
I definitely feel a sense of time speeding up in my life. Over the last month in particular, I’ve made a conscious choice to do less altogether and to do more of what’s really important to me. In other words, as time gets faster my solution is to get slower, or really more essential—as in “living from essence.” I’m living more from my core, who I really am, and less from the periphery. I’m doing the things I really value with more intention and also more peace. And I’m trusting that what needs to get done is getting done, that I’ll be sustained in the midst of this however Spirit chooses.
I’m enjoying this greater surrender into Spirit. What’s happening has become too big for me to try to stay in charge. I’ve become humble, open, trusting.
I’m trusting my emotions more. I’m trusting my guidance, in all its forms. I’m trusting myself. And I’m trusting God.
I do not have an inside line on what’s going to happen in the future, including the dates people have targeted as significant. I was invited by The Sedona Journal of Emergence to be a contributor for their December double issue of predictions for the future. I declined, telling them that my guides don’t offer predictions. They offer help for us to create our own future, because they love us and, at the same time, respect our free choice. They hold the point of view that the future is not fixed. I agree with that.
I do believe that we’re on a path of ascension into higher consciousness, which will manifest outwardly as transformation into higher states of being. I doubt that this will happen overnight sometime this month, but I don’t rule it out as a possibility. What seems more likely to me is that this will happen gradually over a period of months or even years, but at an ever-increasing speed, until we reach a new state of balance at our next level of evolutionary growth.
I don’t think we’re moving into the end of the world or a period of cataclysmic destruction. I think we’re going through the end of an age, one in which we’ve dropped to a very low frequency at times and in certain arenas. Now we’re going through a birth process into a new epoch, which I am very excited and hopeful about.
I think it’s possible that this birthing process could include some “purification,” which might look like destruction and people transitioning out of this lifetime. That is one of the ways that growth and change occur, through the death-rebirth process. And for many of us, this brings up a very deep-seated fear of death, arising out of our survival instinct. This fear is one of the things that Mary Magdalene addressed in Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love:
You fear that death is the end, and you don’t want to “lose” your life. . . . You have this fear because you have a veil over your remembering. This is part of the process you agreed to in choosing to manifest in third-dimensional reality. In this reality, there is a veil over your remembering of all the lifetimes you have lived and of all the other realms you have been in between your lifetimes. There is a veil over your remembering of your greater self, which is so much larger than the part of you that you’re aware of in this third-dimensional reality. And there is a veil over your absolute connection to, your absolute inherence in, God. If you could remember all that and know it as your present-time and never-changing reality, you wouldn’t have the idea of death that so many of you have. You would see death as a change of clothes, like a snake shedding its skin. When you die, you’ve outgrown your physical circumstances and you’re ready to move on to something that’s going to serve your next phase of your soul’s journey. You might think of it as being something like getting a new car.
So we’re back to trust—trust in the greater process of life, greater than what we can currently see, or perhaps understand, or possibly even imagine. Maybe this kind of trust, in the midst of not knowing what’s happening, is what we experienced in our birth into this lifetime. Or maybe we’re being called to a new level of trust that we haven’t known before.
Mary Magdalene likens the transition we’re in the midst of to a human birth. She talks about the revolution that occurred in the modern birthing world when the natural birth movement took hold. I remember when I was pregnant and received training in preparation for childbirth. It was all about learning to relax in the midst of intensity and pain. Even though my natural reaction to extreme pain was to tense up and fight or resist it, there was a lot of motivation for me to learn what seemed to be a completely counter-intuitive response. I strongly believed that learning to relax would help make the birth easier and would provide the best and safest experience for my baby and for me.
I think the same is true for what we’re going through in birthing ourselves into the next age of our evolution. I think we’ll all be helped by relaxing into the process as much as we can, even if it seems unfamiliar or possibly overwhelming at times. I remember being told many years ago that God never gives us more than we can handle, but it may be more than we’re comfortable with.
The other thing I believe is happening, as part of the purification process in preparation for the new to come in, is that whatever yet remains for us to handle, complete, take responsibility for, or let go of from our past is coming up for us to deal with. This might be physical ailments or challenges, emotional issues, old ideas or beliefs, or things in our relationships. What I feel we’re being called to is love, forgiveness, and healing—taking full responsibility for all the circumstances in our life as coming out of our choices, letting go of the victim mentality of blaming others or outside forces for what’s happening with us, and instead reaping the lessons from those circumstances, with gratitude for what we’ve received.
I think it’s called growing up. I think we’re ready.
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Copyright 2012 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety and the information is not altered, excerpted, or added to; credit of authorship and my website address (www.mercedeskirkel.com) is included; and no money is exchanged. For any other uses, please contact Mercedes Kirkel to obtain permission. Thank you.
Mercedes Kirkel is a channel and spiritual guide, bringing forth messages and instruction from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light, as well as Akashic Record Readings. Her new book, Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love is available at www.marymagdalenebeckons.com. All messages and practices are universal and are not affiliated with any religion.
To receive ongoing messages from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light through Mercedes, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com and request to be added to the mailing list.
Mercedes offers workshops and private sessions in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is available in-person or long distance (by phone and skype), or to travel to your location. For more information, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com.
Mary Magdalene: Balancing the Masculine and Feminine
Received through Mercedes Kirkel
[Note: This is Part 2 of a channeled message that Mary Magdalene gave at a gathering in honor of her feast day on July 22nd, 2012.]
What is in your heart?” What is it that you would like me to help you with, that you would like to hear from me?
Question: I would like to know about our children. Our children are being bombarded with so many left-brained structures and technology, which have become almost an appendage, like the cell phone. I would like to hear what you have to say about this in reference to the heart.
Mary Magdalene: The children who have come in, for quite some time now, are very remarkable beings. They have come from many places of the universe and beyond, and have responded to the call to be here at this amazing time of transformation and transition. Many of them are quite advanced in their souls and in their development. In some ways your technology and your left-brained thinking is a game for them, it is an entertainment, because they are capable of so much more. They are working on many levels, many of them. The one that you might see is not all that is going on. So you do not need to be concerned about the children. The children are here to help you and they are well prepared for this.
They are part of the network that has allowed this transformation to come through. The frequencies that they are holding, the level of light that they resonate with is quite high. They are working at other levels that you may not be aware of or notice. It may not be the same as the work that you are doing. But they are doing their work very well and they are well positioned. And that is part of what has allowed everything to come into place that needed to be here for this time.
So celebrate your children. Allow them to lead. Allow them to show you their remarkable talents. Do not be concerned.
Question: Can you speak to us about economic injustice, knowing there is more than enough for everyone to thrive on the planet, but there are yet great imbalances due to greed. Can you share with us the changes that are afoot in terms galactic consciousness?
Mary Magdalene: Your economics is simply a reflection of your relationship to power. It is something that many came into this realm to explore, to learn about, and to experience what is possible with power and what happens when there are different arrangements, different structures of power—how does it feel, how does it work, what are the end results, the repercussions. In some ways, and many are aware of this, you might say that the beings on Earth have gotten a bit off track for a period of time. This is one of the dangers of coming into a realm like this. Because it is a realm of such gross vibration or frequency. And by gross, I mean slow, that the vibration level is slow here compared to many, many other places. So the consciousness adapts to this realm and to this frequency, and you have what you all have experienced and known for a very long time of third-dimensional consciousness. In that consciousness, there is forgetting of the higher dimensions and the higher levels of consciousness.
So this exploration that has been going on for a long time in your world of power has somewhat gotten detoured because the beings involved have forgotten their own consciousness that could have extricated them from it and extricated your world from it. As a result, you have experienced many things that have been painful for many people, including the withholding of resources or the taking of resources by select groups or select beings and withholding it from others. There has always been enough for everyone. Yet this has not been what the experience of most people on Earth has been. In order to extricate yourself from this seeming ceiling of consciousness, where you have been exploring the different aspects of power in all these ways, it is requiring your power structures and your economics to get to a rather extreme place. And truly, you have gotten to a rather extreme place.
This is a realm of free choice. It was created that way and it is not something that other beings choose to interfere with. So it must be the choice of beings on Earth to change the structures, the dynamics. What supports you in doing this is for it to get to this extreme level, where so many people are feeling the effects, and so many people are noticing that so many people are feeling the effects. People are starting to wake up, starting to question, “Why, are we doing this? Why, if so many people are being hurt, being challenged by this, why are we accepting it? Why are we not changing it?” And that, indeed, is the beginning of the change, and you are seeing it.
This is a time when your economic systems are part of the change that will happen. It has to do with the Divine Feminine coming in, for the Divine Feminine would not withhold from others. Not that the Divine Masculine would do that, per se. It is that the Divine Masculine has attention on other things. And power/strength is one of those things. So when the Divine Masculine is not in union with the Divine Feminine, you see the results along the lines that have occurred in your Earth realm, where there has been much play of power without the force of love, compassion, caring for all. That is part of what is changing.
We at the higher levels are supporting this change very much. It must happen in consciousness first. So that is the place where we are beginning. We are working with each individual’s consciousness who is open to a change, to seeing the possibilities for living in a very different way, where everyone is taken care of and everyone is cared for.
Even your system of money is relatively unique to the Earth. There are very few places that use money. And you see the results of what money allows. It allows people to hoard and withhold and compete and even battle for what they think is valuable.
The consciousness is growing, where people are saying, “No, money is not what is important. It is not what is valuable. It is not what gives us our value. In truth, we give it value, if we choose. And it has not served us well in many, many ways.” So yes, you are seeing the beginning of a huge change. You might call it a revolution. It is in consciousness, first and always. As your consciousness changes, so will your world. Your consciousness is creating your world.
It is through love, it is through caring about all, it is through this process of fully incarnating the Divine Feminine in union with the Divine Masculine, that this change will take place. There are many ways that it can happen. We are supporting, as much as possible, that it will happen in a peaceful way, in an easeful way. That would be most optimal. Of course, that always is up to you, individually and as a group. But it all begins with consciousness. It all begins with changing your consciousness. Through that you begin to change who you are, what you do, your actions.
Each of you has tremendous power. Do not ever assume, “Oh, I can’t do anything. This is so huge. It’s so beyond me. The economy is this enormous thing that happens at the national level and the international level, and what can I do? I’m just one person with no power.” This is not true. You are the one who empowers the whole system, always. Each one of you is that one. Each one of you is huge and your choices absolutely matter.
But the choice, first and foremost, is in your heart. You must choose in your heart that you cannot accept this any longer and you choose something new. It will change and it will manifest.
Question: The moon, the satellite and companion of our Earth, has always been considered a representative of the Divine Feminine, as the sun is the Divine Masculine. But recently it has come to light that the moon is hollow and it is artificial intelligence. It was placed there, in its orbit, by beings from another dimension. I wanted to know what Mary Magdalene has to say about the moon and the Divine Feminine.
Mary Magdalene: The moon has the quality of a mirror. It has mirrored back the Feminine to the Feminine on Earth. The strongest manifestation of the Feminine on Earth is truly the Earth herself. And the moon has been the mirror—the mirror of the sun and the radiance of the sun. But it has also been the mirror of the Feminine on Earth.
You see, the Feminine has been displaced from the Earth for a very long time. The Feminine has not been welcomed on the Earth, which is a very sad thing. Of course, this has not been true of every person, every culture. But in general, there has been more and more of a ban, this holding down in darkness of the Feminine. And so the moon has taken up that place of being a focus for the Feminine that was not welcomed upon the Earth.
Truly, nothing is Masculine or Feminine, per se, because the Feminine and the Masculine love each other and are drawn to each other like magnets. So when you see something as Masculine or you see something as Feminine, it’s what is coming to the fore. It is what is connecting with you in that moment. But everything contains both. Perhaps not fully actualized. But the Feminine and the Masculine are inextricably connected to each other. And this is why it is so painful when one is held back, suppressed, because it is not the movement of this world at all for that to be so.
So it is not in conflict that the moon has been the refuge of the Feminine for a very long time and that there has also been Masculine influence and affect and interaction upon the moon. Any body, any being that is not in its wholeness will gravitate towards its opposite in time, over time, because that is the nature of the Divine. The Divine is in union, the Masculine and the Feminine. All that exists is in that form, in that model. It is like the holographic nature that your scientists have discovered—the whole is in everything.
You have much that you will learn about so many things in your world. You have viewed things as best you could, as best you were able to understand them for a very long time. You will be amazed what you are going to be learning in the not-too-distant future. Allow these new things that come to you to integrate with the old. Feel into what is true for yourself, what you resonate with. Do not take it on someone else’s say so. Find your truth. But know that there will be much being revealed in the future—about your world, about yourself, about so many things. Do not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
There are always kernels of truth. For centuries, I have been called a prostitute. Now it is being said I was not a prostitute. But there was a kernel of truth in that. It was not understood. It was not communicated in truth, in wholeness. But there was a seed truth to that because I was a priestess of the Divine Feminine. I was a sacred priestess and I practiced Sacred Sexuality of the Goddess. And that has often been called prostitution, or whatever word you have for it, by some. It was not what many thought. It was not the connotation that many people ascribe to the term “prostitute.” But there was seed truth in that. I was bringing forth the Divine Feminine practice, a very, very sacred, most holy experience of divine union in human form through sexuality. And I was engaging this with Yeshua. We both were engaged in this. Your world and your power structure were not ready to acknowledge this. And so they did what they did. They told the stories, turned it into this or that. But there was seed truth in there. And now it is starting to become accepted more and more that Yeshua I were married, which of course for many people goes with the understanding that we engaged in sexuality in human form, that there were children that were created out of this union. But there is even more to it than that, much more, which is just starting to enter into the consciousness of so many.
So do not throw out the baby with the bathwater. Let this process reveal itself to you; let your mind be open; call upon your highest understanding, insight, and wisdom and you will come to know much. There is much that may seem quite different than you understood in the past.
Question [from a man]: I am told that it’s important that each man’s heart opens. How can I be of assistance to other men in opening to the Divine Feminine?
Mary Magdalene: The primary way that you will help others is through your being, what you are founded in in your being, and what you are living and modeling to others. The question that so many men have, the fear that they have, is that the Divine Feminine coming forth will mean that the Divine Masculine, or men—in whatever form that they are manifestations of the Masculine—are going to be suppressed, punished. There is fear that the Feminine and women will be angry at men, or at the least will want to be in the power position over men, as has happened so much in the past relative to men and women, with men being in the power position. But this is not what is meant to happen at all.
The greatest service you can do to others is to shine your strength as a man, as the Divine Masculine, and to embrace the Feminine—within yourself, but especially with women. Be a demonstration that you, in your Masculine, will be supported as you support women.
Also, it is important for men to reach out to other men. In doing so, they are accessing their own inner Feminine. For men have so often suffered being in competition with each other, feeling threatened by each other. Many men are afraid to let down their guard, afraid that if they become vulnerable, open, they will lose in the great game of competition, they will be taken advantage of. So it takes skill, as a man, to reach out to other men and to create a different kind of connection with them that is not founded in competition, that is founded in care for that man and that man’s wellbeing, founded in the understanding that it feeds you to support another man, and that you are suffering the lack of that quality of connection as much as the other.
This is not something that can be, for the most part, done through talk or even ideas. It is something that must be lived. One of the things that will help is if you are able to change the form in which you live. Right now, most people live very separately. Many people live entirely separately, all by themselves. But if they don’t live all by themselves, they usually only live with their partner, sometimes with children, or occasionally another family member, perhaps an aging parent, or another family member. But this is not actually the most supportive form. It is much more supportive for you to be living in ways where men are close to other men, women are close to other women, and you are supporting each other. If you are able to change the form in which you live, this kind of transformation will happen much more quickly. The foundation for trust will be laid and it will start to grow. That is what it will really require. Many men trust women more than they trust other men. This must change and will change. If you want to support this change, those are the arenas that are most in need of help.
I love you all so much. I thank you for all that you do, the courage that you bring, the commitment and dedication to your spiritual growth, the transformation that is underway and that you are all supporting in your world. It is such a beautiful thing. I thank you so much. And I thank you for this time. I thank you for this celebration.
I love you. I bless you.
I AM Mary Magdalene.
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Copyright 2012 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety and the information is not altered, excerpted, or added to; credit of authorship and my website address (www.mercedeskirkel.com) is included; and no money is exchanged. For any other uses, please contact Mercedes Kirkel to obtain permission. Thank you.
Mercedes Kirkel is a channel and spiritual guide, bringing forth messages and instruction from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light, as well as Akashic Record Readings. Her new book, Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love is available at www.marymagdalenebeckons.com. All messages and practices are universal and are not affiliated with any religion.
To receive ongoing messages from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light through Mercedes, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com and request to be added to the mailing list.
Mercedes offers workshops and private sessions in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is available in-person or long distance (by phone and skype), or to travel to your location. For more information, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com.
Was Mary Magdalene Jesus’ Wife? New Harvard findings corroborate information given to author Mercedes Kirkel.
A Harvard divinity professor has made front-page news with the announcement of a newly revealed papyrus, offering fresh evidence that Jesus may have been married. The fragments of text on the fourth century paper include Jesus speaking the words “my wife” and “Mary Magdalene” in Coptic, an Egyptian language. This revelation is no surprise to Mercedes Kirkel, Santa Fe resident and author of the newly released book Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love, in which Mary Magdalene tells about her life and relationship with Jesus.
“In the summer of 2010, I had the incredible blessing of receiving twenty-five messages from Mary Magdalene over the course of a month,” stated Kirkel. “In one of the messages, Mary described her bond to Jesus as holy husband and wife. She said they were both prepared for their relationship through their spiritual training in various sacred traditions. This included instruction in sacred sexuality, which Mary explained was ‘a process of transforming our bodies into light and love, in service to our destinies.’”
Mary also reveals in the book that both she and Jesus knew it would be 2000 years before humanity was ready to hear her story and receive her in her role as teacher and embodiment of the Divine Feminine. Throughout her messages, Mary emphasized the importance of both men and women understanding and strengthening their own Feminine, through changing the way they relate to their bodies, sexuality, and emotions, along with releasing limitations in their thinking. Her focused instruction in these arenas is offered as a means to open the heart, so that “the marriage of the sacred heart and sacred mind can occur.” According to Kirkel, “This is the marriage that Mary is most passionate about, just as Jesus’ teaching was all about us and our spiritual transformation.”
Authors Stuart Wilson and Joanna Prentis (Power of the Magdalene and The Magdalene Version) have said, “It is clear to us that Mary’s words contained in Mary Magdalene Beckons are part of a pure transmission of her teaching that is now being restored to the world. If you want to hear the real voice of Mary Magdalene, we recommend . . . this book.”
Mary Magdalene Beckons is available through Amazon U.S. and Europe and through the website www.marymagdalenebeckons.com. It will be available in local bookstores in October. The website also contains a video of Kirkel telling the story of how Mary Magdalene began coming to her.
For more information, go to www.marymagdalenebeckons.com.
Mary Magdalene: Sacred Marriage
Received on July 22, 2012 through Mercedes Kirkel
[This is Part I of a channeled message that Mary Magdalene gave at a gathering in honor of her feast day, July 22nd, 2012.]
Hello, greetings, and blessings to my dear one and all of you who are here with me today, all of you who will be hearing this and listening to it later, all of you who are gathered in so many gatherings across your country and around your world who are honoring the Divine Feminine through calling upon me on this day. I thank you so much.
I am so thrilled to be here with you, with all of you. I’m so happy for your opening to the Divine Feminine in this moment and in all the ways that you do. And I’m so happy for all there is to celebrate right now. For there is so much, I almost feel a little beside myself—Where to start? Where to begin?
I will begin right here with you who are gathered here. To you, Mercedes, I say that I am greatly embracing you, greatly celebrating with you for the book that you have put out, for your creating this gathering and other events. There will be so many more events in the future to allow me to come through and to allow others, as well. We are supporting all of you in your growth and your beautiful unfoldment, which is happening so strongly right now.
It is such a wonderful time, for so many reasons. But one of them is that there are so many people who are opening up to us—the beings of light in the higher dimensions. We are so happy and thrilled to be supporting all of you, connecting with you, helping you, joining with you consciously, and to have these kinds of occasions when we speak to you and we hear from you. It is so wonderful. Of course, our connection with you is not limited. It is not limited to these occasions. It is not limited to when we speak with you or you speak with us. It is ongoing and there are so many forms that it is taking. But these occasions, in particular, are very wonderful and joyful for all of us, to have you coming together, holding sacred space, creating the container for us to connect in this way. To all of you, I thank you so much for being here today.
And I thank you for your openness to me. For yes, it is true that the world is opening to me in these past few years, which of course are like the blink of an eye, if that much, in terms of your time and the total time of our beingness. But so much has happened in such an incredibly short time, and this is just the beginning. There are huge openings ahead, huge things that will be changing you, changing your consciousness, changing your world in so many ways. And this is part of the excitement that I feel. It is being created all the time by people just like yourselves who are expanding, growing, calling in this change, wanting it for themselves, wanting to hold it and share it with others. That is how your world is formed, created, sustained, changed, dissolved, re-birthed. It is how manifestation happens.
This manifestation process is strengthened through all these forms of your coming together—where you join together, share your dreams, share your visions, share your hopes, share your strengths, share your help and your support with each other. This is so important. It is so critical. It is what has happened in the past in some of your more formal ways—through your churches, in particular. And of course, there are ways that that has supported people and there are ways that that has diverted and gone away from helping people.
But the form is changing. It is becoming much more of an internal process that is happening within each person. And you are connecting with others out of this internal process, because there are so many people going through this process together. Truly, you are connected, and you are finding each other in all different ways. In those connections, you are amplifying, magnifying this process for each other, as well as for people who perhaps are at a different stage. These people are going through the process in their own way, but perhaps are not sharing in the way that you are with yourself and with others—consciously, openly, outwardly. But you are helping them, also, and it is affecting them. So these gatherings are one of the new forms that is emerging. It is a very organic form in your world, in which the power, the spiritual transformation is coming through. It is one of the great changes that are happening at this time.
And yes, the Divine Feminine is so important. Many of you understand this. Many of you have an awareness of this, of how the Divine Feminine has been waiting. It has not been time. You, so many of you, have not been ready and your world has not been ready. Now there is so much that is supporting this, that is in place. There are a few things that I wish to share about this.
The first is that one of the ways you can recognize the Divine Feminine is that the Divine Feminine is in love with the Divine Masculine. And the Divine Feminine is supportive of the Divine Masculine and of union—of union with the Masculine, union with the Child, union with the Divine. Union is one of the primary paths of the Feminine. So do not fall into the trap of thinking that it is only about the Divine Feminine, for that is not the case. The Divine Feminine is embracing of the Divine Masculine. And you have needed this time to become strong in the Divine Masculine, within yourselves, in your world. Yes, it has been out of balance. And yes, it has gone to the extreme at times. Yet, there was a logic. There was a reason and a preparation that was happening. Now the Masculine is ready to embrace the Feminine, to call us in and for there to be union and unity. This is the new stage, the new age that you are moving into.
So remember that it is about the Divine Feminine coming forth and flowering. But the Divine Feminine embraces and holds and loves the Divine Masculine, and honors the Masculine, and calls in the Masculine to bring what the Masculine brings, which is so important for there to be balance and wholeness and harmony. That is what you are moving into, a beautiful new age, in which there will be this union and this unity between the Feminine and the Masculine.
Many of you know this in your hearts, in your souls, and in your beings in the relationship between myself and Yeshua. It is something that you don’t have to know with your mind. You don’t have to know the details. You don’t have to know where we lived, what we did, what were the dates, what were the names, what were the other people. Yes, that can be interesting, and yes, there is a way that in your humanness that feeds you. But truly, everything that you need is in your heart, in your soul, in your beingness. And you know that love that we exemplified, that we lived. You know that we brought that frequency into the world, planting it as seed to be here in your world. And yes, the relationship between us was hidden for many, many years. It was not time. The world was not ready yet for that to come forth. Now it is.
So know that we are with each one of you in your heart. And there is a way that our archetypal relationship, our pure love was planted so many years ago, and is still here, is strengthening and becoming more available, more accessible, more profound as you are opening to it and receiving it. This is part of why so many people are drawn to me at this time. It is like a cosmic alarm clock going off. You are ready for this. You are ready to know of my great love for Yeshua. And you are ready to know that love within yourself and to begin to incarnate it and to manifest it.
That love always manifests first with yourself. It manifests with you knowing the love of your Divine Masculine, your Divine Feminine. The marriage of the Divine Masculine and Feminine always lives within you, within your heart, and that is where it begins. Out of that comes the holy marriage, which is the marriage of you and God. But God has two faces in this manifestation here in your realm. There is the Masculine face of God and the Feminine face of God.
Not only will you know the marriage of the two faces of God within yourself, but you will also know your holy union with God, absolutely. And then you will know this sacred union in your relationships with others. More and more of you will be finding your sacred partner, who you live this exquisite love with. The love relationship with a sacred partner includes the exquisite union of your sacred heart and sacred mind, in form, with another being. It is one of the greatest blessings that you will experience in this realm. Know that this is your future, if you have not experienced it up till now. This is what is coming in. You are ready now to grow into this, to know this, and to allow it to carry you to your greater divinity, your divine beingness.
That is always what I am so moved to share—my understanding and my experience of this divine union, this sacred marriage. As I have spoken through Mercedes and is in her book, there are foundational steps for each of you in opening to the Divine Feminine. Many of you have areas that you still need to strengthen in this way, because this is such a new time of celebrating, of opening to, of calling forth the Divine Feminine. These foundational arenas are very important, because they are what will allow you to open your heart. They will allow you to know the sacred marriage within of your Divine Masculine–Divine Feminine, of your sacred heart–sacred mind, and your sacred heart-union with another being. Do not gloss over that. It is important and it will help you to know this and to complete your work at these foundational stages. It will allow you to go on into your greatness, your largeness, your beauty, your perfection, and into greater and greater realms of experience, of consciousness, of light and love.
That is all that I am going to say about that today, for I have said it in great depth before. I hope that it may support and serve every one of you in your becoming the beautiful, divine being that you are, that I know you as, and that I support you in fully.
I love you. I bless you.
I AM Mary Magdalene.
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Mercedes Kirkel is a channel and spiritual guide, bringing forth messages and instruction from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light, as well as Akashic Record Readings. Her new book, Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love is available at www.marymagdalenebeckons.com. All messages and practices are universal and are not affiliated with any religion.
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Mercedes offers workshops and private sessions in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is available in-person or long distance (by phone and skype), or to travel to your location. For more information, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com.
Mary Magdalene and Sacred Sexuality: An Interview on Tantra Talk Radio
July 22nd was the Feast Day of Mary Magdalene. Part of how I celebrated this day was to do an interview with Rundy Duphiney of Tantra Talk Radio on Mary Magdalene and her relationship with Sacred Sexuality. I greatly enjoyed talking with Rundy about Mary Magdalene and what she has revealed to me about her practice and teaching of Sacred Sexuality.
Here’s what Rundy had to say about the interview:
“Last night’s interview with Mary Magdalene channel and author Mercedes Kirkel was a cosmic, otherworldly, and beautiful experience for all. Ms. Kirkel epitomizes humility, compassion, and selflessness and went into great detail explaining Tantric sexuality as channeled to her by Mary Magdalene. It was one of the most beautiful and hopeful explanations of Tantra I have ever heard.”
To listen to the recording of that interview, Click Here.
A New Book…and a New Website!
Hello Everyone!
I’m thrilled to share my first blog post with you on my brand new website: www.mercedeskirkel.com. So many things have been happening at once, I’m feeling a little breathless. Here’s the list:
- Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love is now available through www.marymagdalenebeckons.com and Amazon! Yay!!!!
- I have a new website that’s just going live: www.mercedeskirkel.com, with lots of juicy information on it about my services and products.
- I was interviewed on my first radio program on May 30th (my daughter’s birthdayJ) You can listen to the recording at: http://psychicdilemma.com/radio-shows. Go to the bottom of the page and click on the interview dated May 30, 2012. Soon we’ll have the recording on www.marymagdalenebeckons.com (on the Interviews page of the Media Kit).
I’d love to have you order Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love through Amazon. Receiving orders through them will help get the book listed when people do a search for “Mary Magdalene.” Right now, if you want to find the book, you have to search for “Mary Magdalene Beckons by Mercedes Kirkel.” To go directly to the Amazon listing for Mary Magdalene Beckons, click here. And if you enjoy the book, please write a review on Amazon. That will help other people to connect with Mary’s messages, which is what she wants.
There’s even more, but that’s enough for now. 🙂
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