The Magdalene Path Back to Source

Many authors and mystics have channeled the energy collective attributed to Mary Magdalene, and none more famously than Tom Kenyon, who writes about his experience in The Magdalene Manuscript. By all of the channeled accounts, Mary Magdalene was both the wife and most accomplished disciple of Jesus, eventually becoming a fellow teacher who carried on their work. Much of her teachings concern how to live with pain and ultimately follow it as a path back to divine source energy. Author and channeler Mercedes Kirkel has shared a great deal of messages on the subject, and the path begins with the process of consciously disidentifying with duality. For her, that required dismantling the idea that pleasure and pain exist as opposites.

“You only consider something pleasurable because it is different than your usual state. The same is true of pain. If you only had pleasure and no pain, yet were still thinking within a dualistic framework, you would simply create increments of pain within what you used to call pleasure. That is the nature of the mind,” she wrote. “So the idea of getting away from pain and only having pleasure is an illusion and a trap. If you are thinking that way, you’re committing yourself to an endless path of seeking and avoidance that would never be fruitful. Not only will it not be fruitful, it can take you away from a path that can be very fruitful.” The Magdalene asserts that by feeling into pain, we accelerate our soul’s correction and the manifestation of our desires. By asking higher intelligence to help us be with the pain, we call the light into our own darkness.

She believes the most difficult thing for human beings to learn, because the dimension we live in creates the illusion of separateness, is that we’re never alone. Knowing this makes pain more tolerable, and we can recognize positive guidance from higher intelligence when the messages we’re getting promote peace and keeping our hearts open. “Your pain is given to you to help grow. Do you believe this? It is difficult medicine. The pain is actually the medicine. When you have pain, it is telling you that there is some way that you have closed off from God. If you only seek to make the pain go away, then you will not receive the help you are being given for you to change, heal and grow.” 

It’s a difficult invitation to receive, but one we must eventually accept because pain is unavoidable in this reality. With acceptance also comes the implied invitation to transcend duality and find what ancient wisdom calls the path back to Source. If the original spark of conscious energy created everything we know by becoming everything we know, then we meet our true selves in every aspect of creation. The Magdalene calls this recognition and the embracing of every experience The Feminine Path, while transcending by detaching oneself from all things material is The Masculine Path.

“The truth is that both are required, and one inevitably leads to the other. Transcendence inevitably leads to embrace of all, just as embrace of all ultimately leads to transcendence. The nature of one is to be in unity with the other. If either is neglected or underdeveloped, it thwarts the other,” she explained. “When you are in pain, you are in the process of giving birth to a new part of yourself. You can cooperate with the event and support it, just like a natural childbirth. By learning to open to your feelings, relax the body, and breathe to clear the mind, you will support this birth, this new part of yourself. And in doing so, you can allow yourself to surrender to God.”

Offering herself as a midwife to our true God-selves, The Magdalene reminds us to always ask to feel the love and light available to us. By her definition, to surrender is to be willing to ask for help from higher intelligence and accept the love of all creation. Being able to feel the intensity of pain equips us to hold the intensity of feeling love and blessings beyond our wildest dreams. This dynamic was exemplified by Mary Magdalene’s relationship with Jesus, or Yeshua as she calls him. There’s a famous quote from The Magdalene Manuscript, “True transformation does not require hope and moves even in despair.” No matter what kind of pain we’re going through, transformation always moves towards becoming more loving, so the intensity of painful experience expands our ability to hold more loving experiences. 

“You might feel profound love when you see a gorgeous sunset, an exquisite landscape, or a beautiful flower. These, too, are God reaching out to your heart. And always the response is to open to love. That is all that is required. Open to love, and you will be guided by love.”