Here is a man in whose presence honest women feel safe. Here is a woman in whose presence honest men feel safe.

Honest people are guileless. They expect people to be honest and guileless. Their experience, however, is that few people are honest and guileless. And because they are guileless, they feel unsafe in the presence of most people, most of whom are deceitful, because they feel they can be blind-sided by these people, as indeed they can be.

Guileless persons feel safe in the presence of guileless persons, and since there are few such living, guileless persons treasure those they meet. A person in whose presence one feels safe is Divine Presence.

Deceitful persons cannot feel safe in any presence.

The relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene is treasured by humanity because it illustrates the rare condition of absolute safety, the condition even deceitful persons wish they could have.

The company of the Blessed cannot be purchased. Like peace itself, safe company is earned. It cannot be gifted. Those who have it have 'inherited the earth.'

Safe company is a result of countless careers of sadhana (spiritual discipline). Those who have it -- adepts -- have been diligently earning that good fortune for millennia.

Safe company is recognized by such adepts, only. Most individuals cannot recognize safe company even when they are standing next to it. This astonishing phenomenon is observed by persons who are themselves safe company.

How many people actually recognized Jesus for Who He was? How many Mary Magdalene? In each case, a mere handful. Of course, such numbers Divinity accounts sufficient.

Until a personality is seasoned by countless careers of sadhana, it cannot get the Bliss of safe company.

Mary Magdalene is the Queen of Heaven, the Consort of the Male Principle. Mary Magdalene is the Divine Mother in Christian religion.

Mary Jesus' mother is Queen of Heaven and Mother in the clerical tradition, but she was not either of these in the event. Mary Magdalene was.

Clergy foist on lay people as religiosity incubitical and succubitical fetishes to which they are prone. Infatuation in the clerical tradition with Mary Jesus' mother is such a thing. Homosexual qualities and persons abet the activity.

Many writers have heaped up a mess which is called Tradition but which is really clerical tradition. Often, clerical tradition has the quality of tendention. Fabrications of both speech and event are common, and frequently, these contemn facts and principles. For example:

Incarnations of the Divine Personality occur with different intensities, ranging from partial to full. The Incarnation of Jesus as the Christ is in the middle of the scale, of middling intensity.

However, all Incarnations occur with the Inseparable Other, the Female Principle, attending. She is in the story, often leading it, sometimes Herself having taken multiple form. The Incarnation which is Jesus, the Christ, has Mary Magdalene as the Divine Energy (Feminine Principle) present with.

Really, the Incarnation is both Personalities together, Each Consort to the Other. God is One.

The relationship between Consorts that are an Incarnation varies by time and circumstance. Abraham and Sarah were husband and wife. Benedict and Scholastica were brother and sister. Monica and Augustine were mother and son. Jerome and Paula were adult acquaintances. Francis and Clare were transpersonal lovers. Teresa and John were co-workers. St. Paul was married.

Sometimes both Consorts incarnate with just one Form. God is not bound by precedents. As Poet and Artist, He establishes precedents that others (copyists) must observe while He Himself is beholden to none.

The Male and Female Principles incarnate simultaneously. She is illusion He puts on in order to enact the Eternal Duet.

Incarnations of God are the ultimate safe company. But most individuals who experience Them do not experience Them as safe company. The experience they get is terror and rage. This is a profound irony that only adepts and, of course, Incarnations can fathom.

Mary Magdalene is the Incarnation of the Feminine Aspect of Divinity. She is Hosea's wife. She is 'Jerusalem the Bride of Y H W H.' She was Jesus' Consort and He Hers.

Chastity is a mental thing, not a physical one. Celibacy is a spiritual phenomenon, not a physical one.

Chastity is single-pointed attention bound to the Consort or spouse. Celibacy is faithfulness (mono-gamy) to the Consort or spouse.

Sage and Consort, husband and wife may have children by what appear to be ordinary means and maintain celibacy. Of course, with such persons, nothing is ordinary.

The principle is that between certain persons, even ordinary activities are subsumed in prevailing Holiness.

Virginity, too, is kept and even retrieved by such persons.

Adwaitha Hermitage
April 1992