The Gospel of Mary Magdalene Quotes

“It is the conscious Breath that comes from the unnamable space where inspiration originates, and expiration returns—that space without boundaries, which we are sometimes fortunate enough to taste when silence reigns within us.”
― Jean-Yves Leloup, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene

“But it’s important to remember that Jesus Christ does relieve Mary of the seven demons—or”
― Jean-Yves Leloup, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene

“The willfully ignorant are wont to follow this inclination that leads back to the animal they were but can no longer be, because it allows escape from the trials of self-knowledge and the demands of discrimination. Not wanting to know is the most powerful and destructive of forces, ultimately resulting in that self-indulgent cowardice that alone makes it possible for people to allow and participate in all the injustices and crimes of the world.”
― Jean-Yves Leloup, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene

“The canonical Gospels offer no information as to the specific nature of the seven demons or spirits that initially possess Miriam—that is to say, alienate her from her freedom. However, we might make some surmises about them by referring to other texts that were current in those times. According to Evagrius Ponticus, who made a thorough study of such matters, these logismoï (his term for“negative or destructive thoughts”) act to destroy a person’s orientation toward the nous, and then the orientation of the nous toward the Pneuma. In other words, they act to obstruct peace, contemplation, and the Presence of the Son seeking to establish itself in the person. Lists of such demonic spirits vary. In the West they later become known as the seven deadly orcardinal sins: gluttony, fornication, covetousness, sadness, anger, vainglory, pride. Evagrius adds accidie to the list, meaning a kind of despondency or apathetic rejection of spiritual realities.”
― Jean-Yves Leloup, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene

“Evil and sin arise from the blamer in ourselves.”
― Jean-Yves Leloup, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene

“The ethical consequences of such a practice of desire and imagination are clear, and cannot fail to shock Yeshua’s other disciples. “There is no sin,” it tells us. It is we who continually create sin with our sickly imagination, and then invent laws to make it more comfortable. It is our imagination that needs to be healed.”
― Mary Magdalene, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene