Book Review! The Secret Magdalene
What a beautiful tale! This story tells a very different story of Jeshua. Magdalene is a young woman who, in her early years, practices arts that would have her cast from her home. Already in the precarious position of being a woman, she is forced to live her life in exile, as a man. Within her gender lie, she qualifies for education, respect, and honor. While living as a man, she meets numerous people, including Jeshua, or Jesus.
“Was he a god,” you ask? Not in the way that he has come to be known as God. Instead, he was another being who knew things and understood things much in the way that Magdalene did. And in this, she had the innermost connection with him.
Eventually, she tires of the false facade and comes out as a woman. Though the transition is a rough one, she discovers that a few who loved her as John love her even more as Magdalene.
I should only be so lucky as to have this book fall into my collection. One day it will. In the mean time, I am blessed to have experienced it– as every story has several sides, and this opened my eyes to the possibility that one I know so well might not be exactly as it has previously been presented.
