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MARY MAGDALENE: THE MOST IMPORTANT WOMAN IN HISTORY?
Long believed to be a reformed prostitute - much given to pathological snivelling - Mary Magdalene is now being accepted as one of Jesus’ disciples. This, however, goes nowhere far enough. Non-biblical texts make it quite clear that not only was Jesus besotted with her, often kissing her on the mouth, but that she was his chosen successor - and not Saint Peter. The early Church Fathers chose to marginalize and denigrate her rather than see her become the role model for women, and in rewriting the Christian story to make her unimportant, they effectively condemned generations of women to disenfranchised, uneducated and degraded lives. They also made sex a sin - even though it seems Jesus and Mary had elevated it to a sacrament... In her exclusive lecture for the Questing Conference, Lynn, the author of the recently published MARY MAGDALENE: CHRISTIANITY'S HIDDEN GODDESS, will outline her findings with respect to the importance of the Magdalene, while at the same time expressing her belief that Jesus’s ‘disciple of disciples’ was arguably the most important woman in history.
Lynn Picknett is a writer and lecturer on heresy and
the occult and has been consultant for major exhibitions at both the
Royal Photographic Society and the National Museum of Photography, Film
and Television. She is also a journalist and the co-author with Clive
Prince of Turin Shroud: In Whose Image?, The Templar Revelation and
The Stargate Conspiracy.
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