Grail Mother

A wispy gypsy on the scene. So obvious that schemers, craggy and mean would find the gushing stream in the reduction of Mary Magdalene.

An angrier, more aggressive derision of a strangled frenetic-collected religion couldn't just grow naturally from the blessing invested in children.

No way to find the healing salve, even after revealing millions of sacrifical calves so their manic release valve was to recall the priestess and call her a harlot, as Christ's # 1 platonic pal? Why did anyone fall for it?

Excellent thoughts, Loki! Thanks for posting them too. Your musings are always a pleasure for me to read, and oft contain many profound insights for people to make note of if they choose to.
 
History is filled with many deceptions, and many of those were strongly aimed at the notion of reducing the power of powerful women and making them subservient to patriarchal tradition even as the foundations for new religions were being laid down. Great men such as Christ had equally great women in their life... powerful women such as the Magdalene and of course His mother Mary also. But it was far easier (than telling the truth) for the Church to glorify one woman as a distraction so no one would notice the degree to which they demonized another in order to preserve their patriarchal status quo. They had done it before when they demonized Eve, Lilith, and yes also Lucifer... but when the Magdalene was demonized the more faithful few who were wiser (many of which were Gnostics, and some of which were also Essenes and other more esoteric, mystical forms of Christianity)... they knew what was being done, and so the Magdalene and her secrets were kept hidden, kept safe, and thus revealed only to those who sought after them. Such as the Grail Knights and King Arthur and his knights as well. It was not Galahad's physical purity that allowed him to find the Grail and know its' true nature. Rather, it was his pure heart, his open mind, and his willingness to be illuminated by a truth that Rome would have preferred no one learn. Many of those burned at the stake by the Inquisition were Gnostics, Cathars, and other keepers of this sort of lore. Lore that showed women to be equal: and as worthy to lead people spiritually as men are. It is telling, that many of the organized faiths of today do not regard women the same as men, and women can still not become Christian priestesses, with priests being men only. Just as even God is called a "He" when the true nature of God is not confined to a single gender, form, or aspect that is knowable to the mind of mortals. If you go far enough back into history, myth, legend and such, you will see the oppression of patriarchy against any form of matriarchal thought beginning with Marduk's senseless killing of Tiamat (and his genocide against her children and all who held the "Draconic Bloodline" as the gods called it) and continuing into the destruction of Atlantis and the Biblical Flood. People imagine God was responsible for those atrocities, because that is what the patriarchy would have people believe... but the truth is far more complicated and not at all what the masses would prefer to hear. So to know of the Grail is to know of the restoring of dignity to the Divine Feminine principle and the undoing of generations of prejudice, hatred, and suppression. Even such seemingly innocent tales such as that of how Perseus slew the Gorgon Medusa are actually insidious in that they portray the powerful woman as the monster and the heroic male hero (typically a child of Zeus who is the same power-hungry tyrant god as Marduk) as the one who must (naturally) overcome her in order to prove he is worthy to be a “god”. Never mind that he always slays a goddess and robs her of her life and her dignity in order to achieve this task, which is almost always done to please Zeus. So from religion to mythology, to history… this has been going on, behind the scenes, yet in plain sight since time began. Transgender Women (such as myself) have also been demonized historically such as in this case: in ancient Babylon and Sumeria, many of the high priestesses of the goddess Ishtar were called Gala, and were in fact what today would be called Transgender Women. Some were cross-dressers, or Transvestites as well, and many were willingly made into Eunuchs in order to be more female. It is said that the high priestess of Ishtar who sat in her temple was always a Gala, and that the goddess Ishtar herself had been one when she lived as a mortal. Ironically, Ishtar and Marduk were not enemies but they were rivals for power in Babylon. One of the reasons the ancient Israelites hated the Babylonians was for their worship of Ishtar, who to many of the ancient Israelite patriarchs was “The Whore of Babylon” because of a custom involving sacred prostitutes. Eventually Babylon fell and the truth about the Gala were lost to history when Israelite law codes (infamously re-produced in the Christian Bible) call it a “sin” for men to be as women are whether in dress or otherwise. Which is utter nonsense, since God loves everyone equally and in fact because of God’s aspect as the Goddess… considers Transgender people such as myself to be sacred. Such was how it was in ancient traditions, before history was: changed by the victors… so to speak. I could write whole volumes on all of these things, but the basic gist of why I mention all this here is to show that the Holy Grail is much more than a simply cup or chalice but a form of enlightenment that restores dignity to women, Transgender and otherwise, who have been suppressed by a system that only chooses to notice one side of what is in truth a dualistic universe that is far more all-encompassing than the limited view organized religion (the continuation of all ancient patriarchal systems) would feel comfortable with admitting to. Plus, they will never want to admit that they have been wrong for literally thousands and thousands of years! But those of us who know the ancient secrets, at least if we keep them alive they are not lost. And in teaching them, as I do in my humble way through my poetry, they can be passed on to future generations, who in turn can teach them and pass them on. That was how the Grail Knights preserved the secret of the Magdalene and the Grail, and it is the reason these truths survive today even in diluted form as they sometimes can be.
--- Love and Light, my friend!

I really love this short piece by your pen Jessica...I feel its like a sacred prayer you are quoting and this poem very much IS of you...
Much enjoyed

My thanks, dear Mourganna! Indeed, this poem is quite dear to my heart spiritually, and I am gald to see you enjoyed it so much. :)