
23/09/2025
Revisiting the Gospel of Mary
I’ve recently revisited the Gospel of Mary, a text lost for centuries and still missing large parts today. What remains is profoundly beautiful and offers a perspective entirely different from the other gospels written by the apostles of Jesus.
In this text, Jesus appears to Mary after his resurrection and speaks of the soul’s journey after death. The soul passes through levels, encountering powers that seek to bind it: Desire, Ignorance, Wrath. At each stage, the soul responds with knowledge and liberation, ultimately returning to its true rest in the Divine.
But this is more than a teaching about the afterlife. Symbolically, it reflects the path of spiritual initiation. The “powers” the soul confronts are also the inner obstacles we face in life: attachment, illusion, fear. Through gnosis or the direct knowing of the Divine, the soul can become free, here and now, as well as in the life beyond.
The Gospel of Mary resonates deeply with the Mystery School tradition: it affirms the inner path, the transformative journey of the soul, and the liberation that comes from awakening to the truth within. True knowledge of the Divine is not given by outer law, but revealed through inner transformation. It is the mystical path of freedom, courage, and direct communion with Spirit.
With love
Amanda Camenisch for INCENTRE