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What Most People Were Never Told About Mary Magdalene

Most people think they already know her story.

They don’t.

Mary Magdalene was not a pr******te.
That label appears nowhere in the earliest Christian texts. It was attached to her centuries later, long after she was dead, by church leaders who blended multiple women into one story. History didn’t misremember her — it rebranded her.

Here’s what the earliest sources actually show.

Mary Magdalene was the first witness to the resurrection.
Not Peter.
Not John.
Not any male disciple.

In a world where women’s testimony didn’t count in court, the earliest Christians still preserved this detail. That alone tells historians it wasn’t invented. If you were making up a story to gain credibility, you would never place a woman at its center.

But it goes deeper.

Mary Magdalene wasn’t just a witness. She was a leader.

Early writings outside the New Testament show her debating theology with male disciples, correcting misunderstandings, and being described as the one Jesus loved for her insight, not her obedience. Some texts portray Peter as openly frustrated that Jesus trusted her spiritual understanding more than his.

That tension matters.

Because it shows something uncomfortable:
Authority in the early movement wasn’t as male-dominated as later tradition made it seem.

Mary Magdalene traveled with Jesus.
She financially supported the movement.
She remained when others fled.
She announced the resurrection when others hid.

Early Christians even gave her a title rarely taught today:

“Apostle to the Apostles.”

So how did she become reduced to a moral warning instead of remembered as a leader?

Simple answer: power.

As the church institutionalized, leadership narrowed. Women’s authority became inconvenient. Rewriting her story solved that problem without rewriting scripture outright.

So Mary Magdalene didn’t disappear from history.
She was softened, sanitized, and sidelined.

Once you see that shift, the story reads differently.

She wasn’t redeemed from sin.
She was erased from leadership.

And most people were never told that.

25/12/2025

25th December - Christmas Day

"Always remember the qualities of Christ. Never get angry. Love all people with the consciousness of Christ, with the consciousness of brotherhood and forgiveness. Go on doing good no matter how much you get slapped by others. There are thousands who will appreciate your efforts, and a few who won't. When they crucify you with unkindness, that is the time to say, 'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.' Continue to do good to please God, including efforts at resolving the misunderstanding. Don't be a doormat or cooperate with evil, but in your heart separate them - their souls - from their misguided actions, and give them love sincerely. Thereby you will attain self-mastery - a peace within yourself that cannot be destroyed by the actions of others, and a love for all that is lasting. If you express that Christ-peace and Christ-love - doing good to all, feeding the poor and thinking of others' welfare thinking of them as your own, taking an interest in them - then you will be manifesting Christ Consciousness."

- Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
Solving The Mystery of Life
Christ Consciousness Versus Human Consciousness, page 321-322



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Tis the season for worshipping men and erasing women's divinity and labor.

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