The Inner Feminine and the Ascent of the Soul
Mary Magdalene and the Awakening of Spiritual Sovereignty
In the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, one of the most striking texts of early Christianity, we encounter a teaching that profoundly unsettled the emerging leaders of the early Church: the liberation of the soul without the need for religious intermediaries.
After Yeshua’s departure, the disciples are filled with fear and confusion. It is then that Mary Magdalene rises, not as just another follower, but as the one who has fully grasped the Master’s message. She shares a secret vision that Yeshua entrusted to her privately, a revelation not given to the others.
Mary explains that the soul, upon leaving the body, ascends through hostile powers, forces that attempt to stop it through fear, desire, ignorance, and attachment. Each power asks: “Where do you come from? Where are you going?” And the awakened soul responds not with blind belief, but with inner knowing.
Here we meet the revolutionary heart of the teaching. Sin is not an inherited stain. It is the condition of being disconnected from our true spiritual nature. There is no eternal damnation, only ignorance, and ignorance can be transcended.
In the broader Magdalene initiatory tradition, these forces correspond to the seven demons – powers, not evil beings in a moralistic sense, but seven distortions of consciousness that veil the soul:
- Darkness
- Desire
- Ignorance
- Excitement of Death
- Kingdom of the Flesh
- Foolish Wisdom of the Flesh
- Wrathful Wisdom
These are not simply psychological wounds. They are initiatory gates. They are healing portals, yes, but even deeper, they are the inner battlefield where the soul learns to stand in truth.
The soul is not sent into this battlefield prematurely. It enters when consciousness is ready. What looks like struggle is actually training in spiritual sovereignty.
This teaching was dangerous, not only spiritually liberating, but institutionally destabilizing.
If the soul can ascend through knowledge (gnosis), through inner awakening, then:
- No priest is required to grant salvation
- No hierarchy controls access to God
- No institution stands as gatekeeper
Authority moves from outer structure to inner realization.
This is why such texts were marginalized. A Christianity based on inner knowing cannot be governed by fear, guilt, or dependency. It produces spiritually mature beings, not followers.
When Mary Magdalene finishes expalining the teaching, Peter challenges her. He cannot accept that Yehsua would reveal such teachings to a woman rather than to them.
Then Levi (often identified with Matthew) defends her:
“If the Savior made her worthy, who are you to reject her?”
This moment reveals a radical truth: spiritual authority does not come from gender, title, office, or hierarchy — but from inner comprehension.
Authority is not conferred. It is recognized.
In this vision of early Christianity:
- The true leader is the one who has passed through inner death and rebirth
- The one who has faced the inner powers and not collapsed
- The one who speaks from lived realization
This overturns patriarchal, institutional models of power. It places authority in consciousness, not position.
What Would This Initiation with Yeshua Have Looked Like?
This was not likely a classroom teaching. It was an experiential initiation.
Guided by Yeshua, it may have involved:
- Periods of silence and desert withdrawal
- Confrontation with inner fear and illusion
- Teachings on death before death
- Meditation on the ascent of the soul
- Direct transmission of awareness
- Learning to witness thoughts and desires without identification
Mary Magdalene did not receive information. She underwent transformation.
She became one who had crossed the inner threshold, and could therefore guide others.
Why was this Gospel Silenced?
This gospel presented:
- A Christianity without fear
- Without institutional control
- Without the need for mediators
- Where the Kingdom is within
And perhaps that is why it was buried for centuries.
Because a human being who knows the Kingdom within cannot be ruled through fear.
Fear rules only where there is inner division.
Fear governs only where the soul has forgotten its origin.
The “Kingdom within” is not an abstract idea. It is the lived realization that consciousness is rooted in something eternal, luminous, and indestructible. When a person knows this — not as belief, but as direct experience — fear loses its power as a controlling force. The threat of exclusion, punishment, rejection, or even death no longer holds the same authority.
This is why such teachings were destabilizing. Systems built on external authority require inner insecurity to function. If salvation, worth, and divine access are mediated through an institution, then the institution holds power. But if the Kingdom is within, then the ultimate authority lies in awakened consciousness itself.
Mary Magdalene represents the deepest inner sovereign feminine principle — in both women and men.
This feminine is not about gender; it is about a mode of consciousness:
- receptive yet powerful
- intuitive yet discerning
- embodied yet luminous
- devoted yet inwardly free
She represents the soul that has descended into matter, into grief, into exile — and returned carrying light. She is the part of us that can enter the depths without losing connection to the Source.
In men, this feminine is the inner capacity to feel, to receive, to listen, to be guided by the heart rather than by domination or control. In women, it is the reclamation of spiritual authority that is not borrowed, not granted, but embodied.
The sovereign feminine does not seek permission to be connected to God. She knows she already is.
In the Gospel of Mary, the soul’s ascent is not a journey through outer heavens. It is a movement of consciousness freeing itself from identification with the false layers of self.
Each “power” the soul encounters represents a veil. To pass these veils is to recognize: this is not my true identity.
Mary embodies the soul that has already undergone this passage. That is why she can speak with authority. She has faced the inner forces that bind consciousness to fear and separation.
The ascent of the soul is therefore not escape from the world, but liberation from unconsciousness. It is the recovery of inner sovereignty, the recognition that our deepest identity is not defined by the roles, wounds, or structures of this world.
When the inner feminine awakens, when the Magdalene principle rises within us, something shifts irreversibly.
We may still feel fear, but we are no longer governed by it. We act from conscience, from love, from inner knowing. External threats lose their absolute power.
We can no longer be manipulated through guilt alone. We cannot be controlled through exclusion. Ourrelationship with the Divine is direct, living, interior.
This is not anti-community. It is the foundation of true community, a circle of inwardly sovereign beings, not a hierarchy of dependent followers.
Mary Magdalene is transcendence. She is a historical figure, a high holy Teacher, a Light Being, and ascended Master. But She is also the archetype of the awakened soul, the inner feminine that knows how to descend into darkness and rise with wisdom.
And when that part of us awakens, the Kingdom is no longer somewhere else.
It is recognized as the ground of our being.
And from there, fear is no longer the ruler.
Important Reminder:
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Sending love to all of you.
AHAVA,
Ana Otero
