Mark Gagnon

I am the honored one and the scorned one.

I am the whore and the holy one.

I am the wife and the virgin.

I am the mother and the daughter.

I am the silence that is incomprehensible in the idea whose remembrance is frequent.

Pretty bold claim.

I mean, she's literally claiming to be everything.

Dirty, clean, sacred, profane.

I mean, in the Bible, you know, women seem to be painted kind of in a specific way, right?

You're either, you know, the whore of Babylon, you're evil, or you are the blessed mother, you know, blessed Virgin Mary, this pure, idyllic woman that is born of an immaculate conception with no original sin.

But this text says that the divine feminine is present in the brothel just as much as the temple.

And naturally, the early church structure, according to the Gnostic critics, would basically say that this idea of an empowered woman that is all things, the creator mother goddess that precedes all creation, has no room.

And

you know, they got rid of that text completely.

So the big question is, if these books were so important, you know, to many of these early, you know, church thinkers or these early, like, proto-Christians that are around the region, why are they buried in a jar under a cliff?

Well, for the first 300 years after Jesus, Christianity was kind of in, like, a Wild West phase.

There's no New Testament to speak of.

Like, you can't go to a hotel and open up a drawer and find a Bible.

And there's no...

you know, organized church structure in the way that we see it today.