The Legacy of the Three Marys by Daniel Meurois Interview with Sacrée Planète Magazine Final Part

The journey of the soul and its incarnation

16_In the healing journey of Mary Magdalene, Jesus speaks of the multitudes of life we go through and how attached we are to them: “Soul of Myriam—you loved this prison. You loved the succession of your meaningless lives because sleep is easy to exist in, because ignorance that ignores that it is ignorance is comfortable. The absence of a horizon can become a horizon in itself.” Isn't there a parallel with "This Nail I drove in" when Nathanael, the central figure of the book, cannot forgive himself while Jesus accuses him of nothing? Doesn't Myriam’s healing journey offer keys for today?

Yes, there is certainly a parallel to be made here. The original teaching of Christ never had anything in it that could foster a sense of guilt. The notion of sin as transmitted to us by the Church was totally absent from Jesus' words. In his eyes, no one helps anyone by constantly reminding them of their wanderings and misunderstandings. In his words, only the notion of fault could be used and we understood that if we were at fault, it was out of ignorance, because we had forgotten, on the one hand, the right functioning of Life and, on the other, our divine origins-hence our immersion in Duality, the experimentation of the state of Separation and all the states of Suffering.

“The Scripture of Mary Magdalene” makes it clear when she said:

“The fault does not exist

 because it is you alone who give existence to it.

You do this every time you bend to the reflexes

of your constructed and adulterated reality.” (Sheet 7, 137-139)

By adultery, a frequent term in Gnostic symbolism, we must understand here "who has allowed herself to be trapped by duality."

Unlike Mary Magdalene, Jacobe and Salome obviously did not transmit or inspire any text. However, in the light of their respective testimonies, it seems to me that their journey, with its trials and errors and its enthusiasms, is just as instructive and holds the keys for today. I would say that the lesson conveyed by these three women– who represent a bit of each of us–is that of the quest for the unification of consciousness and compassion. This lesson is still relevant today.

17_The Legacy of the Three Marys has several levels of reading and is one of those works that distills an energy that penetrates to the depths of our being, far beyond the words. In your introduction, you advise us “to breathe the meaning of each page". Isn't it time to know that our cells can read and that our soul will seek the resonance of the words that will nourish it?

Yes, you are right. We must finally understand that this path that we call "spiritual" is not accomplished only inside our heads. What we call "consciousness" is not a cerebral reality. It permeates all the levels of our being, even if we do not perceive it. In fact, its degree of penetration in our flesh participates in making us more or less awake beings.

When I talk about “breathing the meaning of each page" of this book, I try to make people understand that it is not only their information content that counts but that there is "something else" in them that concerns the magic of what I myself received while writing their testimony, and which resembles a perfume. In reality, absolutely nothing spectacular happens on the beach where the three women meet for several nights in a row, but still...everything happens. And that everything, in my opinion, may be summed up in that sacred simplicity and spontaneity of the heart that gives wings to our soul.

An Excerpt of The Legacy of the Three Marys

The Book of Salome : The Geometry of Awakening

“ ‘Now Shlomit, remember this: Any human being can and must become an eagle if he wants to join My Father—that is to say, if he wants to join His kingdom.’ Jeshua said.

‘How do I go up, Rabbi, when the Earth weighs me down so much and I miss my other life?’

‘Listen to Me clearly. You think you have both feet on the banks of clay and mud on the shores of the lake, but, in truth, if too little of you is planted in this world, it is because too much of you refuses it. It is not another life that you miss; it is your own journey uniting this world to the path of the Eternal that you are missing.’

‘Did I know this path? Is it long?’

‘It is inscribed at the bottom of each of us, even in a stone that slumbers in the silent darkness of the water. Whoever manages to really look at himself becomes master of the length of this path. He manages to reduce it to the point of merging it with the present moment. So, here is what I came to teach you: the right gaze.

A human being is a tree, Shlomit. Everyone wants to consider its foliage and, above all, ignore its roots, but in truth, the right gaze—the one that unites—is the one that attaches to the trunk. In this trunk, the idea of fruit is born. The trunk is where the Life Force and Reconciliation develop. The trunk is the heart of the tree. What am I? A trunk! I am a reconciler who came to teach about the right gaze.’

‘But what is really looking at yourself?’

‘Ask Me instead, “What is not really looking at yourself?” What is not looking at yourself is living as you do in this world. It is sleeping while walking, eating, chatting, gesticulating at any moment. It is being separated from oneself by believing you are the center of everything. In a few words, it is to draw borders with each breath. Remember what I’m going to show you now.’

Jeshua was silent for a few moments, and I saw Him looking for something on the ground. Finally, He found a little stone that seemed to suit Him. After grabbing it, He began to make a drawing with the help of its point on the narrow space of sandy earth that separated our respective mats. It was a square.

‘See what I just drew, Shlomit? This represents our world at this moment, with its gravity, of course, but also its stability and its balance. The square is matter, but at the same time it could be your house with its four walls or your body as the physical body for your soul. Obviously, you can make this square a prison. It depends on what way you look at it—that is, on how you color your perception.’

After a very short pause, as if to make sure I was following Him well, the master then drew a second figure on the ground, a perfectly regular triangle.

‘This sign, the triangle, also represents balance. This time, however, it is not the One of the Earth but the One of the Spirit. It first translates the Life Force that designs, then that which manifests, and finally that which sublimates. But that’s not all. The triangle also speaks of the man and the woman and then of the love they create between them, which expands them in multiple ways. It speaks of the male and the female in each of us, of the sun and the moon that live within us, and of the necessary marriage to which they are promised.

Now be more careful. When you live in the square of your world—whether you feel happy or unhappy—something in each of us recognizes, despite everything, an enclosure. Each of its dimensions is a projection of how we perceive others. Everything about it speaks of opposition. Is it then harmful? Many believe it is harmful and see in the square form four bars of a prison, which obliges that some be horizontal. But I ask you, Shlomit, what are horizontal bars if they are not the rungs of a ladder?

Few men and women manage to take such a look at their lives. They do not understand that, in order to resolve the Mystery of the Four—that is to say, of all that seems to oppose it in a sort of exhausting fatality—there is only the Force of the Three.’

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