The Black Madonna

<P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none><SPAN style=FONT-FAMILY: 'Myriad Pro'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Myriad Pro'>The Catholic Church has admitted its error in the smearing of The Magdalene as a prostitute thereby removing an image that has dominated the minds of<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>religious authors and painters since the 6th century. And although Mary The Magdalene is almost always mentioned first ahead of the Virgin Mary only a handful of scholars have attempted to reconstruct why she could have been so important that she carried a royal title<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>that translates as The Great One.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none><SPAN style=FONT-FAMILY: 'Myriad Pro'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Myriad Pro'><SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none><SPAN style=FONT-FAMILY: 'Myriad Pro'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Myriad Pro'>According to the Gnostics Jesus referred to her as The One who knew all who took a front row seat at all of the main events in the life of The Christ. These Gnostics also believed that mankind was the hybrid result of a genetic experiment<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>Today we have mapped our DNA the mitochondria of which traces all the races of the world back to a single woman in Ethiopia in 200000 BCE the exact place and time stipulated by the cuneiform tablets of the ancient Sumerian peoples for the emergence of the genus Homo sapiens.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none><SPAN style=FONT-FAMILY: 'Myriad Pro'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Myriad Pro'><SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none><SPAN style=FONT-FAMILY: 'Myriad Pro'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Myriad Pro'>Those Sumerians called this great woman Ninmah the Egyptians called her Isis the Greeks called her Athena The<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>Sophia and the ancient Hebrews called her Asherah The Woman of the Tree and the very consort to the Lord God YHWH. But in the hands of the Catholic Church She became The Black Madonna.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none><SPAN style=FONT-FAMILY: 'Myriad Pro'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Myriad Pro'><SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none><SPAN style=FONT-FAMILY: 'Myriad Pro'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Myriad Pro'>Legend connects this Black Madonna with both Isis and The Magdalene.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt><SPAN style=FONT-FAMILY: 'Myriad Pro'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Myriad Pro'>This book The Black Madonna sets forth<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>the revelation of that connection which forms the greatest secret of all time.</SPAN></P>