A little bit about Mari from Magadha

You can read more about the real “Mary Magdalene” from our various publications. Here, I just want to give a quick overview and leave first timers with a few word-foods for thought.

Iesous met Mari, a 14/15 year-old girl from Magadha, when she was a sex slave indentured to a pimp. He liberated her and she followed him, refusing all the Lord’s attempts to shake her off. From Gilgit (in the Himalayas) where they met, she followed the Lord as his only full time disciple all the way into Nepal, west to the mouth of the Indus, all the way up to Judea. She became his foremost disciple. Wherever they traveled, Mari ministered to women and children, teaching the Way.

Mari was present at the crucifixion. Afterward, she led a group of learned Wayists for a while and authored a Scripture for the movement. Once the group had settled and teachers were trained, Mari went down into Egypt and Ethiopia to spread the Wayist message. She made her way back to Kashmir via Aksum when she was about 70 years old to await the return of the Lord.

The Lord had promised he would return, as a glorified spiritual being, within a generation (40 years maximum). The signs of the Lord’s “second coming” were in the air—Jerusalem had been sacked, the Jews driven from their land, and the Temple had been destroyed, Pompeii had erupted, etc. Mari had worked all her life for the cause. No one was better trained than Mari.

Nevertheless, when the naysayers in Judea learned that Mari and thousands of others recognized Avalokiteshvara as the Christ, they disowned her. They changed her Scripture, removed her name from it, and called it the Gospel According to John. They were awaiting a Christ according to Old Testament promises. They were (are) awaiting a supernatural military commander who would wage war against evil (Rome, the dragon with seven heads) and establish the Jews as rulers of the world. They were not satisfied with an Avalokiteshvara.