MAGDALENE'S ASCENSION, MARY'S JOURNEY TO BECOMING LIGHT

Annine van der Meer's latest publication, Magdalene's Ascension is now available in an English translation. She explained in private correspondence that "The Hebrew em gedhola is translated in Greek and Latin into amygdala or almond or almond tree, one of the names/titles of the Great Mother of Wisdom. The Tree of life in the Holy of Holies was an almond tree. The menorah is in the form of a pruned almond tree."

Magdalene's Ascension is an important book. One has to admire the radical and holistic trajectory van der Meer has chosen to write this ground-breaking thesis in which she adds an esoteric dimension, also physics and finance. Written during a period when van der Meer was struggling with serious health concerns, she managed to produce a very compelling story in which she astutely weaves and parallels the occult with historical fact leading to numerous discoveries. One must read Magdalene's Ascension with an open mind and acute listening. As an academic she takes enormous risks, going beyond the boundaries of materialistic science - and not for the first time. Mary Magdalene Unveiled (originally published in English in 2023), explores the validity of a controversial publication that first came to light in 2010, titled The Gospel of The Beloved Companion (GBC). See review here: https://www.annine-pansophia.nl/annine_van_der_meer/wp-content/upload s/website-Lee-Strasburger-Mary-Magdalene-Unveiled-Correct_.pdf .

After the publication of van der Meer's previous book, Mary Magdalene Unveiled, a series of unusual synchronicities guided her in directions that were both unexpected and beyond the normal. She felt compelled to trust her intuition, as she reluctantly and with great hesitation followed metaphysical books that were recommended to her. For example, there were esoteric concepts of reincarnation and light conceptions to consider, ideas that lie between grey lines and that require advanced thinking for full understanding. She decided to leave no stone unturned in her customary, investigative thoroughness.

As the title Magdalene's Ascension implies, van der Meer adds a rich dimension to her prior research into the remarkable life, teachings and ultimate enlightenment of Mary Magdalene, known as the priestess wife of Jesus. She strategically places herself looking through multiple additional lenses, such as the occult, she began examining the works of numerous "alternative information" delving into the subjects of channelling and hypnotic regression therapies of both practitioners and clients, living and deceased.

The work of one Dolores Cannon (1931-2014) came into van der Meer's orbit. Cannon was quite a controversial figure, a past life regressionist who also developed what she described as Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique. When the subject of The Dead Sea Scrolls in Cannon's work caught van der Meer's attention, this triggered her to explore more deeply. She also discovered the works of co-authors Stuart Wilson (b. 1937-) and Joanna Prentis (d.2020). In 1988 Prentis founded The Starlight Centre in Devon, England, devoted to healing and consciousness using hypnotic techniques. Wilson was a client who later collaborated with Prentis. In addition, van der Meer researched Claire Heartsong, who for ten years received messages through channelling from Anna, the grandmother of Jesus. At the Starlight Centre there were four patients who under regression knew each other at the time of the Essenes, offering an offshoot of considerations. How did this happen that these clients converged simultaneously? What is the physics of synchronicity, the reader ponders, with so much coming to the author so mysteriously and abundantly?

All the while questioning the reliability of such sources, the intrepid van der Meer compares these channelled and regressed accounts with historical documents, such as Josephus, the Nag Hammadi codices, and others. Through these comparisons she discovers answers to previous questions she had never quite resolved spanning over nearly half a century of devoted research. Van der Meer started to fit a broader, more satisfying birds-eye view of the life and times in which Yeshua and Miryam lived and travelled. And it made sense.

Van der Meer does her due diligence with determined honesty. She decided to examine multiple data from an energy reading technique called radiesthesia for the reliability of these seers, including The Gospel of the Beloved Companion (GBC scored accurately). This involves examining the purity of the sources, read through psychic energy, or measuring radiations through dowsing, and other techniques.

With varying results, she then turns to deepening her knowledge of quantum and interdimensional physics. She revisited the work of an English physicist, David Ash, turning to his latest publication, Awaken, in which Ash explains what he terms "the physics of the ascension" applying atomic physics through ancient yogic science and practice - the alchemy of turning matter into light. After fifty years of study and research, Ash's final conclusion was that ascension is the human and earthly ability to "accelerate subatomic particles to a higher frequency and dimension."

Van der Meer mentions the philosopher Bernardo Kastrup and others who hold similar opinions about materialist science becoming outdated and have moved into the realm of consciousness studies. Through the work of anthropologist, Richard Grossinger, she gives the reader a clear understanding of channelling, where information is somehow magically and externally transferred into a person's psyche or consciousness, defining well this metaphysical definition from that of past life regression hypnosis.

Van der Meer examines definitions of ascension from different perspectives. One can interpret these in numerous ways while the finale seems clear, Miriam the Migdalah has come exquisitely into the light, radiating from her tower, her living energies inspiring women especially, around the world. Van der Meer points out that Venus is both a Roman Goddess and a star constellation that in both meanings is associated with Miryam. Along with associations also with Isis, the Egyptian goddess of motherhood, fertility and magic, we find the formation of a female, spiritual triumvirate in their shared attributes as protectors, beauty, love, fertility, mourners and healing. It should be noted that Isis, Venus and Mary Magdalene are of paramount importance in the South and South West of France.

The author also visited places where Yeshua, Miryam, Joseph of Arimathea (quite possibly both Miryam and Yeshua's uncle), insinuating a shared grandmother, Anna, had travelled. Rooting out a family tree, van der Meer connects dots and directs the reader to the possibility that they may all have had Celtic ancestry. Van der Meer finds indications that Anna might have been adopted by a Celtic tribe. All the while the author paid close attention to myths and legends around those specific areas of travel, such as Cornwall and then Glastonbury, where it is rumoured Anna is, or at one time, was buried. She also meticulously traced the economic and political climate at this pivotal historical juncture. This is most interesting, considering Joseph of Arimathea's documented tin trade and ports of travel. Alongside the tin trade, where following the money can be a lucrative source of reliable information, the author returns to her remarkable research regarding the placement in France in particular, of many Black Madonnas (see van der Meer's book The Black Madonna; From Primal to Final Times, published in English 2019). Here she examines where the Black Madonna icons are situated in relation to available information concerning Joseph of Arimathea's business dealings. We can surmise these Madonnas reference Miryam herself. Do they mark places where Miriam may have travelled?

Purity of intention is critical in anything related to Miryam the Migdalah. Those of us who delve deeply into the world of Mary Magdalene experience inner transformations that completely upend how one views the world and how one wishes to live in it. This has been the case for Annine van der Meer, who acknowledges this awakening in the opening lines of Magdalene's Ascension. One cannot help but sense that the living energy and consciousness of the Magdalene envelopes our author, as she followed the lamp offered to her in writing this illuminating book, dividing valuable segments into portals. In the casting of this wider net, van der Meer sharpens her vision and understanding of the enigmatic Mary Magdalene, bringing the Magdalene's world back to life in ways other writers have not. She widely opens her heart and shares her personal journey that goes well off the beaten path of many writers on the quest of the Magdalene. She pursues and trusts a journey into spiritual realms that challenges the standards of a materialistic, more academic approach.

The teachings of Mary Magdalene have touched so many. She has enlightened those on their journeys towards the ultimate awakening: the infinite and true meaning of Love. As for Annine van der Meer, we must wait patiently to read where she next takes us regarding her Anam Cara.

Note: There is much misunderstood nuance around the titles given to Mary Magdalene. Interchangeably known as Miryam the Migdalah or Magdalah and Mary, these are hereditary titles that are part of ancient female wisdom traditions. They are titles given to women of elevated, high priestess standing. Mary stands for the womb; the Migdalah literally means a tower and this was a title Yeshua called her. Mary Magdalene is a toweress, a keeper of the tower, a keeper of the flock.