Invocation of Tantra | Magdala Heals

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What's in a Name?

Magdala Heals derives its name from Mary Magdalene's Aramaic title, "Tower". It's quickly assumed she was named this after the town Magdala, but no references are made in the New Testament to the town nor has any archaeological evidence surfaced to support this hometown claim. It would seem more in character that, how Simon was named Peter, which in Greek means "Rock", or John and James were named "Boanerges", which has been translated to "Sons of Thunder", Jeshua bestowed Mary with the name "Magdala" as a reflection of who she was to the Kingdom of the Child of Humanity. Towers have a very strong presence. Towers are aligned, reliable, and signify a lot of power. She was the one who could authentically replicate his healing. Through the Three Marys, the mysteries of the this cosmic dance survived Roman oppression.

It is in devotion to her, my teacher, that I do what I do.

When I think of a tower, it reminds me of the spine. It is within this tower that the spinal cord shoots electrical communication through our nervous system. It quite literally is what connects our body with our brain and transfers the electrical currents that energize our physical body. Likewise, according to Vedic scriptures, through our spine travels two kundalini serpents: the two energetic polarities, pingala and ida, that wrap around each other in the shape of a double helix, like a DNA strand. This symbolism of the serpents rising through our spinal cord describes the energy that fuels the spiritual and energetic bodies.

O Birther!

Fathering-Mothering of the cosmos - you who create all that moves in light:
Focus your light within us, make it useful;
as rays of a beacon show the way.

Create your reign of unity now -
through our fiery hearts and willing hands.
Your one desire then acts with ours,
as in all light, so in all forms.

Grant what we need each day in bread & insight;
subsistence for the call of growing life.

Loose the chords of mistakes binding us, as we release
the strands we hold of others’ guilt.

Don’t let us enter forgetfulness and lead us not into unripeness.

From you is born all ruling will, the power and life to do,
the song that beautifies all - from age to age it renews.

Truly-power to these statements-
may they be the source from which all my actions grow.

Sealed in trust and faith. Amen.

Lord's Prayer in Aramaic

Jeshua the Nazarene - translated by Neil Douglas-Klotz

Alas I know not either thy mantra or yantra, nor how to welcome thee;
or how to meditate upon, nor words of prayer to thee; nor do I know thy mudrã or how to lay before thee my griefs: but this I know
O Mother! That to follow thee is to remove all my pain.

- HYMNS TO THE MOTHER,
translated from Sanskrit by ARTHUR AVALON

MAY THE DEVI GRANT ME PARDON DEVIAPARÁDA KSAMÁPANA STOTRA

Shakti first called me when I was five years old, experiencing "praying in tongues" in Church for the first time. I didn't realize what exactly I was speaking, except that I was praying secretly to God. At that age, my friends and I would make up pretend languages with each other all the time so the notion that I could have a secret language with God didn't sound weird, and actually managed to turn this elusive male-oriented punitive figure in the sky into one that was more of a friend I could confide in and be silly with as I played with sounds like I did with my friends. Feeling called at such a young age to hands on healing and prayer, I immersed myself in prophetic spaces and healing prayer circles. I distinctly noticed that when I'd chant "shah-ktee", I'd feel energy rush over me. Whoever I'd be praying over would comment they felt the power of the Holy Spirit. Time and time again, without fail.

It wasn't until I was 19 that I learned that "shah-ktee" is the pronunciation of the Great Mother of the Cosmos, Creator of All of existence, Shakti, the power of her masculine counterpart, Consciousness/Observer/Father/Shiva. Like Ruach Hakodesh, she is the power of the Lord - just observed and expressed through another tongue. It is through her images all of creation is made. And through her various manifestations that all wisdom is derived.

When the spiritual foundations of institutionalized religion began to shake and crack and falter under me, the only spiritual practice that remained consistent, steadfast, and holistically good was my secret language with God where this name - Shakti - abundantly flowed out my stream of consciousness. The more I leaned into this prayer, what burned away was the false narratives of God that glorified human (imperial!) authority over natural, cosmic authority. The gentle love of cosmic authority is apocalyptic in its power....narratives of the punitive God that shields abusive leaders - the god of shame that fuels the internal "shame wizards" inside us (yes, that is a reference to Big Mouth) - dissolve, and from those ashes, beautiful revelations and insights into the truth of who we are emerge, and planet-level healing is made possible.

For such a divinity as Shakti to reveal Herself to me as the presence that kept me alive during years of chronic abuse in Christian spaces... it humbles me to my core. The mercy, grace, forgiveness She has shown me and the power she has given me to live. I am an instrument for Her restoration, justice, and wisdom. It is in humble devotion to Her that I do what I do.

May the tongues we use to express the totality of the Divine restore what was lost and unite us into the multidimensionality of existence with others. There is One God: expressed in the multiplicity of images, conveyed in words that hold meaning to the power of One Divinity, wholly expressed.

Das Mahavidya, TEN TANTRIC AVATARS OF THE SACRED FEMININE

All that exists, throughout all time and beyond, is one infinite divine Consciousness, free and blissful,
which projects within the field of its awareness a vast multiplicity of apparently differentiated subjects and objects:
each object an actualization of a timeless potentiality inherent in the Light of Consciousness, and
each subject, you and I, the same plus a contracted locus of self-awareness.

This creation, a divine play [or divine comedy of sorts], is the result of the natural impulse within Consciousness to express
the totality of its self-knowledge in action, an impulse arising from love.
The unbounded Light of Consciousness contracts into finite embodies loci of awareness out of its own free will.

When those finite subjects then identify with the limited and circumscribed cognitions and circumstances
that make up this phase of their existence, instead of identifying
with the transindividual overarching pulsation of pure Awareness that is their true nature,
they experience what they call “suffering.”

To rectify this, some feel an inner urge to take up the path of spiritual wisdom and yogic practice,
the purpose of which is to undermine their misidentification
and directly reveal within the immediacy of awareness the fact that
the divine powers of Consciousness, Bliss, Willing, Knowing, and Acting comprise the totality of individual experience as well -
thereby triggering a recognition that one’s real identity is that of the highest Divinity, the Whole in every part.
This experiential insight is repeated and reinforced through various means until it becomes the nonconceptual ground of every moment of experience,
and one’s contracted sense of self and separation from the Whole is finally annihilated
in the incandescent radiance of the complete expansion into perfect wholeness.

Then one’s perception fully encompasses the reality of the universe dancing ecstatically in the animation of its completely perfect divinity.

The View

- translated by Dr. Christopher Wallis, Tantra Illuminated

May this View saturate your mind and heart to illuminate for you, your part of the Whole & unique expression of the Divine.

What's in a Name?

Lord's Prayer in Aramaic

MAY THE DEVI GRANT ME PARDON DEVIAPARÁDA KSAMÁPANA STOTRA

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