The Magdalene Revolution:
The Return of the Sacred Feminine and the Birth of Radical Equality
Andrew Harvey
In a radically fresh reading of Mary Magdalene’s story, renowned scholar of mystical traditions, Andrew Harvey sheds new light on the Divine Feminine as a force for change and healing.
About the Book
In a radically fresh reading of Mary Magdalene’s story, a renowned scholar of mystical traditions sheds new light on the Divine Feminine as a force for change and healing.
For more than 20 years, Andrew Harvey has trained his fine scholar’s eye on sacred texts and mystical truths to illuminate the message of inspired activism that they hold. Today, we need this message more urgently than ever. In this new book, Andrew takes a fresh, impassioned look at the story of Mary Magdalene and Jesus to distill its meaning for our world and show us how to embody this truth in our own lives.
The Magdalene Revolution will:
· Examine how Mary Magdalene is presented in the New Testament—sometimes splendidly, but also absurdly and even dangerously
· Explore the truths revealed about her in texts such as the Gospel of Mary and other Gnostic gospels
· Propose a radical reclamation of the divine feminine by recognizing Mary Magdalene as the Bride to Jesus’s Bridegroom—a female and co-equal Christ in her own right
· Illuminate a new paradigm of fully embodied divine and human love that each of us can live out in our daily lives
“We are in the time of the Second Coming,” Andrew writes. “The old story is dying, and a new story with Mary Magdalene’s and Jesus's love at the center is being born, because it completes and activates the full range of Christ consciousness.”
In Mary Magdalene's great spirit of healing and transfiguration, this book offers us this new human story—and a path to transform not only ourselves, but our world.
Meet Andrew Harvey
Andrew Harvey is Founder and Director of The Institute for Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired, effective, and practical agents of institutional and systemic change, in order to create peace and sustainability.
Sacred Activism is a transforming force of compassion-in-action that is born of a fusion of deep spiritual knowledge, courage, love, and passion, with wise radical action in the world. The large-scale practice of Sacred Activism can become an essential force for preserving and healing the planet and its inhabitants.
The Magdalene Revolution
From the foreword by Matt Fox
These valuable words dare to speak a stark truth to both soul and society at this critical time in human and planetary history. These are those who say that maybe we have passed the point of no return for our species as we know it and the same for the planet as we have known it.
These chapters offer some necessary medicine for surviving this time of apocalypse and undergoing the darkness that envelops us everywhere we turn; whether we grow weary from the seeminigly dead-end politices of our time, hopeless economics, tired education and religion, or free driven media, the effect is numbness and denial in the presense of climiate change, species extinction, sea level rise, and more. No one seems safe from the cascade of bad news.
