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The Bible ends with this offer attributed to Jesus himself, according to the author of Revelation. It
led Theophilus to Gabriel, Jesus’ Angel, and helped Luke provide clues to reassembling the puzzle
of Jesus the Nazarene and his arch-enemy, Saul of Tarsus. The same verses also lead to another
important character in Luke’s coded message: The Bride.
The Book of Revelation was not a part of Church canon until the Council of Trent in 1545. After its
inclusion the Church attempted to interpret it in ways that supported orthodox doctrine. Among
these attempts is the rather humorous conclusion that “The Bride” referred to “The Church,” not a
wife of Jesus. Amazingly, the “literalists” agree with that “allegorical” interpretation. Surely one
could never believe that Jesus’ last words were about His literal Bride!
Replacing a key word in Revelation 22:16 with its Greek equivalent produces quite a surprise:
“I am the root and the descendant of David; and the bright morning [ASTER].”
ASTER = ASHTAR = ASTARTE = ASTR; it means either Star or Goddess—or both.
Jesus’ closing words in Revelation provide solid evidence that the Hebrew scribes did indeed omit
an important letter from the new name for Deity given to Moses. It wasn’t ASR, it was ASTR; at least
that’s what Jesus said at Revelation 22:16!
The “Star Prophecy,” which included both a “star” and a “scepter,” was this: “At some future time,
the goddess, ASTR, will be resurrected and will join YHVH as the dual energies necessary for the
Creation of the Universe and everything in it.” Sort of like, “Energy divided by the speed of Light
squared = mass,” only simpler.
Certainly the people of the first century, whether Pagan or Jewish, were quite familiar with all these
gods and goddesses within various ancient cultures, including Greek, Roman, Ethiopian, and
Egyptian.
According to the Talmud, Solomon did not actually sin (or become a Sin-er) but was blamed for not
stopping the idol worship practiced by his wives. It was the Ethiopian Queen of Sheba who was
blamed for leading Solomon astray.
It was Sheba, then, who caused the empire of David to dissolve under Solomon—according to the
Talmud. It was at the time of Solomon, and because of Solomon’s love for the Queen and his
respect for her love of the goddess, Astarte, that the patriarchal Jewish leaders began rigidly
defining and enforcing the religion that would give all power to men, none to women. The Queen of
the South became second only to Eve as a woman responsible for all the ills that befell the Jewish
people.
Astarte’s main city of worship in Assyria was Nineveh. Nineveh is a thread that leads back to Luke
and words he put into Jesus’ mouth:
Luke 11:30-31: “‘For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will
be to this generation. The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the people of this
generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the
Wisdom of Solomon, and see, something greater than Solomon is here!’”
Solomon, the man known for his great wisdom, carried a name that meant “Sun and Moon.”
Perhaps Solomon’s Wisdom was his knowledge of Perfect Balance in the dance of Creation, the
Sun representing the masculine energies and the Moon representing the feminine.
The Jewish hierarchy turned against Solomon in spite of his reputation for great wisdom. The
Wisdom of Solomon is not included in the Hebrew canon of Scripture although it is in the Greek
version of the Old Testament, the Septuagint. It can be found in the Apocrypha in modern
translations.
Why was it rejected by those who chose which writings to include? Probably because of what it
contained. Jesus said, according to Luke, “…listen to the Wisdom of Solomon!”
What is in the “Wisdom of Solomon” that Jesus wanted his followers to know about? Turns out
that’s the wrong question. The right question is, “Who is the Wisdom of Solomon that Jesus
pointed his followers toward?” And, why did he associate Her with the Queen of the South?
Wisdom of Solomon:
1:6: “..Wisdom is a kindly Spirit…
”
6:12-16: “Wisdom is radiant and unfading, and She is easily discerned by those who love Her, and
is found by those who seek Her. She hastens to make Herself known to those who desire Her. One
who rises early to seek Her will have no difficulty, for She will be found sitting at the gate. To fix
one’s thought on Her is perfect understanding, and one who is vigilant on Her account will soon
be free from care, because She goes about seeking those worthy of Her, and She graciously
appears to them in their paths, and meets them in every thought.”
Wisdom, it seems, is a kindly, feminine Spirit, the feminine aspect of deity. The Wisdom of Solomon
reveals more about this “kindly feminine Spirit”:
6:17-20 : “Her beginning is the most sincere desire for instruction, and concern for instruction is
love of Her, and love of Her is the keeping of Her laws, and giving heed to Her laws is assurance of
immortality, and immortality brings one near to God; so the desire for Wisdom leads to a Kingdom.”
6:21-23: ”Therefore if you delight in thrones and scepters, O monarchs over the peoples, honor
Wisdom, so that you may reign forever. I will tell you what Wisdom is and how She came to be,
and I will hide no secrets from you, but I will trace Her course from the beginning of Creation, and
make knowledge of Her clear, and I will not pass by the truth; nor will I travel in the company of
sickly envy, for envy does not associate with Wisdom.”
7:7-9: “Therefore I prayed and understanding was given me; I called on God, and the Spirit of
Wisdom came to me. I preferred Her to scepters and thrones, and I accounted wealth as nothing in
comparison with Her. Neither did I liken to Her any priceless gem, because all gold is but a little
sand in Her sight, and silver will be accounted as clay before Her.”
7:10-12: “I loved Her more than health and beauty, and I chose to have Her rather than light,
because Her radiance never ceases. All good things came to me along with Her, and in Her hands
uncounted wealth. I rejoiced in them all, because Wisdom leads them; but I did not know that She
was their Mother.”
7:13-14: “I learned without guile and I impart without grudging; I do not hide Her wealth, for it is an
unfailing treasure for mortals; those who get it obtain friendship with God, commended for the
gifts that come from instruction.”
7:15-22: “May God grant me to speak with judgment, and to have thoughts worthy of what I have
received; for He is the guide even of Wisdom and the corrector of the wise. For both we and our
words are in His hand, as are all Understanding and skill in crafts. For it is He who gave me
unerring Knowledge of what exists, to know the structure of the world and the activity of the
elements; the beginning and the end and middle of times, the alternations of the solstices and the
changes of the seasons, the cycles of the year and the constellations of the stars, the natures of
animals and the tempers of wild animals, the powers of spirits and the thoughts of human beings,
the varieties of plants and the virtues of roots; I learned both what is secret and what is manifest,
for Wisdom, the fashioner of all things, taught me.”
These verses reveal who God is: “God” is the unbending Spirit of Knowledge and Understanding.
It lends new meaning to the phrase so grossly misinterpreted and misunderstood: “The Father
and I are One.” It is this Spirit of Knowledge that guides humankind to measure the material world,
to analyze, calculate, and reach conclusions based on observation. If allowed to participate, the
“Goddess” of Wisdom then guides humankind in ways to use the God-Knowledge for the
betterment of all—to improve lives, rather than to harm lives.
7:22-23: “There is in Wisdom a spirit that is intelligent, holy, unique, manifold, subtle, mobile, clear,
unpolluted, distinct, invulnerable, loving the good, keen, irresistible, beneficent, humane, steadfast,
sure, free from anxiety, all-powerful, overseeing all, and penetrating through all spirits that are
intelligent, pure, and altogether subtle.”
7:24-26: “For Wisdom is more mobile than any motion; because of Her pureness She pervades
and penetrates all things. For She is a breath of the power of God, and a pure emanation of the
glory of the Almighty; therefore nothing defiled gains entrance into her. For She is a reflection of
eternal light, a spotless mirror of the working of God, and an image of His goodness.”
7:27-28: “Although She is but one, She can do all things, and while remaining in Herself, She
renews all things; in every generation She passes into holy souls and makes them friends of God
and prophets; for God loves nothing so much as the person who lives with Wisdom.”
7:29-30: “She is more beautiful than the sun, and excels every constellation of the stars.
Compared with the light She is found to be superior, for it is succeeded by the night, but against
Wisdom evil does not prevail.”
8:1-4 “She reaches mightily from one end of the earth to the other, and She orders all things well. I
loved Her and sought Her from my youth; I desired to take Her for my Bride, and became
enamored of her beauty. She glorifies Her noble birth by living with God, and the Lord of all loves
Her. For She is an initiate in the knowledge of God, and an associate in His works.”
8:5-9: “If riches are a desirable possession in life, what is richer than Wisdom, the active cause of
all things? And if understanding is effective, who more than She is fashioner of what exists? And if
anyone loves righteousness, Her labors are virtues; for She teaches self-control and prudence,
justice and courage; nothing in life is more profitable for mortals than these. And if anyone longs
for wide experience, She knows the things of old, and infers the things to come; She understands
turns of speech and the solutions of riddles; She has foreknowledge of signs and wonders and of
the outcome of seasons and times. Therefore I determined to take Her to live with me, knowing that
She would give me good counsel and encouragement in cares and grief.”
8:10-16: “Because of Her I shall have glory among the multitudes and honor in the presence of the
elders, though I am young. I shall be found keen in judgment, and in the sight of rulers I shall be
admired. When I am silent they will wait for me, and when I speak they will give heed; if I speak at
greater length, they will put their hands on their mouths. Because of Her I shall have immortality,
and leave an everlasting remembrance to those who come after me. I shall govern the peoples, and
nations will be subject to me; dread monarchs will be afraid of me when they hear of me; among
the people I shall show myself capable, and courageous in war. When I enter my house I shall find
rest with Her; for companionship with Her has no bitterness, and life with Her has no pain, but
gladness and joy.”
8:17-18: “When I considered these things inwardly and pondered in my heart that in kinship with
Wisdom there is immortality, and in friendship with Her, pure delight, and in the labors of Her
hands, unfailing wealth, and in the experience of Her company, understanding and renown in
sharing Her words, I went about seeking how to get Her for myself.”
8:19-21 : “As a child I was naturally gifted, and a good soul fell to my lot; or rather, being good, I
entered an undefiled body. But I perceived that I would not possess Wisdom unless God gave Her
to me—and it was a mark of insight to know whose gift She was—so I appealed to the Lord and
implored Him, and with my whole heart I said:
9:1-8: “O God of my ancestors and Lord of mercy, who have made all things by Your Word, and by
Your Wisdom have formed humankind to have dominion over the creatures you have made, and
rule the world in holiness and righteousness, and pronounce judgment in uprightness of soul,
give me the Wisdom that sits by Your throne, and do not reject me from among your servants. For I
am your servant the son of your serving girl, a man who is weak and short-lived with little
understanding of judgment and laws; for even one who is perfect among human beings will be
regarded as nothing without the Wisdom that comes from you. You have chosen me to be king of
your people and to be judge over your sons and daughters. You have given command to build a
temple on your holy mountain, and an altar in the city of your habitation, a copy of the holy tent
that you prepared form the beginning.”
9:9-18 : “With you is Wisdom, She who knows your works and was present when you made the
world; She understands what is pleasing in your sight and what is right according to Your
commandments. Send Her forth from the holy heavens, and from the throne of Your glory send
Her, that She may labor at my side, and that I may learn what is pleasing to You. For She knows
and understands all things, and She will guide me wisely in my actions and guard me with Her
glory. Then my works will be acceptable, and I shall judge your people justly, and shall be worthy
of the throne of my father. For who can learn the counsel of God? Or who can discern what the
Lord wills? For the reasoning of mortals is worthless and our designs are likely to fail; for a
perishable body weights down the soul and this earthly tent burdens the thoughtful mind. We can
hardly guess at what is on earth, and what is at hand we find with labor; but who has traced out
what is in the heavens? Who has learned Your counsel, unless You have given Wisdom and sent
Your holy spirit from on high? And thus the paths of those on earth were set right, and people
were taught what pleases you, and were saved by Wisdom.”
(Emphases are mine.)
No wonder the patriarchal, Orthodox priests and rabbis rejected Solomon’s “Wisdom.” She was
the Goddess, and Jesus sent his followers to find Her!
Solomon said: “I will trace Her course from the beginning of Creation, and make knowledge of Her
clear…”
She was also there at the beginning of Creation!
Solomon said: “…love of Her is the keeping of Her laws, and giving heed to Her laws is assurance
of immortality, and immortality brings one near to God; so the desire for Wisdom leads to a
Kingdom.”
“All good things came to me along with Her, and in Her hands uncounted wealth. I rejoiced in them
all, because Wisdom leads them; but I did not know that She was their Mother.”
The goddess called Wisdom holds the clue to immortality; She is the “Mother of all good things.” It
is Wisdom that leads to the “Kingdom of God.”
Solomon said: “I learned both what is secret and what is manifest, for Wisdom, the fashioner of all
things, taught me.”
“She glorifies Her noble birth by living with God, and the Lord of all loves Her. For She is an initiate
in the knowledge of God, and an associate in His works.”
The goddess called Wisdom “…lives with God…and He loves Her. She is an initiate in His
Knowledge; an associate in His works.” These are the things Jesus wanted us to know when he
sent us to Solomon to find Wisdom.
The Hebrew canon and King James omitted Wisdom for obvious reasons, but they do include
both the Song of Solomon (aka, Song of Songs) and the Proverbs of Solomon. Both also serve to
demonstrate Solomon’s “God-Knowledge” and “Goddess-Wisdom.” A few examples from
Solomon’s words from Proverbs provide more pieces to add to the goddess puzzle:
Proverbs 1:1-6: “The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel: For learning about Wisdom
and Instruction, for understanding words of insight, for gaining instruction in wise dealing,
righteousness, justice, and equity; to teach shrewdness to the simple, knowledge and prudence to
the young—let the wise also hear and gain in learning, and the discerning acquire skill, to
understand a proverb and a figure, the words of the wise and their riddles.”
Solomon gave clear instructions: “Don’t read these words literally! They are written as parables,
figuratively (and perhaps numerically), and in riddle form. There is something here that ‘the wise’
are to figure out.”
Proverbs 1:8-9: “Hear, my child, your father’s instruction, and do not reject your mother’s
teaching; for they are a fair garland for your head, and pendants for your neck.”
Solomon put equal value on the “father’s instruction” and the “mother’s teaching.” “Garlands for
your head” speak to the “brain,” the seat of the intellectual energies that reside in each of us—the
masculine. “Pendants for your neck,” which hang over the heart, speak to the emotional energies
within each of us—the feminine. The importance of a masculine and feminine balance is stressed
in these beautiful and simple poetic words of wisdom.
Proverbs 2:1-15: “My child, if you accept my words and treasure up my commandments within
you, making your ear attentive to Wisdom and inclining your heart to Understanding; if you indeed
cry out for insight, and raise your voice for Understanding; if you seek it like silver, and search for
it as for hidden treasures— then you will understand the fear of YHVH and find the Knowledge of
God. For YHVH gives Wisdom; from his mouth come Knowledge and Understanding; he stores up
sound Wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk blamelessly, guarding the paths of
justice and preserving the way of his faithful ones. Then you will understand righteousness and
justice and equity, every good path; for Wisdom will come into your heart, and Knowledge will be
pleasant to your soul; prudence will watch over you; and Understanding will guard you. It will save
you from the way of evil, from those who speak perversely, who forsake the paths of uprightness
to walk in the ways of darkness, who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil;
those whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.”
The Hebrew word for Wisdom used in these verses is a feminine noun; the Hebrew word used,
which is translated as Understanding, is a masculine noun. Over and over “Solomon” spoke of
both the masculine and feminine energies that reside within each of us. Even his name stands as
an allegory for masculine and feminine.
Solomon sent the same message to the Israelites that Luke sent to Theophilus: the message is
contained in the parables, the numbers, the riddles, and the pieces of the puzzle! The knowledge is
hidden, but the wise will be able to discover it.
It also seems that one of the recurrent “clues” to finding Knowledge is to search for those who
practice “righteousness, justice, and equity.” Those words were repeated in that same order—they
must identify the people who transmit the true knowledge. In other words, if a man preaches
anything other than equity for all, the words are not True.
Solomon was teaching “the wise” to reject the teachings of those who claimed women and slaves
are of lesser value than free men.
But Solomon’s Proverbs and Wisdom were completely ignored by the ruling Priests who
demanded that women and slaves be treated as chattel. And the Orthodox Church that gained
power in the fourth century did the same. Both worked from the strictly masculine energy levels
that reside in the brain, determining that the acquisition of gold, spices, grains, and other items of
material value was the most important aspect of life. If acquiring material wealth meant war, so be
it. If people had to die, so be it. All that matters to masculine-dominated thinking is the end result,
and the most important end result to the purely masculine mind is acquiring more wealth and more
power. Never mind what Jesus said about helping the poor!
The Church’s claim that “The Bride” was “The Church” is starting to unravel. The next step is to
try to identify “The Bride.” Jesus’ last words were a reminder that he, Jesus, was “the root of
David,” Solomon’s father. David, too, married an Ethiopian woman, Bathsheba. It is Ethiopia that
provides another important clue:
Acts 8:26: “Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, ‘Get up and go toward the south to the road
that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.’ (This is a wilderness road.)”
The words, “angel of the Lord,” signals “coded message,” according to Philo’s rules.
Acts 8:27-28: “So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the
Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to
worship and was returning home; seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah.”
Candace is the Greek version of the word kentake, a title that means queen mother. “Royal
consorts” were by definition kentakes.
Where did the eunuch leave his Queen of the South? Why is the eunuch traveling alone?
Josephus intersects at Ethiopia and provides another piece of the Ethiopian Queen puzzle.
Antiquities 2.10.2:
“When he [Moses] had therefore proceeded thus on his journey, he came upon the Ethiopians
before they expected him; and, joining battle with them, he defeated them, and deprived them of
the hopes they had of success against the Egyptians, and went on in overthrowing their cities, and
indeed made a great slaughter of these Ethiopians. Now when the Egyptian army had once tasted
of this prosperous success, by the means of Moses, they did not slacken their diligence, insomuch
that the Ethiopians were in danger of being reduced to slavery, and all sorts of destruction; and at
length they retired to Saba, which was a royal city of Ethiopia, which Cambyses afterwards named
Mero, after the name of his own sister...”
After that name change, “The Queen” would have been known as “Mero Magda, Queen of the
Ethiopians.” With this name change, the Royal Blood of Ethiopia, formerly attached to Sheba,
would have become the Royal Blood of Mero.
With this information about the name change, Josephus revealed that the Royal Mero Bloodline
can be traced to the Ethiopian Kings and Queens. Josephus suggests this “vine” stretches back
to David and Bathsheba, and more importantly, it stretches back to Moses, as shown in his
conclusion to Antiquities 2.10.2:
“… while Moses was uneasy at the army’s lying idle… this accident happened: Tharbis was the
daughter of the king of the Ethiopians: she happened to see Moses… she fell deeply in love with
him… she (offered to) procure the delivering up of the city… (he) gave her the assurance of an oath
to take her to his wife… (he) consummated his marriage, and led the Egyptians back to their own
land.”
A “consummated marriage” suggests a child was conceived. At the time Josephus was writing,
producing a child would have been the only reason to mention “consummation.”
In the first century, the name, Mary Magdalene, would have been a strong clue that the woman who
carried that name was descended from the Royal Family of Mero and was the reigning Queen of
the Mero Bloodline, the “Mero Magda.”
The words spoken by the eunuch traveling toward Ethiopia now become much more important:
Acts 8:34-35: “The eunuch asked Philip, ‘About whom, may I ask you, does the prophet say this,
about himself or about someone else?’ Then Philip began to speak, and starting with this
scripture, he proclaimed to him the good news about Jesus.”
Luke was about to reveal a great secret. “Philip…starting with this scripture…” indicates that Philip
continued to read Isaiah past the verses the eunuch had just read out loud (Isaiah 53:7-8). And
what does he say about what he was about to read? It is “The good news about Jesus.” In other
words, this portion of Isaiah, according to Philip, is all about Jesus:
Isaiah 53:10: “… he shall see his offspring, and shall prolong his days; through him the will of the
Lord shall prosper.”
Can Luke make it any clearer? Hidden within Isaiah is the “good news”: “…he (Jesus) shall see
his offspring!” And, his offspring must be connected to an Ethiopian Queen, the Candace, “queen
mother,” “Royal consort.” But more importantly, she would also have been known as Mero Magda.
It was from the Queen of the Ethiopians that the Royal Blood could be traced beyond Kings David
and Solomon, all the way back to Moses.
Suddenly, the mystery of the Black Madonnas that flooded Europe in the earliest days of
Christianity is solved. They were not depicting The Virgin Mary; they were depicting Jesus’
Ethiopian wife, the mother of his children. The fact that the term Ethiopians pertains to dark-
skinned peoples is supported by the Song of Solomon 1:5:
“I am black and beautiful, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of
Solomon.”
This Old Testament book leaves no doubt that this Ethiopian Queen is dark skinned. And it leaves
no doubt about the big secret revealed at Luke 7:36-38:
“One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and
took his place at the table. And a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having learned that he was
eating in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. She stood behind him at his
feet, weeping, and began to bathe his feet with her tears and to dry them with her hair. Then she
continued kissing his feet and anointing them with the ointment.”
Luke called this woman a “sinner”; the Church claimed this was evidence that she was a
prostitute. But Luke was leaving coded messages; therefore, it is more likely that Luke was saying,
“This woman came from the land of the god called Sin. The name of her deity is Sin; therefore, she
is a ‘Sinner,’ a woman “devoted to the god, Sin.” She is an Ethiopian—dark-skinned, just as Sheba,
the woman singing and being sung to in the Song of Solomon, was an Ethiopian Queen”:
Song of Solomon 2:4: “He brought me to the banqueting house, and his intention toward me was
love.”
Luke wrote: “She stood behind him at his feet…” In order for this “Sinner” to “stand behind him at
his feet,” Jesus must have been reclining, perhaps on a couch:
Song of Solomon 1:12: “While the king was on his couch, my nard gave forth its fragrance.”
In his description of the crucifixion, Luke also described scenes that can be associated with the
Song of Solomon:
Luke 23:55-56: “The women who had come with him from Galilee followed, and they saw the
tomb…Then they returned, and prepared spices and ointments.”
Luke 24:1-2: “…on the first day of the week…they came to the tomb, taking spices that they had
prepared. They found the stone rolled away…they did not find the body.”
Song of Solomon 6:1-2: “Where has your beloved gone…? My beloved has gone down to his
garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the garden and to gather lilies.”
Song of Solomon 4:9-10: “You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride, you have ravished my
heart with a glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace. How sweet is your love, my
sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any
spice!”
Luke identified the woman with the spices who went to look for her beloved in the tomb:
Luke 24:10: “Now it was Mary Magdalene, Jo Anna, Mary the mother of James, and the other
women with them who told this to the apostles.”
For two thousand years it has been assumed that Luke identified a new disciple never before
mentioned at Luke 8:3 and 24:10: He called her Jo Anna. Anna or Annia is the Syrian name that
means goddess. In the Greek language, Jo is written, Io. Io was a mythological Greek goddess
loved by Zeus. According to legend she settled in Egypt and became the first Queen of Egypt. Io
was also known as both a moon goddess and a water goddess and was associated with the other
“great mother goddess-queens,” Isis, Artemis, Aphrodite, Diana, etc. With Zeus she had a son,
Epaphos, a name that will become important in the next chapter. Epaphos had a daughter, Libya,
another name that will gain importance a bit later.
“Jo Anna” (Greek: Io Anna) was not the name of a brand new, never-before-heard-of disciple but a
descriptive term Luke applied to Mary Magdalene. What Luke wrote was, “Now it was Mary
Magdalene, Egyptian Goddess and Great Mother-Goddess; Mary the mother of James, and the
other women …”
With this new information, Luke 8:1-3 requires corrected punctuation: “…Jesus traveled
about…The Twelve were with him, and also some women… Mary called Magdalene (from whom
seven daimones had come out), Io Anna [Mother goddess-goddess]; the wife of Chuza, the
manager of Herod's household, Susanna; and many others …”
All the puzzle pieces from Solomon’s Song fit perfectly and identify Mary Magdalene as “The
Bride.” But Solomon’s Song was sung to “My Sister, My Bride.” Luke’s clues and Solomon’s
pieces added to the puzzle paint Mary Magdalene as The Bride, but not as a sister. The “sister
piece” is held by Josephus, but it can’t be fitted into the puzzle until The Groom is also identified in
a later chapter.
Luke’s coded message of the marriage of Jesus to Mary Magdalene, linked by her name to “Mero
Magda,” and supported by Josephus, reports another marriage between a “King of the Jews” and
an “Ethiopian Queen.”
The word, Shabat, Sabbath, Sheba and Saba all come from the same root word which means
seven. According to the Ethiopian Jewish book, Teezaza Sanbat, “Sabbath” is described, not as a
number or as a day, but as the daughter of God, a divine princess.
Luke 8:2: “… Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out.” (The King James
translation chose the more negative term, “devils.”)
But the word translated as “demons” or “devils” in this verse is the Greek, daimonion. At Acts 17:
18, the same word is translated as deities, not demons:
“… Others said, ‘He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities’—because he preached Jesus and
the resurrection.”
The KJV agrees, using the word gods. How could that be?
The New Testament Greek Lexicon defines daimonion as “(1) the divine power, deity, divinity (2) a
spirit, a being inferior to God, superior to men (3) evil spirits or the messengers and ministers of the
devil.”
How can one word mean divine power, deity, divinity AND evil spirits, messengers and ministers of
the devil?
Daimonion isn’t the only word that has been translated as having completely opposite meanings
depending upon the context. Another of those words is Kadesh. C.H. Forney, The Bible Doctrine
of Sanctification (1906) offered a solution to this puzzle:
“The Hebrew word (Kah-dash) is translated in the Scriptures by the following words: Sanctify,
hallow, holy, consecrate, prepare, proclaim, dedicate, appoint, purify, defile, unclean, sodomite,
saint, wholly, sanctuary.
“… No word in any known language means, or can mean both ‘to defile, to make unclean,’ and ‘to
cleanse, to purify.’ Yet these words translate Kad-dash and hagios in the Old Testament. A number
of words in both Testaments have this same peculiarity, of being translated by words of opposite
meaning. There is a uniform rule which governs all such words. That is, that the word translated by
words of opposite meanings does not mean what these opposite words express, but has a
meaning common to both.
“… It means to do that which in one case may result in cleansing and in another in defiling. The
temple and groves of Astarte were very unclean places. The sanctuary of the Lord was pure and
clean. Yet the Old Testament does not hesitate to call the priests of Astarte sanctified ones… But
our translators call the former sodomites (1 Kings 14:24), and unclean (Job 36:14). It is easy to
perceive what is the one element common to the character of these two classes of priests. They
were both dedicated, consecrated, set apart to the service of their respective Gods. In the one
case, the God was pure, and hence his priest was also pure; in the other case the god was
unclean, and so was his priest. Hence, to sanctify a man to be a priest of Jehovah was as to moral
character just the opposite from the sanctification of a man as priest of Astarte.”1 (Emphases are
mine.)
Forney provided the explanation for what “Our translators” did. If the word Daimonion was used in
conjunction with YHVH or Jesus, it was translated as angel, holy, etc.; if it was used in conjunction
with ASTR or Mary Magdalene, it was translated demon, devil, etc. The content of the sentence was
the determining factor.
In other words, before the scriptures reached their final audience, someone decided whether the
word daimonion referred to an angel or to a demon. Before Kadesh and daimonion reached their
final audience, someone decided whether they would be translated as holy or as unclean. The
determining factor was whether the sentence supported their religion (and apparently their
gender), in which case the being was angelic, or whether it supported the religion of another group
(or a woman), in which case it was demonic.
Plutarch considered daimones to be intermediaries between God and humans—some good,
others bad. Archons, part of Plut-arch-us, was the Greek name for the “intermediaries” that stood
between God and humans. Other ancient opinions were that they were intermediaries, but neither
good nor bad—simply neutral intermediaries. It seems the extremely negative connotation of
“devil” arrived with the Christian era’s “Battle against Satan.”
So at the time Luke 8:2 was composed, “seven daimones” suggested “seven intermediaries.”
Since “seven” is associated with Sabbath, and in Ethiopian tradition Sabbath is the daughter of
God, clearly Luke’s purpose for putting “seven daimones” with Mary Magdalene was to provide
another means of associating her with the Queen of Sheba. He also wanted to create an
association with feminine deity—identifying Mary Magdalene as a goddess.
Approximately thirteen hundred years after the time of the story of Moses and his Ethiopian
princess bride, and approximately one thousand years after the stories of King David and Bath-
sheba and their son, Solomon, and his love affair with the Queen of Sheba, Luke put words about
The Queen of the South into Jesus’ mouth (11:30-31):
“‘For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be to this
generation. The queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the people of this generation and
condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the Wisdom of Solomon,
and see, something greater than Solomon is here!’”
The “Son of Man” was Jesus. He said he was a “sign” to his generation. The “Queen of the South”
was Io Anna, the Meroe Magda, aka Mary Magdalene. He said that she would “rise at the judgment”
in some later time and be a sign of what happened at the time of Moses, David, Solomon, and
Jesus.
Why would the Queen of the South condemn the people? The answer is suggested by the
meaning of Solomon’s name: Sun and Moon. For countless generations, mythological gods were
represented by the Sun, goddesses by the Moon. The learned people of these ancient cultures did
not believe the Sun and Moon were actually “god” and “goddess.” They simply represented the
two energies necessary for the creation and reproduction of life. The harm wrought, by attempting
to make literal everything written in the myths of antiquity, is beyond measure.
In the story of Jonah the people of Nineveh (in Assyria) immediately “turned from their evil ways”
when Jonah preached repentance. So the Lord “changed his mind about the calamity that he had
said he would bring upon them; and he did not do it.” (Jonah 3:10).
But Jonah became angry with the Lord because he did not want to see the Assyrians spared. The
Lord’s final words to Jonah were, “… should I not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in
which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right
hand from their left, and also many animals?” (Jonah 4:11).
“The Lord” who spoke to Jonah was clearly not YHVH who never showed compassion for anyone
who angered him. The Lord who spoke to Jonah was ASTR, the feminine willing to show
compassion and forgiveness. The people were apparently not very sophisticated or well educated
and ASTR took mercy on them and their animals because they were willing to change their ways.
“The Lord” demonstrated the feminine: compassion; “forgive and you will be forgiven.” This was
the action of the loving Goddess Jesus tried to reintroduce to the world. All of his teachings spoke
of compassion and forgiveness in one way or another.
Jonah wanted revenge: “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” Jonah’s anger came from the
masculine energy that demands retribution. Jonah’s preference was that “The Lord” act as YHVH
had always been known to act—with swift and total destruction of the disobedient. “Jesus”
directed Theophilus to an example from the Old Testament that demonstrated the difference
between feminine and masculine thinking. “The Lord” in this case represented the feminine
thinking of a “God of Love,” and Jonah represented the masculine thinking of the “God of
Vengeance.”
Jesus said, “Jonah became a sign…” The Lord’s act of compassion demonstrated the feminine
energy and signaled that the imbalance of centuries of masculine-dominated government and
religious structures was the cause of any pending catastrophe. “The act of repentance” is
restoring the balance between the god and goddess.
Jesus said, “Something greater than Solomon is here!” What could be greater than the balanced
energies of the “Father” Sun and the “Mother” Moon and the positive effects this balance would
have on the world?
If the marriage of Jesus, High Priest-King of the Nazarenes, and Mero Magda, the High Priestess-
Queen of the dark-skinned people, had been accepted and celebrated, the balance of power
between the masculine and feminine energies would have been restored. Mankind would have
learned to temper his aggression and greed with compassion and generosity.
If Jesus’ teachings had been accepted on both the spiritual and physical level, the “goddess”
would have returned to her rightful seat at the side of her “god.” Jointly they would have ruled
supreme over the entire Greco-Roman, Egyptian, Judean, and Sabean Kingdoms. Together, they
could have ended oppression, poverty, slavery, and all the evils that had befallen the peoples of
the world under the patriarchal rulers driven by greed and hunger for power. The Balance of
Energies could have created a World better able to benefit all people, not just the rich and powerful
people. The equality of all of humankind—men, women, slaves, the poor, the infirm, even the
“possessed”—would have been restored.
That is not what happened, of course. Beginning with Constantine, rather than enjoying Solomon’
s “... wise dealing, righteousness, justice, and equity...” man-womankind labored and suffered
under the harsh and imbalanced rule of patriarchal power, greed, and revenge. Animals and
people have been slaughtered, all in the name of sensual pleasure and the acquisition of earthly
possessions. The real Jesus and the goddess he tried to reintroduce were rejected, just as
Solomon and his goddess were rejected; just as Moses and his goddess were rejected.
The identity of the woman who portrayed “Mary Magdalene” is found in the Royal Family Tree of
Numidia/Libya, “dark-skinned” people, as expected. And also as expected, the evidence is sparse
but intriguing. There are three inscriptions that have been found in Athens that are dedicated to the
children of Juba II, a dark-skinned Libyan King, and his wife, Cleopatra VIII Selene. These
inscriptions name Juba, and one is inscribed only as “daughter of King Juba.” Strangely, her
name is not given. Ptolemy of Mauretania (Juba and Cleopatra’s son) dedicated an inscription for
himself.
The Athenian epitaph is dedicated to “the memory of a daughter of a king of Libya.” Libya in
ancient Greek, is a loose description of any part of North Africa. The ancient Greek traveler
Pausanias stated that Juba II was known in Athens as ‘Juba the Libyan’. After his marriage to
Cleopatra Selene, the couple was forced to move to Mauretania because the Libyans considered
him to be “too Romanized.”
A brief biography and history of Juba II, excerpted from Josephus, holds clues to his “mysterious”
daughter:
Juba’s father committed suicide after being defeated by Julius Caesar in Thapsus, North Africa, in
46 BCE. Caesar took Juba II with him to Rome. There he learned Latin and Greek and was granted
Roman citizenship. He became one of Rome’s best educated citizens. He wrote the first of many
books, Roman Archaeology, before he was twenty. He was raised by Julius Caesar and later by
his great-nephew, Octavius, who became Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus (named by Luke at 2:
1). Juba II and Augustus became lifelong friends.
Augustus made him king of Numidia between 29 and 27 BCE. He became one of the most loyal
client kings that served Rome. Between 26 and 20 BCE Augustus arranged for him to marry
Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Cleopatra and Marcus Antony.
When they moved to Mauretania, they renamed their new capital Caesarea, in honor of Caesar
Augustus. (Note: The name, Mauretania, is derived from the Greek word, mauros, which means
black. It was a land of black people.)
Plutarch described Juba II as “one of the most gifted rulers of his time.” Between 2 BCE and 2
ACE, he traveled with Gaius Caesar, Augustus’ grandson, as a member of his advisory staff to the
Eastern Mediterranean.
In 21 ACE Juba II made his son Ptolemy of Mauretania co-ruler. Juba II died in 23 and was buried
alongside his first wife in their mausoleum. His second wife, according to Josephus, was
Glaphyra, whose father was the King of Cappadocia and whose first husband was Alexander III,
son of Herod the Great and his Royal Hasmonean wife, Mariamme.
Cleopatra Selene was proud of her Egyptian and Greek heritage. She named her son Ptolemy,
known as Ptolemy of Mauretania (c. 1 BCE – 40 ACE). If she had a first-born daughter, Cleopatra
would have surely given the child a Ptolemaic name. Her only known daughter with Juba was
Drusilla of Mauretania (born c. 5).2
The mystery “daughter of King Juba” and Cleopatra VIII would probably have been named
Cleopatra IX and was probably born c. 3 or 4 BCE, two or three years before the birth of her
brother Ptolemy. The fact that information about her existence is almost non-existent adds to the
intrigue and begs to be investigated. Surely a daughter born to Juba II and Cleopatra Selene could
not be hidden from historians. Why would she remain such a mystery? Who could she have been?
There is another woman of the same age whose genealogy is also intriguing in what is missing:
The names of her father and mother, as well as any relatives on either side, are unknown. She is
known only as Thea Urania. Thea is the feminine form of theo, meaning “pertaining to god,” in this
case pertaining to goddess. Urania is the Syrian name for Ashtar/Astarte. Ur can be a prefix
meaning original, primitive, or prototypical. In the Sumerian language, Anna meant goddess.
Therefore, Ur-ania or Ur-anna referred to the “original goddess.” Luke’s “prophetess Anna” (2:36-
37), who attended the ceremony celebrating Jesus’ birth, was a carefully placed thread that leads
to Thea Ur-Anna:
“… there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher…”
“… She did not depart from the temple, worshipping with fasting and prayer night and day.”
Phanu-el means “face of god;” Asher can be associated with Astarte. Her father’s name points to
the importance of the name, “Anna” and its association with the goddess Astarte.
Little is known of Thea Ur-anna’s life other than she had a daughter named Julia Ur-Anna and that
this daughter married Ptolemy of Mauretania, son of Juba II and Cleopatra Selene. Therefore, if
Thea Ur-Anna was an alias for Cleopatra IX, then her daughter, Julia, married her uncle, a common
practice among the Egyptian Royal Families.
Cleopatra IX was the granddaughter of Cleopatra VII and Marc Antony. Her grandmother was
known as Cleopatra VII Thea Philopater. Philo means love/loving; pater means father. Cleopatra VII
was known as “Cleopatra the Father-Loving Goddess (Thea),” another clue to the relationship
between Cleopatra VII and Antony and this mysterious Thea Ur Anna. It suggests that she was
given a name that combined Royal names from both Egypt (Cleopatra Thea) and Syria (Ur Anna).
Both Thea and Anna are translated as goddess in their respective languages.
Shortly after Luke told the story of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch whose Queen was “missing,”
he inserted a clue that is now revealed as being quite relevant:
Acts 8:39-40: “And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught up Philip; and
the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing. But Philip was found at Azotus, and
passing on he preached the gospel to all the towns till he came to Caesarea.”
The rightful heir to the title of “Queen” of one of the Caesarea’s of the time (Mauretania Caesarea)
was a dark-skinned, mysterious, unnamed daughter of Juba II and Cleopatra Selene: Cleopatra IX
Thea Ur Anna.
The evidence found in Luke’s coded story strongly suggests that Cleopatra IX was known for a
time under another alias. As “Goddess-Queen of the Land of Mero,” Cleopatra IX was the Mero
Magda and played the role of Jesus’ wife using the name, Mary Magdalene.
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