#yeshua is also not an human

[queen-of-wisdom]

Gabriel blinked, wich isn't weird in itself but it is because he doesn't need to.

Before him stood a teenager (he didn't really understand human development but the boy didn't look fully grown) with dark upstanding curls and bright green-blue eyes, that marked that he was, indeed, The Chosen One.

“Perdon, I think I do not understand you.”

The boy turned his back on Gabriel. "My father told me to look after the sheep and I'll do that. You can do...whatever you want but I don't want to hear anything about this anymore."

And with that statement, the boy left. Gabriel watched in disbelief as he just went on with his life, as if he just saw a man and not a three meters tall being that was everything but a human.

“Wait!”

The boy, tilting his head, actually waited. His bright eyes looked at him with neither fear nor wonder, wich just further confirms that he is The One.

“There is still a important matter I must inform you on.”

The boy lifted an eyebrow. "What is it?"

Gabriel took a deep breath, wich isn't really necessary for his kind but what could he say, there were quirks he picked up from humans.

“Your father...”

"Yeah?"

“He is not your biological father”, Gabriel said.

The boy blinked multiple times just to burst out of laughter.

“You knew that???”

"Sir, I'm from a small town", the boy replied, just to turn his back again on him. "There ain't no secrets and even though I just have two eyes, that doesn't mean that they can't effectively see."

Anger filled Gabriel's head. What does this guy thinks he is? Why does he think, just because he is destined to be great, that he can just ignore him and the prophecy?

He grabbed the boys arm. “Yeshua, your father is the same as mine.”

We are brothers.

The boy, his brother, Yeshua, he looked onto the ground. Gabriel tried to do the same, tried to find something down there but couldn't.

After a while, Yeshua sighted. "I know."

For the first time in his existence understood Gabriel how it is to be a stone.

“You...know? ”

The boy shrugs. "Yeah."

Gabriel let Yeshua go and looked into his bright blue-green eyes, that reflected how earth looks from outside.

“Did you...already know the prophecy?”

His brother gave him a tortured smile and nodded.

"It shall be/ A child neither human nor mystical / That either dies for us all/ Or watches creation burn/ With its eyes made of earth/ Oh Lord, dear Lord/ Bring Mercy/When you bring/The one who brings the earth to jump/The one who brings the winds to stop. "

The boy blinked and his blue-green eyes turned into bright amber ones. Amber, like the dirt of the earth.

Gabriel starred at him with disbelief.

“I don't really understand you”, he admits.

The boy laughs and the wind, the birds and the stone around him do too.

"Don't worry", Yeshua says as he turns his back against his brother again to look after the sheep his father has told him to look after. "Neither do I but I heard that's just the human way."

With the exception, Gabriel thinks as he lefts The Chosen One, his brother, Yeshua. That you aren't human to begin with.

“No, I’m not the chosen one. I’m just a farmer. Now go away!”

[defjux]

Here are 120 of my favorite hip hop albums, with only the first two rows being in order. This was tough for me, I tried to be as fair as possible and include the albums I grew up listening to that impacted me the most while also including the more recent albums that I listen to all the time. I’ll post the list below, and a version of the charts with the titles included. Let me know what you think, are any of your favorites here? If you've got a list of your own favorites, i'd love to see it. Peace. Chart with album titles included 1. De La Soul - Buhloone Mindstate 2. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein 3. Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid 4. Billy Woods & Blockhead - Dour Candy 5. Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus 6. Madvillain - Madvillainy 7. OutKast - ATLiens 8. Mos Def - Black On Both Sides 9. El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead 10. Edan - Beauty & The Beat 11. Armand Hammer - Paraffin 12. Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - The Main Ingredient 13. GZA - Liquid Swords 14. The Roots - Illadelph Halflife 15. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele 16. Hermit and the Recluse - Orpheus vs. the Sirens 17. Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda 18. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders 19. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang ( 36 Chambers) 20. Camp Lo - Uptown Saturday Night 21. Redman - Dare Iz A Darkside 22. The Pharcyde - Labcabincalifornia 23. Aceyalone - A Book of Human Language 24. Black Moon - Enta Da Stage

25. zeroh - awfulalterations 26. Dark Time Sunshine - ANX 27. Jam Baxter - …So We Ate Them Whole 28. Freestyle Fellowship - Innercity Griots 29. Siah & Yeshua dapoED - The Visualz Anthology 30. Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star 31. MF DOOM - Operation: Doomsday 32. Little Brother - The Minstrel Show 33. Digable Planets - Blowout Comb 34. De La Soul - Stakes Is High 35. Juggaknots - Re:Release 36. Cavalier - Private Stock 37. Dr. Yen Lo - Days With Dr. Yen Lo 38. Mach-Hommy - DUMPMEISTER 39. Cult Favorite - FOR MADMEN ONLY 40. Aesop Rock - Skelethon 41. Earl Sweatshirt - some rap songs 42. Boldy James & Sterling Toles - Manger on McNichols 43. Open Mike Eagle & Paul White - Hella Personal Film Festival 44. Common Sense - Resurrection 45. Avantdale Bowling Club - Avantdale Bowling Club 46. CunninLynguists - A Piece of Strange 47. Armand Hammer - Shrines 48. The Roots - Things Fall Apart 49. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 50. The Doppelgangaz - Lone Sharks 51. Gang Starr - Moment Of Truth 52. Serengeti & Kenny Segal - Ajai 53. Heltah Skeltah - Nocturnal 54. E L U C I D - REVELATOR 55. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… 56. Billy Woods & Kenny Segal - Hiding Places 57. Jeru the Damaja - The Sun Rises In The East 58. Smif-n-Wessun - Dah Shinin 59. Big K.R.I.T. - 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time 60. O.C. - Word…Life 61 .Mach-Hommy - The G.A.T. (The Gospel According To…) 62. EPMD - Strictly Business 63. Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical Beatdown 64. Mobb Deep - The Infamous 65. Cities Aviv - MAN PLAYS THE HORN 66. Navy Blue - Gift of Gabriel: Rain’s Reign! 67. Milo - who told you to think??!!?!?!?! 68. Oddisee - The Good Fight 69. Eric B. & Rakim - Follow the Leader 70. Mr Key & Greenwood Sharps - Yesterday's Futures 71. Blackalicious - Nia 72. Quasimoto - The Further Adventures of Lord Quas 73. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up 74. Lord Finesse - The Awakening 75. Prince Paul - A Prince Among Thieves 76. Roc Marciano - Reloaded 77. Masta Ace - A Long Hot Summer 78. Sonic Sum - The Sanity Annex 79. Quelle Chris - Guns 80. Nas - Illmatic 81. Binary Star - Masters of the Universe 82. Souls of Mischief - 93 'til Infinity 83. Slum Village - Fan-Tas-Tic, Vol. 2 84. Mavi - let the sun talk 85. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back 86. Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep 87. Illogic - Celestial Clockwork 88. Blu & Exile - Below the Heavens 89. Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst 90. Mike - Disco! 91. Nickelus F & Ohbliv - Yellow Gold 3 92. lojii - due rent 93. The Koreatown Oddity - Little Dominiques Nosebleed 94. Dälek - From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots 95. Mos Def - The Ecstatic 96. Lords of the Underground - Here Come the Lords 97. Cities Aviv - Working Title For The Album Secret Waters 98 .Onry Ozzborn - c v p ii d 99. Fly Anakin & Big Kahuna OG - Holly Water 100. Black Milk - No Poison No Paradise 101. Busdriver - Thumbs 102. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly 103. Artifacts - Between a Rock and a Hard Place 104. Mike Ladd - Welcome to the Afterfuture 105. Defcee & knowsthetime - Lacuna 106. R.A.P. Ferreira - purple moonlight pages 107. Scarface - The Diary 108. Mad Moon - MAD SPACE 109. Skipp Coon - Miles Garvey 110. Mattic & Madwreck - Ill Scholars 111. Mood - Doom 112. NoName - Room 25 113. Deca - The Ocean 114. Darc Mind - Symptomatic of a Greater Ill 115. Pete Rock & Ini - Center of Attention 116. Count Bass D - Dwight Spitz 117. Showbiz & A.G. - Goodfellas 118. Y Society - Travel At Your Own Pace 119. Theravada - Xenophon 120. Versis - Illcandescent

[wihellib]

Some more Jesus references from Lucifer, Raphael, and Gabriel. Neat.

Lucifer looks to have no hard feelings towards Jesus, in fact he seems pretty positive.

Raphael doesn’t care about Jesus at all.

Now, when Gabriel said we should thank him, I really thought that he was going to try to take credit for humanity’s salvation since he was the angel who told Mary she had been chosen by God to conceive and give birth to Jesus, the Son of God, through the power of the Holy Spirit (known as the Annunciation).

But he doesn’t mention this, which I think is a big thing to gloss over. Instead, we see that he’s not a fan of Jesus and kinda wants to kill him.

Based on the Trinity, he shouldn’t feel this way since Jesus is fully God (despite being a distinct person from God) but I guess that’s enough of a distinction for Gabriel to not love Jesus as God (more blasphemy from Gabriel).

Again, I’m really wondering if Jesus left with God, because it would make sense that he would, but Gabriel here says that humans are still receiving salvation, which implies that Jesus is still around, so which is it?? I’m so curious.

Also, I find it interesting that they never say Jesus or Yeshua, they always just refer to him as the Son of God.

The previous Jesus reference was in Asmo’s artifact.

[littlestickfish]

...I'm sorry, I wasn't going to say anything, but this post is so fucking silly, I just can't

"Religion was man-made!" ....as opposed to what? Alien-made? Dolphin-made? Zebra-made? Who else is out here on this planet making religions other than humans?

It's like "your mental illness is all in your head!" like? Yeah? Where else would it be, my ass??

"Game over!" ....gurl what 🤣🤣

Game over

[aziraphales-library]

Lost Fic #213

1. Hi folks! I’m looking for a fix I loved and clearly failed to bookmark. I don’t remember a ton except it’s post season 2, and Jesus is involved - Crowley knows where he is in hiding because they were close before the crucifixion, and he remembers places Jesus would have loved, I think. In the end I believe they realize that the keystroke has trapped God on earth in the US, and they go looking for her. I also vaguely remember that after everything settles, A&C send Jesus a birthday card and he teases them for sending it in December. Cuteness all around with some smut involved for good measure. Help! - anon

2. Hello! I have been looking for a fic for such a long time now so I decided to come here. It's mostly Crowley centered, and one thing I remember is that he argued with Aziraphale and after the argument he meets a human (an oc) who takes advantage of him and abuses him (i think r*pe was involved) and crowley is just suffering but then eventually he gets away- theres a scene where he finds aziraphale but aziraphale doesnt listen/believe to him. it might be a series fic idk, but please help! - anon

3. Do you or anyone else know of fic (written after S2 about the Second Coming) that goes like this: Blurb of a fic that described Jesus a bit like the book describes Adam with all the titles (like "Slayer of Satan" as an example). He was also born (again) in America, and the blurb listed the name of two human parents (not Mary and Joeseph), and mentioned that He's called John. I think the blurb uses the non-Anglicised name Yeshua or Yehoshua for him. - @vaguely-in-vogue

4. Hello I'm looking for a fic I remember reading a long time ago but can't find it (thought I bookmarked it). From what I remember it's set in medieval era, and Aziraphale has to go find and rescue Crowley after he was smote by Michael. I think there were moments where Crowley had lost his memories or was so traumatized he couldn't recognize Aziraphale, and he ended up partial naga/partially true form demon while he was recovering. Does this ring any bells? Thanks in advance! - anon

5. Hi I'm looking for a certain fic where Aziraphale falls after the apocalypse and gets horns and everything and has a ton of self image issues because of it. I've gone through the #fallen-aziraphale but I can't seem to find it. (Probably misremembering the description) - @rororowan02

If you know any of these fics please include the number in your reply! Thank you :)

- Mod D

[kaeso4ka]

You ask for help and help comes

Pairing: yandere Optimus Prime x human! reader

“Is it free here?”

You nodded, moving aside. You didn't look at him, didn't look away from the deserted-literally deserted-streets of Jasper.

The unknown man, however, was not embarrassed by the silence; he continued cheerfully.

“You're in a bad mood...”

“From a bad life,” you sighed heavily, finally turning to the person speaking, ‘what do you want...?’ you trailed off towards the end.

Sitting next to you was a rather innocuous looking man in his thirties, with an interesting haircut and wearing a balaclava. It was as if he didn't fit in, stood out, was... lighter than the hot, blazing sun.

“I just noticed you weren't feeling well, so I thought I'd come over,” the man turned his face to you fully, smiled. Kind eyes looked attentive but not clingy, “you need help.”

The man spoke ultimatum, but the soft tone of the man speaking made you feel...cozy.

“I do. But no one can help me with my problem,” you smiled weakly at the other's naivety, ‘my name is Y/N,’ you added for some reason after a short silence.

“My name is Yeshua. What makes you think no one will help you?”

The name, as well as the man's appearance, seemed... vaguely familiar. Like you had seen him once before... or had you only heard the name? But the fact was, there were hardly many people with that name in the United States.

“I'm in very big trouble on a galactic scale,” you wanted to say ‘literally,’ but you held back. The phone beeped, attracting attention.

You reached into your bag, lighting up the display... Of course. Optimus. And turned the phone off.

“Do you believe in God?” Yeshua nodded at the bag, from which, between everything else, a small icon peeked out. The icon was indeed quite small, shabby from time, but it still showed Jesus looking on it with humble serenity.

You carefully took out the icon, twirled it thoughtfully in your hands.

“I bought it... A long time ago,” you fell silent, and then, on regaining your composure, answered the question, ”I don't believe in God. I know there is one.”

You yourself were surprised that you had chosen to talk about such a strange subject with this strange man. Why God at all?...isn't this Yeshua a sectarian?

“I agree with you, there is a God. But then why do you think no one is helping you?”

“Because... I don't know. God works in mysterious ways, right? I mean, if it wasn't for God, would I be here? Besides - besides, you're about to come under the jurisdiction of another God - Primus, “here let's think about it. God is he is God to us humans. What if I become, let's say, an alien? And aliens have a different God. And that's it, no one will help me...”

That's silly. You glared at the man, realizing that you were talking nonsense to him.

Yeshua, however, did not look judgmental, bored, or surprised. He looked sympathetic.

“Don't you know that the human Soul is immortal? Once in the world, it remains forever until it is called into the kingdom. No matter what shell hides it,” Joshua smiled at you so brightly and kindly that your heart snapped with a feeling of warmth, ”just as a Cybertronian will not have a Soul if he uses a holoform.”

“Yes...,” you cut yourself short halfway through. “How do you know...?”

The puzzle in her head came together instantly, as if doused with ice water. You wanted to ask a question, so simple and stupid, but you didn't. You stared silently at the man in front of you.

“Do not fear the inevitable, but also do not fear the impossible,” Yeshua rose from the pew, bowed politely, ”I know, among other things, that there are only two types of beings in the universe, regardless of race: the good and the good-but-unhappy. But this is not forever. One day we will all appear There and everyone will be forgiven. The unhappiness will be gone.”

“I wish I could live to see it...” you smiled sadly, ”but what are millions of years compared to eternity There?”

Yeshua smiled, and you understood that smile.

“I have to go.”

You tried to smile back, but it didn't come out well, so she just nodded.

“Goodbye.”

As the departing Jesus became a dot on the horizon, you rose from the pew. Pretty soon there was no one left on the hot Jasper street.

[maidenofsophia]

The Magdalene

Who is She?

This is a question I've been asking since I was a little girl. Despite going to a Christian primary school, I have few memories of being taught about her, other than her being a penitent prostitute and the first witness to the resurrection.

When I was ten I watched an animation movie called the Miracle Maker starring Ralph Phiens as Yeshua and Miranda Richardson as the Magdalene. In that movie she's portrayed as being a mentally ill woman tortured by hallucinations, is healed by Yeshua and becomes one of his closest disciples. I should also add the two are VERY touchy feely with each other in that movie, it's a beautifully chaste semi-romantic bond.

In 2003, when I was getting into Wicca, I met someone in a Pagan chat room who called himself a Gnostic Christian Witch. He said that the Magdalene was his goddess, that she was the Holy Mother Spirit (Sophia) incarnate in her Daughter form, just as the Father was with the Son; Yeshua. This....blew my mind. And led me down a rabbit hole of a bunch of Gnostic and heretical texts.

Then the Da Vinci Code came out and this whole belief about Magdalene being Jesus' wife came into the mainstream. But while everyone seemed to be obsessing over their romantic and sexual life and what children they might have had, none of this really phased me because it the first Gnostic Witch I met already held this belief - but he stressed that it came secondary to who Magdalene was as a spiritual leader in her own right.

Since then I have heard so many different versions of who the Magdalene "really" was that it's hard to list them all but I'll give it a go:

- She was originally from Egypt and trained as a priestess of Isis. Yeshua met her on his travels as he was studying before coming into his role as a teacher himself and they formed a strong bond, she anointed him in the name of God the Mother and he in turn helped to heal her chakras (seven demons), something which he had learned after having travelled to the East. It was at Yeshua and Magdalene's own wedding where he turned water into wine, they had a daughter called Sarah who Magdalene escaped to France with following Yeshua's death.

- Another Gnostic path I came across believed she had no human birth but was Sophia come down in human form, just as the Logos came down as Yeshua. While the Logos returned to the heavens, Sophia remained incarnate as the Magdalene with the promise to keep returning in woman form upon her death until the Second Coming.

- Another believed her to have been a priestess of Asharah, whose temple was sacked and she was subjected to horrific abuse, SA and being cast out and nearly stoned to death until being saved by Yeshua.

- the Ecclesia Pistis Sophia have an oral tradition which was written down into a book by Tau Malachi which said she was born into a wealthy Jewish family, had great spiritual gifts but was forced to suppress them, was forced into marriage by her wicked father and then was attacked and assaulted. These "Sophians" believe that she accepted the spirit of Lilith into herself in order to survive and upon meeting Yeshua he healed her and she became the 'fulness' of the divine feminine with Eve and Lilith becoming one in her. She became Yeshua's "Holy Bride" and they had a son called Michael, rather than a daughter. The same story of her travelling to France occurs.

- Kaia Ra, author of the Sophia Code, claims to have channeled the spirit of the Magdalene who revealed her upbringing to her. That she was the daughter of wealthy parents who, as opposed to her origins in the Ecclesia Pistis Sophia, decided to nurture their daughter's spiritual gifts, that she was given lessons at her home but also travelled with her father to various places and connected with many faces of the divine feminine. She meets a fellow priestess, Mother Mary, who becomes like a second mother to her. She meets Yeshua and joins him on his mission of revealing gnosis but she is not beneath him in any way, it is very much a co-equal journey they go on but in the patriarchal society he is the one who is elevated. She and Mother Mary travel to France after Yeshua's death.

There are probably more that I've forgotten and sadly most of the websites I used to come across in the 00's are now lost.

But all of these stories have shaped my relationship with the Magdalene in some way. Parts I've agreed with, others that don't sit right with me. I don't know if we'll ever know the full truth. Even the ancient texts can only tell us so much, being written decades if not over a hundred years after the Magdalene lived and not even in the language those who knew them would have spoken.

The "canonised" gospels tell us that the Magdalene was the first to see Yeshua after his death. For me that at least speaks of his importance to her. His wife? His best friend? His co-preacher and partner in ministry? Personally I don't think it matters, it speaks of the same thing. Love. He loved her. Whether that love was romantic or platonic or something else, it was love and respect and the deepest trust.

They also tell us that she supported him and the men by her means, implying she was very wealthy, and yet she is not mentioned in relation to any man, neither as daughter or wife of mother. She is simply the Magdalene, ie from Magdala, a fishing village. The name also means Tower, which gives an image of strength and earnest faith.

Luke and Mark both say that Yeshua healed Magdalene of seven demons. I find it interesting how this event takes place off page, as opposed to a lot of other miracles we see Yeshua perform. For me this implies it was a rather intimate healing session between the two of them rather than one the public or disciples witnessed. But this could have been either some sort of exorcism as depicted in the Miracle Maker, or a healing of her mental and spiritual health with something similar to chakra healing as was believed by my Gnostic friend.

Interestingly the gospels do not say that she was the woman who anointed Yeshua's feet and head, this seems to have been either Mary of Bethany or the unnamed 'sinful' woman and it doesn't really make sense why the writers would name Magdalene specifically later but not state it to be her here. But given there is contradictions on where this happened as well as who did it, I don't think it's a stretch for anyone to still believe the Magdalene did anoint him herself at some point.

And then you get to the Gnostic gospels and the apocryphal texts and these just elevate the Magdalene even further when she was clearly already an important figure before. The Gospel of Philip connects her to Sophia and says that Yeshua would kiss her often and the disciples were jealous that he "loved her more than them". The Gospel of Thomas has Yeshua refusing to heed Peter's request to send Mary away as "females are not worthy". In The Dialogue of the Savior, it is said that she "spoke this utterance as a woman who understood everything." In the Pistis Sophia, the Magdalene is constantly questioning and offering up her own visions to Yeshua who heaps tons of praise on her for her insight and says "You are more blessed than all women on earth, because you will be the fullness of fullness and the completion of completion." And again he becomes protective when Peter's sexism makes her afraid. And all of this culminates in her own Gospel, which very little remains but is so fascinating. In this text, it is the Magdalene who stands up and takes on Yeshua's role while the men weep in fear and loss of what to do. Peter voices that they all knew Yeshua loved her most among women and pleas for her to share her visions. Sadly most of what she shares with them is lost but what remains seems to be a vision of how the soul rose above the seven demons that struck her to its Higher Self. Peter and Andrew reject what she shares but Levi defends her.

What does all of this lead to for me in the end?

It leads me to see the Magdalene as any other goddess. As many have contracting legends and myths and origins, the same is true of Her. And to me she is a goddess, she is Zoe Sophia - the Divine Daughter - in a human form, an ascended master and high priestess. She is not the first or only instance of this, but she is the one I most connect with. Whatever the "true story" of who she was is irrelevant, at this point it's all these various beautiful legends that inspire the mind and spark the soul's ascension.

Many people focus on the Magdalene for her faith and devotion. Many focus on her "sacred marriage" to Jesus and see her as a figure of romantic and faithful love, as well as motherhood, as well as what intimate and potentially sexual spiritual experiences they may have had together.

For me, the Magdalene is a balance of dark and light. While many I see position her as just "Christ with a feminine face", or another form of Mother Mary as a loyal follower and caretaker, for me she has an energy and personality that is so unique to herself and separate from them. Though of course they are a huge part of her life and her story, I don't have either Yeshua or Mother Mary in my personal pantheon, and I don't believe it's necessary to in order to connect to the Magdalene. She was very much a powerful spiritual woman before she met either of them.

For me the Magdalene is passion, she is fire, she is strength and wisdom and courage. She is in no way passive, she is a constantly active eternal flame. She was not just a student receiving knowledge but also inspiring Yeshua and others around her, a seeker and dreamer, a spiritual shield maiden. I don't believe Jesus cast any demons out of her with a wave of his hand, I believe he taught her how to heal them herself. Because we all need help from time to time. I do believe she may have had traumatic experiences that impacted her mental health, this is something I very much connect with and feel her with me when I am at my lowest. She has met those demons and conquered them. And anyone who calls upon Her to protect them from demons, she will descend like a mother bear. The Magdalene is loyal but not submissive. Patient and caring but not meek and mild.

I do believe she loved Yeshua and was devoted to him, whether as a friend or lover it makes no difference, it was a powerful love. But while she called him Teacher out of respect, he revered her as a priestess just as much and they were fully equal. I do not believe as the Sophian Gnostics do that she subjugated herself before him. She was not his Holy Bride or Consort. Her relationship with Yeshua was her great love but not her only one. I believe she and Mother Mary loved each other as mother and daughter. I believe she had close and powerful friendships with female disciples such as Mary of Bethany and Salome. I also believe she had a daughter, Sarah, who may have been Yeshua's or not, but either way she would raise her as a single mother (with her community of friends). The Magdalene also loved God. In that, she is a goddess of divine love but in all its wonderful and various forms.

I felt compelled to write all this out for my own benefit as I've come to embracing the Magdalene back in path and my pantheon. Having tried my hardest to search around, most of those who claim to be Magdalene Priestesses all have their own beliefs about her and charge a fortune just to interact with someone looking for Her. In the end I felt called to save my time and money by trusting my own intuition and experience with her. I love having her back on my altar, only this time it's Cernunnos who sits opposite as the divine masculine. I respect Yeshua but he is not part of my faith and the Magdalene has told me that's okay.

Hail, Lady Magdalene. Blessed art thou.

[ashfae]

Things I would like to happen/not happen in Good Omens Season 3

Small things in no particular order, just to put this out here, in a few years I'll come back and laugh: - More about the Fall - Never ever finding out what Crowley's angel name was. I genuinely don't want to know and especially don't want it to have been important. - Eric getting to be badass for once. - Muriel getting to be badass for once. - Eric and Muriel coming to a similar Aziraphale and Crowley "....look does anyone know what's going on? I don't think so. We are very small in comparison to these huge things how about we work together a bit trying to figure it out?" type of thing. - Finding out WTF is up with Crowley's spotty memory. Has he been made to forget things? I am curious. - The crux point of the season being Aziraphale needing finally once and for all to choose between Crowley and Heaven/recognizing that goodness is not something that can be mandated/all that jazz - More of Aziraphale's diaries - A hug. I'd like another kiss, I don't want smut (happy to keep that for fanfic and let them be platonic onscreen), I do absolutely want them to have a big "oh god I missed you so much" hug. - Crowley having left London. I strongly suspect he's gone abroad, feels like that was foreshadowed in the magician's wheel scene. I favour Sin City/Las Vegas for hilarity but the Spanish Riviera for the alcohol. - Much as I'd like to see all the human characters again (from s1 and s2) I doubt anyone except Muriel by proximity will have been in contact with any of them and I feel their part in the overall narrative arc is complete. We'll get new ones though. - Jesus Christ to show up for the Second Coming and promptly not do what anyone expects or wants him to do, and I sincerely hope I can't predict it either. Also man would I love it if he's called by Yeshua/Yeshoshua. - For Christ's actions and choices to be ultimately less important than Aziraphale's. Yes, I really want Aziraphale and his love for Crowley to be the primary mover of this season. - Crowley to say "Ngk". "Heigh ho" would give me the greatest joy but "Ngk" would be sufficient. - For God to NOT just show up and sort it all out and preferably to not appear at all though Francis McDormand narrating will always be a joy to me. - A return of Gabriel and Beelzebub. Actually this seems inevitable given everyone's entirely justified love of Jon Hamm. I have my own pet theories of what the plot of season three will be but I'll keep that to fanfic out of respect for Wait And See. Edit: I forgot to add, FOR THE LOVE OF SOMEONE DO NOT ASK NEIL ABOUT THIS OR LINK HIM. I don't want him to answer questions! Me wildly speculating is NOT the same as wanting answers, and besides, he wouldn't answer anyway, and rightly so!

[quasarcartoons]

Gods of Mount Othrys Model Sheets

I’m finally finished with all the necessary character models and references for my Theogony short film in production. 

Please follow along with this Theogony film project if you’re interested.

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This is the official character model for my version of Rhea, the goddess of maternity. Her entire design is directly based on Hellenistic depictions of Mariam (Mary), the mother of Yeshua (Jesus). I figured portraying the goddess of motherhood as such would be fitting. Her entire face is permanently fixed in a frowning expression to represent her grief from the loss of her children.

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This is an extra character model sheet for my version of Kronos (or Saturn), the god of time, but portraying the various intimidating forms of his monstrous side. Kronos is the main villain of the Theogony, and I didn’t just want to have an intimidating, human-like design, but also have a variety of inhuman, demonic forms to threaten the protagonist, Zeus. When I actually get to animating him, it will be a lot of fun to play around with his distorted, creepy forms.

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This is the official character model for three new characters I created for this film, not featured in the original myth. They’re the skeletal servants of Kronos named Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. They are always obnoxiously happy and try to keep Kronos pleased at all times. They’re designs are obviously based upon old rubber hose cartoons from the golden age of animation.

[catboymoments]

First of all lemme just say I love your Hotel Putgatorium AU ^^ but (as you could probably guess) I have some questions, a lot actually... but I'll try to limit it to just a few 1. Other than Lucifer, Adam and Yeshua, are any other biblical figures part of the story? 2. What are the origins of The Seven Princes and The Goetia? 3. What is the character of God?

1) I’m still working out the details but I wanna include Mary somehow and some angels and saints- also I’m limiting the religious representation to judeo-Christianity (as in Old Testament and biblical) because that’s what I Know and what I’m familiar with! I think it’d be cool to include afterlife ideas and representations from other religions but I don’t want to overstep or be offensive. Like I had a thought about Buddha being in the background as a buddy of Yeshua like in Saint Young Men or have Yeshua offhandedly mention “yeah everyone up in this dimension is just people who believed in our teachings, don’t worry the guys who followed Islam are safe and sound somewhere else haha” but I know there’s rules to representations of Islam in the Quran and like . Depicting Allah or Ishmael visually is haram . I simply do not know enough and I could learn but at this point I am too much of an outsider and that is okay

2) origins of the seven princes is smth I’ve thought about! I plan on redesigning them soon and I know I’m gonna have fun with it >:) I think that they formed and were “birthed” with their rings as a result of Lucifer corrupting humanity and grew from Humanity’s collective flaws, so technically they’re Lucifer’s children and Charlie’s siblings. I’m not sure about the goetia, I don’t know enough about that yet.

3) I think God is gonna be an incorporeal Presence that’s mentioned by a few characters ? I have some thoughts about god myself in the irl sense and it’s hard to put into words. God is universal yk

[thebindingofpillo]

Why can Azazel be goat. Why is this an option. (Sorry if this is worded meanie I have autism.)

Hi anon, here's the short version

As for the long version: I liked the idea of demons (and angels) being able to change their physical shape if they needed/wanted to, so the fact that he can turn into a goat isn't something only he can do. This is prime infographic material, I'll definitely make a post about it in the future.

Now, back to Azazel. He can turn into things other than a goat (as you can see if you click this link here), but he's already half goat in his normal form, so it felt appropriate he would feel most comfortable as one. The figure of Azazel in folklore and demonology is also referred to as a "scapegoat", while Satan and demons in general are usually associated or depicted as black goats! I promise there is thought behind this, it's not just because goats are my favorite animal lol.

Goatzazel has already appeared in the main comic (look at him in all his glory), and I'll tell you a fun fact: after being cast out of hell, Azazel spent a lot of time on Earth hiding in goat form because he was too afraid of getting attached to humanity again and didn't want to risk suffering again. He's spent around uuuuuh three decades masquerading as a goat before ending up in the flock of a certain someone (Judas) who at the time was busy following a certain oily man. Another fun fact, Yeshua (Jesus) immediately clocked Azazel as a demon but the two became friends. It's a nice story I promise.

During present times, all his loved ones know he can do this. It's why Maggie calls him "her little kid" lol

[saintmelangell]

hii i love your posts so much thank you for posting them!! i was wondering if u had any thoughts on the one-sex model as a possible rubric 2 understanding the historical feminization of yeshua? no worrys if not i was shrimply (🦐) curious this is mostly about how ur posts r so bangin. anywaus hugs

you might benefit from reading all, but particularly chapter two, of making sex by laqueur, followed by the dogma of christ by erich fromm, an essay i believe to be absolutely required reading. neither of these really talk about jesus as a woman. (caroline walker bynum is indispensable reading on the topic of jesus' femininity.) however, the one sex model argues that prior to the enlightenment, men and women were viewed as different forms of one essential sex. laqueur's central argument can be summed up thus:

The one-sex model can be read, I want to suggest, as an exercise in preserving the Father, he who stands not only for order but for the very existence of civilization itself. (58)

fromm will argue in his essay that the central underpinning of christianity, the shift in christian theology from a man elevated to godhood to that of a god diminished to humanity, is also an exercise in the preservation of the father, the retconning of roman imperial social structure into a faith practice stripped of its revolutionary capacity for the oppressed in order to mollify them instead.

i point to fromm and laqueur because it might help to make sense of why there are two very strong threads of jesus' portrayal: one as a highly masculine, patriarchal godhead, and one as a mother, as a woman, or at least inhabited by extremely feminine attributes. you can argue that these coexist, and i think there's something fruitful in understanding the two threads of el and y---, justice and mercy, destruction and creation in the god of israel as somewhat bigendered, genderfluid, or even transgender (transcendent of gender) in nature.

but this type of synthesis is not really what the christian understanding of jesus is getting towards. for one thing even today theologians are extremely reluctant to utilize the concept of jesus as mother for liberation theology. there's much i could gripe about this topic. but for me at least, the first key to understanding the historical feminization of jesus is, if there was an orthodox standard for accepting this viewpoint as mainstream, why is it not more widespread? second, it is to understand another point of laqueur's regarding the construction of the two-gender system:

Christianity made the possibility of such harmony between good social order and good sexual order far more problematic than it had been in Roman antiquity. It radically restructured the meanings of sexual heat; in its campaigns against infanticide, it diminished the power of fathers; in its reorganization of religious life, it altered dramatically what it was to be male and female; in its advocacy of virginity, it proclaimed the possibility of a relationship to society and the body that most ancient doctors- Soranus was the exception-would have found injurious to the health. It is also true that Augustine, as Peter Brown has argued, discovered "the equivalent of a universal law of sexuality," which represents a shift in the whole relation of human beings to society. It might stand as a metaphor for the end of the classical age and foc the remaking of community associated with the rise of Christianity. One's intimate experiences of sex, in this new dispensation, were the result not of an ineluctable heating of the body but of the fall and of the estrangement of will that the fall brought. (59-60)

not all of the fault is on christianity for binarizing gender; the view remained for perhaps 1800 years that women were merely the inverse of men. so jesus exists as both a man and the inverse of that man: the church is the bride of christ, but the church is also the body of christ- the two become one flesh, but this was predestined, they were already one flesh. jesus' feminization increasingly became at once vital to christian doctrine and a threat to its existence. i think it is perhaps more a threat than ever as christianity becomes the moral underpinnings for anti-woman and anti-trans legislation- as it has always been, but there is a real urgency to retrieve this notion of "threat" that jesus, and thus the church, are not binarized as the western cultural supremacy of the father would have us believe.

[kittenfangirl20]

Angel Dust: So, I have been meaning to ask, have you ever met Jesus in Heaven?

Adam: Yeah, though he prefers being called by his Hebrew name Yeshua.

Angel Dust: So what is he like.

Adam: Of course he is powerful since he is God’s son created from God himself before he was sent down to Earth to experience human life. He is usually pretty chill guy and easy to get along with. He holds a lot of love toward humanity and even loves Sinners too. Though he does hate how he had been used to promote hatred of certain groups of people. He also can’t stand how up until recently he was portrayed as a white man since he was never a white man. He was one of the few people up in Heaven who didn’t judge me for how I looked, dressed, or the type of music I liked.

Angel Dust: Honestly, the guy you are talking about sounds a lot cooler than the version of the guy I had to learn about in the Catholic Church. I always wondered if he would find me disgusting.

Adam: He wouldn’t, in fact he would want to be friends with you and would proud of the fact that you are working to redeem yourself. I mean he forgave Judas and everyone knows what that guy did. In fact I know he approves of the hotel since the guy is all about redemption.

*Angel Dust couldn’t help but smile at those encouraging words*

(I would like to think that if Jesus/Yeshua was ever brought into Hazbin Hotel he would be portrayed as a pretty chill guy who would approve of Charlie’s hotel)

[bookmuseum]

[REVIEW] The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

3/5 stars (★★★)

"He does not deserve the light, he deserves peace."

This was an oddly enjoyable read for the Christmas season. Before I read The Master and Margarita, I had zero idea what the book was about and 412 pages + a lot of reviews later I still can't exactly say what even happened here. The Gogolian influence was very persistent in Bulgakov's prose, so I highly recommend reading some of Nikolai Gogol's stuff before getting into TMaM. That being said, I agree with people that it's a novel that stands on its own in spite of its heavy context. I did some background research into Bulgakov's biography, the ten-ish years it took for him to write the book, Stalinist Russia, and the 25-year gap between when he finished the manuscript (which don't burn!) and the actual publication of it after his death. Critics seem to be unanimous in agreeing that the Master is a self-insert of Bulgakov himself, which I really felt to be most fitting during the scenes in the hospital where he discussed with Ivan the Homeless his philosophies on art and the current social order. I appreciated Bulgakov's harrowing criticism on Soviet Russia without actually being too grave about it; the dark humor is good because the "dark" is the adjective that informs the noun, not vice versa like a lot of "satire" plots which I feel fail in comparison. The magical realism was a good kind of wacky (although I wouldn't exactly call it magical realism, but that may be just because I'm more used to its South and Latin American literary uses). I liked Woland and all the beheading episodes. Bulgakov's tongue-in-cheek treatment of citizens "disappearing," private executions, political censorship of the Soviet intelligista, and the air of general repression felt in all people, especially artists, during the time were spot-on (though that's coming from someone who never experienced Stalinist Russia and have only done humble research into it). I think TMaM is a great testament to the political and social climate of Russia in the 20th century. Bulgakov captured everything so well whilst still retaining a sense of wonder, folkloric absurdism, and, at times, tender humanity.

Personally, I didn't like the scenes set in Yershalaim with Pontius Pilate and Yeshua Ha-Nozri, though I appreciate their symbolic meaning and narrative weight as a whole. I honestly found myself falling asleep, especially during the infamous conversation between Pilate and Jesus. That being said, I found Bulgakov's portrayal of Jesus very intriguing, as well as his decision to refer to ancient Jerusalem by an alternate transliteration from the Hebrew quite bold. It gave a sort of distancing effect to the otherwise well-known Biblical places that separated their religious (over)-associations with actual historic (and fictionalized) context. I like that Jesus became "Yeshua," with the name obviously coming from the Aramaic word for "the Lord is salvation." Bulgakov making Jesus' last name "Ha-Nozri" meaning "of Nazareth" specifically was quite beautiful to me, as it places him as coming explicitly coming from the town of Galilee (north of Palestine), which Jesus was said to have lived in before he began his ministry. Instead of "Jesus Christ" or "King of Israel," which are common ways he is referred to, Bulgakov opted to name him according to his native Palestinian roots first and foremost. There's a lot of literary analysis you can take from that, but it's inherently a very defiant decision that I appreciate Bulgakov for making, and I'm saying that as a reader in 2024. Bulgakov, amongst other subtle cultural references, also mentions the keffiyeh ("kefia") in his novel a handful of times, most strikingly in the scene when Matthew Levi essentially curses at God because he was too late saving Yeshua from crucifixion. Bulgakov here is writing almost 100 years ago from where I am with zero idea of the political climate happening now in my world (although Zionism was still obviously present in early 20th century Russia). Matthew Levi's keffiyeh was one of the book's most resonant images for me, even if Bulgakov didn't exactly intend it to be as jarring as it is since he couldn't have predicted the genocide happening in Gaza right now. However, this small link I've noticed between the past and now is just an example of literature transcending time and space by acting as a bridge for human connections. Long ago, one man from Palestine disrupted Jerusalem and Rome's established (tyrannical) order and then centuries later a writer in early 20th century Russia adapted Jesus' story to criticize the cruelties and ridiculousness of the Stalinist regime, and then I in 2024 am reading this as the mass killings are happening in Palestine. Through this one book, three generations -- three timelines -- are somehow connected.

My final comment is that TMaM, particularly that connection I've personally drawn as a modern reader, reminds me why humanities, reading, history, literature, the arts, etc. are so timelessly and universally important. I know I may sound crazy and "you're just trying to be deep," but it really honestly is the truth. Bulgakov explicitly highlighting Jesus as Palestinian in Soviet Russia as a form of political protest and me in 2024 reading this book just as Jesus' same homeland is being massacred during Christmastime ... it's so haunting. The book being finished in 1940, meaning it and Bulgakov's very Palestinian Jesus is older than the "state" of Israel is an even more damning fact in and of itself. Even though I gave the book 3/5 stars, it's surely a story I will remember. That final image of the four "horsemen" riding off into the distance just as another dawn is breaking over a dictatorial empire history knows is doomed to crumble that concludes the novel will stay with me.

[straynoahide]

psa

bc during the paschal triduum which is about to begin (holy friday, saturday, easter sunday) there is going to be a lot of theologically charged language, i want to be very explicit about one thing: the narrative of the gospel is not about judeo-christian relations.

the pharisees are not a stand-in for modern jews nor orthodox jews. the faithful disciples are not a stand-in for your chosen-élite congregation v the "out-world". judas iscariot is not a stand-in for jews nor israelis. there is no jewish deicide: there is human deicide.

Jesus's preaching and ministry took place in the concrete historical and sociopolitical context of I century judea that predates most of jewish christianity itself, not to mention any sort of "jewish v gentile" split in the early church and doctrines. judaism as we know it is also posterior to different currents of israelite religion at the time, one of which was the -at the time antinomian- preaching of yeshua.

the Passion narrative is the heart of the Christian message. it is the culmination of the most christlike teachings - the absolute breadth of human accountability and redeemability. All people are fallible, and all people fail. No one embodies God's goodness perfectly, and Jesus died for all, because that was God's Will and serves a purpose.

point, the gospel is about humanity. any antisemitic weaponizations of the gospel are deeply fallen; and especially in catholicism, it is also heretical. see them banished from all holy places.

[hiswordsarekisses]

Posted by Sebastian Shakes:

“The reasons why the Bible tells us that Jesus was no longer recognizable as a human being."

Most of the images of Jesus hanging on the cross are pretty clean. It looks like he stepped out of a shower, climbed up on the cross, and had some nails driven through his hands and feet…which hardly bled at all.

However, I think it is important for us to understand the physical suffering of Jesus as it shows us how much we are loved and what He Had to go through for us.

The cross was made of two parts the upright post the "Stipes" which was permanently fixed in the ground at the site of execution and the "Patibulum" it is the part the victim was made to carry, it weight around 110 pounds. Even carrying the patibulum proved to be too much for some men, especially after all the beating which many of them have received.

If the authorities wanted someone to die quickly, they would generally drive nails into the hands and feet of the victim. The nails were not driven into the palms of the hands as most pictures show. Rather, they were driven through the wrist near the hands. If the spikes were driven through the hands, the weight of the person would cause the nail to rip through the hands and the victim would fall off the cross. But when driven through the wrist, the set of bones which attach the wrist to the hand keep the hands from ripping free.

The crucified victim rarely died from blood loss. Most often, they died from asphyxiation, that is, the inability to breathe. Before the nail was driven through the victim’s feet, the legs were bent at the knee so that the bottom of one foot was flat against the vertical beam. One foot was placed on top of the other, and one long nail was driven through both feet. When the cross was erected, the weight of the body caused the victim to slump, putting all the weight of the body on the nails through the wrists, which caused a huge compression on the lungs. And that kept the victim from inhaling. As long as he was slumped down, he could not take in breath.

To take a breath, the victim would have to stand up on the nail through his feet, causing excruciating pain in the feet, but enabling him to take a breathe. But when that became too painful, he would slump back down, putting all his weight on his wrists, and also returning to the condition of not being able to breathe. Eventually, the victim would become weak and tired and could no longer lift themselves up on their feet to take a breath, and they would die from asphyxiation.

The first physical trauma for YeShua was inflicted with a soldier striking Him across the face for remaining silent when questioned by Caiaphas. Then He was blind folded and taunted asking Him to identify them as they were beating Him. They spit on Him, struck Him on the face repeatedly and pulled the hair out of His beard. Spitting on someone was the lowest form of disgrace to a person in that time and still is.

Although we do not know exactly how many guards participated, however we do know from history that the palace guard consisted of 900-1200 soldiers, so even if only ten percent participated, in this "Heinous" criminal act we see that Jesus endured a lot of beating, full fisted blows, shame, disgrace, and much devastation to His physical appearance at the hands of these soldiers.

They bared and stretched Jesus tight, at that time a Roman legionnaire steps forward with the flagrum "sometimes it is called a flagellum or cat-of-nine-tails" in his hand. It is a short whip consisting of nine heavy leather thongs, each with small lead balls, embedded with bits of glass, stone, or bone attached near the ends.

In the beginning the heavy thongs cut through the skin only. Then, as the blows continue, they cut deeper into the subcutaneous tissue, producing first an oozing of blood from the capillaries and veins of the skin, and finally spurting arterial bleeding from vessels in the underlying muscles, to the point where

eventually, the skin on the back hangs in long ribbons, and the entire area is an unrecognizable mass of torn bleeding tissue.

As the flagging continues and the flagellum is quickly pulled back, violently ripping and tearing the flesh off the body, in the process, a victim may have several ribs broken. Then they took a small bundle of flexible branches covered with long thorns woven into the shape of a crown and pressed into His scalp. Since head wounds always bleed a lot, the blood runs down His face and into His eyes.

Then they handed him a "scepter” beating and mocking Him, making a big joke out of it. They then struck Him on the head with the scepter causing to bleeding perfusely from His Head. The soldiers then take a heavy patibulum, and tied it roughly to Jesus’ shoulders. The procession leads down the Via Dolerosa. With Jesus are the two thieves who will be crucified with Him, and the execution detail of Roman soldiers.

Friends, Jesus Had gone through this pain, suffering, and humiliation to offer us redemption, and eternal life with the complete confidence of a full pardon to Our sins.

He offer us reconciliation and a free and complete accommodations at a beautiful resort In Heaven called Paradise, that He Has prepared for us with His own Hands in its appropriate time.

Amen.