As seen in the Last Supper
Da Vinci lays it all out in the open in The Last Supper. The one seated in the place of honor, at the right hand of the Lord is an individual with flowing red hair, delicate folded hands, and the hint of a bosom. It was, without a doubt… female. The woman to Jesus’ right was young and pious-looking, with a demure face. This is the woman who single-handedly could crumble the Church? Who is she? That, my dear, is Mary Magdalene.
The Last Supper tells us that the Holy Grail was a person. And not just any person: A woman who carried with her a secret so powerful that, if revealed, it threatened to devastate the very foundation of Christianity!
Who was Mary Magdalene?
The unfortunate misconception that she was a prostitute is the legacy of a smear campaign launched by the early Church. The Church needed to defame Mary Magdalene in order to cover up her dangerous secret - her role as the Holy Grail.
The early Church needed to convince the world that the mortal prophet Jesus was a divine being. Therefore, any gospels that described earthly aspects of Jesus’ life had to be omitted from the Bible. Unfortunately for the early editors, one particularly troubling earthly theme kept recurring in the gospels. Mary Magdalene. More specifically, her marriage to Jesus Christ.
Married?
It’s a matter of historical record and Da Vinci was certainly aware of that fact. The Last Supper practically shouts at the viewer that Jesus and Magdalene were a pair.
Notice that Jesus and Magdalene are clothed as mirror images of one another. Sure enough, their clothes were inverse colors. Jesus wore a red robe and blue cloak; Mary Magdalene wore a blue robe and red cloak. Yin and yang.
Venturing into the more bizarre, note that Jesus and His bride appear to be joined at the hip and are leaning away from one another as if to create this clearly delineated negative space between them.
Symbol of M
In the painting, if you view Jesus and Magdalene as compositional elements rather than as people, you will see another obvious shape leap out at you – A letter of the alphabet.
Glaring in the center of the painting was the unquestionable outline of an enormous, flawlessly formed letter M.
Why is it there?
Conspiracy theorists will tell you it stands for Matrimonio or Mary Magdalene. To be honest, nobody is certain. The only certainty is that the hidden M is no mistake. Countless Grail-related works contain the hidden letter M - whether as watermarks, underpaintings, or compositional allusions. The most blatant M, of course, is emblazoned on the altar at Our Lady of Paris in London, which was designed by a former Grand Master of the Priory of Sion, Jean Cocteau.
The marriage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene is part of the historical record. Moreover, Jesus as a married man makes infinitely more sense than our standard biblical view of Jesus as a bachelor.
Why?
Because Jesus was a Jew and the social decorum during that time virtually forbid a Jewish man to be unmarried. According to Jewish custom, celibacy was condemned, and the obligation for a Jewish father was to find a suitable wife for his son. If Jesus were not married, at least one of the Bible’s gospels would have mentioned it and offered some explanation for His unnatural state of bachelorhood.
What the Gospels tell?
The Gnostic Gospels, the Nag Hammadi and Dead Sea scrolls are the earliest Christian records. Troublingly, they do not match up with the gospels in the Bible. Flipping toward the middle of the book, we find a passage:
And the companion of the Saviour is Mary Magdalene. Christ loved her more than all the disciples and used to kiss her often on her mouth. The rest of the disciples were offended by it and expressed disapproval. They said to him, “Why do you love her more than all of us?
As any Aramaic scholar will tell you, the word companion, in those days, literally meant spouse.
Read the first line again. And the companion of the Saviour is Mary Magdalene.
The book clearly suggested Magdalene and Jesus had a romantic relationship.
This is from the Gospel of Mary Magdalene:
And Peter said, “Did the Saviour really speak with a woman without our knowledge? Are we to turn about and all listen to her? Did he prefer her to us?”
And Levi answered, “Peter, you have always been hot-tempered. Now I see you contending against the woman like an adversary. If the Saviour made her worthy, who are you indeed to reject her? Surely the Saviour knows her very well. That is why he loved her more than us.
The woman they are speaking of, is Mary Magdalene.
Whom to carry on His Church?
Peter is jealous of her. Not only because Jesus preferred Mary, the stakes were far greater than mere affection. At this point in the gospels, Jesus suspects He will soon be captured and crucified. So He gives Mary Magdalene instructions on how to carry on His Church after He is gone. As a result, Peter expresses his discontent over playing second fiddle to a woman. We daresay Peter was something of a sexist.
According to these unaltered gospels, it was not Peter to whom Christ gave directions with which to establish the Christian Church. It was Mary Magdalene.
Jesus - the original feminist!
That was the plan. Jesus was the original feminist. He intended for the future of His Church to be in the hands of Mary Magdalene.
And Peter had a problem with that. See Peter in the Last Supper. You can see that Da Vinci was well aware of how Peter felt about Mary Magdalene.
In the painting, Peter was leaning menacingly toward Mary Magdalene and slicing his blade-like hand across her neck. The same threatening gesture as in Madonna of the Rocks!
Royal Blood
Few people realize that Mary Magdalene, in addition to being Christ’s right hand, was a powerful woman already. Mary Magdalene was of royal descent. Magdalene was recast as a whore in order to erase evidence of her powerful family ties. I it was not Mary Magdalene’s royal blood that concerned the Church so much as it was her consorting with Christ, who also had royal blood. As you know, the Book of Matthew tells us that Jesus was of the House of David. A descendant of King Solomon - King of the Jews. By marrying into the powerful House of Benjamin, Jesus fused two royal bloodlines, creating a potent political union with the potential of making a legitimate claim to the throne and restoring the line of kings as it was under Solomon.
The legend of the Holy Grail is a legend about royal blood. When Grail legend speaks of ‘the chalice that held the blood of Christ’… it speaks, in fact, of Mary Magdalene - the female womb that carried Jesus’ royal bloodline.
A Father too?
The greatest cover-up in human history: Not only was Jesus Christ married, but He was a father. My dear, Mary Magdalene was the Holy Vessel. She was the chalice that bore the royal bloodline of Jesus Christ. She was the womb that bore the lineage, and the vine from which the sacred fruit sprang forth!
The royal bloodline of Jesus Christ is the source of the most enduring legend of all time - the Holy Grail. Magdalene’s story has been shouted from the rooftops for centuries in all kinds of metaphors and languages. Her story is everywhere once you open your eyes.
The word Sangreal derives from San Greal - or Holy Grail. But in its most ancient form, the word Sangreal was divided in a different spot.
Sang Real literally meant Royal Blood.
Sangreal… Sang Real… San Greal… Royal Blood… Holy Grail.
It was all intertwined.
The Holy Grail is Mary Magdalene… the mother of the royal bloodline of Jesus Christ.
Leonardo da Vinci is not the only one who has been trying to tell the world the truth about the Holy Grail. The royal bloodline of Jesus Christ has been chronicled in exhaustive detail by scores of historians.
See some titles:
THE TEMPLAR REVELATION:
Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ
THE WOMAN WITH THE ALABASTER JAR:
Mary Magdalene and the Holy Grail
THE GODDESS IN THE GOSPELS
Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine
This is perhaps the most famous tome:
HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL
The Acclaimed International Bestseller
This caused quite a stir back in the nineteen eighties. To my taste, the authors made some dubious leaps of faith in their analysis, but their fundamental premise is sound, and to their credit, they finally brought the idea of Christ’s bloodline into the mainstream.
The Church’s reaction to the book was outrage, of course. But that was to be expected. After all, this was a secret the Vatican had tried to bury in the fourth century. That’s part of what the Crusades were about. Gathering and destroying information.
Surviving bloodline
The threat Mary Magdalene posed to the men of the early Church was potentially ruinous. Not only was she the woman to whom Jesus had assigned the task of founding the Church, but she also had physical proof that the Church’s newly proclaimed deity had spawned a mortal bloodline. The Church, in order to defend itself against the Magdalene’s power, perpetuated her image as a whore and buried evidence of Christ’s marriage to her, thereby defusing any potential claims that Christ had a surviving bloodline and was a mortal prophet.
[The Series continues]
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