Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00355)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Erica Letzerich <eletzerich@y...> 
> Some would say that she was a prostitute

There is no good evidence of that.

> For those dedicated
> to the study of Theosophy, it's more than clear that a
> man of Jesus status, an Avatar would never get
> physically involved with a woman. The Kama rupa of an
> Avatar is purified without the presence of earthly
> desires. In the `Practical Occultism' of HPB celibacy
> it's stated in one of the rules. 

Some of the theosophists (many of them) were homosexual and therefore 
unmarried but none of them were celibate.

> In the gospel of Philip he mentions that Mary
> Magdalene was a companion of Jesus, this does not
> means a lover.

You have not read it. The text says Jesus bussed Mary on the mouth 
frequently. People did not do that except to lovers.

> If Jesus was having Mary as a lover, wouldn't be so
> clever the disciples to ask: 
> 
> "Why do you love her more than all of us?"

Except the Peter and Philip they were all unmarried in an age in 
which marriage was not optional. What does that tell you?

> I had a look in the Catholic Encyclopedia about the
> kiss, and they mention that between the early
> Christians the custom of saluting each other was with
> a kiss not only during the liturgy. 

Friends greeted each other then with a kiss on the neck. Inferiors 
greeted superiors (as when Judas betrayed JC) with a kiss on the 
feet. Moviemakers always screw that one up. Lovers kissed each 
other on the lips.