Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00408)

In a message dated 3/19/04 2:17:01 PM Central Standard Time, 
stevestubbs@yahoo.com writes:

<< 
If she was not a prostitute, saying she was means you are departing 
from the ancient understanfing. It also seems to me to insult her 
memory unnecessarily. >>

I just had an idea to consider which may worth something or absolutely 
nothing, but there is the Gnostic tradition of Simon Magus marrying a prostitute 
named Helen as symbolic of the union of the Logos and the Sophia, the latter 
having been imprisoned by the Archons in the body of a prostitute. Could it not 
be that the transmorgrification of Mary Magdalene into a prostitute was a 
reflection of the Gnostic idea and sort of adopted by the Church and then corrupted 
by it for its own ends?

Just a speculation.

Chuck the Heretic