offa

A prosititute (metaphor) does not have anything to do with copulation. A prostitute is a priestess. Mary Magdalene was closely related to Jesus' mother and that is why Judas Iscariot protested their marriage.

It is just like the metaphor "adultery", the woman at the well became an adultess when she decided to change from a lunar calendar to a solar calendar in order to become a follower of Jesus. Those who were dared to cast a stone had followed her example. It's all about metaphors.

offa

SaintCog

Chili

Hi offa, here's my take on Magdalene over at the Buddhist camp.

You call Magdalene a whore when I call her a temple tramp? There is a difference, you know. Let me quote "Coriolanus" on this "know thou first, I [Aufidius] loved the maid I married." This was after the final Samsara at Corioli, just outside of Rome (away from his kingdom) where Caius Marcius was maimed through the capture of Aufidius while Valeria (Magdalene) was in Rome and returned to Rome to be, once again, the life of Rome. She was no whore but to be admired and loved by us all. She is actually responsible for your daily rounds of samsara without which Dukkha will never come your way. But I suppose . . . .

BTW. To love Magdalene is to love life. She's the tramp who plays with us in our conscious mind here called the temple that is to be destroyed and rebuilt in three days. Why is she a tramp? Because she has no 'existence of being' wherefore darkness prevailed on that good morning when daylight never came for her. She's is called Valeria in Coriolanus because of her valor as opposed to virgin Virgilia to whom we are betrothed (have our destiny) through the incarnate wisdom of Volumnia who leads us to this final round of Samsara.

SaintCog

Umm....either I'm missing some really thick and profound sarcasm here, or someone just dropped a few healthy doses of LSD into the punch bowl. I cringe to entertain the alternative.

Chili

They were Mary and Martha in the Gospels and the two serpents of Gen.3:15 where Mary (the woman) strikes at the head of Magdalene (the [lesser] serpent) who in her turn strikes at the heel of Adam who is the persona of man. So yes, they are intimate and at enmity with each other that really is the cause of all our emotions that they might bring, or gather, images of reality.