Becoming Fully Human

I once asked Mary Magdalene in the course of a conversation what the point was in being born. Specifically, I was questioning why I was born, because trying to muck through the fallout from a traumatic childhood has often left me feeling as if my existance on Earth has been pointless.

But to my question Mary responded in part: “To be human. You cannot be human unless you are born.”

At the time, that particular response seemed a little lack-luster; blithe, even. But since the other words she spoke were meaningful to me, I wrote the conversation down anyway, as best as I was able to recall. Over the course of the next several months, however, as my Guides began to teach me more and lead me into greater Unity (wholeness, healing), I began to understand what Mary meant by that very simple statement: to be human.

To be human—to become fully human—in the way Mary Magdalene teaches and exemplifies is to integrate within ourselves both the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine. That is, to integrate the Totality of “God-ness” within ourself, a merger of Sacred Divinity and Sacred Humanity.

Jesus and Mary Magdalene, through their Divine Union, showed what it was to become “Fully Human.” They are our Archetype, the pattern to follow.

Wholeness.

Divine Unity.

The Father and the Mother, the Son and the Bride, Divinity and Humanity.

We are One.

We come to understand this Oneness by first becoming Human (being born into the physical), an act which integrates both our personal Divinity (our Spirit) and our individual Humanness (our Soul and Flesh) into One. Then we grow further into this Oneness by integrating the whole of our expressed Self (our Spirit and Soul/Flesh) with the whole Self of the Divine.

Trauma causes breaks in these integrations, and we all experience trauma to one degree or another. Life is our personal journey to heal (recover, grow, learn how to overcome) and to integrate, both within ourselves and within the Divine (and as a result, within the Universal Humanity, as well).

When we begin to integrate, we realize that there never was a separation to begin with. We have always been and always will be One. There are only levels of awareness.

(Note: I am not speaking of the physical side of human sexuality, gender identity, or physical genitalia. These things are a pattern of what is first found in the spiritual, and while I am not taking away from any meaning of these physical manifestations, I am speaking of the spiritual side.)

For Further Study

“I and the Father are one.” Jesus (John 10:30)

“Holy Father, keep them in Your name, which You have given Me, that they may be one as we are. I do not ask for these only, but also for those believing in Me through their word, that all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And I have given them the glory which You have given Me, so that they may be one, as We are one—I in them, and You in Me—that they may be perfected in unity” Jesus (John 17:11, 20-23)

⇒ Gnostic Gospel: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene (I prefer the LeLoup translation, found here)

⇒ Gnostic Gospel: The Gospel of Philip (I prefer the LeLoup translation, found here)

⇒ Gnostic Gospel: The Gospel of Thomas (this is the one I have)

⇒ Article: Sacred Marriage: The Secret Key to Christian Spirituality“