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<blockquote>Another teaching that these Albigensian circles regarded as esoteric and again was taught in their “secret meetings” claimed that Mary Magdalene was in reality the wife of Christ.... She was the woman whom Christ freed when the Jews were trying to stone her and she was his wife as she was alone with him in ... the temple ... and in the garden. This Albigensian belief in Mary Magdalene as Christ’s wife is confirmed by two additional Catholic tracts on the Cathar heresy.... The teaching of Mary Magdalene as the “wife” or “concubine” of Christ appears, moreover, an original Cathar tradition.<ref>Yuri Stoyanov, ''The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy'' (New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2000), pp. 278, 279.</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>Another teaching that these Albigensian circles regarded as esoteric and again was taught in their “secret meetings” claimed that Mary Magdalene was in reality the wife of Christ.... She was the woman whom Christ freed when the Jews were trying to stone her and she was his wife as she was alone with him in ... the temple ... and in the garden. This Albigensian belief in Mary Magdalene as Christ’s wife is confirmed by two additional Catholic tracts on the Cathar heresy.... The teaching of Mary Magdalene as the “wife” or “concubine” of Christ appears, moreover, an original Cathar tradition.<ref>Yuri Stoyanov, ''The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy'' (New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2000), pp. 278, 279.</ref></blockquote> | ||
Author and researcher Graham Simmans contends that the area in southern France where Jesus and Mary Magdalene seem to have settled (the hills near Rennes-le- | Author and researcher Graham Simmans contends that the area in southern France where Jesus and Mary Magdalene seem to have settled (the hills near Rennes-le-Château) was inhabited by Essenes as well as Jewish and Egyptian Gnostics. He claims there was a connection between these esoteric groups and the later Cathar movement.<ref>Graham Simmans, ''Jesus after the Crucifixion: From Jerusalem to Rennes-le-Château'' (Rochester, Vermont: Bear & Company, 2007), pp. 69, 247.</ref> | ||
== The mission of twin flames == | == The mission of twin flames == | ||