Who REALLY Was Mary Magdalene? And What Was Her Relationship to Jesus?
It is time for Mary Magdalene herself to step forward, and clear up this controversy! proclaimed Ruth Norman (Uriel) in 1988 when Martin Scorseses film The Last Temptation of Christ first stirred raucous public debate over this enigmatic figures historical role. Mrs. Norman was director and cofounderof the Unarius Academy of Science in El Cajon, California, from its inception in 1954 to her passing in 1993. Among the dozens of books she authored, she penned several about her past life as Mary of Bethany. She maintained that the real Mary was the betrothed of Jesus of Nazareth, and was wrongly accused and called by the name of the prostitute, Magdalene, by jealous disciples after Jesus death. Now with Dan Browns compelling thriller, The Da Vinci Code, leaping off shelves, her assertions have taken on a new resonance. The controversy Mrs. Norman was referring to in 1988 was the hullabaloo surrounding Scorseses film, which had religionists in an uproar even before its opening. But the suc
