Received by Mercedes Kirkel
On April 13, 2014

Question: The recent validation by scientists of a scrap of papyrus that has the words “Jesus” and “my wife” on it is raising questions for many people relative to whether Yeshua (Jesus) was married. At the same time, I have received a number of questions from people wanting to know what really happened in your and Yeshua’s incarnation 2,000 years ago, such as: Were you married? Were you sexual? Did you have children? What happened to your children? Did Yeshua survive the crucifixion? Was Yeshua born through immaculate conception? Is Yeshua buried in Israel or France or India?

In your communications to me, you have chosen to say very little about your own and Yeshua’s lives. I have understood this as an intentional choice on your part to focus on human beings in the present time and how you can help us to grow.

I have been comfortable with that, because I feel deeply fulfilled by my present time connection with you and the tremendous gifts you’ve offered to help me and others in our lives. But I feel other people’s desire to want to know what actually happened with you and Yeshua, and this stirs up something in me. I feel torn—I want to contribute to people’s peace and understanding, and I also feel reluctant to enter into this whole arena of saying what is true, somehow sensing that it may not be the path I’m meant to take. Can you help me with this?

Mary Magdalene: Blessings dear sister. I can feel the turbulence in your heart of wanting to understand something that is confusing to you. I would like to help you and will do my best to bring clarity and peace to what you have asked. Of course, this is a huge topic. So I may need to address it in more than one session. We will see how far we can get with it today.

It seems that most of the questions people are asking of you and of others, if not all, are based on people wanting to know what really happened in the past. So I would like to begin with addressing this, because it is really the underlying issue. Can you, or anyone, know what happened? Is it necessary to know what happened? Is it important to know what happened? Why do people want to know what happened?

All of this relates to the way you learn and grow in the third dimension. In fact, the reason that higher beings come into manifestation in the third dimension is because of what people require in your dimension to learn and grow. Most of you require experiences based in your physical senses. You especially require to see, hear, and touch. If you have these experiences, then you believe something is real or true. So higher beings come into physical manifestation to give these experiences to people in the third dimension, so that people in the third dimension can trust that what that being says and does is real and true.

If that trust exists, there is the possibility that people in the third dimension will open their heart and mind to that higher being. Then the higher being can help people grow spiritually through the process of spiritual transmission­—which means to give someone the direct experience of a higher dimension. Spiritual transmission can be given through sight (though seeing a being who brings this higher consciousness and affords individuals access to higher dimensions); through hearing the words of a being awakened to higher dimensions; or through receiving the touch of that being. These forms of spiritual transmission have been given the name “shaktipat” in the Indian tradition, where there is understanding of the efficacy and value of this kind of interchange. Touch is generally considered to be the strongest form, with sight second, and speech third.

You, yourself, have had many such experiences, both in your 3D physical life, and also through your contact with higher beings at subtle levels, such as your contact with me. So you understand this process of spiritual transmission very well.

For individuals who are not able to be physically present with higher beings in the third dimension, there are other avenues of receiving their spiritual transmission. These include viewing photographs and video recordings of those beings, hearing audio recordings, reading written recordings, and hearing the stories of those who have been in their physical company.

Stories are a particularly potent form of transmission in your third dimensional world, because in hearing a story, the listener or receiver has the possibility of identifying with the characters in the story and thus feeling the story come to life within them. This is an important process. It is actually much more than fantasy, though many people might attribute it to that and in so doing try to minimize its importance. But it is actually not just “mere” imagination. It is actually very important.

Why is this so important? It’s because this has everything to do with how creation takes place.  You have a popular song in your culture that refers to this with an expression of something like “If I can dream it, I can be it.” There is great truth to this, more than most beings in your world currently understand or are aware of. I spoke about this in my communication to you several messages ago. [Note from Mercedes: Mary is referring to the blog post titled “Are We Responsible For Everything We Experience?”] This is an understanding that you will fully come to know and integrate in the fourth dimension.

I have said in the past that the fourth dimension is very much like the place you are familiar with from your dreams when you sleep. It is a realm where you are much more aware of your ability to create, through your thoughts, feelings, and actions. Ultimately your ability to create comes from your total consciousness.

This is also true of the third dimension. But because the third dimension is physically based and seems much more fixed and immutable to most people than the higher dimensions (such as the realm you visit in your dreams), most people are not aware that the third dimension is also a place of creation. This concept is very new and unfamiliar to most people at the third-dimensional level.

Nonetheless, it is accurate that you are creating your reality through your consciousness at the third dimension. It’s just much harder to see and be aware of for most people. It is as though your realm is a movie or TV show that’s constantly being created by your consciousness. And you have taken the starring role! [Mary smiles.]

As I said before this is hard for many people to accept, because they are still entrenched in right-wrong thinking, and they blame themselves for things happening that they think are wrong or bad. This is all part of the great school of the third dimension, to grow beyond this kind of thinking. While pain and suffering are obviously an inherent part of the third dimension—and you will be glad to hear that they are not, for the most part, a part of the higher dimensions in the same, gross form—they are not evidence of someone doing something wrong. They are simply a form of learning that is helping you to grow into love and light. And it is a form of learning that all beings in the third dimension have freely chosen, because pain and suffering are such a powerful form for moving individuals forward quickly in their growth.

You may be wondering what all this has to do with the original question about what happened 2,000 years ago with me and with Jesus. It has to do with the power of stories as a particularly human form of learning and growth. When individuals hear a story, they will either resonate with it or not. They will discern at some level whether they trust the story, whether it seems believable to them, and whether it has value for them. If they decide it is believable and has value, they will let it into their consciousness. Then it becomes a part of them.

This is actually the same thing you do with any experience in life. When you encounter another person, you discern if you resonate with that person or not—if you trust them, if you relate to them, and if they have value for you. If these three criteria are met, then you will decide to open to them, in some way or other. And this will shape the course of your life, in some way or other.

The same is true of a story. If you open to it, it will shape the course of your life, in some way or other. If many people open to the same story, it will shape the course of your culture, in some way or other.

All of this is because you as an individual or a collective are creating your life based on your consciousness. It does not really matter whether that consciousness is based upon a physically perceived experience or a story. Either has the power to create your life, once you let it in. From our perspective in the higher dimensions, the difference is not significant. What you have experienced physically could be seen as a kind of story that your consciousness is having. And certainly your memory of what you’ve experienced in the past could be seen as a kind of story.

This relates to the expression in your time that you are a spiritual being having a human experience, as opposed to a human being have a spiritual experience. If you are rooted in the first statement, you could see your life, or anyone’s life, as a being immersed in a kind of story that you call human life. From that perspective, it becomes much less important to know what really happened, because you understand that if it’s just a story, then whatever “happened” is simply a choice of one possibility out of infinite possibilities. And that also is true in your earthly realm of everything you refer to as “real life.”

What is important in a story is not actually “what happened.” That is simply the means to give you something, some kind of experience. It may be the experience of having an adventure, growing in new ideas or understandings, or opening you emotionally in a way that deepens your heart. These tend to be the kinds of experiences you have in stories you come to value.

In your world at this time you have many different stories that exist about Jesus and Mary Magdalene. What is important is not the veracity of the various stories. That pursuit is going to draw you deeper into the third-dimensional consciousness of needing things to be “real,” which usually means provable in a physical way. And the ultimate result of that pursuit is to reinforce being limited to the physical dimension.

But you have another option, which is to see the stories more in the ways that we do at the higher dimensions. You can see these stories as vehicles of opening to spiritual reality, which really means opening to love and light, and ultimately opening to God. Depending on where someone is in their spiritual path and development, and the level of consciousness they are resonating at, different people will align themselves to different stories, because those are the ones that meet their own criteria of resonating with their experience and having value for them. So they will open to certain stories and not open to others. All people do this.

In the course of a particular individual’s lifetime, that person may align with a certain story at a certain point of their development and later outgrow that story as they develop further. Many of you have this experience relative to the story of Santa Claus, for example. When you were young, you held that story as true in a particular way. Later, you held it as a story that wasn’t factually true, but was either a sweet fiction, a reflection of a part of human nature, a myth based in certain cultural practices or historical figures, or a combination of these.

The stories that abound in your time about Jesus and myself are maintained by the consciousness of the people who believe in them. They are helpful for those people in their current level of spiritual growth. To try to change someone’s story is similar to trying to change their dreams. It is not going to be productive. They are opening themselves to that story because it is a fit for them at their stage and process in the current moment.

What’s more to the point are your own stories. [Note from Mercedes: Mary is addressing me personally at this point.] You could say that part of your story is to be in a world where different people have different stories and you don’t know how to reconcile this. My suggestion is that it’s not yours to reconcile, other than to consider the source of this scenario in your own consciousness. What does this reflect about you? Are you needing others to validate your “story” in order to trust it yourself? Are you needing others to believe what you believe in order to be accepted?

What does this say about you and your opening to love and light. What limit is this reflecting in you? And what are your options for going beyond that limit?

What if you were to accept all the diversity of stories as something like a huge fair with so many different possibilities. What if you could love them all, as different people in their process of growing into light and love? What if you were to release your sense of responsibility for knowing or communicating “the truth” to others, and simply could support them in discovering their truth in this moment and the story that reflects that for them?

This brings up fear for you, that others won’t understand what you’re doing if you try to do this. They might accuse you of being a fraud or a charlatan for supporting a “false” story. It is true, this has happened to many in the past, including yourself. [Note from Mercedes: Mary is referring to past lives of mine when I was persecuted for not supporting the generally held beliefs of the time.] So that is part of your growth in this lifetime, to go beyond your fear of not being accepted by others or being harmed by others’ lack of understanding.

And even these are stories you are creating. Your spiritual process in this moment may be to begin to create new stories for yourself, where others understand and value you. It really is that simple. But no, it is not easy, especially at the third dimension. Spiritual growth is not easy, but it is simple. And I am here to support you in it to the fullest extent I can. Because I love you. Profoundly.

And it will become simpler. As you grow, the things you struggled with in the past will become simpler and simpler. But this is for you to realize, as you inevitably will, as you grow.

I feel I have said enough for now. I love you and embrace you tenderly in my arms of care and compassion. Be well my dearest. You are precious and all of this is helping you to grow.

In love and gratitude,

I AM Mary Magdalene