Enlightenment

Let me start off to say that I am spiritual, but not really religious.

I was watching a television show the other day and they were talking about the life of Jesus. Have you ever heard of the Gospel of Mary? No? Me either. Parts of the Gospel of Mary have been found in several places of the Middle East and they have been started to be put together. It seems from history, that there was a big movement by some people to push women out of the early Church. OK, so that is no real surprise. However, it seems that Mary was one of the foremost teachers in the early Christian Church. OK, now the plot thickens even more...

It also appears at a certain time the Church started a smear campaign against her because they wanted it as a male dominated group. So was she really a prostitute? I am guessing that she was not.

If some of that is not interesting enough, the most important part of the show to me is what the Gospel of Mary said. It said that the second life or second coming of Jesus is not an actual event, but it is about enlightenment. It states something the the effect that enlightement is internal in us and we all of the knowledge and tools for it inside us, but through live we have to discover the internal knowledge and internal path to enlightenment. This is very similar to other teachings I have read that we all have the knowledge and tools for enligtment in us, and through life we need to discover them.

Why would the Church not want this message to be let out? Hmm...Control?