RE: MARY'S POWER RING
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, XXXXX <XXXXX@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Mary Magdalene was Earth's first Green Lantern, and she let
> Jesus borrow her power ring--he was pushing a forgiveness
> teaching through parables that close friends thought could use
> a little more "razzle-dazzle". He nicknamed the ring Sophia,
> which the Gnostics garbled, but all to their credit, I guess--
> it's a good teaching. Anyway, supposedly he would swish it
> around in his chalice when he went drinking with his tax-
> collector and prostitute friends.
>
> Of course, the Green Lantern Corps was furious with Mary over
> this unsanctioned transfer of the ring (let alone their
> official endorsement of John the Baptist as the sole righteous
> Jewish messianic), and in an effort to smooth things over with
> the Corps, Mary agreed to have Jesus crucified for the
> transgression. His death was, as you've heard, faked, and, yes,
> he and Mary ran away together--after a quick final powwow with
> the apostles--and had several kids. (Incidentally, Judas
> Iscariot never existed--the name is an obvious fabrication, as
> the scholar Robert Eisenman determined some years ago now.)
>
> If you look at All-American Comics #16, Comics Cavalcade #5,
> and All Star Comics #57, and read them against the apocryphal
> Gospel of Mary, it's pretty much all there: hints at the two
> unsuccessful attempts to recover the power ring from Jesus' and
> Mary's descendants, the Dynasty's last known location, and even
> the traditional naming convention for the family's many German
> Shepherd dogs.
>
> Yours,
>
> XXXXX