The Black Madonna

The story of the Black Madonna like many aspects of religious history has been generally shoved to the side, dismissed entirely or at the least distorted in some strange way. The only half way plausible story about the origins of this portrayal of the Madonna can be traced to an old legend which came from the regions of Southern France. As the story goes, Mary Magdalene, the Mother Mary and a girl child landed on a beach near the town of Les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France in 43 CE in a small boat with no oars. In a small church supposedly built near the site of the landing there is a statue in black stone of a young woman who became known as the Black Madonna.

Popular thought has it that the Black Madonna was Mary Magdalene. This idea probably arose from the reputation attributed to her by the early Church Fathers. For some reason they concluded that Mary Magdalene was originally the prostitute that Jesus saved from that profession. Thus, she would be the Black Madonna with all of those bad feminine traits in contrast to the White Madonna who would be the Mother Mary.

Another idea is that the Black Madonna suggests the possibility that the Mother Mary may have been of African decent. Or, that statues and paintings of Mary were done in black in order to appeal to those people of dark colored skin. One more thought is that it represents the dark side of the Feminine Spirituality which has become identified with the empowerment of women in the present day for some reason. What ever the case, over the last 2000 years a number of Black Madonna statues were erected all over Europe and in countries around the Southern Mediterranean.

If we take the premise that the Black Madonna represents Mary Magdalene, there is nothing in the Bible that would directly infer that she was at any time a prostitute. It is generally concluded by modern scholars that she was most likely a woman of means who took to Jesus in a very special way. Although the Bible does mention a prostitute who was blessed by Jesus, then told by Him to “go her way and sin no more,” it does not say that this was Mary Magdalene or that the prostitute ever saw Jesus again. . Even if Mary Magdalene was this prostitute one would have to assume that since she spent a considerable amount of time with Jesus she would have had a rather complete transformation into something which was not dark.

She was indeed referred to several times in various texts as the favorite of Jesus. She was the first to find the open tomb and the first to see Him in the Apparition form after He had ascended. In John there are accounts of Jesus kissing both Mary Magdalene and His Mother Mary and other women who were close to Him on the lips frequently in public. All we really know for sure is that very little has been passed down about how Jesus related to women in general. The only thing we do know, based on the Biblical texts, is that His behavior around them was not typical of Hebrew cultural traditions. Nor, would it appear as though the women in His life behaved in keeping with the traditions of the time either.

It has been suggested recently that Jesus may have been married and He may also have had children. Most all Rabbis’ are married and have children and this would not be unusual in the Jewish tradition. However, Jesus was no ordinary Rabbi; He came as the predicted Messiah of the Jews. Not only this, but He brought a message to the world which was very different than what had come before. And this message will supercede the era of Moses. Now, if you toss Mother Mary into the mix as the Immaculate Conception and give Jesus dominion over heaven then we have a whole new situation to consider.

Although there were prophecies of a coming Messiah made by prophets who came before Daniel, Daniel’s visions of the Son of Man portrayed why and how this Messiah would be coming to Earth. Simply put; there were a substantial number of souls on this planet who had evolved to the point where they no longer wanted to be dominated by more primal forms which in Daniel are portrayed by a variety of Beasts. They wanted a higher standard to exist in the world and they brought Jesus before the Father as the example of this new form of life.

The Father agreed to this request and ordained that a transformation would begin. What is not indicated in Daniel but is somewhat inferred in the exchanges between Mary and Esther is that if there was going to be a new generation of souls in the likes of Jesus living on this planet then there had to be a Mother as well as a Son and a Father in order to foster these souls. And God chose Mary to be this Mother. And He made Her the Immaculate Conception which was necessary to create a form of man that had not existed before.

This form is first created in the mind of god which is then manifested in the angel form which is then born into the body. I would suggest that Jesus may have planted the seed of His form into the women who were around Him while He was in the body. And that even today there are probably Immaculate Conceptions going on which are not recognized as such. This would be especially possible if a woman was very close to the Mother Mary.

In any case, it is very possible that Mary Magdalene had a child by Jesus by one means or another. She may have landed on the coast of France with this child when her daughter was around 10 to 12 years old, as depicted by the statue. The reason the statue was black is because in those times when a person of royalty was in hiding or was known to be of royal blood but not generally acknowledged publicly they were depicted as being black – in the shadows so to speak.

Although one might first conclude that a child of Jesus would be a threat to the Romans in some way, or even a threat to the early Catholic Church and this would be the main reason for keeping the child in hiding. For three hundred years after the Resurrection, the Jews were indeed persecuted by the Romans mostly for reasons they brought upon themselves. A great number of Jews were in hiding and many proclaimed themselves as Christians in an effort to escape the persecutions. In spite of this, we must also remember that Jesus didn’t advocate confronting the Romans or anyone else for the sake of political gain.

What many people failed to recognize was that the real transformation on Earth was taking place in heaven and as such was eventually guaranteed to play out in the physical world. And that the Next Generation of souls who would be coming to Earth in the likeness of Jesus and Mary would not be interested in political conquests. So, although in a very real sense the Black Madonna child was indeed a future queen of the Next Generation, this queen was not about the dominion of physical kingdoms, churches, or political gains she was one of the first of a new form of life on the planet. And in the female form these new souls will be very much like Mary.