Before the Cross: Remembering the Sacred Roots of Christ Consciousness

A reflection on the feminine wisdom beneath religion as we know it.

Before the Church.

Before the canon.

Before the empire made God a weapon and holiness a hierarchy…

There was Spirit.

There was Earth.

There was mystery.

And woven through it all was the Feminine.

Long before Christianity became an institution, the sacred was experienced in cycles, in symbols, and in the body. The divine was not something above you. It was something within you—a flame, a breath, a knowing.

And Christ?

He didn’t come to destroy that.

He came to remind us.

The Sacred Earth Before the Church

Ancient people did not need temples to feel the divine.

They looked to the moon, the tides, the harvest, the womb.

They lived in rhythm with the Earth.

They worshipped not to control nature, but to belong to it.

Goddesses were not feared.

They were revered—as life-bringers, death-holders, truth-tellers.

Think of Isis.

Inanna.

Sophia.

Brigid.

These weren’t “pagan myths.”

They were ways of knowing—a sacred technology encoded in stories, blood, and bone.

Then Came the Shift…

When empires began to rise, the Earth-based spiritualities were seen as a threat.

Too wild. Too powerful. Too feminine.

So they were rebranded as dangerous.

Rituals became heresy.

Midwives became witches.

Priestesses became whores.

Mystical experience became blasphemy.

And over time, religion became a system instead of a path.

It taught obedience instead of embodiment.

Separation instead of union.

But not all voices were silenced.

The Gnostics: Keepers of Hidden Wisdom

The Gnostics were early followers of Christ who didn’t believe salvation came through a Church.They believed it came through gnosis—direct, embodied experience of the divine.

They taught that the kingdom of God was not a place, but a state of consciousness.That truth lived inside you—not in a pulpit, but in your heart. And that Mary Magdalene was one of the most important teachers of this path. In fact, many Gnostic texts place Magdalene as a wisdom bearer equal to Jesus—and sometimes the only one who fully understood his teachings.

They believed in:

• The feminine face of God

• Reincarnation

• The healing power of sexuality

• Sacred union between spirit and matter

• The divine spark within every soul

These teachings were lost—hidden or destroyed—because they threatened the structures that wanted control.

But what is true cannot stay buried forever.

The Christ Path Was Never Meant to Erase the Feminine

Yeshua did not come to start a religion.

He came to awaken remembrance.

He healed with touch.

He taught through metaphor.

He broke rules to restore dignity.

He centered women, the poor, the forgotten, the outcast.

He said, “You will do even greater things than I.”

What if that wasn’t metaphor?

What if that was permission?

A Return, Not a Rebellion

This is not about rejecting Christianity—it’s about remembering its origins.

Before Christianity became empire…Before women were silenced…Before the mystical was made dangerous…There was a path of love.

Of union.

Of embodied divinity.

And it still lives—in your cycles, in your breath, in your longing for more.

You don’t have to choose between God and your body.

Between Christ and the feminine.

Between tradition and truth.

You are allowed to remember both. To walk between worlds. To make your own altar.

Because long before the cross, long before the crown of thorns, long before the empire—

The Divine was already here.

And She never left.