The Flame Contained, The Flame Released

For centuries, the Divine Feminine was deliberately contained - its fire muffled, its wisdom distorted. Mary Magdalene, once honored as apostle and teacher, was recast as penitent sinner. Language was twisted, gospels buried, and women persecuted for carrying earth-based knowledge. The empire and the church could not allow feminine power to stand as equal, so they sought to diminish it.

But a flame covered is still a flame. Hidden in whispers, in mystic lineages, in the body’s own remembrance, the fire endured. Now, the time of release is here. Magdalene rises through countless voices, the body reclaims its holiness, and truth spreads like wildfire - unstoppable and alive.

This episode invites you to see where you’ve chosen containment in your own life. Empaths especially may dim their fire to feel safe. But your fullness is your service. Burn bright. Speak true. Let the flame be released.

Chapters

• 0:44 The Flame That Was Contained
• 2:14 Deliberate Erasure of the Divine Feminine
• 3:58 The Truth Still Matters
• 8:29 The Fire Now Being Released
• 10:57 Trust in Your Fullness
• 13:44 Burn Bright Without Dimming

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:22

Today I want to share with you something that has been stirring in the field and burning in my heart, and certainly accompanying my personal walk right now. It is the story of the flame that was contained and the fire that is now being released. For centuries there were forces that sought to silence the feminine, to bury Magdalene, to rewrite the stories until they no longer carried her voice or her truth. The Empire and the Church wanted to contain the flame because they knew its power. But here's the thing about flame you can cover it and you can confine it, but you cannot destroy it. And when it returns, it returns not as a candle but as a wildfire. This episode isn't about dwelling in victimhood or about rehashing the wounds, but it is about remembering what was done with intention, so that we can understand why our voices, our presence, our refusal to be silenced matter so much in this moment. And let's begin with the truth. The erasure of Magdalene and the Divine Feminine was not accidental. It's not just like over time there was dust that covered up the story. It was deliberate and it has easily been maintained by systems that teach you that you should not question them. But I am not here to follow the rules. So question them and bring truth to them. We shall. So who were these? Who were these forces? We're going to name them and I'm going to name them here and I am going to put a timeline of erasure and distortion in the Keeper's Garden in the Remembrance Codes collection so you can grab that and have a look at the more like a in-depth look at the systematic and intentional distortion and erasure of these voices.

Speaker 1: 2:47

But for now we will start with the Roman Empire, which, in merging political power and religious authority, they needed one central story. They needed one central authority, one God reflected in the male face. Diversity of expression and feminine presence and indigenous ways and local practices were too threatening for the empire to control. And then we have the early church fathers, men like Tertullian and Augustine, and later Gregory the Great. They knew that to establish authority they had to sever the people from the feminine face of the divine. They could not allow a woman to stand as apostle, as equal, as beloved teacher. So Magdalene was recast as a prostitute. Her gospel was hidden, her witness diminished. They shaped doctrine and the interpretation of scripture. They diminished women's leadership and and upheld celibacy as more holy than embodied life.

Speaker 1: 4:11

Scripture is understood completely differently now, because of subtle and strategic choices, mary is represented as a common name rather than a title, meaning priestess Yeshua was not surrounded by sinful common women. He was surrounded by high initiates who knew how to serve, to anoint, to tend to remain. Sexuality was distorted and virginity idolized. The word virgin meant of marriageable age and in sacred communities prior to that it meant sovereign Unto oneself, not claimed by man or church, but in direct communion. But in the distortion, mother Mary's value was not in her wisdom and her devotion, but in her untouched body. They made the body sinful. That desire was painted as dangerous. Earth wisdoms and indigenous ways were outlawed or destroyed, and what was wild and whole had to be tamed and caged and rewritten to fit the empire's narrative. And then y'all you have the Inquisition and the Crusades, which targeted not just women, mystics and healers, but entire traditions that were rooted in earth, wisdom and body, knowledge and feminine-led practices. Now, this is not forgetting. This was containment. And then cultural patriarchy took root, sanctifying the image of woman as a virgin mother or penitent sinner, while suppressing the archetype of woman as teacher, leader, lover and equal vessel of divine wisdom.

Speaker 1: 6:24

For a long time I have softened this point. I have said that not all churches are bad, that many serve well, many offer comfort and community and even genuine glimpses of Christ's love, and that is true. There are pastors and entire congregations who embody love, who feed the hungry, who stand for justice. But here is the tension. The church can only truly serve if we demand truth, if we demand restoration, if we demand inclusion of what was deliberately omitted. It is no longer enough to say we are kind or we are on the side of human rights while still maintaining a theology that erases or distorts the feminine. Even if your church was not part of the original erasure, even if your church practices and preaches a Jesus who is full of love, the distortion still matters. The foundation still matters, because a structure built on omission still rests on the idea that a woman's voice, a woman's leadership, a woman's presence was not essential and that belief is what was meant to reduce us and it has.

Speaker 1: 8:07

But that is the very wound that remembrance is here to restore and here's the beauty. That flame cannot be killed, even hidden under heavy lids of doctrine. It lived on. It was erased from scripture, but it lived in mystic teachings, passed quietly through the century. It lived in whispers of women keeping ceremony behind closed doors. It lives in the body, in the land, in the memory of those who knew there was more than what they were told. From the pulpit, the flame has flickered in small places, sheltered from the wind of persecution. Sometimes it has been faint and sometimes bright, but always alive.

Speaker 1: 9:08

And now, now we are living in the time of release, the voices are rising. Magdalene is no longer hidden in the shadow. She is rising not just through my voice, but many, scattered all over the world, that are allowing her truth to rise through them. The feminine is no longer silent. Indigenous wisdoms are remembered. The earth is speaking. The body is being reclaimed as holy once again. This is not about burning in vengeance. This is wildfire as purification, wildfire as activation, wildfire as unstoppable spread of light and truth. And we, you and I, are part of that fire, are part of that fire In our refusal to dim. Our decision to speak, to rise, to embody is part of that release. Every time one of us says no more to being silenced, every time we choose remembrance over comfort, the fire spreads.

Speaker 1: 10:35

And I know that I have been living this. I am living in the discomfort of containment and I'm realizing the places in my life where I have chosen that cage, that containment, where I have chosen that cage, that containment, because it felt safe or because I was afraid of what would happen if I let my flame burn freely. But I'm having to look at that now. Something shifts when the ache of containment becomes heavier than the fear of release, and that is when the flame rises. And in my life that is rising now, an unstoppable force inside that says I will speak, that I will question systems that were meant to silence, that I will stop apologizing for truth that makes others squirm, that I will be unapologetically me in the fullness of my flame and allow those that feel its warmth to draw near and those that fear its burn to depart and know that holding that fire is my job and how they receive it is not.

Speaker 1: 11:55

I did a session recently for a woman and the message seemed so aligned for me that I had to pause and, just, you know, check in like are we sure this is for her? But sometimes messages come through even clearly, when I am not blocked with my own ego and expectation and encumbrances. So my team can sneak in additional clarity for me during other sessions because I am not clouded with my own personality in the way. But this client, she and we were reminded that our fullness is our greatest expression. Our fullness is our greatest service, that those of us who are empathic often feel into the room. We gauge the people and the situation and then we determine how we will show up.

Speaker 1: 12:53

We are palatable to our audience. We dim our light in fear that their pupils can't adjust, but that is not the path forward. We will trust their eyes, we will trust them to receive you in your fullness. Trust them to receive you in your fullness, or trust them to find the nearest exit, but don't dim. Don't dim your knowing, your presence, your fire, your greatest offering to this world is in your truest expression of yourself. A flame can be contained, but a wildfire cannot. You are that wildfire, we are that wildfire. Take some time this week and think of where your flame is being contained. May you have the courage to release it. May you have the courage to release it. May you have the courage to not check the dimmer switch before you walk into a room. We need your fullness, not just for yourself, but for all of us who are carrying this fire together. Thank you for being here in this space, in this field of the Remembrance Codes, until next time. Burn bright.