The Gospel of Mary
A Personal Interpretation
The gospel of Mary is rather interesting. I have read through the Nag Hammadi Scriptures and several other books/writings about it. After reading through things myself, tying it to the canonical scriptures, this is what I have come up with. This is my interpretation based on living a life rooted in Christ’s teachings not religion.
Christ’s Core Teachings
Let’s start with what Christ’s teachings are.
Love Him willingly — invite Him into your heart and let Him take the wheel. He loves us unconditionally without judgement or contempt.
While we walk this earthly plane in our human bodies, we’re called to live by the Fruits of the Spirit; Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control.
When we do this we can have a fulfilling and fruitful life in a world that is riddled with desire, ignorance, darkness, and wrath.
What so many people miss when they read through the scriptures is he really is only asking one thing from you. All the rest simply falls into place because of the way you transform. You are now called to be a Child of Christ and it fills you up with so much Love, Joy, Peace, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self Control that you want to share that with others so they can have it too.
Mary’s Understanding
Some like to say that Jesus loved Mary more than others. I do not believe this. I believe he loves us all the same. In the most simple way to explain this, she had ears to hear and eyes to see - which Jesus tells the other disciples that they will encounter those that do not see or do not hear which means there will be people that are so deeply rooted in their earthly desires and ignorance that they will not understand what they are telling them and there will be others that can understand his teachings. Mary understood his teachings because of this. She was not his lover in a sexual sense and did not leave one seed with Mary as some would like to theorize. He left millions of seeds all over earth. It is not a seed as in offspring but a seed still the same. A seed that takes root and grows wildly like mint. Those seeds were planted in each human on earth and the seed is the knowledge and love of our Father.
Mary’s teachings were considered noncanonical because they were not understood and eventually misinterpreted. Even when she is sharing it with the disciples Peters questions her validity because he is still bound. Peter and Andrew did not believe what Mary shared with them and questioned her and Jesus for that matter. Keeping in mind the times and that women were not considered equal at this time which is an earthly thing not a Godly thing. As God created all humans equally no matter their given sex or race. This shows that they are still bound to earthly ways, clinging to societal norms rather than God’s truth.
Mary’s Vision and the Seven Powers
Now let me share what Mary shared and then my interpretation of it.
The full scriptures can be found HERE and in the Nag Hammadi.
I want to focus on 10:10-23 and 16-17.
She said, “I saw theLord in a Vision and I said to him. ‘Lord, I saw you today in a vision. “He answered me, ‘Blessed are you for not wavering at seeing me. For where the mind is, there is treasure. “I said to him, ‘So now Lord, does a person who sees a vision see it with the soul or the spirit?’ “The savior answered, ‘A person does not see with the soul or with the spirit. Rather, the mind, which exists between the two…”
In 15-17 she continues to describe her vision which is about a soul Ascending.
16-”When the soul had brought the third power to naught, it went upward and saw the fourth power. It had seven forms. The first form is darkness; the second is desire; the third is ignorance; the fourth is zeal for death; the fifth is the kingdom of the flesh; the sixth is the foolish wisdom of the flesh; the seventh is the wisdom of a wrathful person. These are the seven powers of the Wrath.”
“They interrogated the soul, ‘Where are you coming from, human-killer, and where are you going, destroyer of realms?’
“The soul replied, saying, ‘What binds me has been slain, and what surrounds me has been destroyed, and my desire has been brought to an end, and ignorance has died. In a world, I was set loose from a world and in a type, from a type that is above, and from the chains of forgetfulness, which exists in time, From this hour on, for the time of the due season of the age, I will rest in silence.’”
Interpretation of Mary’s Vision
Mary’s message is that these don’t define us — they’re weights we can release as we return to our true nature: the soul God created.
When we walk with the Father and invite the Holy Spirit into our hearts, He starts doing that inner cleansing work — peeling off those layers, freeing us from the pull of the flesh and the lies of the world.
By connecting with our Father, He fills us up with His Spirit — and the Fruits of the Spirit begin to bloom naturally within us.
That’s when love replaces fear, peace replaces chaos, and truth replaces confusion.
We realize this world is just the preparation — a short, refining journey before we step into eternal life with Him.
That perspective brings deep peace. It’s like your soul finally exhales. You stop chasing, striving, or fearing — and start abiding.
When we live this way, others notice. Our peace, joy, and freedom become a witness. We don’t have to preach from rooftops (unless you want to 😉) — our fruit speaks for itself. People see light, authenticity, and healing in us — and they’re drawn to it.
That’s how we help bring more children to Christ. Not through force or fear, but through living proof that God transforms hearts.
Scriptural Alignment
Now as I turn to the bible which had been validated as truthful I want you to take a look at these scriptures which to me validate Mary’s vision.
I was overwhelmed by the list of scriptures that echo what Mary is saying in this one vision. There are several lines of scripture riddled throughout the entire bible that touch on each aspect of what we need to drop. Too many to list out or this would be 15 pages long but to me I feel that Galatians 5:13-25 really embodies what Mary is saying. I also think that the books of Jeremiah and Corinthians really embody how people can fall to the fleshly desires of earth and lose that connection with God resulting in not living with the Fruits of the Spirit.
Galatians 5:13–25 — The Heart of Mary’s Message
This passage is the embodiment of what Mary is teaching — the tug-of-war between the flesh and the Spirit.
Paul says:
“The flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh.”
Mary’s “powers” — Darkness, Desire, Ignorance, Zeal for Death, etc. — are just the spiritual names for those same inner forces Paul warns us about.
They keep the soul from walking in freedom and fullness.
Paul tells us that when we walk by the Spirit, we naturally produce love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control — the very fruits that bloom once those inner obstacles are released.
So yes — Mary describes the process of release. Paul describes the fruit that follows. 🌿
Jeremiah — The Warning Against Forsaking the Living Water
Jeremiah’s writings are drenched with sorrow over Israel’s constant return to worldly ways — trading the living God for lifeless idols.
“My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken Me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.” — Jeremiah 2:13
That’s the same energy Mary is talking about — people who cling to the Kingdom of the Flesh, the Foolish Wisdom of the Flesh, and the Wisdom of Wrath instead of surrendering to God’s flow.
Jeremiah pleads for hearts to return to God — to reconnect to the Source — which is exactly what Mary’s vision illustrates: a soul ascending back to its origin.
Corinthians — The Flesh vs. the Spirit in Daily Living
Corinthians is full of Paul’s teaching on this exact battle:
“The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him.” — 1 Corinthians 2:14
And again:
“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit… Therefore honor God with your bodies.” — 1 Corinthians 6:19–20
Paul constantly calls out the Corinthians for chasing pleasure, pride, and division — in other words, living under the “powers” Mary names. He’s urging them to rise above the Kingdom of the Flesh and return to walking in the Spirit.
We must release the grip of the flesh, reconnect to the Father through surrender, and allow the Spirit to transform us from the inside out — so that we may live in peace, bear good fruit, and draw others back to Him.
Mary shows the mystical journey of that transformation.
Paul gives us the framework to live it daily.
Jeremiah shows the heartbreak of when people don’t.
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