The Bible tells of many miracles. And the most wonderful thing is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Gospels say that he ascended with his body, and the proof of this is the shroud - the witness of the miracle.
But his mother Mary also ascended after her death, called the Assumption. After all, she did not die like an ordinary person, but as if she fell asleep.
According to Christian tradition, it is believed that Mary ascended in Jerusalem. The Gospels are generally silent about this. But what was it like in reality?
It was shown once in a dream….
… The golden sun floods the valleys, green hills and rocky cliffs. Trees grow between the stones and stretch towards the light with their green shiny leaves.
There is a settlement under the mountain. Houses with flat roofs, like bricks, are neatly assembled together, and somewhere in the distance a slender minaret tower rises.
"This is Turkey" - suddenly flashed through my mind. An inner voice continued:
- Somewhere here, Mary, the mother of Jesus, lived her last earthly days."
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But at once everything was covered with some kind of haze and trembled like a mirage.
Looking more closely, I realized that the mirage was something completely different. The locality is not the same, there are other settlements and the time here is different, not at all modern.
Yes, these were pictures from the distant past, from the very beginning of the Christian era, as an inner voice suggested.
The tired sun illuminates the hills, somewhere below is a city of a thousand white houses and a huge temple in its center, surrounded by high walls. “This is Jerusalem,” so it was said.
Here, on the very outskirts of the city, Mary lives with John, to whom the Teacher entrusted his mother.
The picture seemed to come closer to me, but I saw everything from the side.
From a house entwined with a vine, a woman appeared, all wrapped in a blue mourning veil. "Maria" - flashed through my mind. Her slightly hunched gait betrayed her recent grief.
And then I saw her face. Lowered eyes, a deep wrinkle cut through his forehead. But she humbly does her household chores, takes care of the two trees that grow at the entrance to the house, walks with a jug to the well.
John replaced her son. He does all the male household chores.
It was said that Mary had the gift of healing the sick. It came to her on the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit descended on all the apostles.
Now all the neighbors go to her for healing, bring children. So I see her walking slowly towards the well. A narrow street winds between houses until it runs into a round well standing at an intersection. Here a woman comes up to her and asks for something. It was said that she wants to have a child. But God does not give her such happiness in any way.
Maria raised her eyes to the sky, whispers some kind of prayer and puts her hands to the belly of the begging one, encourages her. And now she is already smiling. And then I see how she again meets Maria at the well, but now she is pregnant, and there is no limit to her happiness.
Mary often visits the house of the Apostle Peter, where Jesus' disciples gather, but she is always sad. Every day she goes to the burial place of her son, and he appears to her there.
His translucent figure met his mother and consoled her. It is not the time of the Last Supper. Even his clothes are the same. Although, it was said that after the ascension, he went to India and Tibet in a renewed physical body, which re-materialized after the resurrection.
But now, seeing the suffering of his mother, Jesus decided to show her that he is alive not only in heaven, but in his body, on earth.
Suddenly, before the astonished Maria, her son appeared in strange foreign clothes. A bright orange material covered his body, and a glimmer of gray appeared in his hair. He went up to his mother and put his arms around her shoulders. And then she burst into tears, because he was alive, he just lived in another country, she is not alone on Earth, so there is no need to wear mourning.
Mary came home with a radiant face and threw herself on John's neck. She wanted to take off the blue veil of sorrow, but John dissuaded her, since here, in the city, she was not supposed to show what had happened to her. Persecutions have already begun against Christians.
Maria became more cheerful from that day on. Jesus continued to appear to her, leaving his body where he now lived and coming to her in the Spirit. But even so He could thicken His subtle body that the mother felt his touch and could even embrace him.
“The situation was becoming more and more dangerous. Mary began to be suspected of some evil, harmful actions. The authorities wanted to deal with her, which was promoted by the high priests, making her almost a witch.
But the sick continued to go to her and received healing. And then they decided to capture the apostles and Mary. At this time in Judea, subject to Rome, Herod ruled. He ordered to find the "henchmen of the heretic" Christ "- so spoke an inner voice..
In those difficult days, as it was said, Jesus appeared to Mary and John and said that they needed to go to Samaria.
So, Peter, John and Mary are leaving, joining a caravan. Loaded donkeys and camels wander dejectedly, raising clouds of dust. The travelers are tired. But now Maria looks forward with hope. She knows that her son is alive and his work will continue.
The flat houses of Samaria greeted the tired caravan with the greenery of the eastern oasis. And now the settlers settled down to live in the family of a newly converted Christian.
People here too have learned about the amazing gift of Mary, and again the sick and suffering come to her.
I saw Maria just touch the sick girl with her hand, and she was immediately healed. She could not walk, hold her head, her hands were shaking, and then suddenly she got up without the help of her mother and completely healthy ran along the road ahead of her.
How much joy Mary brought people back then. In Samaria, she continued to meet with her son. He appeared to her constantly, telling about distant countries: Persia, India, Tibet; about people and their customs, faith, that there is no death, and the dead people are born again. He said that in the East, sages dream of not being reborn on Earth anymore. But soon the persecution overtook the Christian community here as well. Samaria was no longer safe. Christians were persecuted, thrown into dungeons, killed.
Then Jecyc again appeared to John and Mary, both at once. He told them that they need to secretly go far to Anatolia. These lands now belong to Turkey.
And so John and Mary secretly move to a wonderful corner - a hilly green valley in the west of Anatolia. A small village reliably hid the mother of Jesus from the persecutors. Here, as it was said, she lived for many more years and continued to heal the suffering.
The Gospels do not mention this anywhere. Maria's secret departure was not recorded, because she could have been pursued in a new place. In the Christian tradition, what remained is that she continued to live in Jerusalem until her death and, just before leaving, prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, where her son prayed.
In the dream, it was also said that after twenty years had elapsed after the execution and resurrection of the son to Mary, on one of the dates, the son appeared not alone, but surrounded by angels. He told his mother that she should follow him.
How long had she waited for this moment! After this news, Mary prayed for a long night among the trees of the garden, which was later confused with Gethsemane. Here she was visited by visions of eastern countries, the highest mountains, the celestial monasteries of Shambhala. She saw her son there in foreign clothes. There she also saw Mary Magdalene, who followed him to the holy Himalayan monastery.
Mary Magdalene spent all the money she had on this great journey. So it was said. In those days, traveling was many times more difficult than even several centuries ago, not to mention today.
Jesus' mother also wanted to follow her son when she found out that he was alive and was there, but he told her that she alone would not overcome this path, and John had to stay in the West and give the world books that bring the light of truth after the death of the other apostles …
The son still promised his mother to take her to him and transfer her in a "light gel", as was said. And now his promise was fulfilled.
After a long prayer, Maria returned to the house. John already knew everything. Maria prepared for her departure and waited for her son to appear again. And he gave her a real miracle.
It was said that all of Christ's disciples came to say goodbye to Mary. Wherever they were, Jesus took them to a small house in a remote village. But they were also in "light bodies". Those of the apostles who had already died by this time flew in souls to meet Mary, and those who were still alive at that time also moved here in spirit, leaving their bodies asleep.
Everyone gathered here, under the low ceiling, and their translucent figures surrounded Mary's bed. They themselves have not seen each other for a long time, so it was a joyful meeting for everyone and there were no barriers between them, despite the fact that John and Mary were in physical bodies, and the rest were in thin bodies.
Only the Apostle Thomas, having learned about Mary's departure, decided to come in a physical body in order to feel more fully the presence. But his path was too long, and so far he was not among the audience.
Light filled the room. In addition to the apostles, angels flocked here. And so, as if in a trembling mirage, the figure of Christ appeared, and his mother fell asleep like a baby. The visions immediately disappeared, only John remained at her bed and several local residents who were healed by Mary and who came to accompany her on her last journey.
According to Jewish custom, the Mother of Christ was wrapped in a shroud, and the whole village said goodbye to her, marching in the funeral procession. Mary's body was brought to the sheer cliffs, painted and orange-golden in the evening. There were caves in which the dead were buried. The body was left in one of them, and the entrance was blocked with a stone.
And again the pictures trembled before me, like mirages. The cave filled with shimmering light. Here again the translucent figures of the apostles and angels are gathered. And Jesus is also among them, In his hands a dazzling crystal shines. The strongest rainbow glow comes from it. Here Jesus brings the crystal to the mother's forehead, and the brightest flash suddenly overshadowed everything, and blinded with an incredibly pure white pulsating light.
When the light began to fade, I noticed that the shroud had subsided. Only one tissue remained on the stone, and there was no body. The Mother of God, as it were, came out of the shroud (shroud). Her translucent figure in the same luminous clothes rose and hugged her son. They were together.
Maria went with him in a "light body" to the East, where for some time she could thicken her body, and people saw her. She traveled through those distant countries and reached Tibet. Here she finally ascended with her son and Mary Magdalene.
All this was shown in trembling images of a mirage. They ascended Mount Kailash, and the figures melted in the sun's rays and the dazzling whiteness of the snow. It was said that they left for the ascended Shambhala, which is in the higher dimensions.
Since then, Mary began to appear to people in visions. This happens when she wants to say something or warn them. Such are the phenomena that took place in Fatima and elsewhere. So it was said.
The Apostle Thomas nevertheless reached the last earthly resting place of Mary, but it was all over. He decided to say goodbye to the Mother of Jesus, and he was specially taken to that cave, the stone was rolled off, but only an empty shroud was found. So people learned about the miracle of the disappearance of Mary's body.
And now the mirage faded, and again I see the sunlit hills of Turkey. And where, during the life of the Mother of God, ancient temples stood, now there was a minaret, and the mournful prayer of the muezzin announced the surroundings, urging people to turn their eyes to God, one for all, but understood so differently, having thousands of names, but living in every heart …
Valeria KOLTSOVA