24/08/2026
There is a very interesting story out there which is very much connected to the story of Joseph of Arimathea, Mary Magdalene and Yeshua, regarding whether Mary Magdalene and Yeshua had a child called Sarah.
There is no historical evidence that they were romantically involved or that they had a child together, but there may have been a child in the mix. Read on and I’ll explain more about this.
As I see the story, Mary Magdalene was the daughter of Joseph of Arimathea, which would make Mary and Yeshua cousins further down the family line, as many of the disciples were connected through family.
The bloodline was very important. DNA holds something of the spiritual energy of our ancestors, and many of us still continue this tradition today, carrying and holding spiritual energy through our families.
So Mary Magdalene and Yeshua were family. This doesn’t mean they couldn’t have loved each other deeply, but they wouldn’t necessarily have been drawn to each other romantically.
Mary Magdalene was, as I see it, a priestess of the Magda order. Her mother was Mary of Magda. Magda connects with the vesica, the almond shape, which represents the unification of masculine and feminine, dark and light, heaven and earth. It is a symbol of the Sacred Feminine and the coming together of opposites.
Yeshua was of course deeply connected with the Essene tradition and was possibly considered a leader or prophet amongst the Essenes. He took on the name Isa, which I connect with traditions going much further back, through the ancient mysteries and ultimately Isis and Osiris.
So it is very possible that Yeshua and Mary Magdalene represented the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine together, as priest and priestess.
It is also possible that part of Mary Magdalene’s role as a priestess included sacred sexuality. This could help explain the later connection made between Mary Magdalene and prostitution by the Roman Catholic Church.
We also have the story of the seven demons being removed from Mary Magdalene. I see another possibility here: a sacred and sensual healing involving the seven energy centres, or chakras, of the body.
For me this is very important because it shows the kind of deep spiritual relationship that could have existed between them without needing to turn that relationship into the modern idea of husband and wife.
They may have worked very closely together and had a great love for each other.
Yeshua also knew the path he was walking and that it could lead to his death on the cross. He was a man of honour and integrity, and I don’t think he would have wanted to knowingly leave behind a young wife and child.
After his death, Mary Magdalene continued the work. She went to anoint his body and discovered the empty tomb. There are many questions around what happened to his body, and I have wondered whether his family may have removed it because they were concerned about what certain parties might do with it.
Mary Magdalene then continued his teachings of love, peace and unity, supported by her father, Joseph of Arimathea.
Eventually it became too dangerous for them to continue their work there. There are traditions of Joseph being threatened by the Romans, and the story then moves west, through the south of France and eventually to Britain.
There were already spiritual connections in southern France, including traditions surrounding women and the later Cathars, and connections that I see going back into the Druid traditions.
Joseph already had very strong connections with the British Isles. He travelled here through the trade in precious metals, particularly tin, gold and silver. His family, going back through the lines associated with King Solomon and King David, were connected with mines and trading routes across the known world.
And this is where the story of Sarah becomes really interesting.
There is no historical proof of Sarah being the daughter of Yeshua and Mary Magdalene. But there are traditions surrounding Joseph of Arimathea having a young daughter connected with Britain.
Her name was Anna.
Joseph was quite elderly by this time and already had strong family connections, possibly blood connections, with the royal family of Britain and the family of King Arviragus.
Anna therefore represents something very important in this story: a coming together of the Christ bloodline with the ancient British royal bloodline.
Anna is said in later genealogical traditions to have married Belinus, connected with the family of King Arviragus.
Joseph was quite elderly, and I don’t think he was in a position to be such an active father in Anna’s life. So perhaps Mary Magdalene took her young sister under her wing and trained her in the ways of being a priestess.
They could no longer simply return to their old spiritual schools because the whole world around them was changing under Roman occupation.
So imagine people seeing Mary Magdalene travelling with this young girl.
They knew the connection between Mary and Yeshua.
They saw Mary caring for a child.
And perhaps, over time, people simply assumed that this child was Mary Magdalene’s daughter and that Yeshua was the father.
Could this be where the story of Sarah came from?
Could Sarah actually have been Anna, the younger sister of Mary Magdalene and daughter of Joseph of Arimathea?
For me, this would explain a lot.
This child then becomes part of the story of the bloodline moving into the royal families of Britain and later Europe.
And this is where it becomes even more interesting when we come forward through the centuries.
There are later genealogical and legendary traditions connecting these ancient British bloodlines through European royalty, and this brings us eventually to figures such as Mary, Queen of Scots and, much later, Diana, Princess of Wales.
Diana carried the Spencer bloodline, with deep connections into old British aristocratic and royal ancestry. I see her as carrying something of this ancient British line.
And through Diana, that bloodline continues in Prince William and Prince George.
This is why I feel Diana’s place within the modern royal story was so important. For me, her arrival brought an older British bloodline back into the direct line of the future monarchy, alongside the Windsor line which descends through the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
So our future King William, and then George after him, carry Diana’s blood as much as they carry the Windsor line.
Whether you take all of this literally, spiritually or somewhere in between, I find the connections fascinating.
I am putting pieces of the story together as I see them. I’m not saying this is proven history. Some of it comes from ancient traditions, some from later genealogies and legends, and some from my own understanding after many years of exploring these stories.
But perhaps there really was a child travelling with Mary Magdalene.
Perhaps people really did see Mary Magdalene caring for a young girl.
And perhaps somewhere over the centuries Anna became Sarah, and a sister became remembered as a daughter.
It certainly gives us another way of looking at one of the great mysteries surrounding Mary Magdalene.
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