Among the many legends that emerged in medieval Christendom to explain the origins of sacred geography in Western Europe, few possess the mythic poignancy and theological allure of the Provençal story of Mary Magdalene’s voyage to Gaul.

Before hell, before horns, before the whispers of forbidden knowledge and the flaming descent into Christian damnation, there was only light. The name "Lucifer" once belonged not to a demon, but to a planet—a celestial beacon that shimmered on the edge of Dawn...

Long before colonial frontiers were drawn across the American Southwest, before the rise and fall of empires on the continent, the peyote cactus had already rooted itself in the spiritual soil of North America.

Though he did not author a new version of the Bible per se, Origen's contributions to biblical textual criticism, especially through his magnum opus, the Hexapla, remain foundational in understanding the transmission of scripture.

Salome said, 'Who are you, man, that you have come up on my couch and eaten from my table?' Jesus said to her, 'I am he who exists from the undivided. I was given from the things of my Father.' Salome said, 'I am your disciple.'