Can the past ever be healed? Can the Great Mother of the ancient past ever be fully revealed?
Seven Priestesses have an ancient karmic debt to heal which will take them through various guise and relationship, either within their previous Cathar lifetime, at Montsegur, or else in worship of the Mother Goddess at Avebury. By travelling through Mother Goddess Portals, at both Avebury and Montsegur, the truth of the Church of Mary and John, (sometimes known as the Cathars) from twelfth and thirteenth century France, has to be revealed.
These spiritual people followed in the path of the Holy Mother which ultimately took them beyond their fear of death through the flames of Montsegur.
IN THE PRESENT: Penny re encounters Phil ~ a man from her past ~ in a state of ill health and once he has half recovered she persuades him to go with her to a psychic to unravel their relationship from the past. The psychic takes them back to their lives in the thirteenth century, as Gilbert and Cretha, who follow the teaching of the Church of Mary and John.
Mattie and Jo meet at the centre for abused women and form a strong friendship which takes them on a holiday leading through Rennes Le Chateau ~ a place which reveres Mary Magdalene ~ and on ultimately to Montsegur where they find themselves experiencing the Goddess Portal. As they pass through they find themselves back to their previous Cathar lives as Simone and Isobel.
Janey is a famous singer who takes a holiday, close to Montsegur, and is also drawn through the time Portal to find herself amongst the Cathars, as Melisande, the one person above all others who has to escape from Montsegur for, as she is soon to learn, she is a descendent of a sacred bloodline going all the way back to Mary Magdalene.
Kash and Senta are struggling through their present day lives and find their way down to Avebury. Here they move through the standing stone gateway through a different Mother Goddess Portal. In the past they arrive at the 'passing over of the dead' ceremony, in Avebury, in the ancient past in reverence to the Mother Goddess. Here Kash becomes Istafa and Senta returns to be Feriangeles, the High Priestess who leads the ceremony.
IN THEIR PAST LIVES a great learning evolves of the teachings of those who comprised the Cathar Church of Mary and John. For this belief all were due to die at the hands of the Inquisition, in the fires of Montsegur. Now the ultimate secrets of the true faith are gradually revealed through the core belief in the Holy Mother Divine. The truth of how Mary of Magdolum began this teaching, in the first century, following her encounter with John the Baptist emerges together with the discovery of the sacred essence used by John in his baptisms. The Knights Templar also appear as we explore their own sacred belief in the Baptist with their reverence to Baphomet.
But the great secrets, precious objects and Melisande must escape from the castle of Montsegur. Gilbert de Bonnet, Cretha and Isobel will accompany her on her journey as they lower themselves down the castle walls to ultimately flee through the forest.
Once more they have to enter the Goddess portal only this time in reverse to arrive through time in the present day although still in Montsegur. At the same time Istafa and Feriangeles enter the portal at Avebury which enables all six to arrive together in present day Montsegur. Yet Simone has been left behind although her presence is crucial to re-form the sacred circle once again of the seven former Priestesses.
Once they do re-connect in the name of the Holy Mother Goddess, lessons of love, forgiveness and belief are finally learned to release the karmic debt for ever.