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Love Is as Strong as Death

by Amina Miriam; voice and guitar

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Place me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm.
Strong as Death is love; intense as Sheol is its ardor.
Its shafts are shafts of fire, flames of Yah.*
Deep waters cannot quench love, nor rivers sweep it away.
(Song of Songs, 8:6-7)
*The Holy Name of Yah points to the aspect of divinity
that is the conjunction of masculine and feminine energies.


The "Song of Songs," or "Song of Solomon," is often quoted as a prophesy of the relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene. This particular verse is said to symbolize their love and devotion. In the ancient Hebrew context, the heart is the center of our experience with the Divine; and, as the heart expands, it opens other centers of our being. The seal of love on our hearts guarantees our connection to the Source while the arm represents what we do and how we handle what life offers us. Cynthia Bourgeault expresses it in this way: "Love is always there in the eternity of their (Yeshua and Maryam's) hearts, but the time for clinging is over and the time for proclamation has begun."

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Set me as a seal upon your heart
Set me as a seal upon your arm
Set me as a seal upon your heart
For love is as strong as death
Kiyazah khamaweth ahabah (Hebrew translation)

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released February 13, 2022
©Linda J. McMakin, November 2010; published in dance booklet Ya Maryam: Dancing with the Daughter and the Mother, 2013 and 2015, revised edition; and accompanying CD 2013

References: Song of Songs translation from "The Meaning of Mary Magdalene," ©2010 by Cynthia Bourgeault
Hebrew translations and commentary from "Desert Wisdom," ©1995 by Neil Douglas-Klotz

Cover art: Courtesy of the Internet; artist unknown

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Mary Chants Pelzer, South Carolina

Amina Linda McMakin is a certified leader and mentor/ teacher for the Dances of Universal Peace, and an ordained interfaith minister (Cherag). In the 2008 Easter season, Amina began composing a cycle of dances inspired by the Gnostic Gospel of Mary Magdalene. Amina has published three booklets and CDs of dance movements and music, and composes musical chants inspired by the sayings of Mary. ... more

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