The fact that in our time, Mary Magdalene comes to the fore so often has everything to do with the growing consciousness of the seeking human being. Mary’s image as con dante and even lover of Jesus refers to a double relationship: that of pupil-teacher as well as that of mutual affection and love of what is higher for the striving person and vice versa. Regardless of how much literature deals with their possibly outward, material history, he who truly reads, will immediately experience that we are dealing with symbolic language, symbolic images, and far-reaching insights.