The Books They Would Have Burned

Over the last couple of years, I’ve seen a lot about Mary Magdalene and her lost gospel. In it, she says that to “sin” is to act contrary to one’s true spiritual nature.

Her writing wasn’t lost by accident. It was buried because it threatened the governing structures that relied on fear and shame to maintain control. Her teachings—that the divine could be known through love, through the body, through union—were too destabilizing for a world built on hierarchy.

Every time a story is silenced, a part of our collective truth goes underground.

Its imprint is felt in the collective body even now. History still flinches when women, or anyone for that matter, dare to say that pleasure and power belong together.

As I make the final editorial passes on Forbidden Alchemy: Transmuting Taboo into Erotic Medicine (releasing on 11/11/25) and Flesh and Flame: Pleasure as the Portal to Divine Mastery (releasing on 2/3/26), I can feel how revolutionary it is to say these things out loud:

God lives in the body.
Pleasure is holy.
Our yes is the altar.

These aren’t new ideas. They’re ancient ones that have survived underground for centuries, waiting for a generation ready to hear them again.

We are that generation.

And yes, it’s controversial. To speak of God and divinity through pleasure. To talk about sovereignty through the innocence of desire. To reclaim the language of the sacred from systems that used it to shame and suppress us.

But that’s what makes it electric.

It means these books won’t just inspire. They’ll disturb.

The Hieros Codex isn’t just a creative project or a brand or a series of books.
It’s activism.
It’s restoration.
It’s the quiet, undeniable revolution of remembering what we were taught to forget.

I can’t imagine a more thrilling time in history to be the one holding that torch. And if that means lighting a few fires along the way—I’m ready.

In remembered sovereignty.
-Sharon Marie

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