Why does the Gospel according Philip describe Jesus and Maria Magdalena as lovers? Alain HOUZIAUX shows that Maria Magdalena is regarded in this apocryphal Gospel as a figure of the fallen Wisdom redeemed by the kisses and teachings of the Son of Man. But being no ordinary human lovers, Jesus and Maria Magdalena do not need to recreate, through their physical union, the androgyne human being, the primordial Anthropos.