Birth and Infancy of Jesus

122:1.1Joseph, the hu­man fa­ther of Je­sus (Joshua ben Joseph), was a He­brew of the He­brews, al­beit he car­ried many non-Jew­ish racial strains which had been added to his an­ces­tral tree from time to time by the fe­male lines of his pro­gen­i­tors. The an­ces­try of the fa­ther of Je­sus went back to the days of Abra­ham and through this ven­er­a­ble pa­tri­arch to the ear­lier lines of in­her­i­tance lead­ing to the Sume­ri­ans and Nod­ites and, through the south­ern tribes of the an­cient blue man, to An­don and Fonta. David and Sol­o­mon were not in the di­rect line of Joseph’s an­ces­try, nei­ther did Joseph’s lin­eage go di­rectly back to Adam. Joseph’s im­me­di­ate an­ces­tors were me­chan­ics—builders, car­pen­ters, ma­sons, and smiths. Joseph him­self was a car­pen­ter and later a con­trac­tor. His fam­ily be­longed to a long and il­lus­tri­ous line of the no­bil­ity of the com­mon peo­ple, ac­cen­tu­ated ever and anon by the ap­pear­ance of un­usual in­di­vid­u­als who had dis­tin­guished them­selves in con­nec­tion with the evo­lu­tion of re­li­gion on Uran­tia.

122:1.2Mary, the earth mother of Je­sus, was a de­scen­dant of a long line of unique an­ces­tors em­brac­ing many of the most re­mark­able women in the racial his­tory of Uran­tia. Al­though Mary was an av­er­age woman of her day and gen­er­a­tion, pos­sess­ing a fairly nor­mal tem­per­a­ment, she reck­oned among her an­ces­tors such well-known women as An­non, Tamar, Ruth, Bathsheba, An­sie, Cloa, Eve, Enta, and Ratta. No Jew­ish woman of that day had a more il­lus­tri­ous lin­eage of com­mon pro­gen­i­tors or one ex­tend­ing back to more aus­pi­cious be­gin­nings. Mary’s an­ces­try, like Joseph’s, was char­ac­ter­ized by the pre­dom­i­nance of strong but av­er­age in­di­vid­u­als, re­lieved now and then by nu­mer­ous out­stand­ing per­son­al­i­ties in the march of civ­i­liza­tion and the pro­gres­sive evo­lu­tion of re­li­gion. Racially con­sid­ered, it is hardly proper to re­gard Mary as a Jew­ess. In cul­ture and be­lief she was a Jew, but in hered­i­tary en­dow­ment she was more a com­pos­ite of Syr­ian, Hit­tite, Phoeni­cian, Greek, and Egyp­tian stocks, her racial in­her­i­tance be­ing more gen­eral than that of Joseph.

122:1.3Of all cou­ples liv­ing in Pales­tine at about the time of Mi­chael’s pro­jected be­stowal, Joseph and Mary pos­sessed the most ideal com­bi­na­tion of wide­spread racial con­nec­tions and su­pe­rior av­er­age of per­son­al­ity en­dow­ments. It was the plan of Mi­chael to ap­pear on earth as an av­er­age man, that the com­mon peo­ple might un­der­stand him and re­ceive him; where­fore Ga­briel se­lected just such per­sons as Joseph and Mary to be­come the be­stowal par­ents.