virgin birth doctrine

98:7.74. The mys­tery cults, es­pe­cially Mith­ra­ism but also the wor­ship of the Great Mother in the Phry­gian cult. Even the leg­ends of the birth of Je­sus on Uran­tia be­came tainted with the Ro­man ver­sion of the mirac­u­lous birth of the Ira­nian sav­ior-hero, Mithras, whose ad­vent on earth was sup­posed to have been wit­nessed by only a hand­ful of gift-bear­ing shep­herds who had been in­formed of this im­pend­ing event by an­gels.

119:7.5Joshua ben Joseph, the Jew­ish baby, was con­ceived and was born into the world just as all other ba­bies be­fore and since ex­cept that this par­tic­u­lar baby was the in­car­na­tion of Mi­chael of Neb­a­don, a di­vine Son of Par­a­dise and the cre­ator of all this lo­cal uni­verse of things and be­ings. And this mys­tery of the in­car­na­tion of De­ity within the hu­man form of Je­sus, oth­er­wise of nat­u­ral ori­gin on the world, will for­ever re­main un­solved. Even in eter­nity you will never know the tech­nique and method of the in­car­na­tion of the Cre­ator in the form and like­ness of his crea­tures. That is the se­cret of Sonar­ing­ton, and such mys­ter­ies are the ex­clu­sive pos­ses­sion of those di­vine Sons who have passed through the be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ence.

119:7.6Cer­tain wise men of earth knew of Mi­chael’s im­pend­ing ar­rival. Through the con­tacts of one world with an­other, these wise men of spir­i­tual in­sight learned of the forth­com­ing be­stowal of Mi­chael on Uran­tia. And the ser­a­phim did, through the mid­way crea­tures, make an­nounce­ment to a group of Chaldean priests whose leader was Ard­non. These men of God vis­ited the new­born child in the manger. The only super­nat­u­ral event as­so­ci­ated with the birth of Je­sus was this an­nounce­ment to Ard­non and his as­so­ciates by the ser­a­phim of for­mer at­tach­ment to Adam and Eve in the first gar­den.

122:8.2In just the same man­ner as all ba­bies be­fore that day and since have come into the world, the prom­ised child was born; and on the eighth day, ac­cord­ing to the Jew­ish prac­tice, he was cir­cum­cised and for­mally named Joshua (Je­sus).

128:0.1As Je­sus of Naz­a­reth en­tered upon the early years of his adult life, he had lived, and con­tin­ued to live, a nor­mal and av­er­age hu­man life on earth. Je­sus came into this world just as other chil­dren come; he had noth­ing to do with se­lect­ing his par­ents. He did choose this par­tic­u­lar world as the planet whereon to carry out his sev­enth and fi­nal be­stowal, his in­car­na­tion in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, but oth­er­wise he en­tered the world in a nat­u­ral man­ner, grow­ing up as a child of the realm and wrestling with the vi­cis­si­tudes of his en­vi­ron­ment just as do other mor­tals on this and on sim­i­lar worlds.

92:5.6Many races have con­ceived of their lead­ers as be­ing born of vir­gins; their ca­reers are lib­er­ally sprin­kled with mirac­u­lous episodes, and their re­turn is al­ways ex­pected by their re­spec­tive groups. In cen­tral Asia the tribes­men still look for the re­turn of Genghis Khan; in Ti­bet, China, and In­dia it is Bud­dha; in Is­lam it is Mo­hammed; among the Amerinds it was Hes­unanin Ona­mo­na­lon­ton; with the He­brews it was, in gen­eral, Adam’s re­turn as a ma­te­rial ruler. In Baby­lon the god Mar­duk was a per­pet­u­a­tion of the Adam leg­end, the son-of-God idea, the con­nect­ing link be­tween man and God. Fol­low­ing the ap­pear­ance of Adam on earth, so-called sons of God were com­mon among the world races.

85:5.3The sun god was sup­posed to be the mys­tic fa­ther of the vir­gin-born sons of des­tiny who ever and anon were thought to be be­stowed as sav­iors upon fa­vored races. These super­nat­u­ral in­fants were al­ways put adrift upon some sa­cred river to be res­cued in an ex­traor­di­nary man­ner, af­ter which they would grow up to be­come mirac­u­lous per­son­al­i­ties and the de­liv­er­ers of their peo­ples.