Herb: From the hills of La Jolla, another heartfelt greeting, another opportunity to sit and to share the Light together. This is Christmas Day 1973, a day in which the world around us is celebrating the Nativity of Jesus Christ. A day that reminds you and me, that we who have another understanding of the Virgin Birth, must now stand together as never before, silently with love, so that we may witness the Virgin Birth of Christ in Consciousness everywhere.

There was a time 2000 years ago on this earth when no individual was a Christian, but there was a girl, a girl who was pregnant with a child that belonged to no man on this earth. It could have been a most disastrous situation. She was engaged to be married and the child was not the child of the man to whom she was betrothed. To complicate matters, she and her husband to-be were both Jews living in an era when marriage was a sacrosanct institution. Unwedded mothers and unwedded births were abhorrent to the Jews, and as you know, betrothal was virtually a marriage contract. All betrothed maidens were isolated until the wedding day. They had contracted to live another life, guaranteeing right conduct forever. Breach of this sacred contract was equivalent to adultery.

So with all this tradition, with guilt staring her in the face, the young maiden approached her future husband to give him the news about the impending birth. And a strange thing happened – he did not accuse her of misconduct, he didn’t make a public spectacle of her, he didn’t berate her, disgrace her, or crush her with scorn, or do any of the hateful violent things that many men would have done. Instead, Joseph listened to her story, perhaps with awe at first, and then with gratitude, for as a full measure of understanding came upon his consciousness, he realized the unique nature of what had occurred in all of world history.

You see, Spirit had gone before Mary to make the crooked places straight, and so there was no anger, no accusation on Joseph’s part. He too, had received Divine word from within; there was only love, exaltation. And so, the lovers clasped hands, closed their eyes and thanked the Father for a blessing that was to change their lives and the lives of everyone in this world. They were attuned as one in the Father’s name. Joseph accepted the Virgin Birth.

Today, of course, the world may wonder, was it a fact or was it fiction? Was it really an invention of religion to enslave the masses, was it an old wives’ tale, a superstition blown out of proportion by time, or was it an allegory that somehow later became confused as actual fact? Or was this God’s only begotten son coming to earth?

As you know, millions of persons in this world believe that it did not happen, and another many million believe that it did happen. Some say it was biologically impossible, others say it was a miracle of God. Religion teaches that it did happen, that it actually was a physical birth, a supernatural event, an overcoming by God of all material laws.

And so you see, whether we believe it happened or did not happen, the world does believe that it was either a physical fact, or did not happen. In either case we miss the point. As a consequence, in spite of this miraculous birth, over the centuries neither the Jews who rejected it, nor the Christians who accepted it, have benefited one iota. The blind are still blind, the violence of man against man still continues, suffering has not lessened in the world, diseases have multiplied, disasters have multiplied, evils have multiplied, and every human being on earth still dies.

Yes, even in spite of the promise given by the miraculous Christ child that, “to know God aright is Life Eternal,” no human beings know God aright, and few human beings can really declare that they are finding that Life Eternal. And the reason is because the glorious meaning of the Virgin Birth is inconceivable to the human mind, and tragically, totally unknown to the mind of religion.

Every day religion shows in a hundred different ways that it simply does not have even a rudimentary knowledge of the infinite liberating forces that were set in motion when Joseph embraced the young, child-bearing bride to-be and took unto him as his wife. Theirs was a love story that stretches over 2000 years and still continues – a rare, tender, gentle love affair of two precious Souls who lived in one mind, one heart, one Spirit.

Esoterically, they represent the perfect balance of the male and female elements within each individual. So perfect was their union in the one Spirit that Mary could bust forth in an exalted melody of love:

“My Soul doth magnify the Lord, and my Spirit hath rejoiced in God, my Savior, for he hath looked upon the low state of His handmaid, for behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me Blessed, for He that is mighty hath done me great things, and holy is His name. And His mercy is unto generations of them that fear Him. He hath showed strength with his arm. He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart. He hath put down princes from their thrones, and hath exalted them of low degree. The hungry he hath filled with good things and the rich he hath sent empty away. He hath given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy as he spake unto our father, Abraham and his seed forever.”

In this pain and joy, the Soul called Mary, told the world that the Virgin Birth of her child was the Virgin Birth of the Christ in the consciousness of mankind. Fortunately, for you, for me, for the rest of the world, the young Greek named Lucas became very interested in this love affair between Mary and Joseph. He saw in it something vastly different than we have seen, something even beyond a rare, supernatural event. In it, he glimpsed a new realm, the kingdom of Heaven on earth. He felt a surge of new possibilities undreamed of by his contemporaries. He glimpsed the eternal infinite nature of life itself. And so Lucas, standing on the threshold of a new discovery that had already claimed his own life, instinctively knew that he had discovered something that would ultimately change the course of every human being on this earth.

Now what started him on this strange course of Self-discovery was his young friend, a fiery Pharisee named Saul. Saul was a Jew; Lucas was a Gentile, but they had one common bond, an intense thirst for truth without compromise. And while Lucas watched with amazement, his friend Saul went through a transformation that literally made him a new man.

First, he was, as you know, a protector of Hebrew traditions and Hebrew law, and a persecutor of early Christians, and then suddenly Saul became a disciple of the Christ himself, an impassioned, fearless, blunt speaking crusader for a new way of life; completely foreign to his own heritage, to the ways of the heathen world around him.

Lucas didn’t realize it then, but he had actually witnessed the Virgin Birth of Saul to Paul; a life-giving process that takes place within a man’s Consciousness, linking him with the infinite Source. Nor did Lucas at that time, connect Paul’s transformation with the Virgin Birth of the child in Bethlehem. But one thing he knew positively, Paul’s message and Paul’s dedication rang true in his heart. And so for Lucas, the Christ way became his way too.

Then Lucas became Paul’s traveling secretary, and they went together from city to city, and when they did that Paul opened Lucas to the inner mysteries. He watched Paul demonstrate these living principles of Grace and Truth. He watched Paul heal the sick, and in Lucas’ mind deeper and deeper, there was a probing into the deeper meaning behind the Virgin Birth. You can tell from the Gospel of Luke that Lucas was a very sensitive man with a very rare understanding of women’s function on this earth. He seemed to understand her unique capacities, her ability to expose the false claims of the carnal mind. And he had a deep, deep insight into the Soul of womanhood.

Beside that, he was a scholar and a linguist with a lofty poetic style, and a discerning faculty of Soul, so that he could sense deeper than any of his contemporaries other than John, that there was a message in the Virgin Birth that had to be told to the world. And with that conviction, Luke made contact with everyone he could find who knew something about that blessed event. Of course, he was living in an era when it was possible to do that. He could speak to the disciples, the apostles. He could listen to Paul by the hour, and then he could contact all of those women who had lived so close with Mary, like Mary’s sister-in-law, the wife of Cleophus, who was the brother of Joseph. He could go and speak to other friend’s of Mary, Mary Magdalene, Mark’s mother, James mother, Joanna, Susanna, and all those other certain women who were mentioned in the various scriptural passages like Luke 8 verses 2 and 3, and Luke 24:10, and again in Acts 1:14.

And so, he must have spent many breathtaking afternoons chatting with all of them, and then with the secret disciples of Mary herself. There was a daughter of Nicodemus who went to Mary, there was Nesh, the daughter of the great Rabbi Gamaliel, who himself had taught Paul. There was Talitsa who was a member of Nero’s family. And undoubtedly, I think we can assume that Paul (I mean Lucas) was admitted to the chambers of the Essenes from where Mary and Joseph had received their inner training. And I am sure that there he learned about the chastity rights of purification which enabled this unique couple to complete their sacred mission. Undoubtedly, he even talked with Mary herself, and it is probable that she confided to Lucas some of the amazing emotions she felt, and some of the amazing facts that she could not defile by exposing to anyone except one who was Spiritually endowed like herself; facts that would have been incomprehensible to anyone else. The same facts that the Bible says she pondered in her heart.

And so, you see, Spirit very wisely selected Lucas to write the Gospel of St. Luke. And there were still many other reasons. One of the most amazing, and most overlooked, is that Lucas was a physician. You remember, he had been a ship’s doctor in his earlier years, and when he wrote he usually used medical terms. As you remember, he referred to the woman’s issue of blood. There is a place in Acts 27:17. It says in there that he was un-girding a ship, under girding a ship. But actually, the word that Lucas used was a medical term which means bandaging a ship. What he meant to say, is they were repairing the ship and he used the term for bandaging, again revealing his medical background. And if we ever did doubt that he was a physician, we simply have to look at Colossians, Paul’s letter, Chapter 4, Verse 14. And there we see Paul referring to Luke, the beloved physician.

Ah, now we can see the wisdom of Spirit, for here is Luke a physician, a man steeped in the medical viewpoint, and yet he is fully convinced that a child has been produced on this earth without the physical union of a man and woman. Like Joseph, Luke totally accepted that the biological law of matter was nothingness, and had been nullified by Spiritual Consciousness. In fact, so total was his conviction, that the Virgin Birth was a fact and not a fantasy, that he, a reputable physician, living in an era when a man could easily be crucified for such an inflammatory belief, dared openly to make this the focal point of his gospel. And furthermore, he took pains to assure us right there in the first four verses of his first chapter, that he had eyewitness evidence to support the fact, and to convince him that Virgin Birth, and all that followed that Virgin Birth, were authentic.

Now let’s look at it another way. Could you think it possible for him to be so stupid as to jeopardize his whole gospel by such an outrageous claim? Would he stake the credibility of everything he had to teach on such a bizarre idea, if he did not have evidence and belief, and conviction that it were true, especially at a time when there were people alive who would know, who could contradict him if it were not true, people who had been very close to Jesus and his Mother. So you see, there was something that he had to tell us, something that our own human race consciousness has not been able yet to fully comprehend.

The function then of Lucas was, from the highest level of his own Spiritual endowments, to reconstruct, and to record the Spiritual birth, and the events that followed that Spiritual birth. It was his job to be faithful to fact, to be impersonal in his statements, to be unbiased, to remain unconditioned. It was not his job to judge, to interpret, to theorize, but merely to set forth with Spiritual integrity, the full truth that was presented to him. He was to be a loyal reporter, and that is precisely what he did.

First, in 24 chapters, he reveals the glory of God present in every man, from mystical birth to mystical ascension, and then with the help of Paul, he goes on to record the acts of the apostles in another 28 chapters, to forever silence the cry of unbelievers who believe that salvation comes after death, and to reveal to every unwavering heart that the kingdom of God on earth is a reality now, to be lived in by all who are willing to accept the mantle of the perfect Christ as their own individual and permanent identity.

Lucas addressed both the Gospel and the Acts to a man named Theophilus. But when you realize that Theophilus in Greek, means “lover of God,” he really was addressing everyone in the world who is a lover of God. And because his inspired purpose was to preserve for mankind the fullness of Divine glory that is manifest by the infinite Christ, you may be sure that the same Holy Ghost which overshadowed Mary, was there to overshadow Lucas whenever his human mind faltered, and to lead him to the facts that he was destined to chronicle for posterity. So that even Lucas might, at times, find himself recording certain facts that would have no clear and specific meaning to him as he set them down, for he was a channel for the Spirit. But, we, fitting his work now into the work of others, and seeing the panorama of truth from the advantage point of time and distance, we are now privileged to observe the handiwork of Spirit Itself setting before us the Divine blueprint for all who wish to release themselves from bondage to the world of the un-Christed mind.

For example, we can now clearly see that the Virgin Birth of the world consciousness from matter to Spirit was one of the roles that Mary was enacting. Mary was more than just a Spiritually conscious woman who brought forth Christ Jesus in Bethlehem; Mary represents your Soul. Think about that a moment. Mary represents your Soul. Your Soul Mary, married to God without a man, brings forth the Christ. No physical union could produce the Christ. Mary must be a virgin; she must show that no physicality can enter into the Christ experience. We in our mental state, cannot see or imagine what takes place when our Soul is married to God; so there is Mary ordained by Spirit to show us visibly what happens: the Virgin Birth happens.

Mary brings forth a babe. Your Soul, married to God, brings forth the babe. Your Soul is impregnated with the Spirit of God and a new Christ is born! With Mary, it becomes an outer visible event and a visible babe, and with you it becomes a different event, an inner invisible event. The babe that is born within you is your realization that the Infinite Christ is your present Identity. You see, this is your Virgin Birth. You are Christed; you realize who you are. Mary’s experience is a preview of what your Soul must experience if you wish to be born here and now into the kingdom of God on earth, and then continue into the fifth world of Consciousness.

Our mistake has been that just as we personalized Jesus and lost the Christ, so we personalized Mary and we lost our Soul. When you impersonalize Mary, you will see that she is not a woman, she is your Soul, she is the Virgin Bride of God which gives birth to the Child of God in you, the full individuality of God as your perfect, present Christ Self.

At one point in the Gospels, Christ tells his disciples to go further out to sea if they want to improve their catch. You see, land refers to the material consciousness of mind; sea refers to the Soul, and so they must go further out to sea, they must leave their mind for Soul. Now, the Latin word for sea is ‘mare,’ which closely resembles the name of Mary. Mary had many, many roles. She was the world Soul, she was the individual Soul of Mary, she is the individual Soul of man, she was the mother of the babe, and she became the disciple of the babe. She was the mother of the children of Joseph after becoming the mother of the first begotten. All of these roles of Mary are enacted throughout her experience, and you have to be alert and quick to see which one is being enacted. But the major role of Mary throughout the New Testament is as the visible symbol of your Soul. As a matter of fact, every Mary in the New Testament is another facet of your Soul, and that’s why there are so many women disciples named Mary.

Now, where do the Disciples go after the crucifixion of Jesus? They went to the Upper Room of Mark’s mother’s house. What was her name? Mary of Jerusalem. They went into Soul Consciousness to await the Invisible Comforter. And who was the first to witness the return of Christ after the crucifixion? Mary of Magdalene; she found him in the garden. Again, Soul Consciousness perceived his invisible form. Then there was Mary of Bethany, that was the sister of Lazarus, and she stayed within the house while her sister Martha went outside. She represents another Soul quality of you. Mary, the wife of Cleophus the brother of Joseph, was an intimate friend of Mary the mother of Jesus, a symbol of a sustaining strength of your Soul. Mary Ann, the sister of Philip prepared bread for the sacred rite of the Last Supper, another Soul symbol.

And, always, we are being reminded that to live in the Infinite, you must get out of the bondage of the human mind. To leave our nets means, to abandon every attempt to find material, mental solutions to life, and to invite the Virgin Birth of Christ through your Soul. Only Christ, only Christ, is the perfect image and likeness of God.

And so when the Voice commands you, “Be ye perfect as your Father,” It is commanding you to experience the Virgin Birth, to let your Soul be the bride of the Holy Ghost, so that God through your Soul, can reveal the Holy Child where you stand, as your Being. When we stand in the way of this Virgin Birth by remaining in the human mind, we invite conflict and chaos. That’s the way of the world, and the results are visible and tragic. World karma and individual karma are the ignorance, the unawareness of man, that unless Christ is born within him, he is not alive in the eyes of God, and he ultimately must perish. And this karma is only lifted to the degree that we withdraw from mind so that Mary in us, our Soul, can give birth to the Virgin Child. Then the unconditioned image and likeness of God replaces your mortal self and you can walk confidently in the kingdom of Heaven on earth under Grace, untouched by the illusions of pain and sickness, lack, limitation and death itself.

Let’s take a little quiet time for a moment to contemplate the idea that Mary represents your Soul, and that as you dwell in your Soul, you are re-enacting the Virgin Birth, which Mary brought into this world. This becomes a permanent practice. I am being born of a Virgin. I am resting in my Soul, and my Soul is the very same Mary that is depicted at the beginning of the New Testament, giving birth to the Christ child.

Mary is not a person. Mary is my Soul. My Soul goes unto the Father. The Father, through my Soul, expresses the Divine child, and there will come within me a realization of my true Self as the child of God. This is the purpose of the Virgin Birth.

Now, while you are in this contemplation, letting the Silence embrace you, let me tell you something very important. Your Virgin Birth will become a specific event. You cannot predetermine where it will happen, or when, or how, but know this, it really does happen. And when it does happen, you are aware that something is happening. One moment you are standing there, or sitting there, and the very next moment you are not there, someone else is there. A ‘you’ that you never expected to see, or to hear or to feel. A ‘you’ that you never even knew existed takes the place of your normal, natural human self. It happens so quickly, and so unexpectedly, that you almost want to say, “wait a minute, wait a minute, I’m not ready yet, give me back myself.”

But even before you can fashion those thoughts into words, your new Self is there. And you find yourself feeling, “oh so this is what it is to be reborn, but this is incredible! I am the new Self now. Where did I come from? How did I get here? But I’m different than anything I ever expected to be. I’m not made of physical flesh.” And suddenly, you realize that you really are not conscious of body. Oh, there’s a form up there in front of you; it’s a form you lived in just a moment ago. And if a friend walked by at this very moment he might wave to the form and say, “Hi, how are you?” But that form up there isn’t you at all.

In this moment of perception, you know, you know, that the form up front is not you, and you know that it never was you. Something has cut away your bondage to the form. And your identification of that form positively vanishes. You are not in that form, you never were, and now you know it so well that forever and ever, as long as you walk the earth, you will never forget this experience when you were free of form, and you will spend your entire life trying to return to this freedom, because you know that is where you must be.

Behind the form, maybe two feet, three feet, there you are, and you are conscious, sharply conscious. You know yourself to be another Self, invisible to the world, but very real to you. You have a lingering remnant of feeling that this Incorporeal you has perhaps some kind of a form, but at the same time you do feel formless, but very much alive, so alive that no words can describe it.

For now you are independent of the world of form, independent of time, independent of space, and independent of everything in space, yet very much alive. The earth may be revolving around the sun, but not you. You are not revolving around anything, and never again will you ride in an airplane or an automobile.

The form out front may be seen to do that but never you. The form out front is now coming under the new Divine law of your Invisible Self, and it will no longer be governed by the world mind. It will be governed by YOU, by this New Consciousness that is pouring out all of Itself into this new wonderful Invisible Self that you are standing in consciously. It is an experience. And, only much later do you realize what really happened is that some force has cut away your sense consciousness, in the twinkling of an eye, when you think not, the Bridegroom cometh.

Somewhere now, in between the old self and the new Self, a thought is forming. Has he come whose right it is to sit upon the throne? Is this the reborn Self? Is this the anointing? And so you remain in the Silence. All people have now vanished from your Consciousness, all solid things, all material objects, all matter; the total material world in this experience is not there. Are you really walking in the Kingdom?

And then, there are the people again, but now it’s something different. They’re not people any more. You realize this New Consciousness is seeing something else. Instead of people they’ve become the tips of gleaming candles. The outer eyes had seen people, but now the inner eye is beginning to see glowing candles. And so, your question is answered but not with words. It is answered by Divine messages, Divine thoughts, flashing intuition, moving quicker than the speed of physical light.

Yes you’re speechless, you’re stunned, and you are beyond a human happiness because you’ve actually crossed a threshold. You can never again be satisfied to remain in form. You abide in this invisible, just as unwilling to give up your new incorporeal Self, as you once were unwilling to surrender the corporeal self. You have found your new home, your new body, your new Self born of a Virgin.

Now this is it. This is the Self that never dies, this is the Self that lives under Grace, this is your timeless, deathless Spiritual Self, the Son of God. You see why Jesus never married? How could that Invisible Self ever marry? No wonder he feared no object or person on earth. No wonder he said, “Pilate, thou couldest have no power over me.” And no wonder mankind has missed the essential message of the Bible.

How could any human being suspect that he actually had another Self? A Real Self, an Invisible Self, right here on earth now, a Self that can never be touched by any human being or any material force. Who could suspect that? What human mind could believe that?

You can. I can. Mary did, Joseph did, Lucas did, the apostles did, the disciples did. You will experience that. And on the wings of this stupendous liberation comes still another experience.

For now, the Reborn Self is emerging into the newness of Its invisible Spiritual environment, and we actually feel hidden manna, a new substance. All that previously was space is now replaced by a sense of aliveness where the space had been. And yet, this is only the first taste. It’s a new and a greater aliveness, and it’s accompanied by the realization that now life is actually beginning; that there is an invisible magnitude present, ready to be explored, and it is all your own Infinite Being. New senses are awakened, awareness of new possibilities, because you really are changing life streams from the mortal to the Immortal. And this is the manifestation that Rebirth for you has begun. You’re awakening from the deadness of illusion, resurrecting from the dream of life apart from God, which man calls mortality.

I want to repeat this: the self your are walking in this moment, living in, talking in, being seen in, feeding and entertaining, is not your self. You have another Self, a Virgin Self, a Real Self, a Permanent Self, and it is not in this form, but it is present where the form appears. It is a Self that is totally independent of everything in the world, and it is totally sustained by Itself. It lives here, now, in the Invisible Kingdom of God where you stand and it is Divine Life expressing.

For centuries beyond count, you have been going through the rebirth into that Self, and, “in a twinkling of an eye,” like passing through a wall without any effort, you will move through the wall of material consciousness and find yourself in that new Self, reborn. From that moment on, your life purpose will be clear. Your single pointed desire will be to live as that Self in that Self. And for you, every so-called evil on this earth will no longer be evil. Instead, it will simply be a reminder to you that you have come out of your Virgin Self, your Reborn Self into the false self that knows evil. And then, you will quickly recognize evil as the chastener; the visible reminder that you have strayed from Self, and you will see that evil has only one function, and that is to drive you back to the Self where evil cannot exist.

Our work for 1974 will be to experience the Virgin Rebirth, and to live in that Reborn Self. We’re going to meet as the disciples often did, not in the flesh, but in our invisible bodies, even while we are scattered physically throughout the world. And to do that it will be necessary that we strip ourselves of every belief that we are mortal mental creatures.

Before the experience of Virgin Birth occurs, there must be a willingness to accept Immortality, and to live from that level of acceptance, abiding in Immortality as the One Self, the Only Self, because It’s Infinite. We make the conscious continuous effort to refuse every trap that would try to tempt us into the denial of our Infinite Immortal One Self, pure Spirit without material opposite.

Now get that: Infinite Immortal One Self, not just One Self, but Infinite, One Self. Not mortal self, but Immortal. You must live in the Consciousness that you are the Immortal Infinite Self, and there is no other. Everywhere you look in this universe is your Self, that’s the Consciousness, and you must practice it. There is no material opposite.

Now, the degree of our loyalty to the truth of this One Self, will determine how long we continue in the labor pains of false mortal existence, in bondage to false senses, living under penalties of duality, struggling to find permanence and peace in an impermanent, unpredictable, un-divine world.

To show us this Spiritual way, Mary had to have a Virgin Birth. You see, she is completely disproving the religious doctrine of salvation. She is completely disproving the religious teaching that Christ will return to earth. She is showing that Christ is here on earth. She is disproving the religious error which establishes God in heaven behind the clouds, and man on earth.

When Mary produces the Christ Child visibly on earth, she is revealing that God is on earth, Christ is on earth, the Kingdom of God is on earth, the Power of God is on earth. And the Presence and Power of God on earth is the Invisible Christ in the midst of her being, in the midst of your being, in the midst of the being of everyone on this earth, is the Christ that she reveals.

She is a pure channel of the Infinite Spirit, blessing mankind with the eternal truth that God is individual being, the One Self of all, that every individual Consciousness can open itself to the Virgin Birth, the Christ within, that world consciousness may be reborn of God.

Oh what a beautiful demonstration! What a grand opportunity, once we know, accept, and turn our attention to living out of that Consciousness which says, “I will open my Soul that Christ may be born as it was born in Mary. For Mary is the Virgin Soul of my very own being.”

In Mary, the world mind meets the Infinite Soul, and the world mind is swallowed up. And there appeared a great wonder in heaven. Let’s look at that:

“There appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet and upon her head a cross of 12 stars. And she, being with child, cried travailing in birth and pain to be delivered.”

Now that’s the twelfth chapter of Revelations, and that is Mary, the world Soul bringing forth the Christ, overcoming the world, overcoming the sun and the moon, overcoming all that is matter, all that is mind.

“And there appeared another wonder in heaven: and behold a great red dragon having seven heads, ten horns, seven crowns upon its head.”

That’s the world mind, the collective consciousness of man, and it’s throwing every mental and material weapon at you to prevent the birth of Christ Consciousness in you and on the earth.

And all this is an epic dramatization of the unseen forces now at work within you. For just as your Soul is Mary, and your mind is the earthly representative of that great red dragon identified as the cosmic mortal mind. And just like Mary, you may not let that mind devour your child before or after it is born. You must bring forth that child, that Christ child, that newborn Christ Self who is to rule all nations with a rod of iron. Then your Child will be caught up unto God and to the throne.

Then, for you, the cosmic mind will be cast out, that old serpent called the devil, and Satan which deceiveth the whole world will be shorn of all power. And within yourself will rise the great realization, like a loud voice, saying in heaven:

“Now is come salvation and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ, for the accuser of our brethren is cast down which accused them before God day and night.”

This is the great rebirth. Your newborn Consciousness goes unto the Father and knows that henceforth the Word is made flesh in you, pure Spiritual flesh, imperishable, because I am the Father, I am the Spirit, you and the Spirit are One.

I think we’ll pause a moment; much more to be said. And, when you are taking this little intermission, look at your friends if you have a group with you, and please see, with your Soul, the unborn Child that is waiting to be realized in the Consciousness of everyone present. Make this a real Nativity, not a pageant, not a ceremony, but a realization of the birth of Christ in your Soul.

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In the Bible, whenever the miracle of a Virgin Birth appeared, it was disguised; it was protected that way from exploitation. There are many material minds that would be very quick to pounce upon such information, and they’re not above going forth and making similar claims.

There have been more Virgin Births in our world than just the birth of Jesus Christ. And because Spirit is very wise, every Virgin Birth is always kept secret and is always a very special Spiritual event with a very special purpose involved. Now you’ll find one in Genesis, Chapter 17, Verse 15: God goes to Abraham, and here’s what God says to Abraham:

“As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her yes, I will bless her, and she shall be the mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.”

So, “Abraham falls on his face, and he laughs, and he says in his heart, well shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? And shall Sarah that is ninety years old bear?”

But God reads his thoughts, and God says:

“Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting, covenant and with his seed after him.”

Now, if you’re not aware of the possibility of Virgin Birth, you naturally presume that God made it possible for Sarah to have a child by Abraham. But that is precisely why Sarah is in her ninetieth year, to show that real Identity is never flesh but Spirit, to show that a woman can actually Spiritually conceive at any age; it doesn’t depend on physical union. That’s the meaning of God’s statement, I will bless her, I will give her a son. You see, this is the Virgin Birth of Isaac through Sarah, without Abraham’s physical help.

Now, we have the same situation in the First Book of Samuel, Chapter 1, Verse 2. And here, we learn that a man named Elkanah has two wives. His first wife Hannah is barren, the second wife Peninnah has children. The Lord had shut up Hannah’s womb, we learn in the 5th Verse, and Peninnah, the second wife, taunts her about her barren condition until Hannah is constantly weeping and unable to eat.

So in desperation, Hannah vows that if she’s given the power to bear a son, she will turn that child over to God for all the days of his life. And this, you see, in disguised form, is her turning to Spirit within and seeking the Virgin Birth of Christ in Consciousness. And so, something very interesting now happens. In the 19th Verse it says:

“And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the Lord remembered her.”

And she bears a son and called his name Samuel. Now we know that Joseph did not know his wife, but here we’re learning that Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and so we have a very fine point. The Lord remembered her, and this is the statement that the Spiritual Identity and the Spiritual Birth of the Child was independent even of that physical union between Elkanah and Hannah.

In other words, if Elkanah had been away on a vacation for two years, Hannah would still have conceived the child; it didn’t depend on their physical union one bit. This was still a Virgin Birth, and that’s the disguised meaning here. And it’s to teach us that Virgin Birth can even be concealed from the mother, who thinks that the birth of her own child was caused by a physical union. And I’ll bet you that there are quite a number of those in our world.

Now, you’ll have to think about that for quite a little while, but I think you’ll get it, and it will make you see that much that has been happening in this world under our eyes unseen by the human mind, is actually a preparation for the Virgin Birth of the world consciousness.

Now there’s a third Virgin Birth in the Bible, and it’s very lightly referred to. As a matter of fact, you’d never suspect it unless you were listening within when you read it. It’s in 1 Chronicles, Chapter 7, Verse 14. All it says is a very brief reference to the Virgin Birth of Machaleel, but it doesn’t use the word ‘Virgin Birth.’ He was the grandson of Joseph of Egypt.

And then of course, we have the Virgin Birth of John the Baptist to Elizabeth and these, you realize, plus others which are not in the Bible, but which occurred among the Essenes, these were all known to Mary and to Joseph. They were dedicated students of religious truth, they were very knowledgeable about the Old Testament; they were aware of all the sacred Hebraic traditions and laws.

But something else: the Virgin Birth idea was not at all new to Mary and Joseph. You see, not only did they have these specific examples before them among the Essenes and in the Bible, but they were both members of high degree among the Essenes, and they were both undergoing a rigorous training period of inner teaching. They were learning about the sanctity and discipline of parenthood in preparation for a very special purpose which had been taught earlier in the School of Initiation founded by Ezra, otherwise known as Estras, Estrus.

This sacred teaching was actually recorded by Ezra, and then his mystery books were passed on to the Essenes. Their special Spiritual training for parenthood was this: they were preparing a virgin consciousness to attract egos from Higher Consciousness for future children. Now, that may sound unthinkable to some, but so far ahead of our Spiritual understanding were the Essenes, that they knew, and have proved to their own satisfaction, that the Higher the Consciousness of the future parent, the higher the Consciousness it would attract. For this reason, maidens and men were chosen for the unique training and were pledged to virginity and chastity, and a life of dedication to Spirit.

Joseph himself was a very strange man, even to his own family. He wasn’t the least bit worldly; he was very simple, a very humble man. He had not the slightest desire to get ahead in this world. From his very earliest years he was conscious of inner communications, guidance by a celestial force. His one undiluted interest was Spiritual attainment. As early as the age of twelve or thirteen, he took the vow of chastity, holiness, prayer, and at twenty he lived alone in a small house by the Lake of Galilee. He worked as a carpenter’s assistant, and no matter what came into his experience, Joseph, above all, was obedient to inner instruction. It was no accident that Joseph was selected to assist Mary in the great revelation of the living Christ on earth. It was by ordination. Long before the event took place, he and Mary many times, read the momentous prophesy by Isaiah. “Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Emmanuel.”

What does Emmanuel mean? God with us. Not God in heaven, not God in the sky, and not God after you turn in your material body. No, it’s too late then. Emmanuel means God with us, here now, on earth, God with you, with me, with everyone who walks the earth; God here, now, as the Invisible Living Self of man.

And the living proof of that eternal truth, which is really the only salvation of man, will be the birth of Mary’s child here on earth without a human father. The Light of God made visible, and that Light will then turn to man and say, “As I am the Light, you are the Light. As I came forth without a human father, you came forth without a human father, as I existed as Light, Spirit before Abraham, so did you. And as I was never born, for Spirit is never born, and as I will never die, for Spirit never dies, so you were never born and you will never die because you are Christ on earth now appearing to false mortal sense as a human being.”

Yes, there were many other prophesies known to Mary and Joseph. Isaiah also said:

“For unto us a child is born. Unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father; the Prince of Peace.”

In Numbers 24, 17: Balaam prophesies:

“There shall come a star out of Jacob and a Scepter shall rise out of Israel.”

In Micah 5:2, near the end of the Old Testament, there’s another prophesy:

“But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth who shall be ruler in Israel; whose going’s forth have been from old, from everlasting.”

The Eternal Christ is here, given to man in Micah. Not the Christ who was born on a certain day, but the Christ who was revealed to be on earth. The Nativity revealed the ever present Christ that had always been present.

During all of her young life, Mary heard prophesies about the Messiah who would come – the virgin who would bear. And she was chosen among the other maidens, trained by the Essenes for this event. Her youth was spent in deep inner communion, purification to make her a pure channel for pure Spirit. And, in as much as Spirit always prepares the way, it should be abundantly clear that Spirit had prepared the way through Mary to let Spirit perform its role through her with total harmony.

Now, there is in the Vatican, a group of writings by St. Jerome. He’s the high priest who revised the old Latin version of the Bible about the year 384, and then his revision later became known as the Vulgate Edition. It was canonized in the Sixteenth Century, and formed the basis of the Bible that was used by the, and is used by the Roman Catholic Church. Among these writings, there’s the following statement about Mary’s daily routine, and her character. I think you’d like to hear it:

“From the morning of the third hour, [six to nine], she gave herself to prayer, from the third to the ninth, [nine to three], to external work. From the ninth to the twelfth, [three to six], she again prayed. She was always first at the holy vigils, the most learned in the wisdom of God’s law, the most lovely in humility, the most skillful in the Psalms of David, the most marvelous in charity, the purest of the pure, and the most outstanding in every virtue. She was steady and persevering, and each day she spent better than the last. No one ever saw her or heard her angry. Every word that she said was so full of Grace that it was clear that God was speaking in her. She praised God without ceasing, and when one greeted her she replied, ‘Thanks be to God.’”

Now, what St. Jerome does not tell us, is that Mary’s service in the temple was not a prayer to God up in the sky, but a recognition of God as the All in All Spirit of the Universe; the one Self without opposite. Mary was living the First Commandment that her son would later proclaim to the world. She was honoring Spirit supremely; she was accepting no second self for herself, nor for anyone else in the entire world.

From infancy, Mary had been surrounded by her parents with peace, beauty, even a private sanctuary. The Essenes themselves well knew that Spirit is the only Self, and at the age of three their daughter had private tutors. And the prophetess supervised, and consciously the child lived in contact with Divine Revelation. She was taught to strive constantly to maintain Oneness with the Divine Light within. And, so total was her devotion, that because she attained so highly at this early age, her companions frequently became envious, and so they falsified reports about her to her superiors.

But always, she held them in the Light, meeting every test with unconditioned faith, trust in the All Power and the All Presence of One Spirit, always willing to face every appearance of descent with the knowledge that transfiguration is the reward of every trial. She was always faithfully building the seamless robe of One Divine Consciousness, which would someday serve as a Spiritual umbrella for the Consciousness that would go forth as Christ Jesus to open the Soul of man to the Living Word in our midst.

The big question about Bethlehem still remains. Did it happen? Did it not happen? But Joseph, the husband of Mary, knew that it happened. Mary knew that it happened. Luke the physician believed that it happened.

You know, one scientist proved that he could produce frogs from frogs without a male frog. He poked a needle into the tiny black sphere of a frog’s egg with no male influence, causing normal development into a tadpole, and then into a young frog. And there’s Julian Huxley, the scientist who is the brother of all this; he said that virgin conception is a fact found in nature. And then there’s others. They pointed out that bees, snails, ants, silkworms are all immaculately conceived. Naturalists have come forward. Biologists have come forth and they declared that Virgin Birth doesn’t constitute a breach of physiological continuity. In fact, there have been suggestions that centuries ago, at the dawn of history, mankind multiplied without union of male and female, when there was less distinction between male and female.

But, while science and religion are still locking horns over whether or not Virgin Birth really happened, everyone has overlooked something else far more important. A more pertinent question than: Did it happen or did it not happen, and that question is, what did happen? You see, the world has been debating about whether or not there was a physical birth. Religion believes Mary gave birth to a physical baby. And most of science declares that there’s no scientific evidence to support a Virgin Birth. It’s impossible for a woman to set aside biological law. They say if it were possible and there are many nuns who are just as devoted to God as Mary was, and they’d be having babies by Virgin Birth by the carload. In fact, they say any woman on earth who followed Mary’s rigorous schedule of prayer ought to be in danger of giving birth, whether she had union with man or not, if it’s true.

But, we in this class today, because we have had the opportunity to build a firm foundation in our Spiritual understanding, we are prepared to look at the Virgin Birth in a meaningful way, and to correct the misconceptions of these past two thousand years in which mankind has either accepted or rejected a physical birth in Bethlehem.

Mary did not give birth to a physical son. Now, you’ve got to see that. What we were all looking at, but didn’t recognize, was a new kind of birth on earth, a birth far greater than a virgin woman giving birth to a physical child. There was no physicality involved. There was no physical mother. There was no physical child.

Mary had actually been lifted out of false mortal sense into the realization of Spiritual Identity. The stone of mortal mind, mortal material sense, had been rolled away. Her Self had been awakened, and God, through the clear transparency of her, true Spiritual Identity was expressing His Divine image and likeness, which appeared on earth to mortal sense as the Christ Child. This was a Spiritual birth, the first birth of its kind on earth during the past two thousand years. Spirit begat Spirit. God the Father appeared through the glass darkly of mortal sense as God the Son.

And so, the Son later declared, “I and the Father are one,” meaning God the Father is Spirit. I and the Spirit are One. I am pure Spiritual Being. I am not made of mortal flesh. I am Spiritual flesh; indestructible flesh, eternal flesh. I am the Living Word, God made manifest to human vision. I am Divine Being perfect as My Father, for My Father and I are One Spiritual Substance. You see, no physical boy was born in Bethlehem! And no physical boy went forth to overcome the world. No physical boy set aside the material laws of the world and overcame death every time it was presented to him. No physical boy walked on water, fed the multitudes, raised the dead or healed the sick.

The Light revealed the Light, which is all around us now. Spirit revealed the presence of Spirit everywhere, to manifest Itself to human consciousness in Its ever present glory; to show us the Spiritual Kingdom and the unreality of the physical world imagined by the senses of man. The succession of miracles that followed was a revelation by Christ that Christ is here now, that Christ is the Invisible Identity of all, that Spirit is the Invisible Substance of all, and that we are all that Spirit here, now and forever.

There could be no human father, or Jesus Christ would not have been able to set aside the appearance of material laws. He had to enter this world free of material belief in order to express the fullness of Omnipotence, the fullness of Omnipresence, the fullness of Omniscience. He had to demonstrate the fatherhood of God, Spirit as the Father of all mankind. He had to demonstrate that the Spiritual Son is not born of a human father and has dominion over all material things and over the entire sense of human life. The New Testament is really the living proof that the creation of Spirit-God, never becomes matter, always remains Spirit, and is totally under the perfect law of Spirit.

So the moment you make Jesus Christ a mortal or physical man, you lose the New Testament. You walk right past its meaning and its purpose. You commit the great separation; what might better be called the great abortion, separating the life of man from the Life of God. And you condemn mankind to a life of illusion, a victim of his own duality, walking in the mental tomb of human flesh, unaware that he really is Christ Spirit, Son of God, not born of material woman.

Now it becomes clearer that prophesies in the Bible about a child born to a virgin, have also been personalized. Religion saw in these prophesies the statement that a holy child would be born to a virgin, but Isaiah was not referring only to a specific event. Perhaps mankind has really failed to see as far as Isaiah saw. He was really foreseeing universal salvation, the birth of Christ in the world consciousness. He as witnessing the Infinite Soul, the Virgin Mother becoming One with Divine Consciousness, bringing forth the Only Begotten Son, the Infinite Christ as the One Living Consciousness on earth, leading man out of the wilderness of mortality into the First Heaven.

I think the Infinite nature of the Virgin Birth can be seen very clearly in Isaiah’s Chapter 8, Verse 8. Here he speaks of Emmanuel, the son of a Virgin and prophesies:

“He shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land. O Emmanuel, shall fill the breadth of the land.”

He’s talking about Universal Christ Consciousness, the Universal Virgin Birth, and here in Chapter 9, Verse 7, after predicting that unto us a child is born, again he declares:

”Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end; the zeal of the Lord will perform this.”

If we look again in Numbers, 24:19, after predicting that a Scepter shall rise out of Israel, Balaam further declares:

“Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.”

The city, of course, is material consciousness; the Scepter that shall have dominion is Christ Consciousness.

And here again, in Micah 5:4, after predicting that out of Bethlehem shall come forth one to rule in Israel, the Prophet again declares:

“And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord, the majesty of the name of the Lord his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.”

When we worship the physical nativity of Jesus to Mary, we’re missing the point. The truth, the real Star of Bethlehem that lights our way into the First Heaven, is the realization that Christ can only come to earth through your Virgin Soul, because you see, your Virgin Soul is entirely free of every material belief. This is the narrow gate, the narrow gate of individual and world salvation. Soul is the Virgin Mother through which you re-conceive yourself and return to the Father’s House. Mary is the world’s Soul, and Mary is your Individual Soul. Bethlehem is God Consciousness; Bethlehem is where you receive Divine Bread, the Divine Substance which expresses as the Word Made Flesh. The Christ Child is your Self born in Bethlehem, born of Divine Substance through your Soul.

Let’s take a moment of Silence, resting in the WORD, letting only the Soul be your facility of awareness; no thought necessary, no plan, no idea, just resting in Soul, for Soul conceives the Christ without any human help.

This Christ Child born to the Virgin Mary is a sign. It is a fulfillment of a prophesy made to her, a prophesy made to mankind, demonstrating the firmness, the unchanging inevitability of Christ Consciousness to every individual who chooses the Gate of Spiritual Identity. Emmanuel, God with us now is my perfect Spirit.

Oh, and from that point, how the symbology of the Bible opens up. Your Soul, living in God, gives birth to Christ in you. Your Christ Self now calls together your twelve disciples, your twelve Spiritual powers, and because their names are writ in Heaven, your twelve Spiritual powers go forth and overcome all material obstacles in your path, building the Christ miracles on earth. The entire New Testament of Jesus Christ becomes a living preview of how Christ, Christ Virgin born in you, in your Soul, leads you out of material consciousness and the false laws of this world, out of the opposites, into the First Heaven all without human help, by Grace. You can see the entire New Testament represents the inner activity of your Being through Christ. Every character, every obstacle, every event takes place inside your Being as the Soul of you births the Christ which goes forth into the next Kingdom of God.

This birth of the Virgin Child throughout the world is taking place now. It is actually the rhythm of the Spiritual Universe coming through. It’s the rhythm of God knocking at the door of your consciousness, saying, ‘Let me be born in you.’ And so, whatever you can do to open your Soul to the Virgin Birth, to accelerate the Virgin Birth in the world, is the fulfillment of your purpose on this earth.

This birth of the Virgin Child must be echoed in every individual consciousness. Without it, there can be no individual or collective transition. That’s why so many individuals spend a major portion of their lives in frustration, seeking entrance to the Kingdom but always finding that the veil will not part. Mortality can never enter Heaven; only your Virgin Immortal Self can walk in the many mansions of Spiritual Reality.

One of the very first keys to Christhood is given in Luke 1:26 and 27:

“The angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.”

Gabriel is the power of God’s Will. The Virgin is your Soul; the house of David is Divine Consciousness. The secret meaning is that only through Soul, which is espoused to Divine Consciousness, can the power of Divine Will become manifest. So every mind teaching on earth is doomed to failure for this reason, and every religious teaching that salvation comes by believing that Jesus Christ is the Son of God is equally doomed to failure. These teachings fall short of the mark and perpetuate the separation between man and God. Such teachings actually contradict the Word of God, as expressed in Scripture. “God is no respecter of persons,” whether you believe in the Virgin Birth or not. God is no respecter of mortal beings, no matter what they believe. So your human beliefs have no meaning, no substance and no power.

As you lay aside all human belief, even good human belief, religious human belief and scientific human belief, only then will Divine Will through your Soul, manifest the Immortal Divine image and likeness to replace your mortal form. And then you are Virgin born. This is salvation. This is the way you follow Jesus Christ who said, ‘”Follow me.” This is how you enter and live in the Kingdom of God. Only through the Virgin Birth can you experience the Virgin or Mystical Death, which is transition.

Now, the inner voice tells Mary, “Your son shall reign over the House of Jacob forever, and of his Kingdom there shall be no end.” The Virgin Birth of Christ in you, through your Soul, is a Divine mandate. There’s only one answer you may give, ‘Yes, I am ready.’ If you answer, ‘No, I am not ready,’ you are rejecting the Will of God in You. The Virgin Birth is not an event that you can ignore or defy. You must consciously accept it as the purpose of your life. Turn away from every other purpose; concentrate your efforts in this one direction, and let God manifest your Immortal Self. In this acceptance, this dedication, you can be perfect as your Father, which means you can be liberated from the illusion of human flesh that dies.

“How shall this be,” says Mary, “seeing I know not a man?” And the angel assures her that the Holy Ghost will overshadow her with the power of the Highest, and that Holy Thing that shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

In the Consciousness of a fourteen year old girl a new idea was dawning, destined to shake the world, and to fulfill the unspoken dream that lies in every human heart. A new world was being born, not a new baby! A new way of life, freedom. The Infinite Soul was preparing to bring forth the Infinite Child that never dies, as a finished Reality already established on this earth. Now, ask yourself: Was that a fourteen year old girl? Was that a woman? Was that a material creature, or was Invisible Christ appearing to mortal sense as a fourteen year old girl?

Why does Gabriel say, “With God, nothing shall be impossible?” Because only God exists. And why does Mary reply, “Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it done unto me according to thy word?” Because Spirit is demonstrating the sequence of Divine authority that must be followed within a person in order to experience Christhood. First God, Infinite Spirit, then the impulse of God as Divine Will pulsing Its power through your Spiritual purified Soul, which is Mary.

Then you’re obedient by yielding to that Divine Word. So Mary’s reply, “Be it unto me according to thy Word,” she is accepting the Fatherhood of God as the only Creator, the only Parent. She yields her total human identity as material woman. She accepts her total Identity as pure Spirit, neither male nor female. She walks completely in the Kingdom of Spirit, devoid of every belief in matter and mortality. She knows that man-made material or biological law is a nothingness in the presence of Spiritual Consciousness. She is demonstrating that the Word of God expressed within is a power, the only power, and it can be trusted under any and all circumstances in spite of very appearance that may seem to deny that power. She had heard the Voice! And when you hear that Voice, like Mary, you will trust whatever It tells you. You too will witness that with God, nothing is impossible.

In bringing forth this Spiritual Child made of Divine Spirit, Mary was demonstrating that she had found her own Spiritual Body, for only the Spiritual body can deliver a Spiritual Child. She had found her Temple not made with hands, and she was living in It. Spirit begets Spirit. That was the Virgin Birth. But is it that all that happened?

When the first born of Mary was made visible, did it ever change from Spirit to something else? Can Spirit become anything besides Spirit, if Spirit is all? And did not that same Spirit which men call Jesus Christ, then declare, that It’s Father was your Father and my Father? Did not that Holy Spirit declare that Spirit fathered you, just as Spirit fathered him? Did not the people of Galilee and surrounding areas see him only as the carpenter’s son, in spite of the fact that his Father was Spirit, God?

Do not the people of your city see you as a physical man or woman, in spite of the fact that your Father is Spirit, God? If Spirit is your Father, how could you be born physically? If God is your Father, were you not born of a Virgin? Was not Mary, on that day of the Nativity centuries ago, by making the invisible Christ visible to man, revealing that everyone on this earth is the Invisible Christ, the Spirit of God, fathered by God? The answer is clear.

Also, if Mary was demonstrating that physical birth is illusion, that there really is no material woman on earth to give birth, that she was Spirit and Spirit was being manifest, that only the Spirit of God stands where we see anyone, that Spirit Invisible is ever begetting Spirit Invisible, then we must see that every birth that we see is a physical birth is actually a Virgin Spiritual Birth seen through the density of illusory human vision as a physical birth.

Mary was demonstrating that no mother has ever given birth physically to any child, just as she was not giving birth physically, and that your child and your children, whether you have borne one or ten, is always the Invisible Spirit of God, the Living Christ. You have never produced a Spiritual Child through physical union, for the identity of every child you have is the Invisible Spirit of God. That is the unending, ever present, miracle and the mystery of the Omnipresence of God. With physical union you cannot produce a Spiritual child and yet the identity of every child on earth is pure Invisible Spirit. The Allness of God guarantees that only Spiritual Birth is possible. Every birth is a Virgin Birth; Spirit is always begetting Spirit. Since the world began, we have always been entertaining Angels unawares.

This truth is occasionally demonstrated at rare intervals during the centuries, to parents who have a high Spiritual integrity and share a dedication to Spirit like Mary and Joseph did. Upon them, in these rare occasions, is bestowed a Spiritual Birth without physical union. It never occurs in such a way as to cause an embarrassing situation. It fits into the family pattern. It never occurs where the male might become abusive and suspicious. It never occurs where there is a woman alone, so that it would become conspicuous or talked about.

And again, always, when it occurs, it is for a specific purpose that eventually becomes known only to those parents involved. And its purpose is always the same, to plant the Truth of Virgin Spirit in consciousness, to establish a Spiritual Center that will send out Spiritual waves, to show a Spiritual household, and to draw unto itself a Spiritual household, to prepare mankind for the overturning of world consciousness which is the Virgin Birth of this world, the Virgin Birth which is fast approaching?

Fortunately, there have been Spiritually illumined individuals working silently for the upliftment of world consciousness, even during eras when civilization has seemed to be at its lowest ebb. And so, these labor pains of world birth appear to us as upheavals and struggles, dictators and slaves, depressions and discords, but only because our vision is limited to the Fourth World of mind.

As we accept the Pearl of Great Price, the opportunity to be reborn through the Virgin Soul, we are anointed and lifted into the Fifth World, which is the first of three heavens. Then it becomes clear to us why God sees God, where man sees man.

Nothing that happened to Mary could have happened if Spirit were not present on earth. She wasn’t waiting for Christ to return; she expressed Christ. She didn’t seek external aides to demonstrate this phenomenon. Instead, she permitted the Imprisoned Splendor of her own inner Being to flow out into outer expression without any interference of any human concept. It was a demonstration of such magnitude that forever it should establish in all Disciples of Christ, the confidence that Inner Spirit can fulfill from Its own substance, any ordained so-called external need.

We who have caught this precious Christ Vision, no longer content with material prosperity, or with fleeting pleasures, or with a reverence for material or even intellectual conquest. We know that Christ without Soul can never appear. We know that Gabriel comes to every Soul; that Mary in us, balanced by Joseph in us, the male and female elements of our humanhood united into one Self, in His name, Spirit, produced the God Presence within, Living Christ, which then goes forward to pierce the veil of illusion, and reveal the everywhere Spiritual Being that men call God.

I’d like to call your attention to several tapes that would be useful to you at this point. Most of you have the Special Seven Series, and I suggest that after you have assimilated this particular tape, ‘Your Virgin Birth,’ that you hear the 4th tape of the Special Seven Series and that is ‘Creation and Recreation.’

And then there are two others you could hear in the following weeks: You would benefit if you heard once more:

Tape 11 in The Infinite Way Series: Tape 11 – ‘The New Horizon.’

And also, Tape 9 in The Revelation of St. John Series, Tape 9 ‘The Seventh letter to the Churches.’ Those three tapes would be well worth your while.

And that brings us into 1974. We’ve traveled a long way together. We have many beautiful things ahead. So at this time: From this house to your house, from this heart to your heart, deep felt wishes that 1974 for you brings an abundant harvest, and that you will accept the invitation to enter the New Kingdom of your own Invisible Christhood by inviting that Child through Mary, your Soul.

Much Love, until we meet soon. Thank you.