Mary at 16
Once their schooling was complete, about three years after the appearance of the angel Gabriel to Mary on the stair, all of the students at Mt. Carmel returned to their homes.At 16, Mary had become a beautiful young woman. She was serene and happy by nature. One day, when she was alone in her favorite meditation place, the angel Gabriel again suddenly appeared beside her."Hail!" he greeted her. "You who are highly favored. The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women!" Mary was troubled at his saying, but the angel said, "Fear not, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you shall conceive in your womb and bring forth a son." Startled, Mary could only ask, "How can these things be?" Gabriel answered, "You will be overshadowed by the Holy Spirit and conceive a child," he explained. "His name shall be Jesus, and He will be known as the Son of God."He also told her that her cousin, Elizabeth, who many thought was too old to have children, was now expecting a son.Awed by the experience, Mary whispered, "Behold the handmaiden of the Lord. Be it unto me according to your word." Within a few weeks, Mary discovered that she was with child.
Immaculate Conception
Many people believe that Mary conceived her child, Jesus, without knowing man, but few understand how this was possible. Fewer still, however, know that Mary's mother, Anna, had also conceived Mary through an immaculate conception. Anna had only been informed generally that she would conceive her child in this way - not the way Mary was informed - and whert she proclaimed this fact, no one believed her, saying that it wasn't in compliance with natural law.
In special cases, such as Anna's and Mary's, for the purpose of bringing the divine plan to earth, these spiritual conceptions were natural. Natural, as is demonstrated by the very projection of mind into matter, thus making of itself a separation encased in matter, as humankind has done in itself. As flesh is the activity of the spiritual self and mental being pushing itself into matter; and as spirit, as He gave, is neither male nor female, they are then both, or one. And when humanity had reached that period when there was full separation from God, then flesh as men and women know it today became, in the material plane, a reality.
So, the immaculate conception means that the physical and mental are so attuned to spirit as to be quickened by it. Hence the spirit, the soul of the Master, then, was brought into being, through the accord of the Mother in materiality, by what you know in the earth plane as conception.
Joseph's Courage
Like Mary, Joseph was of the lineage of the house of David. He was 36 when he was first told about the role he would play. He had been first informed about the coming birth of Jesus by Mathias and Judah at Mt. Carmel, around the time when Mary was chosen by Archangel Gabriel on the stair. The pair was matched by the leaders of the sect, as in a lodge or church, not as you would term by visitations,
for the choice was pointed out by the divine forces. Neither v?ere they chosen by the families - in'those periods in most of the Jewish families the arrangements were made by the parents, you see; while in this case these two were not as contracting parties from their families. For Anna and her daughter were questioned as belonging to any family! But when Joseph first learned the news, he was disturbed because of how much older he was than Mary. He was especially disturbed about what people would say!
During the three to four years before Mary became with child, while she was still in training, Joseph received guidance - first in a dream and then by direct voice. And whenever there is the voice in such guidance, this is always accompanied by odors as well as lights; and the description of the lights is the vision.
Once he was assured that his role was divine will, by the voice and by his experiences, he knew that he would fulfill it. When he went to claim her for his bride, a girl of 16, she was already with child. They were married in the temple, there at Mt. Carmel, when Joseph was 36 and Mary was 16. During her pregnancy, Mary would spend most of her time in the hills of Judea, and only a portion of the time with Joseph in Nazareth.
This account is based on Edgar Cayce readings 5748-8, 5749-7, and 5749-8.
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