The Virgin Mary

§ Apocrypha:

The Virgin Mary has been with us for 2,000 years and is the most celebrated woman ever to have been born on this entire planet. She has dominated the entire world with the story of her birth, her vow of perpetual virginity. But broke it to the Hebrew Ark of the Covenant where the Voice of God would speak from since the days of Moses parting of the Red Sea with God’s incorporeal powers. Her fairness to both her husband Joseph and her son Jesus, even when Jesus wasn’t being particularly fair is legendary.

I will be quoting both from the apocryphal book The Gospel of the Birth of Mary, which was purported to have been transcribed by Saint Matthew and from the book of Matthew itself in reference to Mary and Mary’s children.

The Gospel of the Birth of Mary; Chapter V.; Verses 4-10:

"At that time the high-priest made a public order. That all the virgins who had public settlements in the temple, and were come to this age, should return home, and, as they were now of a proper maturity, should, according to custom of their country, endeavor to be married."
"To which command, though all the other virgins readily yielded obedience, Mary the Virgin of the Lord alone answered, that she could not comply with it."
"Assigning these reasons, that both she and her parents had devoted her to the service of the Lord; and besides, that she had vowed virginity to the Lord, which vow she was resolved never to break through by lying with a man."
"The high priest being hereby brought into a difficulty, Seeing he durst neither on the one hand dissolve the vow, and disobey the Scripture, which says, Vow and pay, Nor on the other hand introduce a custom, to which the people were strangers, commanded,"
"That at the approaching feast all the principle persons both of Jerusalem and the neighbouring places should meet together, that he might have their advice, how he had best proceed in so difficult a case."

They consulted the Ark of the Covenant, a voice came from it telling them to follow the prophecy of Isaiah which said, The Gospel of the Birth of Mary; Chapter V.; Verse 14 & 15:

there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a flower shall spring out of its root, And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, the Spirit of Counsel and Might, the Spirit of Knowledge and Piety, and the Spirit of the fear of the Lord shall fill him."

They gathered all the bachelors from the family and house of David from all over Israel. Joseph was also there, but he withdrew his rod because he thought he was too old. The dove out of Heaven pitches on it and Joseph betroths Mary.

After the birth of Jesus, he remains chaste, but in the Gospel Matthew 13:54-57, it is stated after Jesus delivers three parables that the Hebrews surrounding him in his own house asked sarcastically:

"Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?" they asked. "Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother’s name Mary, and aren’t his brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas? Aren’t all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?" And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, "Only in his hometown and in his own house is a prophet without honor."

So you can all see here that the Virgin Mary initially took a perpetual vow of virginity to the Lord and wouldn’t ever sleep with a man, the priests consulted the Ark and married her according to Isaiah’s prophecy to Joseph, she had children, Christ was ridiculed for it, but ridiculed back. She therefore couldn’t keep to her vow because the prophet Isaiah prophesied that "there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a flower shall spring out of its root." She had children after marrying Joseph after initially bringing forth a first-born son without knowing a man.

This shows incredible fairness and a good heart. The Virgin Mary certainly was a legendary good heart and Empress of the Universe.

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