M. K. Welsch: Choosing Mary

 

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M. K. Welsch

Choosing Mary

… the entity was in that now known as or called the Promised Land, during those periods when there were the preparations of the channels through which the Essenes looked for choice to be made of one, from those who had been consecrated for the service of being the channel, through which He, the Prince of Peace, might come.

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Through choice, the soul that would become the Son of Man was going to enter into materiality again. Preparing for that moment eventually led the Essenes to hand-pick twelve young maidens for special religious training. The hope was that with very strict discipline and concentrated effort this carefully selected sorority would be the group from which the mother of the Messiah might be chosen. Edgar Cayce’s rendition of the birth-of-Jesus story begins at this point with the description of a gathering on Mount Carmel when all the parents of young girls who were perfect in both body and mind—and wanted to dedicate their children for this unusual service—brought them to the temple school overseen by the Essene priests. The leaders eventually culled a dozen girls from the larger group of children brought forward because those twelve were regarded as the most fit to consecrate their minds and bodies in preparation for serving as the sacred vessel and becoming—

… the channel through which there might come that beloved Son … that there must be … through the very expression of that Being in the earth—the understanding that the law was written in the hearts of men, rather than on tables of stone; that the temple, the holy of holies was to be within …

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The readings say the Essene priests chose according to the selection indicated by Spirit. Among the assembly was a child of four, Mary, the daughter of Elizabeth, an unmarried woman who alleged her daughter had been immaculately conceived. While the Cayce information asserts it was true, many in the community doubted Elizabeth’s claim and questions about Mary’s parentage caused divisions among the sect’s leadership. Some thought it was improper for the child to be among those set apart to potentially fulfill such a holy purpose. Others felt that because of her perfection in body and mind, Spirit had directed her inclusion within the group and should not be refused. In the end Mary and eleven other maidens were singled out “ … each as a representative of the twelve in the various phases that had been or that had made up Israel—or man.” (5749-8) Their training and preparation by the priests (similar in many ways to that of present-day novices in some Roman Catholic religious orders) began immediately and continued for several years until Mary reached the age of twelve or thirteen.

All the happenings at Mount Carmel are said to have drawn the first visits of the Wise Men of the East who hailed from Persia, India, and Egypt and who, according to the Edgar Cayce readings, visited the Holy Land on more than one occasion to better understand what was about to come to pass. The temple at Mount Carmel was widely considered a sacred place by those in tune with the impending spiritual transformation. So it is not too difficult to understand why this consecrated ground became the site where the mother of the Messiah was chosen from the initial group of twelve Essene girls. Edgar Cayce describes the scene this way—

The temple steps, or those that led to the altar—these were called the temple steps. These were those upon which the sun shone as it arose of a morning when there were the first periods of the chosen maidens going to the altar for prayer, as well as for the burning of the incense.

On this day, as they mounted the steps, all were bathed in the morning sun, which made a beautiful picture, clothing all as in purple and gold. As Mary reached the top step, then there were the thunder and lightning, and the angel led the way, taking the child by the hand before the altar. This was the manner of choice; this was the showing of the way; for she led the others on this particular day.

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After the selection of Mary to become the channel through which the Messiah would enter the earth, she was separated from the other girls and associated more closely with those in the community responsible for her further training and preparation, which lasted approximately four years.

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