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What Does Virgin Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses
“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.
What does virgin mean in the Bible?
The virgin: the pure untouched soul-substance within a person, the receptive inner nature not yet mixed with the outer world.
Esoteric lens · Matthew 1:23
Where virgin appears in the Bible
Isaiah 62:5
For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
1 Corinthians 7:25
Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.
1 Kings 1:2
Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young virgin be sought for my lord the king. Let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm.”
Virgin through 2 lenses
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Christian Psychology · Matthew 25:1
Christian Psychology
The kingdom is not a place awaited but a readiness within, and every mind carries a lamp, the small light of awareness it can either tend or let go dark. To go out to meet the bridegroom is the mind turning toward love, willing to receive what it cannot manufacture, waiting with an openness that is itself the invitation. The wedding is the joining of the mind with the truth it forgot.
What matters is not the waiting but what the waiting is made of, whether the light is kept alive or merely displayed. A lamp held out for show is not the same as a lamp that burns, and only the burning meets the coming of love.
- Lamps: the mind's awareness, the small light it must keep tended to recognize love when it comes.
- Bridegroom: the presence of love drawing near, the truth the mind was made to be joined with.
- Virgins: the parts of the mind that go out to meet love, some prepared to receive it and some only appearing to wait.
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Esoteric · Isaiah 62:5
Esoteric
Marriage here is the joining of the 2 natures inside one person, the higher mind wedding the purified lower self so they are no longer at war. The virgin is the soul made clean and receptive, ground not yet worked, and the bridegroom is the spirit that comes to claim and quicken it. The union is not a far ceremony but the moment the divided self becomes one within.
The joy spoken of is the settled gladness that rises when spirit and matter stop pulling apart and rest together. What was scattered and widowed in a person is gathered and delighted in, made whole by the very source that first breathed it.
- The virgin: the soul made clean and receptive, ground not yet worked, waiting to be quickened
- The bridegroom: the higher spirit that comes to claim and awaken the purified self within
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What virgin means in each story
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- EsotericThe two virgin daughters (verse 8): your desires that rise out of your emotions, still pure.Genesis 19:1-11
- EsotericDinah the virgin (taken by Shechem): the holy spirit part inside you, off limits to you.Genesis 34:1-12
Commentaries on virgin
Swedenborg (1887) · virgin
VIRGIN 8s. the Lord’s kingdom and also the church, and hence every one who is a kingdom of the Lord, or who is a church, and this from conjugial love which is in chaste v.; in a proper sense, they are v. who are in love to the Lord, that is, who are celestial, thus who are in the affection of good ; they are also called v. who are in charity towards their neighbor, that is, who are spiritual, thus who are in the affection of truth. 3081.
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