Deuteronomy 22:20 Meaning But If This Thing Is True

The tokens of virginity are the signs that the inner soul-substance was kept pure, the receptive mind held free of thought and ready to receive. Their absence in the damsel is read exactly as the plain words run: the sign is not found, and so the receptive consciousness did not stay clear. It has already been given over to the crowding of thought and appetite, and a mind full of noise cannot conceive the Christ child within.

The damsel is that receptive consciousness itself, not the emotions but the quiet inner ground where higher life takes root. Virgin consciousness means a mind emptied of its own chatter, and when the tokens fail, that emptiness was never there. The harsh law over a woman's body is the outer shell; the inner reading is a mind that could not hold the stillness required to bring forth what is holy.

Tokens of virginity: the signs that the inner soul-substance was kept pure, the receptive mind held free of thought Damsel: the receptive consciousness, the quiet inner ground where the higher life would take root