Matthew 1:25 Meaning And Didn’t Know Her Sexually Until She

The virgin who is not known until the son is born is the pure receiving matter of a person held untouched by the lower nature, so that the child conceived within is fathered by spirit alone and not by the flesh. This is the birth of the higher self inside the body, the Christ-consciousness brought forth from a purified inner ground rather than from ordinary human generation.

The name Jesus, opened at its root, means the salvation or deliverance that a person carries within, so the naming declares what the newborn self is for. When the inner nature is kept pure enough to bring forth its own higher child, that child is the saving power a person has been carrying all along.

Virgin unknown: the pure receiving matter within, held untouched by the lower nature so spirit alone conceives Firstborn son: the higher self, the Christ-consciousness brought forth from the purified inner ground Name Jesus: the indwelling power of deliverance, salvation named at its root

Holding back from physical "knowing" is not mere self-denial. It is the exact inner condition needed for the whole, true self to be born into awareness.

When Joseph refrains from the union that would stake his claim over her, the empty space is filled by something rising from the deep places within. The birth is the sense of God appearing in its fullest form, what the old craftsmen called "our son of royal birth" who "takes his tincture from the fire," the eternal birth "consummated in the virtuous soul" when a secret Word leaps down from the royal throne. Naming the child Jesus is the deciding act of becoming whole: wholeness must be known and called by its true name by the person who received it yet does not own it.