04-20-2011, 11:28 PM
(04-20-2011, 11:22 PM)Etude in B Minor Wrote: It is said that Joseph and Mary belonged to the Essenes (or at least Mary's family), which was an organization that followed a very strict and pure way of living, and they were part of long-time scheme to prepare the way for a messiah. Thus, I would assume that the environment Jesus was in during his early life was one to foster STO thinking.
Mary must have felt a great surge of spiritual energy in her body while Jesus was housed in her womb. It was said so in the case of Buddha and Krishna with their earthly mothers respectively.
All these figures are part of the mythic archetype of god as savior too, I guess. I don't know.