Livets Bog, vol. 5
The mystery of the "virgin birth of Jesus"
1718. How, then, can it come about that one human being can be so different to all other human beings on Earth? That he was the "son of God", that he was "conceived of the holy spirit" and thus proclaimed as having been "born of a virgin", as having no physical, mortal father, is neither an acceptable analysis nor a truth, if the words are to be taken literally. It is merely a hypothesis through which posterity has sought to explain the mystery or riddle that the world redeemer's psyche in itself was for this posterity. But the hypothesis does not rest on a scientific foundation, and has therefore long since lost its power over intellectually orientated or scientifically minded beings. The traditional story is but a primitive, terrestrial human notion or view. But what then does reality or life itself say about this matter, for only life's own speech can be the absolute truth? Of the two billion people currently on Earth has there ever been one single instance of an individual being born of a virgin? Is it not an equally absolutely concrete fact that every child that is born can find itself only in an organism that is a product of the union of the seed of a female being and the seed of a male being or their being one flesh and blood? No, such a phenomenon, such a breach with normality has never yet been seen; indeed, it is even demonstrable that such a phenomenon would be an absolute impossibility among mankind's beings on the terrestrial step. It is true that there are plant and insect forms of life that are self-fertilising, and it is possible that sexual activity or reproduction can be led astray in a glaringly artificial way, thus producing a kind of organism without a father, but what kind of organism does one imagine this will be? Does one imagine that such an organism can be an instrument for an intellectual and completely normal being? No; a being that is to manifest itself through such a monstrosity of a mortal body, such a product of terrestrial human speculation and sadism, will never be able to manifest its true, normal spirit. And why should the birth and incarnation of the world redeemer absolutely have to be referred to as an abnormality? Would it be more beautiful, would it be more divine if he had no mortal father? If a male being were not mentally pure enough to be Jesus' father, how then could a female being be pure enough to be Jesus' mother? Are women purer than men? If so, it is strange that the Bible says that "the head of the woman is the man, and the head of every man is Christ". Is it not obvious that the assertion that Jesus was born of a virgin is a product of terrestrial human narrow-mindedness or failure to appreciate the divinity of the normal sexual relationship between man and woman? It is the impure souls' impure view of the divine will behind terrestrial mankind's process of reproduction and fertilisation. But here we must remember that these beings have been in good faith. They did not have the intellectuality to be able to understand or perceive the solution to the mystery of "Jesus" in any other way.