John 2:1-11 (YLT)
And the third day a marriage happened in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there, and also Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage; and wine having failed, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, `Wine they have not;' Jesus saith to her, `What--to me and to thee, woman? not yet is mine hour come.' His mother saith to the ministrants, `Whatever he may say to you--do.' And there were there six water-jugs of stone, placed according to the purifying of the Jews, holding each two or three measures. Jesus saith to them, `Fill the water-jugs with water;' and they filled them--unto the brim; and he saith to them, `Draw out, now, and bear to the director of the apartment;' and they bare. And as the director of the apartment tasted the water become wine, and knew not whence it is, (but the ministrants knew, who have drawn the water,) the director of the feast doth call the bridegroom, and saith to him, `Every man, at first, the good wine doth set forth; and when they may have drunk freely, then the inferior; thou didst keep the good wine till now.' This beginning of the signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him;
this does seem to be a spiritual explanation of the transition of the flesh to the spirit. it seems to be talking about certain parts of the heavenly hierarchy that reside in the heaven as opposed to the heaven of heavens. the higher archangels knew jesus but the lowest ranks had some forms of ignorance even though they in the end, if they are not evil, give their nations to jesus, such as in the dream paul had of a certain angel asking him for help. ofc there is war in the heaven as some of those spirits are confused. mary is the figure for the heaven of heavens because the holy of holies is where Jesus would be. it is really hard for me to try to comprehend this on a spiritual level though I know other teachers have said some things about it. for instance one saint said that the 6 stone jugs are the hearts of men or the holy scriptures and they always have at least 2 or 3 meanings, i.e. they always have a soulish and a spiritual meaning and if there is a third measure then it also has an fleshly manner of understanding it.
but i'm not quite sure what the deal is with the interaction of mary and Jesus was in this case. i don't know what kind of applicable spiritual understanding could be drawn out of it. from just existing as a human and being spiritual everything is what it is, working perfectly in a harmony of grace and freedom but I don't understand the deeper more hidden meanings of such things. hopefully someone else could explain it.
maybe spiritually jesus did such because it is beneath that image of the holy virgin to act in such a manner... as in a more perfect expression of her in the gospels is this verse:
Luke 1:26-38 (YLT)
And in the sixth month was the messenger Gabriel sent by God, to a city of Galilee, the name of which is Nazareth, to a virgin, betrothed to a man, whose name is Joseph, of the house of David, and the name of the virgin is Mary. And the messenger having come in unto her, said, `Hail, favoured one, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women;' and she, having seen, was troubled at his word, and was reasoning of what kind this salutation may be. And the messenger said to her, `Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favour with God; and lo, thou shalt conceive in the womb, and shalt bring forth a son, and call his name Jesus; he shall be great, and Son of the Highest he shall be called, and the Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father, and he shall reign over the house of Jacob to the ages; and of his reign there shall be no end.' And Mary said unto the messenger, `How shall this be, seeing a husband I do not know?' And the messenger answering said to her, `The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, therefore also the holy-begotten thing shall be called Son of God; and lo, Elisabeth, thy kinswoman, she also hath conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month to her who was called barren; because nothing shall be impossible with God.' And Mary said, `Lo, the maid-servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to thy saying,' and the messenger went away from her.
it would seem like if the virgin is the water then Christ is the wine. and the inferior wines compared to the wine of Christ is prob the level of spiritual goodness of the soul of Jesus compared to someone who is still spiritual such as the souls of the other prophets. and knowing reality it was Christianity that reached the masses of the world whilst the OT was limited for the most part to the jewish nation. but mary was near enough to Jesus that he did what she asked, maybe others would not have been able to get Jesus to do certain things due to the lack of faith that they might have, as we see that Jesus kind of seemed to need us to have faith in him in order that some types of miracles occur or in order for some types of evil spirits to be cast out.
and yeah the virgin mary is needed in order that Christ may come, which is something that must happen within each of us. cause mary is like a purer state of soul, which that is linked to the 6 stone jugs that the jews used for purification. because ofc the waters of purification turn to wine by a miracle. so it is kind of like a feminine and a masculine aspect of the same thing. because God will not save us unless we are also willing to be saved. he does not force himself upon us. he desires a loving response, a reaching towards him.
