THE AQUARIAN GOSPEL
OF JESUS THE CHRIST.
[SECTION I.]
ALEPH.
Birth and Early Life of Mary, Mother of Jesus.
CHAPTER 1.
Palestine. Birth of Mary. Joachim’s feast. Mary is blest by the priests. His prophecy. Mary abides in the temple. Is betrothed to Joseph.
Augustus Cæsar reigned and Herod Antipas was ruler of Jerusalem.
2 Three provinces comprised the land of Palestine: Judea, and Samaria, and Galilee.
3 Joachim was a master of the Jewish law, a man of wealth; he lived in Nazareth of Galilee; and Anna, of the tribe of Judah, was his wife.
4 To them was born a child, a goodly female child, and they were glad; and Mary was the name they gave the child.
5 Joachim made a feast in honor of the child; but he invited not the rich, the honored and the great; he called the poor, the halt, the lame, the blind, and to each one he gave a gift of raiment, food, or other needful thing.