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LUKE 2:19

"But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart."

MARY symbolizes the inner feminine principle within our consciousness, the receptive, intuitive, soul‑center that can conceive the Divine Word.

She is the buddhic womb, the quiet interior where impressions from the Higher Self are received, held, and manifested.

This verse describes the first interior movement of regeneration:
- “Kept all these things”
The soul preserves every influx from the Higher Self. Nothing is lost. These “things” are the spiritual impressions, the subtle movements of truth that descend into consciousness.

- “Pondered them in her heart”
The heart is the buddhic plane, the organ of direct spiritual knowing.

To ponder is not to analyze, it is to brood, to warm, to gestate.

Truth becomes interiorized here, no longer external, no longer conceptual.

Symbolic Structure
- Mary = the receptive soul, the feminine vessel of intuition
- Keeping = preserving the spiritual influx
- Pondering = manifestation of impressions into inner knowing
- Heart = the buddhic center, where truth is understood by direct perception

Similar KJV Verses
- Genesis 37:11 — “But his father observed the saying.”
(The higher principle holds the message until its meaning unfolds.)

- Daniel 7:28 — “But I kept the matter in my heart.”
(Inner retention of a spiritual impression.)

- Proverbs 4:23 — “Keep thy heart with all diligence…”
(The heart as the center of spiritual transformation.)

The Esoteric Message…..
The soul must learn to receive the higher impressions in silence (meditation). Only the heart of our being, the buddhic center, can manifest the divine seeds into living realization.

 

See Also

BIBLE VERSES

LUKE 1:5

LUKE 2:19

LUKE 16:31

LUKE 23:34