You are the king, and you have met the woman that you desire most throughout the entire kingdom, the most beautiful, internally, as well as physically. She is the one.
You instruct your minions to bring her to the royal court where she can be presented as your betrothed. Suddenly there is great hush amidst your closest advisors… glanced eyes are shared between them, finally the most courageous of them steps forward,
‘But my lord,’ he stammers, ‘this young woman is not a virgin!’.
‘I’m the king, and what I say goes, bring her!’
But this is not the way it went, a king must marry a virgin. I mean how many of us have even slept with a virgin? A virgin girl with the hymen layer still intact? How many would choose our beloved with this requirement as a deal breaker?
There are even traditions today where you can get your virginity back!
So why is virginity so highly prised?
In general, in most religions virginity before marriage was encouraged and almost required, especially for the woman.
There are many practical and spiritual interpretations we could draw out of this practise. From a royal point of view, it meant security of the lineage, no past children for example, and it’s also been seen as a sign of purity.
My own take on this is as follows;
When the spiritual initiate is ready to die to ego, if energy can be directed back down the chakra system, they can then experience the ‘Virgin Birth’, a sensation of pushing through a hymen layer or energetic membrane which brings us into a very lucid sense of full consciousness.
This may have been talked about as the ‘virgin birth’, originally, being so similar to an experience the baby would have inside the womb of a virgin, having to push out through the hymen layer as they came into the world. This analogy may have become distorted, or re-symbolised.
The ‘head’ of the males penis, instead of the actual head of the spiritual practitioner, would push through the hymen layer of the virgin girl. This would be a sign of power and maybe even an experience of what it might mean to push this sensitive part of the anatomy through this very fine tissue layer.
It would also be symbolic, ideally, society would like people in positions of power to be able to experience the spiritual ‘virgin birth’. This shows a certain amount of inner development. When we are truly able to die to our own ego mind, we are likely to ‘see’ others more clearly and be able to function from a position of wisdom and understanding.
In a patriarchal world, the males, whether they be kings, religious leaders, or even just the head of the family or household, would ideally have this experience, but the spiritual one, and not just ‘virgin intercourse’!