Wow, you spin your magic once again. I'm seeing that the disciples are terms in some underlying discussion of angels and high priests (also seen as divine beings) who have maladministered the world until the time of Jesus.
I don't know if it's relevant, but a Simon was high priest from around 23 B.C. to 4 B.C. I know some scholars think the zodiac references put Jesus' birth at Sept 11, 3 BC. In which case—Simon was high priest just as Mary was leaving?
I wonder if there's a 'secret' reading in which Simon the deposed priest had been messing around with girls serving in the temple. One thinks of the sons of Eli in 1 Samuel 2:22.
In the narrative of the Infancy Gospel of James, Mary is off-loaded onto an aged Joseph who really doesn't want her. Could it be to help out the lecherous high priest? In which case, James the son of Joseph, as the presumed author of the Infancy Gospel and a Jew loyal to the Temple tradition, might be helping clean up the mess.
