Our consciousness sheds its selfish boundaries proportionately as we reach out in empathetic support of others, whether materially or by giving gifts of our time, attention, and caring. With every effort we make to hold kindness in our hearts even toward those with whom we have had difficulties, to harmonize and heal with the patience of understanding and the sweetness of forgiveness, we draw upon the all-embracing consciousness that we honour in Jesus during this holy season. Recognizing as he did the divine kinship of all humanity as souls, free of the constraints of social, national, and religious boundaries, is the ultimate answer to so many of the challenges of our time. We truly are one in the spiritual realms. Let it be so on earth. I know it is not easy; I also know it is what our souls want and what we are working for.
In communion with God’s omnipresence in meditation, we can experience in the deepest way the union that Jesus knew at the Third Initiation, the Transfiguration on a High Mountain. The heart’s feeling bursts its boundaries and feels for all as its very own; you cannot bear to exclude anyone from that love. May that expanded consciousness, a part of it, or at least an acceleration towards its realisation, be the divine gift you receive this Christmas, to carry with you into the new year.
Wishing you and your dear ones all joy, peace, and blessings,
Christ gives us a definite picture of the entire process in His own life story, built around those major initiations which are our universal heritage and glorious [and for many] the immediate opportunity. They are:
[1] The Birth at Bethlehem, to which Christ called Nicodemus, saying, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
[2] The Baptism in Jordan. This is the baptism to which John the Baptist referred us, telling us that the baptism of the Holy Spirit and of fire must be administered to us by Christ.
[3] The Transfiguration. There perfection is for the first time demonstrated, and there the divine possibility of such perfection is proven to the disciples. The command goes forth to us, “Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”
[4] The Crucifixion. This is called the Great Renunciation, in the Orient, with its lesson of sacrifice and its call to the death of the lower nature. This was the lesson which St. Paul knew and the goal toward which he strove. “I die daily,” he said, for only in the practice of death daily undergone can the final Death be met and endured.
[5] The Resurrection and Ascension, the final triumph which enables the initiate to sing and to know the meaning of the words: “Oh death, where is thy sting? Oh grave, where is thy victory?”
Such are the five great dramatic events of the mysteries. Such are the initiations [awakenings] through which all men must some day pass.
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