What do we celebrate at Christmas? The union of the soul and spirit. They unite to give birth to a seed which is the beginning of a new consciousness within us. This consciousness manifests as an inner light that dispels all darkness, just like heat ...
Each year on December 25, Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus, and in every church a crib is set up. The child is there, lying on the straw; Mary and Joseph watch over him, and an ass and an ox, too. The ass and the ox are never left out! But ...
Why do we celebrate the Nativity, the birth of Christ, at the beginning of winter? The answer is to be found in the book of Nature. All of life begins with a seed, buried in darkness in the earth or in a woman's womb. And for the seeds that have ...
Many believers await the coming of a Messiah who will bring back divine order on earth. They are waiting and waiting, and as they just wait, they let him pass by without having seen or felt a thing. In fact, not only has the Messiah already come, ...
In reality, the light we see is the materialization of primordial light. And this primordial light, the first emanation of God, is the cosmic sun, the Christ. For the spirit which manifests and speaks to us through the sun is the spirit of Christ, ...
Christmas and Easter – the birth of Jesus which is celebrated in the beginning of winter, and his resurrection which is celebrated in the spring – represent two pages in the great Book of Nature. Those who fixed the dates of these feast days long ...
...ross, because the Christ also manifests through beauty, joy and light. In the new society, it is thoughts of the glory of Christ that must nourish our inner life. Heaven rejoices that we no longer kiss the ground and kneel beside graves, becaus...
Winter begins when the sun enters the constellation of Capricorn, an earth sign. Symbolically, Capricorn is related to summits and rocky peaks, but also to deep caverns and caves that open into the bowels of the earth, where crystals and precious ...
Each year, at midnight on 25 December, Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus. This is Christmas. There is no proof that Jesus was born on 25 December, or even in winter, and we are not even completely certain about the year… But, as with Easter, ...
Eastern teachings emphasize the development of the spiritual centres, the chakras, and so increasingly in the west you will hear the claim that these teachings enable people to make greater progress on the path of light than if they had remained ...
Nowadays, more and more Christians are leaving their religion and turning to other forms of spirituality, without really knowing what they are getting into and without realizing just how dangerous it can sometimes be. In what are known as the ...
It is a universal law that, in order for anything to last, it must be able to constantly renew itself. And if Christianity is at present losing ground, it is because it has not renewed itself: for centuries it has clung to old concepts that are no ...
The birth of Jesus was a historical event of major importance. But if all that was needed was for Jesus to be born two thousand years ago, why has the kingdom of God not yet come on earth? Wars, misfortunes, illness – all that should have ...
The mouth has two important functions: eating and speaking. Food goes in our mouth, and words come out of it. But is there any relationship between food and the word? Yes, there is; we can see this relationship clearly in the figure of Christ. ...
Light is the source of all things, and light is the Christ, the solar Spirit. The Spirit of the Christ manifests firstly in the sephirah Chokmah, the first glory, the Word, of which St John says in his Gospel that nothing came into being without it. ...
Why do we celebrate Christmas in the beginning of winter? The answer is found in the Book of Nature. All life begins with a seed, buried in the darkness of the earth or a woman's womb. Winter is the season when a long work of germination is carried ...
Christmas and Easter – the birth of Jesus which is celebrated in the beginning of winter, and his resurrection which is celebrated in the spring – represent two pages in the great Book of Nature. This idea may offend many Christians, but instead of ...
Some Christians have great difficulty believing everything the Church teaches about the divinity of Jesus: about his birth, resurrection and ascension into heaven. They experience these difficulties first of all because these doctrines contradict ...
...ross, because the Christ also manifests through beauty, joy and light.
In the new society, it is thoughts of the glory of Christ that must nourish our inner life. God rejoices that we no longer kiss the ground and kneel beside graves, because H...
Creation is the work of the masculine principle and the feminine principle. As soon as these two opposing and complementary poles find themselves in each other's presence they set to work to create. And because this law applies in all the regions of ...
The Christ is a cosmic principle, a principle that can manifest in those who are prepared to receive it. But humans, however exceptional they may be, cannot be Christ, they cannot be the incarnation of God himself. The Christ has never taken a ...
To celebrate Christmas is to prepare ourselves for the birth of the cosmic principle of Christ in our soul. For Christ, which is a cosmic principle, can be born within us just as it was born within Jesus. The birth of Jesus was undoubtedly an ...
No book can teach you more essential truths than the Gospels. You will say that you have read them and have not discovered much in them, which is why you are now turning towards oriental teachings. Well, this simply proves that you have not ...
When the soul and spirit unite, they give birth to a seed that is the starting point of a new consciousness. This consciousness manifests itself as an inner light that drives out the darkness; as a warmth of such intensity that even if the whole ...