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from Jesus:
Thank you for asking that
question on this particular day [December 25th, 2003]. I welcome the
opportunity to comment on the Christmas celebration.
Let me first comment on the time and date issue. At this point I do
not want to reveal the exact time and date of my birth. The reason being
that my main goal for this website is to help people overcome their
idolatry of me. The fact that people are so obsessed with the time and
date of my birth is an expression of this idolatry. If I gave you the
exact time and date of my birth, people would use it to find some characteristic
that set me apart from other human beings. They would take it as proof
that I was different, and therefore it was easier for me to manifest
Christhood.
The reality of the situation is that my birth date and time did not
have some kind of cosmic, universal significance. Because I had the
potential to become the spiritual Master for the next age, I was born
during the time period that marked the transition into the Age of Pisces.
My exact birth time had a significance in terms of my personal karma
that I needed to work out in my last embodiment on Earth, and it set
the best possible stage for my personal mission. Therefore, the particular
astrological configurations at the time of my birth do not have any
significance for other souls, who have their own circumstances to work
out.
If you could project yourself back to the mindset that existed 2,000
years ago, you would see that many people were obsessed with a person's
birth. Not only did the Jews discriminate against those who were not
Jews, but even within the Jewish community there was a discrimination
based on family background. So when the Gospel writers started writing
the Gospels, they decided that in order to make the story more acceptable
to people they had to put a special emphasis on the importance of my
birth.
It is generally accepted by scholars that the Gospels were written in
a certain order, with the Gospel of Mark being the first Gospel. You
will see that the Gospel of Mark hardly mentions the circumstances around
my birth, whereas the Gospel of John makes it an incident of cosmic
importance. This is simply an illustration of how the succeeding Gospel
writers placed greater emphasis upon, and to some degree even embellished
upon the facts, of my birth. This is one of the main reasons for the
intense idolatry around my outer person that has been built and now
sustained for 2,000 years.
So the bottom line is that the time and the date of my birth, and the
circumstances around that birth, are not particularly important. I will
say that the date you mention is closer to my actual birth date than
December 25th in the year 0. Nevertheless, it is not the exact date.
In reality, I was born in the spring season, and the celebration of
my birthday during the darkest time of the year was a later addition.
Because I do not consider it particularly important that people know
or celebrate the exact time of my birth, I have no problem with the
birth of Christ being celebrated during the darkest time of the year.
In fact, I consider this a very practical arrangement. It is precisely
during the darkest days of the year that people need to be reminded
of their potential to become the Christ. And this potential should be
the main focus for the Christmas celebration.
For those who are willing to look beyond the exact outer circumstances
around my life, and who can free their minds from a literal interpretation
of the Bible, the story of my life can be seen as a symbol for the birth
of the Christ in every soul.
Once again, the inordinate idolatry around my birth obscures reality.
So many people believe that I was born in the fullness of personal Christhood
and with a full remembrance of my divine origin and mission. This is
far from being the case. Although my soul did have great spiritual attainment
at inner levels, I was born with no particular remembrance of this.
I did have a very strong intuition, but I had to gradually discover
my spiritual identity and my spiritual mission. Therefore, I can assure
you that my life was not different from or easier than the life of most
other human beings on this Earth. Everyone faces the challenge of discovering
his or her true identity and of deciding whether to fulfill his or her
spiritual mission.
Therefore, the correct way to approach the celebration of Christmas
is to see the story of my life as a symbol for the stages that every
soul goes through as the Christ child is born within that soul and eventually
grows to the full maturity, at which the soul can express its personal
Christhood in this world.
I was born as a helpless baby, as is every other human being. No human
being suddenly walks from an unenlightened state of consciousness into
the fullness of Christ consciousness. For spiritually inclined people,
there does come a specific time in a person's life when the Christ consciousness
is born within that person. This is an inner experience in which the
soul senses that there is more to life, more to reality and more to
his or her own identity than the normal human consciousness.
The Christ consciousness is born as a fragile and in many ways helpless
baby. Saint Paul understood this and talked about people who were still
babes in Christ. The reason being that in the beginning the soul’s
sense of Christ consciousness is fragile. It needs protection, support
and nourishment. Ideally this should be given in a spiritual community,
in which those who are further along on the path of Christhood can support
the soul. Unfortunately, in today's world neither orthodox Christianity
nor materialistic science can provide this kind of support and understanding,
and therefore most souls have to fight their way through the wilderness
of the human consciousness largely on their own. This is not to my liking,
and I hope it can be changed by the emergence of spiritual communities,
in which people can support each other in the growth towards Christhood.
So let me return to the celebration of Christmas. I see no reason to
abandon the Christmas celebration. I see no reason to move it to another
time of the year. It is a tradition that is ingrained in Western culture,
and it could easily be turned into a very significant spiritual experience.
I do believe that Christmas in many nations has become unnecessarily
commercialized and is too centered around materialistic pleasures, from
giving gifts to eating large meals or even drinking and making merry.
This, of course, has nothing to do with the birth of the Christ consciousness
within the soul. Realistically, I do not see that this can be changed
in the near future.
However, for those who are willing to look for a deeper meaning, I suggest
the development of a celebration that focuses less on my life and birth
and truly sees this as a symbol for the birth of the Christ consciousness
in every human being. Once you begin to see that the Christ child is
not simply the baby that grew into the person of Jesus, you are on the
right track. You can then see that Christ child as the innocent birth
of the Christ consciousness within every soul.
You can now create a celebration that is aimed at assisting souls in
experiencing the birth of the Christ consciousness within them, and
you can extend that celebration into a community of people who support
each other in protecting and nourishing that Christ consciousness until
it eventually matures.
In today's world, many people have already attained a high degree of
Christhood, as explained elsewhere.
Therefore, it will not take 30 years for the Christ consciousness to
mature within them. It can be achieved in a much shorter period of time.
Nevertheless, a celebration focused on the birth of the Christ within
the individual soul could be an immense inspiration that could help
people consciously recognize their Christ attainment. They could then
nourish the Christ child within them, until it matures and comes into
full expression when that soul transforms the water of the carnal mind
into the wine of the Christ consciousness. When that transformation
occurs within an individual, there is no turning back, as there was
no turning back for me after I performed that feat at the wedding in
Canaan.
At that moment, the soul can no longer hide its light, and it will now
go on to fulfill its mission. This will include challenging the persecution
of the world, but obviously a person in today's world will not need
to be nailed to a cross for manifesting Christhood.
So I encourage people to continue to celebrate the Christ mass at the
darkest time of the year but to turn it into a celebration of the birth
of the Christ consciousness within every soul. When I was born 2,000
years ago, the Christ mass was the birth of a single child destined
to manifest Christ consciousness. In today's world the Christ mass has
taken on a new meaning.
The second coming of Christ truly means the birth of the Christ consciousness
within thousands and millions of people on this planet. When this does
occur, you can celebrate the true Christ mass in which a great mass
of human beings experience the birth of the Christ child in their hearts.
I can assure you that wise beings from all over the spiritual realm
will flock to bear witness to that birth and to bring many spiritual
gifts to the establishment of a new sense of community between those
Above and those below.
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