The Creator´s Intention
People are by nature conservative. They are loath to give up the customs and practices that they have adopted. They are reluctant to reject the traditions, the beliefs, the ideologies of the World into which they have incarnated and which have been instilled into them as they have grown from childhood to adulthood. However, as you approach the period of the year which you call Christmas, I ask you to look for once with a new eye, with a new vision.
Try to erase from your memories everything that you have been told concerning the meaning of Christmas. Forget what your Churches have told you. Forget what your parents have told you and have handed down to you. Forget the commercial aspects of Christmas. Place all that aside and try to examine Christmas for what it is, not for what you would like it to be, not for what you have been told it should be, but for what it was intended to be by your Creator.
The Christ Principle
Christmas should not be looked at in isolation and considered only for a few days around December the twenty-fifth, then to be forgotten with the coming of the New Year. It is Humanity alone who limits Christmas to this short period of time and who then ignores it for the rest of the year. Christmas, the Christ-mass, is meant to be celebrated on every day of the year. The importance of the period known as Christmas is that the astrological influences which affect the Earth, the vibrations of great Beings not only from within your own Solar Body but from Solar Bodies beyond your own, flow down upon the Earth to revitalise the Christ Influence, the Christ Principle. It is a time when you should all consciously strive, more so than in your normal everyday lives, to consider what it meant by the Christ Principle, to remember why it was sent down onto this Earth and to examine the extent to which you are following it.
Christmas is meant to act as a yearly reminder to all of you to measure your spiritual progress in the year that has gone, to examine your consciousnesses, to assess how far you have evolved, to consider the ways in which you have lived, and to prepare yourselves for the year that is to come.
Lost in Translation
You may well say, "What has this to do with the Christmas story which I know so well, of the man born two thousand years ago in a stable amongst the animals, of the shepherds who came to visit him, of the wise men who came to herald his arrival, of the star that shone over Bethlehem, of the whole story that is written in the Bible??" I am not going to say whether or not this particular story as it is written in the Bible, is entirely true. That is not to say that the events mentioned in the Bible did not actually happen but rather that, because the writers of the original manuscripts wrote in an ancient tongue, as the years have passed by so much of the meaning has been lost in translation.
Therefore, as Humanity´s consciousness has expanded or diminished, as it has failed to understand or desired to expand upon the story in the Bible, so Humanity has changed the story to suit the Age in which it is living. So I would advise you not to place absolute faith on anything that is written in the Bible. Read it, yes. Meditate on it, yes. Extract from it that which your consciousness permits, but do not slavishly adhere to every phrase that is written in it. Do not make it into a dogma, a creed, that separates you from your fellow human beings, for that was never intended by its writers.
Universal Love
This Earth on which you dwell was created by the Being who in the Western World you call "God". However, you do not really comprehend what that term means. Each of you understands it according to your own consciousness or according to the way you have been taught by your religious teachers, for with your limited consciousness you cannot comprehend your God, your Creator, Whose spirit dwells in the Sun, the one true star in your planetary system. You cannot comprehend His power, His majesty, His wisdom or His love, but it was He Who created the Earth, just as He created the other parts of the Solar Body, the planets.
The Earth was the last of the planets to be created. As a child born on the Earth comes from the womb of its mother, so the Earth came from the Sun, as indeed did all the other planets. Your God created this Earth with His Love. He created it through His consciousness for the purpose of reflecting Universal Love. With the aid of His servant, the Lord of the Earth, who dwells within the Earth, He created all the creatures and the conditions of life which exist on the Earth, and everything was perfection. Into this state of perfection your Creator placed Humanity.
Part Two follows....
This article is from The Fantastic Teachings of Ramala.
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