3.1.26 - 6 - Eleventh Holy Night

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The mystery of the seed - how spirit becomes matter

The narrowness of the path we tread: choose the path to serve the self or serve humanity

Nights of the White Lily

The wideness of the path of the Earth: we are called to be on earth and everything is food to the soul

The mirror of Uriel - confront who we are. Work on ourselves for the well-being of others.

Transform negative thoughts into positive thoughts through the agency of Christ

Nights of the Sword

Develop discernment by reconciling the Son of God and the Son of Man

Wisdom: Who rules our souls? Who is the Lord of our soul, the author of our actions? 

Courage and faithfulness to the purpose of the Lion

Nights of the Crown

Lower self surrenders and all that remains is the desire to serve and to give oneself

The Voice within us that calls through the various incarnations: its clarity increases through sacrifice and decision.

3/4 January 

Scorpio 

The eleventh night: the fight with the Threshold Keeper. 

The final wrestle... who is the keeper of the Threshold and why do they keep the threshold? Why? The final breakthrough - after we live all of life, after we receive the message and undergo materialism and then practise all the qualities we must - now we are brought to the very brink where we give our very last. The nerve not just must be held, but we must push through and persist.

Mystery: building within us the Castle of the Grail. To profess more and more loyalty to the Most High.

Oddly the Castle of the Grail I understand. Several years ago I was in the sanctum where Parsifal was and I saw the grail too. It is difficult to describe because there is only the feeling and presence... of being in the presence of the splendour of the cosmos. All around us, the detractors, the maya wants to blind us to our connection to everything and each other and its purpose is to lead us into this corporality, but it can get too deep. We now breakthrough the material knowledge and we now are the light. We build the temple for the spirit and now the spirit is within and it is present.

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