Hi everyone. Happy Saturday after Christmas.
We'll get back to A Search For God in a couple of days. I listened to a video today that I didn't want to wait to tell you about. It's a video from Edgar Cayce's visions called "Your Soul's True Christmas." on YouTube, on the Soul In Reflection channel, posted 3 weeks ago as of the time I'm writing this.
I don't want to assume everyone knows the story of why we celebrate Christmas. Some people celebrate only because it's a holiday to exchange gifts, get together with friends and/or family, and just have a chance to rest and have time off from work. Not everyone is a Christian who acknowledges the birth of Jesus. It is widely accepted now that Jesus wasn't born on December 25th or even in December for that matter. Whoever decided just decided to combine it with the winter solstice celebration, and that decision has lasted. People either celebrate Christmas with Santa only, or going to church and acknowledge Jesus, or both like I used to do with my kids.
Today we'll talk about Jesus' birth. Not how it relates to Christmas, and shepherds and wisemen, but what it means to us and our spirituality. From this point on a lot of what I'll write will be from the video, in case I don't happen to mention it.
Cayce says the true meaning of Christmas isn't just a beautiful story from history, it's a blueprint for your soul's awakening. It's an eternal spiritual process that must happen inside of us now in this lifetime. The "Christ" child wasn't just in Bethlehem. {The Christ came to earth in a child to teach us how to connect with out Christ Consciousness when He grew up.} My paraphrase of the transcript of the video. He's waiting for us to receive the birth of that child and the Christ Consciousness that the child was born with. Cayce says the Nativity Scene, although a literal historic event, is actually a cosmic diagram of what must occur within every human soul. Mary, a human girl, also represents your higher consciousness, pure, receptive, and willing to say yes to the divine when it makes no logical sense. Joseph represents your earthly mind, protective, practical, sometimes doubting, but ultimately faithful. The manger itself is our heart. The question is, is it empty, and if so are we willing to let the Christ that was in that baby be born there? I LOVE THAT!!
Cayce taught that the birth of Jesus was a demonstration of the universe's intention for EVERY soul. The Christ Consciousness is the perfect union of human and divine. The complete surrender of love as or main reason for existing isn't just exclusive to Jesus. It is our destiny. It is what we were created to achieve. The question is, will we accept that destiny? Until Christmas becomes personal and it's about transformation, it's just a warm and fuzzy historical event that we're destined to repeat in future lifetimes.
As you can tell by previous posts, I have an issue with things some Christians say to make other people feel inferior. "Being Born Again" is one of them. It seems it is usually said in an arrogant manner. I know Jesus said it. He told that to the Pharisee Nicodemus, but like a lot of things over the years Christians like to use that phrase to try to show that they're somehow superior to others.
When I heard this video this morning, one of my first thoughts were, we don't need to be born again, we just need to be born with Jesus the baby. Born with the Christ Consciousness. See the baby laying in that manger and decide whether we are going to let the Christ Consciousness be born in our hearts.
I've covered about the 5 minutes of the 23 minute video. Check out the rest if you're interested. It talks about God appearing to the shepherds and others throughout history that were humble, but these first 5 minutes is what was so meaningful to me.
We'll get into more of Cayce's book in a few days. But be on the lookout for more spur of the moment posts in case I hear something else exciting.
Here's a picture of Jesus as Christ Consciousness watching over himself as a baby and his family
Keep Searching,
Paul
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