Hope you all have a joyous Christmas and a happy and peaceful New Year.  :)

What is known exoterically is that Christmas always falls on December 25th, when the Sun is in Capricorn and human hearts are warmed with the fine feeling of good will and love that prevails at this season of the year.

Through the birth of Christ, a new impulse was given to the Earth.  Every year, after the entry of the Sun into Capricorn, there is a renewal of this impulse.  We see esoterically Christmas is the season of spiritual birth and the most propitious period for the initiation into the mysteries of life; for during the Thirteen Holy Nights from December 24th to January 6th, the Christ-ether forces reach their greatest intensity  and amplitude within the Earth.  One of the key sayings for Capricorn the Christmas sign is, “Let the door stand wide.”  At Christmas time, the door from the Earth to the spiritual world stands open.

Luke 2v11-14
“For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.  And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.  And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.”

To Contemplate Christmas we see there is a continual birth of Jesus Christ; forever born of God.

Meister Eckhart
Because the same One, who is begotten and born of God the Father, without ceasing in eternity, is born today, within time, in human nature, we make a holiday.

In eternity, the Father begets the Son in his own likeness.  “The Word was God and the Word was God.”  Like God, it had his nature. God has begotten him in my soul.  Not only is the soul like him and he like it, but he is in it, for the Father begets his Son in the soul exactly as he does in eternity and not otherwise. The Father ceaselessly begets his Son and, what is more, he begets me not only as his Son but as himself and himself as myself, begetting me in his own nature.

We also read of the birth of Christ in Hebrews;

Hebrews 1
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,  Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also be made the worlds.

Emerson has rightly said, “A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”  The fifteenth chapter of the gospel of St. John also makes plain the value of friendship, for there the Christ says, “Greater love have no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.  Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.  Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth; but I have called you friends.”

Love and Peace
Caryn