Daily Meditation: Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Festivals - their initiatic meaning

12/24/2014

The Christian festivals are for the most part the relic of ancient pagan feasts relating to the life of nature, but in another form and with another meaning. As the time for them draws closer, so people organize festivities: they think about the gifts they will be giving and receiving, about the meals they will invite their relatives and friends to, about decorating the house and the streets, about new outfits and even fancy dress. For everyone, a festival is a beneficial pause in the often monotonous succession of daily life. But in an initiatic school we see festivals as something quite different from occasions to have feasts, hang up decorations and spend a few pleasurable moments. Each person endeavours to contact energy currents in the subtle regions which will bring life and renewed vitality to their heart and soul. They also know that entities of light come to draw on elements from this atmosphere of joyful exchanges which they will then use for carrying out their work across the world. To help them in this work, each person entrusts to them their joy and all the spiritual riches that this festival brings them, in order to benefit others. And this joy and wealth comes back to them magnified.