Early morning reveries reveal much about the imagery that embodies the holy night of Jesus’ birth. Deep in meditative mind the sound of Aum/Amen resounds like a symphony of angels emanating from the heavens. Multifarious sounds ring in constancy; expanding consciousness lifts you from worldly clinging and announces the birth of something new, something rare in this world—Divinity incarnating into this world and all is quiet of worldly sounds, but reverberates with heavenly song.
Innocent and peaceful sheep (good tendencies) are in the fields, and shepherds (those watchful of good tendencies and desire for Self-realization) are awake for the holy night. Heavenly forces are at work, the night sky shines with portents of shimmering light seen in meditative watchfulness. Inner illumination announces a sacred birth. Man can cultivate a desire to be a good and faithful servant of God, but it is only Grace being born in the world of the individual that spiritual realization can really come into its own. Inner light is calling to awaken shepherds that something special is coming; the fulfillment of a promise made at the foundation of creation—birth of a God-man!
Mary (feeling-nature purified into surrender to intuition), and Joseph (reason in proud obedience to God’s will), are the parents to this new-born awareness. The wise (those who have given the gold of material desires and possessions, the frankincense of heavenly worship, and the myrrh of the bitter disappointments in life), lay at the feet of God their gifts of all they have and all that they are. What a gathering—what perfect attunement to God’s most perfect gift to the world!
It is both a fulfillment of a promise and is only a beginning; there is much more to go through, the Christ-child is only now born and must suffer the glorious Way. King Herod, filled with great passions, rises up in murderous rage with the desire to kill sacredness. These Herod-passions are steered clear of by the sincere and the child is secreted away into the land of Egypt, preserved in safekeeping until the time is right for inborn Divinity is to make its way up the circuit (of spinal consciousness) in Galilee.
So the story of God-incarnate unfolds. And it all begins in humble and wondrous beginnings on that holy night that promises so much. Be watchful for those portents that come to the surrendered and the humble. Listen for the celestial sounds of sacred watches; look for the blessed star that announces a new life in God; feel those powerful forces in motion in heaven and in earth; and be among the faithful looking to their Lord of Christly Divine Intelligence, guiding them into union with the Holy Ghost (Divine Mother), and their Heavenly Father through the awakened Son of God within.