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A Personal Practice of Reflection and Renewal
for Individuals of All Faiths and Traditions
During the Twelve Holy Nights of the Year
December 25 til January 6


Epiphany - January 6


A Closing Note

The Holy Nights of Inner Christmas have passed. Our souls now reenter ordinary time.

Today is Epiphany in the Christian calendar and celebrates two events in the life of Jesus. First, is the arrival of the Three Wise Men with their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh at the manger in Bethlehem. Second, occurring thirty years later is the Baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan and the beginning the Christ Deed on Earth.

In the Soul’s Calendar, January 6 is the day of new inner awakening. Your soul has been in a mystical sleep for the Twelve Holy Nights and it now awakes with the dawning of new wisdom. This new wisdom brings you three precious gifts – new clarity in your thought life, new harmony in your feeling life, and new strength in your will life. Your soul returns to ordinary time - renewed, reborn, and ready to participate in the New Year.

For some, there will also be the experience related to the Baptism. These few will find an inner sense that their destiny deed, the passion of their existence, is quickened and brought to new life and new maturity. They sense more faith and more force in why they are here.

In both Inner Epiphanies, you experience the interpenetration of your Divinity with your Humanity. What is divine in you lives more brilliantly in your humanity. Your humanity embraces, with grounded warmth, the divine essence of your being. Divinity and Humanity is the polarity of the Soul’s beginning and ending.


I love the wisdom of Goethe. “Every object, well-contemplated, creates an organ of perception in us.” I offered you the opportunity to contemplate well twelve polarities during the Holy Nights. Your contemplations created your soul’s ability to perceive polarities, to marry them and to discern your relationship to each pole.

If you did not read all the messages, does it matter? If you did not work with all the questions, does it matter? If you did not understand or agree with all the messages, does it matter? No. Do not demand perfection from your efforts.

I feel that if your heart is open to the mysteries of the Holy Nights, then your soul receives all it desires. The messages are just a way to focus and engage actively. The messages are not the Holy Nights.

I encourage you to revisit the messages and work with the questions and exercises. The movie, the messages and the community blog will remain throughout the year. I always welcome your emails.


Questions to Contemplate…


Which of the polarities brought you the deepest insights?

Which of the polarities are the most difficult for you to marry? Why?

What other polarities do you want to work with? Can you think of at least three more polarities? Please post your thoughts about these other polarities on the blog.

 


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