Christmas is Coming!

Universal Christ Consciousness

“The absolute, Divine Mind, is all that is in everything that is...Divinity is the enfolding and unfolding of everything that is. Divinity is in all things in such a way that all things are in Divinity...”

                                         Nicholas of Cusa

We are about to celebrate the birth of Jesus, which took place two thousand years ago in a stable in Bethlehem. But what we truly celebrate at Christmas is the coming of the Cosmic Christ...the archetype of Light; the light of consciousness. We put the mantle of the Christ on Jesus' shoulders because through his message of love and acceptance, we came to know God's love.

I listened to a lecture by Father Richard Rohr on a Catholic network on YouTube yesterday. It was about the “Cosmic Christ” which mystics of every religion have experienced. Here are some of their descriptions:

“In the beginning was the Word.

The Word was with God

and the Word was God...

All that came to be had life in it,

and that life was the light of the people,

a light that shines in the dark,

a light that darkness could not overpower.” John 1

“Before Creation, a presence existed.

Self-contained, complete, formless, voiceless, mate-less, changeless,

which yet pervaded itself with unending motherhood.” Lao Tsu

“The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things.” Mechtild of Megdeburg

The Cosmic Christ is the Light that is born within us when we understand that all things are connected, that all things are, indeed, One. According to Fr. Rohr, Christ was original. Christ existed before Jesus and was manifested in the love and message of Jesus. Christ exists not just through the revelation of scripture, but also in the created order. It is 'universal' which literally means, “the turning of one thing.”

As we enter into Christmas, let us keep our sights on the unity of the Light. Let us pray that the loving, creative spirit of the Cosmic Christ will permeate us so completely that we will see that Light in ourselves, in each other, and in all of creation.

                        In the spirit,

                          Jane