Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00858)

Friends, 

This is the opening of an article on the Solstice, in "Sunrise" magazine. 

Carlos. 

SACRED SOLSTICE 

By Elsa-Brita Titchenell
There are indeed times that are holy, which is why we call them holidays. Or is not all time holy, if we give it its due attention and respect? Four times in the year -- the solstices and equinoxes -- are still celebrated although we may not know how they got that special regard. Their quality of sacredness must be due to something that has a particular significance for the human race. Because consciousness in human beings is closely related with that of the governors that move the spheres and bear responsibilities for the motions and qualities of the celestial beings in the solar system, the times we regard as sacred are in fact when certain celestial bodies focus their psychological, gravitational, spiritual, or psychic influences on their surroundings. 
The solstices, for instance, occur two weeks before the earth crosses the major axis of its orbit round the sun in early January and July. Ancient astrologers had special reverence for those two-week periods because they make possible a closer communion between humans and the gods -- the kingdom above the human, that the Christian tradition refers to as angels ("messengers"), archangels, thrones, principalities, powers, etc. We tend to forget that we are part of a living universal organism, where consciousnesses undergo the experience of life. All gainful experience takes place in our conscious ego which long ago traversed the kingdoms below the human in other spheres and prior phases of existence. Humanity has graduated from the mineral, vegetable, and animal conditions, but we are not fully human yet. When we become completely human, we shall be ready to move up a step and become gods of the lowest degree. 

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See all of the article at 

http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sunrise/40-90-1/oc-ebt.htm  

Best regards,  Carlos. 


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