Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00923)

Dear Friends, 

As to the end of an year, HPB wrote: 

"The Dial of Time marks off another of the world's hours. And, as 
the Old Year passes into Eternity,  like a raindrop falling into the 
Ocean,  its vacant place on the calendar is occupied by a 
successor... ".  (1)   

In fact,  Christmas and New Year's season may have a strong inner 
meaning for those who have eyes to see. The 12 months' round 
corresponds to a whole cycle in our existence.  A  page is turned in 
the book of life,  and some people get tempted to make the time-
honoured Pythagorean examination:  

"What good have I done? What mistakes? Will I renew and keep my vows 
to act in the best way I can in the next year?"

The end of  any cycle  and the beginning of a new one is always a 
good occasion to evaluate our progress in learning and to make new 
resolutions.  H.P.B. wrote: "And let no one imagine that it is a 
mere fancy, the attaching of importance to the birth of the year."   

Special vibrations  enlighten  the culmination of an year in our 
planet,  and HPB  added: 

"The earth passes through its definite phases and man with it; and 
as a day can be coloured so can a year.  The astral life of the 
earth is young and strong between Christmas and Easter. Those who 
form  their wishes now  [id est, in December-January] will have 
added strength to fulfill them consistently."  (2) 

Our perception of time expands at every end of a cycle. It seems we 
get face to face with other similar moments, past and future. While 
you turn over a leaf in the book of your life, you get a sense of 
what were the previous pages, and you have a dialogue with the seeds 
of future. Christmas' time   leads you into a different dimension in 
time. In some cases a repetition of the same old celebrations around 
us  cause  a strange sense of déjà vu which expands our perception.  
It brings us recollections of  the past and perhaps some feelings 
and resolutions about times yet-to-be. 

It is true that any attachment to past  things  is dangerous, and 
H.P.B. made a warning, while writing about an ending year:  

"Let it go, with its joys and triumphs, its badness and bitterness, 
if it but leave behind for our instruction the memory of our 
experience  and  the lesson of our mistakes.  Wise is he who 
lets `the dead Past bury its dead' and turns with courage  to meet 
the fresher duties of the New Year; only the weak and foolish bemoan 
the irrevocable." (3) 

A clear vision of the past can give us valuable lessons and clues as 
to future patterns of vibrations, in a much bigger dimension of 
time  – and perhaps a glimpse of  eternity itself. 

Understanding  the past, we will be free to have detachment from 
it,  and will be able to make the following annual cycle  really 
new. 

Best regards,  Carlos. 


NOTES: 

(1) A Year  of  Theosophy, H. P. B., in Collected Writings, TPH, 
vol.  III, 1995, p. 01.

(2) H.P. Blavatsky, in the article "1888", published in the pamphlet 
Theosophical Objects, Program and Organization, The Theosophy 
Company, L. Angeles, USA, 37 pp., see p.  9.  The article  "1888" 
was also published in the H.P. Blavatsky Collected Writings, TPH, 
volume IX, pp. 3-5 (see p. 5). 

(3) H. P. B. Collected Writings, TPH, vol.  III, 1995, p. 01.