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Tap a part to go to it. Below, the star of Bethlehem as he names it, the Seal of Solomon, shining over the manger; the caption is his own words, from the passage it links to.
Every word here is his. Nothing has been paraphrased, joined or improved. Each passage was cut out of the book it belongs to by reference, and each carries that book and the paragraph it came from, so anything on this page can be found again in the source. For years he sent his students a message every Christmas, and 62 of the 170 passages come from the Christmas Messages of 1952–66. The rest are gathered from all fifty-two books.
The first part is Christmas as a cosmic event, which has to happen in each one: “Though Christ be born a thousand times in Bethlehem, it serves no purpose if He is not also born in our heart.” “Christmas is a cosmic event that must be realised in each one of us.”
The second part is the Christmas of the Heart: what it asks of the one who wants it, the ego dissolved, the work of the couple and the bodies of the Being: “…be as the rose: transmute desire into love.” “Only by fabricating the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being can we incarnate the Intimate Christ.”
The third part is the manger of Bethlehem: the town that did not exist, the spiritual birth, and the stable with its animals: “The stable of Bethlehem is the physical body of the Initiate.” “The animals of the mind, desire, and evil will are found within the stable of Bethlehem.”
The fourth part is the Virgin Mother, the immaculate conception and the Golden Child of alchemy: “The VERB is always the child of very pure Virgins.” “The Second Logos is always the Son of the Virgin Mother.”
The fifth part is the star and the three magi, and Herod, who wants the Child dead: “The star of Bethlehem is the Seal of Solomon.” “The three wise men (the Malachim) adore him and offer him gold, incense and myrrh.”
The sixth part is how the Child grows: “That Child has to suffer a great deal.” “The God Child grows little by little, over time He develops.”
The last part is the sun reborn at the winter solstice, and the saviours of every theology born of a virgin: “Christmas is a solar festival, an ineffable cosmic festival with its origin in the mysterious night of the centuries.” “When he travels to the north, we celebrate the birth of the Infant Sun.”
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The birth in a humble stable at Bethlehem is called the greatest event this world has known, and Christmas is kept in all the Cosmic Temples because the Christ renounced the happiness of the Absolute to come. Three short aphorisms add that the pine, the Christmas tree, is the tree of the God-Child.
Today, 1,952 years ago, the most perfect being that our planetary globe has ever known was born in a humble stable in Bethlehem.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66
The Void, the ‘Not-I’ and the Darkness are one in the Absolute. However, that void is plenitude, that darkness is uncreated and subjective light, and that ‘Not-I’ is the Real Being: our Intimate, our Divine I, with whom we should unite in order to enter the Absolute. Christ renounced that happiness in order to come to the world. For this reason, the occurrence of Christmas is celebrated in all Cosmic Temples.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Being Is the Being
Today we celebrate the banquet of the Christmas Lamb on the Altar of Peter. Today we all pass on good wishes to each other and we rejoice in this temple, in order to celebrate the most magnificent event in the history of the world. Today, 1954 years ago, the most perfect Being that has walked on our planet was born in a manger.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66
1,958 years ago, in a humble manger in Bethlehem, our adorable Saviour who has loved us so much, was born. The Adorable One appears like a mother in anguish, looking for her children. He has brought to us the doctrine of salvation and humanity has not wanted to understand it.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66
Sacred reincarnations were always celebrated with great religious festivities in Tibet. Jesus of Nazareth was a reincarnation. The birth of Jesus was the greatest event of this world.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Return and Reincarnation
75. The magic of the pine is entirely related with children, 76. The pine is the Christmas tree.
Igneous Rose, 1954 also in Aquarius
77. The pine is the tree of the God-Child, 78. We must re-conquer our lost infancy.
Igneous Rose, 1954
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One saying returns across many years of these messages: the birth at Bethlehem serves for nothing unless the Christ is also born in the heart. Christmas is therefore named a cosmic event that each one must realise within, and the Christmas of the Heart is called urgent.
There is a need to form Christ within ourselves and this is only possible by transmuting the water into wine within our marvelous organic laboratory. It would have been useless for Christ to be born in Bethlehem if He is not also born in our heart. There is a need for the Christ I to be born in us. It is urgent that the Star of Bethlehem shines over us to announce the birth of that Christ I within the living depths of our consciousness.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Intimate Christ
My brothers, I will work for you until you form the Christ within yourself. You will be persecuted, hated and imprisoned for the Word just as they have persecuted the prophets before you. Initiation is your own life and each one has to take on the weight of his own cross. You will have to pass through death, the death of the cross. You must be born as Prince Messiahs, like the God Child of Bethlehem in the supersensible worlds, for God and for the Father. Brothers, remember that each one of you is in essence a star, but you can only return to the Father when the Child of Bethlehem has been born within you.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Intimate Christ, The Three Factors
I now invite you, my brothers, to form the Christ within you. Uselessly would the child God have been born in Bethlehem if He were not also born in our heart.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66
We have to inundate all of our vehicles with atoms of a Christic nature; we have to form Christ within us in order to ascend to the Father, because no one comes to the Father except through the Son. Though Christ be born a thousand times in Bethlehem, it serves no purpose if He is not also born in our heart.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Intimate Christ
Christmas is a cosmic event that must be realised in each one of us. Christmas is absolutely individual. There is a need for the Christ-I to be born in us; the Christmas of the Heart is urgent. It is necessary to transform the Tree of the Science of Good and Evil into the Sacrificial Lamb of the Holy City.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Entropy and Sacrifice, The Intimate Christ
We need to become abodes of the Lord by lighting our seven-armed candlestick. Christ is born in our heart as a child of Bethlehem; that is the child God. The Christ would have been born uselessly in Bethlehem if he is not born in our hearts also. Uselessly would he have been crucified, died and resurrected on the third day among the dead, if he is not crucified, died and resurrected in each of us. The I Am is born in us as a small child and has to grow slowly, because nature does not make any leaps.
The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in The Intimate Christ
The birth of Christ in us, is the Christmas of the heart.
The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in The Intimate Christ
Though the Christ were born a thousand times in Bethlehem, it would serve for nothing unless He is born also in our hearts. We have to form the Christ within us so as to enter triumphant and victorious through the gates of the city on Palm Sunday.
Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Intimate Christ
Christmas is a Cosmic event which each one of us must realise within ourselves.
Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978
The Great KABIR Jesus also had to perform the same Drama publicly in the Holy Land. Even if Christ is born a thousand times in Bethlehem, it is of no use at all if he is not born in our heart too.
The Great Rebellion, 1975 also in The Great Rebellion, The Intimate Christ
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Here the subject moves from the historical Christ to the Atomic Christ and to the Christmas that belongs to each person. Father, Son and Holy Spirit within are called our Christ child; the brothers of the Path are told that mankind does not know the way, and the meaning of the Nativity is said to open only in ecstasy, in the absence of the I.
In the preceding years I have spoken to you about the Christ in substance, about the historical Christ and about the Liquid Christ. Today, my brothers, I have come to speak to you about the Atomic Christ, and about the individual Christmas of each one of you.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Intimate Christ
The Kabbala speaks to us of the ten Sephiroth. Kether is the Ancient of Days and each one of you is, in essence, a blessed Ancient of Days. Kether is the Father in us, a breath of the Absolute profoundly unknown to Itself. Chokmah is the Son, the Atomic Christ in us. Binah is the Mother in us, the Holy Spirit in us. Kether, Chokmah and Binah are our Christ child. The much beloved Father, the much adored Son, and the very wise Holy Spirit live within the depths of our superlative consciousness, awaiting the supreme instant of our realisation. The Holy Spirit is our Divine Mother. The mother dresses in a blue mantle and a white tunic of exquisite splendors.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Binah, Chokmah, Kether, The Intimate Christ, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
It is necessary that in this Christmas we study the process of Christification. This is a very delicate process and we must address it as it is.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Intimate Christ
Really, all the brothers of the Path aspire to the Christmas of the Heart. Many are those who want to incarnate the Christ Child of Bethlehem in the Heart Temple. Unfortunately, mankind does not know the way.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Intimate Christ
There are no differences in hierarchy in the Cosmic Christ. We are all one in the world of the Truth. However, it is good to clarify that the Buddha Jesus is the most exalted Master of the universe. Buddha is the realised Spirit in every perfect Man. The birth of Jesus the Christ, with his life, passion, death and resurrection, should be lived by everyone who Christifies himself.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Intimate Christ
We need to know the Path in depth, with the goal of achieving the Nativity within our heart and the Final Liberation.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66
Only through the experience of the ecstasy can we know what the truth and life is. Only in the absence of the ‘I’ can we enjoy the joy of life in its movement. Only in the state of ecstasy can we discover the deep significance of the Nativity, which every year we always celebrate with jubilation in our hearts.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66
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The betrothal of the soul and the Lamb brings forth the Son of Man, whose birth in the manger of the world is named the greatest triumph of adoration. Mysteries of Fire calls this the great event of Bethlehem: the man-child in gestation, through whom the Word becomes flesh in the heart.
The betrothal of the Soul and the Lamb is the greatest feast of the Soul. That Great Lord of Light enters her. He becomes human, while she becomes divine. From this mixture of divine and human develops that, which the Adorable so aptly calls: “The Son of Man.” The greatest triumph of supreme adoration is the birth of the Son of Man in the Manger of the World.
The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966) also in Love, Love — The Two Halves, The Intimate Christ
27. “To him that overcometh, will I to sit with me in my Throne; even as I also overcame and am set down with my Father in his Throne.” REVELATION: 3:21 28. This is the great event of Bethlehem; this is the Nativity of the Heart.
The Mysteries of Fire, 1955
34. That man-child is our Inner Christ in gestation and that finally is born in us and transforms us into Christs.
The Mysteries of Fire, 1955 also in The Intimate Christ
13. The Word becomes flesh within our heart with the event of Bethlehem.
The Mysteries of Fire, 1955 also in The Intimate Christ
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To reach the Nativity of the Heart, the Prince of this World, the ego, has to be decapitated and dissolved so that the Lamb can be incarnated. The practice given is to meditate, pray and descend to the Ninth Sphere to work with fire and water, and desire transmuted into love, like the rose, lets the Christ Child come; the Adam of sin must die for the Adam Christ to be born.
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Beloved, let us meditate, pray. If you want the Nativity of the Heart you must descend to the Ninth Sphere, to work with the fire and the water, origin of worlds, beasts, men and gods. Hilariux IX justly said: "All authentic white initiations begin there."
Christmas Messages, 1952–66
We need the Nativity of the Heart in order to go down to the Flaming Forge of Vulcan to decapitate the Prince of this World with the Flaming Sword of Perseus. Beloved, remember that the continuous evolution is nothing but a process of complication of life. We need the revolution of the consciousness.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66
These words correspond to verse thirteen, Arcanum thirteen, death. You have to decapitate and dissolve the Prince of this World to incarnate the Lamb; that is the Nativity of the Heart. Our astral, mental and causal bodies are out of control because of those three unworldly spirits spoken of in Revelation. These three demons are the Prince of this World, the psychological self, the Ego, the Myself. We need to decapitate Satan, and only then will we reach the Nativity of the Heart.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Three Traitors
Only in the Fiery Forge of Vulcan (sex) do we receive the sword. Only with the sword can we decapitate the reincarnating ‘I’. Decapitate the ego, dissolve the ego, so we can incarnate the Lamb. That is a total revolution, that's the Nativity of the Heart. The secret doctrine of the Christ is a total revolution.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, The Intimate Christ
Dearly beloved, look around you: the rose saturated in love transmutes the mud of the earth into the exquisite fragrance of its’ miraculous petals. So, dear children, be as the rose: transmute desire into love. When desire is transmuted into love, it dissolves the ‘I’, the self, the ego, and the Christ Child of Bethlehem comes to us. That is the Christmas of the Heart. That is the reunion of the soul with God. All religions want to unite the soul with God.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Desire and Will, Lust and Chastity, The Intimate Christ
If you really want the Christmas of the Heart, the urgent, tremendous revolution of the consciousness is required. Only through revolution can one realise the work completely.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution
The Ninth Key represents old man Saturn falling, and the Moon Goddess rising, victorious. The former is the lead, and the latter is the silver (the earthly Adam, the Psychological “I”). The “I” must fall and die so that the Adam Christ is born within us. We need to transmute the lead into gold; the lead of the personality must be transmuted into the gold of the spirit.
Esoteric Course of Kabbalah also in The Intimate Christ
It is necessary for the Adam of Sin to die in us so that the Adam Christ is born within. When we free the solar electronic matter enclosed in the seminal atoms, we brandish the flaming sword.
Esoteric Course of Kabbalah
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These passages tie the birth within to the sexual mysteries. Without the worship of the Lingam and Yoni no one reaches the Christmas of the Heart, the God Child is born within only through the Maithuna, and the Perfect Matrimony is named as the way for the Christ to be born in man.
Do not forget that the Temple of Wisdom has seven columns. These are the Seven Degrees of the Power of Fire. Raise the Seven Pillars of Fire ... Then comes the Nativity of the Heart, Supreme Christmas Message 1955-1956 where we enter the Heart Temple of each one of us to work in the Great Work. That is the Nativity of the Heart.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66
Mystery schools with phallic worship have existed in all civilizations. Without this worship nobody can achieve the Christmas of the Heart. In Asia and Africa it is still easy to find the current of adoration to the Lingam, Yoni, and Pudenda, and also to the seed.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66
The Internal Angel must be born of sex and only with the Maithuna can we achieve it. If we want the real Christmas we need for the God Child of Bethlehem to be born within us and this is only possible with the Maithuna.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Three Factors
We need to comprehend what Immaculate Conception is, we need to know that only with the Perfect Matrimony can Christ be born in the heart of man. It is urgent to awaken the Fire of Kundalini, or Fire of the Holy Spirit, to incarnate the Christ. Whoever awakens Kundalini transforms himself like Ganymede into the Eagle of the Spirit, to rise to Olympus and serve as cup-bearer to the ineffable Gods.
The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966) also in The Intimate Christ
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The Christmas of the Heart is placed in the Venustic Initiation, which belongs to complete men who have finished building the temple; then the Christ enters the soul and the Son of Man rises within. That initiation begins with the event of Bethlehem and ends with the death and resurrection of the Lord, and one message closes by asking the disciples to study, meditate and prepare.
Whoever manages the Initiation of the Morning Star receives the Christmas of the Heart. This is how the Word is made flesh in us. This is how Christ is born in the heart of man.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Intimate Christ
Man is still no more than a ghost of a man. He is still not a complete man. No one can incarnate the Christ Child of Bethlehem if they do not first have the joy of being a complete man. The internal vehicles can only be engendered with sex. The nourishment of these vehicles is based on the hydrogens. The various hydrogens for the distinct bodies of man are created in the physical body.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66
The Venustic Christmas is for complete Men. When the Temple is built on the living stone, when the whole building is finished, when the tower shines with glory, the Christ is incarnated in the Heart Temple. He enters the soul. He becomes her and she Him. He is humanized and she is divinized. That is the Christmas of the Heart. This is how the Son of Man rises within us. The Son of Man is the supreme result of a mix of soul and Christ. Christ is always born in the manger of the world to save mankind.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Intimate Christ
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Happy Christmas, beloved disciples. I wish you a happy Christmas. Study this message in depth, meditate and prepare for the Christmas of the Heart.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66
The Venustic Initiation is for Real Men only, never for intellectual animals. Let us understand that by “Real Men,” we mean those who have built their solar bodies. Let us understand that by “intellectual animals,” we mean all of humanity, all those who possess only lunar bodies. The Venustic Initiation is the real Christmas of the tranquil heart. It is for the few; it is by the grace of the Solar Logos.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in The Words He Uses
The one who incarnates the Christ in himself; has to live the entire Cosmic drama. The Venusian Initiation has seven degrees; it begins with the event of Bethlehem and ends with the Death and Resurrection of the Lord.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Aquarius, The Intimate Christ, The Words He Uses
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Only a True Man, one who has carried the Hydrogen Si 12 to the seventh octave, celebrates the true Christmas of the Heart. The intellectual animal must first become such a man and incarnate the Dragon of Wisdom, the Intimate Christ.
Anyone who expresses the Buddha is a Buddha. All Buddhas who renounces the happiness of Nirvana for the sake of humanity can reach Venustic Initiation. Those who manage to reach this initiation incarnate the Christ within. That is the Christmas of the Heart. It would be in vain that Christ be born in Bethlehem yet not also be born in our hearts.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Gratitude and Kindness, The Intimate Christ
We need to celebrate the Christmas of the Heart and this is only possible by incarnating our resplendent Dragon of Wisdom: The Intimate Christ.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Intimate Christ
The True Man must work very intensely in order to elevate the Hydrogen Si 12 to the seventh musical octave. The fifth and sixth octaves correspond to Buddhi and Atman successively. When the Hydrogen Si 12 reaches the seventh musical octave, the Venustic Initiation comes. Then and only then do we celebrate the true Christmas of the Heart. The Christs birth would have been useless if He is not also born in our hearts. The resplendent Dragon of Wisdom is the Internal Christ of every True Man who comes to the world. If we want to celebrate the Christmas of the Heart, we need to become True Men.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Intimate Christ, The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
The intellectual animal cannot celebrate the Christmas of the Heart. It is necessary for each one of us to become a True Man. It is urgent to incarnate the Christ. The one who incarnates the Internal Christ becomes a Solar Man, a Living Christ.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Intimate Christ
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An astral body has to be created before the Christ can be born in the heart, and the Nativity is truly celebrated only by those who have made the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being. Initiates who make the bodies but leave the I undissolved cannot celebrate it, and become Hanasmussen.
A lot has been said about the astral body, but really the intellectual animal, falsely called man, still does not have an astral body. The intellectual animal only has a body of desires, a molecular body; that is all. Usually, this body is called the astral body, but really it is not the astral body. We need to create an astral body if what we really yearn for is the birth of Christ in our own heart.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Desire and Will
This Christmas, it is necessary for all of our Gnostic students to comprehend that they can only achieve the Final Liberation by creating the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being, by celebrating the death of their ‘I’, and by celebrating the Nativity in their hearts.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
The Being can only enter within the one who has created the Superior Existential Bodies. The Nativity of the Heart can only be truly celebrated by the one who has created the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66
Many Initiates achieve the creation of their Superior Existential Bodies of the Being, yet, they fail because they do not dissolve the psychological ‘I’. These Initiates cannot celebrate the Nativity in their hearts, they cannot achieve the incarnation of their Being in spite of possessing the Superior Existential Bodies. Thus, they convert themselves into Hanasmussans with a double centre of gravity.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Being Is the Being
It clearly proves to be impossible to celebrate the Christmas of the Heart if the Christ is not born within us. Whoever wants to celebrate with jubilation the Christmas of the Heart must fabricate the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being. Only by fabricating the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being can we incarnate the Intimate Christ.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Intimate Christ
The Nativity of the heart, the incarnation of the Being within ourselves is only possible if we dress ourselves with the garments of Osiris (the Solar Bodies).
My Return to Tibet, 1969 also in The Being Is the Being
If indeed we long for the birth of Christ within our own heart, then we need to create an Astral body. The sexual hydrogen Ti-12 is the final outcome of the transformation of food within the human organism. Hydrogen Ti-12 is the matter with which sex works; it is our seed or fruit.
The Mayan Mysteries, 1977 also in The Intimate Christ
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Bethlehem is read as an allegory. The town did not exist in the time of Jesus; its name comes from Bel, the Sun God, and in Chaldean speaks of a tower of fire, reached when the existential bodies of the Being have been made, so the phenomenon of Bethlehem must be repeated in each one. Like Zeus, Krishna and Quetzalcoatl, Jesus has his Immaculate Conception in the womb of the Virgin.
Jesus was not the first one who incarnated the Truth and neither shall He be the last. The Hierophant Jesus has the same attributes of Zeus, Jupiter, Apollo, Krishna, Quetzalcoatl, and like them, also has His Immaculate Conception in the womb of the Virgin.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Intimate Christ
Mythology says that Jesus was born on the 25th of December, the birth date of the God Mithra, in the town of Bethlehem, a town which did not exist in those times. The word Bel or Beleno means the Sun God of the Babylonians and Germans, from which the name Bethlehem is derived. The term Bethlehem indicates the Cosmic Christ, the Sun God, the Solar Logos. The poor and unknown Hebrew Miriam (Mary) received the same attributes and cosmic powers of the Goddess Isis, Juno, Demeter, Ceres, Vesta, Maia, Adonia, Insoberta, Rea, Cybele, etc. Mary is fecundated by the Holy Spirit. The latter, in the form of a dove, fecundates Mary’s womb. The dove is a phallic symbol. Let us remember Peristera, a nymph in the court of Venus, transformed into a dove by Love.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Intimate Christ, The Solar Logos, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
This is how we individualise ourselves little by little. When we rid ourselves of ego we become individualised. However, we clarify that individuality is not everything, because we have to pass into supra-individuality when experiencing the event of Bethlehem.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66
The Great Master of Perfection lived the whole drama as it is writ ten, but we must not interpret the four Gospels literally. Let us remember that the town of Bethlehem did not even exist in the time of Jesus.
The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966) also in The Intimate Christ
However, for the Intimate Christ to be born within us - Jeshua humanised - one must have worked in the Forge of Cyclops and have formed the existential Bodies of the Being.
Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Intimate Christ
For the Saviour to be born, the phe nomenon of Bethlehem must be repeated. The aforementioned event is both very profound and symbolic. That small village of Bethlehem of which the gospels speak, is some thing very allegorical. It is said that that tiny hamlet did not exist in the time of Jesus of Nazareth. If we analyse the word “Belen” [Spanish for Bethlehem] we have Bel-En, and we see that “Bel” in Chaldean terminology means “Tower of Fire”. When does one attain the “Tower of Fire”? When the superior existential Bodies of the Being have been created, when the Sacred Fire has reached the upper part of the brain; this is when the phenomenon of Bethlehem occurs.
Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Intimate Christ
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The Greater Mysteries explains that a Master is born when he enters his prepared bodhisattva, so the birth of Jesus is spiritual and the manger a symbol of it. The Perfect Matrimony adds that the manger stands for the Venustic Initiation and that the star of the wise men is the central Sun.
Master Jesus was a fallen bodhisattva and he had to rise with supreme sacrifices. Since many spiritualist brothers do not know what a fallen bodhisattva is, we are going to give an explanation.
The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in The Intimate Christ
The Inner-Self has two twin souls, the Divine and the Human. The bodhisattva is the human soul. When a Master wants to reincarnate, he sends ahead of him his human soul (bodhisattva) to become reincarnated; this soul enters the maternal womb and is born like any run-of-the-mill child; we then say that this child is the bodhisattva of a Master. These bodhisattvas have to prepare themselves in order to be able to incarnate their Inner-Self in themselves.
The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in Return and Reincarnation, The Human Soul, The Intimate Christ
When the bodhisattva is already prepared, the Master enters in him; it is then said that the Master has been born. When we say that Jesus was born in a manger, we are esoterically affirming the spiritual birth of Jesus. The manger is only a symbol.
The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in The Human Soul, The Intimate Christ
The spirit of wisdom is always reincarnated in this manger of the world in order to save poor suffering humanity. It happens many times that the bodhisattva of any Master falls and then the Master cannot become reincarnated. The Master does not fall; the bodhisattva is human and can fall. When a bodhisattva lets himself fall, he is sent in his next reincarnation to pay his debts and if he does not succeed in rising, he is made to reincarnate in increasingly difficult conditions, and when he finally rises, then the Master enters in him to fulfill a task. Jesus is the bodhisattva of a Master and was born in a temple. Jesus was fallen and he arose with supreme efforts and sacrifices. The birth of Jesus is spiritual.
The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in Return and Reincarnation, The Intimate Christ, The Law of Karma
The four Gospels are intimately related with the Magisteriy of Fire it is absurd to interpret the four Gospels literally. Those Gospels are completely symbolic. The birth in the manger of Bethlehem symbolises the Venustic Initiation. Christ is always born in the stable of man, among the animals of desire, to save the world.
The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966) also in The Intimate Christ
The star that the wise men saw is seen by all mystics during ecstasy. This star is the central Sun, the Christ Sun, formed by the Army of the Voice. This is the star that announces Initiation. This is the star that guides the devotees of the Fire.
The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966) also in The Intimate Christ, The Solar Logos
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The stable is the dwelling of the soul and the physical body of the initiate, invaded by the animals of desire, mind and evil will that make up the plural I. The Virgin of the Sea gives birth there, and the initiates of old went down to the forge of Vulcan to clean these stables of the soul.
The stable or manger where the God Child is born is the divine dwelling of the soul, the eternal temple now invaded by the animals of desire.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66
It is urgent to know that unfortunately animal elements of desire exist within the Kingdom of the Soul. The latter nourish themselves with the inferior substances of the lower animal depths of man. There, all those animal elements which constitute that which is called ego live and multiply. Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that the ‘I’ exists in a pluralised form. The ‘I’ is constituted by animal elements; the animals of the stable where the Gold Child is born to save man.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66
The Initiates of the Temple, the Pythagoras, the Zoroasters, the Jesus Christs, and all those ancient initiates, without exception, really practiced the “Arcane A.Z.F.” with the Vestals of the Temple... They had to descend to the Lit Forge of Vulcan to cut off the head of Medusa with the Flaming Sword of Perseus! They had to descend to that Lit Forge to clean the stables of the Soul and obtain the incarnation of the Verb in the Sacred Manger of the Conscience.
Logos, Mantram, Theurgy, 1959
We must understand that the Venustic Initiation has seven esoteric grades: First: Birth in the world’s stable. The Intimus Christ is always born full of love for humanity in that interior stable we carry within ourselves, inhabited, unfortunately, by the animals of passions, by the pluralized “I”
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in The Intimate Christ
The Virgin of the Sea gives birth to Her Son within the stable of the world.
Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Intimate Christ
The stable of Bethlehem is the physical body of the Initiate.
Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Intimate Christ
The animals of the mind, desire, and evil will are found within the stable of Bethlehem. The Intimate Jesus-Christ must eliminate all the undesirable elements that we carry within our interior.
Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Intimate Christ
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The Verb is always the child of very pure Virgins, and the Son of Man always comes from a virgin's womb. Woman is named the Mother of the Verb, and the womb of the Virgin Mother is made fruitful only through sexual magic.
Only with sexual magic is the womb of the Virgin Mother fecundated so that the God Child may be born in the manger of the world.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66
The VERB is always born from immaculate conceptions. The VERB is always the child of very pure Virgins. The mother of the VERB is always a woman.
The Aquarian Message, 1960
The Son of Man is always born from the womb of a virgin.
The Aquarian Message, 1960
The Vestals of the Temple had a marvelous priestly preparation. Because of them the Verb is always the Son of immaculate conceptions.
Logos, Mantram, Theurgy, 1959
Man is the first Arcanum of the Tarot; Woman is the second Arcanum of the Tarot; and the Christified Soul is the result of the sexual union of them both—the secret is the Arcanum A.Z.F. Woman is the Mother of the Verb. The Christ is forever the child of Immaculate Conceptions. It is impossible to be born without a mother.
Esoteric Course of Kabbalah also in The Intimate Christ
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The Child of Gold is engendered when the sacred fire enclosed in the sexual organs fertilises the seminal atoms, the chaos within. From the union of chaste men and women, and from the grain carried in the sexual gland, this Child, the Christ I and Son of Man, is born in the forge of Vulcan.
We, the Gnostics, should fertilize our seminal atoms with the solar fires so that from those atoms the Golden Child of sexual alchemy, the Christ I, the God Child of Bethlehem will be born. Only in this way can we liberate ourselves from the cosmos and be born in the Uncreated Light, where there exists only the happiness of Life free in its movement.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Intimate Christ
The superastral light is the Sacred Fire of the first instant. All of the secrets of existence are found enclosed within that fire. The fire, which fertilized the chaotic matter in the dawn of life, is now enclosed within our sexual organs, and we must fertilize our own chaos—which is to say our semen—with this Sacred Fire in order to engender the Golden Child of the sexual alchemy, the Child of Bethlehem who, 1,953 years ago today, came to the world in order to save humanity.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66
All of the cosmic planes are nothing but scales of the Serpent of Fire, clouds of cosmic dust. Let us liberate ourselves from all of those scales so that we are born into Life free in its movement. From the union of Joseph and Mary, the Christ was born, one thousand fifty-three years ago today. The universe was born from the union of the Father fire with the Mother water.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Law of Polarities
However, from the union of chaste men and women following the principles of Sexual Magic, instead of engendering children of death, we can engender the God Child of Bethlehem, the Supreme Christmas Message 1953-1954 Christ I; we need this in order to ascend to the Father and to receive the Holy Spirit, which gives us wisdom and cosmic powers.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66
92. You are the fingers of Horus, the first-born, the Green Child, the Child of Gold, the Intimate Christ who is the result of the work of your blessed Stone.
Treatise of Sexual Alchemy, 1954 also in The Intimate Christ
41. If we want to sublimate our lower passions, then we must first of all be chaste in order to reduce all our metals to the Chaotic semen, and then to transmute them into the Intimate Christ, into the Child of Bethlehem, into the Child of Gold of Sexual Alchemy. 42. Not a single fornicator can transmute his inferior personality into the Gold of the Spirit.
Treatise of Sexual Alchemy, 1954 also in Lust and Chastity, The Intimate Christ
29. We must learn to control these feminine principles in order to achieve the birth of the Child of Gold of Sexual Alchemy.
Treatise of Sexual Alchemy, 1954
In the Lit Forge of Vulcan one is able to transmute Lead into Gold. In it, is Born the Child of Gold of Alchemy! This marvelous Child Is the Son of Man, the Sun-King, the Sun-Man.
Logos, Mantram, Theurgy, 1959 also in Chastity, The Intimate Christ
Human life in itself has no meaning. To be born, to grow, to work hard to live, to reproduce like an animal and then to die; this is really a chain of torments which man carries entangled in the Soul. If this is life then it is not worth living. Fortunately we carry in our sexual gland seed, the grain. From this seed, from the grain, the Superman can be born, the Adam Christ, the Golden Child of Sexual Alchemy. For this, life is worth living. The path is sexual transmutation. This is the science of Uranus. This is the planet, which controls the gonads or sexual glands. This is the planet, which governs the constellation of Aquarius.
The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966) also in Aquarius, The Three Factors
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For the Second Birth the Holy Spirit, the Third Logos, must first make the virginal womb of the Divine Mother fruitful. Isis, each one's own Divine Mother, conceives Horus by the Holy Spirit and remains virgin before, during and after the birth.
A basic condition for the Second Birth is for the Third Logos, the Holy Spirit, to first intervene, fecundating the Virginal Womb of the Divine Mother.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The serpent should ascend along the spinal canal of the Sacred Cow, the serpent should fecundate the womb of the Divine Mother; it is only in this manner that the immaculate conception and the Second Birth arrive.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Three Factors
From the perfect union of these two; Osiris-Isis, the child Horus (pronounced: “Aurus”) is born. She and He love each other, and as a result of their love, She conceives by work and grace of the Holy Spirit. That is to say, by work and grace of Her husband the Third Logos, the Chris t or Second Logos descends to her immaculate and virginal womb. It must be taken into account however, that although She may be the wife of the Third Logos, within the Third Logos is the Second Logos, and the First Logos also, because from start to finish the logos is triune and indivisible, unitotal and integral. A great deal of subtlety much re finement, much syntheticism and intuition is needed to understand this.
Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Intimate Christ
The conversion of the Trimurtis, one into the other, is something which asks much of the student in terms of understanding. If however, you strengthen your intuition a little, you will be able to understand it. From the holy, divine copula Isis conceives through Immaculate Conception. She is Virgin before birth, during the birth and after the birth. Isis is our particular Divine Mother Kundalini; Ram-Io.
Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
The Lord is born from the womb of the Divine Mother Kundalini.
Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983
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The Second Logos descends from his own sphere, enters a pure virginal womb and becomes the Child of the Divine Mother, whatever her name in each tradition. In man the same cosmic event repeats: the Third Logos fecundates the Divine Mother, the solar bodies are born, and the Second Logos is born within them.
This event is repeated in the microcosmos, man. The first to intervene is the Third Logos, fecundating the chaotic matter contained in the semen and in the spinal column, fecundating the Divine Mother, the akashic principle, so that the interior universe, the solar bodies, can be born. Later, the Second Logos is born within the superior existential bodies of the Being in order to labor in the Great Work of the Father.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in Binah, Chokmah, The Intimate Christ, The Law of Correspondence, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
The Holy Spirit fecundated the Great Mother, and Christ was born. The Second Logos is always the Son of the Virgin Mother.
Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Words He Uses
It is Jesus Christ because Christ is the Second Logos, and Jesus because He has become a Saviour. In order to become a Saviour He has had to descend from His own sphere, enter a most pure virginal womb and be born by work and grace of the Holy Spirit. He has become the Child of the Divine Mother, the Son in fact of his Parents.
Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Intimate Christ
The Cosmic Christ is impersonal and universal, and is beyond the individuality of the personality and the “I”. It is a cosmic force which ex presses through any man who is correctly prepared. At one time it found expression through Jesus of Nazareth, through Hermes Trismegistus, through the Buddha Gautama Sakyamuni, through Quetzalcoatl etc and it may express through any Avatar. So as to be able to express, this force must descend from superior spheres and enter the womb of a Virgin called Isis, Maria, Tonantzin, Insoberta, Maia, Cibeles etc, who is the individual Cosmic Mother, given that each one of us has his own.
Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Intimate Christ, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
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The star of Bethlehem, the Christmas star, is identified with the Seal of Solomon, whose six masculine and six feminine rays hold the mysteries of the Arcanum A.Z.F. and the bond with the Central Sun. Without its gleam the God-Child cannot be born in the heart, and it shines each time an initiate receives a new degree.
We are in celebration! In the heavens of the internal east of the soul, the star of Bethlehem is shining. Here in the north, the scent of the pines radiates a delicious aroma! How beautiful! It is the perfume of friendship and the fragrance of sincerity. My children, let us raise our cup and pray.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66
The star of Bethlehem is the Seal of Solomon. The six points of the star are masculine. The six hollows that form between the points are feminine. In short, this star has twelve rays, six masculine, six feminine. Within them the mysteries of the Arcanum A.Z.F. (sexual magic) are summarised and synthesised.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66
Arcanum number 5 is the Hierophant, the Law, rigour. It is the Pentagram ablaze, the Flaming Star the sign of Divine omnipotence, this is the ineffable symbol of the Verb made flesh, the awe-inspiring bright star of the Wise Men.
Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978
The Seal of Solomon, the Christmas Star is the perfect symbol of the Central Sun (the Cosmic Christ, perfect multiple unity.) The God-Child can never be born in the heart of Man without the gleam and the life of the brilliant Christmas Star. One must work with the Arcanum A.Z.F. in order to be able to incarnate it.
Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Intimate Christ
Arcanum 6: The Lover. Man, between vice and virtue. This Arcanum is expressed by the Seal of Solomon. The six points of the Star of Solomon are masculine, and the six deep indents that exist between the points are feminine. So, this Star has twelve rays: six masculine and six feminine. By means of the Magnus Opus, those twelve rays crystallize in the twelve zodiacal constellations. In the Seal of Solomon is hidden the sexual genesis of the zodiac. The intimate relationship that exists between the zodiac and the invisible Central Sun is found in the Seal of Solomon. The Seal of Solomon is, truly, the authentic Christmas Star. Its two triangles, which unite and separate love, are the shuttles with which the loom of God is woven and unwoven. Each time that the initiate is going to receive a new Initiation or a new degree of Consciousness, the brilliant star then shines. In the Seal of Solomon is the supreme Affirmation and the supreme Negation; the terrible struggle between God and the Devil!
Magnus Opus
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The star that led Melchior, Gaspar and Balthazar announces the birth of a new state of consciousness, and Jesus is said to have been born of water and fire under its radiance. Had he rejected sex, the star would not have appeared to the Wise Men; the Son of Man is the Cosmic Christ whose symbol it is.
"And so, each time the eternal surveyor focuses his attention on a point in space, the glorious star appears at once announcing the birth of a new state of consciousness, the archetype of a Being, a planet, a star, a sun.” (Fourth message from the Avatar Ashrama).
Christmas Messages, 1952–66
"And the star they had seen in the east went before them until, when arriving, it stopped at the child!” Melchior, Gaspar and Balthazar, the three wise men were guided by the bright star, and Jesus was born of water and of fire, within the glory of the bright star of Bethlehem.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66
Jesus was born of water and fire. That is why he is a Master. If Jesus was not born of water and fire, then he would not be a Master. Jesus practiced the Arcanum A.Z.F. (sexual magic). Jesus gave testimony to this truth by saying: "Verily, verily, I say unto you that we speak what we know, and testify what we have seen (what we have experienced), and you receive not our testimony.” (John 3: 11)
Christmas Messages, 1952–66
Everything that Jesus rejected remained the son of rejection, the son of darkness, damned. He rejected Judas and Judas was in fact cursed. If Jesus had rejected sex the Star of Bethlehem would not have appeared to the Wise Men Initiates. Sex would have been damned and given that all humanity is born of sex, all of mankind would have remained under this curse. Then Jesus would not have been the Saviour but the condemner of the world.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66
Know, brothers, that the resplendent and luminous I Am wants to enter the soul of man. When the I Am enters the soul, it transforms into it and becomes the Son of Man. The I Am is transformed into the soul, and the soul into the I Am. Thus the Christ is born in the heart of man. That is how the Saviour of the World was born, of water and of fire.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Intimate Christ
The I Am transformed into the soul is the Son of Man, the New Man, the Celestial Man of St. Paul, Adam Kadmon, the Solar Man, Sun King, the Crucified Star on the Cross, the Christ of the ABRAXAS, the Christ of the Essenes, the Cosmic Christ, whose symbol is the Star of Bethlehem.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Intimate Christ
Those who dehumanised Jesus insulted the Holy Spirit. Jesus is the Son of Man. He is man and God. Jesus was born of water and of fire. Jesus practiced the Arcanum A.Z.F. in the pyramid of Kefren. When Jesus reached the Venustic Initiation, back in the Jordan, He incarnated the Christ. From that time on, Jesus was called Jesus Christ. He is the Saviour of the World. He was born under the radiance of the shining Star of Bethlehem.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Intimate Christ
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In a short run from Mysteries of Fire the Christ descends into the atomic infernos and is born within as a small child, because nature does not leap. The three wise men who adore him are the Innermost, the Divine Soul and the Human Soul, and the star is the Great Breath of which the Inner Christ is a particle.
3. This is the descent of Christ into the atomic infernos of the human being.
The Mysteries of Fire, 1955 also in The Intimate Christ
4. This is the Nativity of the heart.
The Mysteries of Fire, 1955
5. It is how we transform ourselves into Christs.
The Mysteries of Fire, 1955
6. Nature does not leap; this is why our Inner Christ is born within us as a small child. 7. The three wise men (the Malachim) adore him and offer him gold, incense and myrrh. 8. These three King Magi are the Innermost, the Divine Soul and the Human Soul (Atman-Buddhi-Manas).
The Mysteries of Fire, 1955 also in The Intimate Christ, The Words He Uses
9. The Star of Bethlehem is the Central Sun; it is the Great Universal Breath of Life. 10. Our Inner Christ is only one particle of that Spiritual Central Sun.
The Mysteries of Fire, 1955 also in The Intimate Christ, The Solar Logos
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The spiritual birth of Jesus is told as a scene in the temple, where the three magi, guided by the star, adore the man-child; this is named the Christmas of the heart and the First Initiation of Greater Mysteries. An earlier aphorism says why gold, frankincense and myrrh were offered to the Gold-Child.
160. Our disciples will now understand why gold, frankincense and myrrh were offered to the Gold-Child of Bethlehem.
Igneous Rose, 1954
The First Great Initiation of Jesus was as natural and simple as the humble and innocent birth of a lotus flower. The bodhisattva Jesus did not covet initiations, powers, titles, degrees, hierarchies, masteries, social or divine positions, kingdoms, gold, or silver. Being more than all the Angels, Archangels, Seraphim, Powers, etc., he preferred to only be a good man.
The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in Greed
A tri-colored banner waves victoriously in the sacred precinct. On that banner shines the blue of the Father, the yellow of the Son, and the red of the Holy Spirit. Inside the reflection chamber await the three magi, who came to the temple guided by the mystical sun, the star of Bethlehem. Jesus, the sublime bodhisattva has sat in front of the altar and is dressed in a white linen robe and covers his head with a white ceremonial hood. The sky is full of dense clouds and there is rain in abundance. So it is written by the prophet, “And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.” Here is that shepherd attending his spiritual birth; this is the Christmas of the heart. Now the good shepherd rises and goes to a sacred precinct of the temple; a terrible lightning bolt shines in the darkness; the latter is a terribly divine ray. In these terrible moments, the Inner Master entered in his bodhisattva. The latter had already raised his first serpent upon the rod; the bodhisattva Jesus was prepared.
The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in The Intimate Christ
The three magi came to adore the man-child, whose name is Jesus Christ; this is the birth of the Master, this is the Christmas of the heart. “The sons of God are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”
The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in The Intimate Christ
The three magi adored Jesus in the temple. Jesus then said sublime things. Oh, Jehovah, my God, how terrible was that ray that fell from heaven! Jesus had gone up to a mysterious precinct of the temple; that precious precinct was surrounded by beautiful balustrades.
The Greater Mysteries, 1956
What is born of the flesh, is flesh; what is born of the spirit, is spirit. Jesus was born in spirit and in truth. A chorus of Angels sang filled with happiness and the three magi adored the good shepherd.
The Greater Mysteries, 1956
Jesus is a man of medium height, with an olive-skinned, sunburnt complexion. Jesus had black hair and a small beard which was also black. The eyes of Jesus were black arid penetrating; he had a wide forehead, aquiline nose and fine, strong lips. The mystical birth of Jesus is the First Initiation of Greater Mysteries.
The Greater Mysteries, 1956
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A four-line run sets the pattern for every initiate. The Lord is born in his humble stable, his mother is the Divine Mother Kundalini, the kings of intelligence come to adore him, and Herods and the world will always want to kill the Child.
The Christ. The Lord, will always be born within the humble individual stable of any prepared initiate The Lord’s mother has been, is, and always will be Divine Mother Kundalini, the igneous serpent of our magical powers The kings of intelligence, the three wise men, the true geniuses these will always recognize the Lord and come to adore Him The child will always face great dangers: Herods, the world, and the tenebrous will always want to kill him. Baptism in the Jordan of existence is always indispensable; the waters of life cleanse, transform, and baptize. After the transfiguration, He interprets the Law of Moses with supreme intelligence, teaching people and showing in his work all the marvelous zeal of an Eli as.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in The Intimate Christ, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
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Herod, holding to the lunar past, refused the Saviour, and the children he had killed were the initiates; the holy family fled into Egypt in the winter rains. The dragon of darkness and the Anti-Christ seek to devour the Child so that the Christ is not born within, an image echoed in the infant Hercules and in an alchemical figure of the slaughter of the innocents.
Once Jesus had been born in Bethlehem of Juda, just as had been foretold by the prophets, the college of initiates met in Herod’s palace, in a great hall, with the objective of communicating to the monarch the spiritual birth of the Savior of the world.
The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in The Intimate Christ
This meeting in Herod’s palace was transcendental. In that initiatic congress, the new period of Solar-Christic unfoldment of the world was announced. Herod, being manifestly conservative, held on to the lunar past and to racial prejudices, and did not want to accept that Jesus was the Savior of the world. This congress of initiates was a failure. Herod then ordered that the initiates be killed; he ordered his soldiers to kill the children. Initiates are esoterically called children; therefore, the children are the initiates that Herod ordered to be killed. The soldiers went through the streets of Bethlehem, killing the initiates. Jeremiah’s prophecy that said, “In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not,” was fulfilled. Jesus managed to save himself and then fled to the land of E this was in winter and it rained a great deal. Jesus had to heroically bear the inclemency of the weather. Joseph and Mary were already old when this was happening. They suffered very much because of their son Jesus. The holy family traveled by land and water to arrive in Egypt.
The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in The Intimate Christ
In Bethlehem, Jesus was able to be born mystically because he raised the first serpent (that of the physical body). In Egypt, he began his work with the second serpent (that of the etheric body). Thanks to the priestess, he was able to work with the second serpent.
The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in The Intimate Christ
She was born in order to be a Virgin Mother. This degree of Virgin is the Buddhic state. This Virgin Mother being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered, and the dragon of darkness wants to devour her child in order to impede the incarnation of Christ within ourselves.
The Aquarian Message, 1960 also in The Intimate Christ
The Anti-Christ abhors the Arcanum A.Z.F., and he does not want the Christ to be born within ourselves. “Many are called and few are chosen.”
The Aquarian Message, 1960 also in The Intimate Christ
Christ is born within the heart of the human being in the long nights of winter. The Saviour is born in the manger of the world in nights of bitterness, darkness and tears. “And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.”
The Aquarian Message, 1960 also in The Intimate Christ
When he was still a child, Hercules seized and throttled all the poisonous snakes which were the first monsters sent against his life. (Let us remember King Herod and the slaying of all the innocent children).
Runic Magic, 1969
4. The King Herod orders the beheading of the innocent, some mothers implore, seven children lay dead, the soldiers poured the blood of the innocent (the Universal Spirit of the metals) into a cask where the Sun and the Moon bathe. Every Initiate must undergo the Initiatic decapitation. Seven decapitations of the fire exist. Three great fundamental decapitations also exist, which pertain to the Venustic Initiation.
Magnus Opus
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He tells how the Child, first seen in the arms of the Divine Mother, entered his own body through the pineal gland, so that the body became the stable. The Child is born weak and small among the animals of the stable, the many I's, and grows little by little by reducing them to dust.
After the fifth Initiation of Fire, it was necessary for me to be called by my Divine Mother Kundalini; she had the Child in her arms. I made a particular esoteric petition, and she responded saying: “Ask it of the Child”, and I asked the Child what I had to ask. Afterwards, I was able to receive the Initiation of Tiphereth, that is to say, after the fifth Initiation of Fire. Then, that Child which I had seen in the arms of his mother, my Divine Mother (since each one of us has his very own) penetrated within my organism by the marvellous doorway of the Pineal Gland, which Descartes called the seat of the Soul. In this case my body became the stable where the Child was born, where he came into the world.
Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in Tiphereth, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
I can say to you that in the beginning one does not much notice the presence of the Child within oneself. He is born amongst the animals of the stable, which are none other than the animals of desire, the passions, the vices and defects which keep the consciousness trapped. These are the elements which make up the “pluralised I”. The “I” is really formed of animal elements, these are nourished from the inferior substances of the lower animal depths of man, there they live and multiply. Each animal elemental represents a particular defect; these make up what is called ego, the animals of the stable where the Child is born in order to save the man.
Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Many I’s, Tiphereth
That Child has to suffer a great deal. He is not born in a grand palace, he is born in a stable; is born extremely weak, very small, amongst the great masses of “I’s” who surround the stable.
Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in Suffering
The God Child grows little by little, over time He develops. How does He grow? In what way? By eliminating the “I ” disintegrating them, reducing them to ashes, to cosmic dust. This is how our personal intimate Jeshua grows. The labour which that Child must undertake is very arduous; it is the Christ which is born in the stable to save us, and He must kill within Himself all of those animals of the stable. He must over come the princes of evil in Himself, the sons of infidelity in Himself, and the temptations which one must pass through being human, being a person of flesh and bone. These are the temptations through which he must pass; they are His temptations, and one’s own body of flesh and bone becomes His body of flesh and bone. In this lies the value of His sacrifices, of His efforts.
Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in Entropy and Sacrifice, The Intimate Christ
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Like the sun in a new world, the Golden Child born in each one must clear his way among the stable animals of desire, surrounded by dangers. Born as a child in the heart once the psychological work is well advanced, the Intimate Christ grows as he eliminates the undesirable elements, until he is a complete man.
There are twelve saviors, that is, twelve avatars, which correspond to the twelve zodiacal signs. The mission of each avatar is to initiate a new epoch of activity corresponding to the sign into which humanity is entering. Aries, Taurus, etc., had their particular avatars. There exist twelve saviors through whom the living Christ expresses Himself. The incarnation of the Solar Logos in the stable of the world is a grand cosmic event. Just as ni each nascent world, the incarnated Christ must make His way into the terrible vortex of the untamed forest surrounded by all kinds of dangers, so also the Golden Child of sexual alchemy, the Intimus Christ, born in every individual, must clear His way, must grow and develop among the stable animals of desire, surrounded by all kinds of dangers and adversities.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in The Intimate Christ, The Solar Logos
The Intimate Christ, the Celestial Fire, must be born within ourselves and is really born when we have advanced quite a lot in the psychological work.
The Great Rebellion, 1975 also in The Great Rebellion, The Intimate Christ
All moral codes are unnecessary in the inner path; a beautiful maxim or a nice moral precept can become a very serious obstacle for Intimate Auto-Realization of the Being. Fortunately, from the very depths of our Being, the Intimate Christ works intensively, suffers, weeps, disintegrates extremely dangerous elements that we carry within. The Christ is born as a child in the heart of man, but as he eliminates the undesirable elements that we carry within, he grows little by little until becoming a complete man.
The Great Rebellion, 1975 also in Suffering, The Great Rebellion, The Intimate Christ
The Lord will arise from within his Holy Sepulchre in order to liberate Pistis Sophia. Only the Resurrected Christ in the Spirit and in the Soul of the Initiate can vindicate him. Indubitably, the Interior Lord must be born in the heart of the Adept. Unquestionably, the Intimate Christ must grow within the Initiate. Evidently, the Lord grows in the Soul, preaches to the multitudes and teaches with His example.
Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Intimate Christ
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Growth belongs to the Venustic Initiation, in which the Christ must be born, grow, die and resurrect, and the error of seeing that whole drama in the first initiations is corrected. The Child-God of Bethlehem is absorbed into his bodhisattva and at last appears outwardly as a Christ among mankind.
34. “And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in 35. This is how the Child-God of Bethlehem grows within us.
The Mysteries of Fire, 1955
36. The Child-God of Bethlehem has to be absorbed within all of his Bodhisattva. He performs this by raising his seven Spiritual Serpents.
The Mysteries of Fire, 1955 also in The Intimate Christ
37. So, when finally the Child-God of Bethlehem is absorbed within his Bodhisattva, he tosses his Bodhisattva back into the inner depths of the Consciousness. This is how the Child-God comes from within to without, to the world of the flesh, to lean out through the five senses and to appear as a Christ among mankind, and thus to perform the Work of the Father.
The Mysteries of Fire, 1955 also in The Intimate Christ
Annie Besant committed an error in supposing, and even affirming, that the Intimus Christ, the Child God, the Savior, incarnates in the human being when he obtains the first initiation of Major Mysteries. She wanted to see, in the first five initiations of Major Mysteries, the whole cosmic drama, i.e. birth, growth, death, and resurrection of the Christ. She made the mistake of confusing the five initiations of fire with the Venustic Initiation.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in The Intimate Christ
In the initiate who attains the Venustic Initiation, the Christ must be born, grow, die, and resurrect in order to work with great intensity in the Great Work of the Father. When Jesus Christ resurrected from among the dead, the sacred scriptures say He spent eleven years speaking with His disciples, teaching them the twenty-four mysteries from which are born the twelve saviors of the world.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in The Intimate Christ
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When the King of Stars turns north, the Infant Sun is born at midnight on 24 December, frail and helpless in the stable of our world, while the sign of the Celestial Virgin rises. The physical sun then meets the spiritual sun of midnight, the star of Bethlehem.
My brothers and sisters: observe the King of Stars in his elliptical orbit as he travels from south to north and back again. When he travels to the north, we celebrate the birth of the Infant Sun. He is born on December 24th at midnight in order to dawn on December 25th . If the Christ-Sun did not move northwards, the whole earth would become a huge piece of ice and all life would perish. The Sun-god, however, does advance northwards on December 24th to animate and give heat and life to all creatures.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in The Intimate Christ, The Solar Logos
The Infant-Sun is born on December 24th in order to dawn on December 25th ; he crucifies himself at the spring equinox to give life to all that exists. The fixed date of his birth and the variable date of his death have a profound significance in all religious theologies. In the northern regions of our world, in winter, there are long hours of darkness and few hours of light. On one of those very long nights, the Child of the Sun was born, frail and helpless, in this humble stable, our world.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967
The sign of the Celestial Virgin rises on the horizon at Christmas, and it is then that the Child is born to save the world. The Christ-Sun, in His childhood, is surrounded by dangers, and the kingdom of dark ness lasts longer than His [of light] in the beginning, but He lives despite all the dangers that threaten Him.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in The Intimate Christ, The Solar Logos
Christmas is a solar festival, an ineffable cosmic festival with its origin in the mysterious night of the centuries.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967
The three-dimensional physical sun is only the medium through which the spiritual sun acts. The physical sun meets the mystical sun, the sun of midnight, the star of Bethlehem, the Cosmic Christ.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in The Intimate Christ, The Solar Logos
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The births of the Gods carry the same emblems: Mithra and Horus were born at the winter solstice, and the Gnostic initiates fixed the birth of Jesus at midnight on 24 December. All such figures are born by the Holy Spirit of virgins immaculate before, in and after childbirth, and their deaths fall at the spring equinox.
Jesus had the divine attributes of Krishna, Buddha, Zeus-Jupiter, Apollo. All of them were born of a virgin. In fact, the Christ is al ways born of the Virgin Mother of the World. Every Master practices Sexual Magic and, speaking in a symbolic sense, we can affirm that the Christ is born within the womb of the priestess wife.
The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966) also in The Intimate Christ
The emblems, symbols and dramas of the Birth of the Gods are al ways the same. The God Mithra was born on 24th December at midnight, just as Jesus. The birthplace of Jesus was Bethlehem. This name comes from the name of the God of the Babylonian and Germanic peoples, who named their Sun God Bel or Belen. By this they wanted to make understood the reality of a Man who had incarnated the Christ-Sun.
The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966) also in The Intimate Christ
In the past, in ancient times, the birth of Mithras was always celebrated with great rejoicing during the winter solstice. In the ancient Egypt of the Pharaohs, Horns, Divine Spirit, son of Isis and Osiris, was also born at the winter solstice.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967
Nobody knows the exact date when Jesus of Nazareth was born; there are one hundred thirty-six various dates assigned to His birth. Gnostic initiates decided, with great wisdom, to fix the date of Jesus’ birth at December 24th , twelve midnight, that is to say, the first minutes of December 25th .
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967
In other solar myths, the Divine Savior, the Intimus Christ of every holy individual, is always born from the womb of the Immaculate Virgin, the Divine Mother Kundalini. This reminds us of the Child-Sun, on December 24th or 25th , coming to life, advancing, walking towards the north at the same time as the constellation of Virgo, the Immaculate Virgin shines resplendent at its zenith. The Sun, the Cosmic Christ, whether in the cosmos or in man, is always born of the Virgin Cosmic Mother.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in The Intimate Christ, The Solar Logos
Buddha was born of a virgin, Mayadevi, in accordance with the cosmic drama, wisely understood by Chinese initiates. The death and resurrection of the Lord at the spring equinox is as widely known as his birth during the winter solstice. At such a time, Osiris died in the arms of Typhoon, and he is portrayed with arms extended as though crucified. At that time each year, in Babylon and Syria, they wept for the death of Tammuz; at the spring equinox, there were sacred laments and they cried for Adonis in Greece as well as in Syria. In Persia, the death of Mithras was mourned at the same time, the spring equinox.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967
One is amazed when one carries out a comparative study of religions. All these sacred religious personages that personify the Christ are born on the 24th of December at 12 o’clock at night.
The Revolution of the Dialectic also in The Intimate Christ
All of these sacred personages are eons of immaculate conceptions. All of them are born by the deed and grace of the Holy Spirit; all of them are born from Virgins who are immaculate before childbirth, in childbirth and after childbirth.
The Revolution of the Dialectic
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Krishna, Fu-Ji, Quetzalcoatl, the Kristos of the Eddas, Zeus and Apollo are each shown born as Jesus was, of a virgin and by the Holy Spirit, often at Christmas midnight or in a stable. The comparison leads to the view that no religion is false, and Quetzalcoatl too must be born in each one.
The German Eddas mention Kristos, the God of the theogony, who like Jesus of Nazareth was born at Christmas, the 25th of December at midnight. This is also the case with the Christified Nordics, Odin, Wotan and Beleno.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Wheel of the Year
Krishna’s Gospel in millenary India is similar to the Christian Gospel. The birth of Krishna is similar to the birth of Jesus. Devaki conceived Krishna by the work and Grace of the Holy Spirit. The God Child, Krishna, was transported to the stable of the shepherds, the stable of Nanden, and the gods and angels came to adore him.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66
Among the Greeks, Christ is Zeus and among the Romans, He is thundering Jupiter. The Christos Jupiter, Zeus, Apollo, are born from Immaculate Virgins. In old Egypt of the Pharaohs, Christ is Osiris, and all those who incarnated Him were Osirified.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Intimate Christ
In all religious theologies, Christ is born in a humble manger. In all theologies, Christ is always born of a virgin, the result of an immaculate conception by the Holy Spirit.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Intimate Christ
Every Master is the son of an immaculate virgin. If we study comparative religion, we will discover immaculate conceptions everywhere; Jesus is conceived by the deed and grace of the Holy Spirit, the Mother of Jesus was an immaculate Virgin.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
In the sacred land of the Vedas, Devaki, the Hindu Virgin conceived Krishna, and in Bethlehem, the Virgin Mary conceived Jesus.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
According to the Chinese, the God Fu-Ji (the Adam-Christ) was born at midnight on day “4” of the tenth Moon, and at precisely 12 years. The Virgin Hoa-Se, passing along the bank of the river (the seminal fluid) formed the Christ within her womb on placing her foot upon the foot print of the Great Man.
Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Intimate Christ
Amongst the Chinese, Christ is Fu-ji. For the Mexican, Christ is Quetzalcoatl, who was the Messiah. He who transformed the Toltec. For the Japanese, Amida; He who has the power to open the gates of Gokurak (Paradise). In the cult of Zoroaster, Christ is AhuraMazda. The Germanic Edda cites Khristos, the God of its theogony as being similar to Jesus of Nazareth, born on Christmas Day, 25th of December at mid night. The same as the Christian are the Nordic Odin, Woden and Belen. The Gospel of Ithrisna of millenarian India is similar to the Christian Gospel. In the old Egypt of the Pharaohs Christ is Osiris, and each one who incarnated Him was an Osirified One. Hermes Trismegistus is the Egyptian Christ; He incarnated Osiris. Every man who attains the as similation of the Christic substance becomes in fact, a Living Christ.
Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Intimate Christ
It is urgent to understand the actual nature of the immaculate conceptions. These abound in all the ancient cults. Fu-Hi, Quetzalcoatl, Buddha and many others, are the results of immaculate conceptions.
The Three Mountains, 1972
When one studies the Gospel of Krishna, the Hindu Christ, one is astonished upon discovering the same Gospel of Jesus. However, Krishna was born many centuries before Jesus.
The Revolution of the Dialectic also in The Intimate Christ
Devaki, the Hindu virgin, conceived Krishna by the deed and grace of the Holy Spirit. The child-God Krishna was transported to the stable of Nanden and the gods and angels came to adore him. The life, passion and death of Krishna is similar to that of Jesus. It is worthwhile to study all religions. The comparative study of religions leads one to comprehend that all religions conserve the eternal values, that no religion is false, that all are true.
The Revolution of the Dialectic
Quetzalcoatl carried his Cross. Yes! The Mysteries of the Lingam-Yoni, and Pudenda, are found in the cross, because the cross is an instrument of redemption and transformation. Quetzalcoatl is gone, but he must live in our hearts, he must be born in each one of us. Yes, he is gone! He left like the souls of the defunct in ancient Egypt navigating on the bark of Ra heading for the ineffable sun. Quetzalcoatl is gone, but we must call him with all our hearts, we must invoke him, and we must eliminate from ourselves those defects that we carry within that separate us from our Lord Quetzalcoatl.
For the Few, 1980
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How this was made. All fifty-two books were extracted (73,105 paragraphs, 2,157,671 words) and swept on his words for it: Christmas and the Nativity (with the bare titles of the Christmas Messages taken out first); Bethlehem; the manger and the stable beside a birth; the ox and the ass; the shepherds, the magi and the star beside Bethlehem or the Child; Herod with the children; the birth of the Christ, of Jesus, of the Child; the Virgin who conceives and gives birth; the winter solstice and 24 and 25 December; and the Christ born in the heart. The paragraph either side of every core paragraph was taken too. That returned 575 candidate paragraphs in 44 books. Every candidate was read twice, by independent readers working from a written brief. The two passes agreed on whether to print 95.7% of the time and on the class 90.3%, and a third reader, who saw neither verdict, settled the 25 disagreements. 197 were judged printable. 10 of them were set aside as the same teaching, kept where it stands in another of his books, and 17 were joined into the passage before them, where his sentence ran across several short paragraphs, so 170 passages are printed here. The rest are recorded with the reason each was set aside.
What was set aside. 106 were greetings, dates, editors’ notes or narrative, 68 were false friends (another star, another birth), 52 named the subject only in passing, 41 belonged to another built work, and 19 were neighbours on another subject. 32 more were judged and not printed, and 60 were judged the second halves of sentences begun in the paragraph before.
No sentence of his is cut in half. Each range was extended against the corpus until his sentence closed, a passage that turned out to be the second half of the one before it was absorbed into it, and 49 ranges run over more than one paragraph.
111 passages also stand in a finished work, and every one is marked where it stands, the most in The Intimate Christ (90) and The Solar Logos (8). The editor ruled that this work prints in full and that shared passages print here too. An overlap is allowed wherever the teaching needs it. What is not allowed is an overlap a reader cannot see.
Checked against the source. Every passage was proved word for word against the raw extraction of its own book, and the printed text against the paragraphs it joins, with no failures. One word broken by the scan (“pres ence”) is printed whole.
A work of The Christ, the fifth after The Intimate Christ, The Solar Logos, Christ Mind and The Holy Grail. It takes the birth of the Child, in Bethlehem and in the heart. It wears the Christ family’s lilac mist and the themed works’ two hairlines, in the green of the pine, which he calls the tree of the God-Child.