We had a simple and very moving Solstice Ceremony
here this clear and bright morning, on a high bluff directly
above the surf roaring into the rocks of the Northern California
coast. I felt a deep connection with the Ancestors, for whom
the return of the warmth of the sun and the Light was so essential
to life. And I heard the words of the man Jesus, who knew himself
as The Light, and invited his world to join him in that awareness.
To the Toltecs, the Light is the messenger
of Creator. And the message is Life. The Creator as the Unmanifest
sends the message of Life into the manifest, where it becomes
the material world we live in. And we know our world because
the Light reflects from it and brings us the message of what
is there: The creation of the Divine. We are made by the Light,
we are Light, we see/eat/digest Light. The Universe is alive,
the Light is alive, Light eating Light. There is nothing else
here. Matter is created by light. The Toltecs knew it, now Quantum
Physics knows it. Matter and Light are interchangeable. We are
Light.
This is the time of the year
when much of the world celebrates the birth of Jesus. Jesus said:
"I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth
on me should not abide in darkness." I believe that Jesus
meant if we could believe we are Light, we would no longer have
to live in the darkness caused by our misunderstanding of our
nature. "I am Light, believe in Me" says to me "Believe
in the Light, believe in your own Divinity, you are created by
Light, you are the manifestation of the Divine." And since
there is only this Light, there is only One Divine Presence here,
then you must be that Divine Presence.
The wave in the ocean, is still the ocean.
A manifestation of the Light, is still the Light.
Am I making sense?
Happy Solstice. Happy return of the Light.
Merry Celebration of the awareness of You as the Light, as the
Divine. That is the message of the season, of these Holidays,
and of this Thought for the Day. Thank you for reading.