Advent – a study –
Something new is coming
Something is Reappearing, too.
Not only the new light of Winter Solstice, but the Reappearance of the Christ, the Coming World Teacher.
In Advent we prepare for both –

Today, November 28, 2022 – a complex day today. Aquarius moon, the new era energies are available today.
Mars Saturn trine (Gemini/Aquarius). Mars is retrograde. Inner work today is illunined.
Venus/Uranus inconjunct (5 & 7 Rays) (Sag/Taurus). Again what Ray is the say between Venus/Uranus? Ray 5 & Ray 7 work together, anchoring truth into the world. True science too, for those not tempted by the false light of the dark forces.
Tonight, we begin a long v/c tomorrow – till 4:15pm west coast time.

Advent
Season of Purification & Preparation & Illumination for what is to come.

What are we preparing for?
1. Winter Solstice, the new light for the world. New Light for the year, a higher level of light on the spiral of Time.

2. The Reappearance of the Christ – it is said in the wisdom teachings that in 2025 the Hierarchy will convene & assess the needs of humanity – at the darkest hour the Christ, the World Teacher appears. The World Teacher appears also at the beginning each new age. Therefore, in this Advent & the next few years, during Advent we are preparing for the Advent (coming) of the World Teacher for the Aquarian Age. Our prayer each day during Advent.

Forgetting the things which lie behind,
We will strive towards our highest spiritual possibilities.
We dedicate ourselves anew
To the service of the Coming One
And will do all we can
To prepare men’s minds and hearts
For that event.
We have no other life intention.
Om Shanti Shanti Shanti

From Dark to Light
We are in the dark half of the year (Summer to Winter Solstices) in our northern climes). This is our last month before the lights half of the year begins (Winter Solstice to Summer solstice). In our last month of the dark half of the year, we have the ritual called Advent – “adventus” – “something is about to appear”. The “appearance” is the new light of Winter Solstice, ending the darkness of the year, beginning a new light for the year.

Mars Retrograde – Inner Work
During this dark half of the year, and especially this year, with Mars retrograde, it is a time of receive fresh revelations that favor our spiritual development. Preparations are thus made for what is hoped for when Advent ends and the new light begins, climaxing on Holy Night, when the midnight Sun is ablaze with the new light for the new year.

Light of Preparation –
Always Earth and her kingdoms are in harmony with the zodiacal influences. Advent begins in Sagittarius, the sign of the journey to the midnight Sun, the Light Supernal in Capricorn. It is the sign just prior to Winter Solstice. Sagittarius is thus called the “little Light” prior to the emergence of the Greater Light. In the religious cosmologies, this “new light for the world” was the time when the Holy Child was born.

Astrology
The Great Ones always use the timing of astrology for its appearance events. As the Winter Solstice occurs it is also the time when the heart of the Sun has penetrated deepest within the earth, the Sun at the Tropic of Capricorn.

Three Degrees of Advent
Three degrees are recognized during the four weeks of Advent:
1. Purity (of the personality vehicle);
2. Immortality (bestowed by the Soul);
3 Spiritual Illumination (male/female energies within the head interweave in the 3rd ventricle & a spark of light illuminates the brain/mind. And the entire etheric/auric field of the body becomes a temple of light.
Earth Period
This process is called “the Christ-ing (humanity aware of the soul, directed by the Soul) of humanity. Christ symbolizes the Soul of humanity. This is the culmination of the evolutionary process belonging to the present Earth period (there are seven such periods. Humanity at this time is on the fifth).

Seekers
The 1st degree symbolizes the seekers & aspiration. They are like the shepherds in the fields whereupon an angel came to and told them to look up, see a star and to follow its light, which led them to Bethlehem (House of Bread, the Bread of Life). The personality being led to the Light of the Soul.

Disciples
The 2nd degree represent disciples and the Three Wise Men Astrologer Kings who brought gifts to lay at the feet of the Holy Child. They are the Disciples who have passed 1st & 2nd degrees. Their shining gifts symbolize the illuminated essence around the physical body, the spiritualized body temple.

Initiates
The 3rd degree is the marriage fest and the “golden wedding garment” which each disciple must be clothed in before entering the inner Temple. This is also like the perfume Mary Magdalene used to wash the feet of the Christ. The revelation offered those of the 3rd degree is the understanding of the words, “I am the Way, the Truth, the Light & the Life. No one can go to the Father except through Me. I am the Light of the World. You too are to be the Light of the World with Me.”

Earth’s Protection
Archangel Michael, who took over protection of the Earth at Autumn Equinox presides over the process of purification & regeneration . From Autumn Equinox to Winter Solstice, Michael and his ministering angels are engaged in cleansing and purifying the desire & lower mental envelopes (layers) of the Earth. Without their cleansing of the layers of the earth, humanity would be submerged and eventually die due to the murky psychic atmosphere generated by evil thought, emotions, desires & deeds.

Battle
Always the angels and the Christ are doing battle with the forces of evil and darkness. The symbol for this is Archangel Michael, fiery sword in hand, slaying the dragon. Michael always stands next to the Christ in the Hierarchy of Light.

The ancient & ever-present battle humanity faces is the light over the darkness & this is symbolized each year as the Sun passes through the dark half of the year – from Autumn Solstice to Winter Solstice, where the Light wins out over the darkness for the year. At Winter solstice, Michael’s work is done & he passes the protection of the Earth over to Archangel Gabriel, the messenger of motherhood, the guardian of mothers and children. Note the Holy Child is born under his direction and supervision.

This is a cosmic process. It is a harmonious rhythmic enunciation of the Word through Creation. The Word sounds forth at midnight Holy Night. It resounds through all of the Earth, making all things new again. All of this begins on the first night of Advent.

Lighting our first Advent candle each evening. Violet this week for hope. And seeing the Light in the mineral kingdom. In the shells, crystals, stones, soil, earth itself. Love. Risa