by Rev. Christine
The Cosmic
Mary
12/6/98
We are now well into the Christmas Season. While many are busing preparing for Christmas Day by shopping for presents, decorating their houses and having parties (which we too will have our own this Saturday) the deeper meaning of this period of time is in preparing for the birth or rebirth of the inner Christ child.
Every story of the Bible is also a story of our own soul journey. Not for just 2000 years ago, but for right here and now. We are every personage, and as we begin the Advent Season we become Mary, Joseph, the shepherds, three wise men, King Herod, and the little Baby Jesus. At this time there is much attention on Jesus Christ. Yet, Mary is the main character of this story. It is her consciousness that has prepared the way for this glorious new kind of child to come forth. Marking the beginning of the New Testament and dispensation of Grace. My talk today is focused on Mary, titled "The Cosmic Mary."
The religious section of yesterday's paper has an article titled "A spiritual awakening in visions of Mary?" Janice T. Connell, a securities lawyer, has interviewed visionaries from Medjugorje, Bosnia, to Conyers, Georgia for her books "Meetings with Mary", "Angel Power," and "Queen of the Cosmos." Connell approaches the Marian apparitions with a combination of faith, lawyerly caution and science.
Her view is that the spiritual dark ages are drawing to an end. "The apparitions of the Virgin Mary that have been reported around the world are one little example, one concrete example, if you will, of a grand spiritual awakening." Something is going on, for in the last hundred years there have been an increasing number of these apparitions and weeping Madonna statues, and especially in the last 10 years.
Mary's message is mostly a calling for world peace, care for the earth and each other. Some believe this is just millennial madness, yet there's no evidence indicating a similar outbreak of divine manifestations in any other period of history.
Other's believe that Mary is back cosmically in preparation of the Second Coming of the Christ. In Divine Science and other New Thought teachings, we believe the second coming is the unfoldment of Christ in all humanity. Mother Mary is indeed here preparing the way just like she did 2000 years ago. Although, not in physical human form for her message today is on a global scale verses giving birth to a single Christ child.
In the series of books by Corinne Heline "New Age Bible Interpretation" explains through astrological ages the development of planetary root races. I won't go too much into this idea of root races, except there are to be 7, and each covers hundred thousands of years. We are currently the 5 root race of the planet, which has 5 sub races, and there is to be two more sub races before we are completed, and the 6th root race appears.
It is my understanding that the next sub race is the result of our own evolution of the Christ consciousness within all humanity -- the blending of the male and female principles as denoted in the Aquarian Age, and the 7th sub race is God Consciousness as represented in the age of Capricorn.
At this time we are just babes in the manger of the cosmic plan. Yet each of us is absolutely vital in bringing forth the birth of the new race consciousness. According to Heline, Mary is here to call forth the stragglers C there shall be none left behind in this cosmic transition.
Connell as quoted said, "Bernard of Clairvaux had the great grace of breaking through the three-dimensional world and having the experience that St. Augustine wrote about in the 4th century: His inner eye was opened, his inner ear was opened C which means he could hear the spiritual world and see it." This is absolutely natural when one becomes awakened. These are the spiritual qualities attributed to Mary which gave birth in Jesus Christ; the blending of the masculine and feminine principle. And, the theme of the New Testament.
Just because women already have some of these qualities naturally doesn't mean they do not have their work cut out. Every soul has both male and female principle at work, although some are not as developed. Eve represents the fallen female principle of emotions and desires. Adam represents the masculine principle of the intellect cultivated at the expense of the heart. We see it as an inconsistent emotional nature and selfish desires for possession. As a result the true love nature of selfless universal compassion remains relatively undeveloped.
In the Bible, the story of Mary begins with her immaculate birth. Her parents Joachim and Hanna, Hanna means "Virgin of Light", received an angelic announcement of Mary's coming birth. According to Heline, when conception of a child is done through spiritual preparation of the soul, rather than lust, it is called an immaculate conception of purity or virgin birth.
Since Mary was very little she was trained in spiritual matters for her mission, as well was Joseph. They were both master teachers preparing for the coming Christ birth to bring forth the divine pattern into the seed of humanity.
Bringing forth a child in this way of spiritual intention attracts the souls who are of the new race consciousness. The time to just populate the earth, as in the Old Testament, is over. The New Testament is instructing us to carefully prepare ourselves for receiving the highest souls to come on earth.
We can also see this metaphysically, of our own Christ birth which is the Aquarian Age of the Divine Androgyne; the union of the two Divine Principles in the human soul will be reflected externally in a comradeship between men and women, each being equal. The feminine principle lifted up once more to its rightful place side by side in humanity. A humanity of compassion and Brotherhood in service to all.
This is also known as the "Coming Age of Mary" the divine feminine in humanity. "M" of Mary of the Hebrew alphabet symbolizes "water," or the feminine aspect of man. The Aquarian Age is represented by a man carrying and pouring a jug of water. Jesus, told his disciples to look for a man carrying a jug of water and he will show the way to the upper room for the last support.
The virgin Mary represents the cultivation of purity. First and foremost purity is to be developed in mind and soul. Christ said, "Blessed are the Pure in Heart for they shall see God." Disciples or initiates understand the Advent season as a time for purification and preparation.
Again, we are reminded of Adam and Eve, who through desire was tempted and fell from grace -- the separation of self allowing the intellect to rule. The spiritual attributes of the Mary or female principle, are without selfish desire, but of selfless unconditional and compassionate love in service to humanity, and spiritual gifts of intuition and healing.
It is the feminine principle that sees and hears angels, recognizes the Christ, and heals as Jesus the Christ. It is the intellect tempered with love that shall have the new soul body wearing the wedding garment of golden light.
The time of the ruling intellect void of love, to rule, conquer and possess is coming to an end both inwardly and externally in our world. Heline writes, "For 2000 years the battle between darkness and light, between Christ and anti-Christ, has raged the world in fulfillment of ancient prophecy. Now at last the forces of light are in ascendant, and the secret powers of creation are emerging from their hiding place under the guiding hand of a new science for the new age."
This I believe is the awakening of the individual free spirit which will unfold so much more. The time has come for the Age of Mary. The beginning of a Christed Humanity brought forth from all races and nations. This is a global, cosmic event affecting the planet itself, all humanity and forms of life, and as such our Cosmic Mother Mary is here to guide the birth of our Christ within; "Holy Mary full of grace thou art with us."
Today's Affirmation: The purity of my mind and soul conceives now the divine idea of Christ within.