"Gift of Light"
by Rev. Christine
12/14/03

A Metaphysical Interpretation of the Nativity
& 5 pointed Star Meditation

Today I’m giving an interpretation of the Nativity Scene by looking at it as every character being an aspect of our soul as it unfolds the Christ Light or Consciousness. I have the nativity scene pieces here with me to put together while I’m presenting the Christmas story we all so love for it is our story.

In our nativity story we have the Stable, Animals both sheep (Aries) and cows (Taurus), Joseph, Mary, Baby Jesus or Christ, Shepherds, (lead & care, protect), three wise men, and the star.

The two main characters are Mary and Jospeh. Mary, is our feminine nature – our subconscious states of mind, the five outer and inner senses. Mary is the risen Eve, She rises above fear to the fullness of love brings forth compassion and intuition. And, is therefore ready to bring forth the Christ child.

Joseph, is our mental nature, is the risen Adam, from the analytical and reasoning mind of facts of the outer nature of things, to knowledge and understanding of the inner nature. The marriage of Joseph and Mary brings these two together for the great birth of a new kind of mankind.

The story begins with Caesar Augustus decreeing that a census be taken of all the people in his empire. And every man went to be registered in his own city. It is time for the birth of the Christ, but before that can happen all the environment of consciousness must be just right. So we have to take stalk, and the call is from the Christ consciousness to take a census, or inventory of our inner environment of our consciousness and subconsciousness; all our thoughts, feelings, and deeds before entering in or being born in man.

Therefore, Joseph went up from Nazareth, a city of Galilee, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, and brings his wife with child to Bethlehem. We raise our consciousness from the Sea of Galilee which is our mental states (solar plexus), and brings them to Bethlehem which means House of Bread. In your soul this is the place where the very substance of God feeds and nurtures you – this is the heart center. We go to our heart and take census.

Joseph finds no room at the inn for he and his wife to give birth. So they are given a stable. Our home or shelter is our body that houses our consciousness or soul and all that goes on within it. The inn represents one’s pure thought, but there was no room for all the chatter. We must quiet our thoughts for the birth to take place, for Christ to enter.

The stable is a place of shelter for animals. In this story we have the cattle and sheep, the cattle representing our human concerns or lowly thoughts, and the sheep the gentler thoughts of love and truth. Both of these of the mental nature must come to rest, to succumb to the Christ Light. And, so we have our resting animals just looking on.

Then we give birth to the babe Jesus, our of the fullness of consciousness – out of the silence comes the Christ Light that permeates the entire stable. The angles come decreeing the birth, angels are divine thoughts or messages from God. The angels sing out, and appear to the shepherds overlooking the sheep. Shepherds protect, guide, and lead their sheep. Here the shepherds are given a message that the Christ child is born, and so they quietly take watch of the new Christ Baby.

A great star appears in the sky, is the Christ Star the great soul of the Babe Jesus. Those that have ears to here and eyes to see, and follow the signs will find their way for the inner light shall lead you. These wise men represent our spiritual journey that finally brings us to the place where the Christ baby is born. The three wise men bring gifts. These are the gifts of our soul, Gold, Frankencense and Myrrh. Gold the gift of Truth, Frankencense the gift of intuition, Myrrh the gift of healing.

But beware, King Herod, has issued an order to kill all the first born sons. King Herod represents our ruling mind or ego, and once we come out of meditation after giving birth to the Christ within, our ego will attempt to destroy what has been given. We must protect and nurture, as the shepherds do their flock until this new aspect of our consciousness is strong and can stand on its own in full spiritual maturity.

I will now lead us in a guided meditation of the 5 pointed star.