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The Tree of Life: The Christ-Mass Tree

When that light is shining in our spinal column, within the seven churches that are described in the Book of Revelation, and within all the powers of that Tree of Life, then Santa Claus comes and delivers a gift. That comes from the north then down the chimney, which is our particular north, the chakra Sahasrara, or the church of Laodicea, related to the pineal gland and the sephirah Kether. This is where he enters. This is precisely what is written in the Acts of the Apostles, that when the Apostles were reunited, celebrating it, tongues of fire came hovering above their heads. Those tongues were the fire of the Holy Ghost, or the fire of Santa Claus, which is a force. That was the gift that they received. They received many gifts, because remember that is written there in the scriptures that anybody can receive different gifts according to the transformation or permutation of this energy. But in this day and age people do not understand what type of gift or what is that, that the bible calls “a gift.” It is a power of the Holy Spirit and it is not something that you will automatically receive. No, you have to earn it.

"Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." – Matthew 18:3

This is why Christmas, the Nativity of Christ, is for children. Do we have the minds of children? What type of mind do we have? The mind of children is symbolized in the pine tree. The pine tree is related with the forces of childhood, the forces of Aquarius, the mind. Observe your mind: is your mind innocent? Did you acquire that innocence in your mind? Only a Buddha has that type of mind. That is why it is written that in order for Christ to descend into you, you have to be united with your own particular individual Buddha, who gives you that illumination. That is what the word Buddha means: Illuminated, Enlightened One. That is symbolized in the Tree of Life, in the Christmas Tree, which is a symbol taken from the Nordics, yet, this symbol is represented in every tradition.

But of course, many Christians have their Christmas tree with its lights, but don’t know anything about this. Indeed, in this day and age Christmas is just a business. Many people celebrate Christmas, and when Christmas comes they ignore about the relation of this rite of the Solar Light with the Earth, and they just worry about what are the gifts somebody is going to give them, and what type of gifts they should give to their relatives. And everybody is thinking in that. When you watch TV you find a lot of commercials, advertisements, encouraging you “to give” for Christmas. The Black Lodge has commercialized everything, taken all the sacred symbols and mocks the symbols of religions; this is why people in this day and age celebrate these holidays’ celebrations but ignore the meaning of them.

This drama of the Cosmic Christ and the way in which we can assimilate that Solar Force is a secret related with the spinal column. Remember that the spinal column has 33 vertebrae. This is why Master Jesus, it is written, lived 33 years. The Masons talk about 33 initiatic degrees. And it is because in order to develop that energy, we have to do it in 33 degrees, but in different octaves, different ways.

The Virgin Mother

When Christ is born, according to the Gospels, the Angel Gabriel announces always that. The Angel Gabriel, or Geburael, represents the perfect man who has to appear within each one of us, by knowing how to transform the lunar forces that act mechanically in the physical body.

Mary, the virgin mother of Jesus, represents Mother Nature. As Mother Nature is represented in the planet Earth, likewise Mother Nature is represented in our physical body. This nature in us has to become virginal. To become virginal is to become chaste. But this not the chastity that people think or have the idea of. It is scientific chastity. When we enter into scientific chastity, then our own matter, our own body, becomes virginal. Only a virgin can give birth to that light within. This means that a fornicator, an adulterer, somebody that is squandering the sexual force, is not a virgin. We are not talking here about that virginity that in this day and age people think, that it is just related with the sexual organs. People think that if you never had the sexual act, you are virgin, and if the woman has the hymen, she is a virgin. No, this is not that literal virginity. We are discussing the virginity of the psyche, the virginity of the soul, in which we learn how to transform the sexual energy through scientific chastity. This is how our polluted sinful nature, sinful matter, becomes virginal.

This is why the Arcanum Six of the Tarot depicts a whore and a virgin. But where is that virgin, what is that whore? Well, the whore is our physical body, because we are polluting, prostituting, the physical body through our vices. Observe how we behave sexually. Obviously, there is not a single virgin in humanity. Sexual degeneration is even applauded. When somebody goes out and says “Oh I did this, I did that” and starts talking about his or her degeneration, everybody says, “He deserves applause,” because he is daring to talk about his or her degeneration. So everybody, of course, has within a whore, that is the physical body. We begin with the physical body, to make it virgin; which means: to know how to save the sexual force and all the other forces that enter into the physical body, the solar forces. When we learn that, then our matter becomes pregnant with the fire that we call Kundalini. And that is just the first step.

To awaken the energy of the Kundalini is to awaken Hercules. Herakles is a symbol in Greek mythology. Hera is the Divine Mother, and Kleos means “aura.” Herakles means the aura of Hera, of the fire of Hera, within the body. That is why it is written that when Hercules was born, when Herakles was born, Mercury took him. Mercury is a symbol of the sublimation of the sexual energy. He took him to Olympus in order to suck the breast of Hera, and to give him immortality. It is written that when Mercury put Hercules to the breast of Hera (the wife of Zeus, Jupiter), she was sleeping, and when she awoke and noticed that Hercules was sucking her breasts, she was angry and pushed him away. But Hercules already took a lot of milk, a lot of wisdom, a lot of knowledge, a lot of energy, from nature. Because he was sucking the breast so strong, when she pushed him away, the milk squirted out into the space and the Milky Way was born. That is a symbol, as you know if you read between lines, then you understand. The Milky Way, the galaxy, was born from the breast of Hera; a beautiful symbol of Christ, of the aura of the Divine Mother Nature or Cosmic Mother. So then, you have to understand and comprehend that.

Do you worship the Divine Mother Mary? Are you Catholic? Or are you Hindu? Do you worship, for instance, the Divine Mother Kundalini, Shakti? She has many names in Hinduism; different aspects. Do you worship the Divine Mother? Well, understand and comprehend that the Divine Mother expresses itself to the matter, because that is what the physical body is, a matter. That is why in Kabbalah, Malkuth is represented by a female aspect. Malkuth is the physical body. Do you want to receive Christ within? Well, make of your physical body, of your Malkuth, a virgin, meaning, a chaste matter; and this is accomplished by avoiding the abominable spasm, the filthy orgasm of animals; animals cannot retain Christ, because they naturally, mechanically, instinctively fornicate. But we learn, we receive knowledge in order not to fornicate, thus, if we transmute the sexual energy, our matter, our body, becomes virgin. And from that virgin is born the child; that child that everybody worships and celebrates his birthday on the 25th.

That child was born within Jesus. That child was born within Moses, within Buddha, within Krishna. That child is fire. That fire is Christ, the Son of God. Or the First Begotten, the First Emanation of the Unknowable Divine, which is the Abstract Absolute Space, that we can call Father, Cosmic Father, that has no shape, has no form. This is the first step. Yet Christ has to be born not only in the physical body, but also in the vital body, astral body (emotional body), mental body, body of will, body of the consciousness, and the body of the spirit. Those are the seven steps that we have to take. Christ, as fire, has to enter into every single body or every single part of us.

The first matter that becomes virgin is the physical body, and then the vital body, and then the emotional body. So Christ has to be born within your emotions, within your mind, within your will.

You know that phrase that is written "Father, if it is possible, take this cup of me, but not my will but thine be done". That is only possible to utter, if we receive Christ in our own particular will. What type of will do we have?

This is the birth or Nativity of Christ within the human being; it occurs in steps, and is not like the common and ordinary Christians, the fundamentalists in this day and age, think, that you just raise your arm and you say “I accept Jesus,” and then Christ enters into you automatically. No, Christ does not enter anyone like that; first you have to become a virgin. Christ was born from Mary, a virgin, he did not arrive because of a few words: he needed a woman in order to be born.

That woman was crucified as well; she crucified herself as well.

Christ is crucified every year in the planet in order to give life, in order to resuscitate in all the elements. After March or April, after the celebration of the crucifixion, you see how nature becomes happy, full of light: the plant and animal kingdoms bloom with new life. Animals are charged with sexual force and then they start multiplying, because this is the only way that they know how to do it. They are not intellectual; they do not know anything about recreational sex. All of nature multiplies, is full of light, full of life. The same thing has to be within us. We want Christ to express itself not in the animal way, not in the plant way, but in a conscious way, because this is what Christ wants in every single person, every human being: to express itself in a very cognizant way, intelligent way. He wants to make of us a vehicle of intelligence.

An animal cannot do that, because the animal acts instinctually. In order for us to do it, we have to sacrifice the animal part of us, and that is only possible through the crucifixion. All that which is animal has to die. When the Christ child is born into the virginal human, that virginal initiate is in a stable among the animals. That is unfortunate. You see how Joseph and Mary represent the two polarities, Yin and Yang, that gave birth to Christ. But unfortunately, when Christ is born into the physical body, there are still a lot of animals there. These are the animals of desire that everybody has within: lust, anger, greed, envy, laziness, gluttony etc etc. All of those elements have to die, have to be crucified. The terrestrial man has to die in order for the heavenly man to be born. And that is a process as well. Do not assume that you have to accomplish this process only one time; you have to do it seven times within seven times. You have to die in your animal behavior in the physical plane, in the vital plane, in the emotional plane, in the mental plane and the plane of will, and the plane of consciousness, and even in the spirit. You have to become completely absorbed by that fire.

Do you think that Jesus of Nazareth became Jesus of Nazareth just like that, easily? Listen: he worked very hard in order to transform himself, as did Moses and all the great Prophets, Avatars, and Masters. They worked hard on themselves, so that light or Christ was emerging little by little until they became the same light, part of it. And that is to Christify yourself, to become a real, a true Christian. It is a process. So, the same drama that you see in nature, you have to repeat it in your own particular individual body, mind, and spirit; then indeed, you will understand what the Nativity of Christ is.

The Shepherds

Christ has to be born in your heart. When Christ comes, the shepherds come and receive the news that the Lord is being born in the stable. People think that the shepherds are people that were at that time taking care of the sheep. They ignore that even in this day and age, those people that are taking care of other people, of other souls, are called pastors. A pastor is a Latin and Spanish word for shepherd. So, if you want to receive the birth of the Lord in your heart, you have to be a shepherd. In other words, you have to work for Him; you have to spread the Word, the real knowledge. To become a shepherd is to become an instructor, to become a missionary.

There are different levels of shepherds. That is why in the bible it is written that the shepherd David became the King. Moses was a shepherd, and Jesus is represented as being a shepherd. It is a symbol of those who work for the good of humanity.

You see how the shepherd takes care of the sheep? Do you see any shepherd kicking their sheep? Or slaughtering the sheep? No! A really good shepherd gives his life for his sheep.

The sheep are a representation of the souls, the animal souls of good people that want to become human. So, in other words, the shepherd is a human, and the sheep is an animal. The symbol of that is simple: the shepherd is already in the level of human being. The shepherd reached the level of Tiphereth, the level of Mastery. As a shepherd, he is dealing with sheep, with those souls that still are not in the level of Tiphereth, but are meek souls that are truly following the Word of the Lord.

Referring to the time of the Gospels, there were many teachers (shepherds) who were working with the souls of people that were still intellectual animals, but meek, following the Word written in their sacred books. So, the Angel appeared to them and said, “You are shepherds. So, there is good news for you, because you are working for the souls, now the Lord is coming and being born within you in another level, as light.”

Then there is happiness in Bethlehem, which means “in the house of the bread of wisdom.” Bethlehem is Belen, the pineal gland. This is where the Lord is born. That little city of Bethlehem is the pineal gland, which is surrounded by other cities of Judah, the brain, which represent the mind of Jerusalem. The mind where you find all of those defects, vices, and errors that we have in abundance. So, all the people, the mind, are here in the brain, but in the middle is the pineal gland. It is the smallest of all the cities, where the Lord is being born. That is the symbol of the shepherds who come to celebrate the birth of Christ. The same event has to happen within us in different levels.

The Three Wise Men

And what about the three wise men, the three kings, or three magi? They are also symbolic, and are shepherds who are already dressed with vestures of the Lord, with the Light, with the Solar Bodies.

Wise comes from the word wisdom. Wisdom in Hebrew is Chokmah. Chokmah is the second Sephirah, which is attributed to the most beautiful atoms of that energy that we call Christ. Chokmah, Christ, wisdom, makes one wise. To be wise is to have Christ within. So, the three Wise Men are three steps or three categories, three degrees, in which we incarnate the Lord.

In other places they are represented with a crown. Crown in Hebrew is Kether, the Father. The Crown of Life is Christ. They are crowned already, meaning that they are kings, as David, as Solomon, because Christ is within. They are anointed by fire. That is what we call Messiah. Messiah is the same as Christ, or an Avatar, somebody that is a vehicle of the Solar Light. Christ expresses itself everywhere.

These three Wise Men are three levels in which Christ expresses itself within those who are already walking on the path:

1. a black wise man
2. a white wise man
3. a yellow wise man

These are the three colors of Alchemy. The first one is black because when you first receive the Lord, your matter is still black with ego and desire. The fire is still enclosed within different parts of your Being, within your consciousness, within your body, and you need to liberate it like a charcoal needs to liberate the fire. When that fire is completely liberated and the blackness disappears, then the whiteness appears, which is the purity, the virginity of the fire within the matter.

To become a white wise man is not easy; it is the most difficult part. There are many initiates who enter into the first part of the work and become black wise men, or black kings. The word Malachim is Hebrew and means kings or queens, and refers to Tiphereth in the world of Yetzirah, the world of the Angels. At that level of initiation you receive the level of Malachim, or king. Only in that level you can become a wise man, the incarnation of Chokmah, wisdom. But in the beginning, as the Master Samael explains in his books, you don’t notice the fire within the black, because that black has to annihilate all that blackness within, which is lust, ego, all of that negativity, animal desire that we have within. By annihilating it, the consciousness—which is fire, Christ—is liberated. Then the initiate begins to shine more, little by little, and seeing more light until become white.

The white king or magi appears after defeating Lucifer at one particular stage. This is what happened with Jesus: he appears before the multitudes after defeating Lucifer, within, as a white magician.

The path has to be walked in a higher level in order to become the yellow wise man. The yellow wise man is above the white. Yellow is the color of gold. That gold has to appear in the initiate. Before the gold can appear, he has to purify himself very much. That gold appears when the individual is resurrected.

The metal gold is the symbol of the sun. Silver is the symbol for the moon, and the gold for the sun. If you are becoming a yellow wise man, it is because you are already a Solar Man. You are completely purified, you are a vehicle. As the metal gold is a vehicle of the Solar Light, you are also a vehicle of the Solar Light, you are a gold man, a Solar Man. This is because you built a diamond soul.

A diamond stone is also related to the Sun. To have a diamond in your finger or in your necklace is easy, but to make your soul a diamond, that is very difficult. To make your soul a diamond soul is to possess the Philosophical Stone, to be a resurrected Master with dominion over the four elements, because you are in the very center of the cross, of the X, and from the very center you command the water, the air, the fire and the earth, because you are the vehicle of that light, which is in the center of the sun, in the center of the earth, in the center of the Pleiades, in the center of the galaxy, in the center of the universe. That light transforms you in different levels as well.

There are many resurrected Masters who have dominion only in this solar system, others who have dominion over the galaxy, others who have dominion in the Infinite, because that light transforms the initiate in different steps. Among the resurrected Masters, not all of them have that expansion, only those who have the wisdom of many infinites can enter into the Absolute (with the level of Anklad) and become Paramarthasatyas. That is why when we refer to the Master Jesus of Nazareth, the Master Aberamentho, we always bow before him, because he is a Paramarthasatya. He has the wisdom of many infinites within himself. He came to this planet Earth in order to help. There are other resurrected Masters who have the wisdom of galaxies. This is how the Solar Light expands, and it depends on your work, it depends on your consciousness. You see, there are always different Hierarchies, even among the Resurrected, among the yellow magicians.

So, this is the Nativity of Christ. It is a graduation, a system of awakening the Solar Powers that are latent within each one of us.

Questions and Answers

Audience: What about the star of Bethlehem?

Speaker: The star of Bethlehem is our own particular individual Being, our own particular Monad. Each one of us has our own particular star of Bethlehem. The pineal gland is related with the city of Bethlehem, where the Lord is born. The pineal gland is also related with the star of Bethlehem, the star that guides the magician. That star is self-remembrance. This is why we always state that we have to remember ourselves, that we have to follow our own particular star, because all that which we are emanated from the Ain Soph. Within the Ain Soph we have our own particular atom or star that is connected with our own particular physical body and consciousness. That particular Ain Soph or star, which is connected with Christ above, wants to unfold, to develop all the powers of the Lord within us. The Ain Soph guides us if we listen, and descends according to our degree, in order for us to develop. To follow that star means to be a magician. Remember that the three wise men were following that star. So, if you want to follow that star, you have to become a priest, which is the same as magician. To become a priest or magician doesn’t mean to merely perform rituals, but only one: the ritual of transmutation of your Solar Force.

Audience: Christ has to be born in secret, because of Herod...

Speaker: In the beginning of finding this knowledge, when you are enthusiastic and awakening and developing your inner self, you start talking and want everybody to follow the path. Then you find people that are very skeptical and start putting doubts in your mind. This is Herod. Herod represents the world, and there is a Herod inside of the mind of everybody. We all have our own particular Herod putting doubts in our minds. Herod is committing adultery with Herodias, humanity.Herodias represents the whore humanity that worships negativity. So, our inner Herod is fornicating with Herodias. When we talk to others about Christ, immediately they feel threatened (because of their inner Herod) and they want to kill the child of Christ that is emerging within us. So, that is why when we start awakening and having experiences, we have to keep our mouth shut, behaving as anybody else, and hiding the Lord; in order for us to go to humanity and help, first the Lord needs to grow and mature inside of us. But if the Lord is a child, remember, that at that time Herod killed many children. Only those who are smart are saved.

Audience: During the lecture you indicated that Christ is the Ain Soph Aur, but we also hear that Christ is Chokmah. I guess you answered in the lecture, but can you explain the difference here?

Speaker: Christ is the light that unfolds in many lights. Christ is one and many. Christ is the Ain Soph Aur. Christ is the Ray of Okidanokh, the Central Sun. Christ is the Holy Trinity: Kether, Chokmah, Binah; Father, Son and Holy Spirit, whose most beautiful atoms shine in Chokmah, wisdom. Christ unfolds into the couple, which is Abba and Aima, Father and Mother. The Divine Mother Kundalini is also Christ. Christ unfolds into the Twelve Apostles who are within us, so every single apostle is part of that light, is part of Christ. Christ unfolds into the twenty four lights, or the twenty four elders, which are written in the Book of Revelation. Every single elder is Christ in itself, in a different level. To the end, Christ unfolds into 49 fires. To put in activity all of those parts of Christ within, is to connect all the bulbs in order to have light in your home from the same electricity. Remember that Christ is everywhere. Christ in Greek mythology is called Zeus, Jupiter, the Father of all Gods; Christ is symbolized in many ways.