Christmas and Easter in the Initiatic Tradition

by Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

154 pages
Publication date: 1987
ISBN: 2855663970

Book #209

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Reviews:

I.G., 8/7/98, Christmas and Easter are revealed to be rich with meaning on many levels.

While reading the first chapter, The Feast of the Nativity, I found myself stunned by how much I have always taken for granted in the story of Jesus' birth. Aivanhov unfolds the mystical meanings of the key symbols in the Nativity: Mary and Joseph, the inn and the stable, the Three Magi, their three gifts, the presence of the ox and the ass. The more I read, the more I realized that the Nativity is neither a pleasant children's Christmas story nor a mere historical recounting of the birth of Jesus. Aivanhov describes it as a map for the initiate, a spiritual recipe for those who wish to give birth to the Christ Child within themselves... Powerful and thought provoking.

 

Table of Contents:

1. The Feast of the Nativity

2. The Second Birth

3. Birth on the Different Planes of Being

4. Except ye die ye shall not live

5. The Resurrection and the Last Judgement

6. The Body of Glory