Advent

Advent

The themes are offered:

Hope..Prepare..Joy..Love..

This is the season

for preparation..

Preparation for:

Self recognition

possibly remembering

what has been 

recognized..
Recognizing one's Self is
recognizing the Lord
religion or no..

The veiled is unveiled

revealing Joy

which overcomes and

appears as every-thing..

This is the birth of

awakening Love

and the real Reason

for the season:

The Season

never-ending...

~CC

IV

Give up to thy soul—–

Let it have its way—–

It is, I tell thee, God himself,

The selfsame One that rules the Whole,

Tho’ he speaks thro’ thee with a stifled voice,

And looks through thee, shorn of his beams.

But if thou listen to his voice,

If thou obey the royal thought,

It will grow clearer to thine ear,

More glorious to thine eye.

The clouds will burst that veil him now

And thou shalt see the Lord.

VI

This is the reason why thou dost recognize

Things now first revealed,

Because in thee resides

The Spirit that lives in all;

And thou canst learn the laws of nature

Because its author is latent in thy breast.

~~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Excerpts from his poem,

Gnothi Seauton, (Know Thyself)

Forum map:

Knowing Ourself

Joy

Luke 1: 39-56 

Knowing Yourself 

“Knowing our Lord”

Recognition of our real Self

Recognition of our True Nature

Awakening

Fulfillment

Remembering

Identity as “I Am”

Oneness

Now

Grace

Love 

Luke 2: 1-14

Prepare     Hope

      Luke 3: 1-6                                         Luke 21: 25-36   

Separation/sin/ego

Fear/Desire

Beliefs

Questions??   (Who am I?)

Recognition of limitation

Recognition of illusion

Repentance (Turning)

Forgiving

Forgetting

Veiling of our real Self

Searching for Joy

Experiencing  “I Am