Sacred Light

  It's time the true story of Santa Claus was told to the world, and then it's true significance can be understood so all can receive the gifts. Once the truth is comprehended then we can truly celebrate because this will become an inward process not just an outward observance.  My youngest child is 6 years old. Last year at this time he said to me, "I don't think Santa is real. I think you and dad bring the presents". I said to him, "You are a really smart boy!" and kissed his head. He was satisfied, and I left it at that. This year he is in first grade, and many kids his age still believe in Santa. He said there are only two boys in his class that don't believe in the big, red guy, himself and one of his friends. Many people think that once you know the secret of Santa that the magic is lost and all the fun is over; but, if people really understood this story, and what it's true meaning is about, then they would see that the magic has only...

I want to start this post with these interesting and insightful, yet controversial, thoughts from Alvin Boyd Khun’s essay , Platonic Philosophy in the Bible , he said, “In the nailing of a personal Jesus on a wooden cross Christianity reduced the glorious drama of the spiritual life to its grossest and most repellent form… The human soul is itself bound on the cross of gross superstition so long as these crude notions dominate the conscious and subconscious thought of modern man. The light of the true spiritual Gnosis of olden times must be cast into the dark nooks and corners of modern thinking, and disperse the mists of such errant and arrant doctrinism… The composers of ancient scriptures were poets, allegorist, dramatists and mythicists. They never wrote literally. They were in the line of generations of sages and seers who had developed the art of spiritual representation to a point of the utmost ingenuity and complexity, completely shrouding the intended real meani...

As we get ready to celebrate Christmas in my home, my thoughts have been centered around how much my beliefs have changed since leaving Mormonism. I am no longer a Christian, but I am devoted to the teachings of Jesus; not just his words in the bible, but also from the Gnostic Gospels as well. I believe great truths are hidden from the masses who are following the common Christian religion. Especially, the teaching of the Christ, or Chrism, within each of us. Many of us celebrated the Winter Solstice yesterday. Right now, the sun is resting for three days, rising on the same latitudinal degree until December 25th when it will move one degree northward signalling its beginning journey around the wheel of the year once again. Light will be returning, taking precious time back from the darkness of night in the Northern Hemisphere. In the ancient times, anything that stopped moving for three days was considered dead. The Sun God stopped in the sky, was dead for three days, and then ...