| Each Easter offers a special focus for our services. Those
of us who honor the universality of religion, all religious expressions aimed at the
highest experience in man are of equal value and inspiration. We find in the story of
Jesus, his life-story itself a sacred teaching, the highest expression for the attainment
of Self-Realization.
In the talk given at the service special mention was made for the three Mary’s of
the New Testament: Mary, mother of Jesus; Mary, sister to Martha and Lazarus; and Mary
Magdalene. The name Mary represents the feeling/intuitional nature of the soul. Mary,
mother of Jesus is the purified feeling that is the open, intuitional perception that the
Christ-nature is to be born into the world; in fact it is the vehicle through which the
birth is to occur. Mary, sister to Martha and Lazarus is the devotional nature in the
soul, praised by Jesus for her purity of devotion. Finally, Mary Magdalene, who sold
herself to the world, is the feeling nature that is willing to prostitute itself for the
sensual nature in man. Once that sensual nature is redeemed and the life-force energy is
redirected to the Christ-center at the ajna, the third eye point between the eye brows,
the original purity of that feeling-nature once more becomes a fit instrument for
intuitional perception. It is Mary Magdalene then, that is first to see the resurrected
Christ.
The implications of this reformed Mary Magdalene are enormous for the devotee. No
matter our background, no matter what we have done in our past, when we turn away from
selling our soul for sensual experience and turn all the life-energy within to the
Christ-center we may completely reclaim all the purity and beauty of God-perception. This
redemption of consciousness is the key to the scriptures, all scriptures the world over.
The Easter Service was followed by a potluck and Easter-egg hunt. Jesus, again, led the
way, honoring weddings and dinner-parties with his presence; those functions that help to
weave the fabric of our society together in positive ways.
May you be blessed in your realization for the eternal, Universal Christ-Consciousness,
ever waiting for its awakening within you.
David
Yogacharya David R. Hickenbottom
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