As we celebrate the birth of Christ there are new things we must understand to prepare for this light and the Prince of Peace. Most scholars agree that part of the message of Christ was a fulfillment and a new interpretation of the Mosaic Law (Old Testament laws of the Prophets).  With the birth or coming of the light is the new law.  Law is a very old word that comes from the Hebrew concept of path or the way of walking

In preparation for the Advent we have cleared our altars of false gods, understood the need for hope, filled our life with joy (vibration of light), understood peace to mean existence or to be and finally we have understood that love is the binding force of all life, consciousness in the universe. Not romantic, love but love that understands the existential meaning of our conscious existence.

We are now prepared for the coming of the light (knowing and understanding) and the new law that Christ will present during his brief lifetime. In all of Christianity and its myriad forms the event of this birth is the beginning of the cycles of birth and death. With this comes a new understanding of the way to proceed or the path. Literally we are to embrace this new law of life.   

The birth marks a major consciousness shift in our known world. This shift is evident in all religious writings shortly before and after the birth of Christ. For instance in China during this time, Confucius started a new “Law” a different way of existing.

But when the time arrived that was set by God the Father, God sent his Son, born among us of a woman, born under the conditions of the law.

As we light our fifth candle we understand we are freed from the old interpretation of the laws, Egypt (our misunderstanding of materiality, our sensory input, which is telling us we are solid and immutable. We are freed from thinking our consciousness is doomed to suffering, pain and death… we are freed from the many false gods we have built in our mind and lives…we now have a chance of salvation. We can be saved from our misconceptions and understanding of the way or path or Tao… for a new understanding of love and peace… revenge and lack of forgiveness no longer haunt our minds and thoughts. Belief is replaced by understand at this moment of epiphany that we have always existed and always will, that at any time we can grasp this new light, peace, joy and hope.

As we light our candle we realize that which was dark is now light.

“Do not think that I have come to abolish (weaken or put down the path of one God) the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished” ( HYPERLINK “http://bible.logos.com/passage/niv/Matthew%205.17-18” \t “_blank” Matthew 5:17-18).

The word (vibration of all life, LOVE) becomes flesh with the Advent of Christ. The laws or way we are to walk becomes our salvation or release from the dark prison we have been banished to by our senses. As we walk this path toward the Ascension of Being (symbolically played out in the death and arise of Christ at Easter) we hear the word (creative force) of God in all that we do.

May your holiday season be filled with joyous celebration of the coming light. May your holiday stocking be filled with hope, peace, joy, and love.

© Suzanne Deakins

Baraka means to speak with lighting or understanding.