Sar Shalom … Hear Ye O Israel the Prince of Peace Cometh
During Advent every Sunday and candle represents an aspect of the Christ Consciousness. Christ is called the Prince of Peace. In looking historically in the New Testament there seems to be little peace for Jesus who was hounded, tortured, and eventually crucified.
The oldest form of the word peace comes from Hebrew word Shalom, translated into Middle English and Anglo-French and Latin… the form of the meaning we currently use came into the language in or about the 15th Century. Only a small piece of the original meaning of the word remains in our understanding of the word. To have peace is to have calmness and silence, to agree… in the common vernacular and even going so far as forming a pact. Way down on the use of the word we find a clue to why Jesus, Christ would be called the Prince of Peace. The clue is a simple to be. Peace has an uncommon usage meaning to be. And here is the passage into the Hebrew language and use of the word Shalom.
We know that our desire, hope, and inspiration are necessary elements of obtaining a state of Christ Consciousness. This first candle is a necessary if we are to understand the path our consciousness must take to exist as consciousness aware of itself as consciousness. Peace becomes the second step we must take.
Peace–Hebrew Shalom … A word study in the New King James version for SHALOM says: Completeness, wholeness, health, peace, welfare, safety soundness, tranquility, prosperity, perfectness, fullness, rest, harmony, the absence of agitation or discord.
Here it is! The path we must realize for the birth to be within our consciousness.
The Prince of Peace is about tranquility but more… Jesus, Christ, the Messiah, (consciousness) represents the place we must come to in an epiphany about our being our existence as consciousness. The Messiah comes to show us we have always been whole, complete perfect. Consciousness, the Christ consciousness, lacks nothing. Is full unto itself without beginning or end … is always present an omnipresent existence of being. To be in a state of Christ Consciousness is to be in a state of surrender to the meaning of the word peace. That is to be in surrender to the nature of reality of the wholeness and perfection of the Christ Consciousness. In this state we are, we exist …we are beingness or isness (To Be) in a state of peace.
Isaiah 9.6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
This state of peaceful existence is without end… life everlasting is promised because that which is whole, complete, and perfect is without alpha or omega. In the Christ Consciousness we find that wholeness, tranquility the understanding of inner peace will grow (the government, rules, axiomatic understanding of the Christ Consciousness) our understanding of the principles, the axiomatic thought represented by the Prince of Peace grows as we practice the surrender to the ideas contained in the name the Messiah is called Peace.
Peace is an inner attribute that we must unveil, reveal, and acknowledge within ourselves. In lighting our Advent candle of Peace, we are saying I understand the surrender to the Consciousness of Christ, to the wholeness and perfection that is always present. We are symbolically lighting the way for our consciousness to understand that only in the surrender to that which is greater than our will and human understanding do we find life everlasting even within the crucifixion of Jesus. Advent is not just about birth but the whole cycle of birth and death centered in the Judeo-Christian world.
God/Father the creator consciousness has given his only begotten son that we may know life without end. BUT this cannot happen in a man-state consciousness of things. We must move past this state of thinking beyond the idea that we are cloven, or lack whole or are incomplete in our consciousness. This duality of thought is war, the great battle we each fight within our consciousness our battle for our soul. Soul is defined as the essence of our being or that, which is the image of God.
As we celebrate Advent (preparation for the coming light unto the world), the birth of the Messiah, the Christ we now understand that we must have hope and desire. With our first Candle we are celebrating our release from the man-state of thinking, (represented by our sojourn in the desert and freedom from Egypt). We begin by searching our consciousness for that which represents the idea of a cloven god or two gods knowing that there is only one true creator, Truth undivided as whole and complete. We have cleansed our alters of life of these states of duality, knowing that the coming days will never lack in light and inspiration. We take these new realities of understanding with us as we light the second candle. As we light this second candle of peace we realize the Prince of Peace, the Christ Consciousness is always present, always available. We now realize we must surrender our will, ego and man-state thoughts for this greater idea of life if we are to go to heaven, to cross the sands of the desert to heaven to Israel, to enter the Christ Consciousness and be reborn to life everlasting.
We have now realized the first two candles and steps we must take in the preparation of the coming birth within us and unto the world. There are five candles we must light, five steps toward the acceptance/realization of the Christ Consciousness, Truth into our life as an existing and everpresent state of consciousness. This is what is called Translation, moving us from earth bound thoughts to those of Heaven.
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