{"id":110278,"date":"2020-12-18T12:45:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T20:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=110278"},"modified":"2023-09-22T11:31:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T18:31:31","slug":"celebrating-the-christ-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/110278-celebrating-the-christ-mass","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Christ Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Part of our heritage comes through this thing we call the Messiah, the Christ, that which is the power, knowledge, ability and spiritual promise that can be awakened in each person.” <\/em>– John Morton <\/p>\n

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This article comes from a seminar John Morton gave on Christmas Eve 2011 in Santa Monica, California and the blessing that follows he gave on Christmas Eve 2013.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We celebrate at this time of year what is called Christmas.\u00a0 If we look at it as a Mass, we might ask, \u201cWhat is that?\u201d\u00a0 In some way it\u2019s a consecration, a celebration in a particular way.\u00a0 Each of us gathers in our own tradition or history with what we are doing in this season.\u00a0 There is a responsibility, as I see it, that we come into the living Christ, also known as the Messiah.<\/p>\n

That can get to a point where people might argue or debate what all that means.\u00a0 I\u2019m not here to argue and debate.\u00a0 I am suggesting we celebrate in something that comes in our willingness to gather in this purpose.<\/p>\n

There are other things going on this time of year having to do with who gets what, how much it costs and when things come your way.\u00a0 What does it mean?\u00a0 Was it enough?\u00a0 Was it correct?\u00a0 I think we can get distracted by what is referred to as the commercialization of the Christ Mass.<\/p>\n

There are other things at this time of year such as Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, and other traditions that I\u2019m not so much aware of that go on just because it is a season.\u00a0 You know it\u2019s a season when all kinds of things take place.\u00a0 I invite you in your own way to open your hearts to find what is there for you.\u00a0 It is something personal for each of us, often a celebration of family, and at times that can be challenging.\u00a0 To get together can be part of the challenge.\u00a0 How do we do that?\u00a0 Where do we do that?\u00a0 Whose home?\u00a0 Who is doing dinner?<\/p>\n

That type of approach often gets into a distraction that would lose connection with what we are looking at.\u00a0 We are looking at a birth of Spirit.\u00a0 In my view, that takes place in the Spirit and from the Spirit.\u00a0 If we were looking \u2013 and I continue to invite you to do that \u2013 you would see what the Spirit is doing with us is always a cause of celebration.\u00a0 There is great joy and peace regardless of what comes across in the flesh and in the world.<\/p>\n

I recently heard John-Roger\u2019s Christmas message from 1968.\u00a0 It\u2019s something we play at our Living in Grace retreats.\u00a0 We had Living in Grace retreats for twenty-plus years and that same calling is here today.\u00a0 That is part of the responsibility that I accepted over thirty years ago, and it came into a kind of completion at this time of year. This time of the year becomes part of my process in a personal way with this thing we call the Traveler Consciousness.<\/p>\n

The Traveler Consciousness is something that John-Roger brought forward from 1963 when it was part of what occurred in his awakening and responsibility.\u00a0 For my part, it\u2019s something of a succession, a \u201cfollowing\u201d.\u00a0 I\u2019m following in footsteps.\u00a0 When we really look at the footsteps we are following, they go back.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t just go back two thousand years to Jesus.\u00a0 It is a whole line of those who had the authority and anointing.<\/p>\n

I give thanks for the beautiful dance and way of communicating that it is an anointing of the Spirit.\u00a0 It is often represented in a ritual of some kind of sacrament, as something holy that takes place. That is an opportunity for all of us, not something for the elect few.\u00a0 It is something we all have as a birthright, as an opportunity coming forward.<\/p>\n

Have you been finding it \u201ceasy going\u201d lately?\u00a0 There must be someone, like an unknown soldier, an unknown person that has been finding it easy going.\u00a0 Consider that life, such as it is for all of us in the midst of the Christ Mass, often presents itself as something challenging.\u00a0 I\u2019m one of those people.\u00a0 I figure that part of the reason I got into this position is that I need a lot of repetition.\u00a0 So, I go and source the information, the teachings, again and again.<\/p>\n

I do have something that John-Roger referred to as every Traveler\u2019s prayer, to let the truth come from my lips directly to your ears.\u00a0 That is something I endeavor to do.\u00a0 But like you, I\u2019m sure you understand that at times our expression does not really represent our truth, whole truth and nothing but the truth.\u00a0 It does become a challenge to keep ourselves up in this presence of the Spirit that is joyful, peaceful, harmonious, abundant, prosperous, generous and receiving.\u00a0 That, to me, is the truth of this Spirit.<\/p>\n

The consternation may be that in our own challenges and difficulties at times, we choose to make it more difficult than necessary.\u00a0 Have you ever had that kind of experience?\u00a0 We do things that we would not look upon as our true nature or spirit, that which is holy amongst and between us.<\/p>\n

Part of our heritage comes through this thing we call the Messiah, the Christ, that which is the power, knowledge, ability and spiritual promise that can be awakened in each person.\u00a0 It is a living potential and something I found I needed to do at a certain point.\u00a0 Part of what happened in my process was determining I needed to connect to a purpose and truth and to make that what determined what I do in my life.<\/p>\n

The time I recall that was most intense as an awakening was when I was completing my first run with college getting a bachelor\u2019s degree.\u00a0 I was about twenty years old when I graduated from the University of California, Davis.\u00a0 I was aware I was in confusion, not having a clear knowing of my purpose. \u00a0Part of what was going on with that was a search that led me here.<\/p>\n

In that search has been a process of not<\/u><\/em> awakening to the Spirit in the purpose.\u00a0 As much as I might tell you it was an act of making my life one of giving to others in service, initially I was trying to find some peace of mind and sanity amidst the challenges I was encountering.\u00a0 And so it continues.<\/p>\n

There is an aspect of what goes on in the life of the Christ and that which comes in as the Messiah and then is shared with each one that is a constant challenge and process of stepping up.\u00a0 It has been said there is no rest for the wicked.\u00a0 That might sound like it\u2019s \u201ccoming down\u201d on someone or something.\u00a0 The way I look at it is that what is off, does not work or serve our soul\u2019s purpose; it is of a wicked, backwards or oppositional nature and something we must clear and overcome in our process of life.<\/p>\n

It is really good news that if we are going to have peace, understanding and the good that is present in our life, we need to let go and release this wicked nature.\u00a0 It may be of the truth that if you stand convicted, or sit, or you are lying down convicted, there is the opportunity to release what is no longer serving, what is bothering or disturbing you.<\/p>\n

I invite you to leave your burdens with the Christ.\u00a0 There is a consciousness that can take that on, dissolving and clearing whatever is not serving the highest good, making the way we express in the world brand new.\u00a0 That is an invitation.\u00a0 It is a blessing.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n

Blessing the Christ Born in You<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take a moment to go within, and then I\u2019ll share a vision in my way, and you can see the vision you have in your way, however that works for you.<\/p>\n

We can see ourself walking into the place where the birth of the Christ is shown in the physical form, in the body of an infant. There is a great light emanating.<\/p>\n

What brought you into this place was your own attunement and awareness of that light, however it came to you, that you saw it in some way, that someone told you about it and told you where to go, and perhaps even led you there. In this presence with this light is the sacred and the holy. In silence is the first sound. Then, whatever sounds are there, the natural sounds that go with the world, the silence is pervasive.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a most beautiful feeling. You can feel it physically on the skin and the way you feel the air.<\/p>\n

You can hear sounds that are like music, sounds of great instruments, sounds that become resounding and resounding joy, peace on earth. So, you have the experience that this peacefulness, this love, this radiant joy and beauty is everywhere, that everyone is beholding it, however they do that.\u00a0 We are in the presence that unites us all, that makes all things new, restores the beauty, the purity, the sanctity.<\/p>\n

There is great understanding. There is the view of what would paradise be on earth. There are the sounds of laughter. There are the sounds of delight.<\/p>\n

That peace that is restful, so there\u2019s nothing that would in any way disturb this peace. It\u2019s all no more.\u00a0 In the sky is a great light that is that star that is also part of the signs that we are in the birth of the Christ. And we\u2019ve been led to this moment in our own way.\u00a0 And as you permit it, this consciousness can move in you and be awake, and transform your life, that from this day forward you have the strength, you have the wisdom, you have whatever is needed to work out all of these situations.<\/p>\n

You have a great companion who goes where you go, who is most willing to assist and guide, and show you how to move into your own strength and your own wisdom. Behold this day, the Christ is born in you, and all are beloved of God.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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