In the face of Christmas, the feast par excellence, the central celebration of the Christian world, some questions arise that do not easily find an answer.
In that cave two thousand or sixteen years ago, the mystery of the birth of Christ, the Savior born of a virgin mother, was fulfilled.
To Christ, Way, Life and Truth I humbly bow, in his word I find grace and refuge and this is not in question.
In honor of the Way of Life and Truth, however, I ask myself:
The event, in addition to the birth of the savior, brought with it the birth of one of the most powerful organizations of all time, the Holy Roman Catholic Apostolic Church, custodian of the word.
Many of the many hundreds of millions of people around the world who profess the Catholic faith have learned, in oratories and churches, in schools and homes, in catechism classes and hours of religion that Christ is the only begotten son of God. , the one and only savior.
The question is, why this lie? Who benefits?
Why the need to hide the truth at the same time as it is claimed to promote it?
Another question is, how many of us have ever heard of Rama, Deganavdah, Viracocha, or Quetzalcoatl, Osiris, Yurupary?
Certainly few, yet all share the same Christmas with Our Lord. All, according to their reference tradition, are considered saviors born of a virgin mother.
All those hours of catechism, all those hours of religion and history ...
One for all we need only a quote from the Atharva-Veda:
“The will of the devas was done; you conceived in purity of heart and divine love. Virgin and mother, hello! A son will be born of you and will be the savior of the world. But flee because Kansa is looking for you to make you die with the tender fruit you bear in your womb.
Our brothers will guide you to the shepherds, who stand at the foot of Mount Meru under the fragrant cedars, in the pure air of the Himavat. There you will give to the world the divine son and you will call him Krishna, the sacred ». (1)
Don't you think you've heard this story before?
It is a pity that this is older than a few millennium.
Another question: what can we expect from a culture that ignores the saviors of others by claiming exclusivity on a universal myth, the patrimony of all humanity?
Well! But Christ was the first to speak of Love, to bring the good news.
No.
In the epic of Ram, a few millennia before Christ, we can find the origin of the culture which spreading throughout the world gave rise to the various traditions. I spare you the myth that you can find in the aforementioned Atharva-Veda.
In that ancient text scaro we read how by listening to the voice Rama had given way, it could be said, to the founding act of religion, as through the ceremony of the visco, he had established the feast of Christmas, or of the new health , of the new sun, of the renewal. Through the vision of the caduceus he had marked the zero point of medicine, the conception of the very idea of care through the plants of the forest.
It was with Rama that faith in the evocative power of the voice (of the Father) imposed itself as the source of all cults and the very foundation of magical power, it was with him that the preaching of love, sharing, equality, of the wisdom and understanding among all human beings he laid the foundations of all the evolutionary doctrines from the Egyptians, to the Greeks, to arrive at the Christic teaching, of the other great poly or monotheistic religions and of the perennial philosophies of every age.
Another question: why ever let the Lord's flock understand that the Immaculate Conception, the Holy Trinity and the Divinity are unique prerogatives of Jesus of Nazareth, when instead it is decreed by history that the same concepts are contained in the Vedas many centuries before, which later became dogmas of the doctrine of Holy Roman Church?
Why not tell that when the conquistadors came from the savages they were welcomed with love and sharing since many of those peoples themselves had the symbol of the cross as a testimony of their sacredness?
This was the case of the Tupi Guarany, whose divnity Yurupary, which means, the tortured, the martyr, (from Yuru, throat, neck, and pary, tight, closed). We read in Da Matta e Silva, "Yurupary was 'son of the virgin Chiucy,' (from chiù, crying and cy, mother) the mother of crying, a painful mother who saw her beloved son being sacrificed because he preached love, renunciation, equality, charity ... and, surprisingly linked to the symbol of the cross, sacred to the Tupi Guarany because it picked up the agonizing cry of the martyr Yurupary "(2)
I have no answers but a suggestion.
We open our minds to cultural prejudices, we free our hearts from the illusion of exclusivity over love, we broaden our gaze to a transcultural dimension that can embrace the whole of humanity, we reject the commodification of Christmas, that of the Coca Santas Cola, shopping and gifts at all costs.
We give up spending money and spend credibility, instead of objects, we give intentions.
O Lord who dwells in my heart
O holy spirit who breathes in my chest O holy mother who conceives my heaven To you I offer the simple intent of the honor of me To you I offer the name of what is good for me To you I offer the realization of what is right for me Holy Christmas Interior or creatures of good will.
If you recognize the perversion of the sacred in the consumption of the Nativity
if you want to make a little big gesture
respecting the Soul of the World
maybe this Christmas you could give an intent.
The thing is simple, it states an intent that concerns your life,
a small step forward that you want to take,
a commitment with yourself that you want to keep, a gesture that you feel you have to do,
make it by Christmas and offer it as a gift to whoever you want.
Each intent made a gift
In this way, celebrate your Holy Inner Christmas
Here and now.
(1) Schuré E., (1986), The great Initiates, Laterza, Bari p. 73
(2) Da Matta e Silva, WW, Umbanda de todos nos, Rio de Janeiro, cit. in Lattuada PL (2005), Brazilian Shamanism, p. 36, Anima, Milan