THE FINAL WILD SONG OF YOUR BIRTH-NIGHT CAN NEVER BE WRITTEN; THE LAST SHINING WORD OF YOUR COMING CANNOT BE SAID. ROUGH, SLOW-MINDED SHEPHERDS WILL RUN, ANGEL-DRIVEN, FOREVER BY NIGHT TO A CAVE AND A CATTLE SHED.

AND YOU, BEYOND BONDAGE OF TIME, WITHOUT END OR BEGINNING, WILL WAKE IN THE ARMS OF A MAID, ON AN UNENDING NIGHT. YOU, THE UNUTTERED WORD BECOME FLESH AND FOREVER NOW SPOKEN, WILL BE HERE, BE OUR LIFE, OUR ACCESSIBLE LIGHT.

TONIGHT IS YOUR NIGHT, YOUR INCREDIBLE, SONG-SPANGLED STORY. WE SHEPHERDS AND FLOCKS WAIT ON THE FIELDS BEYOND BETHLEHEM PLAIN; O ANGELS, O SHEPHERDS, O JOSEPH, O MARY, O JESUS, O GOD, TELL YOUR CHILDREN THE STORY AGAIN.

MASTER JESUS CAME TO THIS EARTH WITH A PRE-DETERMINED PATTERN OF LIFE; AND CERTAIN ATTRIBUTES HAD BEEN ASSEMBLED TO FULFILL THIS MISSION; WHICH WAS ALSO THE WILL OF THE FATHER.

IN THE CRYSTALLIZED CONDITION OF THE EARTH AND THE SOCIAL STATUS OF THE WORLD TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO, THERE EXISTED SUCH DECAYED CONDITION THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE MASS OF THE PEOPLE TO BE TAUGHT THE REALITY OF THE POWER OF THE CHRISTOS, AND THE FAMILY OF LIGHT, LIFE AND LOVE, WHICH IS THE TRIANGLE OF CREATION.

THUS IT WAS THAT JESUS CHRIST, BEING A HIGHLY EVOLVED MASTER, CAME TO EARTH, ACCEPTED THE IMAGE OF THE CHRISTOS AND ALLOWED HIS BODY TO BE USED AS A POINT OF MEDIATION AND SYMBOL FOR THAT OMNIPOTENT POWER TO EXPRESS ITS TRIUNE REALITY--LIGHT, LIFE AND LOVE--THOSE PEOPLE WHO ACCEPTED HIM WOULD ALSO BE ACCEPTING THE CHRIST. WHEN THEY ACCEPTED THIS THROUGH HIS SYMBOL, THEY MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR THE SYMBOL OF GOD AND THE POWER OF THE FATHER TO COME DIRECTLY TO THEM. THEY HAD ESTABLISHED A CONSCIOUSNESS THROUGH THE SYMBOLIC REALITY WHICH THEY COULD HOLD, AND THAT WOULD BECOME AN ACTIVE AGENT IN THEIR LIFE. AND THIS IS WHAT HE MEANT WHEN HE SAID, "ONLY THROUGH ME SHALL YOU SEE THE FACE OF THE FATHER."

THE CONDITION OF THE EARTH AT THAT PERIOD WAS THAT OF AN ORB WHICH HAS STARTED TO BE CRYSTALLIZED SO BADLY, THAT THE MANY NEW STARTS BY THE WAY OF SOME NEW PEOPLE HERE HAD FAILED, SO THAT IT WAS NECESSARY FOR SOME COSMIC ALCHEMY TO BE PERFORMED IN ORDER TO BRING LIFE AND PROGRESSION BACK INTO THE PLANET.

JESUS WISHED TO ASSUME THIS MISSION, AND DID ASSUME IT. HE ASSUMED A FLESH BODY AND FORM TO BE USED IN HIS LIFE. THIS WAS NECESSARY, SO THAT HE MIGHT SANCTIFY HUMAN FLESH BY PUTTING THAT FORM INTO USE. HE MADE THE PHYSICAL FORM READY FOR THE RESURRECTION OF THE LIGHT BODY.

CHRIST JESUS THEN CLOTHED HIS PERSON IN THE MOST SIMPLE AND INTIMATE CHARM OF THE HUMAN INDIVIDUALITY. HE ADORNED THAT HUMANITY WITH THE MOST MAGNIFICENT AND MOST MASTERFUL SPLENDORS OF THE UNIVERSE. HE THEN CAME AMONGST US AS THE SYNTHESIS, SURPASSING ALL HOPE OF ALL PERFECTION, SUCH, THAT EVERY MAN WAS NECESSARILY OBLIGED TO SEE AND FEEL HIS PRESENCE.

FOR ON THAT DAY, IGNORANCE WAS CONQUERED BY THIS INCARNATION, AND AGAIN WAS QUICKENED WITHIN MAN, THE EAGERNESS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT THAT THEY SAW IN THIS CHRIST BEING, AND SO WAS THE DESIRE TO SAVE THE WORLD THAT WAS WITHERING, EVEN IN ITS NATURAL ROOTS, RENEWED. HE TOOK HIS PLACE AT THE HEAD OF CREATION ON THE EARTH.

THE PRIMORDIAL ROLE OF THE CHRIST IS TO DRAW ALL TO HIMSELF, ALL THAT BEFORE HIM, MOVED AT RANDOM; GOD CHOSE THE LOVE OF HIS INCARNATE AS THE PRIME MOVER OF THE RESTORED UNIVERSE. CHRIST EFFECTED THIS RESTORATION IN THE EMBODIMENT OF JESUS. THERE WAS NO ASPECT OF HUMAN LIFE THAT WAS NOT EXPERIENCED SOMEHOW BY JESUS: INFANCY, CHILDHOOD, ADOLESCENCE, ADULTHOOD; A LIFETIME OF HUMAN EXPERIENCES SANCTIFIED BY OBEDIENCE.

BY HIS TOTAL OBEDIENCE, JESUS UNDOES THE DISOBEDIENCE OF ADAM. BOTH WERE VIRGIN BORN--ADAM WAS BORN OF THE VIRGIN EARTH, NOT OF HUMAN PARENTS; JESUS WAS BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD.

ADAM SINNED THROUGH THE DISOBEDIENCE OF A WOMAN CREATED OUT OF HIMSELF; CHRIST JESUS RECAPITULATES THE FALL, THROUGH THE OBEDIENCE OF A WOMAN WHO GAVE HIM BIRTH. CHRIST JESUS RECAPITULATES THE FALL THROUGH THE OBEDIENCE OF THE VIRGIN MARY.

THE MASTER JESUS AND THE BLESSED MARY WERE THE PUREST AND MOST ADVANCED EGOS EVER TO COME INTO CARNATION. THEY ARE THE PERFECT TYPE PATTERN OF THE PERFECTED MAN AND WOMAN.

THIS WAS WHY BOTH WERE IMMACULATELY CONCEIVED. FOR ACCORDING TO JEWISH TRADITION, IT WAS AFFIRMED, LONG BEFORE, THAT THE STAIN OF ADAM'S SIN WAS NOT TO TOUCH THE MESSIAH OR HIS MOTHER.

PREPARATION FOR THE ADVENT OF A GREAT AVATAR OR SAVIOR BEGINS GENERATIONS BEFORE THE TIME APPOINTED FOR HIS APPEARANCE. BOTH OF MARY'S PARENTS, ANNA AND JOACHIM, WERE THOUGHT TO BE INITIATES OF HIGH DEGREE IN THE ESSENIAN SCHOOL OF THE MYSTERIES, FULLY UNDERSTANDING THEIR PARTS IN THE PREPARATION FOR THE HUMAN INCARNATION OF AN ILLUMINED ONE.

THE COUPLE LIVED IN A VERY PLAIN AND UPRIGHT MANNER, DEVOTED TO THE SERVICE OF THE LORD. THEY LIVED CHASTELY, IN THE FAVOR OF GOD AND THE ESTEEM OF MAN. TO THE MOST ADVANCED OF THEIR AGE, IT HAD BEEN TAUGHT THAT THE ACT OF GENERATION MIGHT BE PERFORMED WITHOUT PASSION, AS A HOLY SACRIFICE.

ONLY BY PARENTS WHOSE SOULS ARE WEDDED IN A HIGH AND HOLY LOVE IS THE ACT OF GENERATION CONSISTENT WITH THAT IDEA, AND BLESSED BY ATTENDING ANGELS.

EVERY EGO THUS BORN IS IMMACULATELY CONCEIVED. ALL PARENTS WHO THUS PREPARE THEMSELVES FOR THIS SACRAMENT, THROUGH PRAYER AND HOLY LIVING, WILL KNOW, CONSCIOUSLY OR NOT, SUCH AN ANGELIC INTERCESSION. THUS WAS MARY CONCEIVED.

IN DUE TIME THE CHILD WAS BORN AND ACCORDING TO THE ANGEL'S COMMAND, THE PARENTS CALLED HER NAME "MARY." THEY HAD PROMISED EACH OTHER BEFORE HER BIRTH, THAT THEIR CHILD WOULD BE DEDICATED TO THE SERVICE OF THE LORD IN THE TEMPLE, AND THAT THE CHILD SHOULD SPEND HER WHOLE LIFE MINISTERING TO THE LORD IN HOLY THINGS.

THUS MARY LIVED IN THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM, PURE AND GENTLE AS A DOVE. SHE WAS EDUCATED THERE, AND AS SHE ADVANCED IN YEARS, SHE ALSO INCREASED IN PERFECTION. THEN IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ANGEL OF THE LORD'S MESSAGE, SHE WAS ESPOUSED TO JOSEPH.

ONE DAY, AS SHE WAS TAKING A POT TO DRAW WATER, SHE HEARD A VOICE SAYING UNTO HER, "HAIL, THOU WHO ART FULL OF GRACE, THE LORD IS WITH THEE. THOU ART BLESSED AMONG WOMEN." LOOKING ABOUT, SHE COULD NOT SEE FROM WHENCE THE VOICE CAME, SO SHE RETURNED TO THE HOUSE WITH THE WATERPOT AND TOOK UP PURPLE THREAD AND SAT DOWN IN HER SEAT TO WORK IT. THEN SHE KNELT IN WONDERMENT TO PRAY, FOR IN HER OWN WORDS, AS SHE LATER TOLD THROUGH REVELATION, "MY LOVE FOR GOD BURNED IN MY HEART EVEN MORE INTENSELY THAN BEFORE, AND EVERY DAY MY SOUL WAS ENKINDLED WITH NEW FERVOR AND LONGING.

"ON THE DAY BEFORE THE OCCURRENCE OF THIS MYSTERY, I HAD THOUGHT I WOULD DIE, AND MY HEART WOULD BURST WITH LOVE AND LONGING, IF GOD'S PROVIDENCE HAD NOT COMFORTED ME. HE FILLED MY SOUL WITH THE FIRM HOPE THAT THE SAVIOR WOULD DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITHOUT DELAY. BUT ON THE OTHER HAND, HUMILITY MADE ME FEAR LEAST MY PRESENCE IN THE WORLD MIGHT PERHAPS DELAY HIS COMING.

"I WAS AFRAID THAT MY LIPS MIGHT SAY OR MY EARS HEAR SOMETHING AGAINST GOD, OR MY EYES MIGHT SEE SOMETHING EVIL. EVEN IN SILENCE, I WAS TIMID AND VERY ANXIOUS TO PONDER THOUGHT PLEASING TO HIM. I COMMITTED ALL HOPES TO GOD....

"SO, NOW I PROSTRATED MYSELF DEVOUTLY IN PRAYER, AND WITH THE MOST INTENSE LOVE, BEGGED THE LORD THAT HE MIGHT DEIGN TO LET ME LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO SEE HIS MOTHER WITH MY OWN EYES, SERVE HER WITH MY HANDS, BOW MY HEAD BEFORE HER IN REVERENCE, AND PLACE MYSELF COMPLETELY AT HER SERVICE.

"I BEGAN TO MEDITATE ON THE GREAT POWER OF GOD: HOW THE ANGELS AND ALL CREATURES SERVE HIM, AND HOW INDESCRIBABLE AND IMMENSE HIS GLORY. WHILE MARVELING OVER GOD'S GLORY, ALL OF A SUDDEN I PERCEIVED THREE WONDERFUL THINGS:

"I SAW A STAR, BUT NOT LIKE THOSE THAT SHINE IN THE SKY--

"I SAW A LIGHT THAT WAS GREATER AND BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN, YET UNLIKE ANY LIGHT IN THIS WORLD.

"AND I INHALED A SCENT, BUT NOT ONE THAT COMES FROM PLANTS OR ANYTHING OF THAT KIND--IT WAS AN UTTERLY SWEET AND ALMOST INEFFABLE SCENT, WHICH COMPLETELY FILLED MY SOUL AND MADE ME THRILL WITH JOY.

"THEN I HEARD A VOICE, BUT NOT A HUMAN VOICE--AND SUDDENLY THERE APPEARED BEFORE ME THE ANGEL OF THE LORD."

THEN THE ANGEL OF THE LORD STOOD BEFORE HER AND SAID, "FEAR NOT, MARY, FOR THOU HATH FOUND FAVOR IN THE SIGHT OF GOD." THERE WAS A GREAT LIGHT AROUND THE ANGEL GABRIEL AS HE SPOKE TO HER. IT WAS HIS WORDS WHICH TROUBLED HER, AS SHE BEGAN TO CONSIDER WHAT SUCH A SALUTATION SHOULD MEAN, FOR THE ANGEL SAID TO HER, "THE LORD IS WITH THEE. AND THOU SHALT CONCEIVE AND BRING FORTH A SON WHO SHALL BE GREAT, BECAUSE HE SHALL REIGN FROM SEA TO SEA, AND FROM THE RIVERS TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. HE SHALL BE CALLED THE SON OF THE HIGHEST, AND THE LORD SHALL GIVE HIM THE THRONE OF HIS FATHER DAVID, AND HE SHALL REIGN OVER THE HOUSE OF JACOB FOREVER, AND OF HIS KINGDOM THERE SHALL BE NO END; FOR HE IS THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS, AND HIS KINGDOM IS FOREVER AND EVER."

MARY SAID, "HOW CAN THAT BE? FOR ACCORDING TO MY VOW, I HAVE NEVER KNOWN ANY MAN." AND THE ANGEL TOLD HER, "FEAR NOT, FOR THE HOLY GHOST SHALL COME UPON YOU AND THE POWER OF THE MOST HIGH OVERSHADOW, AND THAT WHICH SHALL BE BORN OF YOU SHALL BE HOLY, BECAUSE IT IS CONCEIVED WITHOUT SIN, AND BEING BORN, SHALL BE CALLED THE SON OF GOD." AND THEN MARY ANSWERED, "BEHOLD, THE HANDMAIDEN OF THE LORD. LET IT BE UNTO ME ACCORDING TO THY WORD."

IN HER OWN WORDS, AGAIN WE HEAR, "AS SOON AS I HAD SPOKEN THOSE WORDS, THE GRACE OF GOD OVERWHELMED ME--NEVER HAD SUCH BLISS AND JOY BEEN FELT IN MY SOUL! AND THEN IN THAT ECSTASY, GOD THE FATHER GAVE ME HIS SON, AND MY SON WAS INSTANTLY CONCEIVED IN MY WOMB BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. HE TOOK PURE FLESH IN MY BODY AND INEXPRESSIBLE RAPTURE FILLED MY SOUL AND WHOLE BODY, KNOWING THAT THE ONE IN MY WOMB WAS THE ALMIGHTY." THUS DID MARY ACCEPT THE INVITATION DELIVERED BY THE ANGEL, AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH. THUS WAS THE MASTER JESUS BORN.

LIKE UNTO THE BIRTH OF JESUS, WHO TOOK UPON HIMSELF A PHYSICAL BODY, WHICH WE CELEBRATE ON THE MORROW, THIS CHALICE IS THE CUP OR VEHICLE THROUGH WHICH OUR LORD MANIFESTS THIS NIGHT INTO THIS PHYSICAL WORLD THROUGH THE WORD AND COMMAND GIVEN UNTO ME AS A PRIEST IN HIS ROYAL ORDER, DO I GIVE UNTO YOU THIS NIGHT, AS WE GIVE UNTO YOU COMMUNION--REBIRTH OF CHRIST OUR LORD JESUS WITHIN YOUR OWN VEHICLES IN A STRONGER AND GREATER PROPORTION, AND BRING UNTO YOU ATONEMENT THROUGH RECEIVING OF THE LIGHT THAT IS CONTAINED WITHIN HIS CUP......AMEN.