Christmas party
Christmas
With the Christmas party, a process that was quietly brewing for months is fulfilled. The human soul, who so gladly indulged in the fullness of the summer light and heat, it retracts more and more into itself with the diminishing sunlight. The balance of light and dark in autumn is like a threshold, and in the darkest time of the year, time of Advent and Christmas, our inner light wants to shine.
The mystery of Christmas is linked to waiting; to the experience of time that is needed for the metamorphosis to take place and with it the forces of life and light encompass and transform all of creation.
Only from the fourth century of our era was Christmas celebrated on 25 from December. Until then the party itself fell on 6 from January, day of the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan. There are multiple explanations for this date change, but it must be known that Christians had the impression that divine grace extended especially among the 24 December and 6 from January.
We must refer then to the event that took place in the past in the stable of Bethlehem. At present it is a party that could be celebrated at any time of the year if we open our hearts to the birth of clarity in our ideas, beauty in our emotions and goodness in our actions.
A) Yes, If we give the characters a meaning that goes beyond the pure historical story then they will become a permanent symbol of Christmas:
- In Mary we could perceive a symbol of the human soul ready to allow itself to be fertilized by goodness, beauty and truth.
- In José, called the adoptive father, the protector, we could see a symbol of our physical body that welcomes and bases life on earth.
- The shepherds who listen to the word of the angel and come to adore the child and offer him their gifts could symbolize that inner awakening towards the new that must be born in us, in humanity, in the world and that we have to recognize, respect and help to live with the greatest possible humility.
- The donkey and the ox could be the symbol of those profound forces, unconscious, that encourage in each one of us and that are the first to recognize the task that each of us has to undertake.
- And the child will be the force or presence of the spirit that has to be reborn in us without ceasing so that life has meaning..
(Text extracted from the extract of the article by Brigitte Barz “Devenir, Winter 1985 ”)
Secondly, In order to deepen the experience of Christmas, mention the 12 Holy Nights mentioned by Rudolf Steiner:
"Welcome back our soul, silent time of waiting for the Light of the Worlds that with welcoming force, every year, you open the door to the spirit that renews everything, and give hearts the blessing of the Holy Nights that we need so much so that in these times of misfortune and darkness, let us not fall into the powers of the abyss of this severe and dark age: but recognizing them clearly, with more awareness in the goal, every year we defeat them with strength and security ".
According to Steiner, the 24 December starts at 12 Holy nights. They are symbols for 12 Forces of the Soul that we must make live in us. And so this indication is valid forever, and not only for 12 Holy nights. |
The 1 From January to midday we have the Sun as close to Earth as possible and that is precisely why there are five and a half days before and five and a half days after the time of the 12 Holy nights. These nights, the darkest of the year we have closer to the sun of spirit. Which means that the spiritual sun shines from within |
the earth. Shining through everything, but from inside, not like after, when it illuminates the earth from on high. During the Christmas experience, with their 12 Holy nights, we put the seed for the next 12 Months of the year. This is why these are 12 such important days. The Twelve Holy Forces of the Universe… that are symbolically represented in the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac, the Twelve Universal Forces of the Cosmos, what Rudolf Steiner calls them, paying attention, for its deepening, to the fact that the Twelve Holy Nights are found between the feast of Christ (Christmas) and the party that must |
be held on 6 January` (Conference of 21-XII-1.911).
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These are the Cosmic Portals that literally open to Heaven at this time of year; and simultaneously at the beginning of the flash of the Spiritual Sun in the darkness of the winter night, every year man is discovered the possibility of taking a look, one of a kind, to the hierarchical Cosmos, to the universal activity of the Higher Hierarchies leading our Earth (Conference of VI-27-1924)”. (Sergi O. Prokofieff). |
Archetype Nights and Senses
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Capricorn: Zodiac sign between December and January: The Divine Spirit is born in matter. |
allows us to become true upright men. 25-26 from December. Juan night. The eagle of the soul soars with its wings and looking from a great height, look at your own life. And now man recognizes the law of Karma. SENSE OF SMELL. With him we receive the olfactory impressions, The substances, matter begins to penetrate our body.
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26-27 from December. Now follow the 3 white lily nights.
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27-28 from December. Consciously purify the astral body (alma). Antipathy and sympathy turn into love, in full love, in love towards everything. Passion and desire are silenced. The Christic force illuminates and strengthens us in the struggle with the Luciferic and Ahrimanic for its metamorphosis.. Mystery: Personal work with myself serves the good of everything and everyone. Archangel Uriel places us in front of the mirror in which we see how we are.
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Aries: Sacrifice force, Devotion. Head and Neurosensory System. SENSE OF SELF. Ability to capture the self and others. 28-29 from December. Consciously purify the body of thoughts, discipline of thinking, focus on the positive, transforming the black doves of thoughts into white doves; because our thinking resembles a dovecote, when he has no discipline. You have to learn to close the loft when negative and strange thoughts arrive.
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Mystery: The temple purified by Christ. |
29-30 from December. Now follow the three nights of the sword. Peter's night; night of the consecration of the sword. Each one has to forge his own sword of discernment. Each one with the strength of spiritual will must unite the eternal, the immortal, with the perishable, for so, know the truth. SENSE OF SPEECH. Sense of own and other people's language.
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The Mystery of the act: We have the freedom. We must strengthen goodwill in ourselves. Who runs our soul? Who is the lord of our soul? Who is the author of our acts? |
31 from December - 1 from January. The cross on the hilt of the sword. Sacrifice. Girt the man with the sword of Christic force without being able to wound, will speak the language, the truth. It is the night of fear and horror.
Mystery: The knight and the fighter with the spear of will and with the sword of knowledge have the dog at their side., as a symbol of obedience. Behind him death and the devil. In a certain degree of knowledge, every wrong step leads faster to doom. Victory is achieved by the fullness of divinity, for the awareness of responsibility and inexhaustible fidelity to the tasks of life. |
HEAT SENSE. By which we differentiate the exterior and interior thermal variations. 1-2 from January. Now follow the three nights of the crown. Detachment of the intellect-only or the detachment of the intellect from its earthly and pragmatic ties. It's the Triple Holy Night. It is when the lower self decays and the desire to serve and be able to integrate remains.
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2-3 from January. It is the night in which it is born from the service, the greatest sacrifice: Obey-Listen. We learn to listen to the inner voice and the signs of the divine. Mystery: The one who cries out in us through the different incarnations. Your clarity is increased by sacrifice and decision.
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Libra: Joy and serenity. Hips and kidneys. we call textures. 3-4 from January. It's the eleventh night. It is the fight with the guardian of the Threshold. Scorpion: Patience, smart compression. Sexual organs.
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and basic. 4-5 from January. On the twelfth night the crown of struggle is placed at the feet of the divine, because we have conquered the crown, but this fight has been won with the help and divine grace because grace comes from the current from a source that man cannot reach by his human strength.. Now it is possible to make a beginning and an end of a time without space and a space without time. Everything is eternal and holy now. The persevering forces to achieve the hunter's goals must be used so that he can receive spiritual good.. Sagittarius: Feeling and perception of the truth. Thighs and arms.
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SENSE OF MOVEMENT. Musculoskeletal-ocular sense that allows us to move and perceive movement, through it we perceive the shapes of things and we are aware of our volume in space. |
We think now it will be taken by the highest hierarchies and carried within itself the force of realization. |
Advent poem / song:
The mirror of the soul reflects
the hopeful light of the worlds.
A voice speaks to the heart of man
in which the spirit of man is delivered
to wisdom:
The eternal love of the Father
sends his Son down to earth
to radiate the celestial light on the human paths.
(Rudolf Steiner)
ADVENT SONGS:
ABOUT STARS, ABOUT SOL:
Over stars, about sun
Go the footsteps of Mary
Fine gold, divine light carries for your child.
When Maria goes walking
Watched by the stars
The arrival of the baby Jesus is prepared
Call the sun to tile
The boy's dress
May the moon give your child luck and happiness
When Mary gathers the shining stars She walks through the sky
To earth it will come.
MARIA GOES THROUGH THE FOREST OF THORNS:
Maria goes through the forest of thorns kirieleisón.
Maria goes through a forest where no flowers grow
Jesus and Mary
What is under your heart? Kyrie eleison
A very pretty little boy is what he wears
With lots of love, Jesus and Mary.
Roses sprout from thorns, Kyrie eleison
When the boy goes through the woods.
Red roses the thorns are.
Jesus and Mary.
THE VIRGIN IS WALKING:
The Virgin is walking, alepun.
It is following San José, alepun,… ¡cataplun!
Down a dark mountain
He walks to Bethlehem
He goes looking for a shelter
That nobody wants to give them.
You will find a stable
What shelter will it give them.
PATH OF BETHLEHEM:
Caminito, caminito
Caminito de Belén
Maria goes on her little donkey
Goes Maria and Jose
Maria goes in front and José goes behind
And in the middle goes the burrito
Cataplin, catapitoplan.
Between the cold and the rain
And the snow too
The little path we will continue
Caminito de Belén
We will find Maria in a poor portal
At her feet will be the child…
Cataplin, catapitoplan.
Although the road is so long
And hard to walk
Sing Saint Joseph and the donkey
Cataplin, he starts to jog
Mary goes singing thinks of her child God
And the cherry trees in his wake…
Cataplin, they get in bloom.
IN A NIGHTMARE:
In a manger, no lace or light
Comes to the world, king jesus.
His mother Maria, his father José
Strangers and poor shelter it with faith.
Cows, The oxen, the burrito and the dog
They sigh happily, they give him their heat.
Shining stars, little angels of light
They sing to the shepherds, that Jesus has already come.
SOBRE TU CUNITA:
Sobre tu cunita
Child I have seen it burn
A lantern
Like the one on the train
Like the one on the train
That lights up with gas
At midnight
And at dawn.
It is the star that the Magi
He came announcing the way
That does not stop looking at each other
In that divine face.
His eyes are black
Blond is her color
Her lips are red
Which dyed flower
That at dawn
That at dawn
Half open its leaves
For the first time.
It is the star that the Magi
He came announcing the way
That does not stop looking at each other
In that divine face.
THE DRUMMER:
The road that leads to Bethlehem
down to the valley that the snow covered.
The cowherd boys want to see their king
They bring him presents in his old Ropopom satchel, Ropopom
The child God was born in the portal of Bethlehem
that angels play
what news do you bring me.
(Verse with different intonation from the others)
Collected your flock
where are you going shepherd boy?
I will carry the portal
curd, butter and wine
Christmas carols
BELL OVER BELL:
Bell over BellAnd on bell one
Get close to the window
you will see the child in the crib.
Belen, Belen bells
that angels play
what news do you bring me.
(Verse with different intonation from the others)
Collected your flock
where are you going shepherd boy?
I will carry the portal
curd, butter and wine
Bell over Bell
and about bell two
Get close to the window
because God is being born
Walking at midnight
Where do you walk pastor?
I take the child that is born
like God my heart
Bell over Bell
and about bell three
on a cross at this time
the child is going to suffer
25 FROM DECEMBER:
December Twenty-fifth, smoke, smoke, smoke.
December Twenty-fifth, smoke, smoke, smoke.
A very pretty little boy was born in the portal
with her pink face she looks like a beautiful flower fum, smoke, smoke
come, come, shepherds fum, smoke, smoke.
come, come, shepherds fum, smoke, smoke.
Come with the tambourine and castanets to the portal
to worship the king of heaven who has appeared on the ground fum, smoke, smoke
From the sky he's watching fum, smoke, smoke.
From the sky he's watching fum, smoke, smoke.
To the glittering land that shines with its light
And to the peace of the firmament celebrating the fum birth, smoke, smoke
December Twenty-fifth, smoke, smoke, smoke.
December Twenty-fifth, smoke, smoke, smoke
A very pretty little boy was born in the portal
with her pink face she looks like a beautiful flower fum, smoke, smoke
BÉLEN WAS A DONKEY:
Towards Bethlehem goes a donkey rin rinI patched myself, I patched myself,
I made myself a patch, I took it off loaded with chocolate.
He carries in his chocolatier, rin rin
I patched myself, I patched myself,
I made myself a patch, I took off his grinder and his cooker
Maria, Maria, come here running
that the chocolatillo is being eaten by Maria, Maria, come here flying
that they are taking the chocolatillo.
In the portal of Bethlehem, rin rin
I patched myself, I patched myself,
I made myself a patch, I took it off the mice have entered.
And to poor San José
I patched myself, I patched myself,
I made myself a patch, I took it off his panties have gnawed.
Maria, Maria, come here running
that the chocolatillo is being eaten by Maria, Maria, come here flying
that they are taking the chocolatillo.
PASTORS COME:
In the portal of Bethlehem
there are stars, sun and moon
the virgin and saint joseph
and the child in the crib
Shepherds come, shepherds come, adore the child, (until) who has already been born.
Saint Joseph to the Child Jesus,
a kiss gave him in the face,
and the Child Jesus told him,
“That you prick me with your beards”
Shepherds come, shepherds come, adore the child, (until) who has already been born.
Hey you Mr. José
don't put your face close to him,
that the child is going to be scared,
with those long beards.
Shepherds come, shepherds come, adore the child, (until) who has already been born
ALL YE FAITHFUL:
Adeste, faithful, flying triumphant;
coming, come to Behelem.
Look at the birth of Reshem.
Come, let us worship, come, let us worship,
Come, let us worship, master.
A sinful relic, low to the cradle
Pastors called to haste:
Let us hasten to the triumphant pace.
Come, let us worship, come, let us worship,
Come, let us worship, master.
Eternal Parent-Eternal Brightness
We will see what is hidden under the flesh,
god baby, wrapped in swaddling clothes.
Come, let us worship, come, let us worship,
Come, let us worship, master.
Hugs for us eshenum efeno
We cherish loving embraces:
So who loves us not to love you??
Come, let us worship, come, let us worship,
Come, let us worship, master
AY, OF THE CHIQUIRRITÍN:
Ay, of the Chiquirritín, Chiquirriquitín, stuck between straws;
ay, of the Chiquirritín, Chiquirriquitín, darling of the soul.
Under the arch of the portal,
Maria is discovered, Joseph and the Child.
Ay, of the Chiquirritín, Chiquirriquitín metidito between straws;
ay, of the Chiquirritín, Chiquirriquitín, darling of the soul.
Between an ox and a mule God was born,
and in a poor manger they have gathered.
Ay, of the Chiquirritín, Chiquirriquitín, stuck between straws;
ay, of the Chiquirritín, Chiquirriquitín, darling of the soul.
Don't look at me angry, my little boy;
look at me with the eyes that I look at you.
Ay, of the Chiquirritín, Chiquirriquitín, stuck between straws;
ay, of the Chiquirritín, Chiquirriquitín, darling of the soul.
TELL ME CHILD:
Tell me, boy, who are you from?all dressed in white.I'm from the Virgin MaryAnd of the holy spirit
Resonate with joy
the songs of my land
and long live the Child of God
who was born on Christmas Eve.
Christmas Eve is coming, tururú
Christmas Eve is gone.
And we will go, tururú
and we will not return again.
Tell me, boy, who are you from?
and if your name is Jesus.
I am love in the manger
and suffering on the Cross
Resonate with joy
the songs of my land
and long live the Child of God
who was born on Christmas Eve.
THE FISH IN THE RIVER:
But watch the fish drink in the river
But look how they drink to see the God born
They drink and they drink and they drink again
The fish in the river to see God born.
The Virgin is washing
and tending in the rosemary
the little birds singing
and the rosemary blooming
But watch the fish drink in the river
But look how they drink to see the God born
They drink and they drink and they drink again
The fish in the river to see God be born.
The Virgin is combing her hair
between curtain and curtain
the hair is golden
and the fine silver comb.
But watch the fish drink in the river
But look how they drink to see the God born
They drink and they drink and they drink again
The fish in the river to see God born
A PANDERETA SOUNDS:
A tambourine sounds,
a tambourine sounds,
I don't know where it will go.
Salt mirandillo arandandillo,
salt mirandillo arandandá,
corporal of guard is alert.
Don't wake me up child,
don't wake me up the boy,
that right now he fell asleep.
Salt mirandillo arandandillo,
salt mirandillo arandandá,
corporal of guard is alert.
That a girl put him to sleep,
that a girl put him to sleep,
like the sun's rays.
Salt mirandillo arandandillo,
salt mirandillo arandandá,
corporal of guard is alert.
SILENT NIGHT:
Silent Night, love night!
The child God is born
in a humble portal of Bethlehem
dream a future of love
and of faith comes to bring us peace
comes to bring us peace
From the portal comes your light
and gathers us around you
before a table with a clean tablecloth
or in the manger Mary and Joseph
on this silent night
on this silent night