Symbol & Sign 4: Christ Child

This is the time of year Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus. The Christ child is symbolic of innocence and universal love of parents for their children and for all the small creatures of the earth.

My previous post on Santa Claus may strike people as a bit odd, for I call for the continuation perhaps of the symbolism that has become the mainstay of commercialism of Christmas. Let me explain.

The symbol of Christmas: the coming of God and the intense love for all mankind is a symbol so potent that the powers of the earth feel compelled to contain it and restrict it as it undermines their power to control the minds and souls of the peoples of the earth.

Therefore, the spiritual importance was diverted into commercialism and consumerism where the intense desire to Gift and Share is directed to a mad scramble for material goods which does not give us the same universal benefits that a pure religious love would.

Then, having done this and directed attention away from the Holy and over to Santa Claus, there has cleverly been installed in Santa Claus a self-destruct device that goes off when children reach the age of 11 or so, when they discover the charade; better be seen as liars than allow the symbolic virus of Santa to keep accruing power to itself.

Neither symbol of Christmas is allowed to "get off the leash".

The most clear example and proof is the first Christmas in World War I, that of December 1914, when the soldiers of the combating nations facing each other across no-man's land in the trenches took the time of the Christmas armistice to fraternize with the enemy: German and French soldiers who as recently as the fourth week of Advent were shooting at each other now were playing soccer together in the light of make-shift Christmas trees and decorations.

The Powers that be put their feet down immediately. There would be no more fraternizing: just killing.

Our symbolic structures can free us if we let them. They may also be infected with a gene of fear to imprison us and a molecule of hate to destroy us. It is totally in our hands and no one else's. As intelligent beings we can create or make uncreate visions and dreams that pull along the matter of the world by the sheer mass of their symbolic gravity.

Merry Christmas!