Since about ten weeks before Christmas we have been preparing for that great festival of the Christian Mysteries.

In November our being has been subjected to a profound purification; everything in nature has been reduced to its ultimates by the Divine Father and the Divine Mother: Divine Will and Divine Wisdom. This Divine Wisdom is the power, that creates the conditions for the work of the Spirit, which springs forth from the Will.

As time proceeds, and the period of Advent begins, the Father dwindles as it were, and vanishes; only the Mother in Her profundity, in Her mighty protection, remains. At Advent everything has been reduced to ultimate pristine purity, to the prima materia, the Virgin Rock, where upon everything in our manifestation rests.

The Mother also receeds, leaving us only the protection of Her purification. In that Virgin Rock, like deep volcanic glass, we are reduced to the extreme of the primeval being and when we try to look in that utterly dark, but at the same time pure and transparent atmosphere, we notice the first primordial structures in the deep, deep sea. Here we stand before the necessary condition for the first sign or signature of the Spirit to appear. This primal structure in the ocean of dark profundity preceded all subsequent mysteries. This ocean is to be compared with a dark night - the Christmas Night - in order to understand the great Power, the Condition, created by what is sometimes called " the wisdom of the Night."

Then, in the Christmas night, after 12 o'clock, we are able to perceive something of that New Word, of that first sign of the Message that will be given for the new period. The more you look at it, at this signal of the Birth of the New Light, the more complicated it becomes. From a point of Light it becomes a sign, a signal, then it becomes a word, written on the dark firmament. Ritual helps you to touch this first word springing forth from the opaque darkness of that primeval Virgin Rock. A great energy flows down, when you are able to touch that word.

What one sees can also be compared to a great dark, and yet shining lake embracing the whole firmament, from which springs suddenly the wonderful white Christmas rose.

This Word, this Flower, gives a new foundation of Light, a new condition for the coming year. The spirit needs a structure and thus in this New Light, a structure arises. There are seven archetypal structures in the Light and they become the real structure for the development in the new year. The Spirit cannot come to expression unless there is a Form.

It is the Child who represents that Form, a child as great as the Mother Who filled all space during the Advent time. She now also gets a beautiful Form. This wonder we 'll behold on Christmas Day , but now in the Christmas Night, the scenery is quite different , as we assist at the Birth of the New Light. We can behold it as a small flame, shining in an immense dome. It is the beginning of the spirit in its aspect of Will, a light shining forth in the great vastness.

This dome can be seen at its grandest on Sepember 8th, the feast of the Nativity of our Lady, when the first intimation of this mystery is given. Then this dome of profundity is of a transparent darkness filled with the "feminine light" of a deep blue colour, as if the moon shines in and through the Temple; it is however not a borrowed light like that of the moon, but a Primordial Light which later will give birth to the Christmas light.

The Light at the Nativity of our Lady is as it were the promise of the Christmas light which at the following Ascension will be growing into the full glory of perfection. But this light has no longer the individual structure , it has embraced them all in one and its glory then fills the whole temple. On Assumption day, still later in the year, the atmosphere in the Temple darkens , it becomes deeper , more profound, the idea of form comes forth from that dark indigo background.
Now, at the time of Christmas, we see the flame of the pristine light only for a moment as a sign, a signal; we see the structure in it and the Christ is born.

At Advent everything is reduced to its foundation, the Virgin Rock, dark like volcanic glass. When at Christmas the Sign is seen, it takes form, form created on a very high level. whic will come down at the Transfiguration and becomes finally at Candlemass the pure white touch stone wherewith everything is tested. In this way every year at Christmas, the Christ Light is born anew from the Light of the Mother: in that way we also are renewed every year and all foundations are made new. This is absolutely necessary, for we are unable to do anything creative unless we possess the "ingénuité vierge" that "naîvité impeccable", that "spontaneîté immaculée" mentioned by the great French poet Charles Baudelaire.

After Candlemass this Immaculate Stone becomes gradually veiled in the course of the year, but every year in the mystic night of Christmas, the Christmas light is again born for us in all its immaculate purity.