Christmas Ambiance
Everywhere in the city little forests are sprouting – fir trees, often carrying little electric candles – christmas trees (and this in spite of the Bali-decisions to fight deforestations 🙂 ) The powerful impulse of seeking the light of the soul, the birth of the Christ within, is like being diluted and scattered into many reflections all over: Not only all the shop displays are in the Christmas ambiance. People are busy with preparing gifts or decorate their houses with lamps – an outer reverberation of the inner light. The main streets of the city with their garlands of lights are in a festive outlook.
There is more impetus behind this gigantic activity than just a traditional commemoration date.
I wrote for the text of the Circle of Good Will Christmas Card: “The light of the higher mind is described as a flame of Manas (the mind principle) which comes down into us and which is called the birth of the saviour in us. The five-pointed star symbolises this light. It can transform us into an enlightened being, if we prepare ourselves appropriately.”
Last Sunday at the afternoon walk at the beginning of the Emmental, we saw some nicely decorated farm houses. The Christmas-wake has got them all. Here are a few impressions:
The five-pointed stars “landed” near the entrance door.
A painted stone with some Christmas scenery in front of a house
Another painted stone with Christmas motives
And on the windowsill some snowmen
Wooden candles burning
A collection of 6-pointed stars, wooden squirrel and a Santa-Claus lamp
An arrangement of 6 pointed and 5-pointed stars
And finally a Christmas tree with 5-pointed stars next to the entrance door
I wonder whether they know about the deeper meaning of this symbol of the stars…
