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<blockquote>It is wrong to tell children that Santa is not real. It is right to explain to them the Spirit of Christmas is indeed a person—a person made real in God, a person who is a [[cosmic being]], who fills the hearts of the people with the anticipation of the greatest gift of all, the gift of personal Christhood.</blockquote> | <blockquote>It is wrong to tell children that Santa is not real. It is right to explain to them the Spirit of Christmas is indeed a person—a person made real in God, a person who is a [[cosmic being]], who fills the hearts of the people with the anticipation of the greatest gift of all, the gift of personal Christhood.</blockquote> | ||
<blockquote>Those things that bring delight to children—games and toys and things and rings in stockings—beloved hearts, originally the gifts given to the child of every heart were intended to enhance the child’s perception and realization of that Person of Christ. When you think about the gifts that are given these days, you realize that some gifts do assist the individual in a greater sense of identity, while others adorn the outer person and tend to create more [[maya]] of idolatry. And thus, attaching importance and attention to the outer self, the individual loses the great opportunity of this hour to truly enter into the heart of that cosmic being known as the Spirit of Christmas.</blockquote> | <blockquote>Those things that bring delight to children—games and toys and things and rings in stockings—beloved hearts, originally the gifts given to the child of every heart were intended to enhance the child’s perception and realization of that Person of Christ. When you think about the gifts that are given these days, you realize that some gifts do assist the individual in a greater sense of identity, while others adorn the outer person and tend to create more [[maya]] of [[idolatry]]. And thus, attaching importance and attention to the outer self, the individual loses the great opportunity of this hour to truly enter into the heart of that cosmic being known as the Spirit of Christmas.</blockquote> | ||
<blockquote>Therefore, beloved ones, understand that this Spirit embodies the collective consciousness of Christhood of the entire Spirit of the [[Great White Brotherhood]]—of all ascended beings and angels and masters, cosmic hosts of the L<small>ORD</small> who are that Christ. Let us realize, then, that in all symbols there is Reality; in archetypes there is the original pattern of the image made perfect out of Christ; and in Santa Claus himself is the lingering hope in all that the figure of the Cosmic Christ will come to bring the true joy, the joy of the heart filled with love.<ref>Lanello, “The Spirit of Christmas,” {{POWref|25|68}}</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>Therefore, beloved ones, understand that this Spirit embodies the collective consciousness of Christhood of the entire Spirit of the [[Great White Brotherhood]]—of all ascended beings and angels and masters, cosmic hosts of the L<small>ORD</small> who are that Christ. Let us realize, then, that in all symbols there is Reality; in archetypes there is the original pattern of the image made perfect out of Christ; and in Santa Claus himself is the lingering hope in all that the figure of the Cosmic Christ will come to bring the true joy, the joy of the heart filled with love.<ref>Lanello, “The Spirit of Christmas,” {{POWref|25|68}}</ref></blockquote> | ||