A 10 minutes talk on Good Friday in a Temple on 13 April 2001

Good Friday is the most important day for the ritualists who practice the inner ritual in the secret and sacred temples. Friday is very important because it is the day that opens the doors to us to the subtle kingdom, which is the kingdom of Light with its rainbow colours.

The pure white ray manifest as the seven rainbow colours. The gross physical is like the brown Star from where we have to ascend into the higher states of light, which are represented by the subtle light. Friday stands for the subtle light and hence all (rituals) temples are conducted on Friday evening, so that through the ritualistic work, in the night during darkness, the light can be experienced.

Darkness is the subjective light, while the daylight is the objective light. Full moon is light objective, while new moon is light subjective. Darkness stands for subjective light and for that reason, Friday is important

Good Friday is the best of the Fridays of the year. Good Friday is an annual event and has also come to be the Friday on which the Grand Master Jesus passed over into the realms of Light and came back again to establish the Path with the Light that he received through such ascension. On that Good Friday there is the ascension and the resurrection. The grand Master walked the Path of pain on that Friday at 7 p.m. I.S.T. (3.30 p.m. in Jerusalem). He walked the Path till about two and half-hours. Later he was crucified on the cross in the twilight hours, an event, which is unparalleled in this era. There is no equal to it.

The Path that he followed is the Path of Grace or Anugraha in Sanskrit. Such Anugraha is possible only if one has surrendered the self, which is so very easily spoken by the Hindus as Atma Samarpana, 'Self Surrender'.

Surrender the things relating to personality is one thing, surrender of the personality is another thing; surrender of the self is “The Thing”.

Hence, surrender means sacrifice. In the Veda it is called “the all sacrifice” - Sarva utah. All is sacrificed, including our self, at the feet of the Lord. This is also called Holocaust in Greek and Jewish rituals. The Purusha Suktam of Rig Veda speaks elaborately of the Yajna of Sarva utah, which is seldom demonstrated to that extent as Jesus, the Christ. It is most difficult of the paths to follow, i.e., the Path of self-Surrender, which is also called the Path of Anugraha, the Path of Grace.

Jesus Christ is the only example, during the last 2000 years of such a sacrifice, and there is no equal to it till date. He volunteered for such crucifixion and it happened to be on this Friday, which was considered as Good Friday even before.

Good Friday existed even before this even. It is the Friday in which the annual ritual of Pass-over is conducted in the secret temples. It is in conformity with the Vedic Astrology. Pass-over is known to the present humanity as relating only to the even of crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, but it is as old as Veda.

When Jesus Christ was crucified, the Roman soldiers ensured that he died on the cross and left. Then came the mother with a lamp in her hand.

Mother Mary represents the Virgin or the Mother of the World. She comes in the midnight hour with a lamp in one hand and with an ear of corn in the other hand.

Carrying an ear of corn is also very common with the Hindu deities line Mother Meenakshi or Lalitha or any of that order. She comes with an ear of corn in her left hand and with a lamp of light in her right hand. She comes to her son and looks at him. She is the mother in Darkness, i.e., the Subjective Light relating to the Jesus Christ.

Marry always stood by the Jesus in the background and helped him to conduct the work. The ear of corn represents the spiritual food, while the light represents the dispeller of darkness. The two put together incorporate the Grace of the Lord, the World Mother.

Thus, the Grace of the Lord worked out through the Mother and transmitted the White Ray to Jesus Christ. As a consequence, Jesus Christ again got rejuvenated, “resurrected”. In the seven tissues of his body and life re-entered through the spiritual food.

The White Ray carries in it the rainbow colours of the Seven Rays. The seven tissues of the body of Jesus were brought back to (life) light. Such is the power of the Mother.

Blessed are the ones who follow the Path of the Mother, who stands as the grace of the Lord.

In the process of crucifixion and resurrection, Jesus Christ ascended into the cosmic plane relating to our planet and experienced the sublimest of the experience that one can think of on this Planet, and then come back to establish the Path.

Crucifixion, ascension and resurrection is a ritual of highest order. This ritual was known to the Vedic temple heads, the high priests of the pyramids and to the grand Masters of the esoteric temples. It was known to many but practised by none.

World Saviours are born through such rituals, and this ritual is possible only on a Good Friday.

The day of Pass-over is commemorated with the even of Jesus Christ ascending into the highest world, but the truth is, even before Jesus Christ was crucified, ascended and experienced the Truth Sublime, there is the yearly drama of Pass-over, which is conducted in the Vedic rituals from times immemorial. We should remember this.

The rituals of Pass-over existed even before Jesus Christ. It was there in Judaism, in the Assyrian and Chaldean systems. It existed in the temples of Ibez of South America. It was, and is there in the Indian Vedic system, and mostly forgotten by the exoteric religions and traditions, (in esoteric temples) it is still considered to the be the day of the greatest illumination.

Good Friday is the greatest day of illumination for the simple reason that in zodiac of 12 sun signs (one year of 12 months), Aries stand for the highest point on illumination. Aries makes the highest point of illumination for the planet and the planetary beings. It is for this reason, is astrology, the sun is said to be exalted in Aries.

The third decanate of Aries is the sublimest of the Aries energies, because it stands for spiritual energies. In any solar month, the third decanate is considered spiritual. It is for this reason that even in the mundane astrology, planets who happen to be in the third decanate are considered to be much more beneficial. Thus the third decanate in Aries, is the sublimest solar period of the years.

Pass-over into the higher realms, into higher planes of this planetary sphere, which is in seven planes, is possible during that time. The planet also has its cosmic plane. Thus, initiates can ascend up to the cosmic plane of Existence of the planet by rightly utilising the energies of the third decanate of Aries, which stands for the highest period of illumination, and a Friday in that decanate is the highest point of illumination, full of sublimest subtle experiences! It happens once in a year, once on that Friday. Hence it is Good Friday, it is the day of Pass-over, pass-over to higher planes of Existence.

Rituals are conducted all over the planet, ever since the Vedic times, to experience the highest possible consciousness, which is presented to us through the month of Aries. The drama relating to the pass-over is conducted in the temples on this Friday ever since.

The month of Aries is a month of greatest importance in all old theologies. Exoterically, they were conduction certain rituals of purity and worship, but esoterically in the secret temples, this Friday is considered to be the day on which the ritualists should workout the pass-over into the highest plane of Existence to experience the cosmic plane, then come back in the month of Taurus and further come down in the month of Gemini to express, through the Throat Centre, the Plan for the rest of the nine months.

This is how a ritualist is expected to tune up to the energies of the solar year and conduct the plan relating to the Earth in tune with the higher intelligences. Such is the work of Pass-over.

We remember Jesus Christ to day, because he is the dearest and the nearest one. He is the most recent one that has very successfully completed the ritual of pass-over and hence he shall have to be remembered. The Mother, the Mother of Grace, has to be remembered as well, because only through her grace the seven planes can be ascended. Also remember that Light is to be experiences only to come back and serve the fellow beings.

Such is the beauty of the Good Friday. The dimensions relating to it are too many, they can only be hinted at, at the moment.

Remember Aries, the third decanate, Friday, the Mother of Grace, being the outposts of the Lord on this Sacred day.

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First Edition: 2001
© Copyright: Dhanishta

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