THE COMMEMORATION OF SPRING

The Mysticism of Spring comes to us through the natural order of Birth, the beginning stage of the Cycle of Life. For many in the Western world, this weekend recalls the final days of the Nazarene.

As I meditate on the Season celebrated I pondered today how for the Hebrews it is a transitional period of cultural significance. Tradition says that the Hebrews became liberated from the culture which held them in servitude and, in so doing, cultivated for themselves a new society of promise resurrected from the struggle which ultimately, it is claimed, formed the essence of their current identity.

I thought also of the Wheel of Karma and how it is guided by the natural Law of Action and Reaction, that is to say that everything that we as human beings cultivate produces a by-product.

So it was with the tradition that became known as Easter. The Nazarene, according to the story, died a human death and then overcame it by providing the world with what would become an ethical system that lives to this day.As Humanists we can learn much from the central message of Jesus:

1. Feed the Hungry

2. Care for those in Need

3. Love your fellow Beings

These things are at the core of his message. A message which many have yet to apparently full fill throughout many parts of the world.

So for me today Mother Earth reminds me that through Easter I must ever remind myself to do better than the year before. To correct that which remains unjust, and to strive to live in a manner fully cognoscente of the Divine within, The Divine Self, Source of all, center of my faith and practice.

May we learn to place the needs of others before those of ourself and in the process become the change that can infuse the world. Happy Holidays!

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