"The Lord is coming with all his saints and will not delay, and then there will be endless day."
-Advent Antiphon
O Morning Star,
splendour of light eternal and sun of righteousness:
Come and enlighten those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death.co
In waiting for the saviour, the Light Hero, the Child Born in Winter, we are not simply waiting for someone else not yet here, we are waiting for ourselves and he is waiting for us. This is why in the Gospels it is the Son of Man who performs miracles and when he does, the people "give thanks to God for putting such power into the hands of men." This is why the saviour comes not alone, but with all of his saints. We, as we live now, barely know who or what we are. We are waiting not simply for someone else to save us, but for the saving power in ourselves. We are not only waiting for the Prince and the Hero. We are the Prince and Hero coming. As Carl Jung said in his Red Book, it is not enough to worship Christ, one must become Christ. This, too, is the Alchemical Mystery, to learn that when Jesus says, "the Father and I are One," it means that in some way, we must say the same.
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