The Celebration of Spring
The spring Equinox has been
celebrated by many traditions and by many tribes, countries and nations. It is
the call to celebrate the coming of the awakening of Great Nature. This is the
day when the hours of sunlight equal the night hours. From that moment on, the
days become longer and nature awakens to a new cycle and a new beginning.
This process can be seen as an internal
transformation. It is midway in the
forty days that follow Ash Wednesday and should be seen as the preparation to
participate fully in Holy Week. This is related to death and resurrection. We
must die to every stage in our journey in order to be born on the next one. As
we represent in the Great Prayer, the three deaths with the tree prostrations
of the prayer. The first death is from all attachments from everything that we
are presently identify with, the second death is the death of our physical body
and the third death is the death of our body “kesdjan”
or our astral body. Also we could look at the three deaths in a more profound
way as we become disillusioned with one world and are born in the next one.
Then the first death will be disillusionment with the world of bodies, the
second death is disillusionment with oneself, the third death is
disillusionment with the believe that one can do or
achieve something from oneself.
The Movement -40 positions also
called “The Hymn to the Sun”
represent the 40 days we spend together working as a group and trying to grasp
the real meaning of Easter. Each gesture of the 40 positions can represent a
different stage in our search, and most of all we come to realize that we are
vehicles with the ability to unite two worlds, reconciling within us the impulses that initiate from existence and those that
spring from essence.
The healthy balance need to be
achieved first by death and then by resurrection, as it was said by our
esteemed teacher:
“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless
a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it
dies, it bears much fruit.”
Jose R.