“The spring equinox- Easter, the Holy Week, is the moment in which the Sun Christ crucifies himself on our planet Earth in order to give life to everything that exists.
After his death he resurrects within all creation in order to ripen the grape and every grain. The law of the Logos is sacrifice. This is the cosmic drama that is repeated from moment to moment throughout the infinite space, in all of the worlds, in all of the suns.
This is the cosmic drama that is represented in all the temples of Egypt, Greece, India, Mexico, etc. This is the cosmic drama that is represented in all the temples of all of the worlds of the infinite space.
The second aspect of this great cosmic drama corresponds with complete exactitude to any sacred individual who by means of the revolution of the consciousness attains the Venustic Initiation and therefore becomes a Solar Hero.”
– Samael Aun Weor
The Equinox
The equinox is when the path of the Sun crosses the plane of the earth’s equator and day and night are of equal length. This occurs twice a year, in the autumn and the spring. The spring equinox in the Northern hemisphere is a time of celebration of spring, the beginning of the return to lighter and longer days, of the birth and growth of all things.
Pesach: The Last Supper
The ancient Jewish holiday of Pesach, Passover, occurs on the first full moon after the spring equinox. Passover is celebrated with a special supper consisting of bread, wine, and many symbols related to spring such as eggs, fresh herbs, and roasted lamb. This holiday honors the new beginning for the Jewish people after the prophet Moses lead them out of slavery in Egypt.
The Last Supper of Jesus was the Passover celebration. Jesus elevated the ritual of the bread and the wine to impart himself physically and spiritually to his disciples.
This is known as transubstantiation, a ritual of eating bread and wine that has been consecrated in order to bring the Christ force into the physical body.
The event of the Last Supper raised the ethical octave of the world by infusing the virtues of mercy, human love, and sacrifice into the physical world.
Passion of the Christ
After the Last Supper begins the cosmic drama of Christ’s passion and death. The betrayal, torture and murder on the cross are the sufferings inflicted upon divinity by the natural imbalances of the world of creation, laws, and sleeping consciousness.
This process allows the universal cosmic Christ force to enter into the world in human form, in a man who could bear and suffer the humiliations and pain for the glory of God.
Resurrection of the Christ
Christ’s resurrection is the ultimate mystery, and is celebrated in a mystical way as the holy-day of Easter, the coming again of the light. Easter is that celebration of the light of the Christ that has risen in the East after its journey in darkness beneath the Earth.
Christ is a universal divine force that can incarnate in any human after many conscious works and voluntary sufferings on the spiritual path. The incarnation of the Christ force in the man called Jesus, or Yeshua, was a cosmic event because his very life was a teaching on how to sacrifice for humanity with unconditional love.
The Internal Christ
In Gnostic esotericism the processes of Christ’s life, passion, death, and resurrection are a call for each one of us to make that same sacrifice for love of humanity. Easter is a time for profound contemplation of the transformative and redemptive power of the universal cosmic Christ force.
“The Christ-Sun has to advance in order to give us life and in the Spring’s equinox he crucifies himself on the earth; then the grape and the wheat ripen. And it is precisely in Spring when the Lord has to pass through his life, passion and death, so he can later resurrect in the Holy Week.”
-Samael Aun Weor