Easter is a celebration of resurrection, which is a universal cosmic event symbolizing the resurrection of the son, the neutral force of creation, which integrates itself within the human consciousness when a person is prepared through divine initiation.
That’s celebrated at the spring equinox. The present celebration of Easter is a creation of the Christian Council of Nicea, who made sure that little of the esoteric teachings and groups of Jesus survived. It’s related to the passover and is calculated from the first Sunday after the full moon following the spring equinox. This has no esoteric basis in relation to the actual death, three days in the tomb, followed by resurrection, which is the real Easter – a universal event celebrated by many different cultures, particularly the most ancient ones, whose grasp of spiritual knowledge was incredible.
The name Easter and the time of Easter celebration was taken over by the church from pagan religions that had a basis in the original solstice event and celebration. I wouldn’t celebrate the Church’s version of Easter at all though, any more than I would include Santa Claus in the winter Solstice. It’s a distortion of cosmic truths, which is best left in the bag with the chocolate eggs, Santa, brightly colored baubles and the Christmas stocking.
For a description of the meaning of the original Easter read here
We are very fortunate to have access to real and meaningful information about Easter based on Belsebuub’s personal experience.
Apparently the whole Easter Bunny thing came about in 13th century pre-Christian Germany when several different gods and goddesses were worshipped. Eostra was the goddess of spring and fertility and her symbol was the rabbit, due to it’s high reproduction rate. It was only much later that it became associated with Jesus and resurrection in 15th century Germany when Roman Catholocism became the dominant religion and merged with “paganism”. The legend was taken to Pennsylvania Dutch Country in American with German immigrants in the 1700s.
This just shows how the real meaning of things often become lost or messed up over time, when true knowledge is lost and simple beliefs become prominent.
Hi Sue
With all the respect, would you mind telling us where did you find this information from?
Thanks Belsebuub, hopefully the esoteric knowledge that you share from your own experience on the Path will one day soon reach many who are kept in the dark.
Thanks a lot for sharing it with us! Celebrating the spring equinox felt so inspiring and magical…while the “official mainstream” Easter, be it Catholic or Orthodox, doesn’t feel to me inspiring or magical at all. And it never felt, but there was always that inner knowing that there must be something deeper and profound about these holidays – holy days.
Thank you very much to kindly educate us about the esoteric meaning of these events in the “wheel of the year.”
It’s even worse in the southern hemisphere where they actually follow the Christmas and Easter celebration from Europe. We get Christmas at the height of summer and Easter in Autumn. It always feels wrong on many levels.
Yeah, I remember that took me a while to get my head around too Martin :)
It’s sad how things are distorted by those with ill intentions and with time, and how people then just follow that distortion.
As a child for me Easter was synonymous with finding and eating chocolate eggs and having a nice breakfast in the morning. And when I went to a Christian church with a friend and his religious parents it just felt like a place with a weird feeling to it, the fanaticism was even a bit scary to me back then. And for the celebrations around winter time, to me it was associated with getting gifts, sweet foods etc.
Although I enjoyed the magic in the air and time together with my family. It would have been nice to have celebrated something more close to life, to something divine. Instead of those things which are completely unlinked to it.
Yeah it doesn’t really make sense that crucifixion and bunnies go together but for sure they are making a lot of money off it. In most stores here in the US they have each holiday lined up to bring in money for each sales quarter. So as soon as St. valentines day is over the bunnies go up and then st. Patrick’s day and so on so on. Distorting spiritually has definitely got caught up in this.