December 24, 2022 Saturday Evening, Christmas Eve, Excerpt
Hanukkah, Living the Light that Is Our Essence
(Barbara’s reviewed portions of the session. Yeshua’s portions have not been reviewed.)
Barbara: Hello to everybody and Merry Christmas. A beautiful Christmas to all. Zoom makes this possible. It’s good to be with you all on Christmas.
You’ll see next to me here a menorah. Today is the last night of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, and so much of what we’re talking about here involves light.
Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday that commemorates—the Jews were in a war with the Greeks, who were forcing them to worship Zeus and to do live sacrifices. They did not want to have anything to do with that.
But Hanukkah is not so much about battles; it celebrates a miracle, the fact that at the main temple there was only enough of the pure oil that was burned for one more day. That oil lasted until they could get more—for eight nights. And so, this is why Hanukkah is eight nights.
For me, the whole idea of light is so important. As we talk about Yeshua and his life, in my heart I feel that he came down to bring light. To show us about light. To ground light into the Earth.
Aaron and Yeshua will talk more about that. But I’m just going to light the menorah as a celebration of light. This special candelabra is called a menorah. It has the eight lights for the eight nights of Hanukkah plus the center candle, which is lit first and lights all the others. Just as Yeshua in a sense was the center candle and came down and brought more light to the Earth. And we’re in a sense all the other candles.
A word about the menorah. Most of you know in an earlier incarnation, if I may call it that, I was a sculptor. I made this 40 or so years ago. Back then I made many of these, all sizes and shapes.
(Lighting menorah; words in Hebrew)
“Blessed art Thou, O Lord our God, ruler of the universe, who sanctified us by Thine commandments and bid us to kindle the Hanukkah lights.”
“Blessed art Thou, O Lord our God, ruler of the universe, who performed miracles for our fathers in days of old at this season.”
I’m going to shift the menorah back a bit so we can see it, but it’s not blocking my chair.
So, welcome, and Aaron is going to come in…
Aaron: My blessings and love to you. I am Aaron. Wishing you a very joyful Christmas, Hanukkah, Season of Light.
This is what we are looking at, here— Light. Yeshua came in to ground light into the Earth.
In the time before time, before there was even light and darkness, the Divine, God, Goddess, or Unconditioned existed. Love was an expression of that Eternal.; Love existed.
There was a council of Brothers and Sisters of Light, who had a strong understanding—I would not call it a belief, but a knowing, that it was possible for what we call matter to carry light and to pick up a positive polarity rather than just a neutral polarity. And so, many beings came to support the Earth as a material plane into which light could be grounded.
Everything has free will. We cannot force light on anything, only offer it. The light was offered. The Earth took in some and then released some. Light moved back and forth.
In some ways, two thousand years ago, because of the impact of negative polarity on the Earth, it was devolving into a lower vibration. It had been seen long before Yeshua’s coming that there was a need to ground that higher light into the Earth. That beautiful soul whom you call Yeshua agreed to come and do this.
He did not do it alone. Many beings came to support that grounding of Light, including the one who was my father in that lifetime, two thousand years ago, and who called me as Aaron to come forth in that same lifetime as his son, Nathaniel.
Mary Magdalene was one who, with Yeshua, came forth to hold this grounding into the Earth.
You call Yeshua “Jesus Christ”. What is a Christ? An awakened being. Mary was not named Magdalene as a last name, like you might be John Smith, but the order of Magdalenes were also Christs, awakened beings, deeply committed to service wherever in the universe.
So Mary and Yeshua together came to do this, along with so many beings that were needed to hold and bring this high energy in; to teach the workings of divine conception, light conception. To hold the energy high.
We owe them all so much gratitude for the hard work they did to make tonight possible. Tonight, when everything with the possibilities of love can radiate light, fill our hearts with light and love. Let us know that we truly are not just human but divine beings, each of you—awake, filled with this core of light that is your essence.
So, the ground was set for hundreds of years before his coming; humans incarnating to prepare the way for him.
And then came that night, Christmas Eve. Mary and Joseph, as you know, had gone to Bethlehem, where he would take birth.
My father was, on the one hand a shepherd, and on the other hand, a very wise, advanced soul and a teacher to many. I was blessed to have him as a father.
At the time of Yeshua’s birth, I was just a young boy. Knowing the birth was coming, my father had left others to tend the sheep and we left to go near where Yeshua would be born.
We sat on a hillside and watched that star. And it was indeed wondrous, radiant. It did not just carry light; it carried such a high vibration of love. And we watched. And we watched the light seem to pour down on the building in which he was born, more of a cave.
The Earth was filled with music. One could feel the angelic presences everywhere. At first I was afraid, and my father me reassured me, “It is not only safe, it is wonderful! Rejoice!”
After some hours had passed, he took my hand and we walked perhaps from a mile or two away on the hill down into the city of Bethlehem.
I, this little boy, Nathaniel—had a lamb as a gift. My father carried it for me. I could not have carried a lamb a mile and a half or two miles. My father carried the lamb. But outside that—they call it a stable, but as I said, it was more of a cave with stalls of sort built into it and a manger. Very simple, a place where animals were sheltered.
He handed me that lamb and said, “It is your gift to him.”
I came in and at first, I was afraid, but there was so much love and such a sense of peace. And this little baby lay actually not in the manger but in his mother’s arms. I did not put the lamb in his lap; it would have been too big. But he saw it and laughed, smiled. And our eyes met, and I knew that this is why I had taken birth also, to be there with him. To love him. To support him.
I’ll come back and talk a bit more, but perhaps Yeshua would like to incorporate now and come and share this talk with me.
(Yeshua speaks)
Aaron: Thank you, Yeshua. What a joy to share this talk with you.
Through that lifetime as Nathaniel, I looked up to you. You were my friend, but also my teacher and my light.
But repeatedly you reminded me of what you just said. It is not about you, you said, it is about me and about all of us. It’s about learning to be the light that we are.
And this is why Deep Spring teaches what it does: to come back into your own center through your meditation practice and know your power, know your light, and know your deep intention to be of service to all beings, to serve with love.
Where would this Earth be without that high vibration? And it is so important that we cherish that high vibration, each especially in yourself—to know that you ARE the Christ, you ARE the Awakened One.
What is this awakened consciousness? And yes, in your meditation, occasionally you come to and remember the awakened consciousness. Not always, but occasionally there’s that moment of “Ahh!” Just the deep insight as duality falls away and you know that you are everyone and everything. You are divine. You are love. And that you have the power of free will choice to manifest that love or not.
When you do choose to manifest it, it changes everything. It is your ability to bring forth the light, to be the candles, to be the flame. The flame in your heart, what is that flame in your heart? The flame of love.
It starts with learning to love yourself, but eventually, as duality fades away, it becomes the love for all beings, everywhere. And it is only this love that can shift the Earth into a highly positively polarized awakened planet.
I feel Mary wanting to come in, so I’m just going to step back a moment, let her come in and speak with you a bit. And perhaps Mary and Yeshua will speak a bit and will pass it around. I am Aaron.
Mary (B): My love to you. Mary, you have called me. And yes, I was in on this plan from the beginning with Yeshua. But he is the one who had to do the hard work. I was the backup. He says he needed my help, but clearly, he was the central figure. And it was such a gift to be able to support him in that lifetime.
I am old. I am ancient. Through so many millennia my focus has been to support light on other planes before doing so on the Earth. To support light.
Why do I say ‘light’ rather than ‘love’? Both love and light are expressions of the Divine; perhaps the highest expressions. One is not better than the other; they cannot be separated.
But love is hard to define. What is love? The light, you can see. It’s light. You all know the difference between light and darkness. You know when you get caught in negativity, sinking into negativity. “Go forth and sin no more,” he said; do not sink further into negativity. Uphold the light.
This is perhaps the heart of your human teaching, to live the light that is your essence. Because as Yeshua said, you are the light. You are the Christ. The word ‘Christ’ simply means “the one who is awake.” And as Aaron keeps reminding us, you are all awake, you just have not fully recognized that. It’s time to recognize it, to bring forth that awakeness.
So, on this Christmas Eve—and it was definitely not December 24th, but it was close to the winter solstice—on this Christmas Eve, it is a wonderful time to reflect on your own free will choice.
Because this is what you are given as humans—the free will choice for light or darkness, for separation or connection, for contraction or spaciousness, for love.
So, as Yeshua has reminded us, as we celebrate his birth, we are celebrating everyone’s birthday. Consider that today, just right now, in this moment, you have the choice: to be a bearer of light, or to pull back into darkness and armor yourself. To know your connection with everything and everyone, or to believe in the limited self.
I know what I have chosen. You have free will. You will choose as you wish. I know all of you here DO choose to be of the light and of support and service. But fear gets in your way. But what is fear?
Take a candle. I don’t want to take one off the menorah, but take a candle and hold it up. Hold it like this in front of you, and remember, “I am the light. I consecrate my whole being to the light.” And now that you have all the support you need to do that.
I will step back and invite Yeshua or Aaron to step forth—perhaps Yeshua, because it’s hard for Aaron to come right back after I’ve spoken. I am Mary.
(Yeshua speaks)
Aaron: Thank you, Yeshua. I am Aaron. Let us share a few stories here, starting with one that I know most of you have heard before.
I was permitted to bring Yeshua out with me to where the sheep were that I watched. He, a young boy, maybe six, and I was perhaps eleven. It was a stormy night, cold, raining. We had gotten the sheep settled, come back to where we had a place for a fire and food.
In the Essene community, in the school for the children, we had been learning how to invite a fire without the manual work of creating a spark. How to invite light, fire, energy.
I had not yet mastered it. I didn’t know that Yeshua had; he was very young. So, he watched me for a while trying to get this fire started. And we were both shivering. Finally, he looked at me and he said, “Nathaniel, light the fire!” And he just reached out his hand and invited the fire.
He did not do it in any way to belittle me; he did it because we were shivering. But it reminded me that he is a bringer of light, as we all are. But he is a master at bringing in the light.
I now can light a fire that way, but back then I couldn’t, and I don’t think that you can. I don’t know if there’s anybody here right now that would remember the early days in the living room here, when we tried to light a candle. A dozen people sat around and focused on the candle, and I gave instructions. People were a bit despondent because they could not light the candle. L, do you remember that? (L: No, sorry, I don’t.) I think perhaps it was the small healing class and not the big Wednesday night group.
Light the candle. Light the light. What does it take to light the light in your heart?
When I look at Yeshua, he reminds me of how to light the light in my heart.
Yeshua, much later. We were adults. It was a dark night. I know you will remember this. It was stormy. There were eight or ten of us, both men and women but mostly men, walking. Wet and cold. The thunder was loud. The lightning was flashing. The wind was blowing. Trees were falling down, and we were afraid.
We turned to you and said, “Protect us.” And you just smiled at us and said, “You do not need me to protect you. You have the same divinity and power as I do.”
You took our hands and had us sit in a circle. It seemed to me—and I don’t really understand what happened that night—but although the thunder continued around us and I could see the lightning flash, where we sat the air became still and dry. We sat for quite a while, ten or fifteen minutes, just holding a space. And gradually, as we sat there, a small fire began to grow right in the middle of the area where we sat. A warming fire. It was raining here, it was raining there, but no rain on our group.
We turned to you and said, “Thank you, Yeshua.”
You said, “What are you thanking me for? I did nothing. YOU have the power to choose light or darkness—YOU,” you said.
Most of us didn’t really believe you then. But of course, I understand it now, that you did not do this. You supported us remembering how to do it, as for each of we can remember now in our lives how to bring light where there is darkness. How to bring love where there is fear. How to bring spaciousness where there is contraction. How to bring peace where there seems to be no peace.
Yeshua, if you want to tell us more about this from your remembrance, I welcome it or whatever else you might like to say.
(Yeshua speaks)
Aaron: I am Aaron. Yeshua, we have come a long way, or I have come a long way in two thousand years; you perhaps not so far. But it is a joy to be able to share these teachings with you because they are important not only for the Earth, not only for each soul on the Earth, but for the whole universe.
Please remember that Earth was co-created in part to explore how much light and high vibration matter could hold, and to watch how that matter would be transformed by high vibration and spread outward to touch everything beyond the most distant place imaginable. Everything.
It all depends on each of you. I don’t want to put a burden upon you—this is not burden but joy. Imagine the joy, how it feels to feed a hungry child. You don’t see it as a burden, but you watch the child receive the food, and there’s a sense of joy.
There may be a person who’s very cold and you warm them, and you feel the joy of giving them that warmth, supporting that warmth, so that they may rest in that warmth in themselves.
So many of you ask me, or tell me, “Aaron, it’s so hard. There is pain. There is anger. There is confusion. There is suffering
I remind you, over and over, these experiences are your teachers, and you WILL move through. You will find yourself able truly to live the light that you are more and more and share it out. And this shall be your joy. And together we will make this Earth a truly high vibrational, positively polarized planet that serves as a beacon of light.
I think of the words on the Statue of Liberty. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me…” I lift my lamp beside this golden Earth realm, holding this light as a beacon for the world.
And with such gratitude to Yeshua, who literally implanted that light into the Earth in ways that, yes, I suppose someone else could have done, but it would have taken a lot longer and been a lot harder. He had the power and the readiness at that point because he was such a direct connection and expression of the Divine. Most of us had forgotten that we were expressions of the Divine, but he remembered and knew how to bring that memory into the Earth plane.
So, as we celebrate your birthday, Yeshua, and all of our birthdays, we thank you for your love and courage to come forth and hold our hands and help us come forth. I love you.
(Yeshua speaks)
Aaron: I am Aaron. I thank you, Yeshua. I’m reminded, as you’re speaking, of the lobster, who grows as big as it can within its shell, and then it must molt and release its shell. Slowly, it forms a new outer layer. But it grows in that time. If it were to stay in that small shell, there could be no growth.
This is part of the joy and challenge of your humanness.
Thank you all. I love you very much, and I am so happy that you have been able to be with us tonight.
(Barbara will continue with the Interfaith service Zoom…)
Barbara: Have a beautiful, beautiful Christmas. I love you all.