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Father Bede, Berdyaev
& A Fuller, Non-Sentimental Meaning to Christmas By Matthew Fox 12/24/2025 Dear friends, As you know, Matthew's colleague Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG) has been writing three DMs each week to give Matthew time to work on several concurrent book projects. Unfortunately, GG needs to take some time off due to ill health, and so for the near future, Matthew will be doing all six weekday DMs.
Please join us in sending prayers for GG's quick recovery! |
In yesterday’s DM, we sat at the feet of Father Bede Griffiths as he spoke of how meditation puts us in “solidarity with the universe,” both the remotest star in outer space and the “minutest particle in the atom.” |
And how we “experience solidarity with every living thing” on earth and can go “beyond all these outer forms” of things to “discover the Ground from which they all spring.” We can know “the Father, the Origin, the Source, beyond being and non-being, the One ‘without a second.’” He adds, that “I can know the birth of all things from this Ground, their coming into being in the Word.” This phrase, “coming into being |
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in the Word” is very fitting for the Advent season we find ourselves in, and the Christmas Good News that awaits us this week. The “word made flesh” is made flesh not only in Jesus but in all beings, thus we call it the “Cosmic Christ.” (Or Buddha Nature or Image of God.) “The word made
flesh and dwelt among us” summarizes the entire Christmas story. How all things are sacred and birth is paramount. We know “the birth of all things from this Ground, their coming into being in the Word.” Thus Eckhart: “Every creature is a word of God and a book about God.” Every creature is another Christ. |
David Little Elk explains the meaning of “all my relations.” Video by David Little
Elk. | All this spells the end of loneliness; it restores us to the cosmos and the cosmos to us. The modern era, so
steeped in the “I” consciousness—“I think therefore I am”—piled on by telling us the universe was a machine—cold, mechanical, determined, uncaring, more |
powerful than us—ushered a “cosmic loneliness” into our lives. Indigenous peoples were not lonely. As we indicated a few DMs ago, there is no word for loneliness in Swahili, and very likely in other indigenous languages as well. We hear “all our relations” as a mantra among the Lakota people when they pray in the dark in a sweat lodge or under the sun in a generous act of the Sundance. To speak repetitively of “all our relations” is a medicine for the disease of loneliness foisted on us by individualistic consciousness, including a sick religious consciousness that leaves Creation and the Cosmic Christ
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Russian Orthodox theologian Nicolas Berdyaev speaks to this truth when he writes: The central idea of the Eastern Fathers was that of theosis, the divinization of all creatures, the transfiguration of the world, the idea of the cosmos and not the idea of personal salvation. When one leaves creation and the whole and solidarity with the universe and with all creatures out of one’s religious viewpoint, perversion sets in. Individualism takes over the soul
and fear and trauma accompany it. A neurosis is born. |
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Berdyaev continues: Only later Christian consciousness began to value the idea of hell more than the idea of the transfiguration and divinization of the world…The kingdom of God is the transfiguration of the world, universal resurrection, a new heaven and a new earth. How wonderful it is
to refigure the meaning of the coming of the Word into human, cosmic and planetary history at Christmas time. Christmas itself gets reborn in this non-sentimental and profoundly mystical context. A fine preparation for the mysteries we attend to, on this Christmas Eve. |
Banner Image: A meticulously detailed diorama of the birth of the Christ. Photo by garten-gg on Pixabay. |
Queries for Contemplation Which speaks to you more: The ideas of hell and personal salvation? Or the
ideas of the divinization of all creatures and the transfiguration of the world and the cosmos? Responses are welcomed. To add your comment, or read other comments and enter into dialogue, please click HERE to go to our website and scroll down to the Comments field. |
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