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Rays of Spiritual Illumination
by Beloved Holy Ĉolus
THE NEW YEAR
The beginning of a New Year sets into motion a new Cosmic Cycle for the individual, the country, and the Planet itself. Each year is divided into a seven-week minor cycle, and the entire year represents the Seven Times Seven, with a slight overlap of three weeks which is due to faulty calendar, which was not the error of the early Greeks, the Egyptians, or the Atlanteans, but of the later intellectual men.
The New Year, therefore, represents another opportunity for each soul and spirit to ride upon the Cosmic Tide, higher into the Heart of Heaven, placing the years that have gone before into the cosmic incinerator of forgiveness and forgetfulness.
The Birth of the New Year depicted as an infant is really significant of a new beginning, the individual rising up to begin that year as if he had just stepped forth from the womb of time without even record or memory of imperfection of the past. Man would do well to carry with him, in the days ahead, the feeling of HOPE, hope of the new and better opportunity that he experienced as the New Day dawned. The man who can do this will progress much more rapidly than he who insists upon carrying with him the memories of that entire Earth embodiment with its vicissitudes, seeming injustices and failures.