Seasons

Most of us have been raised to see the seasons as an external event. Even the Christians who continue the ancient rituals have the same feeling. Yet we know very well, if only unconsciously, that we are a product of nature, the Earth and its seasons. We are all influenced by the cycles of growth and death, and yet we usually fail to sense the seasons as an almighty influence within us. Also we are unconscious of being a part of nature in the sense of knowing as our own experience the enormous influence the seasons have on our inner life, and the power we could get from acknowledging them.

All of these inner infliuences are depicted graphically in the Christian Festivals. Usually we see them as about historical dramas regarding Jesus, but thy are in fact an amazing dramatic presentation of the influence of the Earth upon us all.

See: Spring; Summer; Autumn; Winter.