Each of the four sacred seasons sounds its own particular keynote and emanates its own special color. The color of the Autumn Equinox is a soft and exquisite blue like the mist which veils mountain tops in early dawn. Blue is a color of tremendous power. It is the Father color.
The color of the Winter Solstice, the birth color, is a luminous white. The highest ecstatic impulses always find expression in white. And it is in the divine pulsations of white light that the Hosts of heaven chorus of the coming to earth of the Holy Child.
The color of the Spring Equinox is the beautiful red of new life, the beginnings of a new vibrancy which pulses throughout the planet at the time of the spiritual New Year.
The color of the Summer Solstice is a luminous gold, the Lord Christ's own color, for the Summer Solstice is His particular season when He ascends in glory to the very throne of God the Father and bathes in the divine ecstasy of a perfect at-onement with Him.
The four principal steps in human birth have their parallel in the four great planetary cycles. Man in his increasing materialism has forgotten the true significance of these successive stages of develop ment. The first step of the Birth Ritual is that of the Annunciation and corresponds to the high golden ecstasy of the season of the Summer Solstice. As the sun passes into Virgo, the Christ turns His powerful golden inflow towards the earth. The celestial hosts of Virgo are the foci for his downpouring force. As this new Christed light floods through the etheric sheaths of the planet, all the plant kingdom becomes luminous. September is the most fitting time in which to hold high communion with Nature. In the reverent and awe-inspiring sacred hush of this season the earth experiences the wonder of the planetary Immaculate Conception.
At the holy time of the Autumn Equinox the golden Christ Ray blends with the blue, and the atmosphere is suffused with a rare shimmering blue-gold. Now it is that the Celestial Hosts of Libra join in heavenly hallelujahs, for the Christ force touches the outer most edge of earth's physical envelope, the sacred moment of the quickening occurs. All the planet is imbued with a new life impulse, and its vibratory rhythms are lifted.
From the Autumn Equinox until the Winter Solstice every day is a Holy Day in which dedicated ones may walk increasingly in the Light. For each day of this sacred interval the golden Christ Light penetrates deeper into the earth until, at the Winter Solstice (December twenty-first), it is focussed in the very heart of the earth, as jubilant Hosts chant of the midnight birth of a new Sun.
Thus we see that our earth planet becomes a beautiful rainbow of color, and also a sublime symphony of sound. Two of the sacred seasons, the Spring Equinox and the Summer Solstice, ray forth colors which are brilliant and vivid, attuned to the majestic tones of a major symphony. The other two sacred seasons ray forth colors which are soft and luminous, attuned to the tender tones of a minor symphony. Thus we come to note something of our planetary rhy thms of light and shadow. And by shadow we mean the softened, muted, minor tones.
All mankind lives unconsciously in harmony with these alternating seasons. In Spring and Summer man seeks the open and pursues interests belonging to objective life. In Autumn and Winter he turns to inner and more serious things belonging to subjective Iife. Our educational system follows this pattern: relaxation in Spring and Summer; application to study in Autumn and Winter.
The Autumn Equinox is the time for deepening soul dedication, for renewal of soul aspiration. It is a time to tune in with the inner processes of nature and to conform the activities of the inner life to the spiritual character of the season. In this way the disciple will come into a personal realization of the harmony that exists between the Ii fe and character of the Lord Christ and all other world Teachers with that of nature, which is God in manifestation. Thus does he take on some of these same qualities and join the ranks of that ever growing number of men and women whose uppermost purpose is to assist the Christ in his redemptive work for humanity and to advance His reign on earth.
— Corinne Heline
