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expectativa do maior de todos os presentes: a Cristicidade pessoal.</blockquote>
expectativa do maior de todos os presentes: a Cristicidade pessoal.</blockquote>


<blockquote>Those things that bring delight to children—games and toys and things and rings in stockings—beloved hearts, originally the gifts given to the child of every heart were intended to enhance the child’s perception and realization of that Person of Christ. When you think about the gifts that are given these days, you realize that some gifts do assist the individual in a greater sense of identity, while others adorn the outer person and tend to create more [[maya]] of idolatry. And thus, attaching importance and attention to the outer self, the individual loses the great opportunity of this hour to truly enter into the heart of that cosmic being known as the Spirit of Christmas.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Amados corações, originalmente, os presentes que as crianças ganhavam e as deleitavam – jogos, brinquedos e outras tantas coisas colocadas dentro de meias – tinham o objetivo de aumentar a percepção e a realização que elas tinham da Pessoa do Cristo. Quando pensais nos presentes que ganham hoje, percebeis que alguns as ajudam a ter um senso maior
de identidade e outros ornamentam a pessoa exterior e tendem a aumentar o maya da idolatria. Ao dar importância e atenção ao eu exterior, o indivíduo perde uma oportunidade excelente de, nessa hora, entrar de fato no coração desse ser cósmico conhecido como o Espírito do Natal.</blockquote>


<blockquote>Therefore, beloved ones, understand that this Spirit embodies the collective consciousness of Christhood of the entire Spirit of the [[Great White Brotherhood]]—of all ascended beings and angels and masters, cosmic hosts of the L<small>ORD</small> who are that Christ. Let us realize, then, that in all symbols there is Reality; in archetypes there is the original pattern of the image made perfect out of Christ; and in Santa Claus himself is the lingering hope in all that the figure of the Cosmic Christ will come to bring the true joy, the joy of the heart filled with love.<ref>Lanello, “The Spirit of Christmas,” {{POWref|25|68}}</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>Therefore, beloved ones, understand that this Spirit embodies the collective consciousness of Christhood of the entire Spirit of the [[Great White Brotherhood]]—of all ascended beings and angels and masters, cosmic hosts of the L<small>ORD</small> who are that Christ. Let us realize, then, that in all symbols there is Reality; in archetypes there is the original pattern of the image made perfect out of Christ; and in Santa Claus himself is the lingering hope in all that the figure of the Cosmic Christ will come to bring the true joy, the joy of the heart filled with love.<ref>Lanello, “The Spirit of Christmas,” {{POWref|25|68}}</ref></blockquote>
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