Celebrating the Festival of St John – A. Spoken Word - set of three CDs with all five addresses

Inspiration and spiritual focus for St John's Tide

The festival of St John is celebrated on June 26th, around the time of the solstice or ‘turning point’. St John is a unique person in Christian history. John the Baptist prepared the way for the Christ Spirit to enter into Jesus. He prepared the hearts of the people so they could perceive and receive the Christ. John the Beloved was the disciple that Jesus loved, who lay on his breast on the night before he died, and who took the Mother of Jesus to his own home after Jesus was crucified.

“John”, then, is the name of the human being most significantly and intimately involved with Jesus Christ. For that reason, the person and writings of John are very precious to all who love Christ and who long to know and express his spirit in their day to day lives.

St John’s Tide is not popularly celebrated. These addresses, given by the Reverend Mario Schoenmaker, were recorded live during services held to mark the feast day of St John. They inform us about the right way of celebrating this festival today, the inner orientation required, and they set before us the greatness of our human beingness as foreshadowed by St John.

The Festival of the Human Spirit

During the festival of St John we should lift up our thoughts and place the figure of the human being into the cosmic sphere. Do not lower your consciousness and perceive mankind in the pain, misery, violence and bloodshed of earthly limitations, but rather see the grandeur of humanity, and our place in the universe.
(An address from the Cosmic Mass 23rd June 1991 on John 1:19-34)

The Task of St John's Tide

The figure of St John stands out in history as the last prophet of the old but also as one who is lauding in a new consciousness which typifies every human being as divinely human. The reason why St John's tide is not celebrated by the world and Christians alike is the underlying fear of really becoming human. If we think that we are fully human, we are mistaken, for we have not as yet become cosmic in our thinking, acting and expressing. We are still too parochial and narrow in our lifestyle, manners and even spiritual awareness.
(An address from the Cosmic Mass 20th June 1993 on John 1:29-34 and Mark 1:1-8)

The John Principle

In the Gospels we find two men who are called John. One is the Baptist, who opened the way and stands therefore at the beginning of the ministry of Christ, and the other is called the Beloved, and stands virtually at the end of the ministry of Jesus. These two were the first to reveal the true nature of Christ and, in that sense, the true Christian nature within self. They were therefore also the first to bring to light the pattern of the true Christed human being.
(An address from the Cosmic Mass 27th June 1993 on 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 and Luke 1:11-17)

The Result of the Baptist's Message

Before we were born we had a choice placed before us. To stay in the heavenly places, which is a Luciferic temptation, and would mean that we could not evolve and grow any further, or to incarnate. If we decided to do that then God could work on us and grant us the fullness of evolution. Before coming to this earth, God gave us a picture, an image. It was the image of the complete and perfect human being.
(An address from the Cosmic Mass 23rd June 1996 - Psalm 8:3-9 and Luke 3:1-6)

The Incarnations of John the Baptist: Know your Cosmic Significance

You and I have lost the vision of our cosmic significance in this universe, but Elijah never did, Isaiah never did, and John never did.
(From an address given in the 1970s on Isaiah 40:3-5 and Matt 3:1-6)
This address is a bonus and only available when all addresses are bought as one package such as this CD.

Keywords
Festival, humanity, John the Baptist, John the Beloved, St John.

CD Details
Written and spoken by Rev Mario Schoenmaker on dates given above.
Published by ICA Press, 2007.

Triple CD set
Packaged in two clear plastic CD covers with coloured insert.
Disc 1: The Festival of the Human Spirit: 32 min, The Task of St John's Tide: 39 min,
Disc 2: The John Principle: 38 min, The Result of the Baptist's Message: 33 min,
Disc 3: The Incarnations of John the Baptist: Know your Cosmic Significance: 24 min

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