THE INCARNATION IS NOW: A Christmas Initiation into Christ-Consciousness
- Christopher Shaw
- Dec 24, 2025
- 9 min read
Founder, Merkaba Temple & Merkaba Retreats
Co-Founder, ArcherShaw
Beloved family, today we gather not to remember a story, but to enter an ancient initiation: The descent of Light into form. The willingness of God to become human. The willingness of the human to say yes.
This is not nostalgia.
This is not religion.
This is not sentiment.
This is incarnation.
Take a breath.
Feel yourself arrive into your own body—because Christ-Consciousness begins exactly there...in the place where you stop leaving yourself.
WHAT CHRIST-CONSCIOUSNESS ACTUALLY IS
Christ is not a historical figure to admire. Christ is not a distant miracle worker to worship from afar. Christ is not a divine exception standing outside the human story.
Christ is a template — a frequency — a field of consciousness that longs to take form in you.
Christ-Consciousness is the awakened state in which:
Love no longer abandons the body when pressure rises
Clarity remains steady even when confusion surrounds you
Power becomes service, not dominance
Devotion becomes direction, not avoidance
Innocence becomes strength, not fragility\
Christ-Consciousness is the natural expression of a human being who has stopped resisting their own divinity and stopped rejecting their own humanity.
It is what emerges when heaven and earth stop competing and begin collaborating.
When your breath is no longer separate from God’s breath. When your choices stop contradicting your soul. When your body becomes a sanctuary instead of a battleground.
This is the invitation of Christ-Consciousness: Let the Divine move through youwithout distortion, without interruption,without retreat.
Jesus was not the exception. He was the demonstration—the first fruits of a new kind of humanity, the embodied reminder of what every human being is capable of becoming.
He said it himself in John 14:12: “You will do these works — and greater.”
This was not metaphor. This was not poetry. This was not flattery.
This was a transmission of empowerment.
He was pointing to your capacity, not his exclusivity. To your destiny, not his superiority.
Christ-Consciousness is not about elevating Jesus above humanity. It is about awakening the Christ within humanity.
It is the remembrance that: What lived in him is meant to live in you.
RE-SEEING THE BIRTH — THE COSMIC EVENT
The miracle of Christmas was not that a child was born. The miracle was that a human said yes.
The incarnation begins not with God’s decision, but with humanity’s consent.
Mary represents the moment the collective human soul stopped bracing against God and whispered: “You may live through me.”(Luke 1:38 — “Let it be unto me according to your word.”)
This single yes rearranged the architecture of history and altered the frequency of the Earth.
Mary is not merely a woman in a story. She is the archetype of the receptive heart—the part of you that is willing to be a vessel even when it does not understand the full assignment.
The womb is not only a physical space. The womb is the human nervous system—the inner chamber where Spirit becomes sensation, where the Infinite takes on form, where divinity enters your biology and begins its slow, luminous expansion.
The manger is not a symbol of poverty. The manger is the symbol of the unguarded heart—the place that has no walls, no pretense, no witness except the Holy.
It is the part of you that is willing to be seen in its rawness, its innocence, its simplicity.
The star that appeared in the night sky is the light that appears in you when your soul is ready.
It is your inner compass, your spiritual north, the unmistakable pull of destiny that says: “Go here.Something has been born in you.”
This star does not shine in the sky. It shines in your awareness.
The shepherds represent the humble, instinctual places within you that sense truth the moment it appears—the parts that do not need theology or doctrine, only presence. They remind you that revelation arrives first to the simple and the still.
The wise ones—those travelers from the East—represent your ancient self: the parts of your soul that remember lifetimes of devotion, that recognize the sacred the moment they see it, that know how to bow before Light without hesitation.
Their gifts were not ceremonial tokens. They were initiatory codes placed at the feet of the newly incarnated Christ:
Gold — the acknowledgment of sovereignty, the mirror of your kingship, the reminder that you are not meant to live small.
Frankincense — the fragrance of devotion, the lifting of your awareness from the mind to the Divine, the reminder that your life is incense rising.
Myrrh — the anointing of death, not as tragedy but as initiation, the release of the false self so that the True Self may stand revealed.
These three codes—Sovereignty, Devotion, Death & Rebirth—are the foundation of every spiritual path, the architecture of every initiation.
And this moment in Bethlehem—this simple, quiet, unadorned moment—was not the beginning of a religion.
It was the installation of a frequency on Earth, a frequency that has been humming ever since in every human being courageous enough to say: “Let the Light be born in me, too.”
THE REAL INVITATION OF CHRISTMAS — INCARNATION
The world is not collapsing. The world is being asked to embody truth at a level it has never known.
The shaking we see around us is not the fall of the world, but the fall of what can no longer hold the weight of the Light that is entering.
Fear rises not when darkness grows, but when Light approaches embodiment.
Because Light does not ask for permission. Light does not negotiate. Light does not wait for convenience.
Light reveals.
Light uncovers.
Light transforms.
And humanity is learning—slowly, painfully, beautifully—how to let the Light touch the places where we once hid our fear, our shame, our smallness, our unhealed stories.
We are not in an era of escaping the body. We are in an era of inhabiting it fully—breath by breath, choice by choice, awakening by awakening.
Christ-Consciousness is not about transcendence. It is not about rising above the human experience. It is about descending into the human experience with such presence and wholeness that nothing within you is left outside of Love.
Christ-Consciousness is arrival.
Christ-Consciousness is inhabitation.
Christ-Consciousness is the capacity to remainwhen everything in you once fled.
It is remembering that God did not come to visit Earth—God came to inhabit it. To take on skin and breath and hunger and longing. To know joy and sorrow and laughter and ache. To experience humanity from the inside-out.
Incarnation is not God becoming less holy. Incarnation is God declaring that the human is holy enough to be the home of the Divine.
And the same invitation—the invitation that hovered over Mary, the invitation that stirred the shepherds, the invitation that called to the wise ones—is being extended to you today:
Will you let the Light inhabit you fully?
Not in concept, but in embodiment?
Not tomorrow, but now?
THE ACTIVATION — WHERE CHRIST IS BORN
Place one hand on your heart…or your belly.
Christ was not born once.
Christ is born every time a human says yes to love embodied.
Not someday. Not when you are healed enough. Not when your life is perfect or your story is resolved.
Now.
Because Christ-Consciousness does not wait for your perfection—it waits for your permission.
This silence is not absence. This silence is the womb. This silence is the fertile darkness where the Light begins to expand within you.
This silence is the moment when Spirit slips quietly into the center of your being and makes itself at home.
This silence is where Christ is born again—in your breath, in your awareness, in your willingness to stop running from your own holiness.
Christ-Consciousness is not about perfection. It is about consent. It is the willingness to say:
“Let the Light be born in me, too.”
“Let love guide me now.”
“Let something larger than my feartake form through my life.”
This is the birthplace of Christ in you.
THE CROSS — THE MAP OF INTEGRATION
The cross is not primarily about suffering. The cross is the architecture of alignment.
Vertical: your connection to Source—the unbroken, eternal, luminous thread that links your soul to the Divine.
Horizontal: your presence with humanity—the way you show up in relationship, in community, in conflict, in compassion.
Christ stands at the center where these two lines meet—where heaven and earth stop fighting and begin to function as a single breath.
The cross is the place where the spiritual and the human cease pulling away from each other and instead enter into holy cooperation.
It is the place where your highest knowing meets your deepest feeling.
It is the place where surrender meets sovereignty.
It is the place where your humanity is no longer in opposition to your divinity—but becomes the very means through which divinity expresses itself.
And in that place—the place of integration, the place of completion—Jesus spoke the words recorded in John 19:30: “It is finished.”
These words were not defeat. They were declaration.
A declaration that the old pattern—of separation, of exile, of unworthiness—was complete.
A declaration that the blueprint was installed. The path was set. The template was activated.
Nothing is missing.
Nothing is withheld.
Nothing is impossible.
Christ showed what a human life looks like when lived from unity, not division—from wholeness, not fragmentation—from Love embodied, not Love imagined.
This is the map. This is the invitation. This is the integration point waiting for you.
WHAT CHRIST-CONSCIOUSNESS LOOKS LIKE IN DAILY LIFE
Christ-Consciousness is not abstract. It is not theoretical. It is a frequency made visible in how you move through the world.
It looks like:
Speaking truth without sharpness
Setting boundaries without closing your heart
Entering conflict without losing yourself
Giving love without abandoning your dignity
Holding power without needing control
Feeling deeply without being overwhelmed
Standing firm without becoming rigid
Leading without superiority
Serving without self-erasure
These are the marks of someone who has allowed Love to take form through them.
And let us speak clearly now…
What Christ-Consciousness does not look like. Christ-Consciousness does not:
discriminate
shame
exclude
condemn
dehumanize
justify violence
attack someone’s sexuality or gender
weaponize scripture
use God to control others
Christ does not say: “You are unworthy,”
“You don’t belong,”or
“God rejects you.”
Christ does not send people to hell. Christ goes wherever hell appears and carries someone home.
Wars fought in Christ’s name are not Christ.
Hatred justified by Christ is not Christ.
Oppression cloaked in holiness is not Christ.
These are fear wearing a cross—nothing more.
Christ-Consciousness says:
“No one is outside the heart of God.”
“Love is the measure.”
“Belonging is the birthright.”
“All are the image and likeness.”
Anything else is not Christ.
THE COMMISSION — INCARNATE THE LIGHT
You were not born to escape this world. You were born to inhabit it fully.
Carry the Light:
As posture.
As breath.
As tone.
As the way you walk into a room.
As the way you touch your own heart.
As the way you love.
As the way you stop abandoning yourself.
Do not convince.
Do not convert.
Incarnate.
Your embodiment is the sermon.
Your life is the scripture.
Your presence is the transmission.
THE FINAL SEAL — YOUR YES
If it is true for you, speak softly—or within your own heart: The Light is welcome here. I consent to full incarnation.
Let this consent echo through your body.
Let it settle.
Let it anchor.
Christ is not a memory.
Christ is not an idea.
Christ is not a metaphor.
Christ is a frequency seeking a body.
And today—you gave it yours.
CLOSING PRAYER — THE SEAL OF INCARNATION
Beloved Presence…Divine Light within us and all around us…
We give thanks for this moment, for this remembrance, for this holy opening in the temple of the heart.
We honor the Christ-Light that has risen in this space—not as memory, but as embodiment.
May the frequency awakened here today take root in every breath, in every choice, in every step we take from this moment forward.
May we walk as vessels of clarity, servants of compassion, bearers of sovereignty, keepers of devotion.
May the Light that touched us continue to expand through us—transforming the places we have withheld, softening the places we have armored, illuminating the places we have forgotten.
Let our bodies become the manger. Let our hearts become the altar. Let our lives become the living scripture of the Christ within.
May we carry this initiation into our relationships ,our families, our communities, our work, our world.
Where there is fear, let us bring presence. Where there is judgment, let us bring compassion. Where there is division, let us bring wholeness. Where there is despair, let us bring the remembering that Love is stronger than every story.
Divine Light…Christ within…Beloved Source…We offer ourselves fully—that you may live through us with grace, with power, with tenderness, with truth.
Seal this transmission in our bodies. Anchor it in our breath. Carry it into every dimension of our being.
And may we walk from this temple as living incarnations of Love.
OM NAMAH SHIVAYA.
Om Guru Om.
Amen. Aho. Ase.
And so it is.
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