21/04/2025
Happy Easter beautiful souls 🙏✨
✦ The True Meaning of Easter — A Hermetic Reflection ✦
In the noise of plastic eggs and commercialized symbols, the true essence of Easter is often lost. It has become a season of external celebration, yet its deepest truth is one of internal resurrection.
Easter is not about one man nailed to a cross long ago. It is not confined to a religion or a date marked by the moon’s cycle. It is the eternal story of the death of the false self and the rebirth of the True Self — the Christos within.
From the Hermetic perspective, the crucifixion represents the symbolic death of the lower ego — the surrender of the animal nature, the illusions, the attachments, the identities that have bound us to the material illusion. The resurrection is not a miracle of flesh, but of Spirit. It is the moment the inner flame is reignited — when the Divine spark reawakens in remembrance of what it truly is.
"As above, so below. As within, so without."
Easter is not about worship — it is about embodiment.
The Christ is not a man, but a state of consciousness. The cross is not just a symbol of suffering, but a map — the intersection of time and eternity, the horizontal plane of the world and the vertical axis of Spirit. And we, like the sun at the spring equinox, rise after the descent into the underworld of winter — the soul’s darkest night.
In ancient mystery schools, this cycle of death and rebirth was taught long before any religion laid claim to it. Osiris, Tammuz, Dionysus, Mithras — all carried the same seed of wisdom: that life is eternal, and rebirth comes through inner transformation.
Easter is the alchemical process — Solve et Coagula. Dissolve the old self. Reforge the new. Not in the image of the world, but in the image of the Divine. This is the sacred Work of the Hermetist. The Philosopher’s Stone is not a rock — it is the refined soul.
So as the world paints eggs and attends services, let us go deeper. Let us rise from our own tombs — the mental prisons, the fear, the illusions of limitation. Let us roll back the stone we placed there ourselves.
This is not just history — it is prophecy. It is the moment you realize that the Kingdom of Heaven is within you, and always has been. And when you embody that truth, you don’t just believe in resurrection — you become it.
Let this Easter be not a remembrance of an event, but a rebirth of consciousness. May you die to all that is false, and rise in the light of Truth. The veil is thin. The call is clear. You are not here to kneel — you are here to become.
With love and eternal light,
✦ A Hermetic Brother/Sister of the Ancient Flame ✦
