Mayan Calendar: Evolving Towards Enlightenment - V

In the series, Evolving Towards Enlightenment I-V, Carl Johan Calleman explains the links between the Mayan Calendar Enlightenment and the significance of the year 2012.

The Return of Christ Consciousness, Quetzalcoatl and the Venus Passages
An important theme of the Book of Revelation is the return of Christ, but if Christ and Quetzalcoatl are the same when will ”he” return and what will this return mean? From the perspective developed here it seems that we are talking first and foremost about the return of a certain consciousness, the consciousness that is developed by the Galactic Underworld, and more specifically about the LIGHT aspect of this consciousness. The energy of this LIGHT may be referred to either as Christ consciousness or Quetzalcoatl depending on the tradition we belong to. In this view the return of Christ is not a matter of a single individual coming down to us to put everything in order. Rather it is about a new level of consciousness incarnating, or being developed, in many of us who choose to fulfill our destinies as aspects of the divine. The return of Quetzalcoatl and of Christ consciousness is something that will take place in some of us who choose to have this consciousness reincarnate in ourselves (This does not mean that some of us are divine and others not, only that everyone will not necessarily take a path of seeking to realize his divine nature).

What then is the role of Venus in the return of Christ consciousness/Quetzalcoatl? Venus was the planet of greatest interest to the Maya. The Maya very closely studied its phases and knew that five synodical Venus cycles of 584 days equal eight years on earth (minus two days). In various ways they sought to understand how the movement of Venus was linked to the tzolkin, and in the Dresden Codex, the finest of the Mayan Codices, the Venus Tables play a prominent role. Much of the Mayan interest in Venus depended on the fact that its phases were seen as symbolic of the processes of death and rebirth, and so linked to Quetzalcoatl. Hence it was thought that in the eight days between the disappearance of Venus as the Evening star and its emergence as a Morning star when it conjuncts the sun, Quetzalcoatl would return to the Underworld.

But it is only at a certain kind of conjunction that Venus actually intersects the disc of the sun, although such an "eclipse" is hardly visible to the naked eye. Such an "eclipse" of the sun, lasting for about seven hours, is called a Venus passage, or Venus transit, and is an occasion where Venus may serve as the best of all possible Cosmic Mirrors. Such Venus passages occur pair wise separated by eight years and the most recent pairs of Venus passages appeared in the years 1761/1769 (Fig 57) and 1874/1882. As all of creation is now going towards its completion, a pair of Venus passages will appear on the days June 8, 2004 and June 6, 2012 (Greenwich Mean Time).

That Venus is the sister planet of Earth and a manifestation of Quetzalcoatl means that the Venus passage of June 8, 2004 is designed as a perfect Cosmic Mirror to prepare us for the spiritual reality that is in the process of manifesting, by joining in meditation on this day. The really important facet of this occasion is that it will be perfectly scheduled to celebrate the midpoint of the third NIGHT of the Galactic Cycle, a time when a new Cross, the World Tree, will again be present to our inner vision.

Integrating the World Tree
One possible technique of receiving one’s inner World Tree for guidance in the times to come is through a Gaia meditation. What this means is that you imagine your own head inside of, or actually becoming, the earth. In such a meditation you may imagine positioning your eyes at the Hawaiian Islands so that your left brain half corresponds to the Western Hemisphere and the right brain half to the Eastern. In this way you will be fully exposed to the global creation field organized by the New World Tree and remain in resonance with it.

This could also be taken one step further by visualizing your head surrounded by the galaxy with its midplane separating your two brain halves, meaning that the World Tree will be recreated on your forehead at the location of the third eye. At this occasion we may then in a meditative state of awareness focus intensely on the passage of Venus across the disc of the sun, while letting go of attempts to directly see the True Cross. If we identify strongly with planet earth and the galaxy and through meditation receive this new Heaven (while still focusing on the passage of our sister planet across the disc of the sun) we will receive the imprint of the Cross, whether we can see this directly or not.

The Mayan Calendar will replace Babylonian Astrology
The meditation at this Venus Passage is not about ”astrology.” It is not about expecting that Venus will then cause something to happen on earth. Rather it is about the cosmos offering an opportunity, a unique mirror for us to use at a super synchronistic moment in time. The Venus passage is an opportunity that means nothing unless it is taken. Thus, at this particular half-tun shift, when the Cross will favorably begin to tip over the balance against the materialist consciousness of the Planetary Underworld, we will receive some extra, remarkably timed, help from the Cosmos to create resonance with the new Heaven.

The return of Quetzalcoatl thus also means a return of the Mayan calendar, the most exact and advanced expression of the cosmology of Native America. The conditions may thus now be at hand for a revival and a return of the ancient tradition of the Sacred Calendar, a tradition that is becoming increasingly important for humanity. And maybe so, a part will be recreated that can make the global culture whole. Certainly in this many people from across the world, regardless of race, gender, religion or nationality, will be participating by being incarnations of the LIGHT of Christ and Quetzalcoatl and expressing this Enlightenment through their actions. The Maya wisdom and the tzolkin will come to be embraced by people all over the world that desire the means to live in harmony with divine creation. The returning Cross, The World Tree, will not be linked to religious rigidity or set rules. Instead it is an opening to freedom of expression, of serving creation based on one’s own guidance and the recognition that all human beings carry pieces of the truth and that the truth cannot be monopolized by any one of us.

The Universal Creation Cycle
Then I saw a great white throne and Him who was seated on it...
Revelation 20:11

The number Nine plays an important role in the spiritual lore of many traditions, and it seems that in both the Buddhist and the Nordic traditions the Ninth World is something special. Also there were Nine doors to the holiest part of the temple in Jerusalem and we have already seen the importance of this number to the Maya. So there are strong reasons to believe that the Ninth Underworld of the Cosmos, the Universal Cycle, is different from all the others. At the end - or rather at the top - of this Underworld there will be an Ascension to Heaven, or, really, the descent of Heaven to earth. Only as we draw to the close of the Universal Cycle, will we gain a true picture of Creation and thus from this maybe understand more of who God really is. We will definitely pass from a state of believing to one of knowing. Our current views will then likely be seen as fathoming in the dark.

As we are endowed not only with a Galactic, but also with a non-dualist Universal, frame of consciousness, these will make it possible for us to see the events of the past from a higher perspective than previously. Surely the perspective from the Universal Underworld will allow for true forgiveness, what the Book of Revelation refers to in its verse 21:4: “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things are passed away.” From the perspective of the Universal Underworld the former things will have passed away. All the conflicts of humanity belonging to lower levels of consciousness will by 2011 have been resolved, because then there is no support in the Heavens for anything but the unity of all mankind, a unity with All That Is. The old order will no longer be real.

The End to Death
Both Mayan and Christian sources talk about an end to death at the end of time. Eastern traditions talk about the Enlightened state as deathless. What this means may be beyond our comprehension today, but the ancient traditions are all pointing in the same direction: a time-less Enlightened cosmic consciousness. We may rightly ask who needs a calendar in such a state and rightly so the Mayan Calendar then comes to an end. All of Creation will be completed with the Universal Cycle in the year 2011 when all Underworlds will have attained the tzolkin energy of 13 Ahau. Reaching this day-sign no filters will be blocking our vision of divine LIGHT or communication with the divine. No longer will the human being be puppets of the cycles of creation. We will then come to live in the New Jerusalem, the Tent of God, having reached Enlightenment after completing the 108 movements of Shiva and climbed the Nine Underworlds. The True Life will begin.