This Feast celebrates the Uncreated Light which shone from the Master Jesus on Mt Tabor, witnessed by some of the Apostles. For many scholars, it represents an account descrbing the experiece of the Risen Christ.
Liturgically and mystically, it comes at the end of the Orthodox / Byzantine Church Year, and together with the Dormition on Aug 15, it is the culmination of Salvation History, as it proclaims the Theosis (Deification) of all things in the great Apocatastasis (Reintegration, Tikun Olam, Cooling of the Fire).
This, it is no surprise that at this end of the Iron Age, the Evil Spirit and the Prevaricating Spirits were able in 1945 to tempt us into blaspheming this day of Divine / Human transfiguration by using the power of the Stars to "transform" two cities in Japan and all the Divine mainifestations within into blasted, twisted horror, melted flesh and lasting sickness.
For a chilling vision of how such temptation works, I recommend re-reading the scene in Walter Miller's A Canticle For Leibowitz where the Monks are reading the account of world leaders being persuaded to use nuclear weapons by the Enemy of Human Nature.
Those -- such as Earth-Based practitioners: Druids, Bards, Wiccans, et al. -- also tell us that these and subsequent nuclear explosions have ripped the fabric of time/space, and that much work is needed in cooperation with Faerie and the Underworld to heal this. We are not only harming our own plane, but others as well.
As we strive to make the transition to the new Golden Age, let us take this day back from the perfidies of the Prevaricating Spirits, and focus our energies on healing, reinregration and Theosis, both for the victims of this and other tragedies, and for all the planes of the manifested Cosmos.
Left: Icon of the Transfiguration by Theophanes the Greek (15th century, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).
Your faithful correspondent,
BT
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