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Contents

Christmas
Ioanna Panagiotopoulos

The reality of the world’s need
Alfred Heidenreich

Be–Create–Enlighten
Cynthia Hindes

The quiet revolution
Ilse Wellershoff-Schuur

It didn’t start with us – Reflections on the cathedral at Chartres
Lory Widmer Hess

The search for the Divine Sophia III
The Grail alliance
Michael Steward

Reviews

Editorial

Creation is not finished. Each Advent reminds us that the world still waits to be made anew. Out of darkness, a new light is born – not to replace what has been, but to add to it. The story of creation continues wherever a human heart becomes receptive, wherever imagination and love work together to bring form to what longs to exist.

We often think of creativity as the special preserve of the artistically gifted, but it is the common language of all who live consciously. Every new connection we make in thinking,; every gesture of friendship, perhaps bridging a divide, adds to the world’s renewal. The incarnation teaches us that the divine enters materiality, takes on earthly form. As the divine word once became flesh, so must it now become action, thought, relationship.

The call of the divine poet, ‘Let there be…’, still resounds through the cosmos, waiting for our answering word. To create is to respond: to lend our voice, our skill, our courage to the music of becoming. In the small acts of our days, the world listens for that echo.

At Epiphany, the work of creation conceived during Advent comes to light. What was formed in quiet emerges as radiance. The magi, who practised the art of spirit-discernment, recognise the divine child not through command or creed, but through seeing – through reverent attention to what shines. That same seeing is the beginning of all true creativity: the attentive recognition of what wants to become.

In a time when so much seems exhausted or artificially manufactured, the call to create is more needed than ever. It may be the most radical thing we can do – not escape into fantasy, but engagement with what is actually alive and seeking form. To tend what is living, to give shape to what is good: this gives the new creation the space to take root.

-Tom Ravetz