For those who insist Easter is pagan cite 1 primary source that proves anything of the ludicrous claims you make. Not that it matter because no matter how much education tou give these people they don’t care

2. If you say “Passover” is Biblical I say the word Passover was made up by Tyndale and rhe word Passover isn’t in the Bible.

And finally Easter comes from the Germanic Eostre. German is considered to be the mother tongue for English. The majority our English words do in fact come from the old ancient Germanic language and Easter happens to be one of those words.

Easter which is “Ostern” in German is a Germanic word derived from the root word “east” which is the “Ost” in German.

East or the “Ost” in German refers to the direction from which the sun rises. The east direction goes by that name because the word literally means “dawn”, “sunrise”, “morning” or “to shine”

That’s actually why we use east as a directional signal. What we are actually saying is head to the dawn, head to the sunrise. Same is if you looked up the old Germanic word for West, it actually means night, head to the sunset.

So let me give you an example of how that root word “ost” is used in old Germanic, each of the months in the old Germanic calendar is named after a natural phenomenon that characterizes the month.

January means severe frost month, February means shedding of antlers month and for the month of April Ostar-Manod it literally means East/Sunrise month. It was given that name based on the seasonal characteristic of the sunrise starting earlier. This is just an example of how that rood word “ost” was used in old Germanic.

So Easter with its linguistic Germanic roots, is an English descriptive word that refers to the dawn, sunrise, morning, shining, or simply the direction of the rising of the sun from the east. It’s a descriptive word, but how does that relate to the resurrection?

Now, Oster comes from the old Teutonic form of auferstehen / auferstehung, which means resurrection, which in the older Teutonic form comes from two words, Ester meaning first, and stehen meaning to stand. These two words combine to form erstehen which is an old German form of auferstehen, the modern day German word for resurrection.

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,