"The Mummery" is not simply a book I Wrote a long time ago, which My devotees do as a theatrical performance every year. "The Mummery" is a liturgical script, to be done in the context of a great Puja. That's how it's to be used by My devotees. When people go to the Catholic mass, for instance, they don't talk about it as if it's merely a theatrical entertainment, because it is a sacred, real event of Divine participation for those who take it seriously.

So it is with "The Mummery". It is part of a cycle of Pujas and sacred Communion enhanced by every act. It is a portion of that liturgy of the Ashvamedha, in which the Puja of the Ashvamedha sacrifice follows "The Mummery". That's how My devotees should understand this.

Yes, I dropped everything in the temple. But then there is everything more, everything that means, everything that My Work is about, everything I've had to do since then. That sacrifice had to be made altogether—that Ashvamedha sacrifice. So, in the annual Feast in January, the liturgy of "The Mummery" is performed, and then the Puja of the Horse-Sacrifice is repeated, and all of it is about Me, all of it altogether. You cannot really understand "The Mummery" without understanding the Ashvamedha. It's the meaning of the dropping of the egg and is what comes from it.

The purpose of all these celebrations is to convert everyone to right practice and move them to greater practice, to reorient everyone rightly. If you understand "The Mummery" and the Ashvamedha that follows it truly in terms of your real practice in relation to Me—if you truly profoundly did that, then that would be fulfilling the purpose of going through that Puja.

You are all in "The Mummery". That's part of the profound participation that you must understand. It's not just the story of My Life in the past, somehow poeticized and so forth. It is a living liturgy, a present-time reality on many levels. It will always be experienced differently by different individuals, or differently at different times in the community altogether. It must constantly be re-enacted, but it must also, in its re-enactment, be participated in with greater and greater focus and greater and greater understanding, so that you go through "The Mummery", you go through the passage, not merely in that ritual event but in your practice altogether.

So "The Mummery" is not just a book to be read and put down, and maybe you remember it every now and then. It is like the Catholic mass, or like the other Pujas you do all throughout the year. This is what moved people in the religious traditions previously. They had things that had great meaning to them, and they elaborated it using all the arts, including architecture and everything in the church. This is how they made their traditions great.

Just so, in the culture of the Way of the Heart, "The Mummery" is a liturgical obligation, as part of your meditation, part of your study of My Revelation, part of your participation in My Revelation.

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