“The main focus of the Litanies is conquering Satan by dethroning him, and conquering the process of being asleep while alive. Because as long as people are asleep Satan rules. When they wake up they choose to seek Christ, and find out that He has reincarnated, and then people choose to become a disciple to Christ. That’s what the Litanies are for. And to understand that life means absolutely nothing unless that is what they are doing. Because this is the purpose of the human incarnation. Every human hears the words of the Litanies when they are born as a human, from being a plant or an ant or an animal. They are here to overthrow human nature and the King of Earth, who is Satan.”

Tulku Buddha Maitreya Rinpoche

In December, the birth month, there are seven great and vital Ceremonies, filling the whole month with their observances. The first is the Desire of Birth, the commencement of the mystic story. It is so remote from human and material life that its impossible to describe it in human language. It is witnessed consciously only by the spiritual being before its descent into matter. The disciple who seeks to take part in it while living in the body must endeavor to recall to his memory the litany which he heard chanted in the spiritual sphere from which he came when he sought the experience of human life.

The Ceremony of the Desire of Birth lasts for four days and nights, beginning on 1st December. During this time it is necessary for the disciple to contemplate all that is implied in its litany.

At each midnight, and at the hour of dawn, he should meditate upon the words of the litany, endeavoring to obtain understanding in respect to them. They are very difficult and obscure, so much so as to seem meaningless to the man in material life if he tests them by the light of intellect. But the disciple who belongs to one of the occult schools, and who desires to become a conscious part of the Divine whole, must enter into the psychic life of the world at this sacred season, and apprehend from year to year more and more of the mystery of the divine life in himself, and its union with the material.