ABSTRACT
There is no other day in the whole cycle of the year which has the magic of Christmas Day. The world has teemed throughout its history with half-divine, half-human savior gods. Invariably one of the Kings is depicted as a very old man: he comes from the beginning of time. It tells the reader that God does not demand anything from the reader as tribute. The Christian Myth has emphasized the justice of our predicament, since the people brought it upon themselves. The blood of their sacrifice is not theirs only, it is His, transformed in the mystery of reciprocal Substitution which is the innermost meaning of the Cross. But, as the water is turned into wine and the wine into blood in the Eucharistic rite, so the people must in the end pass through death; and the water of our baptism is transformed into the Blood of the Divine Sacrifice.
