Rudolf Steiner was the first modern human being to recognise this mystical fact and he has many lectures devoted to the understanding of this mystery. We know these are separate individuals because not only do Matthew and Luke give different genealogies in the bible, but the Matthew Jesus and the Luke Jesus are shown to have had different experiences: the Matthew child was born earlier, in the time of Herod and is visited by Magi and thereafter journeys to Egypt while the Luke child is born at the time of Quireneus and the Census and travels to Bethlehem where he is visited by Shepherds and thereafter returns to live a quiet life in Nazareth. The second child, which I call Jesus, is the younger child from the lineage of Nathan and a native of Nazareth and his life is depicted in the Luke Gospel. Yeshua was a native of Bethlehem and his birth is depicted in the Matthew Gospel. The first being of the line of Solomon - I call this child Yeshua. In order to understand the path that Jesus took to become Christ we have to know that there were two Jesus children. Only recently, since the Renaissance, have we developed a consciousness capable of understanding it. Why is that? Because it was far too complicated. We know something of the birth of Jesus but not much is written about his life thereafter.
Two paths, one of a man towards Godhood and the other of a God towards manhood. We could say that the twelve nights are those nights that fall between these two festivals and which mark, on the one hand, an earthly path from Jesus to Christ, and on the other, a Cosmic path from Christ to Jesus.
Christmas celebrates the birth of the Son of Man - Jesus, and Epiphany marks the birth of the Son of God - Christ. Two festivals stand at opposite poles at this time of the year: Christmas and Epiphany.
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