The story of the Immaculate Conception, of divine and human energies merging for new creation, gives us the recipe for our own transformation. We are given the gift of divine presence.
Our part in this exchange is to receive, and, paradoxically, to receive we must give of ourselves totally. We make ourselves as Nothing so that Something may have room. (When we make ourselves as something, nothing has room.)
We become synthronous. The seat at the center of our soul is, by mutual agreement, simultaneously occupied by both earthly and heavenly energies. This is the original role of Man, one we have conveniently forgotten.
"I must decrease, so that he may increase," says John the Baptist, the transformational specialist of his time. The Christian Hermeticists knew and know of this too, as emphasized by the Emperor, the one who maintains his post of keeping open the heavenly throne of divine-human merge through the renunciation (making as nothing) of personal opinion, personal action, personal ambition, and personal fame. (This does not mean that one's personality or character are annihilated. Quite the opposite, they are enriched.)
The human becomes as nothing in order to receive the heavenly. Heavenly and earthly energies merge and something new is born out of the Wellspring of this Now. As a result one becomes truly and fully human for the first time. Before, one was just a two-legged animal scratching out an existence.
Hmmm... Ain't this what I said in Embodying Spirit: The Inner Work of the Warrior?
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