Daily Archives: March 19, 2016

Holy Week

Celestial Event, Chicago Event, Festival, Speaking with the Stars

Rudolf Steiner speaks about the Mystery of Golgotha as a spiritual event that takes place on the stage of humanity. The events leading up to this mystery are a preparation for this sublime deed that stands at the center of attention for a living cosmos. The Earth is the spiritual center during the sacred Holy Week.

But this position is not arrived at simply because it is Palm Sunday on our calendar, it defined by a relational gesture occurring between Sun & Moon relative to Earth each year. Our task is to discern the meaning in this gesture by considering when in the course of the Holy Week it takes place.

Each year, the date of Easter is determined by the First Full Moon after the Sun crosses the celestial equator, which we refer to as the Vernal Equinox. (Palm Sunday, 11:30am) Easter does not immediately follow the Vernal Equinox, this would imply a dictatorial nature in the Sun. Rather, the Sun returns north of the celestial equator, & waits…The Sun waits for the Moon to arrive at Full phase, which means it stands opposite the Sun from the Earth, occurring for the first time in the year below the celestial equator. This Full Moon will always occur during the Holy Week, but it will be on a different day from one year to the next.

What does it mean when the Full Moon falls on the Wednesday of Holy Week?
What can it mean when that Full Storm Moon is totally eclipsed by the shadow of the Earth? (Lunar eclipse, March 23rd, 6:47am in Libra)

Come join our Easter-Tide Study throughout Holy Week
(Excerpts from “The Three Years” by Emil Bock)

Beginning: Palm Sunday March 20th, 2pm-4pm, (which is also the Vernal Equinox!)
then, M-F: March 21-26th, 7pm-9pm

And our Easter Festival: A Path to the Dawning, 4pm -6pm, Sunday March 27th

If you would like a copy of the text contact Hazel ReverseRitual@gmail.com

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Rudolf Steiner Branch of The Anthroposophical Society,
4249 North Lincoln Avenue. Chicago, IL 60618

 

 

Window Display

Chicago Event, Festival, Rudolf Steiner Quote

Greetings Friends –

In an effort to beautify the Rudolf Steiner Branch, All are Welcome
to help us design & create a ‘Waldorf Inspired Nature scene’
for our storefront windows, celebrating SPRING!!!
4pm – 6:45pm on St. Patrick’s Day, Thursday March 17th 2016.
Bring your (non-denominational) Spring Treasures
(We will return them when we change the scene for each season)

Soup provided, side-dish or snacks to share encouraged!

“When Goethe was seven he built himself an altar to nature, taking his father’s music stand and placing on it plants from his father’s herbarium and also minerals and crowning it all with a little incense candle that he lit by focusing the beams of the morning sun with a burning-glass; an offering to the great god of nature, a rebellion against everything imposed on him by education”. ~Rudolf Steiner, Practical Advice to Teachers: Fourteen lectures given at the foundation of the Waldorf School, Stuttgart, from 21 August to 5 September 1919.
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Easter-Tide Study throughout Holy Week
Excerpts from “The Three Years” by Emil Bock
Beginning: Palm Sunday March 20th, 2pm-4pm,
then, M-F: March 21-26th, 7pm-9pm

If you would like a copy of the text contact Hazel ReverseRitual@gmail.com

Palm Sunday – The old Sun
Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem – The Prophesy fulfilled

Holy Monday
The fig tree, symbol of the old clairvoyance, cursed –
Moon-forces must be renewed -The cleansing of the Temple

Holy Tuesday (a Lunar Eclipse this year)
Conflict with opponents – bending the Mars sprit to His purposes
An Apocalyptic future revealed

Holy Wednesday
Mary Magdalene’s pre-burial anointing
Judas’s betrayal – the 2 sides of Mercury: Healer /Thief

Maundy Thursday (Last Supper)
Christ washes the feet of the disciples & administers to them
the new sacrament – King Jupiter’s benevolence

Good Friday
Love’s Sacrificial Death – the transformation of the Venus-principle
Thru the Sun-principle of Christ – the rending of the Temple Veil

Holy Saturday (The Harrowing of Hell)
Christ laid in the tomb is taken by the quake into the grave of the earth
Saturn darkness becomes Easter Light, healing the realm of the dead

Easter Sunday – The New Sun
The Octave of Resurrection – Mary Magdalene meets the Angels
& sees the ‘Gardener’ – The Risen One in His Spirit-Body

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Spring Tomasz-Alen-Kopera

Easter Festival: A Path to the Dawning
Sunday March 27th – 4pm -6pm (note the time change!)

Midwest Eurythmy Group to Perform ‘Hallelujah’ & the Easter Calendar
of the Soul Verse by Rudolf Steiner

Lecture: : Encountering the Inner Layers of the Earth as a Christian/Rosicrucian Initiation,
in relation to the Beatitudes and the 9-fold human being by Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Live Music: Clark Remington – Prelude and Fugue by Bach

Group Eurythmy: Hallelujah

$10 donation goes to the Midwest Eurhythmy Group –

Snacks to Share encouraged!

All events at The Rudolf Steiner Branch 4249 N. Lincoln Ave. Chicago
For more info. Contact Hazel ReverseRitual@gmail.com

The Bridging Project

Central Regional Council, Remembering, Soul to Soul

Dear Members and Friends of Anthroposophy in the Central Region-

The Bridging Project: Between Life and Death from Soul to Soul

We have begun the study for our new CRC Initiative: Rudolf Steiner’s lecture cycle entitled Historical Necessity and Freewill given in Dornach, December 9, 1917. This will provide the study content for our work together in addition to inviting special guests to offer fruits from out of their research and work. This collection of lectures has been republished under the title: “The Influence of the Dead on Destiny”, here is the link: https://steiner.presswarehouse.com/books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=179577

From these first steps we have laid out a series of “go-to-meeting” conference calls to which all members and friends interested in delving into this topic are warmly invited.

The audioconference invitations will be sent out ahead of time for individuals to register or plan to call in on their telephones to join the call.
Each call will be an hour and a quarter from 7:15 – 8:30 pm CST (8:15 – 9:30 pm EST).

Meeting Schedule
April 27th with guest Marianne Dietzel: Communicating with our Beloved Dead

August 10th with guest Maureen Flannery: Home Funeral Alliance; Prompts for writing poetry for the dead

October 26th with guest Dwight Ebaugh: Life between death & Re-birth

February 1st 2017 with guest
Mark Miller: Spirit Parks, an alternative to cemeteries

May 3rd 2017 TBA

May love of hearts
reach out to love of souls
May warmth of love ray out
to Spirit-light
Even so would we draw near to you
Thinking with you
Thoughts of Spirit
Feeling in you the Love of Worlds
Consciously at one with you
Willing in silent being.
Rudolf Steiner

From the Central Regional Council, Hazel Archer-Ginsberg, Dennis Dietzel, Marianne Fieber-Dhara, Raven Garland and Alberto Loya

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TODAY! on St. Patrick’s Day, Thursday March 17th 2016.
4pm – 6:45pm
Come help design & create
A ‘Waldorf Inspired Nature scene’
for our storefront windows, celebrating SPRING!!!
Bring your (non-denominational) Spring Treasures:
lots of green silks, flowers, animals with their babies, birds building nests, etc…
(We will return them when we change the scene for each season)
for info. contact Hazel ReverseRitual@gmail.com
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Rudolf Steiner Branch of The Anthroposophical Society,
4249 North Lincoln Avenue. Chicago, IL 60618
Check out our Web site!
Chicago, IL (Anthroposophical Society in America)

http://www.anthroposophy.org/groups/chicago-il/