Monthly Archives: November 2020

Can I get a Witness…

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10:10 Testament: My friend Angela Foster asked me if I choose 10:10 because it represents the straight line & the curve – the basis of everything…? I laughed & said ‘no I hadn’t thought of it, but I didn’t need to since you have’. That’s the beauty of co-creation, we all add to the narrative; we all reveal what the collective spirit is bringing, each hearing what speaks to us; & then we must share with each other, so the Thought-Form grows between us.

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Angela explained that she must have received that message because she is homeschooling her 6th grader, & so she knows that in Waldorf education the pedagogy is based on this straight & curved line expression which is seen in everything in nature.

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Sam Winston said it reminded him of the binary code of 1’s & 0’s…And how we are now writing a new code into the universe!  Dorie Clark mentioned that we have 2 chances to shine together everyday 10:10 am & 10:10 pm, …And so it is…

Luis Markoya

TfT- (Thought for Today):

As we shine out from the Earth, Divine Spiritual Beings take notice, we are seen. We become lightning rods for their protection & power. We become super charged catalysts for change. The light that is eternal is the future flowing into the now.

Fred Janney, co-creator of the Prison Outreach Program of the ASA, a fiery John the Baptist figure, made his uprising across the Threshold a few days ago. I felt his energy with us in the light.

Diane Lynch

Then the thought came: What is our relationship to the unborn – human beings waiting at the Rainbow Bridge for their time to Cross that same Threshold to be born again on Earth.

Can we lay a foundation of truth & justice & beauty into the world, to create a health bearing, life affirming cradle for the new souls that must come in as Spiritual Warriors for Christ?

What might we create, that would enhance the destinies of our descendants?

How can we conduct ourselves so that we will not only help preserve the wonders we live amidst, but actually enhance them?

What can we do to be more conscious about making our life a gift to the future?

Andrew Gonzalez

As we ponder our possible contributions–& take practical action to deepen our commitment to them–keep in mind this thought from Lewis Carroll: “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backward.”

What are your thoughts on our growing egregore…?

~hag

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12 November 2020 – “Speaking with the Stars”: Today & Friday the 13th, the waning Moon hangs with Spica, Venus, & Mercury in early dawn. Look about 45 minutes to an hour before sunrise for the best views.

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Rudolf Steiner’s Lectures on this day

 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Shocking History Of The Mayors Of Paris | Paris Insiders Guide

1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined during the Reign of Terror. Bailly was a French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, & political leader of the early part of the French Revolution.

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1840 – Birthday of Auguste Rodin, French sculptor & illustrator, created The Thinker

This Day in History - November 12 - Album on Imgur

1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.

1956 – In the midst of the Suez Crisis, or the Second Arab–Israeli War, Palestinian refugees are shot dead in Rafah by Israeli soldiers following the invasion of the Gaza Strip. The canal continued to be strategically important after the Second World War as a conduit for the shipment of oil. As a result of the conflict, the United Nations created the UNEF Peacekeepers to police the Egyptian–Israeli border, British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigned, Canadian Minister of External Affairs Lester Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize, & the USSR may have been emboldened to invade Hungary.

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1979 – Iran hostage crisis: One of the leading national issues during that year was the release of 52 Americans being held hostage in Iran since November 4, 1979.  In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran. The Iran hostage crisis continued into 1980, & as the November 1980 presidential election approached, there were concerns in the Republican Party camp that a resolution of the crisis would give incumbent Jimmy Carter enough of an electoral boost to be re-elected.

Reagan won the election, because the hostages were not released before the election, but on the day of Reagan’s inauguration—in fact, 20 minutes after he concluded his inaugural address—the Islamic Republic of Iran announced the release of the hostages. The timing gave rise to an allegation that representatives of Reagan’s presidential campaign had conspired with Iran to delay the release until after the election to thwart President Carter from pulling off an “October surprise”.

According to the allegation, the Reagan Administration rewarded Iran for its participation in the plot by supplying Iran with weapons via Israel & by unblocking Iranian government monetary assets in US banks.

The House October Surprise Task Force outlined as “principal allegations” three supposed meetings between representatives of Reagan’s campaign & Iranian government officials in the summer & fall of 1980 to delay the release of the hostages: 1) a meeting in Madrid during the summer, 2) a meeting at the L’Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, D.C that autumn, & 3) a meeting in Paris in October.

The Task Force characterized three other meetings or contacts as “ancillary allegations”: 1) a meeting at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. in early spring 1980, 2) a meeting at the Churchill Hotel in London in the summer of 1980, and 3) a meeting at the Sherry Netherlands Hotel in New York in January 1981.

  • March 1980: Jamshid Hashimi, international arms dealer, is visited by William Casey at Washington’s Mayflower Hotel, who asks that a meeting be arranged with “someone in Iran who had authority to deal on the hostages”.
  • March 21, 1980: Jamshid Hashimi & his brother Cyrus Hashimi meet at the latter’s home.
  • April 1980: Donald Gregg, a U.S. National Security Council aide with connections to George Bush, meets Cyrus Hashimi in New York’s Shazam restaurant, near Hashimi’s bank.  Former Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr said in his 1991 book My Turn to Speak that he had “proof of contacts between Khomeini & the supporters of Ronald Reagan as early as the spring of 1980…. Rafsanjani, Beheshti, & Ahmed Khomeini [the Ayatollah’s son] played key roles.”
  • Last week of July 1980: At a meeting in Madrid arranged by the Hashimi brothers that includes Robert Gray, a man identified as Donald Gregg, & Mahdi Karrubi, William Casey says that if Iran could assure that American hostages were well treated until their release & were released as a “gift” to the new administration, “the Republicans would be most grateful & ‘would give Iran its strength back.'” Karrubi says he has “no authority to make such a commitment.”
  • About August 12, 1980: Karrubi meets again with Casey, saying Khomeini has agreed to the proposal. Casey agrees the next day, naming Cyrus Hashimi as middleman to handle the arms transactions. More meetings are set for October. Cyrus Hashimi purchases a Greek ship & commences arms deliveries valued at $150 million from the Israeli port of Eilat to Bandar Abbas. According to CIA sources, Hashimi receives a $7 million commission. Casey is said to use an aide named Tom Carter in the negotiations.
  • September 22, 1980: Iraq invades Iran.
  • Late September 1980: An expatriate Iranian arms dealer named Hushang Lavi claims he met with Richard V. Allen, the Reagan campaign’s national security expert, Robert “Bud” McFarlane, & Lawrence Silberman, & discussed the possible exchange of F-4 parts for American hostages, but Lavi says they asserted they “were already in touch with the Iranians themselves”.
  • October 15–20: Meetings are held in Paris between emissaries of the Reagan/Bush campaign, with Mr. William Casey as “key participant”, & “high-level Iranian & Israeli representatives”.
  • October 21: Iran, for reasons not explained, abruptly shifts its position in secret negotiations with the Carter administration & disclaims “further interest in receiving military equipment”.
  • October 21–23: Israel secretly ships F-4 fighter-aircraft tires to Iran, in violation of the U.S. arms embargo, & Iran disperses the hostages to different locations.
  • January 20, 1981: Hostages are formally released into United States custody after spending 444 days in captivity. The release takes place just minutes after Ronald Reagan is sworn in as president.

Several individuals—most notably former Iranian President Abulhassan Banisadr, former naval intelligence officer and U.S. National Security Council member Gary Sick, & former Reagan/Bush campaign staffer & White House analyst Barbara Honegger—have continued to speak out about this truth, to no avail.

1996 – A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 & a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. The deadliest mid-air collision to date.

1997 – Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

1999 –Düzce earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey. At least 1845 people were killed & almost 5,000 were injured.

2001 – In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board & five on the ground.

2017 – The Kermanshah earthquake shakes the northern Iran–Iraq border. At least 2410 people were killed & over 7,000 were injured.

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Cheryl Kelley

POD (Poem Of the day)

To remember
the other world
in this world
is to live in your
true inheritance.

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Wed. 2 December 2020 – 7:15 pm – 8:30 pm CT The Karma Project

The Karma Project
Manifestations of Karma Study Group
December 2, 2020 – 7:15 pm Central (8:15 pm Eastern)

“… We have now learned that it is possible to seek out accidents or other causes of illness due to karmic effects. In due course we will deal with the details of such processes, such as the way in which the forces in deeper levels of consciousness work within the human being, or to what extent our ordinary consciousness may avoid such accidents. We can understand that someone who goes to a place  where he may succumb to an infection will have been driven there under the influence of a certain level of consciousness; in like manner we must be able to understand how it is that human beings take certain measures to render such infections less and less effective; in other words, that through our ordinary consciousness we are able to avert certain consequences by means of hygiene.“

~Rudolf Steiner, Manifestations of Karma, Chapter 6, “Karma in Relation to Accidents”, Hamburg, 21 May, 1910 … focus of the December 2 meeting.

The lecture can be found online at the RS Archive (eLib) by clicking this link: https://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA120/English/RSP1984/19100521p01.html

The Central Regional Council of the Anthroposophical Society in America invites you to join our ongoing  study conversation.  The study has been divided among four volunteers who will summarize their section to rebuild it as a foundation for our conversation. Please familiarize yourself with the lecture if possible so you will feel comfortable sharing your reflections and thoughts with the group.

This collection of lectures has been republished by Rudolf Steiner Press under the title: “Manifestations of Karma.”  This book is a translation from German of Die Offenbarung des Karma (Ga 120), published in English by Rudolf Steiner Press in 1996.

This will be a “Zoom” conference call allowing us an opportunity to see one another while conversing (or audio only if you prefer).  To connect to the audio/video-conference:

Video Conference Details:
Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82715186258
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If you have questions, please contact Alberto Loya aloyavaca@utexas.edu
Agenda for our Study Call
 
7:15  Welcome and Introductions        
7:18  Verse
7:25  Study led by five volunteers
Note: CRC team will ID volunteers
          Laura – pg. 106 to 110
          Ana – pg. 111 to 115
          Camille – pg. 116 to 120
          Alberto – pg. 121 to end
8:05  Conversation
8:28  Close with verse

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Holy Nights 2020-21 “A Rose By Any Other Name” The many faces of The Sophia

24 December 2020 – 5 January 2021

International online gathering on the Theme of the Divine Feminine. 

stay tuned for details

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Our Annual Conscious NYE gathering 8 pm 1 am

In-Person at Elderberries Bio-dynamic Outpost & Cultural Hub & The Rudolf Steiner Branch Chicago 4249-51 N. Lincoln Ave. 60613

This Years Theme is a Masked Ball –

Live Music, Folk Dancing, Potluck, Mask making, more TBA

$20 per person

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Epiphany 6 January 2021 What Joan of Arc Calls for Today 7 pm – 9 pm CT

In-person at Elderberries Chicago & online

Today on the Birthday of Joan of Arc we will explore ‘The Destinies of Individuals and of Nations, Lecture 5, The Nature of the Christ Impulse and the Michaelic Sprit Serving It by Rudolf Steiner with Leading Thoughts by Hazel Archer-Ginsberg

Social Sculpture: “The Passage” with Luicen Dante Lazar – Eurythmy

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Manifest Destiny

Insight
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Beloved Being – Life is a Loom…& we are the weavers of this fabric we call Reality…Our bodies: a bone spindle, shuttling bobbin Souls…Our fibers interlacing, Spinning straw into gold…& yes sometimes a strand of sorrow is added to the weft…These dark threads are just as needed in a weavers skillful hand as the threads of gold & silver in our patterns spun in sand…& now as the fire of life goes inward, & rest lies upon the patient land…Our Craft is the Art of Transforming the patchwork shadow, the wounded ancestor, the demure descendant, every loose fiber, Into a fabric of healed wholeness & Peace…May our transformation be ever-full of grace.

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Today’s 10:10 Testament: Our weather has been unseasonable warm so I have been going outside in the Sun. I lay on the earth. I ground myself. I think light. I feel my soul shining, & picture all of you shining with me so that we make the Earth glow.

Today this glow was shimmering with a powerful Christic essence. Activating the heart center & the Divine Codes within our DNA, resonant with harmonious frequencies, rising All, into a circle of golden Light. The Michael Shield manifests. And the sword of truth breaks the bonds that have kept souls unfree. Here the fear programs can no longer take hold. And the Being of Anthroposophia can become activated within us.

Please Feel Free – to Share – Your Experiences!

~hag

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Thanks to all who tuned into our presentation yesterday. HERE IS THE RECORDING

Victoria Martin

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Mistress of Manifest Destiny

The Calendar Of The Soul, by Rudolf Steiner
translated by Roy Sadler in the English West Midlands.

For you dear folks in the United States now, it’s the Destiny verse this week,
v32,
I feel my own fruit-bearing power
present me to the world,
and strengthen my innate intent
to turn towards the clarity
within life’s web of destiny.

This is the last Autumn verse before next week’s transition towards Winter.
It’s mirror at the end of August was the Soul Calendar’s first Autumn verse:
before Michaelmas inspired the soul this was in the realm of imagination,
v21,
I feel a strange new strengthening,
fruit-bearing power maturing
with seed of who I am,
and on a starlit loom in me
a dawning vision weaving
my pathway to my real being.

The opposite verse in the Southern Hemisphere now is the Ascension verse,
the senses uniting with the spirit,
v6,
Arisen from my own persona
my real self appears
as revelation of the spheres
the world is showing me in powers
of time and space as paradigm
that is divine and everywhere portrays
the image in whose mirror I come true.

The complementary verse, the opposite’s mirror in the 2nd week of Lent,
is an intuitive focus on the new spring world,
v47,
From worldwide womb will rise
growth’s joy, enlivening the senses’ glory.
Now may it find my strength of thought
defended by the strength of God,
the living bedrock of my being.

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8 November 2020 “Speaking with the Stars”: Last-quarter Moon. By the time Bella Luna rises around 10 om, in dim Cancer, lower left of Gemini.

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Peter Max

 Rudolf Steiner’s Lectures on this day 

 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Duns Scotus - Wikipedia

1308 – Deathday of Duns Scotus, Scottish priest, Scholastic philosopher, & academic, considered to be one of the three most important philosopher-theologians of the High Middle Ages (together with Thomas Aquinas & William of Ockham)

John Milton (Poet) - On This Day

1674 – Deathday of John Milton, English poet & philosopher. He wrote at a time of religious flux & political upheaval, & is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse.

1892 – The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black & white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.

1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.

1901 – Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.

1917 – The first Council of People’s Commissars is formed, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky & Joseph Stalin.

1923 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.

1933 –New Deal: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed.

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POD (Poem Of the Day)

~Now I seize
Darkness by its arms & shake it…
The souls of ancient swallowed women fall out
From the belly of obscurity…
The old She, the few, the many, the forgotten
Walk back into being
With me…
~hag

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Society Anthroposophy Worldwide 9/14

A New Study Group is forming to work with Sergei O. Prokofieff’s book “The Esoteric Path Through the Nineteen Class Lessons” every Friday starting 13 November 12:30 pm CT.

If you are a member of the School of Spiritual Science & want to join us on Zoom, contact Hazel

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Wed. 2 December 2020 – 7:15 pm – 8:30 pm CT The Karma Project

The Karma Project
Manifestations of Karma Study Group
December 2, 2020 – 7:15 pm Central (8:15 pm Eastern)

“… We have now learned that it is possible to seek out accidents or other causes of illness due to karmic effects. In due course we will deal with the details of such processes, such as the way in which the forces in deeper levels of consciousness work within the human being, or to what extent our ordinary consciousness may avoid such accidents. We can understand that someone who goes to a place  where he may succumb to an infection will have been driven there under the influence of a certain level of consciousness; in like manner we must be able to understand how it is that human beings take certain measures to render such infections less and less effective; in other words, that through our ordinary consciousness we are able to avert certain consequences by means of hygiene.“

~Rudolf Steiner, Manifestations of Karma, Chapter 6, “Karma in Relation to Accidents”, Hamburg, 21 May, 1910 … focus of the December 2 meeting.

The lecture can be found online at the RS Archive (eLib) by clicking this link: https://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA120/English/RSP1984/19100521p01.html

The Central Regional Council of the Anthroposophical Society in America invites you to join our ongoing  study conversation.  The study has been divided among four volunteers who will summarize their section to rebuild it as a foundation for our conversation. Please familiarize yourself with the lecture if possible so you will feel comfortable sharing your reflections and thoughts with the group.

This collection of lectures has been republished by Rudolf Steiner Press under the title: “Manifestations of Karma.”  This book is a translation from German of Die Offenbarung des Karma (Ga 120), published in English by Rudolf Steiner Press in 1996.

This will be a “Zoom” conference call allowing us an opportunity to see one another while conversing (or audio only if you prefer).  To connect to the audio/video-conference:

Video Conference Details:
Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82715186258
Meeting ID: 827 1518 6258


Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kclU2SSTF

If you have questions, please contact Alberto Loya aloyavaca@utexas.edu
Agenda for our Study Call
 
7:15  Welcome and Introductions        
7:18  Verse
7:25  Study led by five volunteers
Note: CRC team will ID volunteers
          Laura – pg. 106 to 110
          Ana – pg. 111 to 115
          Camille – pg. 116 to 120
          Alberto – pg. 121 to end
8:05  Conversation
8:28  Close with verse

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Holy Nights 2020-21 “A Rose By Any Other Name” The many faces of The Sophia

24 December 2020 – 5 January 2021

International online gathering on the Theme of the Divine Feminine. 

stay tuned for details

***

Our Annual Conscious NYE gathering 8 pm 1 am

In-Person at Elderberries Bio-dynamic Outpost & Cultural Hub & The Rudolf Steiner Branch Chicago 4249-51 N. Lincoln Ave. 60613

This Years Theme is a Masked Ball –

Live Music, Folk Dancing, Potluck, more TBA

$20 per person

Stay tuned for details

***

Epiphany 6 January 2021 What Joan of Arc Calls for Today 7 pm – 9 pm CT

In-person at Elderberries Chicago & online

Today on the Birthday of Joan of Arc we will explore ‘The Destinies of Individuals and of Nations, Lecture 5, The Nature of the Christ Impulse and the Michaelic Sprit Serving It by Rudolf Steiner with Leading Thoughts by Hazel Archer-Ginsberg

Social Sculpture: “The Passage” with Luicen Dante Lazar – Eurythmy

Singing & Eurythmy

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Project Thought-Seed

Celestial Event, Soul to Soul
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Thank you friends for your many responses. I had a few requests to write up a synopsis that could be more easily distributed. Feel free to edit as you see fit. Here is the ‘I Think Speech‘ Podcast for our egregore

Project Thought-Seed (Egregore 10:10 )

We must become spiritual warriors, and endeavor to take up the practice of building up positive imaginations on the inner planes as a counterforce to the adversarial forces working in the world. This is a “key-call” to the Spiritual Powers aligned with love and light, to enlist their aid.

This verse can be an anchor for a group Thought-Form created by our Willed Visualization– to be conceived each day at 10:10 AM, (&/or PM)wherever you are, so it moves like a wave across the globe:

“When I think light, my soul shines,
When my soul shines, the earth is a star,
When the earth is a star, then I am, a true human being”. ~Herbert Hahn

Our Good Will becomes a cosmic energy field for healing – “Seed ideas in the group mind of humanity”, to co-create our highest intentions for the evolution of humanity – that the Earth may become a Sacred Planet – a Sun – and every Human Being a Star. “What is sown in our highest thought will grow and bear seed.” It only takes the square root of any number of people to create change.

See you, dear friends, in the ethers every day 10:10 AM, (&/or PM) (10 is the number of completion, but please don’t worry if you can’t tune in at 10:10, just do it whenever you think of it, which may be many times a day, or perhaps only occasionally, don’t stress it, just do what you can with a loving heart-mind)

PLEASE SHARE THE GOOD WORD (& Let me know if you are taking on the project)

“When 2 or more are gathered…”

~hag

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7th grader  Michelle O.

SATURDAY 7 November 2020,

3 pm – 5 pm CT

(1-3pm PT, 2-4pm MT, 4-6pm ET)

“Connections Revealed”

online https://zoom.us/j/7052931041 Meeting ID: 705 293 1041

Friends – We are going through a ‘dark night of the soul’ – a karmic necessity as part of world evolution, so what are we to learn from it? How do we maintain our ability to think independently and clearly through the growing miasma of fear? This Corona-Crisis is a battle for the ′′Crown of Creation” ie. the human being.  We are not only experiencing a political, social, economic or global health crisis; it is the essence of humanity that is being fought for. How do we accept our karma in the face of world events and yet maintain our ability to create our destiny in freedom?

The Connection Between Epidemics, the Souls of the Dead, & the Spiritual World – Leading thoughts by Hazel Archer-Ginsberg based on Spiritual Scientific research & indications from Rudolf Steiner

Inspirations by Lelan Harris – the executive director of Wise Cosmos Educational Initiative (WiseCosmos.org).  Lelan is a healer, teacher, and leader with over 40 years of experience in vocational roles such as pastor, professor, and Waldorf school administrator.  He offers developmental mentoring, spiritual training, and energy healing in order to raise up new generations of leaders in service at all levels to humanity, Earth, and cosmos.

Group Eurythmy with Mary Ruud

Speech Artistry by Geoffrey Norris

& Break out Sessions

Zoom Meeting hosted by Anne Nicholson
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After-Image: Alpha & Omega

Insight, Rudolf Steiner Quote
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GF Watts

The after-image:

Dear friends a powerful seed of light was cultivated during our Election Night Vigil. It is already rooting itself out of the spiritual world, working thru the souls of our beloved dead & the powerful Spirit Beings that guide us in our human destiny.

I awoke the morning after, as I often do with the image of the Earth as a body of light – a Sacred Star – but this day I knew that the light must shine out from human hearts, like a sea of little Suns, radiating together with warmth & light.

I shared this with my beloved husband Chuck while we were having our morning tea: Another affirmation that this image of the ‘Corona’ which has settled like a collective shadow over humanity, is a global call to create a counter-image – the Crowning of creation – the human being as a Star.

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Chuck shared that he has been working with Steiner’s Occult Science, & this powerful image of how the Thrones experienced bliss in the pouring forth of Will from themselves. This then allowed the Spirits of Wisdom to unite their Life-Body with this outpouring of Will. Next the Spirits of motion added their lowest body, their astral body. This combination allowed Old Saturn to become an ‘ensouled being’, which gained the ability to reflect life out into cosmic space. This allowed the Spirits of Form to become active, creating a differentiation in this ensouled being; Steiner gives the image of a blackberry (the beginnings of humankind). Then the Archai, from the periphery, who were having their human incarnation, were able to reflect their “I” to these ‘Saturn Beings’ & have their life reflected back to them, to see who they are.

Why does Steiner give us this cosmic picture of the beginnings of life? – To give us a role-model. – For WE are to become the creators of a new universe – the New Jerusalem. And this turning point which we are currently experiencing is our time to begin this work in earnest. We must awaken to the fact that everything we Will (our thoughts, words & deeds) pours out from us, & is reflected back to us from the physical world; & this shows us who we are. A lot of what pours forth from our will is unconscious, & so we are often blindsided or appalled by what is reflected back to us in the world. How can we awaken our Will to consciously create the world as a reflection of our Highest Self? And what can come of it when we join our collective Good Will together?

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This set off a lightbulb in my thinking. It became clear that what we are called to do is contemplate the Alpha & the Omega – to imitate the sublime offerings of the hierarchies, & with our conscious free will, pour out thru our heart-thinking an imaginative cognition of the ultimate human destiny – The Earth & all of humanity as a shining Star – the Sun of a new Christ-centered universe – This must become our collective Thought-Form.

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After breakfast when I checked my email I saw a response to my blog on Building the Watchtower, & Thought-Forms about Dion Fortune, from Steve Hale, who mentioned a few biographical insights about her, so I followed the link he sent & read to my surprise that she was initiated into the “Rosicrucian Order of Alpha et Omega”! hmmm, perhaps she is sending us a message.

Still in the after-glow, I went off to our Wednesday Karma Study, & many friends who were at the vigil were there, so we talked about our experience: The importance of Goethean Conversation so gracefully brought to us by Angela Foster; the power of our personal metamorphosis thru Social Artistry offered thru Lucien Dante Lazar’s drawing exercise; The warmth & enthusiasm of the group…And Deborah Rogers shared how it only takes the square root of any number of people to create change. So out of a million people, you only need 1000, to turn the tide. Tom McGuire mentioned The ‘Tipping Point’, a book by Malcolm Gladwell as an example of this principle.

Goetheanum | General Anthroposophical Section

Yes, it’s true we Anthroposophers are relatively small in number, but with the help of Rudolf Steiner & all that Spiritual Science brings, we have great capacities to generate change from the inner world out, but only if we join our forces together. Then we can become a beacon for others; & this powerful Thought-Form of the Alpha & the Omega can grow & become the antidote we all seek.

Then Elisabeth Swisher shared a beloved verse by Herbert Hahn, which she wrote down for me on the back of one of her drawings from the vigil:

Erst wenn ich Lichtes denke leuchtet meine Seele,
Erst wenn meine Seele leuchtet ist die Erde ein Stern,
Erst wenn die Erde ein Stern ist bin ich wahrhaft Mensch!
~Herbert Hahn

Only when I think light my soul shines,
Only when my soul shines is the earth a star,
Only when the earth is a star am I truly a human being.

“The transformation of thought into living activity in meditation and prayer carries living light into the etheric world!…In meditative work that connects with a truth- thinks light- we create a quality of light for the etheric world….” (Matthias Gierke, MD in an article about “Earth as spiritual star” in Lilipoh magazine.

WOW, how perfect, thank you angels! I got shivers, such a powerful affirmation working thru our community. And we all agreed that perhaps this could be an anchor for our Thought-Form – to be conceived each day at noon.

Seeing 12:12 and the Merkaba Field - Forever Conscious

This morning the thought came to suggest we tune in at 12:12 pm every day with this verse as the seed for a short meditation (even 1 minute)whereever you are, so that the imagination can move like a wave covering the whole earth.

Dear Ones, if this idea resonates with you – Please pass it on to your friends -Talk about it with your family, discuss it with strangers at the park – spread the good word, that:

WE, as Anthroposophia, in service to Humankind, & to our Mother Earth, CAN initiate change, thru positive Thought-Forms, by consciously rising in our thinking, every day at 12:12 pm, meditating the Steiner verse:

Only when I think light my soul shines,
Only when my soul shines is the earth a star,
Only when the earth is a star am I truly a human being.

to collectively build a cogitative imagination of a healing, ‘protective egregore’, a ‘Guardian Watcher’ to work with our highest intentions for the evolution of humanity – & the ever present help of the Spiritual World – that the Earth may become a Star.

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And for those that want to take the imagination further & use the image of the Alpha & the Omega: We can think on the Power of The Word – the first & last letters of the Greek alphabet, (with all the vowels & consonants in-between & the mystery of Golgotha in the middle) to be The Word of God, The Christ, revealed in the Book of Revelation.

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“This is Alpha: the Saturn human being, the warmth human being living in wonderment…If we proceed in this way through the whole alphabet, we proceed through the world. After gradually taking into himself everything that is world, and filling his whole being with it, when he arrives at Vulcan the Omega having united with himself the whole content of the world, of this great All to which he belongs, the human being will have become the one he was at the beginning of the Saturn condition plus the whole world. He will be Alpha and Omega, man who unites in himself everything that is world. By saying ‘I am Alpha and Omega’ in the way John’s Book of Revelation does, we have designated what the human being will be at the end of the Vulcan condition. At the end of the Vulcan condition the human being, too, will be permitted to say: I am Alpha and Omega…In the beginning was the Word—this means the same as when Christ says ‘I am the Word’, or ‘I am Alpha and Omega’. ~Rudolf Steiner, “I am Alpha and Omega”: The Book of Revelation and the Work of the Priest. Lecture 3, Dornach, 7 September 1924

I would love to create a dialogue with those that are willing to take on this Thought-Experiment in earnest. Using the above verse (or another of your choosing) as the foundation of our visualization can be enough; but it could be you will want to elaborate, or the spiritual world will send you imaginations & inspirations; please do share.

See you dear friends, in the ethers every day at 12:12 pm.  (Please don’t worry if you can’t be there at 12:12 pm, just do it whenever you think of it, which may be many times a day, or perhaps only occasionally, don’t stress it, just do what you can with a loving heart-mind)

Yours in full faith

~hag

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5 November 2020 – “Speaking with the Stars”: When night arrives, the Great Square of Pegasus is still balanced on its corner high in the southeast. But within two hours it turns around to lie level like a box high in the south.

Paul Klee and Rudolf Steiner - Sophia Institute
Paul Klee

Rudolf Steiner’s Lectures on this day

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1872 – Imme von Eckardstein posed the question of the cycle of the year, which brought thru Rudolf Steiner the “Calendar of the Soul” in 1912/13

1910 – D.N. Dunlop opens the Blavatsky Institute

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SATURDAY 7 November 2020,

3 pm – 5 pm CT

Connections Revealed

online https://zoom.us/j/7052931041 Meeting ID: 705 293 1041

Friends – We are going through a ‘dark night of the soul’ – a karmic necessity as part of world evolution, so what are we to learn from it? How do we maintain our ability to think independently and clearly through the growing miasma of fear? This Corona-Crisis is a battle for the ′′Crown of Creation” ie. the human being.  We are not only experiencing a political, social, economic or global health crisis; it is the essence of humanity that is being fought for. How do we accept our karma in the face of world events and yet maintain our ability to create our destiny in freedom?

The Connection Between Epidemics, the Souls of the Dead, & the Spiritual World – Leading thoughts by Hazel Archer-Ginsberg based on Spiritual Scientific research & indications from Rudolf Steiner

Inspirations by Lelan Harris – the executive director of Wise Cosmos Educational Initiative (WiseCosmos.org).  Lelan is a healer, teacher, and leader with over 40 years of experience in vocational roles such as pastor, professor, and Waldorf school administrator.  He offers developmental mentoring, spiritual training, and energy healing in order to raise up new generations of leaders in service at all levels to humanity, Earth, and cosmos.

Group Eurythmy with Mary Ruud

& Break out Sessions

Zoom Meeting hosted by Anne Nicholson
https://zoom.us/j/7052931041 Meeting ID: 705 293 1041

Building the Watchtower

Insight, Soul to Soul, Speaking with the Stars

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Dear friends – I awoke this morning with the thought to continue to explore with you the work we will begin in earnest tonight, of joining together to co-create a collective ‘Thought-Form’ of Good Will – a “key-call” to the powers on the Inner Planes, to enlist their aid, not only for this Election Night, but for the healing of the world, which must become a daily practice.

To further explain ‘the working’, we can do together, let’s look at what this positive group energy can be, from a spiritual scientific point of view:

An egregore (pronounced egg’ gree gore) is a group thought-form, & when intentionally created, becomes a kind of entity with the power to help & influence. A group with a common purpose, like a family, a club, a political party, a church, or even a country can create an egregore, for better or worse depending upon the type of thought that created it. Are we now caught up in a global egregore of fear?

Tibetan Dharma Wheel

Tulpa which means “emanation” or “manifestation”, is the Tibetan concept of a being which is created thru thought power, a type of willed supersensible helper. Theosophists first brought the idea of Thought-Form to the modern public mind. But the Rosicrucian’s have been using this powerful tool for centuries, as part of their training, building a cosmic energy field for healing.

As a Rosicrucian we are taught that whenever we meditate, pray, study a sacred  image, or create an inspiring work of science, art, or literature, we radiate into space positive thoughts & emotions which benefit all other members & humanity in general. Thru concentration exercises we can build Thought-Forms in the astral where we can meet in spirit.

Sermons from Plymouth UCC
Samuel Berton

In Anthroposophy, (the modern renewal of Rosicrucianism), we call it ‘a Group-Soul’ (not sure what the German word is…?) We talk about the ‘Branch Angel’, or ‘Spirit of Place’. We are adding to this energy when we practice any of the exercises or meditations Rudolf Steiner gave us; or when we read his work; we feel like we are on a path laid out for us thru his guidance. Our goal is to co-create a new ‘Group-Soul United in Christ’.

The Angel of the Anthroposophical Society extends beyond the usual limits of space/time to include those across the Threshold, as well as the ancient Mystery Schools. In other words we are karmic connected, part of the Being Anthroposophia.

lexicon magazine - IMAGO MENTIS – the thought-form drawings of Annie Besant
Anne Besant

Other terms that have been used to describe an egregore are: archetype, group consciousness, zeitgeist, or morphogenic fields.

This psychic, astral entity will continue as long as thought energy feeds it. Egregores can be kept alive when new generations add their thought energy to the entity. Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Spirit of Christmas are all egregores, so is the Devil or the Grim Reaper. It brings to mind Neil Gaiman’s book American Gods.

A ‘fad’ in popular culture is a temporary & very potent egregore. These principles are powerfully used in advertising & in the media & often take the form of repeated messages that become propaganda, or mind control.

It influences others as well. In the case of a negative egregore, Adolf Hitler used the subconscious hatred & anger in the minds of the German people after their defeat in World War I to create a demonic entity that caused world destruction.

The “lynch mob mentality” is an excellent example here. A small group can create an egregore, & that psychic energy can spread to the crowd who mindlessly follow. The crowd egregore arises quickly. Its passion carries the crowd, but because the crowd is not an organized, stable group with intention, the demon is quickly dissipated.

Wall Street is another example of the crowd mentality, when a few manipulators sell strategically & the whole market plummets.

As a psychic entity, the egregore exists between the material & spiritual worlds & is connected to both. It is a creation of the objectives or intentions of the members of a group, & exists as a connection to the divine. Anyone involved in a group, whatever kind of group it is, will be affected by the egregore of the group. For those that reach for a spiritual connection, the egregore assists & facilitates that connection. This process is intensified thru the initiation process, which is designed to open the mind to the spiritual thru the egregore.

The power of the egregore to help & sustain a group increases over time thru the repeated actions of its members. (daily affirmations, festivals, etc…) The egregore can raise its members from the material world & connect them to the divine, or in the case of a negative thought form, to the depths of human depravity. That is why it is so important to not get caught up in the current miasma of fear that seeks to block us from our true connection to the spirit.  

File:Annie Besant Thought Forms - Project Gutenberg etext 16269.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

As I wrote yesterday, in my Thought-Forms post During World War II, Dion Fortune, a prominent British occultist & author, gathered her followers in Britain together for a psychic war against Germany. Fortune invoked ancient spirits pledged to protect Britain, including King Arthur, Merlin, St. Michael & St. George, to create a protective egregore. Britain was never invaded despite the immense power of the Nazi war machine.

Dion Fortune, discussed the phenomenon of the group mind when it is in a frenzy typical of a Hitler speech: “But however potent the personality, however vast the resources, however popular the catch-phrases, if the movement is contrary to cosmic law it is only a matter of time till the whole group rushes madly down a steep slope into the sea. For in such a case it is the very momentum that is worked up which is the cause of its destruction. Give a false movement enough rope and it will always hang itself, falling by its own weight when that has grown sufficiently top-heavy to overbalance it”

After Germany was defeated the Nazi egregore gradually faded away because there were no more masses feeding it. So, in time, when the emotions & feelings that were feeding an egregore disappear, the egregore slowly dissolves; & yet it can rise up again as we have seen with the neo Nazi’s.

Tulpa - Wikipedia

Egregores can also attach themselves to buildings or places. Ancient cathedrals are often known for their healing powers or supersensible connections to the unseen worlds & powerful guardian entities. Caves where ancients used to worship have become the object of pilgrimages. These locality-based egregores can be fed with emotion & intent for hundreds of years by local residents or pilgrims. Examples of negative energies can be found in battlefields & sites of massacres, which invoke dread.

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Further clarifying definitions of an egregore:

  • “An energized astral form produced consciously or unconsciously by human agency. In particular, (a) a strongly characterized form, usually an archetypal image, produced by the imaginative and emotional energies of a group collectively, or (b) an astral shape of any kind, deliberately formulated to carry a specific force.”
  • “Any symbolic pattern that has served as a focus for human emotion and energy will build up an egregore of its own over time, and the more energy that is put into such a pattern, the more potent the egregore that will form around it. The gods and goddesses of every religion, past and present, are at the centers of vast egregores charged with specific kinds of power. This power is defined by, and contacted through, the traditional symbolism of the deity in question.”
  • “from a Greek word meaning “Watcher” – a thought-form created by will and visualization. A group egregore is the distinctive energy of a specific group who are working together, creating and building the same thought-form or energy-form.”
  • “An egregore is an angel, in Hebrew the word is Ir, sometimes called Watcher, and the concept appears in The Book of Enoch… the egregores, are angels on both sides of the camp – fallen angels as well as faithful ones.”
Coronavirus crisis on the Earth. COVID-19 by Olga Nikitina (2020) : Painting Oil on Canvas - Singulart

It seems to me that the world is under the spell of an unconscious negative egregore right now that feeds on our fear, & anxiety.

Columbia' and 'Uncle Sam' surveying, The World's Columbia Exposition - Chicago Worlds Fair… | World's columbian exposition, Columbian exposition 1893, World's fair

The Spirit of America has turned from the image of the Native American personification of the Dove of Peace- Columbia, into the grotesque visage of Uncle Sam.

FIG. 12. PEACE AND PROTECTION
Peace & Protection Thought Form

What do you say friends? Do you feel called to break that spell!?! – We have the choice to create positive thought forms together, to consciously rise in our thinking to collectively build a cogitative imagination of Michael, & Christ-Sophia, embracing us with their love & light. And for tonight – Election Night – to add Columbia the Spirit of America to the mix. – To co-create a healing, ‘protective egregore’, a ‘Watcher’ to work with our highest intentions for the evolution of humanity – that the Earth may become a Star…Where will you cast your vote?

~hag

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TONIGHT:

All Souls Election Night Vigil

7 pm – 9 pm CT. Tuesday 3 November 2020

In-person in the Upper Room of the Rudolf Steiner Branch Chicago 4249 N. Lincoln Ave.

& also online Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/7052931041 Meeting ID: 705 293 1041

Through Social Sculpture, we will hold space with each other, connect with our Angel, the ‘so called dead’, the Being of America…etc…to bring healing on both sides of the Threshold, during Election Night 2020, & on into the future which we are committing to consciously co-create.

hag: Light Candle – Anne Nicholson: Welcome –– Invite folks to write in the chat where they are from & the names of their beloved ones that they want to honor tonight.

Deborah Rogers: Verse

Angela Foster: The Art of Goethean Conversation

Lucien Dante Lazar: Metamorphosis begins (& continues throughout the evening)

hag – Why an election night vigil?

Lucien: Metamorphosis: part 2

Frank, Dottie, + ALL: The 3-Fold Social Order & ALIANT Alliance –

Lucien: Metamorphosis: part 3

Anne: Break-Out Session – groups of 3 for 15 minutes– Question: What image do you want to share to our collective picture of a better world? then: Thoughts gleaned from the break-outs in a Large group sharing

Elizabeth Kelly + ALL: Singing (‘For Janet’ by RS)

Lucien: Metamorphosis: part 4

Eurythmy? (we will see what the moment wants)

Lucien: Metamorphosis: part 5

Elizabeth Kelly + ALL: Singing (Dona Nobis Pacem)

Hallelujah in Eurythmy – ALL

Elizabeth Kelly: Verse

hag: Release the dead from the internet

Anne + All: Final Thoughts & goodbyes

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Moon in the Winter Hexagon November 2020

3 November 2020 – “Speaking with the Stars”: Waning Bella Luna crosses the Winter Hexagon over a period of four nights

Rudolf Steiner’s Lectures on this day

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Birthday of Malachi – Jewish Prophet

Helmuth von Moltke | German military commander [1848–1916] | Britannica

1914 – Helmuth Von Molke formally dismissed, he then writes his memoirs “Responsibility for the War”.

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SATURDAY 7 November 2020,

3 pm – 5 pm CT

Connections Revealed https://youtu.be/0v0eDBkbFxg?feature=shared

Friends – We are going through a ‘dark night of the soul’ – a karmic necessity as part of world evolution, so what are we to learn from it? How do we maintain our ability to think independently and clearly through the growing miasma of fear? This Corona-Crisis is a battle for the ′′Crown of Creation” ie. the human being.  We are not only experiencing a political, social, economic or global health crisis; it is the essence of humanity that is being fought for. How do we accept our karma in the face of world events and yet maintain our ability to create our destiny in freedom?

The Connection Between Epidemics, the Souls of the Dead, & the Spiritual World – Leading thoughts by Hazel Archer-Ginsberg based on Spiritual Scientific research & indications from Rudolf Steiner

Inspirations by Lelan Harris – the executive director of Wise Cosmos Educational Initiative (WiseCosmos.org).  Lelan is a healer, teacher, and leader with over 40 years of experience in vocational roles such as pastor, professor, and Waldorf school administrator.  He offers developmental mentoring, spiritual training, and energy healing in order to raise up new generations of leaders in service at all levels to humanity, Earth, and cosmos.

Group Eurythmy with Mary Ruud

& Break out Sessions

In-person at Elderberries Biodynamic Outpost & 3 fold Cultural Hub, in conjunction with the Rudolf Steiner Branch Chicago, 4249-51 N. Lincoln Ave.

Zoom Meeting hosted by Anne Nicholson
https://zoom.us/j/7052931041 Meeting ID: 705 293 1041