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Not 1 without the other

January 14, 2021Lecture, Poetry, Rudolf Steiner Quote~hag

Light in a Dark place - Ahayah Purpose - Paintings & Prints, Abstract, Other Abstract - ArtPal — Lete Ahaya

POD (Poem Of the Day)

~The truth
Of what we call our knowing
Is both light & dark…
Humans are always dying & waking…
The rhythm between, we call life…
Some miracle is about
To happen…
~hag

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Here is today’s ‘I Think Speech‘ Podcast an important quote from Rudolf Steiner, Manifestations of Karma, LECTURE 8

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Ablutions: A priest purifies the hands of another one, on an altar. A daily ritual. Ancient Egyptian tomb. | Antike ägyptische kunst, Ägyptische kunst, Alte kunst

“…the Egyptian-Chaldean period is repeated in our own…We may go back to the epoch of the Egyptian evolution, and there we find certain ritualistic ordinances and commands which appeared as given by the gods. And this they actually were. These ordinances related to certain ablutions which the Egyptians had to perform. This was a command of the gods, that found expression in a certain cult of cleanliness…

COVID-19 Return to Work Hygiene: Wash Your Hands

We now again, in our own period, encounter hygienic measures such as are given to humanity but in our time, for materialistic reasons. Here we see a repetition of what was lost at a corresponding period in Egypt. The fulfilment of what happened earlier is represented in the general karma in a most remarkable manner. In ancient Egypt the laws of cleanliness were laws of Divine revelation. The Egyptian believed that he was fulfilling his duty to humanity by caring for his particular cleanliness at every opportunity. This preoccupation for cleanliness comes to the fore again today, but under the influence of a mentality which is entirely materialistic. Modern man does not think that he is serving the gods when he is obeying such rules, but that he is serving himself. It is nevertheless a reappearance of what went before.

Mumbai Artist Dhruvi Acharya is creating coronavirus-themed watercolour paintings — Dhruvi Acharya

Thus all things are in a certain way cyclically fulfilled. If at a certain period people were not able to conceive certain measures against epidemics, these were times at which men could not do so because, according to the general wise world plan, the epidemics had to take effect in order to give human souls an opportunity of balancing what had been effected through the ahrimanic influence and certain earlier luciferic influences. If other conditions are now being brought about, these too are subject to certain great karmic laws. So we see that these matters cannot be regarded superficially.

How does this agree with our statement that if someone seeks an opportunity of being infected in an epidemic, this is the result of the necessary reaction against an earlier karmic cause. Have we the right now to take hygienic or other measures?

This is a profound question, and we must begin by collecting the necessary material for replying to it. We must understand that where the luciferic and ahrimanic principles are co-operating, whether concurrently or over longer periods, or where they are working against each other, there are manifested certain complications in human life. These complications appear under forms so diverse that we never see two identical cases. If we study human life, however, we shall find our way in the following manner: if in a particular case we try to discover the combined activity of Lucifer and Ahriman, we shall always find a thread by which this connection will become clear. We must discriminate clearly between internal and external man. We must examine the continuity in which karma is accomplished, and we must at the same time understand that we have still the possibility of influencing our inner being by means of certain karmic influences, so that in future a new karmic compensation may be prepared by the inner being.

Dhruvi Acharya, Painting in the Time of Corona, 26 April 2020, lockdown day 33, 2020 | Chemould Prescott Road — *Dhruvi Acharya*

It may well happen that we, following for a time a downward grade, beget evil. We at first descend in order to develop the contrary impetus that will cause us to re-ascend. Let us suppose that a being, by yielding to certain influences, tends towards uncharitableness. This uncharitableness will in a later life appear as karmic result, and will develop inner forces in his organism.

We can then act in two ways — consciously, or else unconsciously. In our epoch we have not progressed so far as to do it consciously. With such a person we can take precautions by which these characteristics in his organism, derived from uncharitableness, will be driven out and we may act in such a way that the effect that is expressed in the external organism as a lack of charity will be counteracted. By these means, however, the soul will not be cleansed of all uncharitableness, but only the external organ of uncharitableness will have been expelled. For if we do nothing further, we shall have accomplished only half of our task, perhaps even nothing at all, or we may even do harm. We may perhaps have helped this person physically, externally, but we shall not have given succour to his soul. Now that the physical expression of uncharitableness has been removed he will not be able to give expression to this uncharitableness, but he will have to retain it within his inner organism until a future incarnation.

Dhruvi Acharya paints the fear of pandemic — *Dhruvi Acharya*

Let us suppose that a great number of people, because of uncharitableness, had been impelled to absorb certain infectious germs, so that they succumbed to an epidemic. Let us further suppose we were in a position to protect them from this epidemic. We should in such a case preserve the physical body from the effects of uncharitableness, but by doing this we have not removed the inner tendency towards uncharitableness.

Nature Morte – Dhruvi Acharya — *Dhruvi Acharya*

If we want to bring a true healing, we must also undertake the duty of influencing the soul in such a way as to remove from it the tendency towards a lack of charity, or the disease will go deeper into the soul.

The organic expression of uncharitableness is killed in the external bodily sense for instance by vaccination against smallpox, but the soul continues to be sick. In one period of civilisation, when there prevailed a general tendency to develop a higher degree of egotism, and uncharitableness, an epidemic made its appearance. Such is the fact investigated by Spiritual Science. In anthroposophy it is our bounded duty to give expression to the truth.

A Postcard from Delhi - Contemporary Art Society — *Dhruvi Acharya*

Now it will be clear why in our time the desire for the protection of vaccination appeared. We also understand why, among the best minds of our time, there also exists a kind of aversion to vaccination. This aversion corresponds to something within, and is the external expression of an inner reality, that seeks to karmicly rid itself of the cause of the disease.

So if on the one hand we destroy the physical expression of a previous fault, we should, on the other hand, undertake the duty of transforming the materialistic character of such a person by means of a corresponding spiritual education. This would constitute the indispensable counterpart without which we are performing only half our task. We are merely accomplishing something to which the person in question will himself have to produce a counterpart in a later incarnation. If we destroy the susceptibility to smallpox, for instance, we are concentrating only on the external side of karmic activity.

Now Showing > Dhruvi Acharya | INDIAN BY DESIGN — *Dhruvi Acharya*

If on the one side we go in for hygiene, it is necessary that on the other we should feel it our duty to contribute to the person whose organism has been so transformed, something also for the good of his soul. Vaccination will not be harmful if, subsequent to vaccination, the person receives a spiritual education. But if we concentrate upon one side only and lay no emphasis upon the other, we weigh down the balance unevenly. We see how essential it is that we should not undertake one task without the other.

Here we approach an important law of human evolution which acts so that the external and the internal must always be counter-balanced, and that it is not permissible to act with regard to the one only, leaving the other out of consideration. We here get a glimpse of an important relationship, and yet we have not even arrived at the significance of the question: ‘What is the relationship between hygiene and karma?’ As we shall see, the answer to this question will lead us still further into the depths of karma, and we shall further see that there exist karmic relationships between man’s birth and death. In addition, other personalities influence a human life, and man’s free will and karma must be in harmony. ~ Rudolf Steiner, Manifestations of Karma, LECTURE 8

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14 January 2021 – “Speaking with the Stars”: In bright twilight, look low in the southwest for the thin crescent Moon aiming her curve lower right toward Mercury & disappearing Jupiter.

Above Orion shines orange Aldebaran with the large, loose Hyades cluster in its background. The Pleiades higher above.

Breathe

January 13, 2021History, Insight, Poetry~hag

Series Microcosmos. Composition # 1 Painting by Victor Vinogradov | Artmajeur — Victor Vinogradof

POD (Poem Of the Day)

~Behold the eye that holds you…
Without hands it made life…
You will be Her hands…
Sing & She will sing thru you…
Your work is Her will…if what you make,
Your body, your love, your peace – is good, it will endure…
When the eye opens wink back…
~hag

I googled "if reddit were a painting, what painting would it be?", fair enough.. : funny — Ava Menola

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as above so below | Духовное искусство, Вселенная искусство, Искусство сакральной геометрии

I am ever searching for the spiritual significance behind world events. I have been thinking about how the corona crisis has made us catch our breath – has literally stopped our breath & endangered our collective heart. And seeks to modify our very humanness by altering the RNA in our blood.

Finding the connections between ourselves & the world situation, let us breathe into our lungs knowing that with this breath we take in spiritual life forces that stimulate the warmth & life in our blood, enabling us to be, to think, to feel.

Then when we breathe out – into the world – we are filling the atmosphere with the concepts of our being, of our thoughts & feeling life.

Lungs of the World 2 Painting by Artem Mirolevich | Saatchi Art — Darby Grant

Are we sharing into the ethers enlivened life forces of light, love & warmth? – Or are we breathing out fearful death forces, cold hard unconscious darkness…?

Growing Together Partnership With Two Trees In The Shape Of Human.. Stock Photo, Picture And Royalty Free Image. Image 14837711.

It is in this etheric realm of the life-body which we all share, that The Christ is, either vivified by our conscious breathing of light; or crucified, again & again, thru our materialistic thoughts, cold feelings, & heartless actions. This has repercussions on our human etheric bodies, which can either bring health, or eventually cause a death in our physical body; & with it kill the possibility of receiving a consciousness of Christ. Can we see that what is happening in the world is meant to lead us to how can we resurrect this true living consciousness?

As above so below, as below so above Painting by The Old Beekeeper — Ben ‘The old beekeeper’

I am coming to see that the impulse of Love, is a conscious breathing out -which brings us into unification with the etheric world. Breathing out with intention gives us a sense of freedom. Can we make it a selfless offering – connected to the future? Can it help us live into our Destiny? Will we come to the Wedding that unifies us with higher beings in the spiritual worlds – a re-union in life – like what we experience in sleep, & in death.

Breathe Magazine – Breathing Tree — Leanora Munstone

Breathing in brings us to our Self. Taking an in-breath connects us to ‘necessity’, which is a past impulse, that awakens us to a consciousness of our Karma. With our 1^st breath, we enter life. In rhythmical breathing we are aligned with the cosmos, which connects us with the moral memory of our time before birth, & a feeling for what we need to do to be better human beings. We also have a chance to do this every morning when we wake up.

Trees are made of human breath — Brenda Falzell

When we think about breathing, it brings us from the point to the periphery, from the self to the universe – an active expansion into the all & a contraction back to the point of union . We can’t try & mask the fact that human beings must share the air. We breathe each other in, & are called to meet in the sphere of formative forces where we can discover the Christ living in the space between breaths, in the all-space between heart beats. Here we are asked to transform our ‘necessity’- based on an unfree past – our personal & collective karma – into a right relationship, which can be expressed as the morality of the gods. This animates Love, which is essential for Freedom, creating a destiny, where the perception & reception of our oneness with the higher worlds is our future.

Can we become ever more conscious of what fills our heart with warmth – with unselfish thinking – to move out thru our feeling, enthusing a life-affirming will for good? – Let us make the intention to let the Spirit sing & speak thru our Breath.

Jesus Christ, the Word of God by Farid De La Ossa | Word of god, Art, Jesus christ — Chuy Gonzales

This spiritualizes our breathing which can become The Word invoking the Holy Spirit; to live as ‘Christ in me’, to live, from the place of the higher “I”.

~hag

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Calendar - The Gregorian calendar | Britannica

13 January 2021- “Speaking with the Stars”: Today’s might be just another Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar, but it is the last day of the year by the old Julian calendar, which was first introduced to the world by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C. Today is the Julian New Year, sometimes called the Old New Year or the Orthodox New Year.

Tjugondag Knut dansas julen ut | Nordiska museet

(“Twentieth Day Yule”), or Tjugondag Knut (“Twentieth Day Knut”), a traditional festival celebrated in Sweden & Finland on 13 January. Christmas trees are taken down on Tjugondag jul, & the candies &cookies that decorated the tree are eaten. In Sweden, the feast held during this event is called a Knut’s party (Julgransplundring, literally “Christmas tree plundering”)

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Rudolf Steiner’s Lectures on this day

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

“History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of the human being”. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley

A short and beautiful Christmas prayer from St. Bernard of Clairvaux

1090 – Birthday of Bernard of Clairvaux, Mystic, Theologian, Co-Founder of the Order of the Templars

Girl, Interrupted: The Life Of Saint Veronica

1497 – Deathday of St. Veronica of Milan. Being very poor & having no formal education, she attempted to teach herself to read. While making this effort one night, the Virgin Mary appeared to Veronica, & taught her in the form of three mystical letters: The first signified purity of intention; the second, abhorrence of murmuring or criticism; the third, daily meditation on the Passion. By the first she learned to begin her daily duties for no human motive, but for God alone; by the second, to carry out what she had begun by attending to her own affairs, never judging her neighbor, but praying for those who did wrong; by the third she was enabled to forget her own pains & sorrows in those of her Lord, & to weep hourly, but silently, over the memory of His wrongs.

Veronica became accustomed to nearly constant apparitions & religious ecstasies. She saw scenes from the life of Christ, yet these never interrupted her work. She joined an Augustinian lay order at the convent of Saint Martha in Milan at the age of 22. This community was very poor; Veronica’s job was to beg in the streets of the city for food.

She received a vision of Christ in 1494, & was given a message for Pope Alexander VI, so she traveled to Rome to deliver it. After a six-month illness, Veronica died on the date she had predicted, 13 January 1497.

1915 – The Avezzano earthquake shakes the Province of L’Aquila in Italy with a maximum intensity of XI (Extreme), killing over 32,610 people.

2001 – An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 1800

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Reappearance

January 12, 2021History, Insight~hag

August 2019 Astrology And The Invincible Sun | Mystic Medusa Astrology — Baxter Lennon

Here is the Podcast of today’s offering on ‘I Think Speech’.

I am holding in my consciousness that we are in the season of Epiphany, which is often defined as a revelation, I can’t help picturing it as cartoon image of the lightbulb over the head -indicating a sudden, intuitive insight – where it all makes sense. An Epiphany is often related to the appearance or manifestation of a spiritual being or phenomenon – But I don’t think a true Epiphany happens by chance, or comes as some fliting flash that fades away.

A History of Christmas & Epiphany - The Congregation at Duke University Chapel

I think of the example of what we hear in the book of Matthew – how the Magi prepared, perhaps for lifetimes before they made it to Epiphany. And in the 5^th Gospel we read how Jesus of Nazareth was prepared 1^st thru 42 generations, & then for 30 years, before he received the Christ in the Baptism by John in the Jordan. And we have to work thru all of the 13 Holy Nights to reach the Epiphany, which is not just a day, but a season, that takes us into the 1^st stirrings of Spring.

Light in the dark - Makka's Gallery - Paintings & Prints, Still Life, Other Still Life - ArtPal

Thru all that is happening to darken or distract us in the world, I have been trying to live into this, to see thru a glass darkly, looking, always searching, for the light hiding in the shadows, which can reveal the revelation – allow the appearance.

I have been thinking about the ‘appearance’, ‘the manifestation’, the advent of Christ, in the etheric world. And it just so happens that 111 years ago today, Rudolf Steiner gives the 1st lecture ever on the Etheric Reappearance of The Christ (see link below) Sometimes when i contemplation this amazing mystery, it comes to me in the picture of an assembly – a convocation, a summit. But mostly I see it as an intimate meeting; or a like blind date, where we are introduced thru a mutual friend – thru our connection to Anthroposophia, which gives us the wisdom to see with new eyes. We receive from this part of ourselves the invite – the entre to the cosmic party. It’s an open invitation, but it takes more than just spinning around 3 times to remove the blindfold – to lift the veil that separates us from meeting this reality.

The Christ, in his rhythmical Presence, presses forward into the etheric realm, into the realm of the formative forces which envelop the earth to fortify & maintain all life; & Steiner says “Humanity on its natural path of development touches on that sphere with our soul forces” – So that gets me asking, Ok, how do we do our part, on this natural path, to develop those soul forces of Thinking, Feeling & Willing, in this new way? How do we employ Imagination, Inspiration & Intuition without expectation, with the utmost faith & patience, to achieve the 1^st glimmering – an awakening of our etheric eyes, a new supersensible sensing, which can experience the life-body?

A Powerful Practice to Connect to Soul (Eye Gazing) | Elisa Romeo

Steiner says “We think we see with our eyes, but we don’t literally see with these outer organs. They are a kind of microscope, or telescope, or camera, a fairly dead body in us. We see by means of it, with etheric activity.”

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He explains that we perceive colors as the result of etheric activity. If we look at green & afterwards at a white sheet of paper, we see it’s reversal as red. (hmm the Christmas colors, go ahead get out your crayons & give it a try) This seeing is due to the continuation of the etheric activity of the eye, which answers to the impressions of colors. We see a balance. We never see an actual color as it is, but always a balance.

We produce complementary colors thru the etheric activity of our eye; & what we see – the final physical effect, is a balance, even if we are not consciously aware of it. (Think 3D Glasses!)

But when we do make it our intention to be conscious, we became co-creators of this new etheric sight.

Learning to Experience the Etheric World: Empathy, the After Image and a New Social Ethic by Baruch Luke Urieli: New Paperback / softback | THE SAINT BOOKSTORE

For more practical exercises in seeing into the etheric, I recommend working with Baruch Urieli’s amazing book: Learning to Experience The Etheric World – with the very interesting sub-title: Empathy, the After-Image & a New Social Ethic.

From Jesus to Christ: (CW 131): Steiner, Rudolf, Davy, Charles: 9781855841956: Amazon.com: Books

Rudolf Steiner suggests in his lectures ‘From Jesus to Christ’, (Which is what the Holy Nights are all about) that it is our own etheric activity which lightens up that sphere in which the Etheric Christ is present.

And I have come to see that thru our own activity in connection with The Sophia as a Being of Light, we can shed some Light on Love, waiting in the realm of our formative forces for us to perceive & interact with.

It is an activity, which in its clarity, & beauty, can be strengthened not only thru the specific spiritual discipline of the 6 Basic exercises, & the meditative path, but thru moral development, which brings a balance, in wholeness.

Working the 8-fold path & the 6B are certainly key. And for me right now Equanimity is helping to give a flow to my moral progress. When we take hold of the reins of our emotions & steer them where we want to go, it improves the etheric light which we can pour from our heart down into the limbs & then back up to our head,& out thru our eyes, into the etheric world to light up the Christ.

Yes, friends, today is the New Moon, of the New Year, the perfect time take up this awareness.

12 January 2021 – “Speaking with the Stars”: Tonight, treat yourself to a visit with a mythical beast, the constellation Monoceros the Unicorn. Focus in on the bright stars Betelgeuse, Sirius & Procyon. They make a triangle, which is sometimes called the Winter Triangle. Orion & Rigel & Betelgeuse are there too.

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Greetings friends, today is my Half Birthday! My astrologer friend Victoria Martin says 1/2 b-day’s are the ‘low point of the natal year’…grrr…I have been feeling that last week, but now I am pulling up & out…With the New Moon!

Loving Speech and Deep Listening - Wake Up International

And for this next cycle I plan to practice true listening – without presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating, approving or disapproving – without dueling with what is being said – without rehearsing the rebuttal in advance…

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Rudolf Steiner’s Lectures on this day

The Expert Generalist: 2 Secrets From Leonardo da Vinci That Can Help You Become a Polymath | by Thomas Oppong | Personal Growth | Medium — Delphine Debell

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do”. ~Leonardo da Vinci

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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1908 – A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time

Rudolf Steiner's Work on Karma – April 26-27 — The Portland Branch of the Anthroposophical Society in America

1910 – Rudolf Steiner gives the 1^st lecture ever on the Etheric Reappearance of The Christ, to members in Stockholm Sweden. At the same time as the “initiation” of Krishnamurti in Adyar. True Nature of the Second Coming – Preparation for this Event through the Development of Etheric Vision ~RS Then on January 25^th Rudolf Steiner begins the series The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric for the members in Dornach

1915 – The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.

1918 – The Minnie Pit Disaster coal mining accident occurs in Halmer End, Staffordshire, in which 555 men & boys die

1932 – Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.

1942 –President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National Labor Board.

2010 – An earthquake in Haiti occurs, killing over 100,000 people & destroying much of the capital Port-au-Prince

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Beowulf: Beowulf and the Dragon in Geatland

Beowulf said: “Light holds you, Grendel. Light has you in its power. You, who have shunned the Sun, meet me, once stung by bees that drank the Sun. There’s honey in my veins, Grendel, a liquid sunlight that can kill you quite. These fingers that you feel are ten great stars. Stars have no fear. I do not fear you, Grendel. I do not fear, therefore I do not fight. I only hold you, child of Cain. I only fix you fast in your own evil, so that you cannot turn it out on any other. It is your own evil, Grendel, that undoes you. You must die, creature of night, because the light has got you in a last embrace.”

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Maranatha

January 11, 2021Poetry~hag

Listen to today’s Hodgepodge podcast on ‘I Think Speech‘

Nancy Standlee Fine Art: Contemporary Figurative Acrylic Painting ~ "Lady Liberty - Lylas 2" ~ by Texas Daily Painter Nancy Standlee — Nancy Standless

POD (Poem Of the Day)

~Today I invoke:
The Lady of the pyre –
Lady of the heat who burns up transgression
Her flame is sharp, Her fingers are orange sparks
She speaks with a tongue of far-reaching flame
Her hands are quick; She burns flesh into ash & light
She is beyond necessity,
She is the power of Freedom reborn…
Today I am Hers…
~hag

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Why Unicorn's are in the Bible? | Book of Mormon Evidence

“For if it were impossible for man to sink into the abyss of evil, he would not have been able to attain what on the one hand we call love and on the other freedom; since to the occultist freedom is inseparably connected with the idea of love.

It would be impossible for man to develop either love or freedom without the possibility of sailing down into the abyss. A man unable, of his own free decision, to choose good or evil, would be a being who would only be led on a puppets-string to a good which must be attained of necessity and who had no power to choose the good of his own fully purified will, by the love which springs from freedom.

If it were impossible for man to follow in the trail of the monster with the two horns, it would also be impossible for him to follow God out of his own individual love.

It was in accordance with a wise Providence to give the possibility of freedom to the humanity which has been developing through our planetary system, and this possibility of freedom could be given on no other condition than that man himself has to make the free choice between good and evil.“ ~Rudolf Steiner, The Apocalypse of St. John, Lecture XII https://wn.rsarchive.org/GA/GA0104/19080630p01.html

The Dark Moon has gone into the underworld, invisible to our eyes, & hits her New Moon phase exact at Midnight tonight.

Christ in the Etheric | Spiritual paintings, Art, Painting

In 1382 Nicolas Flamel uses a secret word for Morning Star, Maranatha, which is an old alchemical allusion to Mercury. Maranatha (Aramaic: מרנאתא‎; Koinē Greek: Μαρανα θα, romanized: marana-tha, lit. ‘come, our lord!’ It occurs in the New Testament -1 Corinthians 16:22. And the last chapter of the Book of Revelation makes use of the same concept as מרנא תא‎ “marana tha” by the Greek ἔρχου κύριε Ἰησοῦ (Revelation 22:20 NA28) “erchou kurie Iesou”, “Come, Lord Jesus“.

I have spoken many times about the reversal that occurred between Venus & Mercury at the time of the Copernican Revolution, & I have often wondered why – to what purpose? This question ever lingering came into focus again today with a new clarity as I read the piece about Maranatha. It all came together with the phrase ‘Come, our lord‘ – the lightbulb flashed that the code revealed in the reversal was our clue to merge the wisdom of Hermes, communicator & messenger of the gods/ the healing caduceus of Mercury’s Staff, with the Goddess of Love & Beauty, so that we can call forth these words of invocation into the etheric realm where the Being of Christ waits for us to receive the formative forces of his healing love.

The recitation of Maranatha as “the ideal Christian mantra”, repeated as four equally stressed syllables Ma-ra-na-tha: “Not only is this one of the most ancient Christian prayers, in the language Christ Jesus spoke, but it also has a harmonic quality that helps to bring the mind to silence. The Lord is Coming! Our Lord has come! Come, Lord! Our Lord, Come! O Lord, come! or Our Lord Comes!

Christ's Return in the Etheric - YouTube

Calling forth in times of need for the comforter, the councilor is a Sophiatic deed that brings us to this etheric vision.

Jimmy Carter Will Keep Teaching Sunday School After Pelvis Fracture

President Jimmy Carter the “good communicator” teaching at the Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains Georgia

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Rudolf Steiner’s Lectures on this day

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Is the Modern Interpretation of the Book of Revelation Flawed? A Consideration of a Different View - Community in Mission

“If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.” ~Joseph Campbell

1825 – Birthday of Karl Julius Schroer, professor of German literature & language. Teacher of Rudolf Steiner. Political developments in 1860 forced Schröer to leave Hungary for Vienna. In the following years, Schröer researched the folklore of the ethnic Germans, or Danube Swabians, of Hungary. As part of his research, Schröer discovered a Medieval cycle of Danube Swabian mystery plays in Oberufer, a village since engulfed by the Bratislava’s borough of Ružinov. Schröer collected manuscripts, made meticulous textual comparisons, & published his findings in the book Deutsche Weihnachtspiele aus Ungarn (“The German Nativity Plays of Hungary”) in 1857/1858. Several scholars later extended this work.

Life Lessons from Goethe | The New Yorker

In Vienna, Schröer became a major figure in Goethe scholarship. He was a founding member of the Goethe Society of Vienna in 1878 & edited the society’s official publication, “Die Chronik”, from 1886 to 1894.

Fantasy Based on Goethe's 'Faust'', Theodor von Holst, 1834 | Tate

Schröer was especially devoted to Faust scholarship, editing the work & providing a commentary in a two-volume edition of that play. In 1884 he published one of his most well-known works, a text dedicated to Goethe’s biography, manner of poeticizing, & relation to women: “Goethe und die Liebe” (Goethe and Love). Schröer also edited a six-volume edition of Goethe’s dramas. He campaigned for the erection of a Goethe monument in Vienna, which was approved in 1894 with a design by Edmund Hellmann. Schröer died on 16 December 1900, one day after the monument was unveiled.

Wenn man keine Ahnung hat, sollte man einfach besser mal … – Dirk Jakob – Gedanken

Karl Julius Schroer was Rudolf Steiner’s professor & the son of the educator & writer Tobias Gottfried Schröer. Steiner speaks about these 2 individualities in their former incarnations. Tobias as Socrates & Karl as the nun Hroswitha & Plato. See Karmic Relationships, Volume IV: Lecture X

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Greetings Friend, Now that the Holy Nights have passed I have time to offer Lectures, Festivals, full day or weekend workshops, on any topic that interests your community.

(I don’t charge a fee; just travel expenses, & room & board; as everything I do is given freely, in service to Anthroposophia. I have my own Zoom account, but if we expect more that 100 we would need to use yours)

Here are a few samples of my programs caught in Video:

Below is short list from my library of work:

What is Anthroposophy? An Experiential Discourse

What can the human being (anthropos) of today do to recognize our inherent wisdom (sophia) to access the source of spiritual knowledge, for our own inner development, and for the evolution of the earth and all of humanity?

What would it be like to support each other in community, as we strive to penetrate the mystery of our relationship with the spiritual world?

How does this ‘Spiritual Science’ built on the research of Rudolf Steiner, speak to the riddles of existence: our artistic needs, the truth of karma, the mystery of evil, life after death and so much more?

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The Spiritual Guidance of the Individual and of Humanity’ An Experiential Three Part Workshop

(Workshops can be taken as a whole or individually)

Session #1 – 10 am – 12 noon:
• Introductions
• The divine wisdom working in the human being in the 1st three years of life.
• Through inner striving we can contact again and consciously build on this wisdom which is connected to the Christ impulse.
• Activity- Biography work: Our 1st conscious memory – a preview of the “I”.

Noon – 1:30 pm – Lunch

Session #2 – 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm:
• The childlike condition of humanity in ancient times, directed by higher spiritual beings.
• A look into the evolution of these guiding spirits –progressive as well as regressive –
• Revealing the necessity of the ‘two kinds of evil’.
• The importance of Spiritual Science to avoid error.
• Activity – Labyrinth Walk

3:30 pm – 4 pm – Break

Session #3 – 4 pm – 6 pm:
• A survey of the Post-Atlantean age, our present epoch.
• The Christ connection with the progressive spiritual beings
• Modern science as the work of the regressive spiritual beings
• A peek into the future
• Activity – The Golden Legend & The Rose Cross Mediation: An artistic rendering

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‘Preparation, Illumination & Initiation’ – The Rosy Cross

Incorporating ‘The Golden Legend’, & the Plant vs. Human Kingdoms, To enliven our work with ‘The Rose Cross Meditation’.

Using our head, hands & heart we will enact this powerful Rosicrucian tool given to us by Rudolf Steiner, as a soul path of initiation, using imaginative cognition to build spiritual etheric forces; a Metamorphoses of Self & of World.

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Lifting the Veil: ISIS Redeemed – an interactive multi-media presentation of the New Isis Myth

From Necessity to Freedom – The Evolution of Human Consciousness, Social Sculpture & Experiential Discourse

How can I Co-Create with Destiny, to spin the thread of my life with integrity, to heal and clear the collective karma, & achieve my True Becoming?

From the vaporous cleft of Mount Parnassus, and the birth place of Greek Philosophy, to Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel, and the Holy Grail – From Prophesy to Warning, from Fate to Karma, From Destiny to Free Will.

What is YOUR life Question?

10 am – Doors Open

10:30 am – Explore the legends of The Greek Moirae and the Nordic Norns, the Orphic Hymn and the Prose Poem Edda

11:30 –Song Circle – To call in and to cut away

12:15 pm – Lunch

1:30 pm – Scrying with the Sibyls – The Prophets and the Sistine Chapel…The evolving human consciousness…

2:30 pm – Socratic Questioning – You have to ask the right question to get the right answer

3:15 pm – Break

3:30 pm – Once Upon A Time NOW – The new story

4 pm – Weaving Past, Present and Future

4:30 pm – Rudolf Steiner’s poem: DESTINY

5 pm – End

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Cain and Abel: Building a Bridge between the ‘Two Streams’

Recognizing where we stand as individuals in the interrelationship between the two main groups of souls found in the Anthroposophical Movement, is a call connected with Rudolf Steiner’s core mission, his deed at the Christmas Conference, and our further work with the Etheric Christ as Lord of Karma.

In this experiential workshop we will enact a ‘Mystery Pageant’ exploring the karmic streams. Are you a Shepherd or a King; Vita Contemplativa or Vita Activa; Platonist or Aristotelian…?

Together we can unite the streams, to fulfill the Foundation Stone, and create a ‘Wellspring of Spirit Reborn’.

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“Let Freedom Ring’ – Reclaiming the Wisdom of Columbia – Folk Soul of America Presentation, Eurythmy, Art Exercise, Group Singing

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Christian Rosenkreutz & the Mission of Gautama Buddha on Mars

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Encountering the Inner Layers of the Earth as a Rosicrucian Christian Initiation, in relation to the Beatitudes and the 9 fold human being.

An overview, which is meant to tie together the seemingly diverse subjects of:

The Interior of the Earth,
A map of the Modern path of Initiation,
The practical application of the occult meaning of The Sermon on the Mount,
And a picture of the 7 & 9 fold Human Being

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The Chymical Wedding: Christian Rosenkreutz: ‘Granum Pectori Jesu Insitum’ Interactive Art Projections & Lecture

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Wynstones Press :: Prints :: Prints: The Holy Week :: Prints: The Holy Week - Set of 8 prints

Festivals of the Year:

Holy Week & Easter/Spring:

The Mystery of Golgotha – Then & Now
A Path to the Dawning

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Ascension: Climbing Jacobs Ladder – a lecture bringing into focus:

The ascension of the soul of the earth as it breathes out in the springtime
The mystery of the Ascension of Christ, Who is the Spirit of the Earth, is renewed – Christ as ‘Lord of Karma’
The return of the earth back into the community of the stars
Our connection to the elementals
The Archangel Raphael
The true meaning of death
The relationship of the Ascension with the Transfiguration, & Whitsun with the Baptism
A connection to Goethe’s Fairy Tale – The Green Snake & the Beautiful Lily

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WHITSUN: The festival of United Soul Endeavor – a lecture revealing connections to:

Shavuot, the Jewish Grain celebration
Pentecost, the Greek tradition
Festival of Flowers from the ancient mysteries
The creation of our Free Individuality

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Summer-Tide Fests:

From Summer Solstice to St. John’s-Tide

Cosmic Rapture Grounded in Jubilant Hearts

Come join our Initiatory Workshop to discover the New Mysteries of St. Johns-Tide.

To pass the test of Summer we will explore many questions:

*Who is the mysterious Archangel of Summer?

*Who is John the Baptist? What do his sayings “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” And “He must increase, but I must decrease.” really mean?

* What is the secret to healing the ‘soul-fever’ so prevalent in society today?

*What is the mystery of the Dragon-fly, & other elemental beings?

* How can we understand the ‘Cycle of the Year as Breathing Process of the Earth’?

Together we will work to strengthen our true “I”, enlivening our will forces with various social-artistic exercises:

Folk Eurythmy

Questions to the Universe

‘He must Increase, but I must Decrease’ – Who is John the Baptist?

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Lectures for Michaelmas or on the Being Michael:

“Iron Sharpens Iron”

‘The Fiery Thought King of the Universe; Michael Beckoning’

Michaelmas and the Horn of Plenty – Fall Festivals Then and Now

Michael and the Soul Forces

Fall festivals: “Bringing in the Sheaves” a look at harvest traditions on the wheel of the year

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All Souls Festivals: on the life between death & re-birth including:

Soul to Soul – a history of our relationship with the dead
The Mystery Schools of ancient Sumeria
The secret festival of Thesmophoria
the Eleusinian mysteries
Orpheus, Pythagoras, Plato, Socrates
Spiritualism & Mediumship
How to communicate with the dead according to Rudolf Steiner

History Stuff | History of halloween (All Hallows Eve)

Earthly Death / Cosmic Life

Who we have been, Who we are, Who we are becoming, & where we are going…

What are the origins & purpose of “Halloween”…?

A Journey Through the Planetary Spheres –

Starting on earth at the grave, we follow the life of the soul after death, thru Kamaloca, & the 7 wandering stars, into the fixed Zodiac & Devachan, then at the ‘Midnight Hour’ back into incarnation. (This can be a lecture alone or combined with an actual experiential journey)

A performance of ‘The Descent of Inanna’– a Modern Myth from Sumeria

The Connection Between Epidemics, the Souls of the Dead, and the Spiritual World with Hazel Archer-Ginsberg and Raven Garland, Eurythmist VIDEO RECORDING HERE

Festivals for the Dead, the Unborn and the Evolution of Earth – Then and Now with Hazel Archer-Ginsberg and Eurythmist Raven Garland VIDEO RECORDING HERE

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A series of Holy Nights offerings.

Including: “…When the Two Become One…The Greatest Story Ever Told” A comparison of the Luke & Matthew Gospels in story form – Group Art project: Turning the inside out, & the outside in.

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Pin by Reagan Miller on love it! | Sun painting, Eclipses art, Moon painting

A series of talks on Eclipses of the Sun & Moon, Including a Pageant: “From Light Through Darkness into New Light”

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Invoking the Practical Alchemy of the Celtic Triple Goddess Brigid – To Purify, Awaken, & Galvanize Your Head, Heart, and Hands

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Six Meditations to Help Keep Your Calm | Spiritual paintings, Spiritual artwork, Spiritual art

A series of Guided Meditations:

Ostara and The April Fool
Cosmic Heart
Grounding Tree
A piece of the puzzle
The Inner Sanctum
Spring Equinox
Summer Solstice

This is just a partial list. I am open to hearing your thoughts & suggestions

One of my areas of expertise, besides the Wheel of the Year as seen from various cultural perspectives, is creating custom events for every milestone, & Rites-of-Passage ceremonies. My web site & blog give a good indication of this work.

Thank you for this opportunity to serve.

Hazel Archer-Ginsberg – Founder of Reverse Ritual Understanding Anthroposophy through the Rhythms of the Year. Essayist, Lecturer, Poet, Trans-denominational Minister, Anthroposopher – working as the Festivals Coordinator of the Chicago Rudolf Steiner Branch, The Traveling Speakers Program, & the Central Regional Council of the Anthroposophical Society.

Hazel@reverseRitual.com

In-Form

January 10, 2021Insight, Quote~hag

Contemporary Cave Painting | 7 January - 21 February 2015 - Overview | Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery — Rebecca Hossack

Here are today’s Leading Thought’s spoken to In-Form on ‘I Think Speech’

What wants to be in-formed on the Earth now, & how can we give it expression? What is required to build a bridge to the spiritual stream that wants to manifest for us in the realm of formative forces. This etheric stream waiting with power at the edges of our consciousness must be able to pour into those that would make a chalice to embrace it, so that these Christic forces can incarnate thru us in the world.

This is the task of those working in the School of Michael now. We are called to recognize all that lives deep within the inner layers of the earth; as well as what is being offered from the periphery, to co-create formative forces that foster harmony & healing love; to build a communal etheric body, together; which will enable us to develop spiritual organs with higher faculties into the future.

Rainbow Bridge by Willow Arlena | Art, Visionary art, Spiritual artwork — Rebecca Arlena

This requires a fundamental change in our perception, & reception, of what the Being of Wisdom is for us now – & how this reflection is directly connected to the goals of the spiritual worlds – which are asking us to DO Anthroposophy, to practice Spiritual Science – to transform our soul forces, with a new kind of willing – to not only think about it, but deeply feel, & will it, not just for ourselves, but with a sort of collective modern Manicheanism, that acts as a curative catalyst for all. So that the Being of Anthroposophia is able to live, breathe & weave among us – not only in our concepts, but in the very ‘Etherization of our Blood’, working down into our limbs, in collaboration with the supersensible guidance of the School of Michael.

Pin by Chelsea Stetz on The World is a Canvas in 2020 | Spiritual paintings, Retro painting, Contemporary art photography — Chelsea Stetez

We must will to learn, to feel, & embody, this Spiritual Being among us. Then we will be able to build a collective etheric body as the vessel that will exemplify on the earth this Supersensible School. This new communal etheric body that must be consciously built by the whole community of the School of Spiritual Science – is linked to the power given to us thru Rudolf Steiner’s sacrifice, & thru the etheric body of Christian Rosenkreuz; so deeply connected to the mysteries of the etheric appearance of The Christ in our time. The eternal forces of these great initiates, full of the most creative expression of becoming & metamorphosis, must develop into a quickening for OUR life body – built up & personified, here & now, in our freed etheric hearts, as we work together to shape the new etheric body of the Cosmopolitan Michaelic Stream. Then the real life forces streaming out of the universal etheric will become a source of vibrant new creative life, for all humanity. We must strive to be able to sense & live into this source; to be inspired by its light & warmth, as we ‘Walk the Talk’ of true Spiritual Science.

Ram Dass on Twitter: "It's like you put on a space suit and it comes with a control center – little computer inside that runs it. The question is, is that who — Lenny Drilfort

Sergei O Prokofieff, who was a deeply striving human being gives us these words: “It is after all the most important task of the anthroposophists of the twentieth century, to give the etheric body of Rudolf Steiner—by means of their work dedicated loyally to the essential spiritual impulse of Anthroposophy—such a power, that this etheric body will enable his pupils, that will be enlightened by it, to experience the Christ in a direct way. Or in other words: that the Christ Himself will be able, from the end of the twentieth century on, to work through the etheric body of Rudolf Steiner among his pupils.”

Prokofieff awakens us to this gift from Rudolf Steiner, which must inform our work of embodying the esoteric – thru a communal practice -which must be actualized in concrete, practical life. Yes, friends, I woke up with this thought because the dead are working with us, Gene Gollogly & Sergei & others are conduits broadcasting to us the ‘Will of Worlds’. And we are the limbs of the gods that must make it happen. See you on the frontlines, that border between the seen & unseen.

~hag

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Planetary trio consisting of Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn on January 9, 2021.

10 January 2021- “Speaking with the Stars”: At twilight look for this planetary trio in the West – the famous planets Jupiter & Saturn, fresh from their Great Conjunction still close together, with Mercury, (occult Venus) just now coming into view. Jupiter will be the brightest of the three, followed by Mercury & then Saturn. Start watching them tonight and watch them move in relationship to each other!

Moon swings by the star Antares and the dazzling planet Venus in the January 2021 morning sky.

And in the morning twilight, you can watch as the waning crescent moon sweeps past bright Antares in the constellation Scorpius – & the even brighter planet, Venus (Mercury) before the sun comes up. You can’t miss them if your sky is clear.

Studio Olafur Eliasson — Olafer Ellashon

Rudolf Steiner’s Lectures on this day

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1881- Rudolf Steiner’s experience of the ‘eternal ‘I’, in the night of the 10-11 of January in his study of Schelling (from a letter written to Joseph Kock )

Tattooed Heart on the Altar" This is taken from the scripture where the Lord has our names tattooed in the palm of His h… | Prophetic art, Christian paintings, Art — David Mendelsohn

THE CALENDAR OF THE SOUL by Rudolf Steiner, translated by Roy Sadler (with added titles)
Epiphany II & its mirror verse for the festival of St. John
v41,
AT THE ALTAR OF THE HEART
The soul’s creative power
from depths of heart aspires
to fire the forces of the gods
to right activity in human life
and form itself in human love
and human deeds.
v12,
AT THE ALTAR OF THE SENSES
The world’s light-glancing beauty
from depths of soul compels me
to free in cosmic flight
my own life’s god-enwoven forces,
forsake myself
and trusting seek the self I am
in world-wide warmth and light.

Cognitive Ritual

~Confessions of a Modern Rosicrucian

Monthly Archives: January 2021

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Breathe

Reappearance

Maranatha

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