“All community building eventuates in a higher being descending from the world of the spirit to reign over and unite people who have come together in a common cause.” ~Rudolf Steiner, Awakening to Community, Lecture 9, 3 March 1923
I felt this Steiner quote to be true in a very real sense as we were building the container during our 1st session of cohort #5’s AAP training (Association for Anthroposophical Psychology).
45 diverse folks from various backgrounds came together in Rose Hall at Camphill Village Kimberton Hills of for an intensive week of learning amidst sacred encounters.
The tag team sessions with Tonya Stoddard & Susan Overhauser really made familiar themes like the Soul Forces pop, enlivening us with head, hands & heart. The topic ‘Empathic Resonance & Self Knowledge’ had a deep impact on me. (Empath – a path to meet “I to I”)
Resonance begins by emptying the dissonant chatter of the monkey mind, or any preconceived judgmental baggage that gets in the way of truly listening & being present in the encounter. To do this we must really strive to ‘Know Thyself’ – to recognize our own content – to be willing to let it go, so the “I” of the other can enter.
Reactions get in the way of resonating. We have to ask ourselves what are we attached to – see it, & then move it aside – It is a sacrifice to set yourself aside – to release the fear of not being seen ourselves. Just Like in meditation our “I” needs to ‘go to sleep’ to truly witness the essence of the other. This strengthens our will.
As we work with our angel, actively engaging our angel with the angel of the other, we can hear what karma is calling in from the future. Yep, it’s about listening to hear, not to talk. Will my question enhance their experience, or is it just my curiosity, my need? Can I stay quiet inside & outside?
We have to hold the silence to let the resonance resound. This allows space for a 3rd Being to arise between the 2 “I’s”. A Being created out of interest, reverence & love. This living Being has phases just like the relationship does. Our etheric life processes that come from warmth are nourishing to it. Co-creating a mood of wonder, reverence & awe helps continue the advance of this 3rd being.
Dr. James Dyson wasn’t present but the few things he said on zoom stood out, like: ‘The human encounter has the potential to develop future worlds.’ I have certainly taken that into my thinking.
Knowing the group was consciously working together with the help of the ‘Digestion Sessions’ in the evenings lead to a powerful backward review every night – welcoming in the future stream of time, allowing the beings of the spiritual worlds to be more conscious. And the ‘Echo Space’ in the mornings was a wonderful way to bring the lessons from ‘Night School’ into perspective.
And throughout, the eurythmy with Karen Derreumaux created the perfect atmosphere, molding the group into an etheric chalice, the beginnings of a spiritual vessel for a new AAP Archangel as per Steiner’s quote:
“All community building eventuates in a higher being descending from the world of the spirit to reign over and unite people who have come together in a common cause.” ~Rudolf Steiner, Awakening to Community, Lecture 9, 3 March 1923
More tomorrow
In gratitude for this working
~hag
19 August 2022 – “Speaking with the Stars”: For months, most of the naked-eye planets have been hanging out in the early morning sky. Now Saturn becomes the first of the crew to return to evening view as early as late twilight. Saturn emerges low in the southeast as twilight fades. Once night is dark, look just lower left of it for Delta Capricorni.
Rudolf Steiner’s Lectures on this day
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” ~H.G. Wells
World Humanitarian Day
295 BC – The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty & fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War
43 BC –Caesar Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul
14 AD – Deathday of Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus
1612 – The “Samlesbury witches“, three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused of practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in British history
1662 – Deathday of Blaise Pascal a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer &Christian philosopher. He was a child prodigy, while still a teenager he started some pioneering work on calculating machines. Following a religious experience in late 1654, he began writing influential works on philosophy & theology. His two most famous works set in the conflict between Jansenists & Jesuits. Rudolf Steiner wrote about him in GA 131, From Jesus to Christ: Lecture I: Jesuit and Rosicrucian Training
1692 – Salem witch trials: In Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay, five women, & a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft
1839 – The French government announces that Louis Daguerre’s photographic process is a gift “free to the world”. Viewing a daguerreotype is unlike looking at any other type of photograph. The image does not sit on the surface of the metal, but appears to be floating in space, & the illusion of reality.
1854 – The First Sioux War begins when United States Army soldiers kill Lakota chief Conquering Bear & in return are massacred
1868 – Jules Janssen discovered Helium during a solar eclipse
1919 – Afghanistan gains full independence from the United Kingdom
1934 – The German referendum of 1934 approves Hitler’s appointment as head of state with the title of Führer.
1936 – Deathday of Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright, & director He was executed by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War
1944 – World War II: Liberation of Paris: against German occupation with the help of Allied troops
1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine
Vidar-mas? – A new Festival for the new Archangel of our Time
Spiritual Science gives us the opportunity to work with the Cycle of the Year as a modern path of Initiation into the New Mysteries. In our striving we not only renew, but we are being called from the future to co-create entirely new Festivals.
Having received insights from Are Thoresen at the Rudolf Steiner Branch in Chicago this weekend, we are taking up our own research into the new Archangel Vidar, who stands as Guardian to the Threshold of the Etheric Realm, in protection of the Nathan Soul, opening the Northern Stream of Initiation to those who would approach the Etheric Christ . In a recent spiritual experience, Are Thoresen suggested that August 20th may be the Feast Day of Vidar..?
All are invited to join us, where ever you are, in reading a lecture by Rudolf Steiner which brings to life this new Archangel Vidar.
We welcome your feedback as to whether or not August 20th resonates as a new Feast Day that we might call Vidar-mas..?
THE MISSION OF FOLK-SOULS, GA 121, Lecture XI, 17 June 1910, Christiania https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/19100617p01.html.
Meeting in-person at the Rudolf Steiner Branch in Chicago or wherever you are
20 August 2022, at 5 pm PT / 6 pm MT / 7 pm CT / 8 pm PT
From Maverick: “On the sheets given us by the Star House called “Sun Chronicle of the Christ Events”, Aug. 20th shows the Sun’s sidereal longitude at 2 to 3 degrees in Leo – so the Sun’s at home in the sign it rules. The Christ events occurring then are: Aug.20th – the conversation at Jacob’s well (so the 1st time Jesus revealed to anyone other than the disciples that He was the Messiah), and Aug. 20/21st – the raising of Lazarus from the dead.
~Hazel Archer-Ginsberg,
Cultural Events & Festivals Coordinator for the Rudolf Steiner Branch, Chicago
