All is Open

Kenneth Semmeply

I glide…on the winds of change blowing in hot & cold currents, as the season shifts – Smoothing the air – not like a leaf in the fall, but as a hawk, eyes penetrating into the essence of all….filled with wild strength & elemental power – yet safely rocking as in a mother’s arms – ensconced & tender.

All is open, there is no fixed schema, no anxiety or fear, no bullets-points on the agenda…The sky is vast – ready to receive – whatever my long-sighted wings want to inscribe on it…

As the wind releases, I slide down, toward wild trees encircled by streams & jutting glacial rock sprouting bright orange lichen & limey moss – Sun-drenched & shining…Gently, soundlessly…I reach the rich earth – strewn with the scent of living humus.

Mara Clear

Finding the power of my limbs, I walk – a well-trodden path – heading in an unfamiliar direction. I revel in the 1st hint of color dressing the trees…& the silence – broken only by the play of the elements: the song of birds, the water flowing, the busy animals. Ahead the path opens into a clearing ringed with ancient sentinel trees to make a shady grove. I recognize this Place. I remove my shoes to let my feet become one with the hallowed ground – Singing a blessing of thanks & praise – I cross the threshold between 2 mighty oaks.

Standing in the center of a cairn littered labyrinth, I see the bright figure of a woman. The quintessence of her visage becomes clear when she speaks my secret name, which I have not yet learned to pronounce. She is bidding me to come forward – to enter the spiraling labyrinth.

Kristina Carroll

I take the 1st step – & the path pulls me forward. I cannot tell of this journey, for it is my own…you have yours too…& it never ends…But when we reach the center – Anthroposophia – The She in me & we – leans forward to welcome our embrace.  She whispers a truth that reverberates thru the embryo of the ear so that all may hear – a well-reasoned wisdom speaking – something we already know, but have perhaps forgotten. It may be like the core of common sense; or perhaps it strikes the funny-bone like the humor of nonsense; or maybe it opens the heart to wonder. It may be a simple truth, or a complex mystical teaching which will require further deepening, or that which leads to a hero’s task. However it is heard, receive it as a benediction. 

Let the bright woman braid a chain of flowers into your hair – touch your fingers to your crown knowing your mind has been forever changed, released, opened to all the possibilities that will transform your thoughts into things…

Spin with joy, noticing all at once, that the bright woman has vanished – & now, standing before us, is a dark figure, looking strangely familiar. Can you make out her face there in the shadow? She is carrying a bundle over her shoulder. She lays her burden down at our feet. The dark woman speaks with a voice that resonates to the bone…She calls us each with a special tone only we can hear. Will you answer & come forward? If you choose to, don’t close your eyes when the embrace pulls you in…

Wendy Canterpen

The Dark She gently whispers a truth into your left ear. It is a truth that you know is right. The truth touches your heart & frees your soul. You remember the bird, soaring thru clear skies, singing a song of joy & longing. When you return to the depths, the dark woman has vanished, & the bundle she was carrying, & then left there at your feet, has transformed, into a large pyramid of rich honey-colored amber. Pick up a piece & warm it in your hand…

The Sun calls you to lift the amber up…bring it up, into the light…Let the sunshine merge with this solid symbol of your vitality…Breathe in the pranic life-force emanating from your true purpose made manifest…

William Fenewell

Put this treasure in your breast pocket, as you leave the Sacred Place…forever knowing that your inner sanctuary goes where your intention flows…Knowing that union is possible between the many parts of our being…

Walking on in confidence… Balanced in the light & dark of our most authentic self…We walk the path from the wilderness…curving & mounding onto a city street. And as we stand in a circle there on the curb, in the oblique angle of the autumning Sun, feel how minds & bodies are changing – like the leaves. What color are you now?

Xox

~hag

13 October 2021 – “Speaking with the Stars“: The waxing moon sweeps past bright Jupiter and fainter Saturn in the evening sky

Trent Blazer

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” ~H.G. Wells

Rudolf Steiner’s Lectures on this day

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

In 1307 October 13 was a Friday – Hundreds of Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into a “confession” of heresy. Once freed of the Inquisitors’ torture, many Templars recanted their confessions. Some had sufficient legal experience to defend themselves in the trials, but in 1310 Philip blocked this attempt, using the previously forced confessions to have dozens of Templars burned at the stake in Paris. With Philip threatening military action unless the pope complied with his wishes, Pope Clement finally agreed to disband the Order, citing the public scandal that had been generated by the confessions. At the Council of Vienne in 1312, he issued a series of papal bulls, which officially dissolved the Order. As for the leaders of the Order, the elderly Grand Master Jacques de Molay, who had confessed under torture, retracted his confession & insisted on his innocence. But he was declared guilty of being a relapsed heretic & was sentenced to be burnt at the stake in Paris on 18 March 1314. De Molay reportedly remained defiant to the end, calling out from the flames that both Pope Clement & King Philip would soon meet their end. Pope Clement died only a month later, & King Philip died in a hunting accident before the end of the year

1792 –The cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid

1917 – The “Miracle of the Sun” is witnessed by an estimated 100,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal. The people had gathered because the 3 shepherd children, who originally claimed to have seen Our Lady of Fátim, had predicted that at high noon the lady who had appeared to them several times would perform a great miracle. According to many witnesses, after a period of rain, the dark clouds broke & the sun appeared as an opaque, spinning disc in the sky. It was said to be significantly duller than normal, & to cast multicolored lights across the landscape, the people, & the surrounding clouds. The sun was then reported to have careened towards the earth before zig-zagging back to its normal position. Witnesses reported that their previously wet clothes became “suddenly & completely dry, as well as the wet & muddy ground that had been previously soaked because of the rain that had been falling.” According to reports, a panorama of visions, including those of Jesus, Our Lady of Sorrows, & of Saint Joseph blessed the people. The event lasted approximately ten minutes.

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~hag

11 thoughts on “All is Open

  1. Hi Hazel,

    Yes indeed, this day is resonating for me because I am contemplating the place where Rudolf Steiner spoke once and only about the Master Jesus. This was in lecture 7 of the Gospel of Luke here:

    https://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA114/English/RSP1964/19090921p01.html

    Now, we know that Dione Fortune had occasion to give a kind of prime emphasis to the Master Jesus working in her life. She was born in 1890 and lived until 1946. By 1909, when Steiner gave this lecture which exposes the identity of the Master Jesus, she was nineteen years old. Yet, her life was dramatically influenced by the Master Jesus by her own admission. This seems very important. According to Rudolf Steiner, the Master Jesus reincarnates repeatedly for those on the path of Christ consciousness. Dione Fortune was one of these. Her story seems to be a kind of pure indication of one of those that sees its relation to Master Jesus. I see this in her biography. wherein she appears to be irreproachable. Maybe you see this too, Hazel. I also find this on your own account. It is very good to consider this arrangement.

    1. Thank you for your deep contemplation giving insight & opening up many questions for further workings…

      In my own thinking I have not much related to this Master Jesus, I feel my soul calls to Christian Rosenkreutz…
      I can see they stand together so perhaps I am to reach out to this Being as well…

      1. Yes Indeed. The reason is that Master Jesus is Zarathustra. Having received back the Linga Sharira from the Mother of Jesus, who returned to earth from the spiritual worlds at the time of the Baptism of Jesus, Zarathustra is able to create a new incarnation in a new form. As such, he first incorporates himself into Lazarus for the three years that Christ walked in Palestine. This creates the Gospel of John. As we know, Lazarus would reincarnate as Christian Rosenkreutz.

        Thus, behind Christian Rosenkreutz is the Master Jesus. When Mary Magdalene was at the empty tomb, as described in John, ch. 20, she was the first to see the Master Jesus. She thought he was the Gardener. Then, she hears a more familiar voice who says: “Mary”! She turns and cries out, “Rabboni”!!

        This can mean only one thing. Mary meets the two Jesus children together for the first time, who have now become grown. She knows the one, but the other, who she thinks is the Gardener says to her: “Stop clinging to me, for I have not yet risen to my Father”. This clinging of Mary to the Master Jesus causes something to take place. She conceives a child; an immaculate conception.

        1. “Now the etheric body forms and shapes the physical body of man and it is not difficult to realize that there was a very deep connection between this etheric body of the Solomon Jesus which had been translated into the spiritual world, and the Zarathustra-Ego; for this Ego and etheric body had been united until the twelfth year of earthly life. And when the Zarathustra-Ego left the body of Jesus of Nazareth, the power of attraction between this Ego and the original etheric body in the Solomon Jesus asserted itself. The maturity of the Zarathustra-Ego was such that a further passage through Devachan was unnecessary and after a comparatively short time this Ego was able, in conjunction with his former etheric body, to build up a new physical body. This resulted in the birth of the Being who thereafter appeared again and again, always with relatively short intervals between physical death and rebirth; whenever this Being left the physical body at death, he soon appeared again on the Earth in a new incarnation. Having sought and found the etheric body he had once relinquished in the circumstances indicated, this Being went on his way through history as the ‘Master Jesus’, becoming, as you can well imagine, the great helper of those who have endeavoured to understand the Event of Palestine. Thus it was the Zarathustra-Ego, Zarathustra himself, who having found his etheric body again began to move through the evolution of mankind as the Master Jesus, incarnating again and again to give guidance and direction to the spiritual stream of Christianity. He is the Inspirer of those who strive to understand Christianity in its living growth and development; within the esoteric schools he inspired those whose perpetual duty it was to cultivate the teachings of Christianity. He stands behind the great spiritual figures of Christianity, ever teaching what the great Event of Palestine signifies.”
          The Gospel of Luke, Lecture 7, Rudolf Steiner

          1. The Master Jesus is linked to the so-called, “Friend of God from the Oberland”, who gave important influences to the Rhineland Mystics, such as Tauler and Bohme. Steiner describes this in his book, “Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age”.

  2. Thank you Hazel, this is a meaningful imagination, with both Anthroposophia shining from the Sun moving between me and thee and we, and then also the Dark She, the woman of the Moon, who carefully and lovingly lays the burden of our karma at our feet. So true! and the future beckons us to redeem and transform our burden into the future we need.

  3. Just a thought that came while reading your opening story, Hazel. I wondered if the “dark woman” was a distant memory of yourself in an incarnation where your consciousness hadn’t evolved to where it’s at today, hence dark referred more to the state of consciousness, rather than to physical appearance.

    1. Hazel and I have had many conversations concerning the appearances of the Lady of Fatima over the six months from May 13, 1917 to October 13th; the final
      appearance, in which the Sun appeared to descend from the sky to some 40,000 witnesses at the site in Fatima, Portugal. Thus, she notes a noteworthy event, much in the line of 1307, when Philip IV (the fair) banned the Templars, which would eventually see the burning of Jacques de Molay and some 53 others at the stake in 1314.

      I wouldn’t want to guess what Hazel is referring to as the “dark woman” from the past, but I think she sees an affiliation with Dione Fortune, who lived from 1890 to 1946. Now, this was a woman.

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