Well dear ones – I guess I couldn’t just talk about health & illness without having a personal experience. Yep, a very painful chronic condition involving a spinal stenosis flared up –Exasperated no doubt by all the sitting during the conference…grrr…While I am concentrating on my various health protocols, I will attempt to share a few more thoughts from “The Mysteries of Healing: Realizing AnthropoSophia” Conference. Here is part 1 & part 2.
Over our time together we worked with 3 case studies, breaking our large group of 85 participants into smaller circles named after the Planets. I was in ‘Earth’ facilitated by Dr. Adam Blanning, with many practitioners specializing in modalities like Acupuncture, Astrosophy (Jonathan Hilton:) Dramatic arts (Sir Richard Ramsbotham:), Biography (Douglas Garrett:), Nurses, Teachers (Sarah Diechmann:), etc…I was the only Inter-Faith Minister.
We got to experience luscious anthroposophical remedies from Weleda: cloths swirled in Spruce, or Rose to place on our face, neck or wrists, & a liver & heart compress-Rose Cooper & Rose Aurum. Warmth is one of the secrets of healing that we got to share 1st hand.
~Jennifer Thomson
What was interesting to me was that the cases were 3 females – each at a crucial Rubicon age, 14, 22, 71. Which had me pondering the idea that if we are to truly renew the mysteries of healing, besides looking at remedies, we need to take a prophylactic approach, employing the powerful therapeutic effect that can come from ‘Rites of Passage’ to help people meet these milestone events with the support of community.
Dr. James Dyson in speaking about redeeming Persephone thru our connection to Natura, & thru Sophia to bring the Star World into the fluids of our our ether body, & into the earth, mentioned that this search for Sophia is the Science of the Grail – The will to help another by taking on their karma.
He asked how many know the 1st sentence of KNOWLEDGE OF HIGHER WORLDS AND ITS ATTAINMENT – which many of us did…
“There slumbers in every human being faculties by means of which he can acquire for himself a knowledge of higher worlds.”
But then he tested us further: Ok, how many can site the last paragraph…No One:
“The instructions of true esoteric teachers lead to the good, or they lead to nothing. To guide us to egotistic salvation and mere existence in the supersensible world is not their task. On the contrary, their task, from the start, is to keep us at a distance from the supra-earthly world until we can enter it with a will dedicated to full and selfless collaboration.”
We must cure narcissism. The individual must awaken from their slumber to re-order the karma disrupted by the deeds of 869, to serve the Cosmic Communion & bring it to the community – then Initiation can become Civilization.
Everyone who would do this work is invited to work with KARMIC RELATIONSHIPS III, GA 237, 10. Evolution of the Michael Principle Throughout the Ages, The Split of Cosmic Intelligence, 4 August 1924, Dornach
Greetings friends & welcome to this attempt to digest & explore my experiences at “The Mysteries of Healing: Realizing AnthropoSophia” Conference. Here is part 1– an overview around ‘the summer of 1923 in Penmaenmawr, when Ita Wegman asked Rudolf Steiner if there could be a path for the mysteries to come into medicine again in our age’.
Please remember these reflections are only my personal impressions, a mixture of considerations gleaned from our esteemed speakers: Dr.’s Ursula Flatters, James Dyson, & Marion Debus. I am sure every participant takes in what they uniquely need to hear, & hopefully comes away with a new perspective that can be put into practice. So please feel free to add your thoughts as well!
In this incarnation, I have always felt a dis-comfort with being in the body, a sense of well being is not often present. My ‘Life Sense’ is perhaps overly acute, but this has allowed me to experience the Ego Sense – The “I” of the Other – more strongly as well.
Dis-ease comes from the past –
Something was lost or knocked out of balance within the soul-forces & is seeking a recalibration – It is often a karmic wake- up call – an opportunity for growth thru catharsis.
We can Will to reconnect to our Pre-personal “I” – The “I” of our unborn-ness; & to the original primal forces of the Zodiac living in our physical organs, & the Planetary Beings who formed us.
Many Anthroposophical remedies employ the 7 metals (mineral world) representing the Planets, or treatments using the animal & plant kingdoms potentized to the degree that the physical matter becomes spiritualized, to help us realign with our Divine Blueprint…
Healing comes from the future –
We meet a dis-ease so we can experience transformation & healing. We must let go – to let come. We build up a health plan, an imagination of wholeness, & then release all expectation of the out-come. Patience is needed. Yet it is not a passive waiting, it is an Active, Faith & Trust filled Doing – Building a Foundation of Study – Biography & Psycho-Spiritual work to Know Thy-Self, an ordered consistent Meditation & daily Practice with Esoteric Exercises…etc…A Cultivation of silent stillness – A sacred space for the light of the Holy Spirit to enter with healing in her wings.
We listen – to receive inspiration. This cultivates that middle, ever present Christic space, between the 2 streams of Time, allowing us to anchor our Higher Self, so that it can receive Intuition for the co-creation of wholeness. This is the mystery of healing – Karma is freed –
The 2 streams of Time meet in the present creating a transcendent 3rd space for Social Relationship – ‘when 2 or 3 are gathered…’
We can imagine our time in the Michael School, & our practicum thru the Cosmic Cultus – & then we must apply this Wisdom in the “I” to “I” Encounter‘ in our time together now.
Are we unconsciously using power over others? Or are we consciously cultivating power with others – supporting & sharing our gifts in communion?
How do we resurrect the ‘Temple Legend’ to redeem the sword of Cain in the future stream of rightful willing – Bestowing a blessing – a unified restoration of the spiritual essence within the Priestly Abel stream…
Do we Will to become our Brother’s Keeper – in the Freedom of Love…?
~hag
~Pamela Matthews
POD (Poem Of the Day)
~My song raps itself around The belly of the New Sophia Pulsing in union with The Logos In rhythm with the Sun streaming In the All-Space of the Fixed Stars Forming fresh consonants Into the aura of imaginations That inform my soul thru rolling vowels Of planetary bodies That sing their echo into my open ear… ~hag
Sergei Olegovitch Prokofieff 16 January 1954 – † 26 July 2014
Today 26 July is the deathday ofSergei O. Prokofieff – the 1st to confirm my connection with the New Isis. And his dedication to the 1st Class Lessons birthed in me a true knowing. He opened the living reality of the ‘New Mysteries’, revealing the relationship of the Christ-Sophia in this Michaelic age, with Rudolf Steiner & Christian Rosenkreutz, which we as human beings are called to explore & develop. “The Cycle of the Year as a Path of Initiation – A Esoteric Study of the Festivals” is my Bible – my calling, my life’s work. “The Occult Significance of Forgiveness” changed my life (I am of course still striving here) And the massive work “May Human Beings Hear It” which convinced me to dedicate myself to the Foundation Stone Meditation, pointing up the living reality of the Christmas Conference, which I feel a personal & collective responsibility to fulfill.
My heart spills over with gratitude for this true initiate, this real anthroposopher, this true human being, who continues to be my mentor from across the Threshold.
“Anthroposophia seeks to become a new group-soul for that part of humankind which is united within the General Anthroposophical Society founded by Rudolf Steiner at the Christmas Conference of 1923-24, thereby representing a kind of archetype for the whole of future evolution & at the same time initiating that universally human process which Rudolf Steiner described in the following words: ‘When people gather together in voluntary associations, they group themselves around focal points. The feelings that stream together at such a focal point now gives Beings the opportunity to work as a kind of group-soul, though in a completely different sense from the former unconscious group-souls. All previous group-souls were beings who made man unfree. These New Beings, however, are wholly compatible with the freedom & preservation of human individuality’.
Anthroposophia would seek to become the 1st of these Beings in our time. However, whether this is possible depends not on this Being alone, but also on human beings.
Thus by uniting with one another in the General Anthroposophical Society out of a love for Anthroposophia & a wish to serve her as a real, living Being, anthroposophist’s throughout the world have the task of together creating on Earth something akin to an all embracing soul-chalice into which this supersensible Being, the youngest member of the heavenly Sophia, can descend. And this means none other than the beginning of the incarnation of the heavenly Sophia on Earth. (this will come about in the 7th epoch, but of which we must prepare now)
Only from this grandiose perspective can we really understand the inner significance of the deed wrought by Rudolf Steiner at the Christmas Conference, a deed which represents the high-point & culmination of the entire 21 year development of the anthroposophical movement (1902-23) – a ‘Turning Point of Time’ – For it signified the birth on Earth of her ego in the sheaths of the General Anthroposophical Society. In this way the foundation was laid, or-one could say-the possibility created, for the further working of Anthroposophia in the midst as a New Group-Soul.” ~Sergei O. Prokofieff, “The Heavenly Sophia and the Being Anthroposophia”
May we take up this task to give birth to Anthroposophia, this Being of Human Wisdom, within ourselves, to serve the world.
~hag
Sergei Olegovitch was the grandson of the composer Sergei Prokofiev. Born in Moscow, he studied fine arts & painting at the Moscow School of Art. He encountered anthroposophy in his youth, & soon made the decision to devote his life to it. Prokofieff, wrote his first book, Rudolf Steiner and the Founding of the New Mysteries, while living in Soviet Russia. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he was a co-founder of the Anthroposophical Society in Russia. At Easter 2001, he became a member of the Executive Council of the General Anthroposophical Society in Dornach, Switzerland. Prokofieff was a prolific author; at the core of his work is an attempt to develop a deepened understanding for Christianity on the basis of Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual-scientific research. Prokofieff left us a treasure trove of Works
Thank you dear Sergei for your continued inspiration.
~hag
26 July 2023 – “Speaking with the Stars”: Tonight the bright waxing gibbous moon will pass the star with the strange sounding name Zubenelgenubi – the alpha star in Libra the Scales ~Chart via John Jardine Goss/ EarthSky.
Feast of Saint Anne, mother of Mary, & grandmother of Jesus according to apocryphal Christian & Islamic tradition.
1856 – Birthday of George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright & critic, Nobel Prize laureate.
1875 – Birthday of Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist & psychotherapist. Jung was also an artist, craftsman & builder as well as a prolific writer. Many of his works were not published until after his death & some are still awaiting publication.
Among the central concepts of analytical psychology is individuation—the lifelong psychological process of differentiation of the self out of each individual’s conscious & unconscious elements. Jung considered it to be the main task of human development. He created some of the best known psychological concepts, including synchronicity, archetypal phenomena, the collective unconscious, the psychological complex, & extraversion / introversion.
When Jung was six months old, tension between his parents was growing. Emilie Jung, his mother was an eccentric & depressed woman; she spent considerable time in her bedroom where she said that spirits visited her at night. Although she was normal during the day, Jung recalled that at night his mother became strange & mysterious. He reported that one night he saw a faintly luminous & indefinite figure coming from her room with a head detached from the neck, floating in the air in front of the body. Jung was a solitary, introverted child.
From childhood, he believed that, like his mother, he had 2 personalities—a modern Swiss citizen & a personality more suited to the 18th century. Personality Number 1″, as he termed it, was a typical schoolboy living in the era of the time. “Personality Number 2” was a dignified, authoritative & influential man from the past. A number of childhood memories made lifelong impressions on him. As a boy, he carved a tiny mannequin into the end of the wooden ruler from his pencil case & placed it inside the case. He added a stone, which he had painted into upper & lower halves, & hid the case in the attic. Periodically, he would return to the mannequin, often bringing tiny sheets of paper with messages inscribed on them in his own secret language. He later reflected that this ceremonial act brought him a feeling of inner peace &security. Years later, he discovered similarities between his personal experience & the practices associated with totems in indigenous cultures, such as the collection of soul-stones near Arlesheim or the tjurungas of Australia. He concluded that his intuitive ceremonial act was an unconscious ritual, which he had practiced in a way that was strikingly similar to those in distant locations which he, as a young boy, knew nothing about. His observations about symbols, archetypes, & the collective unconscious were inspired, in part, by these early experiences combined with his later research.
At the age of 12, shortly before the end of his first year at the Humanistisches Gymnasium in Basel, Jung was pushed to the ground by another boy so hard that he momentarily lost consciousness. A thought then came to him—”now you won’t have to go to school anymore.” From then on, whenever he walked to school or began homework, he fainted. He remained at home for the next 6 months until he overheard his father speaking hurriedly to a visitor about the boy’s future ability to support himself. They suspected he had epilepsy. Confronted with the reality of his family’s poverty, he realized the need for academic excellence. He went into his father’s study & began pouring over Latin grammar. He eventually overcame the urge & did not faint again. This event, Jung later recalled, “was when I learned what a neurosis is.”
Jung did not plan to study psychiatry since it was not considered prestigious at the time. But, when looking at a psychiatric textbook, his interest was immediately captured—it combined the biological & the spiritual, exactly what he was searching for.
In 1895 Jung began to study medicine at the University of Basel. Barely a year later in 1896, his father Paul died & left the family near destitute. They were helped out by relatives who also contributed to Jung’s studies.
During his student days, he entertained his contemporaries with the family legend, that his paternal grandfather was the illegitimate son of Wolfgang Goethe & his German great-grandmother, Sophie Ziegler. In later life, he pulled back from this tale, saying only that Sophie was a friend of Goethe’s niece.
Greeting Friends – I am fresh from “The Mysteries of Healing: Realizing AnthropoSophia” Conference, put on by the AHA, spearheaded by Dr. Melissa Greer of Carah Medical Arts, a non-profit, Community-supported practice, working with Social 3-folding. In Gaelic Carah means “friend”. In Welsh it means “love” between friends and neighbors. In Indonesian it means “the way” and “wise”.
The Steiner verse spoken each day by Molly McIntyre set the soul mood:
“Wisdom in the Spirit Love in the Soul Power in the Will: They guide me They hold me I trust them. I offer myself to them”.
More than 80 dedicated Anthro doctors, therapists, various practitioners & inter-related souls, gathered on the sacred land of Camphill Soltaneto ask “How can I do the Good?”.
The impulse to renew the ancient mysteries of healing brought by Ita Wegman to Rudolf Steiner 100 years ago, was alive & palpable.
August 1923 was a profound turning point for the ‘Movement’, which led to the new founding of the Society, with Rudolf Steiner uniting us to AnthropoSophia at the Christmas Conference.
During that potent time in Penmaenmawr = “Head of the Great Stone”, & Ilkley – there on the North coast of Wales, dotted with ancient Neolithic pre-Druidic ritual sites – & more than 250 large spirals, & a curved swastika carved into the rocky outcroppings, a break-thru occurred for Rudolf Steiner & Dr. Ita Wegman.
Connecting to the healing impulse radiating there brought further evidence of the ‘Northern stream‘, described often by Spiritual Science & in Germanic mythology – giving us glimpses into the Druidic, Trotten & Hibernian mystery school traditions.
The Druid Priests in particular were healers, working with the elemental realms to create remedies & medicines. This is captivatingly described by Steiner in THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS, 26 August 1923, Penmaenmawr & in other lectures including: MAN IN THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE: “The actions of the sun on plants was revealed to the Druid Priest; he could see that a particular kind of plant-life flourishes at a particular time when the sun is active in a particular way. He could trace the spiritual activity of the sun and see how it pours and streams into flower, leaf and root; and it was the same with animals...We see it best of all in what the Druid priests possessed as a science of healing.”
Interesting to contemplate the connection between the veneration of the Druid Priests working with mistletoe, a parasitic plant that never touches the earth, intwining instead around a mighty oak tree – & the fact that Ita Wegman was one of the first to use Mistletoe (Viscum album) as a healing remedy for cancer.
Thinking of the Druids as a Priest – as well as a Healer, made me recall the Pastoral Medicine lectures – which Steiner gave just a few days after he had returned from Penmaenmawr…!
Are not the Priests Healers, & the Doctors Priests…?
Yes, I know – at that time Steiner saw the 2 streams as being separate. But more & more it seems we are being called to marry the streams. Perhpas when Ita Wegman asks her question, she is seeing a more integrated reality – a true renewal of the ancient mysteries. Dr. Ursula Flatters mentioned that according to her journals, Ita Wegman had been mulling over this question for 10 years.
During the various talks by Dr.’s Ursula Flatters, James Dyson, Marion Debus – many times their experience showed that to “do the Good” we have to let go of our ego-driven-human-will; this opens the space for the inspiration & intution of our Higher “I” – Anthroposophia, & the Holy Spirit to enter-in the work of healing.
More about that soon.
In ‘Mysterien- und Geisteschichte der Menschheit’, Gunther Wachsmuth reports what was experienced by Rudolf Steiner at the stone circle now known as the ‘Twelve Apostles’, on Ilkley Moor, constructed over 9000 years ago.
And in “The Life and Work of Rudolf Steiner.” Wachsmuth writes: “During his trips to England, In Penmaenmawr, Steiner visited a Druid circle: In keeping with the spiritual atmosphere of the place, the conversation centered on the Mysteries of the Druids and their opposite pole in Europe, the cult of Mithras, by which the Southern Mysteries were contrasted to the Northern Mysteries seen here. Before Steiner’s spiritual eye the ancient Druid culture came to life upon the spot. Indeed he himself seemed to change into a Druid priest, speaking with intimate knowledge and understanding as he began to explain the arrangement and the function of the stones, a unique and strange picture, as now in the loneliness of this lofty plateau Rudolf Steiner entered into the midst of the Druid circle. He told me to lift my gaze above the stones towards the mountain peaks surrounding the plateau, and described to me, with an intensity in his retrospect as if the event were occurring at that moment, how once the Druid priests, through viewing the signs of the zodiac passing along the horizon in the course of the year, were able to experience the spiritual cosmos, the beings within it, and their mandates to humanity.”
From Rudolf Steiner a month later in MICHAELMAS AND THE SOUL-FORCES OF MAN: “…In the immediate vicinity of Penmaenmawr were to be found two such sun-circles adjoining each other; and in this particular neighborhood, where even in the spiritual life of nature there is so much that has a different effect from that of nature elsewhere, what I have set forth in various anthroposophical lectures concerning the Druid Mysteries could be tested with the utmost clarity.
There is indeed a quite special spiritual atmosphere in this region where — on the island of Anglesea — the Society of King Arthur had a settlement…
…these sun-circles are arranged in the number twelve, like the twelve signs of the zodiac; and on the mountain we had climbed we found a large sun-circle and nearby a smaller one. If one had ascended, perhaps in a balloon, and looked down upon these two Druid circles, ignoring the insignificant distance between them, the same ground plan would have presented itself — there is something profoundly moving about this — as that of the Goetheanum in Dornach which was destroyed by fire.”
Steiner’s “Druidensteinpainting“,“ which he gifted to Ita Wegman after their experiences in Penmaenmawr, depicts the shimmering etheric & astral overlay powerfully resonate there, shown in dramatic stages.
I’m sure there are others better able than myself to share a Spiritual Scientific artistic study of the color details & what the images all represent, so I’ll just emphasize that for me, this imagination describes the Druid Priests being able to perceive The Mystery of Golgotha – written on the Sun-drenched tapestry of the elemental world, & in the stellar script, at the Turning Point of Time. A fulfillment of the teachings foreseen for thousands of years in the ancient Mystery Schools. The Cosmic Christ had taken human incarnation, & thru the medicine of his blood permeating the body of the Earth, a healing seed was set into all realms which they perceived.
I picture The Druid Priests working deeply in a sort of ‘biodynamic’ way with the earth thru their healing practices, to prepare the way in the far distant future, for our Earth to become a New Sun…
These potent imaginations along with my impressions of the conference will continue to unfold in a series of essays that I will strive to assemble before I go off to the AAP training 1-8 August…
Until soon
~hag
25 July 2023 – “Speaking with the Stars”: Look for Bella Luna as the 1st quarter Moon near the bright star Spica in Virgo the Maiden.
RUDOLF STEINER’S CALENDAR OF THE SOUL translated (with added titles) by Roy Sadler On Saturday the sun entered the sign of Leo, whose Eurythmy gesture is Enthusiasm, THE ENTHUSIASM OF THE YEAR The Spirit’s Treasure v16 My foresight is commanding me to harbour inwardly the spirit’s gift that God’s fruit ripen in ground of soul for Selfhood’s harvest.
In the mirror verse the sun enters the sign of Capricorn. WINTER SOLSTICE – ADVENT IV The Midnight Sun v37 My heart anointed impulse strives to bear the spirit light into world-winter-night that shining seeds of soul take root in cosmic ground, and in the senses’ dark God’s all-transfiguring Word resound
Yes dear friends the long awaited Feast Day of Mary Magdalene has arrived! Did you receive the Video “The Sanctifier”? She who Anoints the Anointed One ~Lyrics by hag – Music by Velsum – Originally performed as part of our Easter Festival on Holy Saturday 2023. This deeply moving video was lovingly crafted as a surprise gifting from Velsum to me on my recent Natal Return – Premiering TODAY for all to witness. (see the lyrics below)
22 July 2023 “Speaking with the Stars”: From Astrosopher Jonathan Hilton: “the Moon leaves Leo and steps into the stars of Virgo. If we hold the imagination of Virgo as the great Isis/Sophia with a crown of stars around her head, the Sun in her heart, and the Moon under her feet, then the Moon TODAY will enter the crown of stars around the head of Virgo.“
The Sanctifier ~hag MMMMMMM He is the eternal flame of love. She is the oil that burns for light. She who anoints ‘The Anointed One’ (1) Hers is the path of the Sacred Union, consummated within the soul. She of ‘The Three Marys’ (15) = “Rebellious, bitter, & beloved.” (16) “There were three who always walked with The Lord: Mary His mother; Mary His sister; And Mary Magdalene, His companion. (17) Three Marys: Virgin, Sister, Companion MMMMMM He is the eternal flame of love. She is the oil that burns for light. She who anoints ‘The Anointed One’ (1) Hers is the path of the Sacred Union, consummated within the soul. She is the Magdala – The Tower ascending In Christened Catharsis She is freed from the 7 demons – “A design was erased by virtue of a higher design” (2) MMMMMM “Then Mary Arose”(3) And Anthropos Sophia entered in MMMMMMM He is the eternal flame of love. She is the oil that burns for light. She who anoints ‘The Anointed One’ (1) Hers is the path of the Sacred Union, consummated within the soul. She offers Tears of Repentance – His feet, her hair. Thru “her Greater Love” (4) She breaks open The “alabaster jar” (5) Spilling out The Unction A Precious Perfume Confirming the balm of Faith MMMMMMM Then – when it was His Time At the ‘Turning Point of Time’ She prepares the Lamb for sacrifice She offers the Golden Chrism She Anoints His head for burial “Truly I tell you, wherever in the whole world this Gospel is proclaimed, what she has done will be told and her memory will be honored.” (6) MMMMMMM He is the eternal flame of love. She is the oil that burns for light. She who anoints ‘The Anointed One’ (1) Hers is the path of the Sacred Union, consummated within the soul. She sits at the feet of the Master She stands with the Twelve She walks with the women who sustained the mission “By their own means” (7) MMMMMMM She kneels At the foot of the Cross (11) With the Virgin Sophia And her risen brother MMMMMM Death Doula – Myrrhbearer (12) Sacred Witness At the tomb (13) Holding Space Turning Time Harrowing Hell (14) MMMMMMM He is the eternal flame of love. She is the oil that burns for light. She who anoints ‘The Anointed One’ (1) Hers is the path of the Sacred Union, consummated within the soul. The Priestess of Isis Becomes The “Apostle of the apostles” So says the ‘Angelic Doctor’. (2a) MMMMMM She is the Mercy Seat (20) The Shekinah In the Holy of Holies – Revealed – When “The veil of the Temple was rent in twain.” (21) MMMMMMM She is The first to See The first to Be The Holy Grail She leads us to the Gardener (22) Of the New Jerusalem MMMMMMM He is the eternal flame of love. She is the oil that burns for light. She who anoints ‘The Anointed One’ (1) Hers is the path of the Sacred Union, consummated within the soul. She holds the Red Egg (19) In The Golden Legend Cherubim lift her Out of the cave Contemplative in her hair-shirt Soul of Wisdom Messenger of Christ “The compassionate Christ said to Mary his companion: You are the blessed one in whom I will perfect all Mysteries” (18) MMMMMMM He is the eternal flame of love. She is the oil that burns for light. She who anoints ‘The Anointed One’ (1) Hers is the path of the Sacred Union, consummated within the soul. MMMMMMM…MMMary MMMagdalene is: “Beloved of Christ and greatly loved by Christ” (8) “Chosen because you are beloved, beloved because you have been chosen” (9) “The Lord loved her more than He loved all other disciples and often kissed her on her mouth.” (10) MMMMMMM He is the eternal flame of love. She is the oil that burns for light. She who anoints ‘The Anointed One’ (1) Hers is the path of the Sacred Union, consummated within the soul. MMMMMM “The Gospel according to MMMary MMMagdalene
~Hazel Archer-Ginsberg – Lyrics for a Velsum song, for our Easter Festival on Holy Saturday 2023 (1) Christ comes from the Greek word χριστός (chrīstós), meaning “anointed one”. In the Greek Septuagint, χριστός was used to translate the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Mašíaḥ, messiah), meaning “[one who is] anointed”. (2) ‘The Gospel of Mary Magdalene’ page 17 verse 2-5 (2a) Saint Thomas Aquinas (3) ‘The Gospel of Mary Magdalene’ page 9 verse 12 (4) Luke 7:36-50 (5) Matthew 26:7 & Mark 14:3 (6) Matthew 26: 6-10 (7) Mark 15: 40-47 (8) Vatican City announcement on 3 July 2016 elevating Mary Magdalene – quoting Rabanus Maurus from “dilectrix Christi et a Christo plurimum dilecta”: De vita Mariae Magdalenae, Prologus (9) Saint Anselm of Canterbury (“electa dilectrix et dilecta electrix Dei”: Oratio LXXIII ad sanctam Mariam Magdalenam). (10) Gospel of Philip see Verses 55 -125 (11) John 19:25-27 (12) The Myrrhophores are an ancient , secret group of women who work with sacred threshold oils Mark 15:44-16:8 – 27:56 – Mark 15:40 – John 19:39 (13) Matt 12:14 – 27:66 – 28:1-8 – Mark 6:29 – 15:46 – 16:1-8 – Luke 23:53-55 – 24:1-24 – John 19:41-42 – 20:1-11 (14) referred to in the Apostles’ Creed & the Athanasian Creed (Quicumque vult) – Ephesians 4:9 – Ephesians 4:9 – Acts 2:24 – 1 Peter 4:6 (15) John 19:24 (16) I see the name Mary, like the name John, as an honorific title of initiation. Miriam or Mary originated from the Egyptian language; derivative of the root mr “beloved of Yahweh; derivation from Hebrew, either from marah “to be rebellious”, or from mara “bitter” (cf. myrrh), or mry “rebellious”. St. Jerome (writing c. 390), following Eusebius of Caesarea, translates the name as “drop of the sea” (stilla maris in Latin), from Hebrew מר mar “drop” (cf. Isaiah 40:15) and ים yam “sea”. This translation was subsequently rendered stella maris (“star of the sea”) whence comes the Virgin Mary’s title Star of the Sea. (17) The apocryphal Gospel of Philip – Verse 32 (18) The Pistis Sophia (19) The Golden Legend ~ Jacobus de Voragine (20) Attended by two Cherubim- Exodus 25:17-22 – 26:34 – 30:6 — Hebrews 9:5 – Leviticus 16:2 – Numbers 7:89 (21) Matt. 27 – Mark 15:38 – Luke 23:45 (22) John 20:15
Greetings friends – Testing 1-2-3 – I am trying something new here – sending these thoughts remotely since I am away at the “The Mysteries of Healing: Realizing AnthropoSophia” Conference. (“work Ahriman, work”)
Those of you who tune-into RR know that I am keen on making karmic connections around the Historic & current events, Feast Days, & birth & death days of influential individualities, inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s Original Calendar of the Soul.
While researching, I came across Steiner attributing 21 July as the Birthday of Alexander the Great – which he also reveals was the very same day in 356 BC that the Temple of Ephesus went up in flames.
Legend has it that the Goddess Artemis, to whom the Temple was dedicated, was away that day – busy attending to the birth of Alexander.
I love to look behind these myths & legends to see the spiritual reality speaking. Steiner connects the Burning of the Temple of Artemis with the burning of the Goetheanum – attributed in the 1st case with ‘The Jealously of the gods’ and with the Johannes Bau – The House of the Word = ‘The Jealously of Men’.
The Mysteries of Ephesus became inscribed into the Cosmic Ethers after the Burning of the Temple. Aristotle, the teacher of Alexander the Great, was able to receive these mysteries by reading the Cosmic Script. Renewing them – he brought these mysteries of The Word back to the world in what we call the ‘Aristotelian Categories’.
So amazing to make these cosmic & historic connections – & bring them into our thinking now – And then really it’s up to us to make something of them.
I have been striving to use my imaginative thinking to carry the clues that Steiner gives to connect the mysteries that stand behind: The Colossus of Artemis, which was a symbol of the Logos before it came to Earth in a human form, & the Representative of Humanity – The Word made manifest – The Christ impulse of Wonder, Compassion, & Conscience giving meaning to human evolution.
A lightbulb goes off in my heart & mind when I add in the open secret that: ‘The Group’ is in reality a veil of the New Isis – which the true human being is called to lift, bringing the full blossom of Wisdom to the seed of Love.
It all becomes clear that we are meant to connect the dots inscribed into the ethers thru the burning of these 2 Temples – One to Artemis, the Comic Logos & the other to Anthroposophia, the Truth-Wrought-Word of the Human Being.
Written in the cosmic script we find the old clairvoyance bestowed thru initiation into the Mysteries of Ephesus, being carried into the thinking of Aristotle, to inform Alexander’s Michaelic Campaign – Bringing the Mysteries of the East in a renewed form to the West; preparing the way for the Christ Event that came at the Turning Point of Time.
And then following the individualities of Aristotle & Alexander into their lives reunited once again on the Dornach hill, standing together before the burning of the Goetheanum – as the New Mysteries of the Reverse Cultus became inscribed also into the ethers, expanding & evolving the Cosmic Script, renewing The Logos – which awaits our interaction.
Friends, the Statue of the Representative of Humanity stands with us today as the living link between the past, present & future – if we will to unveil the New Isis hidden in the hand-hewn carving, whose essence dwells in the Dodecahedron of Love, that we must cultivate within our heart-thinking – to open our humanness to the Wisdom of the Christ – then the burning will not have been in vain…
21 July 2023 “Speaking with the Stars”: From Astrosopher Jonathan Hilton – “As the Moon passes Mars on Friday, the Sun steps into the stars of Cancer and is opposite Pluto, in Capricorn. So, the Sun will be above in our day consciousness and Pluto will be working through the Earth from below in our night or “unconscious.” We can picture at sunset and sunrise, the Sun on one side at the horizon, rising or setting, and Pluto on the other side, rising or setting. This can, in our time, be a powerful picture of the opposition of the Sun-I, to the anti-Sun forces, or the opposition between the Christic and anti-Christic/Asuric forces.
Pluto has become a central player in recent historical events, particularly beginning in 2020, when it met Jupiter and Saturn leading up to the Great Conjunction of these planets during Holy Nights, 2020. Pluto is now in the same degree as that Great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in December, 2020.
It is worth noting that Pluto was opposite the Sun on New Year’s Eve 1922/23 when the Goetheanum was burned, when the anti-Christic destructive fire started below in the basement as Rudolf Steiner was lecturing in the hall above. This current opposition in Cancer and Sagittarius/Capricorn can become an imagination for us of the challenges in our time to, out of the Christic I, meet and transform the powerful forces working from Pluto, which carries both the greatest destruction as well as the highest potentiality of the transformation of the physical, ultimately to Spirit Human or Atman.”
Tomorrow 22 July Is the Feast Day of Mary Magdalene. As promised – to receive the Premier Video of Velsumperforming ‘The Sanctifier” go to my YouTube channel to turn on the notification – I believe it will then be sent to you on MM’s Feast Day at 12 am.
