16 March 2019 – The eve of the ‘True’ Holy Week. “Speaking with the Stars”: Very high after dark, Castor & Pollux point at the waxing gibbous Moon.
The Big Dipper glitters softly high in the northeast these evenings,
standing on its handle. You probably know that the two stars forming the front
of the Dipper’s bowl are the Pointers; they point to Polaris. And, you may know that if you follow the curve of the
Dipper’s handle out & around by a little more than a Dipper length, you’ll arc to Arcturus, rising in the east. But
did you know that if you follow the Pointers backward the opposite way, you’ll
land in Leo? Draw a line diagonally
across the Dipper’s bowl from where the handle is attached, continue far on, &
you’ll go to Gemini. And look at the
2 stars forming the open top of the Dipper’s bowl. Follow this line past the
bowl’s lip far across the sky, & you crash into Capella.
1244 – Over 200 Cathars who refuse to recant are burned
to death after the Fall of Montségur.
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Teodor Axentowicz
POD (Poem Of the Day)
An old gnarled tree near the shore,
Roots swallowing the sand & rock
Pecked by the high-tide & the wild wind…
A 1000 fledglings have nested in my boughs
& beneath, I give shelter to all…
How do you see me?
As firewood or freedom…?
~hag
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The Northern & Southern Mystery Streams as they relate to the ‘Easter
Paradox’
Rudolf Steiner connects
the Northern path to the Sun Mysteries, an initiation thru the outer world of nature & the cosmos,
enacted at the time of the Autumn Equinox.
The Adonis Mysteries revealed the experience of the human soul after death;
the ascent into the macrocosm, to
unite with the Spirit of the Sun. The threat to the pupils on this path was Ahriman, who seeks to keep humanity
bound to outer material phenomena.
In the Southern Mysteries, the initiatory path
of the Moon, led the pupil into the inner nature of their own being. This
revealed the experience of existence
before birth, the descent into the microcosm.
These rites were enacted at the nearest Full
Moon to the Spring Equinox, where
the pupil gazing up thru the sphere of the Moon was able to see into the Soul
of the Sun-sphere. Their main opponent or tempter was Lucifer.
Both paths, although completely different, arrived at the same goal – the union with the cosmic Christ in the
sphere of the Sun.
These 2 paths were
developed prior to the Mystery of Golgotha, in strict separation from each
other. Thru Christ’s Deed, the possibility
was created for every human being to receive the fruits of both mystery streams
thru the actual awareness & experience of His Being in the sphere of the
Earth.
These 2 paths must become united. Every human being is now being asked
to make a connection to the outer, into nature & the cosmos, as well as, to
the inner, into our own beings.
Otherwise, if the 2
streams continue to develop separately they fall prey to the adversarial forces
mentioned above.
Many folks have been quoting
from Steiner’s lectures given at the ‘Easter Paradox of 1924’, where he speaks about
the Northern Adonis Mysteries, as a justification for celebrating Easter-tide
according to the fixed date.
But we must also take
into account that in March 1924 at the time of the Astrological Easter, Steiner
also gave lectures to the workers from the perspective of the Southern
Mysteries.
Dear friends, we are being asked thru the ‘Easter Paradox of 2019’ to cultivate a new experience of Christ, which is connected to our willingness to encounter evil; an ‘As above so Below’ experience, beyond a creed, or the events in Palestine 2000 years ago; we are called to bridge the 2 streams within ourselves, which will foster a true spiritual experience in the life-realm of the Earth.
Rudolf Steiner’s core mission was to bring an understanding of Karma & Reincarnation to the West. Perhaps by looking into our propensity toward 1 or the other of the Streams we can find a clue to our own karma, & thru this year’s ‘Easter Paradox’ find a way to open to the opposite stream to bring the Christ path to bear within us.
If we are to live into: ‘Christ in me’, we must take up this task of integration, for the future evolution of humanity & the Universe.
14 March 2019 – “Speaking with the Stars”: First-quarter Moon; exact at 5:27 am. After dark you’ll see Bella Luna in the feet of Gemini, high over Orion & just above the top of Orion’s very dim club.
Mercury reaches inferior conjunction, passing between the Sun & Earth, at 9 pm CDT. Since The Messenger of the gods is so much smaller, we will not experience an eclipse, but it has the same energy, blocking a portion of the Sun’s mediating rays to affect communications. The innermost planet will return to view before dawn at the end of March.
“If
seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful flowers, what might not
the heart become in the long journey towards the stars?”~ G K
Chesterton
Looking at the past to see the present, co-creating the future: “History, historical life, will only be seen in the right light when a true consciousness of the connection of the so-called living with the so-called dead can be developed” – The Living & the Dead by Rudolf Steiner, Berlin, 5th February, 1918
Antonio Molinari
Feast Day of Abigail (Hebrew “my father’s joy”) in 2 Samuel 17:25 She became a wife of David after Nabal’s death, & the mother of Daniel, one of David’s sons. Abigail is also listed as one of the seven Jewish women prophets.
Anglia Campus
44 BC – Casca & Cassius decide, on the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should live
Titian
1489 – The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice
1592 – Ultimate Pi Day: the largest correspondence between calendar dates & significant digits of pi since the introduction of the Julian calendar
1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin
1879 – Birthday of Albert Einstein! (1879 the year Michael became the Time-Spirit)
1900 – The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
1903
– The Hay–Herrán Treaty, granting
the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the
United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty
1943
– World War II: The
Kraków Ghetto is “liquidated”
1978
– The Israel
Defense Forces invade & occupies southern Lebanon, in
Operation Litani
1980 – In Poland, LOT Flight 7 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 187 people, including a 14-man American boxing team
1681
– Birthday of Georg
Philipp Telemann, a German Baroque composer &
multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a
composer against his family’s wishes. He held important positions in Leipzig,
Sorau, Eisenach,& Frankfurt before settling in Hamburg in 1721, where he
became musical director of the city’s five main churches. While Telemann’s
career prospered, his personal life was always troubled: his first wife died
only a few months after their marriage, & his second wife had extramarital
affairs & accumulated a large gambling debt before leaving Telemann.
Telemann was one of the most prolific composers in history & was considered by his contemporaries to be one of the leading German composers of the time—he was compared favorably both to his friend Johann Sebastian Bach, who made Telemann the godfather & namesake of his son Carl Philipp Emanuel, & to George Frideric Handel, whom Telemann also knew personally. He remained at the forefront of all new musical tendencies & his music is an important link between the late Baroque & early Classical styles
1790 – Birthday of Ludwig Emil Grimm, a German painter, art professor, etcher & copper engraver. His brothers were the well-known folklorists Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
1804 – Birthday of Johann Strauss I, an Austrian Romantic composer. He was famous for his waltzes, & he popularized them alongside Joseph Lanner, thereby setting the foundations for his sons to carry on his musical dynasty. His most famous piece is the Radetzky March
1867
– Birthday of Marie
Steiner von Sivers – born into an aristocratic family in
Włocławek, Poland, then part of Russia. She was well-educated, fluent in
Russian, German, English, French & Italian. She studied theater &
recitation with several teachers in Europe.
Marie
von Sivers “appeared one
day” at one of Rudolf Steiner’s early lectures in 1900. In the
autumn of 1901, she posed the question to Steiner, “Would it be possible to
create a spiritual movement based on European tradition and the impetus of
Christ?” Rudolf Steiner later reported: With
this, I was given the opportunity to act in a way that I had only previously
imagined. The question had been put to me, and now, according to spiritual
laws, I could begin to answer it.
Marie
Steiner-von Sivers & Rudolf
Steiner were married on Christmas eve 1914, & she was
one of his closest colleagues. Marie von Sivers collaborated with Steiner for
the rest of his life & carried his work beyond his death in 1925 until her
own death in 1948. She accompanied him & helped him as secretary,
translator, editor, & organizer of his lecture tours & other public
activities. She assisted Steiner’s work with her own resources & in 1908
founded the Philosophical-Theosophical Press (later
Philosophical-Anthroposophical) to publish Steiner’s work
She
made a great contribution to the development of anthroposophy, particularly in
her work on the renewal of the performing arts (eurythmy, speech & drama),
& the editing & publishing of Rudolf Steiner’s literary estate.
Starting
in 1912, the art of eurythmy was developed by Rudolf Steiner. Under Marie
Steiner-von Sivers’ guidance, it developed in three directions, as a stage art,
as an integral part of Waldorf pedagogy, & as a therapeutic method. Under
her tutelage, two schools of eurythmy were founded, in Berlin & in Dornach,
Switzerland.
Marie von Sivers was trained in recitation & elocution & made a study of purely artistic speaking. She gave introductory poetry recitals at Steiner’s lectures & assisted him in the development of the 4 Mystery Dramas (1910–1913). With her help, Steiner conducted several speech & drama courses with the aim of raising these forms to the level of true art. Ms Steiner died on December 27th 1948
1883 – Deathday of Karl Marx. Rudolf Steiner revealed that Marx was a landowner in Northern France in the early 9th century, & that one day his property was seized by a rival. Marx was then forced to work under the new owner of his former property. The new owner reincarnated as Friedrich Engels, who embarked on a compensatory cooperation with his former rival. So it is that old impulses of destiny may work on in a new incarnation. No wonder that Marx became a fierce enemy of all private property, having himself experienced in a previous life how insecure the private ownership of property can become. Those seeking deeper insight into this historic-karmic background of Marx & Engels & their activities are referred to Steiner’s lecture of 6 April 1924. GA 236.
1923
– Birthday of Diane
Arbus, American photographer & writer noted for photographs
of marginalized people—dwarfs, giants, transgender people, nudists, circus
performers—& others whose normality was perceived by the general populace
as ugly or surreal. In 1972, a year after she committed suicide, Arbus became
the first American photographer to have photographs displayed at the Venice
Biennale. Millions viewed traveling exhibitions of her work in 1972–1979.
The book accompanying the exhibition, Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph, is
the bestselling photography monograph ever, still being reprinted today
1932
– Deathday of George
Eastman, American inventor & businessman, founded Eastman
Kodak
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Catherine Molland
POD (Poem Of the Day)
~When I have visions – ravens come from my eyes – to eat them… The breath of life escapes…When I have no words – Worms crawl thru my teeth – to clean my palate… I am more than bone & blood – I am more than the deeds I have done – I am more than I remember… I am In Surrender… ~hag
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The Anthroposophic Movement FOREWORD BY MARIE STEINER
“…It behoves us to come to self-recollection. Let us make ourselves out no better than we are. There is no need for shame-faced concealment of our faults; on the contrary; out of their darkness we must evoke the light that brings self-knowledge. Communal consciousness is hard to be won. The common ‘I’ can only grow up strong and firm amongst us on a soil of vigorous wakefulness, of will to active knowledge, of courage for truth.These things are not to be achieved in solitude and secrecy; they must be fought for and won in community. Honest mutual struggles will do us no harm, will gain us the respect of all well-wishers. And ill-wishers may look back and reflect what the Church went through and displayed in its communal life, notwithstanding all the strict discipline imposed from without; and what imperfections, what contradictions to its own ideals had there to be worked out in life! It will then be seen, that it is not the leader, not he who gives the impulse to a movement, who must be held responsible for the faults in the disciples of his doctrine, but the Species Homo, which needs many round-about roads and much rising and falling and oft-renewed climbing, before it can attain at last to its goal.
Anthroposophy
is a way of education. The Anthroposophical Society certainly presents no model
institute for the living demonstration of anthroposophic ideals. One might even
say that in many respects it is a nursing-home; as is of course very natural in
an age of sick and sorry humanity. There flock to it the halt and maimed of
life, those crippled under the burden of the age. May we only have
nursing-homes for the physically diseased? Is it not right, that there should
be places, where human-beings may spiritually get upon their feet again? And
this came to pass here in abundance. Letters there were in more than plenty and
words of overflowing gratitude from people testifying, that through
Anthroposophy and its Teacher they first had learnt to find life again worth
living. — For people to find Anthroposophy, however, there had to be a society,
where the work was carried on.
And so the Anthroposophical Society was a workshop; and a vast amount of work was done in it. Anthroposophy found means to bring fruit into all the branches of life, artistic, scientific, and practical, too. During the worst times of economic crisis, anthroposophists were very largely unsuccessful in carrying out what they had as an ideal in sight; but they had doubly strong obstacles to contend with. One must remember, that the people who flocked into the Society, and started working outwardly when the Society already had a name and stood for something in the world, were people as the modern age has made them, not as the ideal of Anthroposophy would have them be; and so there were many, unquestionably, who succumbed again to the temptations and the practices of the day.
The
young people who had been disappointed with their experiences in the organized
‘Youth-Movements’ and by what they failed to find there, not Only found here an
answer to the problems that perplexed them, and not only sought to satisfy
their aspirations in this new community Anthroposophy, but they also brought
their own habits into the Society, — including much that they might have left
behind them, to start in Anthroposophy afresh.
And
so the Anthroposophical Society cannot yet be a model institute; it remains a
place of education. — But does not mankind need places of education too, in the
wider human sense, if it is to move onwards to a better future?
Turn the question then which way we will, the Society is a necessity. It must educate itself; and it must afford the possibility of being a place of education for humankind. The life-forces that have been laid in it, have strength to perform this work, if people come together in it who are strong and capable and devoted, — people who know, that they must join together to work as a community for humankind in a larger sense, not to shut themselves off and indulge only in self-culture, — who know, that it would be but a thankless return to take what is given as a saving anchor for oneself alone; who know, that one takes with it also the obligation to pass this anchor on to others whose life’s ship is in distress.”
Horoscope by Hendrik Woorts
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Kari Olson
Dear Friends –
The ‘Easter Paradox’
conversation is stirring up a lot of powerful Goethean conversation.
Also,Here is more from my spiritual scientific research on
this important topic.
We will begin our Holy Week Study, exploring Kaspar Hauser, on the ‘True’ Palm Sunday 17 March 2019, 2 pm – 4 pm, We will be working with Anthroposophical researcher Peter Tradowsky’s book: ‘The
Struggle for the Spirit, a contribution towards an
understanding of the 19th & 20th centuries’.I have ordered copies to be given out on a 1st come basis at cost: $23
& on the ‘True’ Easter
Sunday 24 March 2019, from 2 pm – 4 pm.
Our Festival will revolve around ‘Preparation, Illumination & Initiation’- Incorporating ‘The Golden Legend’, & a look into the Plant & Human Kingdoms, to enliven our work with ‘The Rose Cross Meditation’. $10 & snacks to Share
Encouraged
Every year, humanity has a responsibility to consciously participate in the Resurrection of our Thinking, Feeling & Willing. This year we have an opportunity to celebrate BOTH the Cosmic & the Ecclesiastical Easter.
May we be the bridge between the above & the below…
Rudolf Steiner Branch of the Anthroposophical
Society of America, 4249 North Lincoln Avenue. Chicago, IL
60618 (map) Check out our Web site!
Calendar of Events
12 March 2019 – “Speaking with the Stars”: Bella Luna in the outskirts of Hyades, near Taurus, is growing bigger each night.
The constellation of Canis Major is seen in the south after dark in profile prancing on his hind legs, with Sirius as his shiny dog tag, with Sirius sparkling on the top of the ‘meat cleaver’.
6th Century – Death-Day of Pope Gregory the Great: “Non Angli, sed angeli” – “They are not Angles, but angels”.
1312 – Abolition of the order of Knights Templar –
Vox in excelso is the name of a Papal Bull issued by Pope Clement V in 1312. The directives were to formally dissolve the Order of the Knights Templar, effectively removing Papal support for them & revoking the mandates given to them by previous popes in the 12th & 13th centuries.
“In view of the suspicion, infamy, loud insinuations and other things which have been brought against the other … and also the secret and clandestine reception of the brother of this Order; in view, moreover, of the serious scandal which has arisen from these things, which it did not seem could be stopped while the Order remained in being, and the danger to faith and souls, and the many horrible things which have been done by the very many of the brothers of this Order, who have lapsed into the sin of wicked apostasy, the crime of detestable idolatry, and the execrable outrage of the Sodomites … it is not without bitterness and sadness of heart that we abolish the aforesaid Order of the Temple, and its constitution, habit and name, by an irrevocable and perpetually valid decree; and we subject it to perpetual prohibition with the approval of the Holy Council, strictly forbidding anyone to presume to enter the said Order in the future, or to receive or wear its habit, or to act as a Templar.” — Vox in excelso
The issue of this Bull followed a five-year period of suppression & trials of the Templars during which time they were accused of a variety of blasphemous & heretical crimes. However, the confessions were extracted with the use of torture & other methods developed by the Inquisition.
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POD (Poem Of the Day)
~Blessings on the beetle sun
Which rolls into life humming a shining ball of song…
The world is a little patch of ground you travel
From your cosmic space with no haste
Sing us into spring…
~hag
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Initially, the Knights Templar faced criticism from some religious leaders. But in
1129, the group received the formal endorsement of the Catholic Church &
support from Bernard of Clairvaux, a prominent French abbot.
In 1139, Pope Innocent II issued a Papal Bull
that allowed the Knights Templar special rights. Among them, the Templars were
exempt from paying taxes, permitted to build their own oratories, & held to
no one’s authority, except the Pope’s.
The Knights Templar set up a prosperous
network of banks & gained enormous financial influence. Their banking
system allowed religious pilgrims to deposit assets in their home countries
& withdraw funds in the Holy Land.
The order became known for its austere code of
conduct & signature style of dress, which featured a white habit emblazoned
with a simple red cross.
Members swore an oath of poverty, chastity &
obedience. Prayer was essential to their daily life, & the Templars
expressed particular adoration for the Virgin Mary.
As the Knights Templar grew in size &
status, it established new chapters throughout Western Europe.
At the height of their influence, the Templars
boasted a sizable fleet of ships, owned the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, &
served as a primary bank &lending institution to European monarchs &
nobles.
The Fall of Acre in 1291 marked the
destruction of the last remaining Crusader refuge in the Holy Land. European
support of the military campaigns in the Holy Land began to erode over the
decades that followed. Additionally, many secular & religious leaders
became increasingly critical of the Templars’ wealth & power.
By 1303, the Knights Templar lost its foothold
in the Muslim world & established a base of operations in Paris. There,
King Philip IV of France resolved to bring down the order, perhaps because the
Templars had denied the indebted ruler additional loans.
On Friday, October 13, 1307, scores of French
Templars were arrested, including the order’s grand master Jacques de Molay.
Many of the knights were brutally tortured until they confessed to false charges,
which included heresy, homosexuality, financial corruption, devil worshipping,
fraud, spitting on the cross & more.
A few years later, dozens of Templars were
burned at the stake in Paris for their confessions. De Molay was executed in
1314.
Under pressure from King Philip, Pope Clement
V reluctantly dissolved the Knights Templar TODAY 12 March 1312. The group’s property & monetary assets
were taken by King Philip & King Edward II of England, seizing most of the
Knights Templar’s wealth.
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A
continuing conversation on the “True” Easter:
As we know the ‘Calendar of the Soul’ starts with Easter Sunday, Verse #1. The Goetheanum has chosen to start the Calendar of the Soul Year with 24 March 2019, in alignment with the spiritual scientific research of Rudolf Steiner.
The cosmic dance is fluid, which is why Easter
is a ‘Moveable Feast’. Steiner’s indications invite us to participate in this Cosmic
& Earthly ‘Turning point of Time’. The man-made church calendar adheres to a template which no longer reflects
the true nature of the stars, & yet, since it represents the concept of ‘Time’,
within the eternally shifting nature of ‘Space’, it offers us the opportunity to do the work of purifying our etheric body, where the mysteries of Time, & Rhythm
are tantamount to achieving what Steiner calls ‘Life-Spirit’.
Perhaps this was why Rudolf Steiner focused on the significance of the etheric body, in his ‘Easter, Young Doctors Course’, & in the lecture ‘The Easter Festival in the Evolution of the Mysteries’ as well as giving the eurythmy forms for the Foundation Stone Meditation, at the time of the 1924 ‘Easter paradox’. Although when he spoke to the workers around the time of the Cosmic Easter of 1924, in “Star Wisdom, Moon Religion, Sun Religion” he emphasized the astral aspect.
The Sun, Moon & Earth in relation to the Zodiac, a division in Space, invites us to do the work of purifying our astral body, in the striving to achieve ‘Spirit-Self’, where the mysteries of ‘Space’, which the Fixed Stars of the Zodiac represent, come into play.
So this year we have an opportunity to grow the seedsof BOTH Manas & Buddhi, in the evolution of our True future Selves, NOW!
~Blessings Friends, Let’s continue to keep the conversation living ~Hazel Archer-Ginsberg
Ross Rentea MD & The Kolisko Team will be
taking up “seed germination experiments on these two dates (March 24 and April
21), and will also compare water coming from natural Springs on these two
Sundays. These experiments will be important not only to shed light on this
question of the so called ‘Easter paradox’, which incidentally will not occur
again until 2038, but also to make the attempt to demonstrate whether
“Easter water” as such has an easily observable effect that can be
used in the improvement of the making of anthroposophical medicines.”
In relation to the work of Lili Kolisko cited in mylast missive, during the ‘Easter Paradox’ date in 1943: “The iron sulphate, gold cromide or silver nitrate, are photographic emulsions. And each prominent metal in solution acts with other minerals found in the plant solutions. Lili was studying conditions that improve or devitalize a plant. She developed color code with litmus paper, identifying mineral color & tone, brought out by different metals interacting with silver or gold or iron etc. The vitality of a plant would rise in the paper, and wonderfully paint, , its own story. These pictures are called Capillary Dymalisis pictures, and today by some are called “upward streaming pictures”. Both Lili Kolisko and Dr. Rudolf Steiner were interested in the vital streamings, like veil paintings on fire or some in cases blobs, which were revealed in the work. Disease to cosmic influences were deduced from behaviors of capillary action in the soaked upward streaming of solutions”. ~ Shared by Broad Knight
For our study this year, we will take up the Mystery of Kaspar Hauser
In the New Mysteries we follow the path of the Christian initiation thru the Holy Week before Easter – With every step, from the recognition of the old Sun on Palm Sunday, thru to the meeting of the Saturn-Spirit and The Harrowing of Hell, which sparks the rising of the New Sun of Easter.
For our study we will take up: ‘Kaspar Hauser: The Struggle for the Spirit’ byAnthroposophical researcher Peter Tradowsky
I have ordered 5 copies to be given out on a 1st come basis at cost: $23
Come to any or all of the gatherings:
17 March Palm Sunday, 2pm – 4pm
18-23 March 2019 Holy Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Good Friday & Holy Saturday, 7pm – 9pm
The Golden Legend – The Rose Cross Meditation Leading Thoughts, Social Art & Discourse with Hazel Archer-Ginsberg
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 evolution.
$10 for Art Supplies & Snacks to Share Encouraged
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DATE CHANGE!
6-7 April 2019
ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: WHAT AILS THEE!
with APO founder Fred Janney from Ann Arbor
Sat. 6 April, 7 pm – 9 pm
& Sun. 7 April, 1 pm – 4 pm
Saturday 6 April, 2019, 7:00-9:00 p.m: Personality and spiritual biographies of the original Vorstand members and group healing meditation.
Sunday 7 April, 2019, Identifying your spiritual stream and recognizing its opposite stream with directions for bringing cohesion and direction for members on both sides of the threshold.
Contribution $25-$50 or pay what you can afford, ALL proceeds donated to APO.
2019 marks the reinstatement of Ita Wegman and Elisabeth Vreede back into the General Anthroposophical Society after 84 years. This 12×7 combination is a very important number combination in microcosmic and macrocosmic dynamics. Their return from banishment is only a first step in healing the karma of our organization and embracing the ongoing leadership of Rudolf Steiner into the future. Long standing and exacerbating problems have ensued since the ouster of these two leading lights chosen esoterically by Rudolf Steiner.
It is essential and imperative in our time to reconcile and forge harmony with these and other members on both sides of the threshold so that anthroposophy can flourish.
Sergei Prokofieff through his research tells us that all the original Executive Council members were chosen representatives and archetypes of the different and divergent karmic streams that came together under the direction of Rudolf Steiner for the esoteric tasks required well into the future.
The birth and development of the New Mysteries that was initiated at the Christmas Conference at the end of 1923 called on the free and active participation of these individuals.
On many occasions Rudolf Steiner called on each member of the Anthroposophical Society to uncover and research the spirituals stream for which he/she came to earth. Then, in order to heal the individual and group karma of the General Anthroposophical Society, members were urged to reach out to members of conflicting spiritual streams, so as to find ways to harmonize the conflicts.
In our time, these steps in self and social development are essential as we seek future work together for the development of humanity.
References: May Human Beings Hear It (2004) by Sergei Prokofieff. Chapter Five: The Esoteric Archetype of the Original Council.
Fred Janney in 1999 joined with six other members of the Anthroposophical Society from around the country to start what soon became known as Anthroposophical Prison Outreach. We are celebrating twenty years of service to incarcerated individuals based on the good will and donations of our member.
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Sat. 4 May 2019 – 7 pm – 9 pm in Chicago
Tuesday 7 May 2019 In Ann Arbor Michigan
Climbing Jacobs Ladder: Celebrating the Feast of Ascension
Leading Thoughts & original art-collage projections with Hazel Archer-Ginsberg
3 pm – 6 pm Saturday 8 June 2019 -4804 Sewanee Road, Nashville, TN 37220. for more info. contact Cathy Green cgreen@grasslandaquatics.com
12 Noon Potluck Program 1 pm -4 pm Whitsunday 9 June 2019, In Knoxville, TN. for more info. contact William Rogers wmerogers@gmail.com
Eurythmy: AUM = A – I stand for myself, U- I stand for humanity, M – I stand for Life
Social Sculpture: Steiner’s ‘Blue Dot Exercise’: Through Art, the bridge between science & spirit, we warm the ‘I’, to open the heart, in support of healthy community.
What are my gifts-What are my tools? How can I place them in right relationship within the social realm? How can I hone them to strengthen and enhance the world?
Enter the Labyrinth of Vitae Sophia: Human hearts, once warmed, can rise up to meet the source of wisdom, like flowers turning toward the sun.
Living into the Foundation Stone of Love: How can we take our individual Inner Whitsun & expand it, into what Steiner calls the “World Festival of Knowledge” a path leading from ‘Sprit Recollection’, to ‘Sprit Sensing’, to ‘Sprit Beholding’?
*Hazel Archer-Ginsberg is the founder of the website and blog Reverse Ritual – Understanding Anthroposophy through the Rhythms of the Year (www.reverseritual.com). She is an Essayist, Lecturer, Poet, Trans-denominational Minister, and “Anthroposopher.” She works as the Festivals Coordinator & Council Member of the Chicago Rudolf Steiner Branch as well as with the Traveling Speakers Program, and she serves on the Central Regional Council of the Anthroposophical Society.
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Friday 21 June 2019, 7 pm – 9 pm
Rudiger Janisch:
The 3 fold human being, the foundation stone & the 3 fold social organism
Friday 21 June 2019, 7 pm – 9 pm & Saturday 22 June 2019, 10 am – 1 pm
Rüdiger has been working in Curative Education and teaching in professional training programs in Germany and the United States for over 40 years. A long-time student of anthroposophy, he serves on the Collegium of the School for Spiritual Science in North America. His contributions to adult education methods were recognized in the context of an international research project sponsored by the European Union. He has been a member of the core faculty of a joint ‘Training for Trainers’ program supporting Curative Education and Social Therapy in Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan. He has also taught as an adjunct faculty member of the M.S. Ed program in Waldorf Remedial Education at Antioch University N.H. Having taught many different aspects of anthroposophy and Curative Education, he currently is focused on action research and the development of artistic and experiential approaches to the spiritual scientific study of the human being.
Rudiger Janisch: The 3 fold human being, the foundation stone & the 3 fold social organism
Rüdiger has been working in Curative Education and teaching in professional training programs in Germany and the United States for over 40 years. A long-time student of anthroposophy, he serves on the Collegium of the School for Spiritual Science in North America. His contributions to adult education methods were recognized in the context of an international research project sponsored by the European Union. He has been a member of the core faculty of a joint ‘Training for Trainers’ program supporting Curative Education and Social Therapy in Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan. He has also taught as an adjunct faculty member of the M.S. Ed program in Waldorf Remedial Education at Antioch University N.H. Having taught many different aspects of anthroposophy and Curative Education, he currently is focused on action research and the development of artistic and experiential approaches to the spiritual scientific study of the human being.
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6 March 2019 – “Speaking with the Stars”: New Moon today, the start of the Easter-Tide cycle… In a very dark sky Canis Major, the Big Dog’s realistic stick figure is plain to see in profile prancing to the right on his hind legs, with Sirius as his shiny dog tag — but for most of us only his five brightest stars show through. These form the unmistakable Meat Cleaver. Sirius & Murzim (to its right) are the wide front end of the cleaver, with Sirius sparkling on its top back corner. Down to Sirius’s lower left is the Cleaver’s other end, including its short handle, formed by the triangle of Adhara, Wezen, & Aludra.
12 BC – The Roman Emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor.
632 – The Farewell Sermon of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Daniele da Volterra
1475 – Birthday of Michelangelo, Italian painter & sculptor
1619 – Birthday of Cyrano de Bergerac, French author & playwright
1806 – Birthday of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. – poet. She campaigned for the abolition of slavery & her work helped influence reform in the child labor legislation. Her prolific output made her a rival to Tennyson as a candidate for poet laureate on the death of Wordsworth.
1888 – Deathday of Louisa May Alcott, American novelist & poet, best known as the author of the novel Little Women. Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May & Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she also grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, & Henry David Thoreau. Alcott was an abolitionist & a feminist & remained unmarried throughout her life.
1943 – Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series
1964 – Boxing champion Cassius Clay takes the name Muhammad Ali
1975 – For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown
1986 – Deathday of Georgia O’Keeffe, American painter – the “Mother of American modernism”. In 1905, O’Keeffe began her serious formal art training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago & then the Art Students League of New York, but she felt constrained by her lessons that focused on recreating or copying what was in nature…The rest is herstory…
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POD (Poem Of the Day)
Sam Brown
~Awaken & contemplate The inward clues & open your eyes To the outward signs Chaos adds its odd time meter To the harmony of the spheres… Can we hear the speed of light? ~hag
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MARCH in like a lion…Out like a lamb
March is abundant with ‘Holy Days’, finding voice through many cultural expressions.
Today, 6 March 2019, is the New Moon in Aries.
Every year our circadian rhythms are challenged by daylight savings time comes on Sunday March 10th so don’t forget to spring ahead!
The 15th is the famous Ides of March; which we all know is the day Julius Caesar was warned by the soothsayers to beware; the day he was assassinated. But did you know that according to the ancient Roman calendar, the Ides of March was considered New Year’s Day, & marked the 1st day of Spring?
March 17, brings us the ‘wearing of the green’ for St. Patrick’s Day. This former pagan used the shamrock to teach folks about the Trinity.
On the 20th of March we experience the Vernal Equinox, The Full Spring Moon and it also happens to be Purim, and the Iranian New Year celebration, Norooz, or ‘New Day’.
In 622 AD, Mohammed led his followers from Mecca to Medina to escape assassination. According to the story, when his pursuers reached the cave where Mohammed and his followers had taken shelter for the night, they found a dove nesting in front of it and the entrance covered by a spider’s web. So the pursuers passed on, leaving them in peace. Mohammed continued on to Medina, where he and his followers were able to worship freely. Muslims consider this flight — or Hijrah — to be the beginning of their calendar year. People worship quietly on this day, which begins with the 1st sighting of the moon, and in keeping with the rebirth of nature is also considered the 1st day of Spring.
Here on this side of the
globe we call it the Spring or Vernal
Equinox, also known as: Alban Eilir,
Eostar, Ostara, and the Rites of
Spring – when the Sun entered 2000 years ago the 1st sign of fiery
Aries, but now because of the Precession of The Equinoxes, the Vernal Sun now
rises in Pisces!
Day and night are equal, poised and balanced, but about to tip over to the side of light. It is sacred to the twilight time of dawn, youth, the morning star and the east. The Saxon goddess, Eostre (from whose name we get the direction East and the holiday Easter) is a dawn goddess, like Aurora and Eos. Just as the dawn is the time of new light, so the vernal equinox is the time of new life.
What does it mean that this year the Equinox falls on a Full Moon?
The Equinox is all about
harmony and balance – that brief yet eternal time of equilibrium, when day
& night are of equal length. In the fall, the darkness holds sway, but now
for the spring season the light is triumphant.
What a perfect
opportunity to tap into this celestial energy as it intersects our earthly
ecliptic, a perfect opportunity to bring balance into our lives, harmony into
our bodies.
We all have a mixture of yin & yang, darkness & light, female & male energies within us. Do they both have equal say? Or is one force overshadowing the other? Perhaps we are consciously putting more emphasis on one, to help develop that side, or maybe we just feel unbalanced & we don’t know why? Are we thinking too much, are we too sensitive, too busy doing, to just be? Is your left side tighter or looser than your right? Which side do you part your hair? Ah ha…! These are questions only you can answer for your Self.
On a Full Moon the Sun & Moon are in direct opposition,
complimenting each other.
This year Purim, which is celebrated this year on the Full Moon, March 20-21, 2019, is a joyful spring holiday that features a festive meal, gift-giving, costumes, and noisemakers. The word “Purim” means “lots,” and refers to Haman’s casting of lots in the story of Esther. It is customary to hold carnival-like celebrations. Americans sometimes refer to Purim as the Jewish Mardi Gras.
Since Easter can be seen written in the Starry Script, determined by an alignment of Sun, Moon & Earth – always celebrated after the 1st Full Moon after the Vernal Equinox, Holy Week begins on 17 March, with Easter Sunday falling on 24 March 2019! ( for more see A Cosmic Wake Up Call: The True Date of Easter 2019)
Two other holidays also get mixed up in this ancient symbolism of Spring’s fertility. March 25th is called the ‘Annunciation of Mary.’ – the day that the Angel Gabriel announced that Mary, the Christian version of The Sophia, was pregnant with the son of god ; who is born 9 months later, on Dec. 25th. How’s that for a nice little spring fertility symbol.
It is also fitting that March is International Women’s month, since this is the time of the rebirth of nature. It’s a gentle reminder that we give birth to the future. The future is in our hands, the hands of the midwife, the lap of the mother, and the hands of the Peacemaker.
So let’s honor ourselves
& thank the powers of love & light, knowing, March may come in like a
lion, but it goes out like a lamb – As we re-conceive of ourselves in alignment
with the powers of Spring…
Peace & Blessed Bee…
~hag
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Anthroposophy Atlanta Welcomes Hazel Archer-Ginsberg* for a weekend of Spiritual Science, Art, Community & Sharing March 8, 9, 10, 2019
Spinning Destiny with the Fates – Friday, March 8, 2019 with *Hazel Archer-Ginsberg 6:30 pm refreshments, 7:00 pm talk,Decatur, GA (location details TBA)
Through an exploration into the evolution of human consciousness, we will explore the legends of the Greek Moirae and the Nordic Norns, the Orphic Hymn and the Prose Poem Edda. Hazel* will share some of her original art & song, and group discussion will be encouraged.
From Necessity to Freedom – The Evolution of Human Consciousness, Social Sculpture & Experiential Discourse with *Hazel Archer-Ginsberg Saturday, March 9, 2019 10am – 3pm,* Decatur, GA (location details TBA)
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? We will we stand before the “Daughters of Necessity” that we will transform into “Freedom Fighters” to meet our true calling; asking: “What is my Highest Purpose?” From the vaporous cleft of Mount Parnassus, and the birthplace of Greek Philosophy, to Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel, and the Holy Grail – From Prophecy to Warning, from Fate to Karma, From Destiny to Free Will!
❖ 10 am –11 am – The ever-evolving Human Consciousness – Scrying with the Sibyls – The Hebrew Prophets and the Sistine Chapel❖ 11:30 – Socratic Questioning – You have to ask the right question to get the right answer❖ 12:30 pm – Lunch (light lunch provided)❖ 1:30 pm – Once Upon A Time NOW – The new story❖ 2:00 pm – Weaving Past, Present and Future❖ 2:30 – 3pm – Open Discussion – Rudolf Steiner’s poem: “Destiny”*Come as you can–all are welcome to attend any part, or all of the workshop!
The Golden Legend and The Rose Cross Meditation – Leading Thoughts & Discourse – Sunday 10 March 2019, 3 pm – 5 pm, with *Hazel Archer-Ginsberg, Social Art with Angela Foster.
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 evolution.
Location: Decatur GA (details TBA). No set fee to attend. Suggested donation $0-100
Please RSVP to Angela so we can plan the space & refreshments:ARC@thirdbody.net
*Hazel Archer-Ginsberg is the founder of the website and blog Reverse Ritual – Understanding Anthroposophy through the Rhythms of the Year (www.reverseritual.com). She is an Essayist, Lecturer, Poet, Trans-denominational Minister, and “Anthroposopher.” She works as the Festivals Coordinator & Council Member of the Chicago Rudolf Steiner Branch as well as with the Traveling Speakers Program, and she serves on the Central Regional Council of the Anthroposophical Society.
For our study this year, we will take up the Mystery of Kaspar Hauser
In the New Mysteries we follow the path of the Christian initiation thru the Holy Week before Easter – With every step, from the recognition of the old Sun on Palm Sunday, thru to the meeting of the Saturn-Spirit and The Harrowing of Hell, which sparks the rising of the New Sun of Easter.
For our study we will take up: ‘Kaspar Hauser: The Struggle for the Spirit’ byAnthroposophical researcher Peter Tradowsky
I have ordered 5 copies to be given out on a 1st come basis at cost: $23
Come to any or all of the gatherings:
17 March Palm Sunday, 2pm – 4pm
18-23 March 2019 Holy Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Good Friday & Holy Saturday, 7pm – 9pm
The Golden Legend – The Rose Cross Meditation Leading Thoughts, Social Art & Discourse with Hazel Archer-Ginsberg
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 evolution.
$10 for Art Supplies & Snacks to Share Encouraged
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DATE CHANGE!
6-7 April 2019
ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: WHAT AILS THEE!
with APO founder Fred Janney from Ann Arbor
Sat. 6 April, 7 pm – 9 pm
& Sun. 7 April, 1 pm – 4 pm
Saturday 6 April, 2019, 7:00-9:00 p.m: Personality and spiritual biographies of the original Vorstand members and group healing meditation.
Sunday 7 April, 2019, Identifying your spiritual stream and recognizing its opposite stream with directions for bringing cohesion and direction for members on both sides of the threshold.
Contribution $25-$50 or pay what you can afford, ALL proceeds donated to APO.
2019 marks the reinstatement of Ita Wegman and Elisabeth Vreede back into the General Anthroposophical Society after 84 years. This 12×7 combination is a very important number combination in microcosmic and macrocosmic dynamics. Their return from banishment is only a first step in healing the karma of our organization and embracing the ongoing leadership of Rudolf Steiner into the future. Long standing and exacerbating problems have ensued since the ouster of these two leading lights chosen esoterically by Rudolf Steiner.
It is essential and imperative in our time to reconcile and forge harmony with these and other members on both sides of the threshold so that anthroposophy can flourish.
Sergei Prokofieff through his research tells us that all the original Executive Council members were chosen representatives and archetypes of the different and divergent karmic streams that came together under the direction of Rudolf Steiner for the esoteric tasks required well into the future.
The birth and development of the New Mysteries that was initiated at the Christmas Conference at the end of 1923 called on the free and active participation of these individuals.
On many occasions Rudolf Steiner called on each member of the Anthroposophical Society to uncover and research the spirituals stream for which he/she came to earth. Then, in order to heal the individual and group karma of the General Anthroposophical Society, members were urged to reach out to members of conflicting spiritual streams, so as to find ways to harmonize the conflicts.
In our time, these steps in self and social development are essential as we seek future work together for the development of humanity.
References: May Human Beings Hear It (2004) by Sergei Prokofieff. Chapter Five: The Esoteric Archetype of the Original Council.
Fred Janney in 1999 joined with six other members of the Anthroposophical Society from around the country to start what soon became known as Anthroposophical Prison Outreach. We are celebrating twenty years of service to incarcerated individuals based on the good will and donations of our member.
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Sat. 4 May 2019 – 7 pm – 9 pm in Chicago
Tuesday 7 May 2019 In Ann Arbor Michigan
Climbing Jacobs Ladder: Celebrating the Feast of Ascension
Leading Thoughts & original art-collage projections with Hazel Archer-Ginsberg
A Cosmic Wake Up
Call: The True Date of Easter 2019
We know that Easter is determined by a
cosmic alignment of Sun, Moon & Earth. 1st the Sun must come
into its place of balance at the Vernal Equinox. Then the Sun waits for the
Moon to come into Fullness, so that the rays of the Springtime Sun can be
reflected to us on Earth. The Moveable Feast of Easter then arrives on the 1st
Sun-day after, which brings earthly humanity into connection with the Sun-forces.
This year, the Spring
Equinox is at 4:58 pm CDT on March 20th.
The Full Moon also comes on March 20th, about 4 hours
later, at 8:43 pm. By these calculations, the 1st Sunday
after is, March 24th. So this, my friends, is the true date
of Easter Sunday for 2019.
But if you look on the internet or on
the ‘Official’ Church Calendar, it says Easter is April 21st 2019!
Dear Friends, This is extremely
important! We must vigorously apply what we know to be true & not take
anything at face value. It is so easy to be asleep & miss these
powerful opportunities to be in cosmic alignment.
Every year, humanity has a responsibility to Consciously Resurrect this ‘Turning Point of Time’ in our Thinking, Feeling & Willing, to participate in Christ’s deed which planted the seed of our redemption from the fall, which we must cultivate!
If we sleep thru this opportunity, the death forces will strengthen.
Dr.
Lilli Kolisko established important scientific documentation on this very
subject, following initial indications given by Rudolf Steiner.
In 1943, Easter fell shortly after the equinox, on March28th. The Church authorities in England had ruled that
the Easter Full Moon should be considered to be a month later & that the
festival should be celebrated on April 25th 1943, Even
though the Royal Astronomer maintained that the earlier date was correct.
Lili Kolisko
discovered through her experiments the true cosmic reality. Every day she
repeated her experiments. She showed that one can obtain a picture of
life-force activity with solutions of minerals representing key planetary
forces –such as Silver Nitrate, Iron Sulphate or Gold Chloride, displaying
colors & forms which reveal the invisible etheric forces working on earth
or in plants in specific ways & at specific times. On Sunday March 28th 1943, an enhanced form & color appeared.
On the Church authorities’ preferred date of April 25th there was no difference from the pattern of any
other day.
A similar
strengthening of the etheric forces was revealed on the true Whitsun-tide date,
six weeks after the real March 28th 1943 Easter.
You can read the full documented research here: (Many thanks to Patricia Kaminski for sharing this link)
Below
is a powerful quote from Rudolf Steiner reminding us not to be blinded by the
materialism that wants to keep us bound to the earth:
“The Easter Festival, is intended to remind
us of an event whose significance lies, not merely within the course of
earth-evolution, but within the whole world-order into which humanity has been
placed. Therefore the time of the
Easter festival must not be determined by ordinary earthly conditions; it is a
time that can be ascertained only when the human being turns their thoughts to
the worlds beyond the earth. And there is deeper meaning still in this plan
of a movable time for the Easter festival. It
indicates how through the Christ Impulse humanity is to be set free from the
forces of earth-evolution pure and simple. For through knowledge of that which is beyond the earth, humanity is to
become free of the evolution of the earth, and this truth is indicated in the
manner of dating the Easter festival. It contains a call to the human being to
lift himself up to the worlds beyond the earth; it contains a promise to
humanity that in the course of world-history it shall be possible for him,
through the working of the Christ Impulse, to become free of earthly conditions.
The time has come when humanity must realise
with full and clear consciousness that supersensible knowledge has now to arise
out of the grave of the materialistic outlook. For together with supersensible
knowledge will arise the knowledge of Christ Jesus. In point of fact, man has
no other symbol that fits the Easter festival than this — that mankind has brought upon itself the doom of
being crucified upon the cross of its own materialism. But man must do
something himself before there arises from the grave of human materialism all
that can come from supersensible knowledge.
The very striving after supersensible
knowledge is itself an Easter deed, it is something which gives man the right
once more to keep Easter. Look up to the full moon and feel how the full moon
is connected with man in its phenomena, and how the reflection of the sun is
connected with the moon, and then meditate on the need today to go in search of
a true self-knowledge which can show forth man as a reflection of the
supersensible. If man knows himself to be a reflection of the supersensible, if
he recognises how he is formed and constituted out of the supersensible, then
he will also find the way to come to the supersensible.
The truth is, we are to-day living in a time when Christ Jesus is being crucified in a very special sense. He is being put to death in the field of knowledge. And until men come to see how the present way of knowledge, clinging as it does to the senses and to them alone, is nothing but a grave of knowledge out of which a resurrection must take place — until they see this, they will not be able to lift themselves up to experiences in thought and feeling that partake of a true Easter character.”
Dear friends, with these truths in mind, I am changing our Festival programing. We will begin our Holy Week Study, exploring Kaspar Hauser, on the True Palm Sunday March 17th 2019, 2 pm – 4pm,
We continue Holy Monday thru Holy Saturday, March 18-23, from 7 pm – 9 pm,
& on the True Easter Sunday March 24th 2019, from 2 pm – 4 pm, our Festival will revolve around The ‘Golden Legend’ & The ‘Rose Cross Meditation’.
For our study we will take up: ‘Kaspar Hauser: The Struggle for the Spirit’ by Anthroposophical researcher Peter Tradowsky. I have ordered copies to be given out on a 1st come basis at cost: $23
We are also re-scheduling Fred Janney’s workshop: Anthroposophy: What Ails Thee’ to Saturday 6 April 2019, from 7 pm – 9 pm, & Sunday 7 April, 2019, from 1 pm – 4 pm
Since Easter-Tide also includes Ascension & Whitsun, these Feast Days will be celebrated on Ascension Thursday May 2nd 2019, 7 pm – 9 pm, with Whitsunday on May 12th 2019, which is on Mother’s Day so we may not do a Festival (Let me know what you think?)
Before the Mystery of Golgotha, the task of evolution was for the spirit to become human; after the ‘turning point’, humanity must strive to become spirit; co-creators in freedom, of ‘The New Sun’.
May we awaken to the True Dawning of our Human Calling.
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