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Upward Streaming

18 June 2016

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Near the Solstice, the twilight lingers well past 9 o’clock. The waxing Gibbous Moon, climbing into the southeast before sunset, is joined by Saturn as it starts to darken between 9 & 9:30 PM. They’ll track low in the southern skies, due south just before midnight. To their lower right is the red star Antares, while the much brighter Mars is well to the right.

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Feast Day of Archangel Uriel

Crater creator

1178 – Five Canterbury monks see the  Giordano Bruno crater  being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon’s distance from the Earth are a result of this collision

1812 – War of 1812 began when the U.S. declares war on Great Britain, Canada, & Ireland

1815 –The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte

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1865 – Deathday of Antonie Wierz – Belgian romantic painter & sculptor

1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote

1900 – Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats & their families

1901 – Birthday of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanov of Russia

1916 – Death day of Helmuth von Moltke, said by Steiner to have been Pope Nicholas I.

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1924 – Rudolf Steiner travels to Koberwitz & Lauenstein to give the curative pedagogy lectures

1929 – Deathday of Michael Bauer – German teacher, author , lecturer, president after Carl Unger of the Anthroposophical Society

1940 – Appeal of 18 June by Charles de Gaulle

1971 – President Richard Nixon declares that illegal drugs are “public enemy number one”, which becomes popularized as the “War on Drugs“.

1979 – In Vienna, President Jimmy Carter & Leonid Brezhnev signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)

1983 –Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space

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Ophelia weaving garlandsRichard Redgrave

~ Weaving garlands of onion & hibiscus,

Succulent moon dew pooling

In the golden cleft

Of my warrior heart

I am a thought made manifest

~hag

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Part 8 on the ST. JOHN IMAGINATION

“The teachers in the Mysteries said: “Every year at Midsummer, a solemn offering must be made to the Upper Gods in gratitude for the thoughts they vouchsafe to humanity; for if this is not done, it is all too easy for the Luciferic powers to invade man’s thinking and he is then permeated by these powers.

He can avoid this if every Summer he is mindful of how the Upper Gods have given him these thoughts, and at the Midsummer season lets his thoughts flow back again, as it were, to the Gods.” In this way the men of olden times tried to safeguard themselves from Luciferic influences.

The leaders of the Mysteries called together their pupils and enacted that solemn rite at the culmination of which the thoughts that had been revealed by the Upper Gods were now offered up to them in upward-streaming feelings.

The external rite consisted in solemn words being spoken into rising smoke which was thus set into waves. This act was merely meant to signify that the offering made by man’s inmost soul to the Upper Gods was being inscribed into an outer medium — the rising smoke — through form-creating words.

The words of the prayer inscribed into the rising smoke the feelings which the soul desired to send upwards to the Gods as an offering for the thoughts they had revealed.” ~Rudolf Steiner, The Spiritual Communion of Mankind  http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/19221223p01.html#sthash.wBDzuZDX.dpuf

“…Now, humanity must learn to know the etheric and astral elements outside himself. This he can do only through the reverent deepening of spiritual science

This is what Anthroposophy intends when it speaks of a renewal of the festivals

We must come once more to an inner understanding of what the cycle of the year can mean to man in this connection; it can then be something even loftier than it was for man long ago”…~Rudolf Steiner, The Cycle of the Year as Breathing-Process of the Earth http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA223/English/AP1984/19230403p01.html

Until soon

Blessings and Peace ~Hazel Archer Ginsberg

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Moonday June 20, 2016 – It’s Summer Solstice & The Full Honey-Moon!!!

So come join our : St. John’s Tide Bon-Fire Social Gathering

7pm – 9pm

Pot-Luck Dinner in the backyard of Hazel & Chuck Ginsberg

Please Bring Food & Drink to Share in Community

RSVP ReverseRitual@gmail.com by TODAY for address & directions  

PS. there’s a Cub Game that night so be sure to come in for a sticker to put in your car.

If it’s storming – stay home & celebrate

St. John's RS GA 229 Plate V

Sunday June 26th, 2pm -4pm 

He Must Increase but I Must Decrease  Exploring the Mysteries of Midsummer 

with special guest Robert Karp, Co-Director of the Biodynamic Association.

How do we stand wakefully within the sublime mysteries of summer and St. John’s tide? Who is the mysterious archangel of Midsummer described by Rudolf Steiner and what is his relationship to John the Baptist? Can we trace his influence in modern culture, in modern America? What transformation does he seek to bring into our souls and into our communities?

These are some of the questions we will explore in this talk and, in a series of social-artistic exercises that will be incorporated into the talk.

Dulcimer music by Dr. Elaine Wagner.

Labyrinth Dance with ~hag

More details coming soon. For more info. Contact Hazel ReverseRitual@gmail.com

Shavuot

Saturn-Day 11 June 2016

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323 – Deathday of Alexander The Great

1184 BC – Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned

1194 – Fire at Chartres Cathedral

1346 – Birthday of Charles IV (the last initiate to become Holy Roman Emperor

1364 – Deathday of Agnes of Hungary, patroness of Konigsfelden monastery

1924 – Rudolf Steiner sends Ita Wegman a letter speaking about her incarnation as Alexander The Great.

1963 – Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam

1963 – John F. Kennedy addresses Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that would revolutionize American society. Proposing equal access to public facilities, end segregation in education and guarantee federal protection for voting right

1994 – End of Soviet occupation of East Germany

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~Birthed by a bird song

Fixed in the stars

All that I am

Released in a Whitsun wind

Said I should fly

~hag

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Today begins: Shavuot, an ancient Jewish Festival that celebrates the giving of the Torah, the first harvest, & the ripening of the first fruits. In the bible, Shavuot is called by various other names: Feast of Weeks, Feast of The First Fruits& Feast of the Giving of the Law.

This year it begins at sunset tonight & goes till June 15, 2016.

The farmers of Israel would begin their spring harvests with the barley crop at Passover. The harvest continued for seven weeks as the other crops & fruits began to ripen.

As each fruit matured, the farmer would tie a ribbon around the branch. This ribbon signified that these fruits were Bikkurim, or the first fruits.

At Shavuot the farmers would gather the Bikkurim into baskets & bring them to the city of Jerusalem.The farmers living close would bring fresh fruits, while those who had to travel a long distance carried dried raisins, figs, etc.

This joyful journey was celebrated with the music of fifes, timbres, & drums. As the pilgrims approached the city walls they were greeted by the inhabitants of the city.

Along with being a Harvest holiday & celebrating the Revelation of Torah; Shavuot honors the spiritual journey of Ruth:

The Scroll of Ruth is sung & celebrated as an integral part of the Jewish & Christian liturgical years; sections of it are also recited as part of the Protestant wedding ceremony.

A number of biblical scholars, have speculated that the Book of Ruth may have been written by a woman – its story is not only expressed entirely from a woman’s point of view, but the grammar of the original Hebrew shows an unusual content of gender equality, & only in Ruth do we find the unique feminine dual Hebrew endings. In fact the name “Ruth” literally means, “woman friend.”

There is also a hidden teaching in Ruth, a kind of women’s mysteries, & an allegory of the spiritual marriage.

The tender friendship between Ruth & Naomi, so unusual with a mother-in-law, has been celebrated in poetry, in prose & in art the world round. The scene between Naomi & her daughters in parting is bittersweet. As soon as Naomi decided to return to her own country, her 2 daughters in-law, whose husbands had died, assisted her in making the necessary preparations. Ruth secretly made her own, having decided to go with Naomi to the land of Judea.

When the appointed day arrived, mounted on three gray donkeys, they departed. A few miles out Naomi proposed to rest by the roadside to say farewell, &, after thanking them for all the love & kindness they had shown her, advised them to go no farther, but return to their home in that land of plenty. She told them frankly that life with her in a new strange land, would be hard, & she didn’t want them to sacrifice all the pleasures of their young lives for her.

Sad & lonely with the loss of their husbands, parting with Naomi seemed to intensify their grief. United in a common sorrow, the three women stood gazing in silence into each other’s faces, until Naomi, with her usual self-control & common sense, again pointed out to them all the hardships involved. Her words made a deep impression on Orpah. She hesitated & at last decided to abide by Naomi’s advice; but not Ruth.

Naomi had a peculiar magnetic attraction for Ruth, a charm stronger than kindred, country or ease. Her expressions of steadfast friendship in making her decision were so tender & sincere that they have become household words. She said: “Don’t ask me to leave you and turn back. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.”

Having bade farewell to Orpah, they journeyed together & made a home for themselves in Bethlehem. Naomi owned a small house, on the outskirts of town. After a few days of rest, Ruth said to Naomi, I must not sit here with folded hands, or spend my time in visiting neighbors, or in search of amusement, but I must go to work, to provide food & clothes.

Since it was the season for the wheat & barley harvests, Ruth heard that laborers were needed in the fields. It was evident that Ruth believed in the dignity of labor & of self-support. She threw her whole soul into her work & proved a blessing to her mother.

Naomi remembered that she had a rich kinsman, Boaz, whose name means strength. Ruth was employed in the field of Boaz; & in due time he took note of the fair maiden from Moab.

In harvest time he needed many extra hands, & he came often among the reapers to see how the work went. He heard such good accounts of Ruth’s industry, dignity & discretion that he ordered his men to make her work as easy as possible, to leave plenty for her to glean & to carry home in the evening. This she often sold on the way, & bought something which Naomi needed.

Naomi & Ruth enjoyed their evenings together. Naomi did not spend the day in idleness either. She had her spinning-wheel & loom to make their garments; she worked also in her garden, raising vegetables, herbs & chickens; & they talked over their day’s labor as they enjoyed their simple supper of herb tea, bread & watercress. Their menu was often made more tempting, thanks to Ruth’s generous purchases on her way home.

Boaz was the son of Salmon & Rahab, & according to the Chaldee, was not only a mighty man in wealth but also in wisdom, a most rare & excellent conjunction. Boaz was of the family of Elimelech, of which Ruth, by marriage, was a part also. Since Ruth had adopted the country of Naomi & was a proselyte to her faith, her marriage with Boaz was in accordance with Jewish custom. Boaz prized Ruth for her virtues, for her great moral qualities of head & heart.

Naomi was told by the spirit of prophecy, that from Ruth’s line should descend the most righteous men of the age, namely, David, Daniel, & the King Messiah.

In due time the prayer was answered, & Ruth bore a son. Naomi loved the child & shared in its care. But Ruth said: “The love of Naomi is more to me than that of seven sons could be.” Naomi was a part of Ruth’s household to the day of her death & shared all of her luxuries & happiness.

The child’s name was Obed, the father of Jesse, the father of David. The name Obed signifies one who serves. (The motto of the Prince of Wales is ich dien – “I serve.” )

On Shavuot, folks light candles, decorate with greenery, eat dairy food, study Torah, attend prayer services, & read the Book of Ruth.

Tomorrow we return to our study of St. John’s Tide

Until soon

Blessings and Peace ~Hazel Archer Ginsberg

THE ST. JOHN IMAGINATION

June 10, 2016

This morning – An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 rocked Southern California, rousing residents out of bed at about 1:05 a.m. PT .

The quake was centered about 13 miles north-northwest near Borrego Springs in the desert east of Los Angeles, the U.S. Geological Service reported.

On the west side of Los Angeles, about 100 miles from the epicenter, the quake produced a long shaking motion lasting about 30 seconds. Near Los Angeles International Airport, window blinds shook & the building structure rolled in steady waves. The quake was also felt in San Diego.

40 AD – Birthday of Apollonius of Tyana, a Greek Neopythagorean philosopher, around the time of Jesus.

671 – Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku.

1190 –Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem

1786 – A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China

1886 – Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 1,530 people & burying the famous Pink & White Terraces. Eruptions continue for 3 months creating a large, fissure across the mountain peak

1898 – Spanish–American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba

1915 – Birthday of Saul Bellow, Canadian-American author & playwright, Nobel Prize laureate

1963 – Equal Pay Act of 1963 aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex (see Gender pay gap) was signed into law by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program

1964 – United States Senate breaks a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading to the bill’s passage.

1967 – The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire

1977 – The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale

2002 – The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom

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~O fickle winds & swirling dust

Mirage of trees in Summer

Let me remember what is real

~hag

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A Summary of THE ST. JOHN IMAGINATION, by Rudolf Steiner ~from the Four Seasons and the Archangels Lecture 4

In the sense world we see the being of Nature sprouting, budding —from the powers of sleep the forces of vegetative growth, are given form. But in this sleeping Nature, the spiritual which animates & weaves through everything in Nature is revealed.

In summer humanity is bound up with Nature, but, if we have right feeling & perception for it, objective spirituality comes towards us from out of Nature’s interweaving life. And so, to find the essential human being during the St. John’s time, at midsummer, we must turn to the objective spirituality in the outer world, & this is present everywhere in Nature.

If we follow Nature in high summer with deepened spiritual insight & with perceptive eyes, we find our gaze directed to the depths of the Earth itself. We find that the minerals down there send their inner crystal-forming process towards us more vividly than at any other time of the year; shaping itself into lines, angles & surfaces. “If we are to have an impression of it as a whole, we must picture this crystallizing process as an interweaving activity, colored throughout with deep blue”.

St. John's RS GA 229 Plate V

We can feel that as a human form we have grown out of the blue depths of the earth’s crust; permeated with force by the silver-gleaming crystal lines.

Using our imaginative thinking, we could ask: “How is it that these silver-sparkling crystal lines & waves are working within me? What is it that lives & works there, silver-gleaming in the blue of the Earth? — then one knows: That is cosmic Will. And one has the feeling of standing upon cosmic Will”.

Tomorrow we look up to the heights

Until soon

Blessings and Peace ~Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Current Festival & Program Events

Nero fiddled while Rome burned…

June 9, 2016

rome is burning

53 – The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.

68 – The Roman emperor Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer’s Iliad. In 64 AD, most of Rome was destroyed in the Great Fire of Rome, which many Romans believed Nero himself had started in order to clear land for his planned palatial complex, the Domus Aurea. Nero’s rule is associated with tyranny & extravagance. He is known for many executions, including that of his mother. Nero was rumored to have had captured Christians dipped in oil & set on fire in his garden at night as a source of light. This view is based on the writings of Tacitus, Suetonius & Cassius Dio, the main surviving sources for Nero’s reign. Facing a false report of being denounced as a public enemy who was to be executed, he committed suicide, the first Roman emperor to do so.

373 – Feast Day of Ephrem the Syrian, Turkish hymnographer & theologian

597 – Feast day of Columbanus the Elder, Irish Celtic Christian. Rudolf Steiner speaks about him as the individuality Iona in GA 178, where the sacredness of Ireland is described. http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA178/English/RSP1966/19171119p02.html

Madonna maesta Duccio di Buoninsegna

1311 – Duccio’s Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled & installed in Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy

1870 Deathday of Charles Dickens

1915 – William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson’s Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States’ handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania

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1934 – Donald Duck made his debut in the Silly Symphonies cartoon “The Wise Little Hen.”

1940 – Norway surrendered to the Nazis during World War II

1941 – The Christian Community is banned in Germany

1954 – McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, “You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”

1967 – Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria.

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~Fingering the rags of my exquisite mortality

I leap up from matter to ride the current of spirit

Swirling like incense on the altar

7 grains of frankincense

Smoldering in the flame

7 sparks dancing in the ethers

Reaching, always reaching

Up, out, into

The 7 stars

Splitting the northern sky

There I nestle with my sisters

In the lap of the bear

Ever watchful & awake in my striving

~hag

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RS where thoughts come from

“The teachers in the Mysteries spoke to their pupils somewhat as follows. They said: “Every year at Midsummer, a solemn offering must be made to the Upper Gods in gratitude for the thoughts they vouchsafe to humanity. For if this is not done it is all too easy for the Luciferic powers to invade man’s thinking and he is then permeated by these powers. He can avoid this if every Summer he is mindful of how the Upper Gods have given him these thoughts and at the Midsummer season lets his thoughts flow back again, as it were, to the Gods.”

In this way the men of olden times tried to safeguard themselves from Luciferic influences. The leaders of the Mysteries called together those who were in a sense their pupils and in their presence enacted that solemn rite at the culmination of which the thoughts that had been revealed by the Upper Gods were now offered up to them in upward-streaming feelings.

The external rite consisted in solemn words being sung or spoken into rising smoke which was thus set into waves. This act was merely meant to signify that the offering made by man’s inmost soul to the Upper Gods was being inscribed into an outer medium — the rising smoke — through form-creating words. The words of the prayer inscribed into the rising smoke the feelings which the soul desired to send upwards to the Gods as an offering for the thoughts they had revealed. – See more at: http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/19221223p01.html#sthash.wBDzuZDX.dpuf

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Friday June 24th –St. John’s Tide– 7pm – 9pm

Bon-Fire Social Gathering

Pot-Luck Dinner at the Home of Hazel & Chuck Ginsberg

Please Bring Food & Drink to Share in Community

RSVP by June 22 ReversRitual@gmail.com for address & directions   

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Sunday June 26th, 2pm -4pm at the Rudolf Steiner Branch of the Anthroposophical Society 4249 N. Lincoln Ave, Chicago IL. 60618. MAP

He Must Increase but I Must Decrease– Exploring the Mysteries of Midsummer 

with special guest Robert Karp, Co-Director of the Biodynamic Association.

How do we stand wakefully within the sublime mysteries of summer and St. John’s tide? Who is the mysterious archangel of Midsummer described by Rudolf Steiner and what is his relationship to John the Baptist? Can we trace his influence in modern culture, in modern America? What transformation does he seek to bring into our souls and into our communities?

These are some of the questions we will explore in this talk and, in a series of social-artistic exercises that will be incorporated into the talk.

Dulcimer music by Dr. Elaine Wagner.

More details coming soon. For more info. Contact Hazel ReverseRitual@gmail.com

Wings of the Dove the Cosmic Fire Does Inspire

May 15, 2016

Whitsun-day/Pentecost

John 20 19-23 Ed De Guzman

“When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you.’

After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.

Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.’

When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.

If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.” John 20:19-23

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“And Suddenly there came from the sky a Noise like a Strong Driving Wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were.

Then there appeared to them Tongues as of Fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them. And they were all Filled with the Holy Spirit”. Acts 2: 2-3

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“Then came the moment when it seemed to the apostles that they had lived through a long time as in a dream from which they awoke with the Pentecost event.

The apostles felt impregnated by all-encompassing love and awakened from the dream-like state.

Now, however, they were as transformed: like people who had achieved a new state of mind or soul disposition, like people who had lost all the narrow restrictions, all the egotism of life, who had gained an infinitely wide heart and all-embracing tolerance, a deeply heartfelt understanding of all that is human on earth.

They could also express themselves so that everyone present could understand them.

One felt also that they could see into each heart and soul and clarify the secrets of the soul, so they could comfort the other, could tell him exactly what he needed.

Now, in that instant, understanding of what actually happened on Golgotha appeared before their minds’ eye.” ~From ‘The Fifth Gospel’ by Rudolf Steiner

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Cycle of the Yeary Sergei O. Prokofieff

“…After    His  Resurrection   from  the   dead  and  also  at  His   Ascension,    Christ   was   still  outside  the world  of   men;  He  had   not   endowed   their  individual   ego-consciousness   with  those  forces   which  He  had  already  borne  into Earth-existence   through  the  Mystery  of  Golgotha.

In order  that  this  might  come  about,  the festival  of Ascension  had  to  be  followed   by  the   Festival   of  Pentecost,  the  festival  of  the  outpouring  of  the   Holy   Spirit,   the  Spirit  of   Universal  Love,  upon  the  Apostles.

Rudolf   Steiner   speaks   about   this   as   follows: ‘From the event  of  Pentecost  onwards,  the  Christ-Being  experienced  His  entry  into  the  sphere  of  the  Earth,  which  signified  for  Him  what  the  transition into the  Spirit-Land signifies for the human being.

But  instead  of  ascending  –  as  is  the   case  with  a  human  being  after  death–  to  Devachan,  to  a  spiritual  region (that  is, as far as the World of  Archetypes),  the  Christ  Being  offered   up  His   sacrifice as  though  He  were   building  His  Heaven  on  the  Earth;  He  sought  it  on  the Earth.

Since  then,  and  for  all  future  ages  of  the  Earth,   it  has  become  possible  for  every  man  inwardly  to  experience  the  direct  presence  of  the  macrocosmic  Christ  through an  inner  experience  of  the  new  Holy  Spirit  who  proceeds   from  Him, who  quickens  the  soul  of    man  with a  universal,  cosmic  love, and   reveals  to  his  fully   awake  individual  ego-consciousness  a  perception  of   the     higher    worlds,  so  that  he  may  become  a   conscious witness  and   servant  of  the  Spirit. ” ~From ‘The  Cycle  of  the  Year   as  a  Path  of  Initiation, The  Mystery  of  Pentecost’  by Sergei O. Prokofieff

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Whitsun-Day, 15 May 2016,  

~Festival of United Soul Endeavor

A Biography Atelier with Leah Walker

2pm -4pm

at the Rudolf Steiner Branch 4249 N. Lincoln, Chicago

$10 includes all artistic materials

Warmth: Contraction/Expansion

The Pulse of Me & We – AUM = A – I stand for myself, – I stand for humanity, M – I stand for Life

Welcome Circle

What is Whitsun?

What is Biography Work?

It is good to remember that biography work (just like Whitsun) is really for the future–a more human and moral future.  It is an antidote to our increasing individuality, a remedy for the isolation so many of us feel deeply, painfully.  It is a new art form. In this, our current time, we may simply take small steps with and through biography–we may strive to develop this potentially great work.  ~Leah Walker

Exploring Ourselves as ‘Social Artist’:

Postcards’ – Imaginations that deepen our inner feeling for the role others play in creating who we are.

Life Triptych’ – Spontaneous Sketches, that open us to real moments from our lives; revealing the nature of our Spirit Self-hood.

We may therefore picture to ourselves that, by uniting in brotherliness in working groups, something hovers invisibly over our work, something like the child of the forces of the spirit self–  the spirit self that is nurtured by the beings of the higher hierarchies in order that it may stream down into our souls…In our groups we perform work that streams upward to those forces that are being prepared for the spirit self. ~Rudolf Steiner, Preparing for the Sixth Epoch, Dusseldorf, June 15, 1915

Spirit Recalling, Spirit Sensing, Spirit Beholding

Light divine,

Christ-Sun,

Warm Our hearts;

Enlighten Our heads;

That good may become

What from our hearts, We are founding,

What from our heads, We direct,

With focused will.

~Rudolf Steiner, The foundation Stone Mediation

Snacks to Share Encouraged !
For more info. Contact Hazel Archer Ginsberg ReverseRitual@gmail.com