10:10 Testament – Fuel for our Thought-Seed Egregore:

To direct our consciousness with intent is a magical act…the simple things we do every day can become powerful acts of purpose when our will gives them intention…Our bodies are incredible magical tools, making manifest our focused intent, co-creating with the creator our ultimate reality…we will be using our bodies quite a bit, in this life, for various forms of expression…so let’s tune into the temple of our bodies…

We can start by taking a deep breath together…Connecting our consciousness, to each other, thru our shared breath, which spreads like roots thru our feet to ground us into the power at the core of our planet…There is a lot of energy inside the belly of the mother…We can, if we use our will, pull it up, into the magical tool of our body, up thru our feet…& as the magnetic power at the core of our earth moves up, our legs, & vibrates into our spine…Feel it attracting the forces above our head like a magnet, pulling down, the energies of all the planets…As we become a conduit, a channel to the forces of the above & the below…

Open to receive the power of our Day-Star-Sun as it pours into the top of our heads…& the abundant potential of the moon tides…Waiting to be programmed by each of us…& as the above & the below meet in our center…Feel it pulsing in your heart…

Then let it expand out from our hearts…To set the energy spinning in the circle of all life…Joining us together as a human community…Spiraling the energy each in our own way, with our own expression of will to make sacred space…A safe haven…A Sanctuary…where there is no judgment…No right or wrong dance step…

Every connecting breath, a nurturing refuge, our own inner sanctum…Fostering the expression of compassion & unconditional love for ourselves, each other & our  Mother Earth, striving thru us to become a sacred Star…

To fully reveal the essence of our soul, our bodies too must be able to receive & speak the language of the Divine Spirit…Infusing our flesh & bones…Every cell & organ of our body…The very RNA & DNA, with its vitality…Immersing our beings in the essence of Spirit to Celebrate the Body as the Soul in Action…Living like we mean it…To co-create a life of Peace & Power, & healing Joy…

Do we have Sanctuary!?!…Then the circle is complete…Yet always open & ever growing & forever changing…Taking us away from the constraints of clock time…Into the Eternal Time of the Here & Now…Where we are the circle dancing the universe…Blessed be…

~hag

Medicine for our Soul on ‘I Think Speech’

1 June 2021 – “Speaking with the Stars”: As twilight fades out, look for Cassiopeia down near the north horizon: a wide, upright W. The farther north you live the higher it’ll appear

Rudolf Steiner’s Lectures on this day (RSarchives) The Four Sacrifices of Christ,
Basel, June 1, 1914, GA 152

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY (Rudolf Steiner’s orginal Calendar of the Soul, Wikipedia Commons)

International Children’s Day

1812 – War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom

1967 – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles is released

1968 – Deathday of Helen Keller, American author & activist

We are She – She are We – Embodying Love in Wisdom with Hazel & Ultra-Violet Archer

9:30 am PT / 10:30 am MT / 11:30 am CT / 12:30 pm ET / 5:30 pm GMT / 6:30 pm CET

The Holy Grail Study Group – Mysteries of the Holy Grail – from Arthur and Parzival to Modern Initiation June 2, 2021 – 7:15 pm Central (8:15 pm Eastern)

“When the pupil has recognized all the elements from which he must liberate himself, a sublime being of light stands before him whose beauty is difficult to describe in human language. This encounter takes place when the sundering of the organs of thinking, feeling and will extend to the physical body, so that their reciprocal connection is no longer regulated by themselves but by higher consciousness, which has now entirely liberated itself from physical conditions. The organs of thinking, feeling and will, have then become instruments under the sway of the human soul, which exercises its dominion over them from supersensible regions. The soul, thus liberated from all bonds of the senses, is now confronted by the second Guardian of the Threshold”~Rudolf Steiner, The Mysteries of the Holy Grail, Chapter 27, “The Parzival Saga as Modern Initiation”, excerpts from Steiner’s How to Know Higher Worlds … focus of the June 2 meeting. Note: we are starting with Chapter 27 as it provides foundational concepts. We will continue with Chapters 1 & 2 in the following session (July 7). This lecture can be found online at the CRC’s website by clicking this linkThe Central Regional Council of the Anthroposophical Society in America invites you to join our ongoing  study conversation.  The study has been divided among four volunteers who will summarize their section to rebuild it as a foundation for our conversation. Please familiarize yourself with the lecture if possible so you will feel comfortable sharing your reflections and thoughts with the group.This collection of lectures has been republished by Rudolf Steiner Press under the title: “The Mysteries of the Holy Grail — from Arthur and Parzival to Modern Initiation.”  The book was compiled and edited by Matthew Barton, published by Rudolf Steiner Press in 2010. This will be a “Zoom” conference call allowing us an opportunity to see one another while conversing (or audio only if you prefer).  To connect to the audio/video-conference: Video Conference Details: Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88210505106 Meeting ID: 882 1050 5106 One tap mobile +13017158592,,81116556762# US (Germantown) +13126266799,,81116556762# US (Chicago) Dial by your location         +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)         +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)         +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)         +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)         +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)         +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 882 1050 5106 Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcHr5EVwrv If you have questions, please contact Alberto Loya aloyavaca@utexas.edu

Agenda for this meeting (CST)   7:15  Welcome and Introductions         7:18  Verse 7:25  Study led by four volunteers Note: CRC team will ID volunteers           Marianne – pg. 179 to 186           Laura – pg. 186 to 194           Travis – pg. 194 to 199           Alberto – pg. 199 to end 8:05  Conversation 8:28  Close with verse

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Spiritual Science reveals our rhythmic system as the realm of the Feeling life, the middle pillar between Thinking in our head, & Willing in our limbs; harmonizing & connecting head, hands & heart.

In order to think, to perceive & remember, we breathe the ethers into our lungs, & this breath stimulates the warmth of our “I” in the life of our blood to permeate our being with formative forces.

We then breathe out into the world again. We populate the world with the product of our soul forces of thinking, feeling & willing.

What are we breathing into the world?  Is it light, love & warmth = forces of life? Or depending on our thoughts, are we breathing out darkness, hatred/scorn/division, coldness = forces of death?

Love, is a breathing out, a sharing, embodying our unification with the world. It is connected to freedom. Breathing out we are selfless – giving freely, sharing our essence. This gives us a sense for Destiny. We unite with our future as we once united with higher beings in the spiritual worlds in the past – & will again. We also do it every night when we fall asleep; & when we cross the threshold at death. We also experience this out-breath collectively as part of the bigger cosmic & earthly rhythms, particularly in Spring & Summer.

Breathing in, is a uniting with the Self, connecting the past with the present. Take a deep breath & feel into the consciousness of Self-hood. This gives us a sense for our Karma. We are meant to strive to live in the world with a moral memory of our time before birth, guiding us to be better human beings. We get to do this every Morning when we wake up & begin a new day. And in the future we can transform this autonomic function into a conscious breathing in of LIGHT!

What is it that lives in the rhythmic system & unites the in-breath & the out-breath in a living, warm, loving way? Since the ‘Turning Point of Time’ it is The Christ who lives in the rhythmic system – in the point & periphery of the expances. Can we feel this Being of Love living in the space between breaths, in the space between heart beats – Longing to bring in the light…?

This Sun Being transforms the necessity of memory & karma – the morality of the gods – into a love for a necessaity for freedom, which creates our destiny & opens us to the perception & oneness with higher worlds, which is our future.

And so it is, that between nerves / senses / limbs, lives our rhythmic system, which is related to our Sun born etheric body. It is here that Christ is crucified again & again thru materialistic thoughts, cold feelings, selfish, or heartless actions. Our materialistic thoughts are manifesting as dis-ease, depleting our formative forces, dying a death in our physical body, & with it deadening our consciousness of Christ.

How can we can resurrect our consciousness of The Being of Love within ourselves?

Practice SPIRIT-SENSING
In balance of the soul,
Where the surging deeds
Of world-evolving
Unite your own I
With the I of the world;
And you will truly FEEL,
In human soul’s creating.
For the Christ-will encircling us holds sway,
In world rhythms, bestowing
Grace upon souls.

How do we Sense Spirit? Can we become awake to what fills our heart with warmth, reverence & wonder – Love – in awe of the Spirit, the essence behind all life..?

This moves out again as Will – Can we strive to re-member in Spirit Re-calling, willing the good, in memory of our oneness with the creator god..?

This gives us the perception to bestow on our own “I” thru Spirit Beholding, a heart-thinking that co-creates with the Holy Spirit.

Living into the rhythms of the Foundation Stone, we become connected to breathing the Spirit in & out, like singing or mindful speech. 

Our breath becomes related to the Living Word, which thru consciousness transforms our blood – the substance of our “I”.

The Holy Spirit is connected to the Healing Wisdom of the Sophia which calls to us from the future. Just as the Kingdom of God will become the New Jerusalem.

We are being asked to make this Breathing in of Love & Light the new normal, as we make our way toward Whitsun…& into our co-created future that we must breathe into now…

~hag

Rudolf Steiner’s Lectures on this day (Help support the RSarchives!)

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY (resourses include The original Calendar of the Soul by Rudolf Steiner, Wikipedia, Anthrowiki, EarthSky.org, Skyandtelescope.org)

17 May 2021 – “Speaking with the Stars”

1510 – Death-day of Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter of the “golden age” of the Early Renaissance. He belonged to the Florentine School under the patronage of Lorenzo de’ Medici. Among Botticelli’s best-known works are The Birth of Venus & Primavera.

1606 – Murder of False Dmitriy I, the only Tsar ever raised to the throne by means of a military campaign. He was the first, & most successful, of three “impostors” who claimed, during the Time of Troubles, to be the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible.

Dmitriy married polish priestess Marina Mniszech. It was the usual practice that when a Russian Tsar married a woman of another faith, she would convert to Eastern Orthodox Christianity, but she didn’t because Dmitriy had obtained the support of Polish King Sigismund III Vasa & Pope Paul V by promising to reunite the Russian Orthodox Church & the Holy See.

This was considered a betrayal. Ten days after his marriage, commoners stormed the Kremlin & killed Dmitriy. The body was put on display & then cremated, the ashes shot from a cannon towards Poland.

He was the primary character in the opera Boris Godunov, & Modest Mussorgsky’s opera of the same name. His story is also told by Schiller in Demetrius, by Antonín Dvořák in his opera Dimitrij, & Rainer Maria Rilke recounts the overthrow of the False Dimitriy in The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge; Rilke’s only longer prose work. Harold Lamb fictionalizes the demise of the False Dimitriy in “The Wolf Master”.

1792 – New York Stock Exchange founded

1922 – Riot at a Rudolf Steiner lecture in Munich, reported in the New York Times

1973 – Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.

RUDOLF STEINER’S CALENDAR OF THE SOUL
translated (with added titles) by Roy Sadler
ASCENSIONTIDE
Foresight
v7
My Self is threatening to flee,
drawn strongly by the world’s inviting light.
Now you, my foresight, dawn in me your star
and my divining, firmly as of right,
replace the power of thought
that in the senses’ glory leaves me.

This is part of the square quartet, the only verses with the words
‘threatening’ (v7 & 46) or ‘death’ (v20 & 33). They can be regarded
as threshold verses, asking for a strong commitment to enter into
a new season. The word ‘Ahnen’ (translated as ‘dawning vision’ by
Brigitte Knaack) now makes its first appearance. Its the only word
for which I’ve kept the German sound: the ‘ah’ has the sound
that opens the soul to something new. Next week the Soul Calendar
will ask us to unite with the Spirit, lose ourselves in a Whitsun dream.
Our higher Self can then be found in cosmic light & warmth. Divine Being,
the star of who we really are, can enter us in summer senses’ heights.

Find a collection of the RECORDINGS of Presentations, Programs & Festivals HERE

Sangraal: A Pentecost Pilgrimage & Whitsun Festival with the Central Regional Council an experiential ‘Pageant’ written by Hazel Archer, taking us on a Quest from The Cauldron of Ceridwen, to The Holy Grail, & into The Sacred Vessel of the Sophia.

with Special Guests: Mary Mertz, Camille Vettraino. Eurythmy with Elizabeth Carlson, & Music with Ultra-Violet Archer

Join us on Whitsunday 23 May 2021, at 11 am PT / 12 noon MT / 1 pm – 2:30 pm CT / 2 pm ET / 8 pm CET

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Bio – Elizabeth Carlson – I was born and grew up in upstate [Woodstock] New York. I completed the eurythmy training at Eurythmy School Zuccoli in Dornach, age 24, and studied again later at Eurythmeum Stuttgart for two years. I have worked in Waldorf education since, in eurythmy, (in USA, SA and UK) for 16 yrs, in Early Years for five years, and intermittently in care for the elderly and learning disabled. I completed an MA in eurythmy (education) with Alanus University (Germany, but in the UK)  in 2016. I have lived in the UK, presently in Cardiff, Wales, since 1992. My son is 26.

Music by Ultra-Violet Archer – Here’s her solo stuff https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkdsh6zXYxE74LLlDiBE3uQ

https://ultravioletarcher.bandcamp.com/track/when-my-wings-dry

The discography https://soundcloud.com/ultra-violet-archer

Bandcamp has all the lyrics & you can ‘buy’ the album to show support for ‘In Case of Emergence’ by ‘Circles Edge’ her new band with Morgan Vallet

https://circlesedge.bandcamp.com/album/in-case-of-emergence

After working with Karma & Reincarnation for 3 years the CRC has chosen a new Theme: ‘The Mysteries of the Holy Grail, from Arthur and Parzival to Modern Initiation’

You are also invited to get the Book & Join us for study sessions through out the year as well. contact Alberto Loya aloyavaca@utexas.edu for more info.

We are She – She are We – Embodying Love in Wisdom with Hazel & Ultra-Violet Archer

9:30 am PT / 10:30 am MT / 11:30 am CT / 12:30 pm ET / 5:30 pm GMT / 6:30 pm CET