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Behold our Weaving

June 15, 2016Insight, Poetry, Quote, Remembering, Rudolf Steiner Quote, Summer~hag

15 June 2016 –

Look for Mars & Saturn near Antares, the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius the Scorpion. They make a noticeable triangle on the sky’s dome. Let the moon help guide your eye to Mars & the bright star Spica for the next several evenings. Then watch for the moon to swing away from Spica & more closely with Mars on June 16 & June 17. Then by June 18, the moon will move away from Mars to pair up with Saturn.

303 – St. Vitus Day. In the late Middle Ages, people in Germany & countries such as Latvia celebrated the feast of Vitus by dancing before his statue. This dancing became popular & the name “Saint Vitus Dance” was given to the neurological disorder Sydenham’s chorea. It also led to Vitus being considered the patron saint of dancers, actors, comedians, & epileptics. He is also said to protect against lightning strikes, animal attacks & oversleeping

763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history

991 – Deathday of Theophanu, Byzantine Empress of the Holy Roman Empire

1215 –Magna Carta sealed by King John of England & barons. First drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury to make peace between the unpopular King & a group of rebel barons, it promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, & limitations on feudal payments to the Crown, to be implemented through a council of 25 barons.

1648 – Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft

1667 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys

1752 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity

1775 –George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army

1816 – At the Villa Diodati in the village of Cologny, Switzerland, Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests — Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, & John Polidori — & challenges each guest to write a ghost story, which culminates in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori The Vampyre, & Byron the poem Darkness.

1896 – The deadliest tsunami in Japan’s history kills more than 22,000 people

1904 – A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City’s East River kills 1,000

1985 – Rembrandt’s painting Danaë is attacked by Bronius Maigys, a Soviet national, later judged insane, who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas & cuts it twice with a knife

1991 – In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century. In the end, over 800 people die

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~Watch-Out

Death always comes in 3’s

Yet Life is…a singular breath

Time is…a passive eye

O justice

When will truth be law?

~hag

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Part 5 in: A Summary of THE ST. JOHN IMAGINATION, from ~the Four Seasons and the Archangels, Lecture 4, by Rudolf Steiner

“…The Heights become Mysteries, the Depths become Mysteries, and man himself becomes a Mystery within the Mysteries of the Cosmos. Right into his bony system he feels the crystal-forming power. But he feels also how this same power is in cosmic union with the living power of light in the heavens above. He feels how all that comes about through mankind as morality in these Mysteries of the Heights lives and weaves in these Mysteries of the Depths, and in the conjunction between the two. He feels himself no longer sundered from the world around him, but placed within it, united above with the shining Intelligence, in which he experiences, as in the womb of worlds, his own best thoughts.

All this, too, would have to sound forth in musical tones — tones which carry these motifs on their wings and make them part of human experience. For these motifs are there. They do not have to be sought out; they can be read from the cosmic activity of Uriel. Here it is that Imagination passes over into Inspiration.

Man, however, lives in a certain sense as an embodied Inspiration, as a being brought into existence by Inspiration, in the Mysteries of the heights and depths and in the Mysteries of their conjunction. He lives in the Mysteries to which the Spirit-Father points upward; the Mysteries to which the Spirit-Mother points downwards, the Mysteries which are united by the fact that the Christ, though the working together of the Spirit-Father and the Spirit-Mother, stands directly before the human soul as the sustaining Cosmic Spirit.

That which is woven out of all these cosmic secrets I may put before you somewhat in the following way. It is as though the human being, placed in the midst of all that goes on in high summer, were to feel something like this. The first words endeavour to represent how the gaze of Uriel concentrates itself into Inspiration, united with the Spirit-tones of the whole choir:

Schaue unser Weben Das leuchtende Erregen Das warmende Leben	}	The Heights
Lebe irdisch Erhaltendes Und atmend Gestaltetes — Als wesenhaft Waltendes	}	The Depths
Fühle dein Menschengebeine Mit himmlischen Scheine Im waltenden Weltenvereine	}	The Midst The inner being of Man.

Here in these nine lines are the Mysteries of the Heights, the Mysteries of the Depths, and the Mysteries of the Midst, which are also those of the inner being of man. And then we have the whole gathered up as a cosmic statement of these Mysteries of the Heights, the Depths and the Midst, sounding out as though with organ and trumpet tones:

Es werden Stoffe verdichtet
Es werden Fehler gerichtet
Es werden Herzen gesichtet.

Here you have that which can permeate the human being at midsummer, supporting him, exalting him, confirming him — the St. John Imagination filled with Inspiration, the St. John Inspiration filled with Imagination — in these words:

Schaue unser Weben Das leuchtende Erregen Das warmende Leben	}	The Heights
Lebe irdisch Erhaltendes Und atmend Gestaltetes — Als wesenhaft Waltendes	}	The Depths
Fühle dein Menschengebeine Mit himmlischen Scheine Im waltenden Weltenvereine	}	The Midst The inner being of Man.
Es werden Stoffe verdichtet Es werden Fehler gerichtet Es werden Herzen gesichtet.

Behold our weaving, the kindling radiance, the warming life.
Live in the earth’s sustaining, and in the form-giving breathing,
with the power of true being.

Feel your very bones suffused with heavenly glory
in the presiding yoga of the worlds.

Substances are densified, errors are judged and rectified,
Hearts are sifted – Receive the light

~Rudolf SteinerTomorrow: A look into the Will

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

7pm – 9pm

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

Please Bring Food & Drink to Share in Community

RSVP ReverseRitual@gmail.com by June 17 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.

Will we endeavor to sing the secrets of our cosmic life?

June 14, 2016Insight, Poetry, Remembering, Rudolf Steiner Quote~hag

14 June, 2016 –

John Stolfo

Sunset 8:27pm CDT, yet the late twilight fades after 9:15pm this evening, & the waxing Gibbous Moon nearly overwhelms the bluish-white star Spica, about one third of the way up in the south-southwest. Although Spica will struggle to be seen with the brilliance of the moon, Spica is a powerhouse of a star. It is nearly 8 times larger than our Sun, & a blinding 12,000 times brighter.

‘Flag Day’ 1777 – The Stars & Stripes is adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States

1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty survivors including Captain William Bligh & 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 4,600 mile journey in an open boat

1789 – Whiskey distilled from maize is first produced by Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because he lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky

1900 – Hawaii becomes a United States territory

1907 – Norway grants women the right to vote

1919 – The first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight began. Captain John Alcot & Lt. Arthur Brown flew from Newfoundland to Ireland

1951 – “Univac I” was unveiled. It was a computer designed for the U.S. Census Bureau & billed as the world’s first commercial computer

1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words “under God” into the United States Pledge of Allegiance

1967 – The People’s Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb

1986 – Deathday of Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian author and poet

2002 – Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000

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~The eye opens differentiating

Colors in the light

Recalling me in this now

Knowing my name

It watches my heart

Wags my tongue

& Hangs the sky with Moon & Star

It is

Yesterday & tomorrow

A million years traveling

To reach the flowers in my hand

~hag

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

Like the call of conscience from John the Baptist, the need arises to let the light of the Higher Ego shine into our being, knowing that the union of creator & created is affected by any disharmony from our imperfect deeds; & also enhanced by our acts of Good Will.

Rudolf Steiner tells us that in spiritual observation there can appear, as a kind of culmination, this picture of Uriel’s eyes, mixed with the image of a white Dove. (See above) Then we feel how “the silver-sparkling blue below, which arises from the depths of the Earth, bound up with human weaknesses & error, is gathered into a picture of the Earth-Mother (blue). Whether she is called Demeter or Mary, the picture is of the Earth-Mother”.

So it is that we can bring together in Imagination “all those secrets of the depths which go to make up the material Mother of all existence; while in all that is concentrated in the flowing form above we feel & experience the Spirit-Father of everything around us”.

How can we “behold the outcome of the working together of Spirit-Father with Earth-Mother, bearing so beautifully within itself the harmony of the earthly silver, with the gold of the heights”? Between the Father & the Mother we behold the Son. This is an image of the Trinity, a true St. John Imagination.

At midsummer the Trinity reveals itself out of the heart of cosmic activity.

Steiner suggests that all that is living in these weaving pictures can only truly be expressed by the human being thru the power of music.

Like a vaulted background to this living picture reverberating as sound in the ethers, we feel the creative, admonishing gaze of Uriel, prompting the human being to sing & create music with the stars. Then the cosmic Mystery of St. John can speak directly to our head, hands & hearts.

“The silver-shining that rays up from below, and is revealed in the form-giving beauty of the light above, must be expressed at St. John’s-tide through appropriate musical instruments”.

What would it be like to explore through these musical harmonies, our own inner harmony with the cosmos? Will we endeavor to sing the secrets of our cosmic life? Can we give voice, to the improvisation living in this moment that unites us to the eternity of the Trinity?

“For in them the secret of man’s living together with the cosmos at St. John’s tide would have to sound forth. All this would have to be given voice in the music, so that in looking up to the heights we would be looking at the weaving gold of the cosmos, and would see the glowing form of Uriel emerging from the light-filled gold and directing his gaze and his gesture down to the Earth…All this would have to be not in any fixed form, but in living movement. That would be one motif, a heavenly motif through which humanity can feel united, with the shining Cosmic Intelligence”.

Tomorrow: The Weaving

Until soon

Blessings and Peace ~Hazel Archer Ginsberg

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June 13, 2016Insight, Poetry, Remembering, Rudolf Steiner Quote, Summer~hag

13 June 2016 – The next few days brings the earliest sunrises of the year. Although the Northern Hemisphere’s longest day doesn’t occur until Earth’s Summer Solstice (on June 20 this year), Earliest Sunrise happens before, & Latest Sunset several days after.

Domingos Sequeira

175 BC – Tobias accompanied by the Archangel Raphael

313 – The Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire

1231 – Feast Day of Anthony of Padua, Portuguese priest & saint

1381 – The Peasants’ Revolt, also called Wat Tyler’s Rebellion or the Great Rising. The revolt had various causes, including the socio-economic & political tensions generated by the Black Death in the 1340s, the high taxes resulting from the conflict with France during the Hundred Years’ War, & instability within the local leadership of London. Inspired by the sermons of the radical cleric John Ball, & led by Wat Tyler, a wide spectrum of rural society, including many local artisans & village officials, rose up in protest, burning court records & opening the local gaols. The rebels sought a reduction in taxation, an end to the system of unfree labor known as serfdom.

King Richard II, then aged 14, retreated to the safety of the Tower of London. On 13 June, the rebels destroyed the Savoy Palace. The following day, Richard met the rebels & acceded to most of their demands, including the abolition of serfdom.

1525 – Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns

1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first colony to ban the importation of slaves

1864 – Birthday of Rudolf Kjellén a Swedish political scientist & politician who first coined the term “geopolitics”, Rudolf Steiner spoke about him in Karma of Untruthfulness GA 173/174

1865 – Birthday of W. B. Yeats, Irish poet & playwright, Nobel Prize laureate

1886 – Deathday of Ludwig II of Bavaria, patron of Wagner

1886 – A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia

1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them

1971 – Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers

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~I am cloaked in light

Loved & touched & bound by light, To enter Light…

My heart bares scars to prove I’ve lived

I’ve learned

The story of my existence as I live it

As it is spoken from the mouths of gods…

I lift my face to eternity

And am blessed by the kiss of Day…

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Part 3 in: A Summary of THE ST. JOHN IMAGINATION, from ~the Four Seasons and the Archangels, Lecture 4, by Rudolf Steiner

Can you hear the voice of conscience?

At the fullness of Summer, the light is so bright that it leaves no room for the shadow to hide. High Noon is the hour of judgment – a good time to remember what John said “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

What is this deep longing we can have as human beings, to understand the purposeful Summer gaze of the powerful Archangel Uriel? Looking downward we have the impression we can learn to look with spiritual eyes into the blue, silver-gleaming depths of the Earth in summer. And Steiner tells us that weaving around these silver-gleaming crystalline rays are shapes — he calls them “disturbing shapes, which continually gather & dissolve”. We can come to an imagination that we may perceive these shapes as “human errors which stand out against the natural order of regular crystals here below”.

It is to this that Uriel directs his earnest gaze. Here during the height of summer the imperfections of humankind, in contrast to the regularity of the growing crystal forms, are measured. From Uriel we gain the impression of how human morality becomes interwoven with nature.

Here we see that the moral world-order is not abstract, we see that humanity has an effect in the world, for good or for ill. On the one hand, “all that is in human virtue & human excellence rises up with the silver-gleaming lines & is seen as the clouds that envelop Uriel (red). It enters into the radiant Intelligence, transmuted into cloud-shaped works of art”.

But it is impossible to look towards the increasingly earnest gaze of Uriel, directed towards the depths of the Earth, without also seeing there the human deeds that have missed the mark. To this the Archangel must direct us with: “wing-like arms, raised in earnest admonition, and this gesture by Uriel has the effect of imparting to humankind, what Steiner calls, ”the historic conscience”.

This is Uriel’s “warning gesture”, pointing out how shabby humanity’s moral compass has become. And this reality comes as a mighty, living picture into our conscience.

“And now if we have gained the impression of the connection of human morality with the crystalline element below and of human virtues with the shining beauty above, and if we take these connections into our inward experience, the real St. John Imagination will come to meet us”.

Tomorrow we meet Demeter

Until soon

Blessings and Peace ~Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Shavuot

June 11, 2016Festival, Insight, Poetry, Quote, Remembering~hag

Saturn-Day 11 June 2016

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, 2016Chicago Event, Festival, Lecture, Poetry, Remembering, Rudolf Steiner Quote, Summer~hag

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”.

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

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Behold our Weaving

Will we endeavor to sing the secrets of our cosmic life?

Can you hear the Voice of Conscience?

Shavuot

THE ST. JOHN IMAGINATION

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