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Now & Then

Poetry, Remembering

May 24, 2016

1543 – Death-day of Nicholas Copernicus

1612 – Death-day of Sir Robert Cecil, Secretary of State for King James.

1844- 1st telegraph message by Samuel Morse “What hath God wrought?”

1954 – Birthday of Barbo Karlen thought to have been Anne Frank (see Perseus Verlag)

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angel flying!David Howard Johnson

From a dream:

~My angel motioned toward a door

That opened from air into air.

With her eyes she asked

“Does your heart know the name of this gate?”

“Being” I said

“And the lands on either side?”

“Now & then”

“You may pass, she smiled,

See now the New Isis”

I stepped thru & nothing changed,

Yet I had entered heaven.

And in the distance a jackal howled at the stars.

~hag

On the High Tide of Blessings

Poetry, Remembering

May 23, 2016

Savonarola Girolamo (1)

1498 –Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy. Savonarola was an Italian Dominican friar. He was known for his prophecies & his calls for Christian renewal. He denounced clerical corruption, despotic rule & the exploitation of the poor. The Florentines expelled the ruling Medici &, at the friar’s urging, established a “popular” republic. Declaring that Florence would be the New Jerusalem, the world center of Christianity & “richer, more powerful, more glorious than ever”, enlisting the active help of Florentine youth.

In 1495 when Florence refused to join Pope Alexander VI’s Holy League against the French, the Vatican summoned Savonarola to Rome. He disobeyed & defied the pope by preaching under a ban, highlighting his campaign for reform with processions, bonfires & pious theatricals. In retaliation, the Pope excommunicated him.

A trial by fire proposed by a rival Florentine preacher to test Savonarola’s divine mandate turned into a fiasco. On May 23, 1498, they condemned, hanged, & burned him in the main square of Florence.

1533 – The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.

1934 – The American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.

1945 – World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Schutzstaffel, commits suicide while in Allied custody.

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heartshadow

~To my body I gave the power of my heart

Bee love & create I said

Beat within the grace of the world’s rhythms

A pulsing radiant sun

In tune with the music of becoming

A ferry thru dark churning waves

An oasis flowing with fresh waters

On the high tide of blessings

To open my head

In pure thought unfolded

~hag

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Dear Friends –

It is my intention to share some impressions, explore key themes & insights into the initiatory revelations that I am currently living with from my recent immersion in the Leminscate Arts Mystery Drama “The Working of the Spirit”. I may need a few days to chew over & digest, to catch my breath & come back into my meditative rhythm.  So until soon…

Xox

~hag = Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Lose yourself to find yourself

Chicago Event, Poetry, Remembering, Rudolf Steiner Quote

May 22, 2016

battle of Granicu

334 BC – The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.

337 – Birthday of Constantine the Great, Roman emperor.

1802 – Death-day of Martha Washington, 1st First Lady of the United States

1813 – Richard Wagner, German composer. Ilona Schubert is credited with connecting him in a former life to Merlin.

1849 – Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats over obstacles in a river, making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent.

1885 – Death-day of Victor Hugo. Prior to burial in the Panthéon, the body of Victor Hugo was exposed under the Arc de Triomphe during the night. Rudolf Steiner indicates he was a Hibernian Initiate in the Karma lectures vol. 2 lec. 14.

1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their “Flying-Machine”.

1947 – Cold War begins: President Harry S. Truman the Truman Doctrine.

1960 – The Great Chilean earthquake, the most powerful earthquake ever recorded measuring 9.5.

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veilpaintflowersLily Trofete

Calendar of the Soul Ninth Week [May 22, 2016 – May 28, 2016]

When I forget the narrow will of self,

  The cosmic warmth that heralds summer’s glory

  Fills all my soul and spirit;

  To lose myself in light

  Is the command of spirit vision

  And intuition tells me strongly:

  O lose yourself to find yourself.

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Mystery Working Marke

LAST CHANCE IN CHICAGO TO BE PART OF THIS JOURNEY: 

Lemniscate Arts Presents: “The Working of the Spirit” –  

The Readers:

Hilary/ Hierophantes – Marke Levene

Felix/Prophetes/Pelagios – Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Felicia – Kim Synder-Vine

Beate Truegood – Barbara Richardson

Trutman/Romanus/Dionysian Poet/Philokrates– Ed Schuldt

Nicholas Findig – Denise McCauley

Thodosius/Torquatus/ Orphic Poet – Meaghens Witri

Johannes/Alexandros – Seamus Maynard

Capesius/Neophytos/Chrysanthides – Matthew Dexter

Maria – Peneolpe Lait

Angel – Seamus Maynard

Double – Xavier Curry

Lucifer – Ariane Grossi

Astrid – Meaghens Witri

Philia – Denise McCauley

Luna- Kim Synder-Vine

Other Philia – Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Beneditictus – Duncan MacIntosh

Strader/Hesperon – Glen Williamson

Rnienecke/Kolotars – Xavier Curry

Arhriman – Michael Burton

Theodora– Barbara Richardson

Gairmanus/Magus Bell/ Appolonian Priest– Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Nurse – Christa MacBeth

Guardian – Meaghens Witri

i more Readers Theater performance TODAY Sunday May 22, 2016. 10:30am to 6:30pm – 

Estimated breakdown of Scenes:

Start: 10:30am -Scenes 1-2

Noon  – 15 minute break

12:15-12:45pm – Sc. 3,4,5

1-2 – Lunch

2-3:30pm – Sc. 6,7,8,9

3:30-3:45pm – Sc. 10,11

4:45-5pm – Break

5-6:30pm – Sc. 12,13,14

The End

Folks are invited to come & go as they like, but if you plan to enter sometime in the middle, please buy your tickets on-line ahead of time. 

 Contribution $15.00 – $45.00 per presentation – Get your tickets now at www.workingofthespirit.org 

Make checks out to Lemniscate Arts, Credit cards also accepted

Can’t make it? Make a donation to show your support

Wesak Mystery Drama

Chicago Event, Insight, Poetry

Haiku’s, ants & worms

Buddha-like the Moon sitting

All have the same face

On Buddha’s birthday

Spring rain beneath a full moon,

On Buddha’s deathday

Enlightenment in the Lake

Another sunset

~hag 

The Buddha (whose name means: *The Awakened One* or *One who Knows*) is regarded as the ninth incarnation of Lord Vishnu. He was born in 563 BC on the Full Moon of May in Vaisakh. Traditionally, Buddha’s Birthday is known as Wesak or Visakah Puja (Buddhas Day).

Wesak, the major Buddhist festival of the year, celebrates the birth, enlightenment and death of the Buddha on one and the same day, when the Sun is in Taurus, and the Moon in Scorpio.

The Full Moon in May is a mystically auspicious time – This ‘Buddha Moon’ is considered to be the greatest moment of spiritual contact for the entire year. Great polarities are said to be synthesized and consequently united at this festival. Hope is revived in the world, and great seeds of beauty, truth, and goodness are planted within us — qualities needed for the unity of humankind.

Ancient Wisdom asserts that there will be a new coming of the World Avatar and those beings who assist them. But the reality set forth and embedded within this festival, is that WE, as a living unit called humanity, are to be that World Avatar, when we can live as “Christ in me”…

The Wesak Festival provides us each year with a reception of the tools of love and wisdom, to fulfill this ancient prophecy. What all the higher beings have done, we can do also, taking up our responsibility as the 10th hierarchy to radiate the Christ Impulse out to all the kingdoms of Earth -becoming like little suns – emanating rays from the very core of our “I”, through the vehicle of our bodies, from our purified hearts, and specifically from our forehead, where our third eye is located. This is the Bulls Eye of Taurus – the Sun of May – and the mystery of the transformative Scorpio Moon.

The Full Buddha Moon is exact at 4:14pm CST, on May 21st 2016, we will see it rise over the Great Inland Sea of Chicago at 7:59pm, and it will set on May 22 at 6:15am.

~Hazel Archer Ginsberg

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Lemniscate Arts Presents: Opening the Realm of New Mystery Drama – 

“The Working of the Spirit” – 

The Readers:

Hilary – Marke Levene

Felix – Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Felicia – Kim Synder-Vine

Beate Truegood – Barbara Richardson

Trutman/Romanus – Ed Schuldt

Nicholas Findig – Denise McCauley

Johannes – Seamus Maynard

Capesius – Matthew Dexter

Maria – Peneolpe Lait

Angel – Seamus Maynard

Double – Xavier Curry

Lucifer – Ariane Grossi

Astrid – Meaghens Witri

Philia – Denise McCauley

Luna- Kim Synder-Vine

Other Philia – Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Beneditictus – Duncan MacIntosh

Strader – Glen Williamson

Arhriman – Michael Burton

Theodora– Barbara Richardson

Gairmanus Bell – Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Nurse – Christa MacBeth

Guardian – Meaghens Witri

2 Readers Theater performances: Saturday May 21 and Sunday May 22, 2016. 10:30am to 6:30pm – Each day is a staged reading in full, with breaks, of the new drama.

Estimated breakdown of Scenes:

Start: 10:30am -Scenes 1-2

Noon  – 15 minute break

12:15-12:45pm – Sc. 3,4,5

1-2 – Lunch

2-3:30pm – Sc. 6,7,8,9

3:30-3:45pm – Sc. 10,11

4:45-5pm – Break

5-6:30pm – Sc. 12,13,14

The End

Folks are invited to come & go as they like, but if you plan to enter sometime in the middle, please buy your tickets on-line ahead of time.  

Contribution $15.00 – $45.00 per presentation – Get your tickets now at www.workingofthespirit.org 

 Make checks out to Lemniscate Arts

Credit cards also accepted

Can’t make it? Make a donation to show your support

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In the I

Chicago Event, Insight, Poetry, Quote, Remembering

May 19, 2016 “History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man”. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley

1643 – Thirty Years’ War: French forces defeat Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi, marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant land power.

1792 – Birthday of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, the philosopher of the ”I”. Rudolf Steiner reveals a past life as Spinoza in GA 158

1895 – Birthday of Emil Bock, a German anthroposophist, author, theologian & one of the founders of The Christian Community.

In 1914 he began a study of languages at the University of Bonn. However, the same year he enlisted in the First World War & was sent to the front in Flanders, where he was wounded. In 1916, he met for the first time the theologian Friedrich Rittelmeyer, & from 1918 he studied Protestant theology in Berlin, & graduated in 1921. That same year he was one of the founders of the Christian Community in Switzerland. Bock soon became the leader of the seminary of the Christian Community, & after the death of Friedrich Rittelmeyer, he became the leader of the community in 1938.

In 1941, the Nazi regime banned the Christian Community due to its alleged “Jewish” & “Masonic” influence, & Bock was sent to a concentration camp. He was released from the concentration camp in 1942, but was under surveillance for the rest of the war. Yet, Bock was instrumental in the rebuilding of the community.

1898 – Death-day of William Ewart Gladstone a British Liberal politician. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times, more than any other person, & served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times. Gladstone was also Britain’s oldest Prime Minister; he resigned for the final time when he was 84 years old. According to Alfred Meebold, a personal student of Rudolf Steiner, Gladstone was Cicero.

1921 – The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.

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eyecosmic

~I am in the Eye

A hazel orb resting beneath golden lids encircling

Eyelashes growing like stalks of dark truth

I see beyond light shimmering

In every blade of greening leaf

Blue flames leap

Opening my pores

As I shine in & out of life

~hag

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A review from Copake:

Working of the Spirit Presents Powerful Pictures of the Soul Life of Contemporary Times in Readers Theater

This “new Mystery Drama” as it is being called is really a “must see” for anthroposophists everywhere!  It is compelling and well written, with a cast of actors well suited for the reading of such complex and compelling characters and interconnections! The actors have been assembled from around the world.

Over Whitsun weekend, Camphill Copake hosted a festival of “new mystery dramas” in “readers theater” format. Michael Burton, established author and lifetime student of Anthroposophy and Rudolf Steiner’s Mystery Dramas, wrote the Working of the Spirit drama.

Working of the Spirit will be presented in Readers Theater in two separate performances in Chicago on Saturday and Sunday, May 21 and 22. Tickets are available for purchase at www.workingofthespirit.org or at the door of the Chicago Branch 4249 North Lincoln Avenue. Requested donations start at $15.

Both Readers Theater performances of The Working of the Spirit will start at 10:30 a.m. As with Rudolf Steiner’s Mystery Dramas, the play is an all day event, with anticipated ending at 6 p.m. (Folks are invited to come & go as they like, but if you plan to enter sometime in the middle, please buy your tickets on line ahead of time 🙂

The journey of the play is well worth the long ride, however, with rich language – very deep and beautiful – and the depicting of the lives and relationships of earthly humans as well as spiritual beings.

Twenty actors portray the many characters and do a clear and moving rendering, as they read from scripts, bringing the play to life.  At Copake, the author, Michael Burton, portrayed the part of Trautmann and also read all stage directions to stimulate the imaginations of the audience. Michael’s speech and his clear voice made it easy to “see” the play.

This new drama, based on Rudolf Steiner’s four Mystery Dramas and featuring the characters from those four plays, continues their stories into the future.

Marke Levene’s immersion in the 1990s with Portal Productions on producing and touring Rudolf Steiner’s Mystery Dramas provided him a meditatively acquired outline of the fifth Mystery Drama Steiner had planned when the start of WWI blocked continuation. This play is an attempt to continue the story of these characters.  Michael Burton used Marke’s outline as his starting point.  By Patrick O’Neill