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On this Day:

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In 1616 – William Shakespeare died age 52

Born 1869 Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz

In 1919 – the 1st Waldorf School opened in Stuttgart

St George Killing the Dragon, 1434 by Martorell

Feast day of St. George – one of the ‘Fourteen Holy Helpers’ immortalized in the myth of Saint George & the Dragon. In the legend a dragon or crocodile makes its nest at the spring that provides water for the city of Lydda in the Holy Land. Consequently, the citizens have to dislodge the dragon from its nest to collect water. So, each day they offer the dragon at first a sheep, then a maiden. The victim is chosen by drawing lots. One day, this happens to be the princess. The monarch begs for her life to be spared, but to no avail. She is offered to the dragon, but then Saint George appears on his travels. He faces the dragon, protects himself with the sign of the Cross, slays the dragon, & rescues the princess. The citizens abandon their ancestral paganism & convert to Christianity.

The annual Lyrid meteor shower reaches its peaked today, but Lyrids will keep striking the sky in the following days. Unfortunately, the Full Moon will dampen the shower this year. The best views are just before morning twilight commences. The Moon then hangs low in the southwest & the constellation from which the meteors appear to radiate, Lyra, lies nearly overhead. If you face away from our satellite, you should see at least a few shooting stars. The only good news to come from the Moon’s interference is that it will wane to its New phase in two weeks when the Eta Aquariid meteor shower reaches its peak.

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POD (Poem Of the Day)

~You were once that innocent

A babe shrugging off the sleep of the womb

Wailing for the moon

Reaching toward the light…

We veil ourselves in the world’s illusion,

We learn to forget…

But today – Remember –

~hag

Full Buddha Moon

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On this Day April 22:

Born- 1724 philosopher Immanuel Kant

1840 painter Odilon Redon

1904 physicist J.R. Oppenheimer

Died- 254 Origen (which means *child of Horus* -his nickname was  Adamantios which means *unconquerable*, *diamond*) – Church father considered a heretic because of his belief in reincarnation.

earth dayRosy Lupeen

1970- 1st Earth Day  “There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.” ~Marshall McLuhan

“We can speak of Karma not only in the case of individual persons, for man should not consider himself as a single being. If the individual were to rise even a few miles above the earth, the result would be the same as if the finger severed itself from the body.

If we penetrate into spiritual science we are literally forced to admit through this knowledge that we should not delude ourselves to the extent of insisting that we are single beings. This applies to the physical world and even more to the spiritual world. Man belongs to the whole world and his destiny is involved with that of the entire world. Karma touches not only the individual, but also the life of whole nations.”

Source: Rudolf Steiner – GA 100 – Theosophy and Rosicrucianism: Lecture VII: The Law of Karma – Kassel, 22nd June 1907

passoverBarb Stein

1st night of Passover:

Mah nishtanah halailah hazeh mikol haleilot?
How is this night different from all other nights?

  1. Sheb’chol haleilot anu ochlin chametz umatzah, halailah hazeh, kuloh matzah.
    On all other nights, we eat chameitz and matzah. Why on this night, only matzah?
  1. Sheb’chol haleilot anu ochlin sh’ar y’rakot, halailah hazeh, maror.
    On all other nights, we eat all vegetables. Why, on this night, maror?
  1. Sheb’chol haleilot ein anu matbilin afilu pa’am echat; halailah hazeh, sh’tei f’amim.
    On all other nights, we don’t dip even once. Why on this night do we dip twice?
  1. Sheb’chol haleilot anu ochlin bein yoshvin uvein m’subin; halailah hazeh, kulanu m’subin. On all other nights, we eat either sitting upright or reclining. Why on this night do we all recline?

buddhabreathepeaceEdward Limton

Full BUDDHA Moon – Sun in Taurus, Moon in Scorpio

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.

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 & death of the Buddha on one and the same day, when the Sun is in Taurus, & the Moon is in Scorpio.

This ‘Buddha Moon’ is a mystically auspicious time – it is considered to be the greatest moment of spiritual contact for the entire year. Great polarities are said to be synthesized & consequently united at this festival. Hope is revived in the world, & great seeds of beauty, truth, & 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 & those beings who assist them. But the reality set forth & 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 & 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, & specifically from our forehead, where our third eye is located. This is the Bulls Eye of Taurus – the Sun – & the mystery of the transformative Scorpio Moon.

The Full Buddha Moon was exact at 12:23am CST. We will see it rise over the Great Inland Sea of Chicago at 8:12pm tonight. & it will set on April 23 at 6:28am.

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buddhabackmoonJames kinder

2 Haiku’s for the Buddha in you:

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

Nunc dimittis

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On this Day:

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-Birth Day of Simeon – the God-receiver, visited by the Holy Spirit & told that he would not die until he had seen the Christ. He was the “just and devout” man of Jerusalem who, according to Luke 2:25–35, met Mary, Joseph, & Jesus as they entered the Temple for the presentation at the Temple. On taking Jesus into his arms he uttered the Nunc dimittis & gave a prophecy alluding to the crucifixion.

According to Rudolf Steiner’s indications in GA 114, Simeon was Asita – a hermit ascetic of ancient India in the 6th century BCE. He predicted that Prince Siddhartha would either become an ideal universal ruler, or a supreme religious leader; Siddhartha was later known as Gautama Buddha.

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-570 Birthday of the Prophet of Islam Mohammed.

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-753 BC – Romulus & Remus found Rome

-Feast Day of Anselm von Canterbury, a Benedictine monk, abbot, philosopher & theologian who held the office of archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109.

Anselm composed dialogues & treatises with a philosophical approach, causing him to be credited as the founder of Scholasticism. He was famed as the originator of the ontological argument for the existence of God & of the theory of atonement.

-1789 – John Adams was sworn in as the first U.S. Vice President

-Death Day of Mark Twain 1910

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POD (Poem Of the Day)

spring birch people!

~Hail breath of Wisdom

Humming forth from

The throat of my beloved…

You thrill me

Like a seed bell calling spring…

& perfect peace…

~hag

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 Why Reverse Ritual?  ~some thoughts by Hazel Archer Ginsberg (Part 7 of 7)

Working with the Calendar of the Soul & the Foundation Stone Meditation can lead to Communion with the forces & spirits of the cosmos which can then work into our physical being in a homeopathic way to transform us.

In the big picture we can see that the Reverse Ritual encompasses all human creative activity. It can be attained in the world of pure thought, in all the arts, in the care of nature & its creatures, in therapeutic work, & in group meetings dedicated to the science of the spirit.

In particular, I use the formula of the Reverse Ritual in our Festival life. This range reaches down into the sphere of head, hands & heart – enhanced thru our connection with spirit beings in nature, in the cosmos, with living & departed souls, with the beings of the Hierarchies, & with the Christ Being.

“Living together with the course of cosmic life becomes a happening different in character from his connection with the facts of everyday life. It becomes a ritual, a cult. And so the cosmic ritual comes into being, in which man can have his place at every moment of his life” *1

“Our whole life is an act of worship. In ordinary life, we serve like priests at the altar.” ~Novalis

*1. Spiritual Knowledge is a True Communion: The Beginning of a Cosmic Ritual Suitable for the Present Age Dornach, New Year’s Eve, 1922-23 GA 219 (The fire that destroyed the 1st Goetheanum was discovered 1 hour after this lecture ended)

We will see what tomorrow will bring

Until soon –

Blessings & Peace –

~hag = Hazel Archer Ginsberg 

Karmic Will

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michael_binding_satan_print william_blake_William Blake

ON THIS DAY:

1232 Pope Gregory IX introduces the Inquisition.

1312 Pope Clement V abolished the Templar Order

1889 Adolf Hitler was born

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POD (Poem Of the Day)

~ A pool of sadness became a nest of vipers.

Derision hatched into bitter imps that gnaw my heart,

Mist my thinking & paralyze my will…

I strive to re member

Love

Is who i am…

                          ~hag

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 Michael beckoning!!!Arild Rosenkrantz

Why Reverse Ritual?  ~some thoughts by Hazel Archer Ginsberg (Part 6 of 7)

Anthroposophy itself traces its own source back to events that are connected with the evolution of humanity, both on Earth & in the spiritual world, especially in connection with the destinies of the Sun forces of Cosmic Intelligence, & its leader Michael, in the continuing work of the Christ Being himself.

The cosmic origins of the Reverse Ritual & Anthroposophy are the result of Michael’s participation with specific streams of humanity in preparation for the guidance of Michael as Time Spirit in 1879. Through this we see a connection with the cosmic rituals that occur before birth & after death, as well as the cosmic ritual of the Hierarchies on the sleeping human being. Here we also perceive the cosmic event of karma formation. (Reveled especially in the Offering stage of the RR)

“Every earthly ritual is a symbolic image of this cosmic ritual. This cosmic ritual is higher in comparison with every earthly ritual” (GA 219)

I end these thoughts tomorrow

Blessings & Peace –

~hag = Hazel Archer Ginsberg 

Revolve

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sun angelHans de Lapell

TODAY: the Sun enters Aries in the Sidereal Zodiac (Taurus in the Tropical)

Feast of the Holy Lance, the spear of Longinus – the centurion who pierced the side of Jesus Christ. Longinus, who was nearly blind, was healed when some of the blood & water fell into his eyes. He then exclaimed “Indeed, this was the Son of God!” [Mark 15:39]. Longinus converted, Left the army, took instruction from the apostles & became a monk in Cappadocia. There he was arrested for his faith, his teeth forced out & tongue cut off. However, St. Longinus miraculously continued to speak clearly. The governor, who was made blind by the demons that came from his idols, had his sight restored when St. Longinus was being beheaded, because his blood came in contact with the governors’ eyes. St. Longinus’ relics are now in the church of St Augustine, in Rome. His Lance is contained in one of the four pillars over the altar in the Basilica of St Peter’s in Rome.

Death Day: Pope Saint Leo IX, 1054, a German aristocrat & a powerful secular ruler of central Italy while holding the papacy. Leo IX is widely considered the most historically significant German Pope of the Middle Ages. His citing of the ‘Donation of Constantine’ (a forged Roman imperial decree by which the emperor Constantine the Great supposedly transferred authority over Rome & the western part of the Roman Empire to the Pope) in a letter to the Patriarch of Constantinople brought about the Great East-West Schism between the Catholic & Orthodox churches.

1775 American Revolution begins in Lexington

1995 Oklahoma City bombing

Death Day: Lord Byron 1824 (seeker after the Palladium )

Death Day: Charles Darwin 1882 (according to the Karmic Relationships Vol 1, lecture 10, his former incarnation was Tariq ibn Ziyad)

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POD (Poem Of the Day)

~In the beginning & at the end

The book is opened

And we see what we must

Remember.

We are made of god-stuff

The explosion of stars

Waves of light

Molded into form

Secrets writ large on the scroll of each soul

The laws of creation

Death & change inscribed in the blood

A Sun-seed ever expanding

In eternal thoughts

That lead to love…

But where is Wisdom?

~hag

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veil woman sunEdith Pulser

Why Reverse Ritual?  some thoughts by Hazel Archer Ginsberg (Part 5 of 7)

Rudolf Steiner spoke about the 4th phase of the Reverse Ritual by pointing to the connection between the Michael Mystery & the Christ Mystery. “We must find the path to Christ within”- The connection of the human “I” with the Christ “I”. Only then do we arrive at the Word, the Logos – The Revelation

The “festival of Knowledge” that Michael brings becomes an inner revelation. The sphere of Revelation has an apocalyptic character; an apocalypse in the “I”. And from this dark night, the lonely soul gains the forces to say ‘not I, but Christ in me’, grasped in freedom as insight, realized in love.

Renewed from within, this Revelation then radiates out to others, nurturing the seed impulse in the “Christed” inner being of humanity, streaming out into the cosmos, for the future. Here we see how “Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe”

This can generate a radical capacity to understand the world, our fellow human beings, & world evolution. A force of warmth lives in this. Borne of love, it activates the will, to compassion.

The Sacramental Ritual flows from Revelation thru to Communion in a closed, self-contained form.

The Reverse Ritual moves from Communion, over Transformation & Offering to Revelation. Its form is open; the community can start from any stage or can cultivate a specific one, while maintaining its connection with the whole.

The sacrament proceeds out of the sphere of the Son, from the proclamation of the Gospel.

The Reverse Ritual, in every case, proceeds out of the sphere of the human being.

…& so it is…

Blessings & Peace –

~hag = Hazel Archer Ginsberg