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“Society changes not thru outer agitation but from human beings acting out of their own threefoldness.”

May 29, 2016Insight, Remembering, Rudolf Steiner Quote~hag

May 29, 2016 “What is presented here can be useful to those who wish to follow the path of humankind’s spiritual development” ~Rudolf Steiner

4^th Quarter Moon

1328 – Philip VI is crowned King of France.

1453 – Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire

1886 – The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal

1919 – Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity is tested

1932 – Deathday of Eliza von Moltke, esoteric pupil of Rudolf Steiner who received the “post-mortem” communications from Rudolf Steiner. Wife of General Helmuth von Moltke, The Younger. See “Light for the New Millennium: Rudolf Steiner’s Association with Helmuth & Eliza von Moltke” This collection of letters and documents deals with themes that are of tremendous significance for our time: especially karma and reincarnation; life after death; the workings of evil; the destiny of Europe; and the hidden causes of the First World War. It also tells the story of the meeting of two great men: Rudolf Steiner and Helmuth von Moltke (1848-1916), Chief of the general staff of the German army during the outbreak of the First World War, who was dismissed from his post in 1914 following disagreements with the Kaiser.

Moltke first came into contact with Steiner through Eliza. Steiner’s connection to Moltke included personal meetings, letters, and clairvoyant messages after the General’s death. These communications are reproduced here in full, along with a key interview with Rudolf Steiner for Le Matin and commentaries and essays by Jürgen von Grone, Jens Heisterkamp, Johannes Tautz and T. H. Meyer.

See also Helmuth Von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War By Annika Mombauer

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Calendar of the Soul Tenth Week [May 29, 2016 – June 04, 2016]

To summer’s radiant heights

The sun in shining majesty ascends;

It takes my human feeling

Into its own wide realms of space.

Within my inner being stirs

Presentiment which heralds dimly,

You shall in future know:

A godly being now has touched you.

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In thinking about: “The Working of the Spirit” by Michael Burton & Marke Levene. Part 4 (program for the Chicago reading)

In Scene 3 we become aware thru the interaction between chief executive Hilary & the esoteric teacher Benedictus that change in the outer world must start with personal change. Then it is possible to look at the question of creating new social forms in which the spirit can be received.

The spiritual teacher gives us a glimpse into the inner workings of the present & the possibilities opening for the future. Our current conflicts are negatively affecting The Spirit of the Elements, showing outwardly the shadow side of the new capacities trying to be born in humanity. Yet on a personal level these imbalances are an opportunity for a furthering of initiation, preparing the way for the true ideals of brotherhood to be born.

There are powers that are hostile to these ideals, “That’s why the creation of loving relationships is the highest and most noble activity that our work can engender, more important than anything else”. Then Benedictus asks Hilary “What’s the underlying truth behind every one of your work-practices? Do the relationships that unfold in your factory, and the words spoken there, enliven the lives of your workers, or do they stifle free initiative and creativity?”

There needs to be an emphasis on the moral forces that must guide the new technology, but we have to realize these moral forces within ourselves. “Society changes not thru outer agitation but from human beings acting out of their own threefoldness.” We must continue to strive to apply this in our daily lives, remembering that Spiritual beings long to become active thru us when human beings work together.

This is the cue for Theodora & Strader who work from the spiritual realms to chime in showing their support & reminding Hilary that the Christ Impulse is there even if he can’t see it.

Of course whenever powerful forces of love & light enter, it seems the adversarial powers are not far behind. And so it is that Ahriman enters with discouraging words that play on old fears.

Tomorrow we explore Strader’s after-death experiences in Kamaloca.

Until soon

Blessings and Peace ~Hazel Archer Ginsberg

To Gentle the Knot

May 26, 2016Insight, Poetry, Remembering, Rudolf Steiner Quote~hag

May 26, 2016, National Paper Airplane Day

604 – Deathday of St. Augustine of Canterbury

1293 – An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, killing about 30,000

1521 – Luther outlawed

1805 – Napoléon Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in Milan Cathedral, the gothic cathedral in Milan.

1828 – Kasper Hauser appears in Nuremberg on Whit Monday “The Child Of Europe”

1830 – The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.

1896 – Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.

1976 – Deathday of German Philosopher Martin Heidegger

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“In giving speech artistic shape and form the healthy co-operation and harmonization of body, soul and spirit becomes manifest. The body shows whether it is able to incorporate the Spirit correctly; the soul reveals whether the spirit lives in it truly; and the Spirit is vividly present working directly into the physical. Those taking part in speech courses have a direct personal experience of the revelation of Anthroposophy in the activity of Man. Here it may be regarded as a testing of Anthroposophy that it is in a position to enable the art of speech to come to life again, in its full significance.” ~Rudolf Steiner

In thinking about: “The Working of the Spirit” by Michael Burton & Marke Levene. Part 1 – (program for the Chicago reading)

A troupe of about twenty actors, came into Chicago on May 18^th 2016, including folks like: Glen Williamson, Matthew Dexter & Kim Synder-Vine, with director Henry-Cameron Allen from Gloucester, Massachusetts, & writer Michael Hedley Burton, from Australia, with producer Marke Levene & eurythmist Barbara Richardson… Everyone open to taking on whatever the play needed…Ensouling our branch with their graceful presence, striving thru 12 hour days in rehearsal, weaving together in an intentional karmic-knot for the Readers Theater production that auspiciously premiered on the day of the Full Buddha Moon, May 21^st, 2016.

It brought back for me the grand experience of 2 years ago:

I wrote this 13 August 2014, Dear Sisters and Brothers-

I stood in a circle with a cast and crew of over 69 souls involved with the Mystery Dramas in Spring Valley, NY; in what felt like the center of the Temple of the New Mysteries. Throughout the tech week, on into the 10 day conference, I held a picture of the legend of Christian Rosenkreutz – how every hundred years his tomb is opened, signaling a sea-change in consciousness; knowing that it’s been over a hundred years since the seeds for the Mystery Dramas were sown by Rudolf Steiner with the help of Marie Steiner and their crew across the sea.

It was fitting that the 1^st play “The Portal of Initiation – A Rosicrucian Drama” was performed on the eve of the Full Corn Moon, affirming that those seeds planted a century ago have now been reaped in bounty – brought into fullness through our collective harvest.

We can most certainly say that the Seals have now been opened on the Mystery Dramas here in North America!

I feel honored that my small thread was woven into this historic karmic knot, to help create the tapestry of these dramas, which reveal in artistic form, the core of anthroposophy, and especially Steiner’s teachings on karmic relationships.

May this poem, written on our ‘free day’, remind us that the drama of initiation is enacted by all of us every day on the stage of our lives.

‘I see your star’

Wisdom in Love

Hope in Truth

Truth in Christ

Faith

That sacrifice will answer

The call of pain

To gentle the knot

In patient thankfulness

‘Remain with me united’

To root

‘The Uprooted’

Resounding anew

The song of Cosmic Will

While choirs of Angels

Weave Love’s grace

To balance light with warmth

In us.

~hag

Tomorrow: a Drama of Initiation

Until soon

Blessings and Peace ~Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Lose yourself to find yourself

May 22, 2016Chicago Event, Poetry, Remembering, Rudolf Steiner Quote~hag

May 22, 2016

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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Lily 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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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

Creative Fire

May 20, 2016Chicago Event, Insight, Quote, Remembering, Rudolf Steiner Quote~hag

May 20, 2016

325 – The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church

526 – An earthquake kills about 250,000 people in what is now Syria and Antiochia

1444 – Feast Day of St. Bernardine of Siena. Most of the saints suffer great personal opposition, even persecution. Bernardine, by contrast, seems more like a human dynamo who simply took on the needs of the world.

He was the greatest preacher of his time, journeying across Italy, calming strife-torn cities attracting crowds of 30,000.

When he was 20, the plague was at its height in his hometown, Siena. Sometimes as many as 20 people died in one day at the hospital. Bernardine offered to run the hospital &, with the help of other young men, nursed patients there for four months.

At 22, he entered the Franciscan Order. For almost a dozen years he lived in solitude & prayer, but his gifts ultimately caused him to be sent to preach. He always traveled on foot, sometimes speaking for hours in one place, & then doing the same in another town.

Bernardine devised a symbol—IHS, the first three letters of the name of Jesus in Greek, in Gothic letters on a blazing sun. Opposition arose from those who thought it a dangerous innovation. Three attempts were made to have the pope take action against him.

General of a branch of the Franciscan Order, the Friars of the Strict Observance, he strongly emphasized scholarship. When he started there were 300 friars in the community; when he died there were 4,000. He returned to preaching the last two years of his life, dying while traveling.

Madonna of the Magnificat by Botticell, shows Lucrezia de’ Medici as the Madonna, surrounded by her children with Lorenzo holding a pot of ink

1503 – Death-day of Lorenzo de’ Medici

1609 – Shakespeare’s sonnets are first published in London

1806 – Birth-day of John Stuart Mill, an English philosopher, political economist &civil servant. He has been called “the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century.” Mill’s conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control.

1932 – Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world’s first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day

1956 – In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean

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~Look, I have light

In my eyes

And on my skin…

The warmth of a star…

And everything alive is turning

Into something else

In the alchemical Heart

Of some annihilating

Yet creative fire

That is burning unnoticed

Waiting to touch

Me & You…

~hag

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Dear Friends – Can you feel the excitement building? Twenty actors, including Glen Williamson & Kim Synder-Vine, with director Henry-Cameron Allen from Gloucester, Massachusetts, & writer Michael Hedley Burton, with producer Marke Levene & eurythmist Barbara Richadson…Are all here, ensouling our branch with their graceful presence, striving in rehearsal, bonded together for the Readers Theater production this weekend.We hope you will join us.

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

“The Working of the Spirit” –

TWO 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.

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

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

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

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Rudolf Steiner Branch of The Anthroposophical Society,

4249 North Lincoln Avenue. Chicago, IL 60618 (map)

Check out our Web site!

Chicago, IL (Anthroposophical Society in America)

In the I

May 19, 2016Chicago Event, Insight, Poetry, Quote, Remembering~hag

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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~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

Cognitive Ritual

~Confessions of a Modern Rosicrucian

Category Archives: Quote

“Society changes not thru outer agitation but from human beings acting out of their own threefoldness.”

To Gentle the Knot

Lose yourself to find yourself

Creative Fire

In the I

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