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The Bridging Project

Central Regional Council, Remembering, Soul to Soul

Dear Members and Friends of Anthroposophy in the Central Region-

The Bridging Project: Between Life and Death from Soul to Soul

We have begun the study for our new CRC Initiative: Rudolf Steiner’s lecture cycle entitled Historical Necessity and Freewill given in Dornach, December 9, 1917. This will provide the study content for our work together in addition to inviting special guests to offer fruits from out of their research and work. This collection of lectures has been republished under the title: “The Influence of the Dead on Destiny”, here is the link: https://steiner.presswarehouse.com/books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=179577

From these first steps we have laid out a series of “go-to-meeting” conference calls to which all members and friends interested in delving into this topic are warmly invited.

The audioconference invitations will be sent out ahead of time for individuals to register or plan to call in on their telephones to join the call.
Each call will be an hour and a quarter from 7:15 – 8:30 pm CST (8:15 – 9:30 pm EST).

Meeting Schedule
April 27th with guest Marianne Dietzel: Communicating with our Beloved Dead

August 10th with guest Maureen Flannery: Home Funeral Alliance; Prompts for writing poetry for the dead

October 26th with guest Dwight Ebaugh: Life between death & Re-birth

February 1st 2017 with guest
Mark Miller: Spirit Parks, an alternative to cemeteries

May 3rd 2017 TBA

May love of hearts
reach out to love of souls
May warmth of love ray out
to Spirit-light
Even so would we draw near to you
Thinking with you
Thoughts of Spirit
Feeling in you the Love of Worlds
Consciously at one with you
Willing in silent being.
Rudolf Steiner

From the Central Regional Council, Hazel Archer-Ginsberg, Dennis Dietzel, Marianne Fieber-Dhara, Raven Garland and Alberto Loya

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TODAY! on St. Patrick’s Day, Thursday March 17th 2016.
4pm – 6:45pm
Come help design & create
A ‘Waldorf Inspired Nature scene’
for our storefront windows, celebrating SPRING!!!
Bring your (non-denominational) Spring Treasures:
lots of green silks, flowers, animals with their babies, birds building nests, etc…
(We will return them when we change the scene for each season)
for info. contact Hazel ReverseRitual@gmail.com
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Rudolf Steiner Branch of The Anthroposophical Society,
4249 North Lincoln Avenue. Chicago, IL 60618
Check out our Web site!
Chicago, IL (Anthroposophical Society in America)

http://www.anthroposophy.org/groups/chicago-il/

Remembering – Sergei O Prokofieff’s Death Day

Remembering

Dear Friends –

Many in the Anthroposophical Society are planning to lift their thoughts up to Sergei Prokofieff tomorrow Sunday, July 26th, 2015, at 10am, wherever you are in the world.

This is the one year anniversary of his passing into the spiritual world.

Holding an imagination of a ‘soul chalice’, a ‘wave’ of love surrounding and uplifting and soaring with him from human beings everywhere on earth, sending love and appreciation for his gifts, to all Michael students and beyond.

Perhaps speaking the Foundation Stone Meditation, or whatever it is you might like to offer from your heart.

Many have been holding the commitment of accompanying our brother Michaelite, especially for this 1st year, as he revisits the last three years of this earthly life, the time of his illness.

 

May he not walk alone! Now is the time for our whole community to come together in a healing space. No matter where you are, we are together in spirit.
Sergei Olegovitch Prokofieff
16 January 1954 – † 26 July 2014

Upward to thee strive the love of my soul,
Upward to thee flow the stream of my love!
May they sustain thee,
May they enfold thee
In heights of Hope,
In spheres of Love.

~Rudolf Steiner

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Remembering Rudolf Steiner’s Death Day – March 30th

Remembering,

 

Ninety years ago – today – Rudolf Steiner left the physical plane.

“None of us had expected that Rudolf Steiner would succumb to the illness. The mortal sheath, just abandoned by the spirit setting out on its far journey, was resting on the death-bed at the foot of the Christ statue which stood there almost completed. Those who looked at the face of the dead could see what the spirit can make of the body in the life of a truly great man on earth. The sublimity and purity of his features was equal to every test and unsurpassed. Perhaps the death mask, if it is ever reproduced as a picture, will be a means of convincing many.

Again and again one’s gaze turned from the forsaken earthly body to the great Christ figure which points with compelling gesture into the future. The disciple had fallen at the feet of the Master. It was as if Christ were taking the disciple to Himself with sheltering arms while He Himself went forward with unceasing step towards the future of the world. The disciple’s mission was fulfilled. The Master’s brow was radiant with the light of divine world-purposes. When, at the wish of Frau Dr. Steiner, and in the solemnly decorated hall where Dr. Steiner had given most of his great lectures, I was performing the burial service according to the ritual of The Christian Community, a drop of the sprinkled water fell in the centre of the forehead and shone there through the whole service like a sparkling diamond. The light of many candles was reflected in this glittering star – even as the revelations of light from higher worlds had been reflected in his spirit. Thus adorned, the body sank into the coffin. To me it was as if higher Spirits had indicated in an earthly picture what it had been our lot to experience. When the service was at an end, one impression lived mightily within my soul: “This work is now completed. Like a great question it stands there before mankind. If all who belong to that work dedicate their powers to it with single purpose, it will prevail!”

~ Friedrich Rittelmeyer

Remembering Sergei Olegovitch Prokofieff

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Today, 16 January 2015 would have been the 61stbirthday of Sergei Olegovitch Prokofieff – (16 January 1954 – 26 July 2014)

Born in Moscow, (grandson of the famous Russian composer) he studied fine arts and painting at the Moscow School of Art.

He encountered anthroposophy in his youth, and soon made the decision to devote his life to it.

He wrote his first book, Rudolf Steiner and the Founding of the New Mysteries while living in Soviet Russia; first published in German in 1982,  & then translated into English in 1986. After the fall of communism, he was co-founder of the Anthroposophical Society in Russia,

and at Easter 2001 he became a member of the Executive Council of the General Anthroposophical Society in Dornach, Switzerland.

Sergei O. Prokofieff was a prolific author, whose work focused on developing a deepened understanding for the Christian path of esoteric knowledge based on the foundation of Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual-scientific research. More than 30 of his books have been translated into English.

Sergei Prokofieff passed away in Dornach, Switzerland on 26 July 2014.

Rest in Peace dear warrior for Michael. You work with us now from the spiritual world.

 

Verse for our beloved dead

By Rudolf Steiner

May my heart-love reach to soul-love.

May my love’s warmth shine to spirit-light.

Thus, I draw near to you.

Thinking spiritual thoughts WITH you,

Feeling cosmic love IN you,

Willing in spirit THROUGH you –

Weaving with you

One in experience.