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Today on April 18th:

1775 – American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere warns the countryside of the troop movements

1857 – “The Spirits Book” by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France.

1906 – The “great” San Francisco earthquake. (Rudolf Steiner felt compelled to speak for the 1st time about the interior of the earth at Easter in 1906, because Mt. Vesuvius had just erupted on April 6th. The San Francisco earthquake hit on April 18th. Valparaiso Chile had an 8.2 magnitude quake August 16th, & then the next day, the Aleutian Islands got struck by a devastating magnitude 8.35 quake.)

Death Day of Albert Einstein, 1955

Zimbabwe Independence Day, celebrates their liberation from the United Kingdom in 1980

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POD (Poem Of the Day)

~From out the sounding color

When inspirations’ essence gives way

In the hallway of my intuition

There you are

Ticket-taker at the top of the stairs

Hinge of light

Scintillating Being

Blinding star-radiant Guardian

You are

The primal X

Standing at the nexus of my crossroads

Streaming terrible beauty

Into my future Self

~hag

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Why Reverse Ritual? some thoughts by Hazel Archer Ginsberg (Part 4 of 7)

Spiritual Science must go beyond knowledge – Only in the human being striving also in their feeling & willing, perceiving & co-thinking the spiritual content of anthroposophy, transforming & offering themselves up, does Spiritual Science become a living ritual, a cosmic ritual, a reverse ritual in the world.

How does the Offering become the leading principle in anthroposophy? Thru an attitude of tolerance, of brother & sisterhood – thru the support & loving connection of community.

We can find Communion in our relationship to nature & to the karma we share with each other.

We can experience Transformation in the workings of our own body, doing our part in fulfilling the grace given to us by the Sprits of Form.

But the Offering, can only come to pass when there is a selfless relationship between human beings, “from soul to soul”. Steiner brings this theme up again & again in “Awakening to Community” (GA 257) In these lectures he stresses the importance of branch life, how it must become a vessel or chalice for the Reverse Ritual.

In the 10th letter of “The Michael Mystery” Steiner compares the Sacramental ritual with the Reverse Ritual in regards to the mystery of community building – how the Sacramental Ritual prepares the way from Heaven to Earth for the cosmic-spiritual beings. And that the community receives a kind of awakening to the teachings of Christ, as well as memories they had in common in the life before birth, in the presence of the community angel.

In contrast to this, the Cosmic Ritual leads to what Steiner called the “awakening onto the other human being as divine” & that the forces of this awakened meeting lifts the participants up to the spiritual world. It leads from Earth to Heaven, & in this way it allows spiritual beings to become part of the human community by participating in our thinking.

“No religion exists yet. If you believe religion to be possible, it must be made, & brought forth out of the union of souls” ~Novalis

Until soon

Blessings & Peace –

~hag = Hazel Archer Ginsberg 

Anthroposophia Theomagica

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TODAY Mars goes retrograde until June 29th, 2016

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The birthday of Thomas Vaughan, 1621 –Welsh philosopher, remembered for his writings in the area of natural magic. We know him as the author of Anthroposophia Theomagica, a magico-mystical work. Vaughan sought to apply his alchemical skills to preparing medicines in the manner recommended by Paracelsus. He was a self-described member of the “Society of Unknown Philosophers”, & was responsible for translating into English in 1652 the Fama Fraternitatis Rosae Crucis.

Today in 1787 Goethe had his 1st experience of the archetypal plant in Palermo.

Death-day of Proclus, Neo-Platonist philosopher, 485AD

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Benjamin Franklin died on April 17, 1790 at the age of 84. Over 20,000 people attended the funeral of the man who was called, “the harmonious human multitude.”

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 Why Reverse Ritual? some thoughts by Hazel Archer Ginsberg (Part 3 of 7)

When we put our spiritual scientific research into practice with the 6 basic exercises etc…& begin to filter our cognition thru imagination, inspiration, & intuition, our thoughts become ‘entities’ that enliven the dead & dying matter surrounding us. This is a communion experience, which leads to a spiritualization of nature herself.

Communion also opens us to the path of karma that we share with our fellow human beings, awakening us to what is veiled in our encounters, so we can participate consciously. We must ask: Why is this meeting taking place? What does this sympathy or antipathy mean in my life? Thru communion we can become collaborators in this realm.

In explaining the stage of Transubstantiation or transformation, Steiner gives these verses which he named: “Spiritual Communion”

“In Earth-activity draws near to me,

Given to me in substance-image,

The Heavenly Being of the Stars:

In WILLING I see them transformed with love!

In watery life stream into me,

Forming me through with power of substance-force,

The Heavenly Deeds of the Stars:

In FEELING I see them transformed with Wisdom.” *1

Steiner tells us that the “Cosmic Ritual” brings about a transformation in our physical & etheric bodies thru our willing & feeling.

Everything that is mirrored in our being is related to the resting stars, which stand in the signs of the zodiac. We are connected in our physical organism with these constellations in space.

The etheric organism lives in the fluids of the body. Thru them we are connected with the deeds of the stars. These deeds are the movement of the planets.

The experience of the connection of the earthly with the fixed stars & the watery with the wandering stars can become the equivalent of receiving the bread & wine that has been Transubstantiated.

The above mantra points to the earthly & watery life in our physical organism & how, thru the effect of the Reverse Ritual they can be transformed into Love & Wisdom.

He goes on to touch on the next stage of Offering, by saying: “When knowing human beings summon up powers of will & feeling, they become sacrificial beings. The fundamental relationship of the human being to the world rises from knowledge, to Cosmic Ritual. The first beginning of what must come to pass if anthroposophy is to fulfill its mission in the world is that the human being’s whole relationship to the world must be recognized to be one of Cosmic Ritual.” *1

It’s interesting to picture that as these words were being spoken, on that fateful NYE in 1922, the torch had already been thrown into the roof of the south wing of the White Hall in the 1st Goetheanum.

On that New Year’s Eve, the building burned to the ground  – The offering was given.

One of the hardest sacrifices the Anthroposophical Society had to make – Due to the fact that the members were not able to make a sufficient inner offering , an outer offering was required.

Since then, the Goetheanum burns as a sacrificial flame within our hearts, as a reminder to make the Reverse Ritual our own.

*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 continue this thread tomorrow

Until soon

Blessings & Peace –

~hag = Hazel Archer Ginsberg 

The Mystery of Reversal

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According to Dr. Steiner TODAY is the birthday of Aaron = mountain of strength, illuminator – born in Egypt three years before his brother Moses, & after his sister Miriam.

When the time for the Exodus out of Egypt came, Aaron was the “mouth” or “prophet” of Moses, because he was gifted speaker.

When Moses ascended the mountain to receive the Ten Commandments, Aaron was permitted to accompany him part of the way, & to behold the manifestation in the burning bush.

Later the chiefs of the tribes were each required to bring Moses a rod bearing the name of his tribe. These were laid overnight in the tabernacle, & in the morning it was found that Aaron’s rod “for the house of Levi” budded, blossomed, & yielded almonds. Aaron was able to turn that rod into a snake to try & persuade the Pharaoh to ‘Let the people go’.

Aaron was considered a type of Christ figure in his official character as the 1st high priest, & was intended to lead the people of Israel to look forward to the time when “another priest” would arise “after the order of Melchizedek” (Hebrews 6:20).

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Born in 1889-Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, producer, screenwriter, & composer

April 16th is also the Death-day of the painter Francisco de Goya

In 1944, during World War II, the allied forces start bombing for the 1st time in Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. It was Orthodox Easter.

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POD (Poem Of the Day)

~Amid a crush of flowers

The heart ripens

A fruit fallen to the earth

Spilling seeds

That spread

Like blood-wine

From the lifted chalice.

                                      ~hag

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Why Reverse Ritual? some thoughts by Hazel Archer Ginsberg (Part 2 of 7)

The Mystery of Reversal was explained by Steiner as a way of understanding the workings of the Spiritual Worlds. One way to think of it is like this: When we die on earth, we are born into the spiritual world, & vice versa.

The birth mystery, as seen from both sides, becomes a series of little developmental ‘births’ –the 7-year rhythms of our biography, & as the journey thru the 7 planetary spheres between death & rebirth.

The Reverse Ritual arises out of the sense free thinking of human beings connecting to the Christ impulse – working in harmony with the order of the universe – to further imbue the world with the Christ Being. It belongs to both the inner spiritual striving of the individual & to the cultivation of anthroposophy within the community. This group endeavor, as seen for instance, in the celebration of a festival, creates a container for spiritual beings to work with us. 

In mutual consecration we experience the co-operation of the Hierarchies with the Ego of the human participants, appearing as a Ritualistic-Karmic event, a cosmic/earthly ritual.

The cycle of the year lives in the rhythmic system of the human being, as an active reverence, enlivening the life of thought & directing the force of will.

The giving & receiving is happening simultaneously on both sides – this is true Communion.

Receiving is a Transformation, both of the one who gives, & of the one who receives.

The nature of giving is an Offering, a delivering up or giving away – which becomes a source of Revelation.

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Tomorrow we go deeper

Until soon

Blessings & peace –

~hag = Hazel Archer Ginsberg 

Honest Abe/Why Reverse Ritual?

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TODAY on April 15th in 1452 Leonardo da Vinci was born. We hear of his former incarnations as Judas & as Augustine in GA 139

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It is the Feast Day of the Archangel Raphael

Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov died on this day in 1765. He was a Russian polymath, scientist & writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, & science. Among his discoveries was the atmosphere of Venus & the Law of Mass Conservation in chemical reactions. His spheres of science were natural science, chemistry, physics, mineralogy, history, art, philology, optical devices & others. Lomonosov was also a poet & influenced the formation of the modern Russian literary language.

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Abraham Lincoln was shot on this day in 1864, it was Good Friday.

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POD (Poem Of the Day)

~I’ve seen pain shed

Piled up like thin worn out husks –

Skin cast off at the door of the tomb

These burn up,

Their ashes fall & are carried

To the stream of unknowing

They form a slit in the river that grows food

A true life ended nourishes another

~hag

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Why Reverse Ritual? some thoughts by Hazel Archer Ginsberg (Part 1 of 7)

The Reverse Ritual has its origins in the realm of the highest, deepest & most comprehensive world reality in which the human being, the gods, & the cosmos existentially live, weave, & are present.

For the human being the experience of the highest divine unity is threefold. It is not just a passive thinking, feeling & willing – it is an active, creative, co-thinking, co-feeling, & co-willing with the Godhead.

The body of the Reverse Ritual consists of human thoughts, words & deeds that are ever striving to grasp & further spiritual knowledge, vis-à-vis a cosmic-artistic enlivening, creating paths in the eternal being of the human soul.

Ritual itself can be structured in an archetypal process that has come to us from the ancient mystery schools. We can understand these in phases, styled as:

  1. parts of a whole,
  2. as sequential stages,
  3. & also as simultaneous activities in which the other activities are always present & active.

The Ritual process changes as human evolution does. We see this change enacted as the ‘New Sacrament’ by the Christ Being himself at the Last Supper:

  1. Revelation
  2. Offering
  3. Transubstantiation
  4. Communion

And when Rudolf Steiner re-founded the ‘New Mysteries’ through Anthroposophia,  he laid the foundation for a new ritual, which he called the “Reverse Ritual”. Steiner also referred to it as: the “Ritual of Knowledge”, the “Spiritual Communion of Humanity”, the “Cosmic Communion”, the “World Ritual”, &”the “Cosmic Ritual”.

And as you can see below, it is a reversal of the Sacramental Ritual:

  1. Communion as pure thinking – “Spiritual Knowledge is a real communion, the beginning of a cosmic ritual that is suitable for human beings today” *1. We rise in our thinking to meet the spiritual world behind sense perception.
  2. Transubstantiation or Transformation, from matter to spirit
  3. Offering a meeting Ego to Ego “That good can become”
  4. Revelation of destiny unfolding as “Christ in Me”

I will elaborate more tomorrow.

Read the whole essay here Why Reverse Ritual?

Until soon

Blessings & Peace –

~hag = Hazel Archer Ginsberg 

Leo meets Attila/Rose-Well/9th stage

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TODAY is the Feast day of Leo the Great, Pope who convinced Attila the Hun to withdraw from Italy in 452 AD.

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POD (Poem Of the Day)

~Digging to dis-cover

The root of the rose

Only to reach

The well

~hag

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The 9th Stage: (Part 10 of the 12 part series) Encountering the Inner Layers of the Earth as a Rosicrucian/Christian Initiation, in relation to the Beatitudes and the 9-fold human being.

And so it is that 10 days after Ascension we come to: Whitsun or Pentecost, which correlates to the 9th stage in the Rosicrucian/Christian Initiation. I think of it as a Uniting with The Sophia – The Isis or Wisdom of Christ.

Of course this theme, which is of special interest to me, another focus of my spiritual scientific research, deserves its own series of lectures, but for now it will suffice to say: The Cosmic Being of the Sophia belongs to the Highest Heavenly realms. In relation to the earth, we can see this Divine Being connected to the sphere of the Sun as a star. Her highest member connected with humanity is at the level of The Spirits of Wisdom, her lowest member is the being of Anthroposophia.

In the past Lucifer had slain her, the task of the initiate is to re-member her, bringing Wisdom into the purified soul of humanity.

Without the marriage of Wisdom & Love, we cannot hope to understand & live into the Love that Christ brings.

In our time the Being of Anthroposophia working as the youngest member of the Cosmic Sophia is responsible for the path that leads to free thinking, loosened from the physical brain in anticipation of the age of Spirit Man. She is therefore leading humanity in the modern path of initiation, with the help of the cosmic intelligence of Michael, to unite us with the Love of Christ, which has been made available to human beings through the work of Christian Rosenkreutz & Rudolf Steiner.

In the stage of Spirit Man, the purified physical body – receives the substance of Atma & is able to truly live within its ideals.

The 9th layer is in opposition to Spirit-Man. Steiner called it “the last carapace of the Earth‘s immaterial Core,” & spoke of a relationship between this realm and the functions of the human brain and the forces of human and animal reproduction.  The spirit of the planet lives here; what Steiner called the ‘Earth Brain’ in his Mystery Dramas.

But here too lurks the sun demon, the being of the anti-Christ, Sorath.

When Christ, the “I” bringer, penetrated this primal point, redeeming the lost souls of the dead, the Resurrection took place, 1st at the gates of hell. With the Resurrection at dawn on Easter Sunday, what was preserved at the earth’s core from the Saturn condition, the archetype of the physical body, was renewed, & from the grave of the earth rose the ‘New Adam’ – the Resurrection body of Christ, which waits to be drawn towards humanity for “The New Jerusalem”. Here at the core, a golden sun is pulsing – the origin of the legend of Shambhalla.

To this Sorath, the “I” destroyer, and his minions the Asuras, work to oppose. The substance of this 9th realm, seeking to destroy this golden future, is the epitome of black magic, sowing hate, discord & separation. Here is where Dante put Cain, the brother killer.

Only the might of spiritualized love united with purified Wisdom, held by the most sublime initiate, can transform all that is physical, even the body of the earth herself.

The 9th Beatitude cautions us that to achieve such greatness we must face much resistance:  “Blessed are you when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in Heaven.”  

Rudolf Steiner encourages us with: “Blessed are you, who are especially called to carry the Name of Christ out into the world!”

This is the 9-fold human being – Spirit-Man in the making.

Until soon

Blessings & Peace –

~hag = Hazel Archer Ginsberg