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The Logos in lemniscate

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TODAY:

St Mark

The Feast Day of St. Mark – the Winged Lion. The Mark Gospel reveals Christ as a Cosmic Being. It speaks in the “language of the macrocosm.”

Every word in St. Mark’s Gospel indicates great cosmic connections between processes in the universe and every step taken and every deed performed by Christ in the body of Jesus of Nazareth here on Earth. If you were to draw a map of the paths He trod and the deeds He performed and were then to study the corresponding processes in the heavens, the picture would be the same: processes in the heavens would seem to have been projected down to the Earth.

The Gospel of St. Mark gives expression to the wonderful harmony between the great Cosmos and what was to come to pass once on our Earth through the deeds of Christ Jesus and the Mystery of Golgotha. We cannot understand this Gospel unless we can decipher the writing of the stars and that requires insight into the secrets of the language of the heavens. ~Mystery Teachings in St. Mark’s Gospel by Rudolf Steiner.

Born 1599 – Oliver Cromwell

Died 1744 – Anders Celsius a Swedish astronomer, physicist & mathematician. He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University. In 1742 he proposed the Celsius temperature scale which bears his name.

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POD (Poem Of the Day)

~I am blind until the moment I see

Thru another soul’s eyes

Listening with my hands

Lips pressed in prayer

My head rests in love

Limbs moving in sync with the will

Of spirit ensouled

The Logos in lemniscate

Strengthening the ether

In visible speech we stand

Together at the center of forever

~hag = Hazel Archer Ginsberg 

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)

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~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 

Equanimity: The 2nd Stage

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“I am — It thinks — She feels — He wills” ~Esoteric Lessons by Rudolf Steiner 

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The 2nd Stage: (Part 3 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.

Next we contend with the 3rd of the 6 basic exercises, & meet the 8-fold path in the teachings of the Buddha, at this 2nd stage of the Christian Initiation called by Steiner: The Scourging.

We know that life brings all kinds of suffering— physical, moral, intellectual, even spiritual. The disciple must endure suffering with perfect equanimity of soul & heroic courage. We can’t run away, we must conquer physical & moral fear.

When we become fearless, Steiner tells us we may be able to see, in lucid dream, the scene of the Scourging. As our compassion deepens we may begin to see ourselves in the Christ Who is scourged.

Certain symptoms or indications in physical life accompany this event: There is an intensification in the life of feeling, a wider sense of what can be called a love of life.

Steiner gives us the example in the life of Goethe – his sublime intelligence on the one hand, but also his intense sympathy with all living beings, which gave him the key to unlock the mysteries of nature.

This is a refinement & an extension of the forces of life. So you see, this is connected to the etheric body, which gives the compensation for the trial of the Scourging. When the neophyte acquires a feeling of love for all beings this gives a sense of living in the heart of Nature herself.

This correlates to the 2nd Beatitude – the antidote to the 2nd layer of the inner earth, called the

Fluid Earth, which is held under tremendous pressure by the Mineral Earth. Steiner describes this layer as ‘dimly sentient’, calling its effect ‘negative of life’, it destroys & dissolves, expels & kills all life, it is a realm of death.

The 2nd Beatitude is a balm for this: “Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.”

The medicine of this stage proclaimed in the Sermon on the Mount as revealed by Steiner expands this Beatitude: “Blessed or God-filled are they who do not banish sorrow, but who endure it, developing the power of Ego whereby they can find the Paraclete or Holy Spirit who reveals itself thru the ego”.

Doing the work prescribed at this stage opens the way for the emerging powers of the Ego to “Build the Hut” for the Wisdom of Christ to dwell in, this is a precursor to the achievement that will be seen in the 9th stage to come.

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Tomorrow we go deeper

Until soon

Blessings & Peace – ~hag = Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Celestial Events – New Moon – August 15 2015

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Greetings on the New Moon in Leo. Tomorrow, August 15th is the Feast of the Assumption of Mary.

This mysterious event, which represents the 1st fruits of the resurrection, comes during what the ancients called the season of Lammas or Loaf-mass, the Cross-Quarter between, the Summer Solstice (St. John’s) & the Fall Equinox (Michaelmas).

Now the grain is cut down to make our bread, a time of sacrifice, of death, in service to life, a time when we leave the sleepiness of summer, to begin the conscious work of harvest.

August 15th, 2015, at 2:22 pm CDT, also brings us the inferior conjunction of the planet Venus with the Sun –

Which means that Venus, goddess of love and beauty, moving backward in a retrograde loop, comes to the same position in the zodiac as the Sun.

Picture Venus coming in-between the Earth & the Sun. Hiding in the heart of Leo the Lion, Venus, as Evening Star, will be engulfed by the light of the sun,

so we won’t be able to see her, until she is resurrected once again, as the Morning Star, as Isis-Sophia, guiding & offering protection as we awake from our Summer dream, from nature consciousness, to look with self-consciousness to the earth, where the dragon within stirs, waiting to devour what we carry from the cosmos to the elementals.

We see here a connection with the ‘woman clothed with the sun’ from St. John’s Apocalypse.

Also at this cross quarter time we experience the Perseid meteor showers – our wake-up call – so we can begin to force the iron in our blood for the battle that takes place at Michaelmas.

It has come to me clearly this year that, Michaelmas is a reversed Easter festival.

Easter reveals 1st: the mystery of death, (conscious sacrifice) -then resurrection, (transformation).

Michaelmas, a festival of the future, now, gives us 1st: a resurrection of our soul forces, thru the awakening of our heart-thinking – then a conscious death, the courage to make a conscious sacrifice; to give up nature consciousness to achieve self-consciousness  & ultimately to sacrifice the self – “Not me, but Christ in me” to gain spirit consciousness.

And the Feast of the Assumption is a symbol of this sacrifice, a conscious death, the transformation that makes it possible to go into the spiritual world in a conscious way – The life & death of the 2 Mary’s show us a way to live a life that prepares us for a worthy death, which is really just a transformation, like the sacrifice the caterpillar makes to become a butterfly.

A conscious death in the physical world, is a resurrection into the spiritual world.

So today, in the dark of the New Moon, on the eve of the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, as Venus seemingly dies/disappears in the radiant light of the sun, with cosmic iron showering our blood; we have an opportunity to remember that thru our work with anthroposophy, individually & in community, we too can re-emerge like the morning star enlivened by the sun, fortified by iron from the stars, ready to work with Michael and the being of Anthroposophia, in full wakefulness.

~hag

For more info. contact Hazel Archer Ginsberg

 

Festival – Weltenwärme – Summer Solstice 2015

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Happy Father’s Day and Greetings on this the longest day –

Summer Solstice 2015

Summer
In radiant heights
Where, glistening in the sun,
The friendly dragonflies are
Flitting out rays of warmth
Which blend into the space around,
There, tarry thou, my soul;
For, thinking of me, they weave
From sadness, strength.
Already I can feel
How they are sensing me;
How warmth streams from them,
Permeating me.
The spirit dissolves
In cosmic interweaving,
The earthly heaviness
Into light of the future.
~Rudolf Steiner

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Eurythmy with Alison

Friday June 26th (with the possibility of more sessions if there is interest?)

11am – 12:30pm

We will work with seasonal poetry, and some forms and indications from the ‘Calendar of the Soul’ as given by Steiner.

$12.00 for individual classes, but no one who has the will to do eurythmy will be turned away for lack of funds.

For more information contact Alison Biagi (312) 543-6136

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Tuesday June 23rd – St. John’s Eve –7:30pm – 10pm

Bon-Fire Social Gathering

Pot-luck Dinner at the Home of Hazel & Chuck Ginsberg

Please Bring Food & Drink to Share in Community

RSVP by June 22 to reserve the required parking permit.

RudolfSteinerChicago@gmail.com

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We can seek to experience the ego development of humankind by following the earnest gaze of the Archangel Uriel into the earth,  guiding the union of the sun’s inner radiance with the being of the earth.

Like the call of conscience from John the Baptist, the need arises to let the light of the higher ego shine into our being, knowing that the union of creator and created is affected by the disharmony from the imperfect deeds of humanity.

We respond to the summertime call for a yearly ‘metanoia’ by reviewing our deeds of the past year, (like we do at the time of the Winter Solstice) while the ‘eye of heaven’ gazes down upon us.

We seek to know the will forces, that through our deeds, become part of the earth’s being.

Friday June 26th 2015, 7:30pm – 9:30pm A Special St. John’s Open House at the Branch

 Featuring: A legacy bestowed by Magda Lissau and Don Smith:

A treasure trove of Books from their personal library.

All donations to benefit Arcturus and The Rudolf Steiner Branch

 

Improvisational Music with Debbie Barford and friends

Group Eurythmy with Alison,

Sun Wheel Crafting