Columbia Bless America

Sevi Temtel

Ok here’s what wanted to come thru today – from Rudolf Steiner: “Chaos is arising because reality has changed; reality is becoming fuller and richer than anything people are able to think of or create in their heads. And we shall have to be clear in our minds that we are faced with a choice: to go on beating each other to a pulp, shooting at one another, in the way we do now, because we do not know how to bring order into the world, or to start developing concepts and ideas to match the complexity of the situation. A spiritual movement must exist where people seek to develop concepts which meet the real situation.” ~Fall of the Spirits of Darkness, Lecture 5: Changes in Humanity’s Spiritual Make-up, October 7, 1917

Dima Goryinov

RUDOLF STEINER’S CALENDAR OF THE SOUL
translated (with added titles) by Roy Sadler
SAINT JOHNSTIDE III
The Chalice of the Senses

v14
Completely open to the senses’ revelation
I lost my own impulse;
thought’s dream seemed, numbing me,
to rob me of myself,
but waking now there comes
in all the senses’ glory cosmic thought.

This is the first verse of the Soul Calendar’s second movement
that Karl König describes as the voice of the Baritone,
who will now be incarnating spirit with imaginative insight.
His final verse is at Michaelmas, after which in his mirror verses
the Soprano will be inspired to birth the Spirit Child at Christmas.
This week’s mirror verse is her final one.

NEW YEAR
The Chalice of the Spirit

v39
Completely open to the spirit’s revelation
I win the light of cosmic being;
thought’s clarifying power grows
to give me who I am
and waking from the power of thinking
my own real feeling flows.

Hilma af Klint

Rudolf Steiner’s Lectures on this day (RSarchives) 

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY (Rudolf Steiner’s original Calendar of the Soul; The Present Age, Wikipedia)

earthandsky.org

5 July 2021 – “Speaking with the Stars”: As dawn begins on the 6th, the waning crescent Moon hangs between the Pleiades above it and Aldebaran below it.

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Feast Day of the Prophet Hosea (meaning ‘salvation’, ‘he saves’ or ‘he helps’) – often seen as a “prophet of doom”, but underneath his message of destruction is a promise of restoration. The Talmud claims that he was the greatest prophet of his generation.  The period of Hosea’s ministry extended to some sixty years, and he was the only prophet of Israel of his time who left any written prophecy.They that sow the wind reap the whirlwind”

Feast Day of St. Cyril & St. Methodius, two brothers – Byzantine Christian theologians and missionaries-known as the “Apostles to the Slavs”. They are credited with devising the Glagolitic alphabet, the first alphabet used to transcribe Old Church Slavonic.

755 – Deathday of St. Boniface, destroyer of Celtic Christianity. Some traditions credit Saint Boniface with the invention of the Christmas tree. Boniface is celebrated as a missionary; he is regarded as a unifier of Europe, by German Catholics.

Birthday of St. Anselm Archbishop of Canterbury – Benedictine monk, abbot, philosopher and theologian of the Catholic Church, who held the office of Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109. His works were copied and disseminated in his lifetime and exercised an influence on the Scholastics, including Bonaventure, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham. His thoughts have guided much subsequent discussion on the procession of the Holy Spirit and the atonement. His work also anticipates much of the later controversies over free will and predestination.

As a child, he had a miraculous vision of God on the summit of the Becca di Nona near his home, with God asking his name, his home, and his quest before sharing bread with him.

Anselm’s canonization was requested of Pope Alexander III by Thomas Becket at the Council of Tours in 1163. Anselm was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church or the doctor Marianus (“Marian doctor”). A chapel of Canterbury Cathedral south of the high altar is dedicated to him; it includes a modern stained-glass representation of the saint.

1833 – Deathday of Nicephore Niepce, French inventor of the camera

1915 – In response to the First World War, Rudolf Steiner writes the essay “Thoughts during a time of war – for Germans and those who do not feel they must hate them”

POD (Poem Of the Day)

Columbia Bless America.
O ancient Spirit of Place
Appear again as the Dove of Liberty
& teach us how to fly
Into our true destiny
That we may weave the laurel
In evolutions revolution
In this time of great turning
Let the truth of our hearts entwine
To conquer terror with tenderness
~hag

8 thoughts on “Columbia Bless America

  1. Interesting you mention Columbia, for it was in Chicago where they had the Columbian exposition in the 1893. Quite an Aquarian event, in a way. I actually went to Columbia College, myself… which happens to be right near the location of where the exposition was. It was at that time, around 2004, I would always see commuters on the El reading a very popular book that was just released called Devil in the White City, which pertains to that event.

    1. There is still a replica of the Statute of the republic there which I often make a pilgrimage to on July 4th. I have written often of that amazing exposition. My daughter will be attending Columbia in the fall.

      1. Small world! I still have dreams every now and then of me wandering the halls or performing in the building of the music department.

          1. Yes, studied Jazz performance – bass. Yes I looked at the current faculty and still some of the same professors are there. Gary Yerkins, Joe Cirqua, Bill Boris – definitely recommend any classes they offer. For vocalists, I heard really great things about H.E. Baccus as vocal coach and he’s very kind, and Bobbi Wilson is awesome. I do remember all the faculty being very approachable, never a stuffy vibe. I guess the only advice I can think of is to attend as many masterclasses/guest artist/senior recital performances as possible… of any genre. Like I mentioned Pat Martino, anyone could have benefited from him, even if they weren’t a jazz studies major.

            That’s so cool she’s going there!

            1. O thank you Kale this is very helpful. I shared it with Ultra-Violet. She loves jazz as well as the the whole urban contmporatary thing.
              blessings

          2. Hi Hazel, if there is any questions about the school, or even music, I’d be happy share what I can from my experience there. Feel free to reach out, or UVA. All the best, very exciting to be starting the program.

            kjimbob@gmail.com

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