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Schiller once said “Take the divine into your will & it descends from its cosmic throne.”
When people are united in higher wisdom, when communities arise, not thru necessity or heredity, but through free will, a group-soul descends from the spiritual worlds.
And human hearts, once warmed, can rise up to meet the Source of Wisdom, like flowers turning toward the Sun.
Where separate egos are united by a common Truth, the Christ imbued Spirit can descend.
If, today, together we Will to turn our hearts towards a higher wisdom, to set fire to the forces of Anthroposophia in our souls, redeeming our intelligence, the Holy Spirit, can anchor & embody itself in us – turning the ‘Me’ into the ‘We’- Blessing the world.
For this to happen, we need to let go of judgment. – When we let go of opinion, we can find truth. And then we can let the ground of our souls become warm.
With focused will we can let the:
‘Light Divine
Warm our Hearts
& Enlighten our Heads’
‘That Good May Become’.
So let’s apply some spiritual science eh? Heat rises right? & so it is with our inner being. When we warm our hearts, then the spirit responds – The light-flame from above, answers, to the warmth-flame from below.
& how do we do this? – By celebrating the festivals of course.
Blessings to all as we come together for WHITSUN – THE FESTIVAL OF THE FREE INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY
~hag
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RUDOLF STEINER’S CALENDAR OF THE SOUL
translated (with added titles) by Roy Sadler
WHITSUN
Dream
v8
In concert with the gods’ creating
the senses’ power grows;
it presses thinking down
to dimness of a dream.
When bonding with my soul
would be a holy being
my thinking must be stilled,
in quiet dreamlike presence satisfied.
Rudolf Steiner’s Lectures on this day(RSarchive.org)
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY ( From Rudolf Steiner’s original Calendar of the Soul, The Present Age Mag., Wikipedia, RSarchive.org)
23 May 2021 – “Speaking with the Stars”: Find Spica to the right of Bella Luna
1498 –Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy. Savonarola was an Italian Dominican friar. He was known for his prophecies & his calls for Christian renewal. He denounced clerical corruption, despotic rule & the exploitation of the poor. The Florentines expelled the ruling Medici &, at the friar’s urging, established a “popular” republic. Declaring that Florence would be the New Jerusalem, the world center of Christianity & “richer, more powerful, more glorious than ever”, enlisting the active help of Florentine youth.
In 1495 when Florence refused to join Pope Alexander VI’s Holy League against the French, the Vatican summoned Savonarola to Rome. He disobeyed & defied the pope by preaching under a ban, highlighting his campaign for reform with processions, bonfires & pious theatricals. In retaliation, the Pope excommunicated him.
A trial by fire proposed by a rival Florentine preacher to test Savonarola’s divine mandate turned into a fiasco. On May 23, 1498, they condemned, hanged, & burned him in the main square of Florence.
1934 – The American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
1945 – World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Schutzstaffel, commits suicide while in Allied custody.
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Dear Hazel,
It is likely with this lecture from June 4, 1924, that Rudolf Steiner defined the event of Pentecost with a kind of supreme exactitude. He indicates here how Christ as the Being of Time from out of Sun-Space descends to earth in order to bring the element of Time into the previously spatial only human being. Thus, He represents the fourth dimension, and not Einstein.
https://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/AscenPent/19240604p01.html
So, you see, just before going to Koberwitz in order to give the course on agriculture, Rudolf Steiner wants to convey his last rendering of the meaning of Pentecost. He does this by conveying what he calls, “The Realm of the Spirit-Selfhood”, and how it exists to descend through Christ to His intended disciples. This was two thousand years ago, and yet we should be considering what it means today to achieve this very same experience. Is it possible, or still a kind of “pie in the sky”?
I think it exists to happen right now in this very year of 2021. What it requires is the faith that existed 2000 years ago, when these very same disciples experienced what they were promised by the Christ. It did happen and they were transformed from disciples to Apostles. Today, the gnosis of spiritual science exists to supplement faith in order to make the experience of Pentecost a profound act of spiritual cognition:
1) Ex deo nascimur
2) In Christo morimur
3) Per Spiritum Sanctum Reviviscimus
In other words, practice spirit recollection in depths of soul; practice spirit contemplation within soul’s even balance; and, practice spiritual awareness within the resting head. Today, we have it; we only need to apply it.
Happy Pentecost to All. Now, tomorrow is another day, but it yields a certain continuance which yields the next season. Memorial Day will prove to be the catalyst. Mary at the empty tomb. Let us wait to hear about it.