Heart-Thinking: Michael Beckoning

4 September 2016 – Astro-Weather: In the afterglow of sunset the Crescent Moon low in the southwest points the way to bright Venus.  Just below the Moon look for twinkling Spica

sept 4 2016

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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

From Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul: Birth & Deathday of MOSES

According to Egyptian astrologers, the liberator of the children of Israel was to be born on this day- So all the male children were to be thrown into the water by order of King Pharaoh.  Jochebed, Amram‘s wife, mother of Miriam, & Aaron,  gave birth to her third child, a boy that morning at sunrise. Right from that moment the house was filled with a radiant light, so they knew he was an extraordinary child. After three months, Jochebed saw that she would not be able to conceal her child any longer. So she made a small, water-proof basket & set him down among the papyrus reeds growing on the brink of the Nile. Miriam remained nearby to watch the baby.

The day was hot, & King Pharaoh’s daughter, Bithya, came out to the river, accompanied by her maids, to take a bath in the cool waters of the Nile. Suddenly, she heard the wailing of a small child, & she found the basket. Intrigued by the child’s beauty, Bithya tried to figure out a way to enable her to keep him for herself & save him from death, for she understood that this boy was from a Jewish family.

The child refused to be nursed by any of the Egyptian maids-in-waiting, & continued to weep. At this moment, Miriam came over to the princess & offered to find a Jewish nurse. Bithya was glad of this solution, so Miriam rushed home & brought her mother Jochebed, to be his ‘nurse’. For two years the baby was left in his mother’s care.

Meanwhile Bithya told Pharaoh about the boy she had adopted. Her father did not object as he felt sure that the danger had already been averted years ago. So Moses was taken to the royal court, where he grew up as the princely adopted son of the Pharaoh’s daughter.

Once it happened that Moses was playing on King Pharaoh’s lap. He saw the shining crown, studded with jewels, reached for it & took it off. Pharaoh, asked his astrologers for the meaning of this action. They interpreted it to mean that Moses was a threat to Pharaoh’s crown & suggested that the child be put to death before it could do any harm. But one of the king’s counselors suggested that they should first test the boy to see whether his action was prompted by an evil intelligence, or if he was merely grasping for sparkling things as any other child would.

Pharaoh agreed to this, & two bowls were set down before young Moses. One contained gold & jewels, & the other held glowing fire-coals. Moses reached out for the gold, but an angel re-directed his hand to the coals. Moses snatched a glowing coal & put it to his lips. He burned his hand & tongue, but his life was saved.

After that fateful test, Moses suffered from a slight speech defect. He could not become an orator, but G‑d’s words that were spoken to him & with the help of his brother Aaron & sister Miriam, he was able to fulfill his mission.

At age 20, Moses fled Egypt after killing an Egyptian he saw beating a Jew &made his way to Midian, where he married Zipporah, the daughter of Jethro, & fathered two sons, Gershom & Eliezer.

When he was 80 years old, Moses was shepherding his father-in-law’s sheep when G‑d revealed himself to him in a burning bush at Mount Horeb (Sinai) & instructed him to liberate the Children of Israel.

Moses took the Israelites out of Egypt, performed numerous miracles for them (the ten plagues in Egypt, the splitting of the sea, extracting water from a rock, bringing down the manna, etc), received the Torah from G‑d & taught it to the people, built the Mishkan (Divine dwelling) in the desert, & led the Children of Israel for 40 years as they journeyed through the wilderness; but G‑d did not allow him to bring them into the Holy Land. Moses passed away on his 120th birthday on Mount Nebo, within sight of the land he yearned to enter.

(Buddha was also born & died on the same day)

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COTS 3, 50, 24, 29

Calendar of the Soul 24th Week [September 04, 2016 – September 10, 2016]

Unceasingly itself creating

  Soul life becomes aware of self;

  The cosmic spirit, striving on,

  Renews itself by self-cognition,

  And from the darkness of the soul

  Creates the fruit of self-engendered will

~Rudolf Steiner

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hearteye!

Michaelmas Festival: 7pm –9pm Friday 30 September, 2016

The Rudolf Steiner Branch 4249 N. Lincoln Ave. Chicago

Heart-Thinking: Michael Beckoning

7pm – Piano & Voice – Kristen Wray & David Wray performing Nacht und Träume + Ganymed  – By Franz Schubert. Kristen Wray is a fiber and metal weaving artist, an energy healing practitioner, as well as a classically trained singer. David Wray is a classics professor at the University of Chicago specializing in ancient Roman poetry. Kristen and David regularly perform together in music student recitals on the university campus.

Activating Our ‘Gemut’: The mind warmed by a loving heart & stimulated by the soul’s imaginative power – Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Copper Rod Eurythmy: ALL

If I’m to be a valiant knight, Then there’s a battle I must fight , And I must choose right from the start, Not strength of arm But strength of heart, My sword shall of good steel be made, And love the keenness of the blade

Grimm’s Tale “The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs” by Laura Donkel

Verse for the Michaelic Age:  ALL

We must eradicate from the soul all fear and terror of what approaches us from the future. We must acquire serenity in all feelings and sensations about the future.

We must look forward with absolute equanimity to whatever may come.  And we must think only that whatever comes is given to us by a cosmic guidance full of wisdom.

It is part of what we must learn in this age, namely, to live without any security in material existence and to live with pure trust in the ever-present help of the spiritual world.

Truly, nothing else will do if our courage is not to fail us. For this let us seek awakening to the reality of the spirit from within ourselves, every morning and every evening. ~Rudolf Steiner

$10 Donation & Snacks to Share Encouraged

 For more info. Contact Festivals Coordinator Hazel Archer Ginsberg

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Janet & Matt Trierweiler

Saturday 15 October 2016

Calaj.com Artists Janet Trierweiler SchaeferMatthew Schaefer  present:

Silent Lecture” Art Exhibit & Discussion 

2pm – 5pm at the Branch

Details Coming Soon

Snacks to Share Encouraged

For more info. Contact  Hazel Archer Ginsberg

https://reverseritual.com/festivals-2/festival-dates/current-festival-events/

2 thoughts on “Heart-Thinking: Michael Beckoning

  1. yes, it’s good to remember to stand back every once in awhile to get some perspective, when we’re in the middle of the maelstrom it’s hard to see anything!

    I have been working with ‘Michaelmas & the Soul Forces of Man’ but if you go on the archives there is a ton of stuff http://www.rsarchive.org/Search.php

    looking forward to seeing you
    until soon
    xox

  2. ” And we must think only that whatever comes is given to us by a cosmic guidance full of wisdom.”

    Sometimes I thought I was in a bad asteroid belt with all sort of problems (which I thought were) coming into my life. Now, after learning Steiner’s wisdom I smile and welcome the cosmic guidance in:))

    Thank you Hazel

    John Steven and I plan on attending the Michaelmas gathering. Could you point us to some resources so we may learn more about Michaelmas?

    Thanks,

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