~Rob Gonsalve
Greetings friends – I am inspired to share this wise mantric tid-bit from our dear Dr. Steiner given today 23 August in 1911, to his Esoteric students in Munich:
“We must learn to think objectively. Those who say that they’re already thinking objectively, are often making a big mistake, for this assumption is only subjective, it’s a delusion.
Pride or ambition leads to error and superstition; we must not succumb to this. We should confront everything that comes to meet us from whatever side, with an alert, open intellect, clear thinking and sharp logic. We shouldn’t swear by what seems right to us at first; investigate it critically, don’t give in blindly to something. That’s also the way it should be in our esoteric life; no belief in authority is demanded.
And my dear sisters and brothers, the masters of wisdom and of the harmony of feelings let me tell you that you should always maintain and use all of your intellectual powers with respect to the wisdom that’s given by them, with respect to what I’m justified in advocating here, and also with respect to me. One should approach what’s said and advocated here with healthy human understanding, with sensibleness and with an open-minded thinking, if it is only opened far enough. You shouldn’t swear by this or that but should judge for yourself.
And so we’ll summarize everything that this class — which like all esoteric classes should be a sacred one for us — has brought us with the words:
In the spirit lay the germ of my body.
And the spirit has imprinted in my body
The eyes of sense,
That through them I may see
The lights of bodies.
And the spirit has imprinted in my body
Reason and sensation
And feeling and will,
That through them I may perceive bodies
And act upon them.
In the spirit lay the germ of my body.
In my body lies the germ of the spirit.
And I will incorporate into my spirit
The super-sensible eyes
That through them I may behold the light of spirits.
And I will imprint in my spirit
Wisdom and power and love,
So that through me the spirits may act
And I become a self-conscious organ
Of their deeds.
In my body lies the germ of the spirit.”
~Rudolf Steiner, ESOTERIC LESSONS II
GA 266, Lesson 31, Munich, 8-23-’11
23 August 2023 – “Speaking with the Stars”: On or around August 23 every year, Regulus, the brightest star in constellation Leo, is in conjunction with the Sun – lost in the Sun’s glare. Regulus will return to the morning sky around the September equinox.
Regulus – Latin for ‘prince‘ or ‘little king.’ In Arabic, it is قلب الأسد (Qalb al-Asad, ‘the heart of the lion‘), the same as the Latin Cor Leōnis & Greek Kardia Leontos. In Chinese, it is 轩辕十四, the Fourteenth Star of Xuanyuan, the Yellow Emperor. In Babylonian, it was Sharru, ‘the King,‘ & LUGAL, ‘the star that stands in the breast of the Lion: the King.’ In Persian, it was Miyan, ‘the Centre,‘ & Venant, one of the four ‘royal stars’ of the Persian monarchy, where in 3,000 BC, as the Watcher of the North, it marked the summer solstice. According to Ptolemy, it is of the nature of Mars; while Alvidas states that it is similar to the Sun.
Regulus is said to be one of the most fortunate stars in the heavens. Proclus (412-485) called Regulus the “Royal Star” & asserted that those born under it have a royal-like nativity. ~ Vivian E. Robson
~Joseph Mallord William Turner – Regulus. According to the Tate museum: Regulus was a Roman general who was captured by the Carthaginians. They sent him back to Rome to negotiate the release of Carthaginian prisoners. When he returned to Carthage having failed his mission, he was tortured by being left out in the sun with his eyelids sewn open. The dazzling light in the centre of this work dramatically illustrates Regulus’ cruel punishment.
Turner first exhibited this painting in Rome in 1828. His audience there would have recognised it as a seaport from a work by the 17th-century painter, Claude Lorrain displayed in the Uffizzi gallery in Florence. It appears that Turner wanted to show himself as part of a tradition of landscape painting started by Claude.
Rudolf Steiner’s Lectures on this day
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY (sourced from Steiner orginal Calendar of the Soul, Wikipedia Commons, Sky&Telescope)
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” ~Aldous Huxley
Feast Day of Vulcan – The god of fire – including the fire of volcanoes, deserts, metalworking and the forge in ancient Roman religion and myth. He is often depicted with a blacksmith’s hammer. The Vulcanalia was the annual festival held August 23 in his honor. His Greek counterpart is Hephaestus, the god of fire and smithery.
Black Ribbon Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism & Nazism
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition
79 – Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire
1244 – Siege of Jerusalem: The city’s citadel, the Tower of David, surrenders to Khwarezmian (Persian) Empire
1382 – Siege of Moscow: The Golden Horde led by khan Tokhtamysh lays siege
1572 –St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre a wave of Catholic mob violence, directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants) during the French Wars of Religion. Traditionally believed to have been instigated by Catherine de’ Medici, the mother of King Charles IX.
1754 – Birthday of Louis XVI of France – the last King of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. He was referred to as Citizen Louis Capet during the four months just before he was executed by guillotine. He was the son of Louis, Dauphin of France, son and heir-apparent of King Louis XV, and Maria Josepha of Saxony. When his father died in 1765, he became the new Dauphin.
1839 – The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War
1914 – World War I: Japan declares war on Germany
1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany & the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, & Poland are divided between the two nations.
1942 – World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad
1944 – World War II: Marseille is liberated by the Allies
1944 – Freckleton Air Disaster: A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people
1970 –César Chávez leads the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history
1973 – A bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis, who begin to sympathize with their captors, leading to the term “Stockholm syndrome”
1989 – Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania stand on the Vilnius–Tallinn road, holding hands for restoration of independence
1990 – Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union
1990 – Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western “guests” (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War
1991 – Tim Berners-Lee opens the World Wide Web to new users
1996 – Osama bin Laden issues message entitled ‘A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.’
2000 – Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf killing 143
2011 – A magnitude 5.8 earthquake occurs in Virginia as a result of ‘Fracking’. Damage occurs to monuments & structures in Washington D.C. with damage estimated at 300 million
Saturday 23 September 2023
Community Prep-Stir / Potluck / Bon-fire
*Autumnal Equinox
*Yom Kippur
*Michaelmas Festival
6 – 8 pm at the Lucchesi-Archer-Ginsberg domicile
Please Bring Food & Drink to share, & a jar for the prep
30 September 2023 – Michaelmas Festival & Zinniker Farm Day
Being An Objective Human Being
“In all ages of the post-Atlantean human evolution, an initiate has been a person who could lift itself above the outer physical sense-world and have their own personal experiences in the spiritual worlds, a person who could experience the spiritual worlds just as the ordinary human being experiences the physical sense-world through the outer senses, eyes, ears, etc. Such an initiate becomes then a witness of those worlds and their truths. That is one aspect. But there is also something else very essential which every initiate acquires as a very special characteristic during their initiation, that is, they lift themselves above the feelings and sensations which are not only justified but also very necessary within the physical world, but which cannot, however, exist in the same way in the spiritual world.
Do not misunderstand what is said here and imagine that anyone who is able, as an initiate, to experience the spiritual world as well as the physical world must give up all other human feelings and sensations which are of value here in the physical world and exchange them for those of the higher worlds. This is not so. She/He does not exchange one for the other, but she/he acquires one in addition to the other. If, on the one hand, she/he has to spiritualize the feelings, she/he must, on the other, strengthen much more those feelings which are of use for working in the physical world. In this way we must interpret those words used in connection with an initiate, namely, that she/he must, in a certain sense, become a homeless person. It is not meant that in any sense she/he must become estranged from her/his home and her/his family as long as she/he lives in the physical world, but these words have at least this much significance, that by acquiring the corresponding feelings in the spiritual world, the feelings for the physical world will experience a finer, more beautiful development. What does it mean to be homeless? It means that one without this designation cannot, in the true sense of the word, attain initiation. To be a homeless person, means that she/he must develop no special sympathies in the spiritual world similar to those she/he possesses here in the physical world for special regions or relationships. The individual human being in the physical world belongs to some particular folk or to some particular family, to this or that community of the state. That is all quite proper. She/He does not need to lose this; she/he needs it here. If, however, she/he wishes to employ these feelings in the spiritual world, she/he would bring a very bad dowry to that world. There, it is not a question of developing sympathy for anything, but of allowing everything to work upon him/her objectively, according to its inherent worth. It could also be said, were this generally understood, that an initiate must be, in the fullest sense of the word, an objective human being.”
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA103/English/AP1962/19080530p01.html
Greetings,
Judge for yourself,!!
another word Jealously appeared in James 4 1 17,
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? …
Money seems basic criteria in present world.
Once asked how much Rock feller left behind? all of them.was answer!!
We need to keep in mind REV 20 12,to be content..
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.
Rev 12 1 9
And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth. And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it. She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, … …repentance word?? difficult to put in practice..
REV 3 3
Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.
https://www.cross2victory.com/signs
https://the7thdayreturnofthelord.com/revelation-12-sign-sound-the-alarm-let-everyone-tremble-in-fear-because-the-day-of-the-lord-is-upon-us-joel-21/
Namaste,palms together,mkyogi
Judge for Yourself. This is the best consideration in the world.
Now, today’s news says that we have put another orbiter around the Moon. From an anthroposophical standpoint, is this possible?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-3
Greetings,
from link,
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthroposophy
Anthropos is a Greek word that means “human being”. Sophos means “wise”. Steiner believed every human being had the wisdom to understand the mysteries of existence.
Anthroposophy does not have a rigid set of beliefs. It is said to be a philosophy of freedom. Each person connects to the world through an individual path.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner
apart from terrible words fasting,forgiveness.jealousy.repentance…etc,
Holy Bible shows,us ways,to hear eternal whispers..e.g.
1 Kings 19 12
After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.
Moses Joshua Elijah,Daniel etc. were having direct communication with God,
Joshua won and Abhimanyu son of Arjuna in Mahabharat lost battle!
as on today ,this is possible,to hear eternal whispers..!!
God’s love still overflows in our cosmic mind abundantly..we need to hear it.
mind and eyes always see outside worlds,if we train them to look inwards,
this is possible.detachment (pratyahara) in 8 fold yoga,teaches us to detach
physical body and astral body..to experience cosmic mind as dhyana/samadhi
meditation/concentrations are breathe control not touching prana as demonic airs..Prana cleaning is shown by Jesus/Mary in Holy Bible.though new to bible
not read it completely most complex one!Prana is hematocrit in blood??
almost impossible task !!as mind vanishes..e.g.verse 1 5 in link,
https://www.hinduwebsite.com/vedicsection/upanishads/yogasikha.asp
When the merging of Jeevatma and Paramatma takes place, mind melts and vanishes. And only air of Prana remains. This is called Laya Yoga. Because of Laya Yoga that heavenly Swathmananda Sowkhya (the well being of the joy of ones own soul) is attained. In the great temple of the middle of yoni (the female organ) the principle of the Devi, which is red like Hibiscus flower lives as Rajas in all beings. The merger of this rajas with the male principle is called Raja Yoga. As a result of Raja Yoga, the Yogi gets all the occult powers like Anima. You have to understand that all these four types of Yogas are nothing but the merger of Prana, Apana Samana
this makes blood to cool down /feeling cold..
please correct me.
Osho as “sex to super consciousness” e.g.astral body to cosmic mind !!
please correct me/share your views,namaste, mkyogi
It is good to find entirely independent corroborations of spiritual seeking and striving. I still have the Purna Yoga of Aurobindo in me.
18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.” 19 Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him. 21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. 22 The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. 23 The man said,
“This is now bone of my bones,
And flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called Woman,
Because she was taken out of Man.”
24 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. Genesis 2