Now & Then

Poetry, Remembering

May 24, 2016

1543 – Death-day of Nicholas Copernicus

1612 – Death-day of Sir Robert Cecil, Secretary of State for King James.

1844- 1st telegraph message by Samuel Morse “What hath God wrought?”

1954 – Birthday of Barbo Karlen thought to have been Anne Frank (see Perseus Verlag)

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angel flying!David Howard Johnson

From a dream:

~My angel motioned toward a door

That opened from air into air.

With her eyes she asked

“Does your heart know the name of this gate?”

“Being” I said

“And the lands on either side?”

“Now & then”

“You may pass, she smiled,

See now the New Isis”

I stepped thru & nothing changed,

Yet I had entered heaven.

And in the distance a jackal howled at the stars.

~hag

On the High Tide of Blessings

Poetry, Remembering

May 23, 2016

Savonarola Girolamo (1)

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.

1533 – The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.

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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~To my body I gave the power of my heart

Bee love & create I said

Beat within the grace of the world’s rhythms

A pulsing radiant sun

In tune with the music of becoming

A ferry thru dark churning waves

An oasis flowing with fresh waters

On the high tide of blessings

To open my head

In pure thought unfolded

~hag

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Dear Friends –

It is my intention to share some impressions, explore key themes & insights into the initiatory revelations that I am currently living with from my recent immersion in the Leminscate Arts Mystery Drama “The Working of the Spirit”. I may need a few days to chew over & digest, to catch my breath & come back into my meditative rhythm.  So until soon…

Xox

~hag = Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Lose yourself to find yourself

Chicago Event, Poetry, Remembering, Rudolf Steiner Quote

May 22, 2016

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334 BC – The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.

337 – Birthday of Constantine the Great, Roman emperor.

1802 – Death-day of Martha Washington, 1st First Lady of the United States

1813 – Richard Wagner, German composer. Ilona Schubert is credited with connecting him in a former life to Merlin.

1849 – Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats over obstacles in a river, making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent.

1885 – Death-day of Victor Hugo. Prior to burial in the Panthéon, the body of Victor Hugo was exposed under the Arc de Triomphe during the night. Rudolf Steiner indicates he was a Hibernian Initiate in the Karma lectures vol. 2 lec. 14.

1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their “Flying-Machine”.

1947 – Cold War begins: President Harry S. Truman the Truman Doctrine.

1960 – The Great Chilean earthquake, the most powerful earthquake ever recorded measuring 9.5.

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veilpaintflowersLily Trofete

Calendar of the Soul Ninth Week [May 22, 2016 – May 28, 2016]

When I forget the narrow will of self,

  The cosmic warmth that heralds summer’s glory

  Fills all my soul and spirit;

  To lose myself in light

  Is the command of spirit vision

  And intuition tells me strongly:

  O lose yourself to find yourself.

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Mystery Working Marke

LAST CHANCE IN CHICAGO TO BE PART OF THIS JOURNEY: 

Lemniscate Arts Presents: “The Working of the Spirit” –  

The Readers:

Hilary/ Hierophantes – Marke Levene

Felix/Prophetes/Pelagios – Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Felicia – Kim Synder-Vine

Beate Truegood – Barbara Richardson

Trutman/Romanus/Dionysian Poet/Philokrates– Ed Schuldt

Nicholas Findig – Denise McCauley

Thodosius/Torquatus/ Orphic Poet – Meaghens Witri

Johannes/Alexandros – Seamus Maynard

Capesius/Neophytos/Chrysanthides – Matthew Dexter

Maria – Peneolpe Lait

Angel – Seamus Maynard

Double – Xavier Curry

Lucifer – Ariane Grossi

Astrid – Meaghens Witri

Philia – Denise McCauley

Luna- Kim Synder-Vine

Other Philia – Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Beneditictus – Duncan MacIntosh

Strader/Hesperon – Glen Williamson

Rnienecke/Kolotars – Xavier Curry

Arhriman – Michael Burton

Theodora– Barbara Richardson

Gairmanus/Magus Bell/ Appolonian Priest– Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Nurse – Christa MacBeth

Guardian – Meaghens Witri

i more Readers Theater performance TODAY Sunday May 22, 2016. 10:30am to 6:30pm – 

Estimated breakdown of Scenes:

Start: 10:30am -Scenes 1-2

Noon  – 15 minute break

12:15-12:45pm – Sc. 3,4,5

1-2 – Lunch

2-3:30pm – Sc. 6,7,8,9

3:30-3:45pm – Sc. 10,11

4:45-5pm – Break

5-6:30pm – Sc. 12,13,14

The End

Folks are invited to come & go as they like, but if you plan to enter sometime in the middle, please buy your tickets on-line ahead of time. 

 Contribution $15.00 – $45.00 per presentation – Get your tickets now at www.workingofthespirit.org 

Make checks out to Lemniscate Arts, Credit cards also accepted

Can’t make it? Make a donation to show your support

Wesak Mystery Drama

Chicago Event, Insight, Poetry

Haiku’s, ants & worms

Buddha-like the Moon sitting

All have the same face

On Buddha’s birthday

Spring rain beneath a full moon,

On Buddha’s deathday

Enlightenment in the Lake

Another sunset

~hag 

The Buddha (whose name means: *The Awakened One* or *One who Knows*) is regarded as the ninth incarnation of Lord Vishnu. He was born in 563 BC on the Full Moon of May in Vaisakh. Traditionally, Buddha’s Birthday is known as Wesak or Visakah Puja (Buddhas Day).

Wesak, the major Buddhist festival of the year, celebrates the birth, enlightenment and death of the Buddha on one and the same day, when the Sun is in Taurus, and the Moon in Scorpio.

The Full Moon in May is a mystically auspicious time – This ‘Buddha Moon’ is considered to be the greatest moment of spiritual contact for the entire year. Great polarities are said to be synthesized and consequently united at this festival. Hope is revived in the world, and great seeds of beauty, truth, and goodness are planted within us — qualities needed for the unity of humankind.

Ancient Wisdom asserts that there will be a new coming of the World Avatar and those beings who assist them. But the reality set forth and embedded within this festival, is that WE, as a living unit called humanity, are to be that World Avatar, when we can live as “Christ in me”…

The Wesak Festival provides us each year with a reception of the tools of love and wisdom, to fulfill this ancient prophecy. What all the higher beings have done, we can do also, taking up our responsibility as the 10th hierarchy to radiate the Christ Impulse out to all the kingdoms of Earth -becoming like little suns – emanating rays from the very core of our “I”, through the vehicle of our bodies, from our purified hearts, and specifically from our forehead, where our third eye is located. This is the Bulls Eye of Taurus – the Sun of May – and the mystery of the transformative Scorpio Moon.

The Full Buddha Moon is exact at 4:14pm CST, on May 21st 2016, we will see it rise over the Great Inland Sea of Chicago at 7:59pm, and it will set on May 22 at 6:15am.

~Hazel Archer Ginsberg

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Lemniscate Arts Presents: Opening the Realm of New Mystery Drama – 

“The Working of the Spirit” – 

The Readers:

Hilary – Marke Levene

Felix – Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Felicia – Kim Synder-Vine

Beate Truegood – Barbara Richardson

Trutman/Romanus – Ed Schuldt

Nicholas Findig – Denise McCauley

Johannes – Seamus Maynard

Capesius – Matthew Dexter

Maria – Peneolpe Lait

Angel – Seamus Maynard

Double – Xavier Curry

Lucifer – Ariane Grossi

Astrid – Meaghens Witri

Philia – Denise McCauley

Luna- Kim Synder-Vine

Other Philia – Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Beneditictus – Duncan MacIntosh

Strader – Glen Williamson

Arhriman – Michael Burton

Theodora– Barbara Richardson

Gairmanus Bell – Hazel Archer Ginsberg

Nurse – Christa MacBeth

Guardian – Meaghens Witri

2 Readers Theater performances: Saturday May 21 and Sunday May 22, 2016. 10:30am to 6:30pm – Each day is a staged reading in full, with breaks, of the new drama.

Estimated breakdown of Scenes:

Start: 10:30am -Scenes 1-2

Noon  – 15 minute break

12:15-12:45pm – Sc. 3,4,5

1-2 – Lunch

2-3:30pm – Sc. 6,7,8,9

3:30-3:45pm – Sc. 10,11

4:45-5pm – Break

5-6:30pm – Sc. 12,13,14

The End

Folks are invited to come & go as they like, but if you plan to enter sometime in the middle, please buy your tickets on-line ahead of time.  

Contribution $15.00 – $45.00 per presentation – Get your tickets now at www.workingofthespirit.org 

 Make checks out to Lemniscate Arts

Credit cards also accepted

Can’t make it? Make a donation to show your support

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Rudolf Steiner Branch of The Anthroposophical Society,

4249 North Lincoln Avenue. Chicago, IL 60618 (map)

 

Check out our Web site!

Chicago, IL (Anthroposophical Society in America)

Creative Fire

Chicago Event, Insight, Quote, Remembering, Rudolf Steiner Quote

May 20, 2016

325 – The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church

526 – An earthquake kills about 250,000 people in what is now Syria and Antiochia

IHS St. Bernardine of Siena

1444 – Feast Day of St. Bernardine of Siena. Most of the saints suffer great personal opposition, even persecution. Bernardine, by contrast, seems more like a human dynamo who simply took on the needs of the world.

He was the greatest preacher of his time, journeying across Italy, calming strife-torn cities attracting crowds of 30,000.

When he was 20, the plague was at its height in his hometown, Siena. Sometimes as many as 20 people died in one day at the hospital. Bernardine offered to run the hospital &, with the help of other young men, nursed patients there for four months.

At 22, he entered the Franciscan Order. For almost a dozen years he lived in solitude & prayer, but his gifts ultimately caused him to be sent to preach. He always traveled on foot, sometimes speaking for hours in one place, & then doing the same in another town.

Bernardine devised a symbol—IHS, the first three letters of the name of Jesus in Greek, in Gothic letters on a blazing sun. Opposition arose from those who thought it a dangerous innovation. Three attempts were made to have the pope take action against him.

General of a branch of the Franciscan Order, the Friars of the Strict Observance, he strongly emphasized scholarship. When he started there were 300 friars in the community; when he died there were 4,000. He returned to preaching the last two years of his life, dying while traveling.

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Madonna of the Magnificat by Botticell, shows Lucrezia de’ Medici as the Madonna, surrounded by her children with Lorenzo holding a pot of ink

1503 – Death-day of Lorenzo de’ Medici

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1609 – Shakespeare’s sonnets are first published in London

1806 – Birth-day of John Stuart Mill, an English philosopher, political economist &civil servant. He has been called “the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century.” Mill’s conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control.

Amelia Earhart

1932 – Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world’s first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day

1956 – In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean

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light goddess

~Look, I have light

In my eyes

And on my skin…

The warmth of a star…

And everything alive is turning

Into something else

In the alchemical Heart

Of some annihilating

Yet creative fire

That is burning unnoticed

Waiting to touch

Me & You…

~hag

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Dear Friends – Can you feel the excitement building? Twenty actors, including Glen Williamson & Kim Synder-Vine, with director  Henry-Cameron Allen from Gloucester, Massachusetts, & writer Michael Hedley Burton, with producer Marke Levene & eurythmist Barbara Richadson…Are all here, ensouling our branch with their graceful presence, striving in rehearsal, bonded together for the Readers Theater production this weekend.We hope you will join us.

“In giving speech artistic shape and form the healthy co-operation and harmonization of body, soul and spirit becomes manifest. The body shows whether it is able to incorporate the Spirit correctly; the soul reveals whether the spirit lives in it truly; and the Spirit is vividly present working directly into the physical. Those taking part in speech courses have a direct personal experience of the revelation of Anthroposophy in the activity of Man. Here it may be regarded as a testing of Anthroposophy that it is in a position to enable the art of speech to come to life again, in its full significance.” ~Rudolf Steiner

Lemniscate Arts Presents: Opening the Realm of New Mystery Drama –

“The Working of the Spirit” –  

TWO Readers Theater performances: Saturday May 21 and Sunday May 22, 2016. 

10:30am to 6:30pm – Each day is a staged reading in full, with breaks, of the new drama.

The journey of the play is well worth the long ride, with its rich language – very deep & beautiful – depicting the lives & relationships of earthly humans as well as spiritual beings.

Folks are invited to come & go as they like, but if you plan to enter sometime in the middle, please buy your tickets on-line ahead of time. 

Contribution $15.00 – $45.00 per presentation – 

Get your tickets now at www.workingofthespirit.org  

Can’t make it? Make a donation to show your support

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Rudolf Steiner Branch of The Anthroposophical Society,

4249 North Lincoln Avenue. Chicago, IL 60618 (map)

Check out our Web site!

Chicago, IL (Anthroposophical Society in America)