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 10^th 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 21^st 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 

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