Greetings friends on this WhitSunday 2023 –
The Whitsun Festival highlights one of the greatest challenges of being human: placing our individual gifts, our individual “I”, in right relationship within the social realm. This challenge is strongly felt during this time of the consciousness soul age. Our groups striving to know Spiritual Science must work together as a community, to have the possibility to create this type of culture, and the opportunity is here for each of us to meet, human to human, where a sacrament is possible in every encounter. Our individual strength comes from our personal development and is enhanced by weaving our gifts together with others, knitting our social world in conscious community.
We can think about the ‘7 gifts of the Holy Spirit’, and ask ourselves: What are my gifts? How can I place them in right relationship within the social realm? How can I hone them, to strengthen and enhance the world? How do we turn the ME into a WE?
In 1907 Steiner created the ‘Whitsun Congress’ in Munich as a new Rosicrucian impulse, displaying the 7 seals of St. John’s Apocalypse, a representation of the 7 stages of Christian initiation. The Whitsun spirit came alive again, through Rudolf Steiner for the 3rd time in history with the re- founding of the Anthroposophical Society at the Christmas Conference.
When we take up the mantric expression of the Foundation Stone Meditation, it becomes the key in which the individual and social principles are harmoniously united – Lifting us out of the ‘ME’ into the ‘WE’, so that the spirit flame can enter and spread out through us, creating a radiating vessel for the Christ – Anthroposophia – and the powerful Michaelic forces wanting to be employed by us.
Our job as Michaelites is to take our individual Inner Whitsun and expand it, into what Steiner calls the “World Festival of Knowledge” a path leading from ‘Sprit Recalling’, to ‘Sprit Sensing’, to ‘Sprit Beholding.’
Through Steiner’s profound mystery deed at the Christmas Conference, an altogether new relationship between the spiritual world and the human being was conceived. If, today, together, we will to turn our hearts towards a higher wisdom in Love, to set fire to the forces of knowledge in our souls, redeeming our intelligence, our Anthroposophical angel, if you will, can anchor and embody itself in the environment we prepare for it.
Schiller once said “Take the divine into your will & it descends from its cosmic throne.”
We are called to create an Ecclesia, a vessel, a chalice, a sheath for The Sophia. Then the spirit flame can spread out to become what Steiner called a “World Whitsun”, which began in earnest at the Christmas Conference, where the ‘inverted Whitsun’, was born. The idea of taking the spirit that has flowed through the head into the heart, and then out from the heart, back as a gift to humanity, to redeem the Cosmic Intelligence of Michael.
In this sense the Christmas Conference, in all its spiritual reality, reveals itself as the true Whitsun for those who strive to take into their souls the Wisdom of the Holy Spirit concerning the human being – Anthropos-Sophia, which is the knowledge of the grail held aloft by Michael in this present age of the consciousness soul.
~hag
Here are some Whitsun presentations for your inspirational viewing:
Sangraal: A Pentecost Pilgrimage with the CRC
Whitsun: ‘The Festival of United Soul Endeavour’ – All Region’s
This years offering: Anthroposophia & the Redemption of Lucifer, featuring Velsum, coming soon! Stay tuned…
28 May 2023 – “Speaking with the stars”: Shortly before sunrise tomorrow Mercury (occult Venus) will reach greatest distance from the Sun and will be very low in the east. To its upper right shines the brighter planet Jupiter.
RUDOLF STEINER’S CALENDAR OF THE SOUL
translated with added titles by Roy Sadler
WHITSUN
DREAM LIFE’S PRESENCE
v8
In concert with the spirit’s birth
the senses’ power grows;
it presses thinking down
to dimness of a dream.
When Holy Spirit
would bond with soul;
the mind must rest
in dream life’s presence.
the mirror verse
CANDLEMAS II
THOUGHT’S LIGHT
v45
In concert with the spirit’s birth
thought’s power grows;
it lights up senses’ vague allure
to vivid clarity.
When soul would bond
with springtime’s coming,
thought’s light must shine
on sense revealing.
TODAY: Whitsunday 28 May 2023
NEW TIME: 7 pm – 9 pm
50 Days after The Resurrection =
Our Community Pentecost Gathering –
Social Sculpture with Rev. Jeana Lee & ~hag
Pot-Luck, Bonfire & Prep Stir
at the home of Hazel & Chuck Ginsberg
Please bring food & drink to share –
RSVP to Hazel@ReverseRitual.com
Greetings,
Whitsun,
https://www.latestly.com/lifestyle/festivals-events/pentecost-2023-date-when-is-whitsun-history-traditions-and-significance-of-the-holy-day-observed-on-the-seventh-sunday-after-easter-5152120.html
https://www.logos.com/grow/pentecost-in-the-bible/
“We can think about the ‘7 gifts of the Holy Spirit’, and ask ourselves: What are my gifts? How can I place them in right relationship within the social realm? How can I hone them, to strengthen and enhance the world? How do we turn the ME into a WE?”
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I resonate very strongly with this thought and its question. Now, if we consider the fundamental Pentecostal Act, conducted some 50 days after April 5, 33 AD, it caused no less than the transformation of the disciples into the Apostles. One of these was the risen Lazarus, who represented the last of the 7 attesting Miracles. He became the so-called, “Disciple Whom the Lord Loved”, often shortened to ‘Beloved Disciple’ by the modern scholars. With the initial Whitsun event, he became Saint John, the Evangelist. This designation was meant to differentiate him from the Apostle John, who was one of the two sons of Zebedee. It was also meant to accord him with the recognition of his status as a gospel writer, who would go on to describe the 7 occult seal pictures that accompanied his scribing of the Book of Revelation.
Thus, Pentecost was/is the basis for remembering with understanding. The Apostles all took a step forward in establishing the early church of Christ. Today, the opportunities to do so are manifold. In my district, the Church of God is seeking to define itself better in terms of the designations, “Father” and “Mother”. I found that very intriguing and would like to help them in their endeavor. After I greeted them, and listened to their discourse, I went inside, and this was waiting for me:
“Let us look into our own inner selves. We have seen that the maternal element dominates where the etheric and astral bodies interpenetrate, while the paternal element comes to expression where the Ego is present in the physical body. That is to say: the mother, the female element, reigns in all that we have in common with our species, in everything which pertains to our life of thought and knowledge; while the father, the male element, predominates in all that arises from the union of the Ego with the physical body, in the inwardly differentiated form, in that which makes man an Ego. What then must the ancient sages, who viewed life in this way, have expected above all things of human beings? They required that man should come to a clear understanding of the relation of the physical body and Ego to the etheric and astral bodies — of the paternal to the maternal element. Inasmuch as man has an etheric and an astral body, the maternal element is in him; beside the external mother, so to speak, on the physical plane, he bears within him the maternal element, the mother; and beside the father on the physical plane, he has within him the paternal element, the father. To bring into harmonious relationship the father and mother in him was a great ideal. If this were not achieved, the disharmony between the paternal and maternal elements would be reproduced outside, on the physical plane, with disastrous results. The old sage therefore taught: ‘It is the duty of man to establish harmony within himself between the paternal and maternal elements. The failure to do so cannot but show itself in the outer world as the most appalling crimes.’ ”
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA112/English/PLH1933/19090704p01.html
Thus, here is given an opportunity to convey something to the Church of God here in Tacoma. The implications of doing so are daunting, nonetheless, because this is definitely not an anthroposophical audience. Yet, the slim possibility exists. It starts with communications like this to you. Happy Memorial Day.