grrr…Since returning from Zinniker Farm I have been arm wrestling with the dark-god-of-cyber-space. Feeling weak & wary, like a deaf-dumb-&-blind-rat in a digital maze - The shudder-dial cranked to max voltage. I become vexed, ugly crisp & overly salty at my reduction into 1’s & 0’s - nullified - deemed unauthenticated. Locked out of my own creative domain, I utter the battle cry: Work Ahriman, Work! I fumble - Tripping over my vestigial webbed feet – Where’s my reach around? – Unskilled knotty digits would take up the ties that bind – in an attempt to rig a life-line, fore & aft – or at least a flotation device – do I buoy up, or tunnel down? Can I turn the grave into a lattice – so I can climb out of this dead-pool – gosh I’m already so pruney. Double grrr…Yes, I know - full well - that my creative Self can never match the diabolically adroit antics of the ‘Hardener’. And yet…Na-na na-na boo-boo my Heart-Thinking reminds me that –
Yes, I do wish – OK, I will take it up! – And so, I Make a Prayer - a direct Invocation – to my beloved guardian angel – who intimately accompanies me, thru my nisus - all those effortful attempts to attain the goals of my higher Self. Ok, ok, no pain no gain, how cliché. Yet I can sing Hallelujah knowing my angel holds my tender soul with its entire being, while at the same time holding the spiritual world with its vast laws & possibilities - guiding me, along sacred paths – which are not always direct or scenic, but which often serve to provide the sand that I can choose to use in the making of my life’s pearl.
I love being a Spiritual Scientist - creating the content, doing the research, connecting the dots, being a vessel for the gods, serving the community - for amazing events like the upcoming Eclipse Convergence. It’s the tech stuff that ruffles my feathers. Even after many years, I can truthfully say that I am not a graceful administrator, promoter, or good judge of marketing. I have limited computer skills -Yes, I use the beast/screen for my writing, but even that program baffles me. I don’t mind being the short-order-cook, sweeping is ok - toilet maintenance, really - Well everything has to be done. And thank the good gods I have the help of other generous human hands that can cleave the clever chains that would fetter my enthusiasm in the cold heart of the matrix. (Thank you CG, & Lisa & Charlie)
Prayer to our Angel by Rudolf Steiner:
xox ~hag
6 February 2024 - “Speaking with the Stars”: at Dawn - peeking through the morning twilight - the cup of the waning crescent Moon will float near bright Venus (occult Mercury) & Mars. Can you see a delicate glow on the unlit portion of the crescent moon? That’s earthshine! It’s reflected light from the Earth. Or is it the Holy Grail inscribed with the name of Parzival?
Rudolf Steiner’s Lectures on this day ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1347 – Birthday of Dorothea of Montau, the guardian of the country of the Teutonic Knights & patron saint of Prussia. Born to a wealthy farmer from Holland, she was married at the age of 16 to the swordsmith Adalbrecht of Danzig (Gdańsk), an ill-tempered man in his 40s. Almost immediately after marrying she began to experience visions. Her husband had little patience with her spiritual experiences & abused her. Later, both made pilgrimages to Cologne, Aachen, & Einsiedeln. While Dorothea, with her husband’s permission, was on pilgrimage to Rome, he died in 1389. Of their nine children eight died. The surviving daughter, Gertrud, joined the Benedictines. In the summer of 1391 Dorothea moved to Marienwerder (Kwidzyn), & with the blessing of the Teutonic Order, established a hermit’s cell against the wall of the cathedral. She never left that cell for the rest of her life. Dorothea led a very austere life. Numerous visitors sought her advice & consolation, & she had visions & revelations.
1748 – Birthday of Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher & founder of the Illuminati. After Pope Clement XIV’s suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773, Weishaupt became a professor of canon law, a position that was held exclusively by the Jesuits until that time. In 1775 Weishaupt was introduced to the empirical philosophy of Johann Georg Heinrich Fede. Both Feder &Weishaupt would later become opponents of Kantian idealism.
On 1 May 1776 Weishaupt founded the “Illuminati” in the Electorate of Bavaria. He adopted the name of “Brother Spartacus” within the order. The character of the society was an elaborate network of spies & counter-spies. Each isolated cell of initiates reported to a superior, whom they did not know: a party structure that was effectively adopted by some later groups. Weishaupt was initiated into the Masonic Lodge “Theodor zum guten Rath“, at Munich in 1777. His project of “illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason, which will dispel the clouds of superstition and of prejudice” was an unwelcome reform. He used Freemasonry to recruit for his own quasi-masonic society, with the goal of “perfecting human nature” through re-education to achieve a communal state with nature, freed of government & organized religion. Presenting their own system as pure masonry, Weishaupt & Adolph Freiherr Knigge, who organized his ritual structure, greatly expanded the secret organization. Weishaupt’s character & intentions have been variously assessed: from those such as the Abbé Barruel & John Robison who regarded him as a ‘human devil’ & saw his mission as one of malevolent destructiveness, to those who view him as a humane & benign, albeit willful, social reformer. Writing on this topic, Dr. Tony Page comments: “Weishaupt’s plan was to educate Illuminati followers in the highest levels of humanity and morality (basing his teachings on the supremacy of Reason, allied with the spirit of the Golden Rule of not doing to others what one would not wish done to oneself), so that if Illuminati alumni subsequently attained positions of significance and power (such as in the fields of education and politics), they could exert a benevolent and uplifting influence upon society at large. His project was utopian and naively optimistic, and he himself was certainly not without flaws of character – but neither he nor his plan was evil or violent in and of themselves. It is one of the deplorable and tragic ironies of history that a man who tried to inculcate virtue, philanthropy, social justice and morality has become one of the great hate-figures of 21st-century ‘conspiracy’ thinking.” After Weishaupt was exiled, he received the assistance of Duke Ernest II of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg & lived in Gotha writing a series of works on illuminism, including A Complete History of the Persecutions of the Illuminati in Bavaria (1785), A Picture of Illuminism (1786), An Apology for the Illuminati (1786), & An Improved System of Illuminism (1787). After Weishaupt’s Order of Illuminati was banned & its members dispersed, it left behind no enduring traces of an influence, not even on its own former members, who went on in the future to develop in quite different directions.
1891 – Birthday of Walter Johannes Stein. Stein grew up in Vienna as the son of a lawyer & a Theosophist . He studied mathematics, physics & philosophy in Vienna & received his doctorate there in 1918 with a dissertation entitled Historical-Critical Contributions to the Development of Modern Philosophy , which he had developed with the help of Rudolf Steiner . He had previously participated in the First World War as an artillery officer . In the same year he married & campaigned for the threefolding of the social organism with writings & lectures . After their failure, he was appointed to teach German & history at the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart. To this end, he was committed to the Anthroposophical Society in Germany, from 1923 to 1928 as a board member. In 1932 he left the Waldorf School & moved to England to work for Daniel Nicol Dunlop’s research office at the World Energy Council, founded in 1924 . After his death in 1935 he published the monthly The Present Age until the beginning of World War II . During the war he began to work as a non-medical practitioner – he had been involved in medicine since around 1920, he was also close friends with the anthroposophical doctor Ita Wegman & his school friend Eugen Kolisko in Vienna – and held public lectures on medicine until his death in 1957 & worked on a book on the basics & perspectives of spiritually advanced medicine.
Solar Eclipse Convergence:‘Piercing the Veil to Resurrect the Grail’6 – 9 April 2024(Saturday 5pm thru Tuesday morning 11:30 am) REGISTRATION is NOW open! This convergence is calling the Spiritual Activist in you! - All creative souls who see the power of applying Art, Science & Spirituality to uphold the light during the Solar Eclipse spanning across America – a once in a life time opportunity to join with other striving human beings in the Quest for the Holy Grail – to make a difference within yourself, for America & for All worlds! Location: Saint Raphael Retreat Center, Dallas, TX USA Easily accessible by car services from DFW and DAL Airports. Please Register by March 1st with a deposit. Balances are due March 26. Cancelation Fees depend upon hard costs incurred. Late registration on an as-available basis. Full Program Participants Prioritized for housing availability. Currently there are only 32 slots Available. REGISTER NOW Space is Limited Total Solar Eclipse on *Renewal Monday* 8 April 2024 In Dallas, Texas (Central Time) EVENT INFORMATION: Through the Social Arts of Speech, Drama, Folk-Eurythmy, Singing, Conscious Conversation, and an Interactive Pageant, we will engage with, and unveil the Spiritual Significance of this powerful Cosmic and Earthly event. for more info. go to: https://open.substack.com/.../p/in-the-heart-of-totality... Spiritual Science speaks of learning to read the “starry script” that is ever prompting us. With intention, we can also influence this heavenly text, to develop a conscious conversation with the cosmos, altering the script, in service to the Good. At this Experiential Retreat, in a renewal of the Mysteries, we will cultivate a modern connection to the Creative Word. Together we will prepare for, view, and work to Hold the Light, inscribing our Good Will into the darkness. Let this be a clarion call to all who seek to bring the Wisdom of the human being into a new Star Wisdom. Registration Options: B. COMMUTER Full Package $347 (Program, Meals Only) C. COMPANION Full: $297 (Meals, Housing/No program participation.) This option is designed for companions engaging in their own activities while sharing meals and housing onsite. ***Supporting Angel: $647 (Full Program plus support toward a scholarship)*** D. ALA CARTE:
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The Hinderer & the Helpmate
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