In the New Mysteries we follow the path of Christian/Rosicrucian initiation thru Holy Week. With every step, from the recognition of the old atavistic Sun on Palm Sunday, through to the meeting of the Saturn-Spirit & The Harrowing of Hell, which we live into TODAY, so that we can sow healing seeds, sprouted in the blood of the Christic Lamb - to spark the rising of the New Sun of Easter, within ourselves & in the Universe.
Each day of the week brings us in contact with the Wandering Stars, the Spiritual Beings of the planetary spheres - Today is Saturn Day - this leads to a conquest of a corresponding layer in the interior of the earth. The Beatitudes are the spiritual weapon we must wield to fortify the development of self-determination in the higher human “I”, reflected in the life of Christ, giving us the strength to make the darkness transparent. And so it is, that like the Sun, we must descend to ascend.
Every year we have a chance to recapitulate the original Easter event. We rest on the Saturn-day Sabbath – In Christo morimur – This is the Mystic-Death or Temple sleep of the initiate. In the Garden of Gethsemane – which is concidered ‘the midpoint of the earth’, the epicenter of the cosmos – between the rocky hill of Golgotha, part of the lunar Mount Moriah, & it’s polar opposite - the Solar Mount Zion, there was a New Tomb where the body of JC, completely penetrated by the Cosmic Christ, rested; - & yet it was the Oldest Tomb, for it was formerly a primal fissure, a gorge splitting Jerusalem in two - called by some: Adam’s Grave – known as the gate to the Underworld.
The earthquakes of Good Friday & Holy Saturday tore open the original fissure. As the veil of the Temple “was rent in twain”, vistas were opened into the interior of the earth. “He was lowered into the grave of the earth’, & so it was, that The Christ went into the Earth’s Interior, His blood becoming the medicine for our continued evolution.
The “Harrowing of Hell” is Christ’s "descent into the underworld" to free the souls of the dead “who had lost their Divine nature”. Dante in the Divine Comedy has Virgil give the poet an eyewitness account - first of all, out comes old Adam, thru the New Adam. 1 Peter 4:6, states that the "gospel was preached even to those who are now dead". Ephesians 4:9, says: "Christ descended into the lower parts of the earth," According to the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus, the Harrowing of Hell was foreshadowed by Christ's raising of Lazarus from the dead, preceding his own crucifixion. The hymns of Easter weekend mention that as he did on earth, John the Baptist prepared the way for Jesus in Hell, by prophesying to the spirits held there that Christ would soon defeat death & open the gates of Hell to release the souls trapped there.
The darkness of Saturn is lit up from within by the Resurrected Sun. The Easter garden begins to bloom, so that our soul can behold, like the Magdalene before us, The Risen One as the gardener of the New Jerusalem. Originally, the English word “harrow” has to do with preparing ground for tilling.
In ‘The Birth of a New Agriculture: Koberwitz 1924’ , we learn that the Earth underwent a change thru the deed of redemption on Golgotha - a transformation of the unruly Mars powers of rusty iron, into the silvery light of Mercury. This transforming of iron thru the sacred mystery of the Christ-blood is a determining factor in the transformation of earthly substance, which will later be carried over into the transubstantiation of the earth. The spirit radiates from the heights, & yet it is also carried to us by the eternal Divine world of the depths. ‘May there ascend from the Depths the prayer that is heard in the Heights’. We can send our prayer to the Christ-Heart in the Earth’s depths, to help overcome & redeem the adversarial powers that hold sway in the nine layers of the earth’s interior. The biodynamic agricultural course given by Rudolf Steiner, is a stepping stone to this ultimate aim.
Spiritual Science tells us that when the blood flowed into the earth from the cross on Golgotha, a new Sun-globe was born in the interior of the Earth. This golden Earth-center is the legendary land of Shambhalla, hidden away, yet waiting to be re-discovered by the seeking, Christ-guided human soul.
The Tomb becomes the altar, a sacred place to commune with the gods – & with the souls of the departed as our intermediaries. The Tomb becomes the Round table - AND the Parsifal question leads us to find Christ in the etheric. The Tomb becomes the Temple cube of the New Jerusalem.
Before the mystery of Golgotha, the task of evolution was that the Cosmos would become human … After this turning point, the human can now become Cosmos - The New Sun - The imperishable Resurrection-Body uniting with the Cosmic-Sophia. May we all work to spiritualize the Earth ~hag, inspired by Christian Community Priest Emil Bock
Here is the podcast for HOLY SATURN DAY on ‘I Think Speech’
The Soul Calendar, translated (with added titles) by Roy Sadler HOLY WEEK - Communion In The Body - v52 When drawn from depths of soul The spirit is communing with the beauty Arising from the springlife's cosmic harmony, Then streaming from the heavens Life's force invigorates the human body And powerfully binds The spirit's being to the human presence.
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Saturday, 19 April 2025
The Harrowing of Hell
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