“The human being is at the center of our Universe. But everything around us loses its spiritual significance, becoming a mere distraction, unless we acknowledge that the outer, sense-perceptible world, cannot solve the riddles that confront us. It is as if spirit were concentrated at a single point. But just as reality compresses altogether, the solution of the cosmic riddle comes back from the periphery as powerfully true, more real than matter itself - a reflection and image of the spiritual. Matter gathers itself together, becomes a oneness at the center, and reappears at the periphery as answer to the riddles of existence, if we are open to receive it. That is reality. Our knowledge is real when it steps in front of our eyes as the structure and process of the entire cosmos. Such knowledge is no longer a form of speculation—a febble stitching of fanciful theory—for true knowledge is born out of the Cosmos. This is the feeling we should develop. Wisdom must become an ideal for us, born out of the periphery of the Cosmos, capable of filling us with great strength, with the strength that enables us to fulfill our own destiny, and to achieve our own Cosmic ideal. With this strength, we shall also be able to realize the human ideal that awaits us in the future.” ~Rudolf Steiner, The Spiritual Hierarchies and the Physical World: Zodiac, Planets, and Cosmos (GA 110) - these ten Lectures given in Düsseldorf, April, 1909 - take us into the exalted regions of the Spiritual World, illuminating the actions of the Spiritual Beings in the kingdoms of Nature & in the Planetary & Zodiacal spheres - laying out the task allotted to humanity in the continuous evolution of these Spiritual worlds which we are part of.
19 May 2025 - “Speaking with the Stars”: Corvus the Crow lies near on the sky’s dome to the bright star Spica in the constellation Virgo the Maiden. Virgo is seen as a harvest goddess. And Corvus the Crow is often depicted as pecking at an ear of wheat, held in the Maiden’s hand.
RUDOLF STEINER'S CALENDAR OF THE SOUL - translated (with added titles) by Roy Sadler - EASTERTIDE V - The Resurrection of the Soul
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY (resourses include The original Calendar of the Soul by Rudolf Steiner, RSarchives, Antrowiki, EarthSky.org)
19 May 1762 – Birthday of Johann Gottlieb Fichte - a German educator & philosopher. Along with Schelling & Hegel, he is considered an important pioneer of German Idealism - but in contrast to them, he advocated a subjective idealism. Inspired by his reading of Kant, Fichte developed a radically revised & rigorously systematic version of transcendental idealism, which he called Wissenschaftslehre (“Doctrine of Scientific Knowledge”), embracing the philosophy of science, ethics, law or “rights” & religion. Perhaps the most interesting & controversial, feature that inspired Rudolf Steiner is Fichte’s idea of the “pure I.” When Rudolf Steiner was coming into his Saturn return at age 29, he was living in Weimar where he worked for 7 years at the Goethe archive, editing his scientific works & collaborating in the creation of a complete edition of Schopenhauer's work. Weimar was a center of European culture at the time, which allowed Steiner to meet many prominent artists & cultural figures. In 1890 the young Steiner wrote a letter to his friend Richard Specht describing Fichte’s ‘The Way to the Blessed Life’ & the impact it had on his own philosophical conception of freedom, quoting: “…life is love, and the entire form and force of life consists in love and arises from love. – What I have just said expresses one of the deepest principles of knowledge”… Whoever does not merely understand these opening lines of Fichte with the dead intellect, but is able to grasp it in a living manner, such a person lives a wholly independent life. And only those capable of doing this can understand the freedom that I would so dearly like to make into the pivotal and unified point of my entire philosophizing. It is wholly remarkable to me how Fichte and Goethe work their way in from two sides and meet together at the summit in perfection. I believe I understand my epoch very well when I say: the idealism of Fichte and Goethe must bear its final fruit in a kind of freedom philosophy. Because ‘freedom’ is the correlative of that concept for both of them.” Years later in 1915 Berlin, Steiner gave a lecture giving insights into the life of Fichte: “…At Leipzig Fichte went on trying to train himself for the calling of becoming a country pastor. But it proved difficult… And so, one day Fichte stood at the edge of an abyss; and in his soul, like a desperate temptation, the question arose: “Have I no prospects for this life of mine?” Though it may not have been quite present to his consciousness, yet in the background of his mind was the idea of a voluntary death. Then, just at the opportune moment, appeared the writer Weisse, who had become one of his friends. Weisse offered him a post as tutor at Zurich, and took steps to ensure that he could take up this post within three months. And so from the autumn of 1788 onwards we find our Fichte at Zurich. Let us try once more to picture him with the mind's eye, as he stood in the pulpit in the Zurich Minster, now completely possessed with his own conception of the Gospel of St. John, already quite intent on the endeavour to reproduce the teachings of the Bible in a form of his own. He did this in such a way that those who heard his inspiring words resound through the Zurich Cathedral must have thought that a man had arisen who was capable of rendering the scriptures with quite a new eloquence, in a new way, with a fresh inspiration…” ~Rudolf Steiner, The Spirit of Fichte Present in our Midst, GA 65 According to Rudolf Steiner, Fichte's individuality was embodied earlier as Baruch de Spinoza - & at the turn of time, as Philon of Alexandria. “…As an example of the evolution of an individuality, we can consider Philo of Alexandria, a contemporary of Jesus. His individuality came again as Spinoza, and then as Johann Gottlieb Fichte. So here we have a continuous individuality in three personalities. If one reads Fichte without knowledge of these processes, one understands him only slightly. With this knowledge, however, one finds that his words are written in fire script, are written with fire. All great spirits have undergone a regular development. “ ~GA 88
1895 – Birthday of Emil Bock, Priest & co-founder of the Christian Community, anthroposophist and writer. In 1914 he began a study of languages at the University of Bonn . However, the same year he enlisted as a volunteer in the First World War and was sent to the front in Flanders , where he was wounded. In 1916, he met the theologian Friedrich Rittelmeyer , and from 1918 he studied Protestant theology in Berlin, and graduated in 1921. In June of the same year Bock met Rudolf Steiner and became one of the founders of the Christian Community in Switzerland. Right at the moment of the rise of one of the most destructive, anti-human powers the world has ever seen, the Seminary of The Christian Community opened the doors of its first building dedicated to the training of priests in the movement for religious renewal. As Adolf Hitler proclaimed himself the “Führer”students gathered daily to hear words spoken in the sanctuary, from the altar, from the true “helfende Führer” (helping guide). Banned by the Nazi’s in 1941, Emil Bock – one of the founding priests and main teachers at the seminary – worked on a whole new translation of the New Testament while in the prison camp in Welzheim, including Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians and the Letter to the Hebrews. This spiritual work, completed under the pressures of a time of terrible catastrophe and real evil, became a powerful force that emerged above-ground at the end of the war in 1945. Bock was released from the concentration camp in 1942, but was under surveillance for the rest of the war. After the war, Bock was instrumental in the rebuilding of the community. On November 1, 1950, Pius XII proclaimed the Dogma of the Assumption–Mary’s bodily assumption into heaven–which sent shock waves throughout the Christian world. C.G. Jung, for example, wrote his Answer to Job in response. Emil Bock’s response was the ‘Threefold Mary’ lectures, which answer some of the issues and broaden the scope to include not only the Mary-Sophia mystery in human history, but also the meaning of the feminine element in the evolution of consciousness. ~anthrowiki, christiancommunity
“The Mary mystery has meaning for all humankind, and a renewed Christian understanding of the human being in the fullest sense will be able to fathom it“. ~Emil Bock
May 31, 2025 - Come Join us for Our Spring Biodynamic Preparation Day on Zinniker FarmStart is at 10am - We’ll be taking out preparations that were buried last fall. We’ll stir 500 to make and apply tree paste and have other activities as time allows. A light lunch is provided. We’ll round out the day with a potluck dinner and bonfire, please bring a dish to share. Come for the morning, come for the afternoon or come for the whole day. Love Donation: $30-60 We hope to see you there. ~Petra Zinniker
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Monday, 19 May 2025
Point & Periphery
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