Here is the link dear friends of our Recording of: Alchemical Wedding - A Cosmopolitan Call to Come-Unity - Celebrating the Cross-Quarter Festival of Beltaine 5 May 2025. Leading Thoughts & Images by Hazel Archer Ginsberg ~Cognitive Ritual: Confessions of a Modern Rosicrucian. Featuriung Lisa Loving Dalton & Friends.
We have been asked to say something about Freemasonry. This cannot be understood, however, until we have examined the original spiritual currents related to Freemasonry, which can be seen as its sources. An even more important spiritual current than Rosicrucianism was Manicheism. So first we need to speak about this important movement.
What I have to say about this subject is connected with various things which influence the spiritual life of today and will influence it in time to come.
And also to illustrate how one who is actively engaged in this field must meet the problem of ‘Faust’, which is of particular importance for modern spiritual life…
In order to bring the things with which we are concerned into connection with one another; we must start from a spiritual tendency which first manifested in about the third century A.D.
The spiritual movement of Manicheism had a great opponent in St. Augustine; although before he went over to the side of the Catholic Church, he was himself an adherent of this faith.
Manicheism, was founded by a person who called himself Mani. This Mani was the founder of a spiritual movement which although at first was only a small sect, became a mighty spiritual current. This movement spread from a part of world which was then ruled by the kings of the Near East; a region of Western Asia Minor.
The Albigenses, Waldenses and Cathars of the Middle Ages are the continuation of this current, to which also belong the Knights Templar, and also — by a remarkable chain of circumstances — the Freemasons. Freemasonry really belongs to this stream, though it is connected with others, for instance with Rosicrucianism.
What outer history has to say about Mani is very simple, missing the essence of his mission. Outer history basically said that there once lived an unnamed merchant in the Near East who was very learned. He compiled four important works: first, “Mysteria", secondly, "Capitola", thirdly, "Evangelicum", and lastly "Thesaurus". It is further related that at his death he left these writings to his widow who was a Persian.
The widow, on her part, left them to a slave whose freedom she had bought and whom she had liberated. That was the said Mani, who then drew his wisdom out of these writings, though he was also initiated into the Mithraic mysteries.
Mani is called the "Son of the Widow", and his followers are called the "Sons of the Widow". However, Mani described himself as the "Paraclete", the Holy Spirit promised to humankind by Christ.
We should understand by this that he saw himself as one incarnation of the Holy Spirit; he did not mean that he was the only one. He explained that the Holy Spirit reincarnated in what spiritual science calls spiritual economy, and that he himself was one such reincarnation.
The teaching which he proclaimed was opposed in the most vigorous fashion by Augustine after he had gone over to the Catholic Church. Augustine opposed through his Catholic views the Manichaean teaching, which he saw represented in a personality whom he called Faustus. Faustus is, in Augustine's conception, the opponent of Christianity. Here lies the origin of Goethe’s Faust, and of his conception of evil. The name "Faust" goes back to this old Augustinan teaching.
One usually hears it said about Manichean teaching that it is distinguished from western Christianity by its different interpretation of evil. Whereas Catholic Christianity regards evil as an aberration from its divine origin; Manicheism teaches that evil was allowed by the good to strengthen the good through adversity. Evil, therefore, springs from the same source as good. ~Rudolf Steiner, The Temple Legend I, GA 93
The eternal rays Of the Holy Spirits of Light Build the tower of human trust, Which is formed in our hearts Out of brotherly love. The eternal piers of the helping Spirit-Messengers Bear the bridge of faithfulness That arches from I to I In what we do. So do we become united and strong In the work that we have begun And which we are committed in the spirit To bring to completion. May the greeting from soul to soul Ring through the fellowship of our doing.
~Karl König (an Austrian pediatrician who founded Camphill - an international movement of therapeutic intentional communities for those with special needs) offered this verse to the friends in America.
May 31, 2025 - Come Join us for Our Spring Biodynamic Preparation Day on Zinniker Farm
Start 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 Zinniker Farm N7399 Bowers Rd. Elkhorn, WI 53121
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