Who is the Holy Spirit?A Video-recording of a short Whitsun-Tide Tale
On this Eve Pentecost – we prepare to meet the arrival of - the completion of - the capper to - the 3-fold Easter Fest - We open Like a flower to receive the warmth & light of the Sun-Source.
Great, it’s Spring, & we’re feeling the expansion, BUT - let me ask: as seekers on the path, have you ever felt utterly alone, overwhelmed, or even a bit lost? Perhaps when you 1st began to take up the ‘Great Work’ of conscious initiation? Steiner speaks of this in ‘How to Know Higher Worlds’ , & in the 5th Gospel - Reassuring us that this is actually a good sign that we are on the path. We can see this as a mirroring of the experience of the apostles those 10 days between Ascension & Whitsun. That uncomfortable feeling when waiting feels like wrestling.
The Ascension picture tells us that the Easter deed of conquering death to embody the Resurrection, was fulfilled, redeeming not only the physical body, but now thru the Ascension, expanding out - to renew the formative forces, providing an opportunity to develop new spiritual organs in our etheric body - in the universal human sense.
Whitsun tells us that each single human being can strive to make the Christ impulse bear fruit, by personally receiving the gifts of the Holy Spirit, in order to share & serve. The reality of the original Whit-Sun-Day presents us with a remarkable & dramatic picture of spirit-filled individuals, anointed, waiting, lonely, yet Faith enkindled - a collective chalice, each a ready vessel, open to the new fire of the Holy Spirit which comes in with the Pentecostal winds of change – enabling them speak out of individual freedom regarding the truth & healing power of the Spirit - Speaking the Language of the heart, that all can understand.
The intense rush of spirit planted in the hearts of human beings highlights one of the greatest challenges of being human: placing our individual gifts, our individual ego, in right relationship within the social realm. This challenge is strongly felt during our present age of the consciousness soul. Our groups striving to know the New Rosicrucian Mysteries of Spiritual Science - working together as a community - have the possibility to create this type of conscious 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, & is enhanced by weaving our gifts together with others, knitting our social world in conscious community - providing a bridge between the macro & microcosmic streams in the world & in human beings striving to create a conscious Michaelic community.
This Sophia inspired Michaelic community can be seen as a vessel in which the Christ Being can unite with humanity - so that striving individuals can meet to continue this work of evolution. We get a foreshadowing of this through the Whitsun experience of the 1st apostles. More will be revealed… ~hag
More free Video’s to prepeare the way:Sangraal: A Pentecost Pilgrimage with Mysteria Mystica Americana (MA)Vitae Sophia~ A Whitsun Festival of United Soul Endeavor with Hazel Archera Parzival Pentecost with the CRCThe Redemption of Lucifer – A Pentecost Festival w/ Velsum VoicesAll Regions Whitsun
Saturday 7 June 2025 - All are Welcome to our annual Pentecost Communal Gathering6 pm Potluck, Bonfire, Prep-stir…Please bring food & drink to shareRSVP Hazel@CogRite.com
Rudolf Steiner’s Lectures on this day (RSarchives) ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY (Rudolf Steiner’s orginal Calendar of the Soul, Anthrowiki, Wikipedia Commons)
7 June 1924 – Beginning of the “Agricultural Course” on the Koberwitz estate of Count & Countess Keyserlingk – The Founding of Biodynamic Agriculture by Rudolf Steiner. Following the occult responsibility of a great initiate, Rudolf Steiner waited until the seeds of an idea came to him from striving individuals in order, when the time was ripe, to plant, & nurture a new impulse in the world. Steiner’s Agriculture Course encompassed just 8 lectures presented over a 10 day period during the Whitsun-tide of 1924, from June 7th thru the 16th, at the small village of Koberwitz, Silesia (now Kobierzyce, Poland).
Count Carl Keyserlingk was an anthroposophist, & the estate manager of 18,500 acres at Koberwitz. He managed 18 farms, with more than 1000 workers. So Keyserlingk was keen for Steiner to present a course for farmers – Especially since there was concern among the farmers about of the rapid change in agricultural practices in the wake of the supply of cheap synthetic nitrogenous fertilizer flowing from the adoption of the Haber-Bosch process for the ‘fixing’ of gaseous nitrogen which was first demonstrated in 1909 & which was then rapidly industrialized on a grand scale for explosives, & after WWI, for fertilizer.
Ehrenfried Pfeiffer’s account relates that: “Count Keyserlingk set to work in dead earnest to persuade Dr. Steiner to give an agricultural course. As Dr. Steiner was already overwhelmed with work, tours & lectures, he put off his decision from week to week. The undaunted Count then dispatched his nephew to Dornach, with orders to camp on Dr. Seiner’s doorstep & refuse to leave without a definite commitment for the course. This was finally given.” Keyserlingk was the driving force behind the agriculture course. He was described by Elisabeth Vreede, who was at the course, as “one to whom farming itself was a priestly office” According to the Astrosopher: “Count Keyserlingk had realised the dire need for a complete revival of cultural methods”.
Steiner described his Agriculture Course as: “A course of lectures containing what there is to be said about agriculture from an anthroposophical point of view.” Steiner stated that “the contents of these lectures were to serve, in the first place, as working material for the Association of farmers which had just been founded in the Anthroposophical Society”. Steiner stressed the importance of practical demonstrations: “As to the farmers – well, if they hear of these things from a fellow-farmer, they will say, “What a pity he has suddenly gone crazy!” … But eventually when he sees a really good result, he will not feel a very easy conscience in rejecting it outright”. He empowered the Agricultural Experimental Circle (AEC): “enhance it and develop it by actual experiments and tests. The farmers’ society – the “Experimental Circle” that has been formed – will fix the point of time when in its judgment the tests and experiments are far enough advanced to allow these things to be published”. He stressed the importance of confidentiality: “No kind of communication was to be made about the contents of the Course until such time as the members of the Association felt impelled to speak out of the results of their own experimental work”. Steiner was cautious because the interests of what we now know as ‘big Ag’ was just starting to put pressure on farmers to use their products. There were spies from the growing industry that wanted to buy up the rights to this new impulse so that they could suppress it. And indeed the Count was very much harassed by those who worked to discredit the Agricultural Experimental Circle (AEC). It was critical that a project development plan was set in place at Koberwitz to keep the impulse going, because the Ag Course was never repeated as such, since Steiner was seriously ill. His public life – & life itself, were drawing to a close. The continuing vitality of this vital agricultural impulse was dependent on the successful passing of the baton unto others. The AEC began with 60 members of the Koberwitz Course (out of the course’s total enrollment of 111), with Ernst Stegemann & Carl Keyserlingk appointed by Steiner as chairmen. By 1929, the Natural Science Section of the Goetheanum reported the positive news that the work of translating Steiner’s ‘hints’ was by then a global enterprise: “Dr. Steiner’s new methods for Agriculture have been investigated and applied on a practical and on an experimental basis.”
Steiner was prophetic in much of what he taught. He presented the farm as “a living organism”. He spoke against a purely chemical view & a chemical reductionist view. Long before the costs of nitrogen pollution were monetized, Steiner, with great vision, put it in a nutshell: “There is a big difference between nitrogen and nitrogen. He spoke of “the degradation of the products of agriculture” & observed that: “Nowadays people simply think that a certain amount of nitrogen is needed for plant growth, and they imagine it makes no difference how it’s prepared or where it comes from. Where it comes from, however, is not a matter of indifference.” Steiner urged the adoption of a holistic view, & he stated that “we’ve lost the knowledge of what it takes to continue to care for the natural world.” He urged his listeners to take “the macrocosmic approach”& to “see individual plants as parts of a single whole.” He was critical of the approach where living things are “neatly pigeonholed into separate species & genera”, adding: “But that is not how things are in nature. In nature, and actually throughout the universe, everything is in mutual interaction with everything else.”
“The most important thing is to make the benefits of our agricultural preparations available to the largest possible areas over the entire earth, so that the earth may be healed and the nutritive quality of its produce improved in every respect. That should be our first objective.” ~Rudolf Steiner
I am grateful every day for our connection to the Zinniker Farm – the oldest continuous Biodynamic Farm in America, just an hour & a 1/2 from the Windy City. If you are in the area, come join us for a Farm to Table Brunch in support of Zinniker Farm - Saturday 28 June 2025 11 am - 1:30 pm at The Chicago Christian Community 2135 W Wilson Ave, Chicago, IL 60625 Menu includes food fresh from the farm:
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Saturday, 7 June 2025
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