Columbia Bless America.  A free recording of the Presentation: 'Let Freedom Ring -Columbia - Folk Soul of America'.w/ Hazel Archer-Ginsberg - For the Greater Washington Branch of the Anthroposophical Society - Featuring Chekov Master Teacher Lisa Dalton, & Eurythmist Maria Ver Eecke - With poems read by Richard Swerling, Desmond Clark & Lark Bergwin-Anderson  Reclaiming the Wisdom of AmericaAn interactive Zoom Presentation with Hazel Archer-Ginsberg, Rosemary McMullen, Anne Nicholson, Stewart Lundy, Sally Greenberg, Anne Dale, & a Musical Interlude by Ultra-Violet Archer
Greetings Friends – On this 4th of July 2025. I am sitting in the steamy shade, amoungst a thick crop of joe-pie weed, whose purple heads bob & sway as they tower over our backyard garden, scrying cyphers in the clouds. My thoughts, a droning pulse, ebbing & flowing in a wavy trance with the cicadas. Some teenagers are shooting off fireworks in the alley. I cringe, & yet, as the power of ‘Independence’ reverberates in our collective consciousness…Can we rise in our thinking to meet “Freedom, Equality, & Fraternity”…While imagining that the “bombs bursting in air” are beautiful, gentle pyrotechnics of realization & enlightenment, going off like light bulbs in American minds…? Can we will to work towards a Global Inter-dependence Independence Day..? A mutual exchange, a beneficial dependency upon the independence of every nation & its people… Imagine everyone celebrating our differences with great admiration & respect…
Ok, I know this is corny, but I always feel the need to invoke Betsy Ross at this time of year. I just love the archetype that she carries of the enterprising woman who led a tragic, yet interesting life. She was actually disowned as a Quaker because she married an Episcopalian, who was later killed - ironically while guarding a munitions dump, such is karma.
So here she is a young widow, telling George Washington that she thought the 5 pointed Star would look much better on the flag then his idea of having 6 pointed stars - true story. I can just picture her sitting in the back room of the small upholstery business she ran by herself, with this mighty symbol that she helped design, laid out on her sweet lap, sewing away.
I’m a very cosmopolitian kind of gal, I don’t go in for nationalism with all its borders & power-over-others kind of patriotism, but I do love to see a well-made flag flapping in the breeze. All flags are cool – Crests with their ancient symbols, & especially those colorful banners you see on the porches of houses, shaped like butterflies or autumn leaves. I’m just a sucker for a glyph in the wind.
We all know what we’re talking about when we say ‘the 4th’ right…? But when was the last time you stopped to think about what ‘July 4th’ is really all about. When I looked on the internet it gave me hit after hit on picnic ideas, & recipes for apple pie, hints on BBQ techniques, free patriotic screen savers, many downloadable versions of the “rockets’ red glare” with animated fireworks displays; & yet somehow they forgot to mention the fact that fireworks were a Chinese invention, an ancient art form that we took & made into gun powder. I’m serious, is baseball & burnt wieners all there is?
Does anyone want to give us an objective overview of the meaning of Independence Day? I was never much good with all the dates & names & such - although the Masonic connections with the Founders is extremely interesting, I talk about that in the video - Not that all the sacred geometry & such helped women, the Native Americans, or the slaves at all - Yet despite its many faults it seems to me to be about trying to declare freedom from oppression… ‘No taxation without representation’…& all that…the center point being the Declaration of Independence.
When was the last time you read this important document of our countries origin? You can print it off the net: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America: When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of humankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--
The rest of the document goes on to give a laundry list of the crimes against the colonists by the king of Great Britain, whose name happens to be George the 3rd…(who says history doesn’t repeat itself, many of these same crimes were perpetrated not so long ago by George Bush & his corrupt dynasty.) The names may have changed, but the crimes against humanity continue to be perpetuated by puppet leaders & the corporate media = agents of the dark occult brotherhoods that would enslave us all, under the guise of doublespeak hookwinkery, masked by the false democracy of a failed 2 party system, propped up by the propaganda of fear & divisiveness. Just saying…
Have we gained independence from one tyranny all those years ago, only to allow it to happen again on a World scale? Maybe it’s time to open our eyes & read the fine print of our birthright, to reclaim our rights & go forward as a united community of World people, in peaceful justice, in equity, in reason, with compassion, having come through so much pain, to really start to, not just declare our independence, but to really live it…As individuals, as well as with the united community of the whole planet…
We the People have a strong voice…this is our world…our sacred space & we can sing any reality we want to…& I don’t know about you, but I’d rather sing ‘America the Beautiful’, or even something like, ‘It’s A Small World After All’, then the war worshiping ‘Star Spangled Banner’ any day… So for our next song, I’ll get off the soap box, & let the power of our united heart-beats, our collective rhythm be our anthem…to bring healing & forgiveness to the old wounds & hope for the future… blessed be…
‘We can rise with the fire of freedom Peace ~hag
RUDOLF STEINER'S CALENDAR OF THE SOUL
This speaks to the best of America: FREEDOM by Jon Batiste Listen to the “I Think Speech” podcast
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Friday, 4 July 2025
Hail Columbia
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