As the Corn Moon waxes into fullness - the Perseid meteor showers are starting to launch – heralding the season of Michael. These shooting stars awaken our sleepy soul-forces with a homeopathic dose of Cosmic Iron - the perfect medicine for our current morally confused World-Zeitgeist. But we must take it in consciously - to strengthen our resolve - so that we can meet the Spiritual battle ever waging.
“…And when in high summer, from a particular constellation, meteors fall in great showers of cosmic iron, then this cosmic iron, which carries an enormously powerful healing force, is the weapon which the gods bring to bear against Ahriman, as dragon-like he tries to coil round the shining forms of the human being. The force which falls on the earth in the meteoric iron is indeed a cosmic force whereby the higher gods endeavour to gain a victory over the Ahrimanic powers, when autumn comes on. And this majestic display in cosmic space, when the August meteor showers stream down into the human shining in the astral light, has its counterpart — so gentle and apparently so small — in a change that occurs in the human blood. This human blood, which is in truth not such a material thing as present-day science imagines, but is permeated throughout by impulses from soul and spirit, is rayed through by the force which is carried as iron into the blood and wages war there on anxiety, fear and hate. The processes which are set going in every blood-corpuscle when the force of iron shoots into it are the same, on a minute human scale, as those which take place when meteors fall in a shining stream through the air. This permeation of human blood by the anxiety-dispelling force of iron is a meteoric activity. The effect of the raying in of the iron is to drive fear and anxiety out of the blood.
And so, as the gods with their meteors wage war on the being who would like to radiate fear over all the earth through his coiling serpent-form; and while they cause iron to stream radiantly into this fear-tainted atmosphere, which reaches its peak when summer wanes and autumn approaches — so the same process occurs inwardly in the human being, when our blood becomes permeated with iron. We can understand these things only if we understand their inner spiritual significance…” ~ Rudolf Steiner, The Four Seasons and the Archangels Lecture I: The Michael Imagination
Perseus, the radiant point for this Cosmic shower, is a starry imagination of Michael. He stands with sword of iron raised in one hand, & in the other the decapitated head of Medusa with her serpent hair, & eyes that turn all who gaze upon her to stone, symbol of old dead thoughts. Perseus has rescued Andromeda, the chained princess, representing the human soul, from the approaching sea monster Cetus. From the forehead of Andromeda springs the constellation Pegasus, the winged intelligence. This entire narrative contains deep imaginations of the work proceeding from Michael to fortify the human being - rescuing our threatened soul-forces from the destructive dominions seeking to commandeer our unconscious - & from the outmoded past - seen in the imagination of the sea monster – & also represented in the deadening forces of Ahriman’s cold intellect - seen in the gaze of Medusa.
A study of ‘The Michael Mystery’ by Rudolf Steiner can be a helping guide. In it he gives us our task: “Hearts must begin to have thoughts; that is the new way of thinking – with the heart.” It is Michael’s intention that in the now-future, intelligence will flow thru human hearts - & along with practicing ‘Spirit Recalling’, we can reconnect to the Divine Spiritual forces that created the human being in the beginning of time.
Let us make the intention to be awake to the power of the Christ-Sun in the Earth - & the enlivening impulse of Anthroposophia within - which thru our Thinking-Hearts Becomes enlightened by Wisdom - helping us to see rightly in the dark - with focused Free Willing, motivated by LOVE. ~hag
RUDOLF STEINER'S CALENDAR OF THE SOUL - translated (with added titles) by Roy Sadler - LAMMASTIDE II - Can I Imagine My Soul's Need? - v18 Can I make wide my soul - that she unite with seed - of Cosmic Word conceived? I feel my foresight asking me - to find the strength my soul will need - to form her spirit garment worthily.
1941 – Death Day of Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali poet, writer, music composer, & painter from the Indian subcontinent. He reshaped Bengali literature & music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th & early 20th centuries. He became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Tagore’s poetic songs were viewed as spiritual & mercurial. He is sometimes referred to as “the Bard of Bengal”
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Thursday, 7 August 2025
Casting Cosmic Iron
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